Monday, October 12, 2009


SOARING

I went to the Franciscan Spirituality Center today with Kathleen for a class on praying with our dreams. It was really great. A 78-year-old priest that gets it, was the leader. Paul. Just Paul. Don't you love him already? There in his olive colored sweatshirt and olive colored wide wale cords he sat, beaming, guiding and loving as we worked on adding "our holy one" to our dreams. He's big on Jesus. He doesn't care what you are or are not into - whomever/whatever you consider holy will do very nicely.

The idea is to record your dreams - waking yourself up in the middle of the night if need be - and then meditating on them in the light of day, "inserting your holy one" into the dream until you get the "click." Until you get what the dream is trying to tell you. Or until you get what it is not trying to tell you.

He did a lot of, "If it were my dream it might mean to me..." but emphasized the dream can only be properly interpreted by the one doing the dreaming.

I dream often of flying. I'm the only one and I am always really pleased with myself in these dreams. It was suggested I come back to earth, that I might think I'm above everyone else. Perhaps. But Paul shook his head no, said it was really neat and asked me if I wanted help in completing those flying dreams, bringing them to an ending.

He led me in a guided meditation in which I was somewhere before I took off flying, then had me feel what that felt like for as long as I could, then tell him where I ended up. A valley. I was flying from a place of elevation to a lower place, yet there was a sense of soaring, not plummeting. A sense of gliding, not falling. A sense of transcending, not devastation.

I can't tell you how helpful this 3 minute exercise was. I had tears in my eyes and was grateful he didn't ask me to share any more of it with the group. At the time it felt to personal, too intimate, too close to true.






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10 comments:

pixiemama said...

So beautiful.

Tanya @ TeenAutism said...

I've also had various flying dreams throughout my life. Sounds like a great class!

fullsoulahead.com said...

It was suggested you come back to earth! That you might think you're above everybody else? Obviously this suggestion was from someone who doesn't know you.

Soar Carrie! Continue to soar. I love it!

marc said...

at the moment when you can feel the full potential that lies in your soul to illuminate as the sun illuminates this world.is when a taste of the ultimate is experienced.

Beautiful entry and so glad you have journeied through the experience.
Towards the Light...Marc :)

Wanda said...

It pisses my off when people try to make dreams small. Fly...glide...transcend.

Elizabeth said...

This sounds so cool.

Anonymous said...

Look for the geese. You can learn a lot.

Deb Shucka said...

I knew it would be magic and a part of the healing happening in your life right now. I like this Paul. I like soaring in all its incarnations.

Amber said...

Above everyone else?? Gosh, I would never think such a dream would mean that. It is such a gift, it is so positive to fly in your dream!! (I never fly). I think it is a dream of FAITH. I think it takes FAITH to fly.

Anyway, the workshop sounds wonderful. :)

kario said...

Can't wait to hear what it ultimately does for you!