A.R.E. Meeting for 03/14/11

Leader: Nancy
Reader: Greg

In the "How to Interpret Your Dreams" book, we finished Chapter 2. Next week we will start Chapter 3.

For the discipline this week, before going to bed, pose a question you want answered. The question should be phrased in a way that could be answered yes or no. Seek guidance or feedback through a dream.

A.R.E. Meeting for 03/07/11

Leader: Nancy
Reader: Sylvia

In the "How to Interpret Your Dreams" book, we are in Chapter 2, page 29, ready to begin the section "Keeping a Dream Journal."

The discipline is still to keep a dream journal, and maybe try some of the 14 methods of dream recall we read this week:

1. Go to bed early.
2. Have a partner wake you during REM periods.
3. Learn to awaken in the night.
4. If you awaken during the night, write down some key words.
5. Read your dream journal before going to bed.
6. Before going to sleep, use a simple suggestion for dream recall.
7. Keep paper, pencil, and flashlight by your bed.
8. Record your feelings upon awakening, even if you don't recall a dream.
9. Record and study other dreamlike fantasies.
10. Upon awakening, review the key questions in your life.
11. Write out your purposes for wanting to recall dreams.
12. Pray for recall yourself, or have others pray for you.
13. Have an inquiring attitude.
14. Act on the dreams you receive.

We discussed and seemed to agree that it would be better if everyone limited their weekly dream recall to their one most significant dream or one they wanted guidance on, rather than discuss them all. That would leave more time for reading the book.

A.R.E. Meeting for 02/28/11

Leader: Greg
Reader: Marsha

In the How to Interpret Your Dreams book, we are in Chapter 2, page 22, ready to begin the section "Conscious Efforts at Cooperating with Dreams."

The discipline is still to keep a dream journal.

Changes When You're a Channel for Healing

I bought Echo Bodine's book Hands That Heal, after listening to her being interviewed on the Sunday morning "Reflections: The Wisdom of Edgar Cayce" radio show. I was just flipping through the book when I landed on a page that mentioned how she changes when she is about to channel a higher energy level. I thought that some of the "symptoms" that our study group brought up during the last meeting meeting could be related to our journeys.

Here are Echo's words:

Since writing this back in 1983, my body has been through many changes because of being a channel for healing energy.
Every so often, and there is no set timing on this, my body goes through a process to take me to another level so that I can channel stronger energy.

The signs are not always the same, so sometimes I don't know I'm in one of these transitions until it passes and I begin channeling stronger energy.

These are the different changes I go through when my body is going to another level as a healer:

• Metallic taste in my mouth
• My appetite increases quite a bit
• I put on 5 to 10 pounds 
• I crave chocolate, baked potatoes, red meat, and coffee (decaf), and I drink gallons of water
• I either stay up until two o'clock ord three o'clock in the morning reading everything spiritual I can get my hands on, or I feel extremely creative and redecorate, sew, or write, OR I become extremely tired and sleep all the time
• I become quite a hermit, hiding out from everyone including close friends and family members since it feels like I need to be in the "silence" 
• I usually stop all physical activity such as running on my treadmill or going for walks
• I get spacey and absentminded
• I have dreams where I'm in a classroom learning something new
• My body feels like it's going through a metamorphosis, like I'm in a cocoon and will soon emerge a butterfly
• My hands start channeling stronger energy, and they can hurt, go numb, feel arthritic, or feel really fat and thick. They are very sensitive and don't like to be touched
• Sometimes when I go through these periods, I don't want anyone to touch me or hug me
• I feel like I'm in some kind of chamber, and I don't want anyone "messing" with my energy
• Sometimes I can hear voices far away teaching me something, yet my conscious mind can't make them out; they sound muddled

These periods last seven to ten days, and when I come out of them, I go back to normal, except I know I've come through something really important and am now a stronger channel. My diet goes back to normal. I get off coffee and cut way back on the sugar, the red meat, and the chocolate. I lose the weight I put on. My mind becomes more clear, and I'm less forgetful. I naturally crave fun, movies, people, and socializing in place of the solitude I craved before.

I go for months or maybe a year before I go into one of these changes, but seem to go through at least one of these transitions every year.

A.R.E. Meeting for 02/21/11

Leader: Greg
Reader: Greg

In the "How to Interpret Your Dreams" book, we finished Chapter 1, and next week will start Chapter 2.

The discipline is still to keep a dream journal.

For those interested in the story I read on the A.R.E. blog (with the quote "Boston is OK") that affected my dream that night, the story is here.

A.R.E. Meeting for 02/14/11

Leader: Greg
Reader: Greg

In the "How to Interpret Your Dreams" book, we are on page 15, about to go into the second dream category: "2. Elements of the conscious personality, are, in effect, the mental forces of an individual."

The discipline is still to keep a dream journal.

Remember, next Monday (21 February), we will meet at Cindi's home. A map will be sent out a little later this week.

A.R.E. Meeting for 02/07/11

Leader: Greg
Reader: Sylvia

In the "How to Interpret Your Dreams" book, we are on page 12, about to go into the third functional definition of dreams: "A dream can give an insight into God's law or His working in our lives."

The discipline is still to keep a dream journal.

Sylvia's discussion of the book about the lives of Jesus reminds me that there is a post on our blog about this topic: http://cospringsare.blogspot.com/search/label/Christ