The Iroquois say
matter-of-factly that the dreamworld is the Real World (they call our waking
existence the Shadow World or surface world).
The Iroquois teach
that it is the responsibility of caring people in a caring society to gather
around dreamers and help them unfold their dreams and search them to identify
the wishes of the soul and the soul's purpose -- and then to take action to
honor the soul's intent.
If we are not living
from our souls, our lives lose magic and vitality. Part of our soul may even go away, leaving a
hole in our being.
Beings from the
spirit world are constantly seeking to communicate with us in the dreamscape,
which offers and open frontier for contract between humans and the more than
human.
Life continues after
physical death, in other dimensions and in other vehicles of consciousness.
Truth comes with
goose bumps.
It is possible, as
some Iroquois traditionalists believe, that we dream everything before it
happens, even if we are amnesiac about what we experience in night dreams.
By learning to
maintain consciousness within the dreamworld, we may also be able to travel
purposefully through the dreamgates of cosmic consciousness and communicate
with other dreamers in either the past or the future.
Beings from the
spirit world are constantly seeking to communicate with us in the dreamscape.
Here, in Native
tradition, we find a fundamental understanding that is largely missing from
Western analysis: that dreaming can be a source of vital energy, and that
dreams can be transformers, allowing us to tap into a universal, inexhaustible
source of authentic power.
