ANGELS OF LIGHT Cooperative

Sometimes a project comes along that consumes enormous amounts of time and many other activities are left out. Developing a Well Being/Self-Discovery Holistic Learning Center has taken me away from many other things. To find out what is set up so far, you can visit http://auriclight.com/coop/ to see what holds most of my attention these days at the Angels of Light Cooperative.

Teacher and Student Are One

My dream started out in the offices I recently retired from. A student from my teaching days many years ago came by to visit me. But instead of visiting with me face to face, he went to another room and said nothing. I could not see him, only sensed he was there.

I started talking about some award that another student had won. I was giving lenghty directions on how to deliver this award. There was only silence from the student. I became upset that I was not getting any response and said, 'I'm just talking to myself.', then went into a front office.

Later, I heard some movement in the back of the building and realized that the student was leaving by the back door. I was sorry that the student was leaving and went out the front of the building and over to the side where the student had left the building. He was in an old pick up truck. I could see him driving away from me.

Then, he stopped the truck next to three white horses that were tethered on the side near a fence. He got on the lead horse and started to ride away from me. The other two horses each had a lead rope attached so the three horses were moving together about 6 feet apart.

Then, he turned the lead horse to the left and circled the building, came by me on my left side. The horses picked up speed and swung onto the road traveling away from me. I could see them traveling faster and faster away from me. I felt very sad that they were leaving and I had not been able to communicate with my student.



When they were almost out of site, the student turned the lead horse around and came back toward me. He turned the horses back the way he had left. I could see him more clearly as he went past me behind the building. I recognized him, but could not be sure who it was. I felt a great love for him.



He came back around the building. As he passed me, I was suddenly riding on the horse with him. The other two horses merged into one.



He and I became one.



The teacher and the student are always one.


Al offers a service to assist you to find your meaning in your dream. What Al does with dreams that are offered to him to find meaning is first to give an overall impression of what the dream offers. Then he focuses on certain elements of the dream that seem to stand out with greater significance. And lastly, he relates all the meanings he senses from the full dream. To make use of this service, write your dream in as much detail as possible. Then send your dream and a $26.00 Money Order to Dream Meanings, P O Box 305, Sylva, NC 28779.

AWAKE and DREAM CONSCIOUSNESS

Tall
Strong
It grew
Dreaming
Of faraway places
Now warming many hearths
Platforms for many uses
Shelter to others
The stump
Stands sentinel
For the dream tree

Meditation is a simple process to be in an awake-dream state of being. In this awake-dream state we have access in a conscious way to many levels of activity in our being.

There are very powerful forces within each one of us to which we pay little or no attention. We dismiss them as having little or no meaning in our lives. Dreams is one of these very powerful forces. Every moment of every day, each one of us on earth dreams. We tend to think of dreams as something that we do for a few moments while we are asleep. But the same level of activity that we recognize as a dream actually occurs with each of us every single moment of our lives.

I was doing some personal research about my own dreams in the 1970s. I kept a Journal of my dreams as I remembered them. I would also write whatever associations and meanings I could sense in my dreams. In time, my dream recall increased greatly. I sense this was happening because my awake self was cooperating with and wanting to be involved with my dream self in a conscious way.

Various things happened during these years with my dreams. At times I knew that I was dreaming. This is called lucid dreaming. One time, I woke up from a dream to reach up and turn on the wall lamp over my bed. Then I realized I had no wall lamp over my bed and ‘woke up’ again and turned on the light on the table next to my bed. This was a dream within a dream.

After a while whenever I woke up, I would have the dream continue for a short time as I lay in bed before getting up. One day this lingering dream activity continued after I got up. The dream continued while I showered, got dressed, ate breakfast and went to work at my desk in my home office. This was a very novel experience for me. But I kept losing my train of thought about my work and several times I had to repeat writing the things I was working on. In mid-afternoon, I had to drive to a meeting about a project I was working on with others. The dream continued as I drove several miles to the meeting. The dream continued throughout the meeting and as I drove back home.

I realized after I got home that I was being given a lesson why we are generally not aware of our dreaming self while we are in our waking consciousness. There is too much activity going on between what we see, hear, smell, and sense in our waking world and those things we experience in our dreaming world.

The combination of waking and dreaming activity together was OK and fun while showering and eating alone. It was a great distraction while I was trying to make phone calls, writing, or wanting to do my work in my office. The combination of the two was downright dangerous while driving my car. It forced me to focus very hard to drive my car and watch all elements of traffic. My concentration at the meeting I went to was very scattered. I had to differentiate between what others were saying or doing at the meeting and what was happening in my dream.

I had a clear understanding when I returned home why I had allowed myself this experience. While awake we need to focus on our earth experience and what is going on here in our lives. I thanked my dream self for the lesson and indicated I did not need to repeat this lesson.

Your dream self will always cooperate with you, if you truly want to understand your dream activity and the powerful contribution it provides to you in your daily life.

Communication in the dream state can approximate communication in the waking state. But more often communication in the dream state is through symbolism and whatever meaning we can find behind the actions we experience in our dreams. Writing out, journaling, our dreams when we wake up can lead to greater understanding of the meanings, of the symbolism found in our dreams. Meditation, an awake-dream state, is another way to communicate with our own soul, angelic nature. Private, daily meditations greatly improve our awareness of our true nature.

The earth and all its manifestation including her people is receiving new spiritual energies. These spiritual energies are steadily increasing our personal awareness of our angelic nature. As we choose to flow with these spiritual energies, we can find ourselves experiencing greater and greater understanding of our true soul, angel nature.

The Love and Blessings of the Universe are with you in all ways and at all times. Enjoy them!


Al offers a service to assist you to find your meaning in your dream. What Al does with dreams that are offered to him to find meaning is first to give an overall impression of what the dream offers. Then he focuses on certain elements of the dream that seem to stand out with greater significance. And lastly, he relates all the meanings he senses from the full dream. To make use of this service, write your dream in as much detail as possible. Then send your dream and a $26.00 Money Order to Dream Meanings, P O Box 305, Sylva, NC 28779.

NELL'S DREAM

Your own dreams give you guidance in activities in your own life. And sometimes, other people's dreams are helpful to give guidance and control to events in your life.

A good example of this happened some time ago when I was doing nursing aide work for an elderly man. His wife had passed on about a month before I interviewed for the position. I was interviewed for the live-in position by Nell and Phillip, his son and daughter. They were all from a very conservative family. During the interview I told them that I had a strong metaphysical interest and would want to have my computer in my room to write articles for a newsletter I published at that time. They hesitatingly said they did not mind.

As soon as I moved into their father's house, I felt their mother's energy constantly just over my left shoulder.

In the evening about six days later, Phillip came to me and said that Nell did not want me to continue taking care of their father and to make plans to leave his home. I asked him if this was related to my writing metaphysical articles on my computer. He agreed that this was the reason.

The next morning Nell came in about 10:00 o'clock as she usually did to visit with her father and do some housecleaning. She did not say a word to me at first and just went on about her visit with her father and the housework.

About a half hour later, I went to her and said, "Phillip told me last night that you want me to move out and leave this position." She replied, "Oh, that won't be necessary. Mother came to me in a dream last night and said it was OK for you to stay here."

From that moment and until their father passed away, I never felt their mother's energy over my left shoulder again.


Al offers a service to assist you to find your meaning in your dream. What Al does with dreams that are offered to him to find meaning is first to give an overall impression of what the dream offers. Then he focuses on certain elements of the dream that seem to stand out with greater significance. And lastly, he relates all the meanings he senses from the full dream. To make use of this service, write your dream in as much detail as possible. Then send your dream and a $26.00 Money Order to Dream Meanings, P O Box 305, Sylva, NC 28779.

SELF-DISCOVERY DREAM

I dreamed last night that I was facilitating a workshop titled SELF-DISCOVERY which I recently designed. This workshop includes guidance in meditation, understanding dreams and auric energy balancing. I plan to offer this workshop in my local area soon.

In my dream, I got a response of maybe a dozen people. The dream started at the beginning of the workshop as I was describing the workshop outline to everyone.

I looked around the room at the people who chose to come to the workshop. Several people seemed to be really paying attention. Other people were exhibiting various signs of boredom or lack of attention. At one end of the room were two people who were talking and making sexual advances to each other.

I was becoming emotionally agitated at the people who were not paying attention. I was feeling frustrated and thought to myself that maybe is was not a good idea to have this SELF-DISCOVERY workshop.

I woke up at this point.

Later in the day as I was reviewing my SELF-DISCOVERY workshop dream, it suddenly came to me what my dream was telling me.

I recently left employment of a position I held for over ten years. The hours were regular. My weekday routines were predictable and centered around the employment.

For the past month, I have been planning for and preparing myself for self-employment activity which includes facilitating a variety of workshops. I have not yet completely defined a structure or routine for this. There are many aspects related to this new employment that have yet to be settled on. My mind wanders to a variety of potential resolutions to these unsettled aspects of the new job.

My weekday time frames for the past month have been erratic, not yet settled into a routine. I experience a variety of activities each weekday like every day is Saturday.

What I came to sense from my dream was that each character in my dream, both the workshop participants and the facilitator were different aspects of myself. I was acting out my own SELF-DISCOVERY of my activities of the past month as I am transitioning from a long held position and routine to a new uncertain activity.

The dream is also telling me to get my act together so that the undisciplined elements of myself can combine with all the other aspects of my being to prepare myself fully for the new employment I have chosen.


Al offers a service to assist you to find your meaning in your dream. What Al does with dreams that are offered to him to find meaning is first to give an overall impression of what the dream offers. Then he focuses on certain elements of the dream that seem to stand out with greater significance. And lastly, he relates all the meanings he senses from the full dream. To make use of this service, write your dream in as much detail as possible. Then send your dream and a $26.00 Money Order to Dream Meanings, P O Box 305, Sylva, NC 28779.

MORE ABOUT DREAMS

Much research has been done on sleep and dreams and why they are important to us. Prolonged lack of sleep can lead to serious physical and mental health problems.

Part of the dream activity might be called housecleaning. Dream housecleaning has to do with reviewing the day’s activity and sorting out what is important to our well being and what is not. Who has not had the experience of going to bed all worried about something that happened during the day, then woke up the next morning without a care in the world.

Another function of the dream activity is to point out some answers to situations we are dealing with in our daily life.

We sometimes think of our waking activity as being conscious and our sleeping activity as being unconscious. But if things happen during sleep to help us with waking things in our lives, is it not possible this too is a type of being conscious? And what about the greater flexibility, greater range of activity in the sleep state?

People who know how to meditate realize that meditation is a waking, conscious form of sleep and dream activity. The physical body is in a slower , relaxed state. We drift in and out of dreamlike experiences. Once we learn how to interpret, to understand both the dream and the meditation experiences, we find personal guidance toward a healthier, happier, richer, more fulfilling life.

Al offers a service to assist you to find your meaning in your dream. What Al does with dreams that are offered to him to find meaning is first to give an overall impression of what the dream offers. Then he focuses on certain elements of the dream that seem to stand out with greater significance. And lastly, he relates all the meanings he senses from the full dream. To make use of this service, write your dream in as much detail as possible. Then send your dream and a $26.00 Money Order to Dream Meanings, P O Box 305, Sylva, NC 28779.

CHICKEN COOP THINKING

In my thirties, the recurring theme in my dreams was the naked self.

I was a STREAKER!

There were many variations to these naked-self dreams. In these dreams, I found myself walking or running nude through a room or some other place. There were always other people around fully clothed. I was apprehensive about people seeing me naked. I hid behind doors, in bushes, or hid anywhere before I had enough courage to walk or run naked amongst other people. I wondered what they would think of me. Sometimes I had to return the same way to get my clothes. The apprehension of doing this was doubled. Afterwards, my reaction was, 'Nobody even noticed. What was I so worried about?"

At times an experience in daily life can trigger an understanding of a dream. One such event in my life happened at a private school where I taught. The school was in a rural area. The school had an operating farm. An empty chicken house was being used to store hay. One day the hay caught on fire. It became a flaming inferno in the building within minutes.

Across a small dirt road about twelve feet from the blazing building was another chicken house. The two buildings were parallel to each other. The flames shot across the road. The flames were licking at the side of the other chicken house. Soon, this second chicken house, also, caught fire. Eight hundred chickens were living in this house that caught fire. This house had been their home for about a year since they were hatched. Their whole life had been lived in this chicken house. They never went outside of it.

When we saw the danger to the chickens, a team of firefighters, students and teachers rushed to the side of the chicken house away from the fire. This side of the chicken house was one hundred feet long. The construction was very simple. The outside pine boards were covered with tar paper. These boards were nailed to two by four studs, two feet apart from each other. Nothing was nailed inside the studs.

In minutes we had holes opened in the wall. The chickens could escape from the heat, smoke and flames coming in from the other side. Ten minutes later, the entire length of the building was opened for the chickens to escape the flaming inferno.

Not one chicken stepped outside of the house. All eight hundred of these chickens died. There was nothing we could do to save them. Any chicken farmer knows why they died. The chickens lived their whole life in this house. The house was their protection from any danger. Outside the house was scary, dangerous. Inside was safety.

The cultural chicken house I grew up in had very restrictive ideas about dreams, people, sex, nudity, and spiritual awareness of any kind outside of organized religions. Genitals and women's breasts were to be covered. Dreams were denied any real existence.

Logical reasoning was superior to intuition. Men were superior to women, adults to children. Whites were superior to blacks and other ethnic peoples. Christians were superior to Jews and any other religious beliefs. Straights were superior to gays. Humans were superior to animals. Some occupations were superior to other occupations. Normal was superior to abnormal.

Remembering the incident with the chickens dying in their house gave me my first clues about my streaker dreams. I was, at that time, questioning beliefs in many areas of my life. Until then, I had accepted most beliefs rather passively. After all, I got them from my parents, relatives, friends, teachers, and ministers. These were people I trusted and had faith in.

I began to find flaws in some of my beliefs. I began to strip off beliefs that didn't hold true for me anymore. With these beliefs stripped away, others could then see my true self. The fear, the apprehension, the hesitation before going out in front of others stripped of my cultural clothing was as real for me as the chicken's fear of leaving the safety of their house was for them.

I have often heard remarks like, "It's only a dream, it isn't real."; "It's something you ate."; "You were just over-tired." And so chicken coop thinking begins about our dreams. It prevents us from wanting to understand and involve ourselves consciously with our dreams.

I have learned to embrace a cooperative attitude toward my dream experiences. My dreams help me strip myself of the chicken coop thinking of superiority I may have over others. This superiority over others prevents me from seeing others for the truly unique persons they are.



Al offers a service to assist you to find your meaning in your dream. What Al does with dreams that are offered to him to find meaning is first to give an overall impression of what the dream offers. Then he focuses on certain elements of the dream that seem to stand out with greater significance. And lastly, he relates all the meanings he senses from the full dream. To make use of this service, write your dream in as much detail as possible. Then send your dream and a $26.00 Money Order to Dream Meanings, P O Box 305, Sylva, NC 28779.

OVER THE YEARS

I grew up in the 1930s and 1940s with traditional christian beliefs learned from my family, friends, associates, churches, and others. I saw how important these beliefs were to many others. But within my own being, there was a hunger to know more than these values. I felt there were some things missing in my life.

Then the answers from what I felt was missing started to come to me in the 1960s. I heard about and started to practice meditation as a way to get more in touch with who I was. The hunger continued wanting to know more, but I had begun to find a way to satisfy some of this hunger. Meditation from several disciplines soon led me to learn about the subtle energy forces that exist within and around our bodies. Aura, chakra, astral, etheric and many more terms began to take on meaning in my life. In time ESP, reincarnation, clairvoyance, clairsentience, clairaudient were added to the list of new terms to digest and find meaning within these concepts.

In the mid 1970s I was attracted to learn the spiritual healing practice commonly called the laying-on-of-hands. Channeling, spiritual guides, angels were concepts that took on more clarity for me. I was moved by my own inner guidance to expose others to know more about these things I had been learning and practicing for the past decade. A simple process for a spiritual growth circle came to me.

I was moved to explore my own dream world with a view to understand what dreams were, but more importantly, to learn how to decode and find meaning in my dreams, and to be able to assist others to find meanings in their own dream experiences. I soon recognized that the experiences I had during meditation were very similar to my dream experiences. This recognition allowed me to use meditation, an awake-dream state to assist me in knowing more about my fuller nature, beyond my physical, mental and emotional self. Meditation and dreams become complementary tools for learning more about myself, and the more spiritual elements in my being.

Still later in life, I learned about hypnotherapy for greater understanding of my own psyche. As I was learning this practice, I noticed how the self-hypnotic state had similarities to my meditation experiences and my dream world.

I wrote about these things, first as a journal exercise to understand better what I was experiencing as I studied and practiced the new techniques, then later in articles that I published in newsletters for whatever group or organization I was affiliated with at any given time.

I have been involved in different spiritual growth circles since the mid 1970s. The spiritual growth circle I am in now led us to form the Angels of Light Fellowship (http://angelsoflightfellowship.org). I also set up AURIC EXPRESSIONS (http://auriclight.com) to explore and experiment with different spiritual expressions and to publish MYSTIC MEANINGS at that web site.

The postings on this blog will feature articles I have written in MYSTIC MEANINGS and may serve to be articles that I will later publish in MYSTIC MEANINGS. I see them both as complementary to each other.

LOVE YOURSELF ALWAYS! Love is the cornerstone of your being.


Al offers a service to assist you to find your meaning in your dream. What Al does with dreams that are offered to him to find meaning is first to give an overall impression of what the dream offers. Then he focuses on certain elements of the dream that seem to stand out with greater significance. And lastly, he relates all the meanings he senses from the full dream. To make use of this service, write your dream in as much detail as possible. Then send your dream and a $26.00 Money Order to Dream Meanings, P O Box 305, Sylva, NC 28779.

My Dream Sez

My Dream Sez is a web log about finding meanings in our dreams. Many of us are not aware that we dream all the time day and night. We are not aware of our dreamworld during our waking hours because it would be too confusing and dangerous at times to be paying attention both to our dreams and to our waking activity.

My Dream Sez will anecdote some dreams and the meaning found in them by the person who had the dream.

Once you are willing to acknowledge your dream world, you will have more memory of your night dreams after you wake up. Writing out, journaling your dreams when you wake up is a good way to acknowledge your dreams. Often while journaling a dream, you will begin to sense the meaning behind the events of the dream. Dreams are rarely straight forward like our waking activities, but rather can be clues or guidance to situations we experience in our waking hours.

Happy Journaling!

All dreams have a particular meaning or set of meanings specific to the person who had the dream. Another person can find meaning in any dream, but the meaning will come from the other person’s life experiences. It is helpful at times if you are stuck finding meaning in your own dream to have another person find their meaning in your dream. The other person’s meaning can have associations in it that trigger a meaning for your dream that makes sense to you and your life experiences.

Al offers a service to assist you to find your meaning in your dream. What Al does with dreams that are offered to him to find meaning is first to give an overall impression of what the dream offers. Then he focuses on certain elements of the dream that seem to stand out with greater significance. And lastly, he relates all the meanings he senses from the full dream.

To make use of this service, write your dream in as much detail as possible. Then send your dream and a $26.00 Money Order to Dream Meanings, P O Box 305, Sylva, NC 28779.