ABSTRACT

Shaman Dreaming: Indigenous shaman techniques to enhance spiritual dreaming.

Chuck Coburn

is the author of Funny You Should Say That...A Lighthearted Awakening to Psychic Awareness (Seed Center, 1995) and Reality Is Just An Illusion (Llewellyn, 1999). He has served as a professional psychic for over 20 years, channeling personal spiritual readings for his clients. He and his wife Shirl travel extensively, studying supernatural phenomenon with indigenous shaman from a variety of cultures. He has hosted his own TV show (Personal Pathways), and currently teaches and lectures on a variety of metaphysical subjects in Northern California.

Summary of Presentation

Experience indigenous shaman dream techniques to enhance spiritual dreaming:

• Ground for spiritual protection.

• Awaken and expand your "psychic" awareness

• Encounter your personal "spirit guide" and/or ancestor spirit to open a dialogue for spiritual dreaming.

• Experience the shaman technique of "Rock Reading" to better understand your dream symbols.

Learning Objectives.

• Provide information regarding a variety of indigenous shaman techniques of interpreting dreams.

• Introduce the participants to the psychic dreaming while creating spiritual protection in order to promote safe spiritual dream contact with Higher Source.

• Provide a means for the student to connect to a higher spiritual source for the purpose of receiving information from incubated questions asked in day or night dreams

• Introduce a means of receiving and interpreting information through "day" dreams.

Evaluation questions:

• Did the presenter provide a clear overview of some of the universal shaman techniques of receiving desired information in the dream state?

• Did I receive a sense or understanding of how grounding, opening my spiritual centers and protecting my venerability with spiritual energy might promote more intense spiritual dreams?

• Did I gain a sense of a higher spiritual source or presence which I might utilize while dreaming to gain answers to numerous waking questions?

• Does the shaman’s method of interpreting symbols in a rock provide a new technique I might use to gain a greater insight through day dreaming?

Abstract 

This workshop is designed to introduce the participants to several shaman methods of incubating and interpreting dream reality and facilitate more active psychic dreaming.

After presenting an overview of a few indigenous shaman techniques of attaining useful information from a higher spiritual source, or what the shaman refer to as "the dreamtime," the participants will be provided several experiences designed to more easily access a higher consciousness.

First, the participants are introduced to a simple grounding technique intended to release psychic blocks to spiritual dreaming. After visualizing a protective field of energy intended to block negative disruption of their dream information, they will learn to become aware of the space around them in preparation of the shaman dream technique of gaining spiritual information from ancestor spirits.

Next they will be led in a guided meditation in order to meet and establish a contact with what the shamans refer to as their "spiritual ancestors or/dream guides. This technique provides a physical image or "contact" of a higher consciousness in order to obtain answers to questions during their dreamtime from issues or questions posed during their waking life.

The participants will then be asked to select a partner and learn how to "read" a rock. This is a shaman process wherein a question is asked of a rock and, after identifying three symbols or images in the rock, the dreamer connects the meaning of the symbols to the question which was asked. The purpose of the exercise is learning to trust the answers that spiritual dreaming can provide.

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