Dreamtime – Awaken the Sacred Dream

People of the Land

It’s Personal

In February 2020, about a month prior to the pandemic storm, a dear sister and healer invited me to try her newly created float tank, and knowing my connection with dreams, she was keen to have me try it to see how it might be a helpful modality for conscious dreaming. I was also keen to try it and the liminal space created by floating in salt water, providing a primal womb of dream incubation. I focused my intention in my float session on personal healing and gaining any insights that would be helpful for me at this time. I had been doing a lot of private healing sessions on individual clients, and knew the salt waters would be restorative for my energy field as well.

As I floated in the tank in a conscious dream state, that place between waking and sleeping reality, I saw images come and go, then suddenly, dropped deeper into a dream, which opened before me from the core of my being. I was now inside a conscious dreaming reality with an Oracle Goddess, who emerged from a mountain. Her face, her hands, and her breasts became visible. Her strong voice was heard inside my dream. She said, I have not been seen in a very long time. It is time for me to emerge. I tell her I had set the intention to work on personal work, and not focused on collective energies right now. It is personal! She snaps back! Alright then, I am paying attention! I then see a volcano next to her, with lava flowing down, and molten lava erupting from the top, as the face of the Goddess Pele is reflected in the fires of the Earth. I feel her powers of destruction and creation. Suddenly, I hear cows mooing and see them grazing in a peaceful green pasture, and the Blue Faced Goddess Hathor descends from the Pleiades, with her nurturing and peaceful, loving energy. Finally, I see the Three Goddesses before me, a blazing fire beneath HER feet. I am human sized, standing before them, but in the body of Kali Ma, Black Mother Earth, Treasure House of Compassion, Giver of Life to the World. I run toward the sacred fire with fierce love and compassion and lunge my ceremonial knife (truth) into the Sacred Fire (Life). The Oracle Goddess says, It is done, and it is good.

These days I am opening myself to deep dreaming as a guide through the tumultuous times we are facing. I seek guidance in this world, and the otherworld, in this time and other times, everywhere and everywhen.

People of the Land

February 13, 2025

In the Dreaming, I am on a quest to return to the old ways and people of the Land. I found a community of people living in connection with the land and the ancestors. It was through an eruption of a volcano, that the return of the ancestors came to be, and I came to know myself more than ever before. I was sacrificing myself for future generations.

I found myself in the Dreaming, where two separate realities were before me. I had a home in two different places.

I held in my hands two swords from ancient times. One was Persian, and engraved with calligraphy, the other was the shape and make of an Egyptian Khopesh Sword, first appearing in Sumer in the third century until making its way to Egypt. The sword represents power and authority held by deities such as Sekhmet. I crossed the blades slicing against the steel, and when I made contact it opened the dreams, rituals and stories held in the blades, and brought out the secrets held inside.

*Zulfiqar* sacred sword of the Prophet Muhammed

As the dance went on, mud was rising to the surface of the Persian blade over the carved calligraphy and the stories of the land were revealed. The memories held inside the ancient blade came forth as dreams hovering before me within the dream. Portals of pilgrimage for the Pele Volcano, A sacred waterfall, Uluru Rock, and the Egyptian pyramids. Visiting one of the houses on my multidimensional timeline, I open the door to the backyard and see the dream portals hovered before me as entry points to the Everywhen.

Everywhen

Uluru Rock is located in Australia, and considered the place of creation and sacred to the aboriginal peoples. “The Dreaming is used to represent Aboriginal concepts of “Everywhen“, during which the land was inhabited by ancestral figures.” It is considered the Navel of Creation.

The Halemaʻumaʻu crater at the summit of Kīlauea Volcano is home to the Goddess Pele, her name in hawaian is ka wahine ai honua, which means “the woman who devours the earth”. It is a place of destruction and Creation.

The waterfall may be from the Big Island of Hawaii where beautiful waterfalls are found around Hilo. The Rainbow Waiānuenue waterfall is a sacred place where the Goddess Hina is connected.

Rainbow falls in Hilo Hawaii, home to the Goddess Hina.

The great Pyramid of Giza is considered a gateway to the otherworld, and the mysteries of the afterlife and ongoing journey of the Dua, or soul.

Myth

My research indicates the deeper story of the Sword dance is connected with myth and prophecy. The Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet known as the one before whom evil trembles, is a warrior and healer. She was known to wield the Khopesh sword associated with protection, justice, and disarming enemies. As healer she was known to cure all ills, even plague and pestilence. The Khopesh Sword has been traced beyond Egypt to Mesopotamia and Ancient Sumar.

Prophecy

The Persian sword known as Zulfiqar is believed by early Shiʿites to be brought down from heaven by the archangel Gabriel and given to the prophet Mohammed. The sword disappeared and is considered occulted in the unseen until the time when the world is in a state of complete tyranny. Recently a sword with calligraphy as being identified as the Zulfiqar sword has been identified and confirmed from 1500 years ago, and within the language of the time. In the 13th century, the great Sufi poet Jalāl-al-Dīn Moḥammad Rūmī portrayed Zulficar as the incarnation of al-Ḥaqq, or Divine Truth.

Dreaming Pilgrimage

Taken together these 4 portals of pilgrimage contain a formula of ancient wisdom from ancient peoples whose mystery traditions may be a remedy or map for the times we are encountering now. A Map of Creation, Rebirth, Healing, and Soul Flight. Dreaming can help us in all of these areas, and while it may be more difficult to make a physical pilgrimage at this time to each of these sights, we can visit in dreaming through entering each of the hovering portals.

Embodied Prayer

The sword dance holds a powerful energy at the intersection of sharpening truth and discernment. One blade holding prophecy of the people of the land coming forth, at the cross section of a powerful warrior goddess Sekhmet, who cleansed the Earth of the darkness of men. This sword dance is a gathering and reclaiming of power, able to defend the vulnerable, and a return to truth and justice. An embodied prayer of the land, and the people of the land.

I invite you to join me on this dream pilgrimage, to enter portals of Creation, Rebirth, Healing, and Soul Flight, to dance into myth and prophecy and heal the stories held in the land, and join in solidarity with the peoples of the land, to bring justice to the vulnerable and protect the peoples of the land.

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Songs of Creation and Dream Travel

I noticed a dream traveler standing outside my window inviting me to join him in the dream. I did not hesitate, I was not afraid. I knew intuitively this invite was safe and exactly where I needed to be. I laid down immediately and the second my eyes closed, I was dreaming.

Discovering the Dreamtime is a path to encounter ancient dream ways of creation. The Dreamtime is a place beyond time, where the physical world gets dreamed into being. A collective dream in collaboration with the ancient being of the Earth and creation herself. It is a place one may access in dreams if you know the right song, or dance the right dance, know the right story or dream the right dream. The aborigine people of Australia, are among those most ancient of first peoples on the Earth. They have dreaming ceremonies held in secret, as they must protect their world and access to the Dreamtime.

“They wrapped the whole world in a web of song; and at last, when the Earth was sung, they felt tired. Again in their limbs they felt the frozen immobility of Ages. Some sank into the ground where they stood. Some crawled into caves. Some crept away to their ‘Eternal Homes’, to the ancestral waterholes that bore them. All of them went ‘back in’.”
The Songlines, by Bruce Chadwick

My invitation to the Dreamtime came one night as I was preparing for bed. My bedroom lights were off. I was sitting up in bed about to lay down. Suddenly, I saw a stream of Purple Lightning across the dark. I noticed a dream traveler standing outside my window inviting me to join him in the dream. I did not hesitate, I was not afraid. I knew intuitively this invite was safe and exactly where I needed to be. I laid down immediately and the second my eyes closed, I was dreaming.

The dream traveler had taken me to another location, in the Australian Outback. There were big red boulders around the small group gathered around a small fire. I stood among them wondering why I had been brought here. The dream traveler said, “ You have been brought here as Mother, and witness for your daughter. She is receiving a spiritual naming ceremony.”

My daughter at the time was 4 years old. She was gifted several handmade tokens that hold the energy of her gifts, and then given her spiritual name. I was not privy to her spiritual name, as that must be held in secret, especially because there are those, who if known, would try to use it against her.

Then after it was complete, I found myself back in my bed. It somehow made sense to me that my daughter would have such an auspicious naming ceremony. She after all, had come to me in a dream before I was pregnant with her. She asked permission to be born through me, and then told me her name. She also had an unusual entry into the world when she was born. She was turned breech in the womb as her due date approached. I wanted a natural birth and was trying all kinds of tricks and remedies to get her to turn, to no avail. When nothing else worked, I finally sought answers in my dreams.

I set a dream intention for my daughter to turn, and immediately upon entering a liminal dream state, I see an ancient Asian Crone Healer standing bedside. She puts her hands on my womb and each time she places them, they light up. She creates a path of light for my daughter to come into the world. I feel her turn in my womb. The Crone turns to speak before leaving, she says, “One more thing you should know. Your daughter is a Faery Queen.” The Crone departed, as I tried to ask her, “Does that come with a Manuel?” No response.

When I was about 6 months pregnant with my daughter I went with my sister to see a cultural performance of Aboriginal Dancers at UT Austin. They had never made public before their Dreamtime ceremonies held in secret. They played their instruments, sang their sacred songs and danced their dances and told their stories. My daughter all the while dreaming in my womb, of the world she would soon join when she became Earthside.

I feel confident she dreamed her way along those songlines in the womb, and met one of those dream travelers who would later bestow her spiritual name when she was old enough. That same dream traveler who knew how to find me riding along a song line of purple lightning for me to ride along when I would accompany him into the Dreamtime for my daughter’s spiritual naming ceremony.

Rainbow Serpent Dreamtime

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Rainbow Serpent Dreamtime

In the midst of a conscious dream, I see three Aborigine men playing music and singing a sacred song. The songlines take me into the Dreamtime. I begin to see the mythic Aboriginal Rainbow Serpent emerge and it spreads giant across the stars looming before me. I also become aware that this same energy exists within me, and the rainbow serpent begins to emerge from my heart and solar plexus. This creative energy is undulating in and out of my heart weaving between my heart and the stars. The creative pulse of this ancient cosmic dance, brings tremendous energy into my body and my being. I am expanding ever outward into the spiraling dance of the dreamtime, and returning again and again to the universe expanding inside of me. EOD

The Aborigine Rainbow Serpent of the Dreamtime and the songs that evoke her, create the world. The energy of the ley lines tell where to find water and navigate the land. The energy lines are evoked by the songs and carry the stories of universe, stars, people, plant animal, river and stone. The stories carry me into the dreamtime. Many indigenous peoples understand that the dream world is the real world, and where our waking reality is created. The songlines and dreamlines are also connected with the energy ley lines on earth, as a map to navigate during dream travel. We are connected with the universe and the ground upon which we walk, as integrally as with our own breath. Our body carries the stories of our lives, just as the earth and the universe carry the stories of creation, that is ever being created. We are ever creating the sacred stories of the universe, the earth and our body, with each breath we take, and every beat of our heart and every dream we enter. This dance is being dreamed by our ancestors and they are inviting us to dance with them, out of which a new world may be born.

Tracking the Dreamtime

My dreams have been teaching me about the indigenous mind over the years. I have gone dreaming with Indigenous Peoples from Kyrgyzstan, Africa, Mexico, Aboriginal people of Australia, and also U.S. Southwestern and Hawaiian Native Peoples among others. The indigenous mind might say, “I went dreaming”. Many westerners like to describe dreams they share by saying, “I had a dream” it seems almost in passing, and indeed much of the dream, may pass from our memory on waking. The indigenous mind shares dreams as an experience and a real place one can visit or where ancient ancestors may come calling on you for a visit.

Naming Ceremony

When my daughter was 4 years old, I had an extraordinary experience of a visit from the powers of dreaming. I was not yet asleep, but sitting up in bed in my darkened room, about to lay down and rest. I saw what appeared as blue lightening, streak across my bedroom. I knew it was from someone of power paying me a visit. I was astonished by what I saw, but not afraid at all. I was calm in fact, and somehow seemed to know what was about to happen. I looked out my bedroom window and saw a man standing there, somehow familiar to me. He sent me a telepathic message asking permission to come inside. I knew he wanted to take me on a journey and so I gave permission inwardly and settled into to bed. The second I closed my eyes, I was transported to a foreign land where a ceremony was going on. We were outside and there were a number of large boulders in a somewhat barren landscape at night. We were among a small group of people who had gathered for this ceremony. He let me know it was a naming ceremony for my 4 year old daughter. She would receive her spiritual name during the ceremony and I was invited to participate as her mother and hold witness to the ceremony. I was not allowed to know her secret spiritual name, but there to give my permission and blessings on the ceremony.

There have been other stories I have shared here in my blog, that recount extraordinary dreams. One thing I am beginning to learn is how this plays into my life and how I can understand the dreamtime, where time and space exist simultaneously, without separation. Indigenous peoples pass on the stories of their culture, which are interwoven and inseparable with the land where they live. In the dreamtime, one can travel to a possible future, or the storied past, all existing in the present. The Indigenous Mind does not think of time as linear, but circular where always, there is a return.

Return of the Ancient

When my son was 3 years old, I had a dream that I was sitting on a Mesa overlooking the Grand Canyon. An ancient elder sat across from me drawing a circle in the dirt with a stick. He began to trace the circle and tell me about my son, who he is and why he is here. He let me know, that my son had not reincarnated on this plane in a very long time. I asked him how long, and he pointed at the canyon and I saw it was no longer there, but now stood as one solid land mass. That is a very long time, I thought to myself.

Lizard Woman

I hear music playing in my dream and suddenly, I am looking at a map of Arizona. A journey is laid out for me on the map in rainbow colors that show a route of travel to places I must visit and tracks the path I must follow. I am then in the landscape of a dessert terrain, with some large trees that are near a spring of water. There is one Tree in particular I am drawn toward, and as I draw nearer, I can hear a woman speaking to me. She is calling to me in a haunting lilting cadence, “Come to this place, it is time for you to claim your power. It is time for you to come to this land for healing and claim your own power.” I see her working with me, and she buries me partially in the earth, as she does a healing ceremony for me. Now I am in an underground hogan, where herbs hang from the ceiling and I lay covered with a native designed blanket and I am dreaming. In my dream within a dream, I see a huge Gila Lizard that lives beneath the earth. It stretches giant across Arizona and lives beneath the ground. I am aware of this ancient place where the land is interwoven with the stories of the peoples who have lived here for centuries. The powers of the land, guard these sacred places. Years later, I learned that the Gila Lizard is sacred to the Navajo people as a great healing ally. The name Gila even evokes the sound of Heal. In this dream, my power was hunting me and singing me into being. I once again feel this place of power calling to me inside myself. I am ready to follow the rainbow tracks and songlines of the dreamtime, ready to discover my place of power on the path of an ancient people who have called to me.

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