As a child growing up in the 60’s Batman and Robin were my favorite dynamic duo. Today, the growing list of villains we see are the likes of Mr. Freeze, (ICE agents) separating families and deporting migrants, and legal status immigrants to the darkest foreign prisons. Holy Fourth Amendment Batman! We seem trapped in Gotham, by Mr. Cheese, the Orange One. The Convicted Felon is in charge of the penitentiary. Where is Batman when you need him?
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I see Batman in his black superhero outfit, driving his black batmobile, and suddenly, I drive up alongside him, driving super fast in a red Batmobile wearing a red superhero suit and cape. I look over at him and nod, Batman looks surprised to see me. As I am driving, I notice I can see in a 360 degree vision through a rotating globe that circulates over my head, and recognize this as my Super Power. It reminds me of how dreams can provide that way of seeing.
In the Marvel Universe, Nightwing is the name that Boy Wonder goes by once he has grown into his own power and works independently of Batman. He wears red and black and focuses on working in a neighboring city that is very poor, and occasionally consults with Batwoman, who is also known as Oracle.
The shocking events unfolding daily, makes it clear, no one in government is protecting our most vulnerable communities. The powerful get more powerful by hook or by crook. The rich get richer on the backs of the poor.
The current challenges we face daily as our rights are slipping away and Democracy is in decay, has me longing for the Bat Signal, but instead we see park rangers hanging the U.S. flag upside down in Yosemite National Park.
It’s clear we are the ones we have been looking for, and we must become our own hero. We must tap into our own super powers, and team up with other super heroes to fight back against fascism, and protect ourselves, and each other. We must consult the Oracle of our Dreams.
Batman was a billionaire, and Robin came from a family of circus performers, (not my circus, not my clown car) both lost their parents to violent crimes. Becoming a hero from our personal stories and traumas, is the place where our super powers are revealed to fight for justice and protect the vulnerable in our community. Stories of survival are embodied through generations of ancestors, where our superpowers are revealed.
Perhaps it is time to unmask the Billionaire Batman as a hero, and instead write a new episode. Get in, an independent Woman driving a red hot Batmobile is dreaming with a 360 degree view of the past, present, and future tracking us towards Democracy and Human Rights.
Yosemite National Park Rangers hang Distress Symbol of the upside down U.S. flag.
Here are five ways to embody your Super Powers:
- Body Postures – When you are afraid, or lacking confidence, strike a Superpower Pose beforehand. Want to invite your Super Powers into Dreaming? Strike a Super Power pose before bed, and then picture yourself posing this way inside your dream. Shamanic body postures written about by Felicitas Goodman, reveals stances by ancient figures, produced altered trance states when mirrored, “If one adopts such a posture, one will have such an experience”.
If you wake up from an important dream in the middle of the night, you can slip back inside your dream, by finding the body posture you were in when you woke, and there you will find your dream waiting for you.
- Embodied Dreaming – The body remembers in dreaming and waking realities. Scientific research has shown that when we dream or imagine an experience, the body translates this as a lived experience. This has been tested in areas of Imaginal Healing for Cancer patients, Sports psychology for heightened performance, as well as Academic performance improvement through dream study test preparation. Embodied dream discovery does not limit us to our physical body, but translates in a physical way as an embodied experience. This opens possibilities for timely actions in response to the biggest challenges we face collectively today. Our most brilliant scientists like Einstein and Tesla knew this, using their mindscapes and dream scapes as place of invention. Leaders like Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed the path ahead to change the world. On a personal level, dreams may take you to find the perfect place to live, the love of your life, your dream job, creative inspiration, or the community where you feel you most belong. Imagine yourself slipping under covers and into your dreams tonight, where your bed sheets become a cape, and your dream body takes flight. Dream into your super powers and see where it takes you! (Children already understand this).
- Problem Solving – We can problem solve in our dreams, by sleeping on it, when we have a big decision to make, and can’t decide, we instinctively know to sleep on it, and the answer comes in the morning. An embodied knowing in our bones, or a dream we recall provides a clear answer. This tacit wisdom is dream incubation. The practice of sleeping on it for a particular purpose. In dreams, we can see the problem from a holistic view, and explore every angle, such as looking in the mirror, or tracking ahead for a possible future, or traveling paths untaken to integrate lessons unlearned. We can enter into the unknown, and pull back the curtain of darkness to find innovation.
- Intention Setting – Dream incubation is a dreaming practice known widely in the Ancient Greco Roman World, as well as today in modern dream work. It is simply a way to invite into your dreams whatever you wish, for instance, a healing dream, as was the focus in the Ancient Dream Temples of Asclepius, or perhaps a flying dream to travel through space and time, beyond the confines of your fears, and the limits of the everyday mind, or your physical body. Intention setting charts the path for the directions our energy flows. Dreams open us to receive more than we know.
- Inspired Collaboration – Our dreams have the power to bring forth the world we desire to create. Finding ways to bring our dreams into the waking world, requires us to suspend belief about “the way things are” or refrain from deciding “it was just a dream” and can’t be real. We learn instead to engage the body as a portal into dreaming. An embodied oracle, providing us a glimpse of a possible future, and becoming a bridge between the worlds. We embody our Super Powers when facing our fears, and seeking out powerful allies of collaboration in dreaming and waking realities who will support our vision and our mission. Together we can dream, and take inspired action on behalf of the Earth, Community, and each other.
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing“ – Arundhati Roy
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