Hemi-Sync® Journal 2000-2 (Spring)

In Conscious Dreaming: A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life,’ Richard Moss offers an excellent set of tools for working with this interface, particularly in journeying back into a previous dream which one might have had, to explore its message further. TMI has recently released LUCID DREAMING to train one for increased mindfulness in the dreamtime. Shamanic Counseling: Michael Harner has adapted shamanic techniques to Western and psychotherapeutic settings to develop “shamanic counseling,” in which a counselor teaches the patient how to journey to nonordinary reality and facilitates the process, so that the patient gets his own answers directly. I have found this method particularly helpful with my patients, and use taped or live drumming as well as TMI’s METAMUSIC series (the latter with simple guided imagery and process comments) to do this. After several sessions, most people can continue to do it on their own. CASE 3. One patient, C., whose son had been killed in an accident three months before, had been hospitalized for depression and attempted suicide after bis death, and had been unable to go back to work. At an ini- tial consultation meeting, she reported feeling her son around her at times, and longing to open to him, but being afraid she “wouldn't want to come back.” I assured her I could get her back if she wanted to experience the con- tact more deeply. At our next meeting, I used METAMUSIC Inner Journey, with suggestions to relax, to open, and to allow herself to experi- ence any energies or wisdom that wished to make contact for her healing or learning. Shortly after she relaxed into the music in a recliner, her body gave a small jolt, her face flushed, and tears began coursing down from under her blindfold. After a few minutes I invited her to return to ordi- nary reality. She was radiant as she took the blindfold off, and said, “He's changed so much! He's fine, and so much wiser!” She went back to work the next week, and asked to learn how to do this for herself: “I know there must be some reason why I'm still here, and I want to find out.” It is powerful, and most appropriate, to help a person open the door to “higher purpose” or “meaning of life” issues related to their illness, and to invite their own creativity and spontaneous images into the healing process. Shamanic methods and Hemi-Sync excel at opening doors. At this point I feel myself and my work shifting irreversibly. I'm clearly “not in Kansas anymore.” Ordinary and nonordinary reality are merging, blending, and I am having many more experiences that clearly point to All as One. Working and healing in one domain affects all the others: it is just as valid if it occurs in the dreamscape, or in the journey, or in nonordinary reality—they are all resonant forms of one another. Hence, my deep knowledge that my own work and service in the world needs to keep changing to accommodate this new way of knowing. From the shamanic perspective, we are surrounded by compas- sionate spirits who come to this Middle World—Earth—and use the shaman as an ally to change the events of suffering and illness pre- sent here. The shaman uses altered states of consciousness to make a connection and allows the power and compassion from Spirit to flow through him. However, I do not believe one has to have formal shamanic training in order to do soul-level work with a patient. I know that well-done psychotherapy has brought back many a lost soul part, as the therapist holds the safe and sacred space for the frag- mented self to come together. I also know many clinicians who give great credence to their hunches and intuitions, not needing to know whether they come from the “right brain” or from the nonlocal Mind. What would it mean for health-care training and practice to take this a step further, beyond the clinician's and the patient’s individual egos and five senses, to open together to guidance from another dimen- sion that can be far wiser than either of them alone? I look forward to the time when this becomes a “normal” perspective in health care. References 1. S. Ingerman, Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self (San Francisco: Harper, 1991). 2. L. Dossey, Recovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Search (New York: Bantam, 1989). 3. D. Benor, “Survey of Spiritual Healing Research,” Complementary Medical Research, 4:1 (September 1990). 4. M. Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1964). 5. M. Harner, The Way of the Shaman (San Francisco: Harper, 1980). 6. S, Ingerman, op.cit. 7. R. Moss, Conscious Dreaming: A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life (New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1996). Additional Resources Bosnak, R. Tracks in the Wilderness of Dreaming: Exploring Interior Landscape Through Practical Dreamwork. New York: Dell, 1997. A guide to exploring dream environments to a destination “far beyond our conscious selves.” Foundation for Shamanic Studies Website (www.shamanism.org). More information on Michael Harner’s training programs and research. Hillman, J. Re-Visioning Psychology. New York: Harperperennial Library, 1992. A seminal text on the imaginal realm and its power to heal and transform. Lawlis, G. F, and L. Dossey. Transpersonal Medicine: The New Approach to Healing Body-Miind-Spirit, Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1996. 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