Dream Work

It is free, it is fun and even entertaining.  It also be a catalyst for change inwardly.  It can move what were heavy loads to your waking self.  I am talking about the dream self. Yes, that mysterious part of you that you might look at a little askance and wonder what is up with that denizen realm within. 

If you want to relate better to who you are deeper down and do some good work in the process, taking a look at the dream realm might be a great bet for you. Why?  It is such a rich bed of possibility, and it is one that really doesn't get mentioned very often.  Truth be told, we just don't tend to feel like we have much to say in that world.  It's that "other" world of us.  A mystery.  But this need not be. 

Try to look at it this way and start seeing things from your dream self. So hop into your mind and imagine you are floating in dreamland in a sea of creative juice as time expands and contracts and consciousness is more mobile.  As you look at your waking self, what do you see?  Probably you see the day to day activities, yes.  Work, coming home, dinner, the evening.  Over and over until the weekend.  The weekend is like a break in the schedule.  You see all the parts that make up the waking self such as the emotions, the mind, intellect, and ego. Ego is a bit of an interesting creature.  In dreamland, ego is slumbeing for the most part, so perhaps its a mystery to you.  That's right; ego is most often out of the picture in deeper realms of sleep.  To your dream self, it is a mystery, perhaps even an anomoly.  Isn't this a bit like how you view the sleeping self?  So come on, now, why was it you thought doing serious dream work was a silly thought? 

To start, I am going to tell you what has worked for me over a long time frame.  Some of this came to me through other sources. I tried them, and many of them worked. 

The first technique to try to get the ball rolling is suggestion.  You simply think to yourself before you fall asleep that you want to DO something in dream.  Whatever it is, it is up to you.  Maybe it is overcoming a fear, or some issue that has been bothering you.  With the dream self so invested in bringing you dreams that run through these things already, you have an instant connective to dream you didn't realize you had before.  What works best I have found is to not just plop down in bed but relax, take your time, and then when you notice that your breathing has changed to a deep slow rhythm and you feel the beginnings of your awareness slipping off into that slope into dream, start with your suggestion.  Speak clearly in the center of your mind and be specific about what you want to do in dream.  Do this a couple of times if you wish.  I see multiple suggestions as akin to planting seeds.  If you plant enough, you are bound to get something that germinates.  "I want to deal with what's behind my anxiety with work right now." is a very good way to word things.  You don't have to have any sense of what the answer is.  In fact, it might help if you simply remain in the dark for now.   This signals to other parts of yourself that you are ready for those other parts of you to step forward and help with the heavy lifting.  It may also be that your suggestion is more specific such as, "I would like to begin resolving the anxiety that I have about work."  It all depends on what it is you want to accomplish.  See, what you think and say inwardly matters. 

Another technique that has worked very well for me has been a suggestion that I heard mentioned by Lynn Andrews on a decades-old interview with, I believe, New Dimensions on NPR.  Back before the internet, this was one show I would tune into on Sundays from time to time to hear the most interesting interviews from people in spiritual, mystical and self help disciplines.  IN this interview, Andrews said that you should say to yourself before going to sleep, "Ego, I am going to go to sleep and I want you to slip into dreaming with me and just stay asleep.  I am going to wake up in sleep and for now I want you to remain quiet for now.  I am going to use dream as a springboard into other work...."  At least, it was very close to that, even if my quotes manage to misquote her exactly.   The result that very night was that I DID indeed wake up, lucid and fully aware within dreaming.  I was pinching myself! 

Another technique that you can use in consort with these that I have just mentioned is great for helping to condition the soil of your awareness and can make a difference in better results later, which is to stop what you are doing during the day and simply remind yourself what it is that you are wanting to do in sleep.  Do this quickly and without spending time belaboring the idea.  Just plant the seed for now.  That is enough.  You can do this a couple of times each day, in the early morning, at mid day and then in the evening as you are having dinner.  No need to be obsessive about it, just keep it light and keep your mind open.  Another technique that can help is a little of what I did in the beginning of the article, which is to see things from your dreaming perspective.  Turn the tables on yourself some.  Shake things up.  This can help to break you out of old cognitive biases that serve to hold you back.  Cognitive biases are beliefs that limit what you think you can or cannot do.  If you thnk you can't, then it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy, for surely you are sending the signals to your subconscious self that you can't. 

yet another technique that has similar effects is to stop yourself in the middle of the day or at random times and ask yourself "Wait....am I dreaming?" When you do this enough in waking, you can more easily carry this into dreaming, especially if it has become something of a habit.  I suggest (ahem) using these and all the other methods for at least five weeks.  It is possible to get results on the first try, which has happened more than once for me in the past, but I have also had results that have developed over time.  Factors that can have an affect on dream recall and lucid dreaming are how rested you are before going to sleep as well as your diet.  Try different meals in the evening, for example.  Instead of heavier foods, go a week eating lighter foods with a lot more fresh vegetables, fruit, and eggs.  Sometimes that can be just enough to break your body out of a pattern it may be in physiologically.  If you need protein, consider a salad with a lot of mung bean sprouts, which are very high in protein, and then have an omelet.  You might consider throttling back on how much wheat you eat.  Believe it or not, but allergies to wheat are more common that most people realize.  the allergy itself can be mild but go unnoticed.  People who have gone off wheat have noticed greater clarity and less fuzziness and better physical strength and less stomach trouble.....they just never realized the low level yet persistent effect that wheat has on the body.  So shake things up in the body temple, too, and see if it helps to shift things some for you.

One good method is to awaken at about four in the morning for a brief period, but then go back to sleep.  Often, in my experience, I am through with the deeper states of sleep and am a  lot more "shallow" into dream and closer to waking.  When this happens, it is easier for my waking self to be more aware of what is going on in this still fairly relaxed and deep state of awareness.  Of course, if you are a light sleeper, you may not be able to get back to sleep. Use it only if it will work for you.  If it does work, you can plant more seeds and suggest that you go back into sleep in order to do dream work and then let yourself slip into dream again.

Another technique is to speak in the language of the subconscious self, which is in symbols and images.  When you think about your dreams, do you ever notice that sometimes you will have an experience or be in an environment in dream that feels highly charged emotionally?  or maybe you feel as though someone in a dream represents something that is really inside of you, like a feeling of some kind?  In the same kind of way, you can write your own symbolic script and speak to your subconscious in a way that it can relate to.  i think it;s less that the subconscious only KNOWS symbolic language as it uses this language to convey information to other parts of you.  Regardless, though, if you have an issue at work, you could imagine yourself walking up to work and seeing  a big scary monster that you then embrace and then find the monster becoming you and then being transformed.  When you do this, you are signalling a desire to integrate this emotional issue into your being in a different way.  You are ready to face the monster and melt it into you so that it is no longer a problem. 

Sure, the act of being able to come to lucidity by sheer will alone might be elusive to you, but look at it this way; you wont ever know how until you try.  When you try, you practice, and when you practice, you get better.  if you can com at this with the attitude of patience and open mindedness, I think you will find your results will happen much more quickly and you also give yourself the flexibility.  If you do this work and you do not have any discernible results, try this one trick: instead of waking up and going "Awww.....it didn't work" say instead "I guess there is a long queue to get into the problem resolution place of dreaming.  I will be patient and wait since dream is having to finish up some old business first."  If you can do this, you do not create cognitive biases that serve to limit you by thinking "I failed, this isn't working..."  Consider a different story and feel into that as a very real and valid possibility.  Keep your mind open, but consider there are more reasons for why it did not work the first time then your just not ever being able to get this right.  There is a genie in you and sometimes that genie has a lot on its plate.  Give it some time, and be persistent.  I think you will find that these methods will be very helpful to you. 

Now another method is to allow yourself to slip into that very deep relaxed moment and simply begin imagining what it would be like to deal with whatever it is that you are wanting to deal with in dream.  Pretend as you drift that it is happening.  As you slip into dream, you are already headed in the right direction. 

Now, the other part to all of this is to consider that you may have dreamed the answer but you don't remember.  Consider the likelihood also that you dreamed the answer but do not yet understand it for what the images are trying to tell you.  Keep a journal of your dreams if you can and write them down along with your subjective feelings that are tied to the imagery.  It might just be that the answer is there, but you have to get to that place of realizing it for what it is.  You might just have more to chew on still in order to "get" the memo from your deeper self.

I wish you all the success in your dream work.  If you consider it to be a rich bed of activity and possibility, life will tend to conspire to make it align to your expectations.  It might just be that a lot of dream which is so mysterious is that way simply because we THINK it is so. 

And now, it is time for me to go do my own dream work!  Sweet dreams!

Waking Lucid Dreaming

I have discovered that a method I have used in the past for inner work which as it turns out is one that has been practiced by Tibetan monks.  They use it apparently to enter into a lucid state where they can direct dreaming.  While I am sure that this will work and will work for a range of things,  I'd like to tell you about how I came across it as well as to relay its use to you perhaps so that it might be of some use to you in your own inner work.

I find that in the afternoon, around three, I tend to get very tired.  Not just tired, I sometimes get sleepy. Not always does this happen, but enough for me to have taken what I thought of as a power nap.  These power naps had some interesting side effects or features....

What I found was that I could trick my brain into thinking it was falling asleep.  My brain would literally shut down if I sat quietly long enough.  This always helped when I was tired and just a tad sleepy. For some reason, this has only worked during the day for me, not at night. The Tibetan technique involves waking up after five hours of sleep and then going back to sleep without actually falling asleep.  Perhaps my method will work better for you if you find yourself feeling sleepy during the day.

What I do is I feel myself getting sleepy.  I will sit down most often.  I do not lie down because for me this will signal I am ready to fall completely asleep.  I think I need something to keep me ever so slightly aware so I do not drift off completely and then start to snore (really asleep).  Sitting up does the trick. I will let my head go forward and I will kind of slump down all comfy in the chair.  I have found I need about forty-five minutes worth of time before the curtain drops.  I need enough time to allow myself to get very relaxed.  During this time I let myself drift and I am very still through all of this.  After a certain amount of time something happens. I feel the curtain drop. What this is, I always felt, was my brain going into another brain wave pattern.  Being awake I can observe its effects and for me its quite clear.  I get a buzzing feeling in my body somewhere around my head. It feels like some part of me is literally shutting off or tuning into a different frequency much like how you tune a radio from a station into static. If I can simply let this curtain drop, this heavy wall of static buzz, I will feel myself shift into something else. this something else feels wide open.  It feels as though my consciousness has shifted gears.

The result of this is that if I wake myself up, I will feel as though I have had a couple hours of sleep.  I feel completely refreshed and I no longer feel sleepy in the least. The brain has decided it can check out, turn off a certain channel of waking consciousness. I used to use this method for doing a power nap.  I never really fell asleep and this was better than having to lie down for a bit. The trick was I had to feel tired during the day.  This got me feeling like I was falling sleep except falling asleep during the day is hard for me actually.  However, if I can couple sleepiness with some degree of alertness while being very still, this normally happens for me most times than not.

So a power nap.

Fast forward a few years and I am in the midst of an awakening.  I am having a hard time.  I am smack dab in the middle of a dark night of the soul. I was having some real egoistic problems what I call a contraction of consciousness into the individual awareness. This is actually very hard. It feels as though your energy is being frozen or solidified after having been flowing like water. It creates tension in the subtle body that gets translated to the body as physical pain and a certain degree of anxiety and dread.  Not the greatest feeling as you might imagine.   It was afternoon and I was struggling.  I sat down in a chair and let myself drop off the edge of the ocean.  As I did this I noted that I was doing that sleep trick of mine.  I though maybe this might make me feel better. So I let it go.

As I let go and drifted and interesting thing happened.  I suddenly felt as though I was out of my body. I was near my body, slightly above it looking down.  As I did, I saw my body being suffused in a yellowish honey-like substance that was like a halo or aura. It had a thickness, a substance to it as I felt its energy all around me. I was aware of this happening and felt as though the energy field that was surrounding my body was of a character that something was clearing blockages in me.  Then, in the usual way that these things tend to happen, I stumbled across some article somewhere while not looking for it that described how this higher order energy will present itself and that this golden glow is often connected to bodhi's or enlightened beings, something that they carry. I don't think I am a bodhi of any kind, and I think in truth that whatever this energy was it is a natural result of where one is in awakening.  We tend to want to attribute certain significance to these things sometimes, but my sense is that as we all move into these realms of our larger self, everyone will begin to experience similar things.

When I exited the experience I no longer felt harried like I had before.  I had really been having a hard time with this contracting energy that was making me feel horrible. I felt bad for feeling it.  I felt a kind of shame, like I should not be feeling this way.  I learned that this is just a step along the process of becoming, and there should be no shame in that.  We are all realizing what we are deeper down and any efforts towards that is laudable.

This technique apparently can be used to enter into lucid dreaming while awake. You simply stretch your arm out of your body or roll out of your body and you are now in the dream body and can direct your experience.  I suspect that this would wind up being something akin to an out of body experience, but I also suspect that the dream world and astral travel are one and the same.  The difference is that the dream body is creating imagery which is naturally symbolic and helps to relate deeper information to the waking consciousness in the form of dream imagery. If "awake" I also suspect that one may experience a combination of dream and waking imagery, or one may also have no imagery at all.

When I cam across the article discussing this technique which the Tibetan monks had used for centuries, their suggestion was to do this after having slept for about five hours in order to keep from falling too deeply asleep.  This might work for some people.  For me, I think my tendency has been to simply fall back asleep.  I will say, though, that the bulk of the experiences that I have had during awakening involving beings who have come to aid me have all come very early in the morning around 4:00 or so.  I suspect that it is during this time that I am exiting an active stage of dreaming and entering into a more silent state of rest.  It may be that if your sleep patterns are the same, this kind of timing may work for you.  You may want to give both a try, especially if you can take an hour "nap" in the afternoon when you are feeling sleepy or tired, in order to see how both work. 

The Coming of Quetzalcoatl

It was 1985 and I was at this time interested in the phenomenon of astral projection.  I was 19 or 20 at the time and I sensed that if one could experience this state that it could serve to help erase our fear over death.  I had read some material on it from a few sources as they popped up here and there.  I bought a book by Robert Monroe who was able to project so predictably that he was a research subject at the University of Virginia's Psychology department. Led by other academics such as Charles Tart and some of the work by Stanislov Groff and others who had gone to India, had dropped acid or eaten magic mushrooms, this 60's era expansion of consciousness brought with it an awareness of still more experience, of larger dimensions to human experience. This was what came about as a result of some of the earliest East meets West experiences, a legacy that I think has helped to push an awareness of alternate forms of consciousness.  I grew up with some of these materials like East West Journal and Be Here Now, which was like a kids book for grownups.  Like my mother who seemed interested in this aspect of the counterculture, we both were into what the hippie scene conferred long after it had come and gone.  

I had listened to an interview with a woman named Lynn Andrews on NPR who had written some books on the shamanic tradition as it related to women (Medicine Woman, Jaguar Woman, etc.) and she gave an example of how one could use dreaming as a jumping off point for doing spiritual work.  She described a method for doing this work that amounted to suggesting prior to sleep that when you fall asleep your  ego  would step aside while you did this work in dream.  The ego would move into the background as you used the dream state for more intentional work. Essentially what this meant was that you would "wake up" inside the dream using the dream state as a springboard.  This is called lucid dreaming.

I decided that I would do just this as a way to use dreaming as a jumping off point for a projection of consciousness.  Before going to bed, I simply said that I would wake up within the dream and would use this state as a way of projecting consciousness.  

That night I dutifully awoke within dreaming.  I found that I felt a sense as though there were wheels of energy moving at ever greater speeds within me.  I felt as though there was an energy that was building speed inside of me, like a car whose engine was put in neutral while its engine revved to ever higher speeds. I had the distinct impression that some process was underway that would catapult me out of my body.  

Just then, I saw in the distance of my vision the image of a coiled snake moving towards me. This snake floated through the air.  It had no wings.  It had a very Mayan looking face where the head of the snake should have been. As I looked at this form I felt something say to me that what I was supposed to do was to project my awareness into the form in front of me which was this serpent form with the human face on it.  As I looked at this dream form, old notions about the snake in the Garden of Eden cropped up.  I chided myself for falling for this fear.  I decided to ignore the fear and do as this inner voice was saying.  The wheels then dutifully sped up, the force increased to an incredible velocity, as I made this decision to just go with it.  This was building into something stronger than anything I had ever experienced before.  It felt as though the whole of the universe was moving through me as an incredible force gained speed. As the energy grew beyond anything I thought possible, I found myself feeling hesitant.  I decided that if I was falling for this fear, I needed to resolve the fear before going on such a journey as this.  The phenomenon began to subside and the snake disappeared into the distance as I slipped back into sleep.

In the wake of this experience, I kicked myself for falling for the fear.  Several years later, while in college, I took a course on PreColumbian art where I would see the same image in a traditional form of the Mayan and Aztec God Quetzalcoatl.  I did more reading on this God and found that the priests of Quetzalcoatl would encounter this form in their visions and dreams and that Quetzalcoatl would come in this way to take them  on soul journeys to other worlds.  Of all the Gods of the Aztec and Maya, Quetzalcoatl was the most peaceful. Quetzalcoatl did not ask nor seek blood sacrifice. Flowers and butterflies were instead offered to him.  As I read through this, I thought how perfect.  I wished I had not begged off from such an experience that I had had a few years previously. 


I wondered where I would have gone, what would I have seen had I merged into the body of this snake form?  All through history and all across the world, the serpent was an ancient symbol for wisdom, and spiritual knowledge. The Hindus had the double form of the serpent fire of kundalini, the Egyptians had the serpent (some were even winged---I write about this in the post of the Kriyas and/Mudras and the Holy Ghost that shows up in a link at the bottom of this page for popular posts), the Chinese and Japanese had serpents in the form of dragons.   The Minoans, Cretans, and early pagan Europeans all had the serpent tied into spirituality and vital force. Within my own experience I had been visited by Quetzalcoatl having never known what this image even meant, but its purpose was perfectly expressed in my lucid dream from just a year or two previous.  Some part of us knows these larger forms as we connect into the Collective Consciousness of all traditions.  We dip into the pool of our larger knowing and wonder how on earth this could be.  By shifting awareness, by allowing ourselves to move into larger realms of awareness, we tap these seemingly archetypal forms resting within the collective awareness of humankind. Its "out there" to tap for the fact that the channel lies within.  

The Coming of Quetzalcoatl is  symbolic of a deeper return of our own inner knowing, our own vital force and spiritual wisdom.  Its no surprise to me that so many have been connecting with the form of Quetzalcoatl in recent years. For people who are connecting to the Collective Consciousness, many today are left with few good ways for reaching into the divine in a way that makes sense.  Quetzalcoatl serves as a type of angel.  I know for a Christian this would be blasphemy, but this has never stopped me from pointing out the obvious.  Religious figures are propped up as though they have always been while we alone have been involved in creating them.  The Hindus refer to this as our being the "ancestor" to the gods.  This is expressed this way because, well, we DID create them.  Anyway, so we are basically short good spiritual agents that we will need in the time upcoming.  This is not hard to pin down, to know.  Its very much in the air and it leads to a lot of fascination with those same forms that wind up speaking to us about all kinds of qualities that we need that we may never have known existed.  Call it an ability to sense through the Collective Subconscious. I was not able to know that Quetzalcoatl did not have wings.  I in fact imagined him this way, yet when he did arrive, he arrived in a very traditional way, which was much more like the image of the mans face emerging out of the mouth of the snake than anything else.   And if I was merely guessing about Quetzalcoatl's connection to astral projection and "spiritual journeys" I'd say my subconscious pretty well nailed that one on the head.  Quetzalcoatl fits the bill for some because of this uncommonly peaceful character who did not demand blood sacrifices and was the epitome of peacefulness.


Quetzalcoatl and serpents go far back into the record in Meso America. Quetzalcoatl has gone through some changes over time, but has been connected to death and resurrection,as well as taking on the elements of the sky, rain, and the winds (not unlike the Thunder Bird of Northern America).  He was in the pantheon of gods in Teotihuacan, and it is believed that it was from there that his presence spread to the Maya who adopted him as Kukulkan.  Quetzalcoatl and the snake image dates back to the Olmec Preclassic period, as far back as 1150 B.C.  He has also been associated with Venus.  There are a number of stories over the long period of time that he has been worshipped. Some rulers have taken his name, perhaps in a bid to raise themselves to the level of gods themselves.   In the 10th century a ruler closely associated with Quetzalcoatl ruled the Toltecs; his name was Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl. This ruler was said to be the son of either the great Chichimeca warrior, Mixcoatl and the Culhuacano woman Chimalman.


Quetzalcoatl was also said to have made humankind out of his blood and earth.  What is interesting is that the Olmecs, Aztecs and Maya all attribute our current era as belonging to the "fifth sun" which is the result of four major catastrophes that have befallen earth and have meant the humankind had to rebound or be recreated each time, something that is very similar to the Hopi concept of the four worlds, with the fifth being the one we are soon to enter. On that note, perhaps we bear some connection in the collective of Quetzalcoatl having to do with our destiny at this higher order of our consciousness?

From the  Codex Telleriano-Remensis.

 It has certainly been "in the air" in a sense that many have been looking for ways to fill the need for spiritual agency, or connection to the divine cosmos. 


 In literal and figurative ways, we are unearthing what these potent forms represent for us.  Quetzalcoatl is interesting in that its very likely that there was a man who lived who bore the same name.  It is said that he presided over a kind of golden era which are now ruins. What gets many Westerners so interested is that he cam from the East and returned there by making a boat to sail.  He was also said to have had a beard, a very unusual thing for the Aztec and Mayans.  So often, myths mixes with legend as legend often has rooting in actual fact with myth expressing the spiritual aspects that transcend both. 

 In the historical account, Quetzalcoatl had a sister whose name was Quetzalpetlatl.  If we consider how these two forms of myth and legend might flow and merge, it is certainly possible that Quetzalcoatl and Quetzalpetlatl express the masculine and feminine aspects of a still larger realm of spiritual experience.  We then have a masculine serpent and a feminine one as well.  Just as in the Hindu story of kundalini as two serpents, we have a full form that expresses the totality of creative potential in physical and spiritual form.  In this way, we all have access to those forms that align more closely to our own inner masculine or feminine selves. The coming of Quetzalcoatl can also herald the coming of his feminine aspect, Quetzalpetlatl.  The wisdom of what this myth represents is open to all.  

If you can consider that we know more than we consciously realize, that there is a much broader realm of experience available to us in what Jung called the Collective Subconscious, then all of these things can make more sense in how we might encounter these archetypal beings without any present knowledge.  The resonance from a past life, or merely tapping a broader range of inner knowing can bring us into contact with those elements which can serve us in our own inner alchemy.  If you can approach all of this in the form of a very creative activity without a lot of structure, your higher self can suggest new possibilities that simply were not possible previously.  This material can be given a new life and old forms rewound through our own present experience. Its as though we take clippings from another time and make new art forms from the images and ideas contained in them.  As long as we don't get hung up on what is supposed to be, experience is less limited.  Your being is innately creative, and you will be amazed at the insight that these forms can provide you if you allow things to flow more and be less controlled by any rules about their structure or older traditional material.  

it was this process that has led me to a greater understanding of my own process as I come into contact with these archetypes.  Even removing the need to know WHY they show up will allow you focus in the moment to create anew.  I suspect that this is what all of this work with archetypes is all about; a creative enterprise where the old is made new again.  Don't be afraid to go at this like an artist.  This is how new worlds are formed, ideas birthed, new resources uncovered.  There is a lot more to know and to become.  Even the Plains Indians had a process where the old forms were brought out, shown, then new ones put in their place.  These became the great sacred bundle that helped to direct spiritual understanding.  Like a snake shedding its skin, none of this was static, but ever-changing. Don't be afraid to move with change and see what great promise it may yield to you!

NOTE:  Now just a few weeks after having first posted this entry, I notice that this post has an unusual number of views.  I first asked myself what was it that was drawing so much attention to this? The answer is simple I think. People have been finding the post often through searches FOR Quetzalcoatl. People are already looking for information on this mythical being.  People are focused, drawn by him. Is it because of all the Mayan 2012 stuff?  Perhaps. But I also tend to feel this goes even deeper.  I suspect that we sense that Quetzalcoatl serves as a medium for self transformation, a "Way Shower" of sorts.  We FEEL like h is somehow helping to usher something in.  I suspect that he is, in a way, but I also think that "he" also leads to the "she" as well, which is one of the great things about this age, the return of the divine feminine (there is a lot about this on this blog--use search tags to find them).  He holds a vibration which is a truth that we can sense from a vast distance.  How was it that I experienced Quetzalcoatl in such a way that was so close to his role in a culture that wasn't even my own?  Somewhere in the space beyond our thinking lies a knowing about things. We see a distant light and feel a yearning to be there, to go nearer it, never knowing that it leads to some larger world that is within.  How do salmon know to swim upstream? Why do Monarchs find South America after thousands of miles?  We say it is instinct.  Perhaps instinct ties us into a more vast field of knowing.....even when we think we are not aware.  We hunger for a new path, I think.  A brilliant light to show us the way.....Even as I completed this addendum to the post, I noticed that on my popular blog entries section at the bottom of the page that this entry is now showing up there.  This is just how rapidly this post has gained popularity. We are looking for a light that we know exists....

Update:  8/20/2012

In a recent discovery of some old documents, I am pouring through a rather interesting tie-in with the Seraphim of the bible and how these beings were also called winged serpents.  These winged serpents took the shape of heavenly beings that brought illumination to humankind.  Either we have a collective awareness of these beings as serpent-like or it was part of a very ancient and wide-spread symbology that was used in most every culture in one form or another.  

To read a little more about this connection click on this LINK to read about the Serpent Fire.