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Namah Dreams and Sadhana

more central part of ourselves than we usually them to be bigger than they are, just as I did
know who welcomes the chance to speak to us…. the suitcase. I find excuses not to belong, just
as I found the suitcase to be too classy for me.
A dialogue is a relationship between a known
and an unknown. Dialogue penetrates mutual
isolation. We have the choice to listen perpetually
only to our known selves, or to take the leap
towards a relationship with the stranger who
stands in the corner waiting for us to wait no
longer.

Every dialogue is a reach into the unknown
where we listen to more than the echo of our
own solitary being (10).”

My dialogue with the suitcase ended this
way: Taxonomy of dreams

Suitcase: You appropriated the clothes and Dream experts in all cultures have paid special
perfumes. But why not me? attention to dreams as a means for reaching a
Me: You were of white leather, with shiny non-ordinary state of consciousness. Dreams
black lining, like out of a movie — too classy. have been interpreted by spiritual masters,
While I looked at you, you seemed to grow medical healers, medicine men, shamans,
in size. You were too big for me. oracles. Various classifications of dreams
Suitcase: If you took me, you would not need have been done by many dream specialists.
to carry your things, over multiple trips. Let me classify them in three categories by the
Me: You had other people’s things too. roles they play in our lives. At the basic level,
Suitcase: No, I just had your things. You stopped they prepare us to survive by providing us
looking at the remaining things when you had with: prospective warning dreams; making
a sizeable pile. us practice fight, flight, falling; urging us to
Me: I had already half emptied you. propagate our genes; enhancing our creative
Suitcase: You got overwhelmed and enlarged me. faculty; providing solutions to problems.
Me: Do you think I am afraid of boxes? At the second level, dreams heal us —
Suitcase: You are afraid of big boxes. psychologically, physically, in our relationships
with others and the earth. Lastly, dreams help
The suitcase became a ‘box‘ by the end, and us connect with our spiritual essence.
I realised I was avoiding being ‘boxed in’.
The dream was exposing two complexes I The healing power of dreams
have — that of being overwhelmed by too
many things, and the fear of being trapped Often people who have a physical ailment
in a label. I run from organised groups, their get clues of their healing from dreams. In
rules and authority figures. Perhaps I imagine a sense, we all seek healing, physical or

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