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Dreams as a Way to Know Christ.

Dreams communicate the needs of the soul as participants prayerfully seek God’s guidance to live their lives. The rich spiritual discipline of understanding dreams and seeking to live in harmony with the messages they bring can enrich lives with comfort, challenge, and practical solutions to problems of daily life.

Dreams Related to Death and Dying

Before people die, they often have powerful dreams that connect them to the Divine. During the death process, loved ones also often have vibrant dreams related to their loved one’s dying. This workshop explores the dream process as it relates to people making their transition from this world to the next.

Summer Dream Conference: God’s Forgotten Language

This annual conference is for all (beginners as well as advanced) who want to recover the ancient Biblical tradition of listening for God’s word for us in our nightly dreams. This conference is for professionals (especially clergy), counselors and therapists, lay dream-group leaders, and also for dreamwork beginners.

Dream Group/Journey Group Resource Packet

A packet of handouts, guidelines, articles, book suggestions, and other resources of interest to dream groups. Permission to print and reproduce for non-commercial use is granted.

The Haden Institute

The Haden Institute in North Carolina offers a rich curriculum for people interested in dream work or spritual direction. Two intensive, certification programs are offered, as well as the annual summer conference on dreams.

Natural Spirituality: Recovering the Wisdom Tradition in Christianity

NATURAL SPIRITUALITY moves Jungian dream work from the professional world of the analyst’s office into the everyday world of the laity in the local church. The book offers serious Christians in every community an opportunity to embark on the spiritual path of individuation. With clarity and simplicity Joyce Hudson puts into her reader’s hands the tools for inner work that Carl Jung offered to Christianity. She then goes beyond Jung to present original models of masculine and feminine wholeness. In illustrating the masculine model, she offers an analysis of the lives and music of the Beatles that is both insightful and entertaining. To illustrate the model of feminine wholeness, Hudson joins ranks with C.S. Lewis, Robert Johnson, Marie-Louise von Franz, and Erich Neumann in putting forth her own interpretation of the classical myth of Psyche and Eros. Finally, she offers detailed advice and helpful resources for instituting continuing programs for inner work in local churches. While maintaining deep respect for Church tradition, this highly readable work opens the door for an expanded and enlivened Christianity.

Dreamwork as a Spiritual Path

Tallulah Lyons is certified as a dreamwork specialist through the Haden Institute. She has developed materials and formats to bring dream work into cancer support communities across the country and around the world, and is the author of Dream Prayers: Dreamwork as a Spiritual Path.

Practicing the Presence of Christ.

Quiet time is a place for God to show up in our lives. Out of silence we are found by Christ, loved by Christ, and transformed by Christ. This workshop will focus on specific prayer/meditation practices which enable participants to quiet the mind and await Christ’s presence.

Tools for Prayer

Centering Prayer

• • Choose a sacred word. This word is a “symbol of your intention to consent to the presence and action of God within.”
• • Sit with eyes closed in a comfortable position and “introduce the sacred word.”
• • When thoughts distract you, “ever-so-gently”return to the sacred word.
• • At the end of your prayer time take some time in silence for a few minutes to transition back.

Holy Reading “Lectio Divina”

• • Read slowly through a passage of scripture until a word or phrase stands out for you. Put the Bible down and repeat the phrase of scripture in your heart.
• • Repeat the phrase, allowing it to affect you without analyzing or studying it. Simply feed on the phrase or word of scripture.
• • If the words fade then stay with the silence and be with God.
• • When distractions come, gently resume the reading or the repeating of scripture.
• • Close by thanking God for the gift of scriptured silence.

A few passages rich with potential for “Holy Reading:”

• • Genesis 1
• • Prov. 9:1-12
• • Psalms 104, 139
• • Luke 10:38-42
• • John 1:1-19
• • John 14
• • Rev. 3:20-22

Breath Prayers:

• • “Lord Jesus, have mercy on me.” (a form of the Jesus Prayer)
• • “Father, let me feel your love.”
• • “Master, teach me humility.”
• • “Holy Spirit, fill me.”
• • “Strengthen me, Jesus.”
• • “My God and my All.” (a prayer used by St. Francis)

Repeating the name of the person for whom you are praying, timing it with your breath. In choosing a breath prayer, remember to keep it short and simple. Let it express the deepest desire of your heart that you are aware of. Use the form of address to God that is most natural to you. The rhythm of the prayer may gradually synchronize with your breathing, or walking, or even with your heartbeat. A simple melody may help to carry its remembrance for you.

Scripture Prayers:

• • “Into your hands I commend my spirit.”
• • “Perfect love casts out fear.”
• • “Glory to God in the highest!”
• • “Be still and know that I am God.”
• • “Be still and know.”
• • “Lo, I am with you always.”
• • “Create in me a clean heart, O God.”
• • “Lord, I believe; help Thou my unbelief.”
• • “In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”
• • “Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.”
• • “Even so, come Lord Jesus!”

The words will deepen and expand in meaning as they are prayed in various settings. But after a while, meanings fade into the background and the words begin to create inward space where God’s presence and truth can be more fully experienced in the heart.

• • Deut 30:14
• • Rom. 8:26-27
• • Ezek 36:22
• • John 6:21
• • John 17
• • John 15:12-17
• • Psalm 57

Look up Scripture citations in the NRSV Bible.

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What is the Sacred Feminine?

The Sacred Feminine, which includes the wisdom of the body, access to intuition, and a love for the Divine in the natural world. Through a deepened relationship with Jesus Christ, the participant discovers the Sacred Feminine is both a container for and conveyor of the love of God.

Article by the Rt. Rev. Larry Maze, Bishop of Arkansas

Why Dreams? Why Us? Why Now?
Article by Joyce Rockwood Hudson