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Cover art by Henry Reed

 DREAM ESP
For
EVERYBODY
2nd Edition

A Creation of the Edgar Cayce Community

All you need to know, with complete instructions for

conducting a DREAM ESP experiment online

Henry Reed, Ph.D

Principal Scientist
Copyright c 2017 Edgar Cayce Institute for Intuitive Studies
 DREAM ESP FOR EVERYBODY*
A Creation of the Edgar Cayce Community
All you need to know, with complete instructions for conducting a
DREAM ESP experiment online.

Henry Reed, Ph.D.

The researcher and author of this material.

Contents:
1) Let’s Normalize the Paranormal

2) The Dream Helper Circle

3) The Dream Helper Circle Succeeds Online

4) Instructions for Administering an Online Dream Helper Circle

5) Evaluating Intuitive Guidance

6) The Dream Helper Circle as a Unique Educational Tool

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 Notices

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 Let’s Normalize the Paranormal

)t is a game changer like no other before it—greater than the im-

pact of climate change. )f the news weren’t suppressed, late night
show comedians would come on stage wearing tinfoil hats, mirror-
ing the concern we’ll all have were the truth exposed.
“ESP is real!” is the long overdue news. Authoritative sources have
noted long ago that we are subliminally influenced by the thoughts
and feelings of anyone nearby, and that the effect holds across greater
distances if there is any relationship between the parties, known or
unknown.
Evidence for ESP is greater than the evidence for the value of as-
pirin, but publically there’s a position of denial because the implica-
tions are overwhelming. )t would be like admitting that flying sau-
cers had landed—nothing would ever be the same! The loss of se-
crecy, of individual sovereignty and responsibility, even of personal
identity, is inconceivably at risk—how can society continue? We are
already suffering from our inability to deal with the changes we’ve
acknowledged, let alone those we keep at a distance.
Globalization—the emerging interdependence of all life, with its
resulting loss of boundaries in many dimensions—will increase psy-
chic interaction among human kind, regardless of our intent. What is
the effect? The law of affinity suggests that like minds resonate and
the polarization between those motivated by fear and those moti-
vated by love will intensify. )’ll share more about this predicament in
future essays.
A.R.E. members, with their practical study of living in oneness,
could make an incredibly important contribution to resolving the di-
lemma posed by the paranormal. Those who have incorporated psy-
chic functioning into their worldview and practical lives are in a po-
sition to normalize the paranormal. ) believe we have the ability to
offer something akin to the creation of Noah’s ark. We’ve affected
history before. We can do it again.

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 )’ll share my personal version of this history. )t begins when )
first heard the name Edgar Cayce almost fifty years ago. )t’s the story
of what writers later called the modern dreamwork movement.
) was a psychology graduate student at U.C.L.A. in when )
met up with a fraternity brother from Pomona College, James Turrell,
who was president of our class of . James had become a practic-
ing artist with a spacious home studio near the beach in Santa Monica.
When ) asked him how he found such a wonderful place, he said it
was from a dream. ) was studying dreams in school, but at that time,
psychology treated dreams much like a stool sample—something you
would take to a doctor for private analysis. People weren’t supposed
to mess with their dreams on their own. But James, on his own, was
using dreams for guidance. When ) asked him how he learned to do
that, he revealed his secret: Edgar Cayce.
James was using the Cayce material to understand the light he
experienced in his dreams. (e wanted to share that experience in
his art. ) was amnesic for my dreams, but James helped me create a
dream journal. My new life began when ) finally remembered a dream.
)t was about camping in a tent on the land of an old wise man who
had flying goats!
As ) left California in to join the psychology faculty at
Princeton University, James was creating his first artwork of light.
Little did we know that his dream inspired demonstration, titled )ltar
from the Cayce readings, would become enshrined in art history when
he received the honor of a prestigious John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur genius award several years later. Nor did ) have any
notion that my dreams were going to lead me into important things
to come.
) had been at Princeton little over a year when ) met Charles Tho-
mas Cayce. )t was at a conference at the Menninger Clinic in Kansas.
) told him about how ) was getting into hot water at Princeton be-
cause ) was taking a different approach to research. Rather than us-
ing the standardized immaculate deception of the students hired to
participate in the faculty’s experiments, ) felt more comfortable col-
laborating with the students in my experiments, and to good results.
My students and ), for example, published in a peer reviewed journal
the first ever study of what is involved in learning how to remember
dreams. Charles Thomas told me that his grandfather had encour-

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aged such an approach to research, and he invited me to come to
Virginia Beach to initiate such a program with the A.R.E. member-
ship.
On my first night in Virginia Beach, ) slept at Charles Thomas’s
farm in Sandbridge. There ) had a very interesting dream:
We are standing in front of the A.R.E. gathered together for re-
search into enlightenment. )t is dark, and we don’t know what to do.
We are stumbling and bumping into each other. Suddenly, we begin
to dance. Our dance forms a circle. Each dancer is holding a round
sign displaying symbols. As we pass by one another in our dance, we
recognize each other by these symbols. We are surprised when a foun-
tain of sparks erupts from the center of our circle. )t lights up our
space and the sky above. Now we can see! We realize that the ap-
proach to research that we are seeking is expressed in our dancing.
At the time of this dream, Charles Thomas and ) took it to mean
that members could have fun doing research as the readings sug-
gested. (ow to go about it? We decided to give it a try, so ) designed a
project involving dreams.
The Cayce material proposes that our own dreams will teach us
how to interpret them. This idea is unique, radical, and highly signifi-
cant. (ugh Lynn Cayce expressed the idea as, the best interpreta-
tion of a dream is the one you apply. By testing in action an idea
from a dream we create a feedback loop that produces corrective
guidance from a dream that follows. What an excellent proposition
to ask our members to investigate!
At that time, many Cayce students were exploring ways of deriv-
ing insights from dreams. At Princeton, Gayle Delaney had started a
study group to explore how to decipher dream symbols. Scott Spar-
row and Mark Thurston, as college buddies in Texas, were learning
how to form insights that corresponded to the kinds of statements
Cayce made when interpreting dreams. At A.R.E. headquarters,
Marilyn Ferguson organized the development of a course on Edgar
Cayce’s approach to dream interpretation, Awaken the Dreamer.
For our home study research project, ) incorporated these inter-
pretation methodologies, into a four week, experimental dream
quest. At its core was Cayce’s basic principle of receiving guidance:
in the application comes the awareness. The instruction manual
outlined a weekly cycle organized like a treasure hunt: collect dreams,

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get an insight from them, create a plan of application to pursue for
the rest of the week, record new dreams for the next cycle, each week
getting closer to the treasure. The idea was to see if folks could make
significant progress on some personal issue, concern or desire by
following their dreams in this way.
(undreds of ARE members participated in the project. A large
number reported back positive results, sharing stories of making sig-
nificant discoveries and changes based upon their dreamwork. A sta-
tistical finding from this study provided important information. Par-
ticipants maintained a daily log of their activities, including the prac-
tice of meditation, dream recall, the understanding of dreams, and
application of dream insights. Tallying their observations revealed
that meditation improved dream recall. More important was the find-
ing that applying a dream insight improved dream recall even more
than meditation! Application had the additional benefit of making
the next morning’s dreams easier to understand—immediately, with-
out interpretation.
The participants’ personal stories, combined with the statistical
results, demonstrated without a doubt, a very important realization:
Ordinary people can form a constructive relationship with their own
dreams, without needing the aid of a professional counselor! What
is essential is that the dreamer applies the tentative insights for fur-
ther testing. Someone later remarked that this project rescued
dreams from psychotherapy. Such a finding has tremendous impli-
cations for the introduction of dreams and their perspective into our
culture.
Feedback from participants, pointed to the revolutionary cultural
potential of being able to share dreamwork publically. Some had
dreams of a magazine devoted to dreams. ) had a dream that followed
up on my dream of the research dance, suggesting a parallel to a Na-
tive American community ritual, the Sun Dance, and its archetypal
relative, the May Pole dance. Fred Davidson, who was president of
Atlantic University at that time, and who had personally experienced
the power of the dream quest, agreed to sponsor a publication de-
voted to dreams. Because of its dream background and intent, we
named the publication Sundance: The Community Dream Journal.
We invited people to sleep on the subscription form to see how
dreams would respond to the idea of having a publication devoted to

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ordinary people sharing their dreamwork. Subscriptions and accom-
panying dreams came back in great numbers. Atlantic University
published six issues in three years, from to . Most of the
authors were folks who had stories to tell about how they used their
dreams to help with issues of health, creativity, relationships and so
on. Many of the dreams subscribers had about the implications of a
public journal devoted to dreams proved prescient of today’s cultural
challenges.
News of this unique publication spread beyond A.R.E. members.
There were many folks working on their own with their dreams and
they were eager to submit articles about their discoveries. )t got the
attention of dream psychologists and psychotherapists. There was
momentum to establish an organization devoted to dreams. With the
help of Cayce fan Robert Van de Castle, then at the University of Vir-
ginia, and several others, the )nternational Association for the Study
of Dreams )ASD became established. Gayle Delaney, who had since
graduated from Princeton with a thesis on dreamwork, was the
organization’s first president Scott Sparrow served more recently
as president . The official history of the formation of )ASD, gives credit
to the Sundance journals as being a significant impetus and inspira-
tion to start the organization.
The Sundance journals made way for a new magazine, Dream
Network Journal, to continue the momentum for almost forty more
years. )n an interview published there, ) described a simple effect of
the dreamwork movement. Before this change in attitude toward
dreams, if someone said at a party, ) dreamed about a snake! folks
would snicker, make a joke, and change the subject. As a result of this
movement, the response might now be that someone would reply,
What kind of snake was it? )t’s a simple shift, but quite significant,
one that leaves the door open rather than slamming it shut. Com-
mercial evidence of this change is that, when our story begins, in the
s, there was only ONE published book written for dreamers Elsie
Sechrist’s Dreams: Your Magic Mirror , whereas today there are hun-
dreds!
A.R.E. members sharing their stories of personal dreamwork
helped sparked this revolution. )t is one example of the fulfilment of
Cayce’s advice on how members’ research might affect the masses:
personal application and the sharing of same with others. The prin-

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ciple would apply to the mission of normalizing the paranormal. What
kind of applicable research might accomplish such a goal?
)nspired by Edgar Cayce’s far memories of the Temple Beautiful,
we might gather at one of James Turrell’s light art installations for
some special experiments in accessing the super conscious mind. For
example, as we are showered in light, we could make heart connec-
tions with one another so that we might experience ourselves sur-
rounded and filled with light and love. Using inspirational writing,
we might channel ideas about how to share this revelation with oth-
ers. )t might be a new kind of rave that could have wide popular
appeal.
)nspired by the Native Americans use of their Sun Dance to ef-
fect new possibilities, perhaps we can use Facebook to stimulate
dreams which, when collectively applied, would result in our society’s
acceptance of the creative use of psychic abilities to improve life on
our planet. We might create an app that would enable anyone to
seek intuitive guidance immediately from a large number of people.
The boundary between the spiritual and the psychic is but one of
perspective. Spirituality pertains to the idealization of oneness while
the psychic pertains to the soul, or the individualization of oneness.
Each needs the other in order to fulfill our destiny.
We can look one another in the eye, for example, and think, There
goes God! That is an act of conscious attention to the sensory expe-
rience of another’s face accompanied by an affirmation. The actual
felt experience of oneness and connectedness with the other person,
however, comes from within. The experience of oneness is an intui-
tive response, not a sensory one. We can act as if we are one, which
fulfills the spiritual intent. The blessing of the experience of oneness
is a gift of the intuitive heart.
We can discover how the psychic perspective makes a positive
difference in our lives. Study group members can be a tremendous
resource for inspiring stories. Carol Ann Liaros, selected by (ugh Lynn
Cayce to be the first psychic to serve in our training programs be-
cause of her research background, has helped countless folks in the
Cayce community learn how to make ESP. The Edgar Cayce
Wayshowers have proven ability to discuss how they’ve used psy-
chic ability to improve their lives. A.R.E.’s compendium of cooperat-
ing psychics would also be a significant resource in our efforts to dis-

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cover ways to make ESP useful. Atlantic University students are de-
veloping communication and leadership skills to share Cayce’s ideal-
ism in contemporary practices and vocabularies. We are wealthy in
human resources for this mission.
Beyond learning to use psychic ability practically to get ahead in
the world, we also need to learn how to use it inspirationally to help
create a better world. To do so, we must deal with the emotional and
social ramifications of psychic oneness. (ere is where spirituality
has a big role to play. For example, )’ve published research conducted
in the Cayce community demonstrating that the psychology of inti-
macy is as important, if not more so, than the psychology of brain
waves. )nteracting in a world of psychically perceived oneness brings
up many challenges regarding personal boundaries. (ow to share of
ourselves and yet be true to our needs? What to make of our indi-
viduality? (ow to deal with secrets, competitiveness, shame, guilt,
fear, and all our other favorite sins of separation that tend to make us
want to build walls instead of bridges? What ) call the Fig Leaf Fac-
tor has powerful roots in our spiritual history and is not easy to
overcome. There are significant issues here. ) believe that A.R.E.
members, collaborating, can use their spiritually enhanced psychic
abilities to come up with workable answers to these challenges. Shar-
ing with others our personally applied answers and approaches will
help normalize the paranormal.
Send me your ideas. Let’s find out what we light we can create
together through our research dance.

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 The Dream Helper Circle

We’re gathering at Marcia’s house tomorrow, Saturday at AM,

Eleanor reported into her telephone.
Marcia contacted Beverly, who then called me, Eleanor explained,
as Marcia had asked that a dream helper circle be set up for her.
Eleanor was talking to Betsy, one of the several women in her
circle of friends. )t was not the first time Betsy had received such a
call as this one, and she knew what to do. She would be sure to re-
member and record her dreams the next morning, and take them
over to the gathering at Marcia’s house. Marcia made great berry
cobbler and it was something to look forward to—besides the dream
sharing, of course.
The dream circle held at Marcia’s request was but one of count-
less such healing services shared by students of the Cayce material—
and others—since the creation of this special approach to gaining
dream guidance. )t was young people’s dreams at the A.R.E. camp in
the mid- s that first inspired the creation of this method. ) re-
ported on that story in the September/October, issue of Ven-
ture Inward magazine.*
Getting (elp from our Dreams
Ever since the dreamwork movement of the s placed dreams
into national awareness, almost everyone knows about the creative,
healing, and spiritual potential of dreams. Yet only about / of the
population remembers a dream on a given morning, and even fewer
do anything with those dreams. The new method the camp children
inspired almost guarantees not only that people will remember a
dream when desired for a purpose, but also that they will discover
how that dream is truly helpful to the task at hand. Those two quali-
ties are highly significant credentials!
The method’s effectiveness arises from two well-known phenom-
ena: the power of altruism to inspire folks to go beyond their pre-
sumed abilities; and the power of a group, or comparative points
of view, to get a clearer perspective on something that’s otherwise
ambiguous. What happens in a dream helper circle? Published in-
structions and handouts available online prescribe the process.15 A
group of folks promise to remember a dream for someone in need
who has requested this help. When the group comes together to share
these dreams, they have no idea if their dreams mean anything for
the targeted person in focus, because their dreams seem like the typi-
cal mysteries they normally discard. There’s no dream interpretation
expert to help them out. What are they to do? They tell their dreams
and search for commonalities in them.
Comparing Dream Themes Reveal Truths
As an example, in one dream, someone is sitting at a red light at
an intersection, and then the light goes green. The person begins to
enter the intersection when, off to their right they see another car
crossing into the intersection at high speed. The person holds steady,
then enters the intersection when it is safe to do so.
)n a second dream, someone gets up from watching TV to go into
the kitchen to make a cup of coffee. The person gets some cream
from the refrigerator, and as they are about to pour it into their cof-
fee, they discover that the cream has soured! They find a fresh car-
ton of cream for the coffee, then return to the TV as the show re-
sumes.
Let’s look at just these two dreams—what commonalities can we
see between them? Someone is involved in a habitual pattern. Some-
thing unexpected occurs. The person notices a problem in time to
adjust/change in order to avoid an undesirable event. )n the group,
there are many variations in describing the commonalities, which
provide nuances to give more understanding. For example, someone
is in motion, moving from one place or activity to another, with in-
tention, when the surprise happens.
From such commonalities, participants begin to discuss what life
situation these commonalities might suggest. With some brainstorm-
ing, they speculate as to what might the topic of concern, what seems
to be the obstacle that makes it a concern, and what advice do the
dreams suggest. )n our example, it seems that something that the
focus person does regularly, with certain expectations, may have some
unexpected consequences because of an unusual event. Extra cau-
tion is advised.
All during this time of deliberation, the person in focus has been
turned facing away from the group. Folks have no idea of how the
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When brainstorming has wound down, a most dramatic moment
arrives when the group asks that person, who is now turning to face
the group, (as our conversation made any sense to you? The focus
person typically breaks out with a surprising exclamation, such as
You wouldn’t believe it! You are so much more right on than you
realize! The focus person’s smiling burst of wide-eyed pleasure is a
palpable, energetic sensation washing over the group. After a well-
earned break, the folks eagerly return to the group to hear all about
it.
)n our example, the focus person’s concern was about finances
and planning. The person was questioning some regular, periodic
investments. The suggestion from the group’s dreams was that some-
thing unexpected was going to disrupt or sour something about those
investments, and that precaution was in order. The warning proved
true; fortunately, the person acted on the advice of the dreams and
avoided that problem.
This example is but one of countless stories out there about how
a group of people tuned in with their dreams and helped someone in
need. (elping people with their life issues is a wonderful thing. But
there’s more! This simple method also has proven to offer some im-
portant and helpful lessons about dreamwork.
Getting (elp with Dream )nterpretation
We might define dream interpretation as the intuitive process of
seeing the pattern that connects the dream with waking life. As Cayce
put it, seek to correlate those truths. (is method, as extracted and
made explicit by Scott Sparrow and Mark Thurston, is to ignore the
symbols and instead formulate such generic descriptions as some-
body does something in some kind of way, or somebody is in some
kind of situation. )t’s a powerful method of understanding the dy-
namics in a dream. )t is very challenging, however, to catch on to this
type of analysis, because the specifics of the dream can be very cap-
tivating. )n the dream helper circle, however, when people begin to
explore the dreams’ commonalities, their responses automatically
come in the form of thematic statements, as in our example: Some-
one is involved in a habitual pattern, etc. The fact that folks make
these types of statements quite spontaneously strongly suggests that
Cayce’s suggestion is actually a natural form of perceiving and un-
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 The second way in which the dream helper circle adds to our un-
derstanding of dreamwork is that it gets us beyond the typical dual-
istic thinking implicit in the question, Are dreams objective or sub-
jective? )n a dream helper circle, we discover that they can be both.
(ere’s how:
The method prescribes an additional, important step that hap-
pens after the focus person has responded to the group’s analysis.
The members of the circle take back their dreams with a simple ex-
ercise. You might try it yourself with a recent dream:
Create a title for the dream that describes in a few words what
happens. Next, imagine looking into a mirror while your dream title
is displayed as a caption. What does the dream title say about you?
Group members respond to this exercise by addressing the focus
person with this comment: (ere’s what )’m learning about myself
from my dream that might be helpful to the focus person and their
concern. )n this way, participants see that a dream can provide a
meaningful, although subjective, personal slant on an objective, ex-
ternal reality. Each dreamer is finding that the focus person’s con-
cern reflects something within self.
As each individual dream reflects the dreamer’s own relationship
with the focus person’s issue, an additional benefit accrues. )t pro-
vides the individuals in the group a palpable sense of shared empa-
thy. Focus people make confirming comments like, ) felt like they
really tuned into what it’s like for me, ) felt seen, accepted, and loved.
The collaboration has brought into the group a shared sense of one-
ness, individually perceived. )’ve heard such comments as, )t seemed
we agreed to meet in the mind of God at a point decided by our focus
person, and then we shared what it was like from our individual per-
spectives. What is going on in a dream helper circle?
Laboratory Dream ESP and the (elper Circle
Laboratory dream research has played a role in our story. The
late Robert Van de Castle, a well-known dream researcher at the Uni-
versity of Virginia, was a contributor to the circle’s original creation.
(e coined the name dream helper, as a play on the product Ham-
burger Helper, because he found that folks get so much help with
dreams in this way. (e compared it favorably to his participation in
formal laboratory studies of his own dream ESP abilities.
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Krippner, Dream Telepathy, Roberto earned the title, Prince of the
Percipients while sleeping in their Brooklyn laboratory. During the
night, they monitored his EEG, so they could awaken him after every
dream period. Roberto was attempting to dream about a secret pic-
ture—something a woman who, in another room, was awake all night
staring at. )n the morning, when independent judges viewed a group
of five pictures, they could correctly identify the one the woman had
stared at simply on the basis of what the judges found in Roberto’s
dreams from that night. That’s the way they tested Roberto’s dreams
for ESP.
Besides suggesting a telepathic influence from the targeted pic-
ture, Roberto’s dreams provided something else. (is lab dreams, he
confided to me, would also contain references to some kind of trou-
bling situation going on in the woman’s life, as he would later learn
when they met afterwards. )t was Roberto’s curiosity about the
personal life of the sender that had gained some of his dream at-
tention. That same human quality of reaching out to connect with
someone was present in the dreams of the young campers that in-
spired our helper circle.
The resemblance between the two situations inspired Mark
Thurston to work with Stanley Krippner to see if he could use a simi-
lar scientific procedure to evaluate the dream helper circle for evi-
dence of dream telepathy. For his doctoral dissertation Mark created
a mail-order, cross-country experiment, with a large group of people
dreaming for someone mentioned in a sealed envelope they’d sleep
on. (e demonstrated that a focus person, given a large collection of
dreams some collected randomly, some the result of folks dreaming
for that focus person, others dreams aimed at different people could
correctly identify which dreams were actually intended for their help.
Again, a statistical process is used as an argument for dream telepa-
thy.
Mark included an additional element in his experiment. (e asked
the focus person to consider the suggestions that came through the
dreams, to see if they helped with the problem. )n one example, the
problem concerned a skin rash and the dreams suggested a dietary
change, which did, indeed, solve the problem. The dreams were there-
fore helpful, not simply demonstrating a statistical implication of be-
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 (elpfulness of Experiment Makes a Psychic Difference
Larry Walsh of Troy State University attended a session at A.R.E.
camp where several dream helper circles occurred, and he inter-
viewed all the participants for a research study. (e found the over-
whelming majority of the participants judged the dreams to be perti-
nent and helpful to the focus question. All expressed enthusiasm in
repeating their participation.
) myself have been the emcee of several large conferences at which
a dozen or more dream helper circles operated simultaneously. When
the focus people get up in front to give the entire audience a bit of
feedback, they are fairly uniform in the type of comments they make—
the dreams were right on, and they experienced a tremendous bond
of empathy from their group members. There is but a rare mention
of telepathy or ESP. )nstead, it’s all about love and deep connec-
tion.
The folks who were dreamed for don’t feel as if they were psychi-
cally viewed, but rather emotionally joined and cared for by their
helpers. There’s a difference, and that difference may be a part of a
potential Cayce secret sauce for improving psychical research. The
Dream (elper Circle fulfills Cayce’s ideal of emphasizing the spiritual
over the psychic. The participants respond naturally to the empathy
and rapport that this exercise in paranormal guidance provides, thus
normalizing the paranormal—it’s not creepy, but heartwarming.
Uniqueness of Cayce’s Approach to the Psychic
)n my dream of the research dance, reported in the previous
issue of Venture Inward, when folks looked at the symbolism each
person was displaying, there erupted a fountain of sparks to provide
light on their gathering. The Dream (elper Circle provides new light
on the paranormal. )t reveals that Cayce’s philosophy yields a unique
way of approaching psychic phenomena in a D)Y, experimental fash-
ion. )n contrast to the traditional scientific approach, with its reli-
gious attitude toward the myth of objectivity by the numbers, the
Cayce protocol adds to the experiment the incredibly important com-
ponent of service and helpfulness. )t provides a meaningful and com-
pelling reason for psychic phenomena to appear. )t also bypasses the
fears that the specter of psychic can evoke.
The dream helper circle serves in so many ways as a wonderful
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from the loving actions of children at a camp inspired by Edgar Cayce.
)t involves cooperation in a small group, with an ideal of being of
service. )t uses a comparative approach and evokes a natural ability
to perceive the truths in a dream, as Cayce suggested. )t is a popu-
list approach, not requiring a dream expert, as Cayce’s approach to
an expert system is the small group rather than the professional. )t
creates the experience of being an individual and yet one with the
whole, a perspective Cayce highly valued. Finally, it helps to normal-
ize the paranormal, while providing a natural handle on dream guid-
ance. ) heard of one woman, for example, who experienced the circle
at A.R.E., and wanted to share it at home in very rural, conservative
area. (er and her lady friends enjoyed and repeated it several times.
As a result, they began a Search for God group to explore Cayce’s ap-
proach to living with oneness.
Today ) can easily imagine seeing a TV documentary about the
Dream (elper Circle. As the movie opens, the screen shows kids run-
ning about on lush, green rolling hills. )n the background Aaron
Copeland’s Appalachian Suite is playing the heart-warming rendition
of the Shaker tune, )t’s a gift to be simple. A narrator’s voice notes,
“Kids at an Appalachian summer camp created by the clairvoyant
Christian mystic Edgar Cayce have inspired, through their love for one
another, a new form of dream healing. Their special method has trav-
eled around the world, helping people in many countries discover a new
and easy way to get a helpful handle on dreams.”
Later we see a group of people gathered in someone’s home, smil-
ing. As viewers we have come to understand exactly why their faces
are expressing amazement, awe, wonder, and appreciation for the
revelation of oneness, the closeness, and the sense of healing they’ve
experienced. As the credits play, a family at home who’ve been watch-
ing the program are impressed. The mother declares, )t’s such an
obvious, natural process, let’s try it ourselves! Their live-in adult child
responds, )t seems so easy, who could we invite? And the father
announces, )’m going to Google this fellow Edgar Cayce!

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 Paranormal Dreaming in Cyberspace:
The Dream Helper Circle Succeeds Online

The purpose of psychic ability, according to the perspective of

the Edgar Cayce material, is for guidance. Making ESP practical in
our daily lives would support the normalizing of the paranormal.
A.R.E. members went a long way in that direction in the s, as
described in our first article Venture Inward, June/July/August,
, by showing that they could, on their own, make constructive
use of their dreams for personal guidance, thus setting in motion the
dreamwork revolution, freeing dreams from complete reliance on
professionals.
)n the ideals of the Cayce material, the use of psychic ability is not
simply for getting ahead in the world, but more to get in harmony
with it as the soul driven psychic abilities aim for our consciousness
to evolve to embrace the reality of oneness. Children attending the
A.R.E. summer camp pioneered in that direction, by showing how
they could reach out, in their dreams, with a helping hand to some-
one in need. As described in our second article, the Dream (elper
Circle Venture Inward, Sep/Oct/Nov, stands as a perfect am-
bassador to the Cayce work. Countless folks have experienced this
healing process at A.R.E. events, and some at home in their study
groups. Since the appearance of that article, )’ve been working with
a few dozen interested A.R.E. members to develop a method of shar-
ing this special process across the space time platform. We hope that
this report will encourage more folks to join our adventure.
Since its inception in the mid ’s, all the dream helper circles
occurred in a face to face context. There’s a lot of drama involved in
such a situation. At ARE headquarters conferences, for example, a
crowd of over a hundred folks provides for about a dozen circles to
operate simultaneously. Folks who volunteer to be the focus of dream-
ing put their name in a hat and the crowd prays together that the
most suitable folks be drawn. The crowd breaks up into small groups,
people choosing whom they wish to dream for. )magine all the feel-
ings that are evoked as folks empathize with what might be the trou-

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bling situation facing the focus person who has volunteered for help.
There’s a lot of feeling to go around, and much to stimulate the altru-
istic motive to help the focus person. Dreamers make face to face
personal promises to the focus person to remember a dream, and
most everyone shows up the next day to share the dreams and find
out how things worked out. (ow much of the success of the dream
helper circles over the past decades can be attributed to such face to
face emotional arousal? Can the positive effects of these circles be
re-created in a more remote, online context?
To help spread the experience of this special dream circle, and its
benefits, our project began by seeing if the same profound results
could be achieved in an online context. Being able to conduct a circle
online would mean that folks wouldn’t be required to be in the same
physical space or to respond at the same time. Yet there would be no
face to face interaction to build motivation. Would the circle still suc-
ceed? To research this question, )’ve had the cooperation of several
dozen ARE members who have asked to join our project to create an
online version of the dream helper circle. (ere is a report of what we
have learned so far with eight groups we’ve conducted in a four month
period in the late summer and early fall of .
The bottom line: Folks were amazed at how wonderfully the
online circles functioned! (ere’s the story of what we experienced.
We began with a simple format, employed over a seven day period,
involving a series of seven daily instructional emails.*
The first email asks folks in the circle to consider volunteering
to be a focus person.
Folks are informed of the chosen focus person and they send
an email promising to dream for that person that night.
The dreams are shared and dreamers inspect the dreams for
commonalities.
The dreamers create hypotheses concerning the focus person’s
dilemma.
The focus person reveals the secret dilemma and responds to
the dreams and commentaries.
The dreamers report on what they have learned about them-
selves in their dreams.
Participants discuss their experience in the circle.
We chose the focus person from among the volunteers using a

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random process. Folks repeated a prayer, May the person whose
question or concern will bring the most light and healing to all be
the one chosen. Each volunteer submitted a four digit number. An
online random number generator provided the winning number. The
volunteer whose chosen number was closest to the randomly pro-
duced number became the focus person. Dreamers received instruc-
tions on how to insure remembering a dream, and they each sent an
email to the focus person promising to remember a dream that night
for that person.
As the circles progressed, we continued to refine the instructions
and add supportive material. The )nspired (eart meditation as
described in my previous article, ) can be aware of my breathing
and let it be. )’m learning how to let go and let Spirit breathe me. )’m
learning to trust these inspirations… from Venture Inward Jan/Feb/
Mar, , for example, was added at three points in the process to
provide extra support. Folks used this meditation to decide if they
wanted to volunteer to be chosen as a focus person. Using a combi-
nation of the )nspired (eart meditation and inspirational writing,
the focus person refined their question or concern and explored why
it would make a difference in their life to have good guidance on this
topic. Finally, using the same meditation, the dreamers answered the
question, What am ) learning about myself from my dream that per-
tains to my understanding of the focus person’s concern?
Besides the dreamers, there was also an administrator for the
circle who was responsible for sending out the email instructions.
This job also included receiving the responses from the dreamers,
collating them, and sending back to the dreamers the collective re-
sponse. ) served as the administrator for the first two circles. ) then
recruited from those circle participants four folks who volunteered
to serve as administrators for the remaining circles.
The role of the administrator was essentially clerical. That admin-
istration proved to be such an easy task is significant. For one thing,
playing this role required no special knowledge of dreamwork. Fur-
thermore, given the set of instructions for using the email format,
most anyone can host a dream helper circle. This accessibility will
contribute significantly to the circle’s ability to spread to the main-
stream.
We learned a lot from the administrators’ participation in the

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process, things ) would not have thought of myself. The administra-
tors did not restrict themselves to handling the emails. They natu-
rally introduced some words of encouragement. Some expressed in-
terest in creating some bonding among the dreamers to encourage
the performing of their tasks. )t is something we will continue to
explore, as empathy seems to be an important dimension of the circle.
We experienced some challenges, things that stimulated gradual
improvements in the email format. Some folks dropped out and we
discovered that they were using their smart phone to read the email
instructions, but could not open attachments. We then revised the
instructions to eliminate attachments. Some of the instructions were
lengthy and so we added a END OF MESSAGE note at the end of the
instructions, with an upfront notice to be sure to read the instruc-
tions to that end note. Some folks were having conflicts with the
schedule, and so we included the schedule in our invitations, so folks
could plan ahead. These types of challenges created delays in the pro-
cess. We decided to increase the group size to allow for ten partici-
pants, so we could move along as soon as seven of the dreamers had
responded. )n a face to face circle, such a large group makes it hard to
analyze all the dreams in the allotted time. )n the online format, how-
ever, we didn’t have that same constraint, and if all ten dreamers re-
sponded, we could handle the information. Time zone differences also
created challenges, which we are still working on.
)n spite of these challenges, the dream circle works in cyberspace!
We have found that the meaningfulness experienced at face to face
dream circles can be replicated online. All the groups were success-
ful in a productive manner. The people who served as the focus for a
group’s dreams were all pleased with the helpful results. The dream-
ers found a lot of satisfaction in their participation, and reported an
increase in their enthusiasm for dreams and intuition. That the sense
of oneness can occur through the remote medium of emails surprised
the participants and is itself an important finding.
Feedback from the folks that served as a focus for a dream circle
included several statements like, This was incredibly helpful and )
am so glad ) participated.
One focus person explained, ) found that going through the dream
helpers circle as the person of focus to be more amazing than ) could
have imagined. The dreams and the dreamers’ insights, as they con-

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templated the area of my concern, were helpful along every step. Read-
ing through the comments as they posted provided some alternative
ways of looking at my situation that would not have occurred to me
because they were very different from my usual way of thinking
which is why ) was stuck in the first place .
Another focus person wrote, ) was really amazed when, during
the group analysis before )’d revealed my issue , someone accurately
summed up my issue in a way )’d never considered before. )t really
resonated and stuck with me for several weeks. The end result is
that ) felt like ) gained a new perspective that ) wouldn’t have gotten
by myself.
The dreamers themselves were impressed by the results: )’m
awestruck, the quantity and quality of the dreams seems like it was a
higher activity. Even though we are separated by time and distance
we sense a oneness among us.
Another wrote, )’m new to dream work and )’m just floored about
this process, how we can bond together over the internet. ) feel a
bond with everyone.
They also found new inspiration in dreamwork. For one thing, it
showed them that given the necessary motivation, dream recall
comes easy.
One dreamer wrote, ) was nervous that ) would not remember
any of the dreams, yet ) had the pleasure of remembering two. ) very
rarely remember any of my dreams, so this really blew me away. )t
proved educational: )’ve never done dreamwork before, but ) found
the process very worthwhile.
Another dreamer wrote, My own dreams have increased in num-
ber and intensity.
Folks who served as administrators also reaped rewards. With
one exception, none of these folks had ever been in an official help-
ing/guide role before.
One administrator wrote, )t was great to find that ) could use
myself to be of help to people using their dreams.
Another wrote, To know the Spirit is alive and working in such a
beautiful way, through our dreams is really encouraging. ) was very
pleased to have the opportunity to administer a circle.
Confidentiality became a factor. One person had a dream about
being involved in a research project and wondered what the scien-

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tists would do with the data. Participants made a pledge of confidenti-
ality but given the news media reports about emails being hacked
and made public, we wanted more data security. We changed our
email exchange procedure to eliminate reply all type emails among
the participants. )nstead, we adopted an approach which resulted in
only the administrator and the focus person having the email ad-
dresses of the dreamers. We are now migrating our research to a
discussion board format to further protect confidentiality.
We can share one story from our online circles. Mary Agnes
Twomey had past experience with circles in her Search for God study
group and was interested in experiencing the online format. She no-
tified me that she had written a letter to the editor of Venture Inward
about her experience. She was willing to go into a bit more detail for
this article. She writes:
My issue/concern was (ow can ) be free to pursue creative work
when both my children need me to do some intensive baby/toddler
care? And how many good years does this year old have left?
The dreams coming in from the dreamers were amazing! )t was
as if they had a front row view of my life and even my subconscious.
One person’s dream accurately described the peaceful green area in
which ) lived. Another saw a woman going back and forth between
two houses babysitting. There was a half jug of milk in another and
shark’s teeth in one more dream.
) started to really see my situation and how ) felt about it. ) knew
) had to get more clarity in myself and be more honest about what )
could and couldn’t do comfortably and find time when my children
could talk with me. The comments and suggestions from the dream-
ers helped me with this. Even after the circle was over deeper in-
sights and levels of meaning were revealed to me.
So far I did speak with my daughter, who encouraged me to do only
what was best for me. Suddenly I felt empathy for Myself! Now I’m
realizing how this entire scenario is actually a wonderful gift ! My rela-
tionships with my children and myself are headed in a much better di-
rection! What a great opportunity to gain help and deep insights this
Circle is. Thank you so much for this opportunity for healing myself
and ultimately my whole family.”
We might note that two other participants in our online circles
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formats compared favorably. One noted that while the face to face
format created a more lively discussion of commonalities, the online
format, by providing written material, made, it easier to study the
material.
One way to assess the success of the online circles is to compare
the participants’ responses to five yes/no questions asked of people
who had participated in a face to face circle. Larry James Walsch, M.A.,
of Troy State University, interviewed twenty some participants from
several such circles at an A.R.E. camp session ) conducted. (ere are
the five questions he asked and how often the campers and twenty
online participants responded with a yes:
Q : Do you think the seeker was helped by your dream? Camp: Y-
%; Online: Y- %
Q : Were people’s dreams related to the seeker’s issue? Camp: Y-
%; Online: Y- %
Q : Did the seeker’s issue relate to things in your life? Camp: Y-
%; Online: Y- %
Q : Would you do it repeat D(C again? Camp: Y- %; Online: Y-
%
Q : Did you learn something new about dreams? Camp: Y- %;
Online: Y- %.
The results are comparable. They give us some indication that
the online version is viable. We can make improvements. There’s good
reason to focus on empathy and its contribution. One focus person
noted to a dreamer, Your dream describes exactly how ) feel in this
situation! )t is interesting that a number of folks mentioned being
disappointed that the circle didn’t continue until each person had a
chance to be the focus person. The reason was, as a couple of folks
expressed it, So we could get to know one another better. Knowing
one another better, understanding each other’s life situation from a
personal perspective, and bonding, are all important aspects of em-
pathy, and seem to be facilitated by this form of intuitive communi-
cation.
Consider participating in an online Edgar Cayce Dream (elper
Circle. We hope that additional A.R.E. members will join us in evolv-
ing and validating this wonderful introduction to Edgar Cayce’s per-
spective on dreamwork and the spiritual potential of the small group,
even in cyberspace. The phenomenon of empathy and ultimately,

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the experience of oneness , seems to be a fruitful topic for further
research in our circles. To gain understanding of people who are dif-
ferent from ourselves seems to be vitally important in this day and
age. Were the Dream (elper Circle to go mainstream, it might help
stimulate the empathic compassion our shared humanity so vitally
needs in these times.
*For author’s notes on this article, weblinks, and opportunities
to participate in online paranormal experimentation, go to http://
edgarcayce-intuitionschool.org/NormalizingParanormal/

Place in Box:
To participate in an online Edgar Cayce Dream (elper Circle, or
to receive the instructions on how to administrate a circle yourself,
please email henry.reed@atlanticuniv.edu

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 The Dream Helper Circle in Email format
Instructions for Administrators
Version October, 2017

Welcome, New Administrator!

The Dream (elper Circle is a wonderful experience. You can count
on it! Folks who’ve volunteered to administrate a circle perform a great
service thank you! and also get a lot of personal benefit from it.
People who have never been in a helping role before find a great deal
of satisfaction in shepherding a group of folks through the circle pro-
cess. )t’s pretty easy, yet also invites and benefits the personal touch
you might care to add.
The instructions provided below explain how to send out the pre-
written emails to the folks in your circle. That’s basically a clerical
job, sending out emails, collecting emails, combining the emails re-
ceived into a document to send out, etc. The pre-written emails pro-
vide the necessary instructions to the dreamers, giving them spe-
cific assignments each day and when/how to submit them. Thus the
technical part of conducting the circle is routine, and gets the job done.
The only tricky part is to be sure to check each email to see where
you need to change [day of week, month, date] to the actual date, and/
or time, and, once the focus person has been chosen, then where is
says [FP name], you need to insert the actual name of the focus per-
son. Also, in several emails, be alert you that you are to insert the
responses received from folks, and there are very brief samples of
how to share the responses of the dreamers—be sure to delete the
sample and insert the material from your circle.

NOTE: It is not always easy to copy from a .pdf file, which is probably the
format you have here. A word file format is available for downloading at http:/
/edgarcayce-intuitionschool.org/DHC-Administer.doc

The Transcript.
)t’s an important part of the job! To save yourself time and work
at the of the cycles, when you will send everyone a complete tran-

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script of the session, it is important that you create and update the
transcript as you go along. First, open a new document, and save it as
transcript. Then, whenever you mail an email out whether to the
whole group, the focus person, and when containing all the responses
from folks that you are collating and inserting into the email , copy
that email into your transcript document. )t will automatically grow
in size, and be all ready for you to mail out at the end, with folks final
comments, without you having to search back through all the emails.
The special sauce comes from you, with your option to add a
personal greeting, words of encouragement, notes of reminders, and
so on. You can create the mood and your personal contribution—
just being you and being there for the dreamers—is very important—
although the instructions do the job, so it’s totally optional what kind
of pep you might add! Thank you for sharing being yourself with us
and the circle of dreamers you’ll serve. You’ll find that they’ll be very
grateful you provided them this opportunity.

The Seven Cycles of Emails:

Note to Admin: Review the email below and modify the Sched-
ule to fit the scheduled days of the circle and your preference as to
what time of day you will send emails and when folks are expected to
respond. We suggest and the instructions are written accordingly
that you choose to send out the daily emails at PM each day. )n that
case, you would ask that folks respond by NOON the next day to give
you a four hour period to compile their responses when needed
and prepare your next email. With experience, you can delay their
responses to pm, bu then you have to be quick in your work to
compile and resend. There are many references in the Email Texts
where you need to insert the actual day and time. Be sure to check
those in each email you can search for this brack mark [ and in-
sert the correct information. )t is your prerogative to set the sched-
ule as to the day it begins and the time frame, simply be mindful and
make careful edits.

Recruiting Dreamers: Generally speaking, we recruit dreamers

from a list of interested parties. Generally there has been previous
information provided, so that those interested parties are informed

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about the purpose and nature of the Dream (elper Circle. The first
three chapters of DREAM ESP for EVERYONE provide such informa-
tion and you are free to share it.
An email is sent to interested parties once you have decided upon
your schedule, specifically, the dates of the seven day period you plan
to administer the circle, and the time factor. This information helps
potential dreamers examine their own schedules to make sure they
will be available for an hour or more each of the seven days of the
circle. Below is a sample of such an email:

Schedule of Activities for Online Dream Helper Circle:

The daily cycle begins at a set time, usually pm, when the ad-
ministrator sends out the instructions for the day. Dreamers are to
respond to the instructions within hours, by , noon, the follow-
ing day. That gives the administrator a four hour time period in which
to open your emails, copy your responses, and paste them into the
email for the next cycle.
Time zones need to be taken into account, as the instructions are
assumed to be expressed in the administrator’s time zone. Partici-
pants in time zones different than the administrator need to shift the
schedule for themselves so that their participation will be synchro-
nized to the administrator’s
Cycle : Friday, pm, through Saturday noon: )nstructions to be-
gin: Requesting dreamers’ introduction and decision as to being a
focus person. Time required: one hour. Submit responses by Satur-
day noon.
Cycle : Saturday, pm through Sunday, . Focus person is cho-
sen and dreamers are notified. Saturday night is the night we’ll be
dreaming for the focus person. Time Required: one hour. Submit
dreams by Sunday, noon.
Cycle : Sunday, pm through Monday, noon. Dreamers will re-
ceive the collection of dreams to examine. Time required: one hour.
Submit responses by Monday, noon.
Cycle : Monday, pm through Tuesday, noon. Dreamers receive
instructions to explore commonalities among the dreams. Time re-
quired: One hour, or more. Respond by Tuesday, noon. he common-
alities.
Cycle : Tuesday, pm through Wednesday, noon. Dreamers form

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hypotheses about the focus person’s challenge. Time required: one
hour. Dreamers respond by noon, Wednesday. Focus person sends to
the administrator the contents of the request for help, and a
response to each dream, responding by noon, Wednesday .
Cycle : Wednesday, pm through Thursday, noon. Administrator
sends dreamers the focus person’s prayer for help and the focus
person’s responses to the dreams. Dreamers reflect on the connec-
tion between their hypotheses and the focus person’s challenge.
Dreamers perform a meditation on their dream. Time required: Two
hours. Dreamers report by Thursday, noon.
Cycle : Thursday pm through Friday noon: Dreamers reflect on
their experience. Final comments and sharing. Respond by Friday
noon. Administrator will collect response and send a transcript.

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 Cycle 1: Introductions
For your first email, you will need to choose three of the ten pos-
sible questions that everyone will answer as a get acquainted pro-
cess. Everyone will get the same three questions, the three you choose
and insert at Q ¸Q , Q in the email text below.
The questions that are nominees to be among the three:
•)f you could have dinner with anyone in the world who would it
be?
•What would constitute a perfect day for you?
•When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?
•For what in your life do you feel most grateful?
•What’s your most treasured memory?
•)f you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality /
ability, what would it be?
•What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?
•What’s the greatest achievement of your life?
•What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?
•When did you last cry in front of another person? By yourself?

)n this first email to participants you will confirm correct email

addresses and availability. Get chosen names of dreamers and those
wishing to be focus person FP . (ave FP candidates submit a num-
ber for the random drawing of admin’s choosing . State the day and
time that the focus person will be chosen by random number. Re-
view the final TO DO section for correct time and day.
Email text:
(i, my name is [...] and ) will be your administrator for this Dream
Circle. Thank you for volunteering! )f you have any questions or con-
cerns, please email me at any time. This instructional email is lengthy,
so be sure to read it, and all the emails ) will be sending to you, down
to where it says END OF MESSAGE.
Please note: Our Dream (elper Circle thrives on altruism and
empathy, while the dreams take care of themselves. The Circle gains
its spiritual value because it is a process of cooperation among us to
be of service to someone in need. The functioning of our dream circle
indeed relies on everyone’s cooperation. At the mundane level, it in-
volves reading the daily instructions carefully and following them in
the given time frame. The ideal of staying on schedule keeps the en-

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ergy focused, moving, and growing. Each of the seven days you’ll re-
ceive instructions for that day. )t is important that we respond ap-
propriately, within hours of receiving the instructions, so that the
material can be processed in time for the next day’s email instruc-
tions.
Our master schedule is below. Please email me if you foresee any
scheduling conflicts. Note especially that we will be doing our dream-
ing on [day of the week] night, the night between the [Month/day-
day]. You’ll receive instructions that day on how to prepare that
evening for dreaming.
Schedule:
Our daily cycle begins at pm, when ) send out the instructions
for the day. Your part is to respond to the instructions within hours,
by , noon, the following day. We are referring to [state time zone].
)f you live in a different time zone, please make the necessary adjust-
ment. For example, if you are Western Daylight time, you will re-
ceive emails at pm and you will need to respond by am the next
day.
Cycle : [day, month, date], pm, through [day, month, date], noon:
)nstructions to begin: Requesting dreamers’ introduction and deci-
sion as to being a focus person. Time required: one hour. Please sub-
mit your responses by [day of the week] noon.
Cycle : [day, month, date], pm through [day, month, date], noon.
Focus person is chosen. Saturday night you will be dreaming for the
focus person. Submit your dreams by Sunday, noon.
Cycle : [day, month, date], pm through [day, month, date], noon.
You will receive the collection of dreams to analyze for commonali-
ties. Submit your responses by Monday, noon.
Cycle : [day, month, date], pm through [day, month, date], noon.
The dreamers explore the commonalities. Respond with your analy-
sis by noon, Tuesday.
Cycle : [day, month, date], pm through [day, month, date], noon.
Dreamers form hypotheses about the focus person’s challenge. By
the end of this cycle, the focus person will have sent to the admin the
revealing of the written prayer for help, and a response to each dream.
Dreamers submit responses by Wednesday, noon.
Cycle : [day, month, date], pm through [day, month, date], noon.
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the focus person’s challenge. Dreamers perform a meditation on their
dream. Dreamers report by Thursday, noon.
Cycle : [day, month, date], pm: You will receive a final report.
Final comments and sharing. We are beginning Cycle now.
To start the process, there a few items for which we’d like your
response. You will be asked to send an email with those responses
within hours, in other words by [noon, Saturday].
•You will use your answers to three questions to introduce your-
self
•You will affirm the ideals of our circle and state whether or not
you wish to volunteer to be chosen as the focus person.
Being a focus person is a great honor. You serve others by your
request for help because by responding to you, the dreamers will
discover their latent abilities. By asking for help, you become a
teacher. We hope that several of you will volunteer to be the focus
person, and then we’ll say a prayer and let the Spirit of Chance de-
cide among the volunteers A computer program will produce a ran-
dom digit number, and the volunteer whose chosen digit number
is closest will be the person who will be our focus person.
Are you a potential focus person for our dreams? A potential fo-
cus person is someone who is experiencing a personal challenge in a
life issue, such as an annoying habit, an emotional entanglement at
work, frustration over a creative endeavor, a conflict in the marriage,
a difficult decision about a career change. )t should not be a hypo-
thetical situation, such as will interest rates be going up? Nor should
it be a remote question, something that is not now immediately im-
pinging upon the person, such as will my daughter ever get mar-
ried? Rather it should be a question concerning something directly
challenging the person, something causing actual discomfort, about
which they could act, such as how can ) make peace with my job or
leave it? Questions concerning other people should be focused on
the person’s own role in the situation. For example, rather than ask,
Why does my husband reject any involvement in my spiritual ac-
tivities? Try asking, (ow can ) best deal with my feelings about my
husband’s attitude toward my spiritual activities? or possibly, (ow
can ) make it easier for my husband to join me in my spiritual activi-
ties? The point is to focus on an immediate, tangible issue directly
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helpers to come up with a solution.
)f you have the time and are so inclined, you might listen to (enry
Reed’s )nspired (eart Meditation and listen to your heart’s thoughts
on volunteering as a focus person. )t will play on your computer if
you go to http://intuitiveheart.com/ih.mp
While you are considering whether or not to volunteer to be the
focus person, please read over these questions and prepare your
answers. Learning one another’s answers to these questions will
provide a little bit of bonding among us.

Q - [Admin: insert your choice of question]?

Q - [Admin: insert your choice of question]?
Q - [Admin: insert your choice of question]?
TO DO: Everyone
1) Send an email to me by [day of the week] noon (EDT)
1.Give your chosen name for us to know you by—use a pseud-
onym for greater confidentiality only the admin will ever see your
email address —and provide your answers to the three questions.
2.Then copy this statement, ) agree to support the energy of our
circle, ) affirm that ) will cooperate with our schedule and maintain
confidentiality. and paste it into your email. ) will collate these re-
sponses and send them to everyone
3.Let me know your decision about being chosen as the focus
person:. If yes, then provide the four digit number you choose
for the random draw.
4.Please send your two emails by [time, day, date].
2) Please mentally repeat this prayer a few times before we
have the drawing for the focus person tomorrow.
“May the person who could best be helped by this dream helper
process, by those gathered here at this time, creating the most light,
love and laughter among all, be the one whose name is chosen. May
this process be guided by love and caring. “

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 Cycle 2: Select Focus Person
Note to Admin: Assuming more than one person volunteered to
be the focus person, determine the FP based on generating a random
digit number go to http://numbergenerator.org/random- -digit-
nu(YPERL)NK http://numbergenerator.org/random- -digit-num-
ber-generator mber-generator, repeat the prayer ending Day and
press GO.
You will have two emails to send out for this cycle:
For the first email, you will need to compile the information
received from folks, their chosen name and answers to the three
questions as shown as an example in the email text you’ll use . This
email will go to the entire group, with the name of the FP identified,
including instructions for everyone on how to prepare to dream for
that person T(AT N)G(T [time, day, date].
Their preparation in two parts: Creating a plan for dream recall
and emailing FP [via you, the admin] promising to remember a dream
for the FP that night, stating their strategy for remembering a dream.
In the second email you’ll send the focus person their in-
structions.
1) Email text for (including FP):
(ere are the names of the folks in our circle, and their responses
to the three questions:
[Note to Admin: Copy from the individual emails the re-
sponses received and paste here.
(a typical response might look like this:
)’mJake:
Q - )f you could have dinner with anyone in the world, who would
it be? Thomas Jefferson. ) find him complex and brilliant. ) would
love to pick his brain over a bottle or of wine.
Q - )f you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one qual-
ity or ability, what would it be? ) would love to be fluent in every lan-
guage. ) especially need to learn how to translate the language most
misunderstood by men around the world.... Women. *: happy
Q - What’s the greatest achievement of your life? ) can’t think of
any specific big thing )’ve done. )’d like to think my biggest benefit to
mankind is in my interactions with those ) have crossed paths with,
helping them to realize their potential or overcome their obstacles.
That may be why )’m attracted to the Dream (elper Circle.

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 ) agree to support the energy of our circle, ) affirm that ) will
cooperate with our schedule and maintain confidentiality.

[Name] is our Focus Person.

Dreamers, your mission for Day 2 is to prepare to dream to-
night for [Focus person name]. The preparation will include devel-
oping a plan for remembering your dreams tonight, and then emailing
me a promise to [Focus person name], promising to remember a
dream for him/her, and describing your dream recall plan.

Please email me your promise to [Focus person name] between

now and and going to bed tonight. Note: Answers to the dream re-
call questionnaire below are for your own purpose, they do not need
to be emailed to me, the questionnaire is strictly an exercise to aid
you in developing a strategy/plan for recalling your dreams.

Preparing for Dream Recall

To assess your dream recall patterns, please complete the follow-
ing questionnaire:
What’s Your Attitude Toward Remembering Dreams?

The ten factors in the questionnaire below may be among the

most significant for you. This questionnaire gives you a chance to
measure some of the variables that contribute to whether or not you
remember your dreams. You must decide for yourself how influen-
tial each factor is in your own recall habits. Then enter a rating, from
to , with higher numbers meaning greater influence.
For example, )tem is, Waking up at the right moment. Does
the timing of your awakening make much of a difference in whether
or not you remember a dream? )f it makes little or no difference at all
to you, score that item either a or . )f it is a very important factor,
score it either a or .
Now evaluate each of the ten questions in terms of your own re-
call patterns. For each, enter a rating, from to .

Vital influence:
)mportant influence:
Moderate influence:

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 Minor influence:
No influence:

. Waking up at the right moment.

. (ow much ) sincerely expect to remember my dreams.
. (ow emotional my dream is
. ____Giving myself a bedtime suggestion to remember a dream.
. Something the next day reminding me of a dream
. Placing my dream diary by my bed at night
. Being awakened by an alarm clock
. ___(ow much morning time ) spend trying to remember my
dreams
. (ow colorful, extraordinary, vivid, or bizarre my dream is
. (ow much time ) have devoted recently to dream study

Total up your scores separately for the even and for the odd num-
bered questions.

Total score for Even Numbered questions

Total score for Odd Numbered questions

Your score for the odd numbered questions reflects how much
importance you place on factors outside your control.
Your score for the even numbered questions reflects how much
importance you place on factors within your control.
We’ll call your total score on the odd numbered questions your
external score, as those factors are external to you, or outside your
control.
We’ll call your total score on the even numbered questions your
internal score, as those factors are internal to you, or within your
control.
)f you don’t recall dreams very often, perhaps the results of this
little test can give you some clue for what you might change.
)f your external score is higher than your internal score, then you
are too passive with regard to dream recall. You believe more in fate
than in your own efforts. You need to take a more active role in re-
membering dreams.

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 Rather than allowing external factors to play such a large role in
whether or not you remember dreams, try to work on the internal
factors.
Can you choose one or two of the even number items to practice
in preparation for dreaming for the focus person tonight? Please com-
mit to these preparation plans. Thank you!

Write a message tonight to [FP NAME] that begins with ) prom-

ise to REMEMBER a dream for you, [FP Name], tonight. (ow ) will
fulfill this promise is that ) will …{describe something you are going
to do to insure you will remember a dream}. You will email it to me,
the administrator, and ) will forward it to the focus person.

A moment of prayer: Addressing this email to me, the adminis-

trator, as you hit the SEND button for that email, imagine feeling a
heart connection with [FP Name] and visualize yourself waking up
and writing down a dream.

Preparation for dreaming: Each person has their own way for
preparing to dream. One idea is to meditate before going to bed to-
night while picturing all of us together holding hands in a circle, uni-
fying our intent to help [FP name].

Record ALL the dreams you recall from tonight and email them
with titles to me. We need your titled dreams by [Day, month, date],
NOON! Once everyone has submitted their dreams, ) will compile all
of them and send you each the document so we can begin looking for
commonalities.

Important: For each dream you record, please take the extra time
to create a title for your dream and include it with your dream re-
port. Your doing so at that time will serve you and everyone else
later in the program. A good title has a verb in it, so that the title
describes what happens in the dream.

For example, in a dream someone is sitting at a stop light. When

the light turns green, they step on the gas pedal and start out when
they notice that a car coming from the left is running its red light.

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They stop in time to prevent a crash. A title of this dream might be
Someone avoids a calamity. No need to mention car, light, etc.

TO DO:
.Complete the Dream Recall Questionnaire and develop your
dream recall strategy.
.Write a message to the focus person, between now and going
to bed, with your promise and dream recall strategy, and email it to
me tonight for forwarding to the focus person.
.Prepare for Dreaming
.Record dream, compose title, and send to me, by [day] NOON
[time zone]. Remember to title your dreams, reviewing instructions
above if necessary.

One last word: )f you are concerned about remembering your

dreams, you may read additional hints and encouragement from
(enry Reed’s essay, The Art of Remembering Dreams. You can read
it online at http:/(YPERL)NK http://dream-guidance.com/art-of-
remembering-dreams.html /dream-guidance.com/art-of-remember-
ing-dreams.html

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Note to Admin: )n this second email for today, inform the FP

that they have been chosen. Paste into the email the promises from
the dreamers. )nstruct the FP to write their dream petition and do
some journaling.

2) Email text to FP:

Dear [FP name]: You are the Focus Person! Congratulations. )n

my other email to the other dreamers in your circle, which you also
received, ) instructed the dreamers to write a note to you with their
promise to recall a dream for you, and how they intend to fulfill it.

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You are also to record your dreams tonight, title them and submit
them to me by [time, day, date], the same as everyone else.

(ere are the promises from the dreamers:

[Admin: Copy those messages here.]

Please remember you will not reveal your Dream Petition until a
few days from now. )n the meantime, it is important that tonight you
write it out, a prayer for help, a statement you will share with the
dreamers days from now. Once written, you’ll keep it with you when
you sleep tonight—perhaps put it under your pillow. )t is very useful
if you will spend some time journaling before going to bed. Spending
time contemplating your question/concern is very important. Spend-
ing time in your journal the first night, writing about why you care
about this question and how it makes a difference in your life is very
helpful to trigger empathy on the part of the other dreamers. )t also
prepares you for insights beyond your current conscious awareness.
At the very least, write a sentence that states your question or con-
cern.

TO DO:
.Write out your Dream Petition and keep it with you when you
sleep.
.Do some journaling tonight about your question per the instruc-
tions above.
.Email me your dreams from tonight, like everyone else, by [day]
NOON.

(ere is a suggested set of instructions for special journaling be-

fore bedtime tonight:
.First, write down a tentative statement of a question for which
you would like to have some dream guidance.
.Then write out a dialogue between that part of you who ques-
tions and that part of you who has answers.
.Find out what aspects of your question you already have an-
swers for and what is the essential part of your question for which
you now have no answer.

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 .Write out some of your thoughts about past efforts to resolve
this question. What conflicts, limitations, or other obstacles have you
encounterd?
.Write out why it is important for you to have an answer to this
question. (ow will your life be improved? Envision the benefits.
.(ow will other people, the world in general , or simply life it-
self, benefit by your having an answer to this question? Envision
the benefits.

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 Cycle 3: Dream Compilation
Note to Admin: Once the dreams have been submitted, compile
them into a single document for copying into your emails for this
cycle. You’ll prepare two emails, one to the dreamers, and one to the
focus person. )n each email, copy the dream collection, which you’ll
place in the text of the email not as an attachment! . The sample email
text below shows a sample dream list, much abbreviated to show you
how you can present them. Note to check the sample email to insert
the correct submission time for the next cycle!
You may need to send email reminders to anyone who has not
submitted their dream by this time, holding this first email for that
person until they respond.
1) Email text to dreamers who have submitted dreams (not
the focus person):
All of the dreams are presented below. ) strongly suggest that you
print them out, because it will make doing your assignment more
convenient.

Note to Admin:
Copy the dreamers’ reports and paste them here:
A sample of a typical report:
Jake:
Dream 1: “Helping with Baby.” I am helping a woman with her
baby who is months old.
Dream : Mystery in the Church. We are in a church basement,
in their craft room, making decorations for a wedding. We went to
the post office to pick up some packages. The woman, who was do-
ing the decorations, left part of the contents back at the post office. )
end up going back later to get the things and put them in a plastic
shopping bag. ) take it back to the church basement. We go home
and continue to make decorations.

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End of the Dreams

Please look through all of the dreams and F)ND ONE common
pattern you see between them. Feel free to include anything you see
such as themes, symbols, actions, emotions, and so forth.

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 Here’s some guidance on recognizing patterns:

Recurring patterns may be images animals, round things or sym-

bols, narrative themes running, moving, changing , or any other
aspect of the dreams in which you can note similarities. Usually, the
most significant patterns has to do with the narrative themes, as the
following example will show.

As an example, here are two very different dreams with no sym-

bols in common, but with several commonalities in the drama.in what
happens in the dreams.

)n dream one, someone is sitting at a red light at an intersection,

and then the light goes green. The person begins to enter the inter-
section when, off to their right they see another car crossing into the
intersection at high speed. The person holds steady, then enters the
intersection when it is safe to do so.

)n dream two, someone gets up from watching TV to go into the

kitchen to make a cup of coffee. The person reaches into the refrig-
erator for the cream, they are about to pour some into their coffee,
but they discover that the cream has soured! They find a fresh car-
ton of cream,
pour it into the coffee, then return to the TV as their show re-
sumes.

)t is easier to see the common pattern than it is to describe that

pattern in words. That is why it is important for everyone to contrib-
ute various ways of expressing these commonalities. The titles you
gave to your dreams may prove very helpful now in getting the pro-
cess started. Don’t settle for one statement of the commonality, but
see if you can express it in a couple of different ways, using different
words. The more varied the descriptions dreamers provide, the more
likely they will express something that will trigger an insight within
the focus person. )t’s also good practice as a way of tickling out some
understanding of your dream.

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 (ere are some statements of a common pattern, statements that
are simply descriptive of what happens:

• Something unexpected counters the assumptions and antici-

pations of a person as they are about to initiate a habitual action.
• Someone notices something wrong in time to avoid a problem.
• A person experiences something that creates a normal pause
in their ongoing activity.
• Before resuming an activity that was interrupted, the person
needs to make an adjustment to their normal response.

With the help of the above guidance, please reread the dreams
and nominate one common pattern in the dreams that you recog-
nize. Email your suggested common pattern to me by [time, day, date].

)’ll compile the responses from everyone and send them out,
which will help you locate further patterns. Our procedure is how an
intuitive group functions: each person contributes their individual
impressions, unaware of the others. Then the impressions are com-
bined and examined by everyone, leading to further intuitive per-
ceptions of patterns.

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[Focus Person Name], here are the dreams folks had for you. You
would do well to print them out for easier examination and compari-
son.

Admin: Copy the same collection of dreams you included in

the above email to the dreamers into this email for the focus
person.

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 End of the Dreams

[Focus person’s name], read over each dream and write a few
sentences about how you relate to the dream, and be sure to mention
how the dream does, or doesn’t seem to pertain to your question.
You’ll need to be ready to send your report on [time, day, date].

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 Cycle 4: Finding More Dream Patterns
Note to Admin: Compile the list of patterns and send to the group.
Encourage the dreamers to find more commonalities. )n that same
email, you’ll ask the focus person to continue to make notes about
the dream collection. You may hold off sending this email to anyone
who has not yet submitted their observed pattern, sending to such
folks an email reminder to submit their observation so that they
might move on.
Email text (to everyone):

(ere is the list of common patterns you folks found in the first
examination of the dreams. When you read them over, and look again
at the dreams, we’re confident that you can find some more patterns,
perhaps some that are more subtle.

Common patterns so far:

Admin: Copy the responses from the emails into this mes-
sage here:
A sample of a couple typical responses:
Jake:
establishing friendly competition
repairing, people upset about repairing
Angie:
discussing family problems
trying to help but not knowing how
being caught in a bad pattern again

[Focus Person’s Name] Read over the dreams again, with these
patterns in mind. Please continue to write out responses to each of
the dreams, and to the collection. Keep adding to your remarks, sav-
ing them for our next cycle.

Dreamers:
Read over the dreams and find one more common pattern, one
that is not listed above. .

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 TO DO:
•Dreamers: Send your email assignment to me by [time, day,
date], include one additional common pattern.
•Focus Person: Think about the commonalities found in the
dreams so far. Continue to write out responses to the dreams. Send
NO email this cycle, the time for your response has not quite come
yet.

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 Cycle 5: Dream Summary Evaluations
)n one email, compile the additional commonalities and list them.
Then have the group except FP submit their hypotheses of the FP’s
issue. They need to address three questions. )n a second email, ask
the FP to send to you their responses to the dreams, and to the com-
monalities so far observed.
1) Email text to everyone::
(ere are some more commonalities found by the dreamers.
Admin: Copy the responses from the emails into this mes-
sage here:
A sample of a typical response:
Jake:
deciding how to make a change
arguing with others over what is right
Angie:
comparing alternatives
finding the real motivation

We are now going to start the intuitive part of the exercise. As

you work through this next phase, please take a moment to open you
heart to [FP name] and this issue and try to stay in that space as you
develop a hypothesis of what the issue is and what possible resolu-
tion exists.
Be a Dream Profiler:
Your next step is to analyze the dreams as a clue to what might be
the underlying problem that confronts [FP’s name]. )t’s like being a
profiler, who looks over the stories in these dreams and asks, What
kind of problem situation would stimulate dreams like these? We
want to intuit what issue is being dealt with, what is the underlying
cause, and what could be done about it. A profiler might ask, )s it a
medical issue? or maybe it’s a career problem, or is it family, or health,
or spiritual seeking, a relationship issue? As these questions go
through your head, follow your instincts and propose the topic.
Let’s pretend you propose that the dreams suggest it is a rela-
tionship issue. A profiler would then ask, what kind of relationship
issue? What’s the problem? )s it a difference of opinion, of Values?
Communication? Lack of reciprocity? Use your intuition. A good
profiler would then go on to the goal line, asking, What creative,

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new approaches or strategies are being suggested by these dreams?
Looking at anything positive, constructive, creative, or original could
be a clue here.

Your assignment, dreamers, is to prepare a profiler’s statement

or hypothesis , your personal intuitive hunch, that states,

The topic of the targeted question is .... The source of the prob-
lem or why the question has remained unanswered is.... The sug-
gested strategy for dealing with this issue is.... You can certainly add
any other comments.

)n developing your profiler statement or hypothesis , you need

to address the following three questions:
•Identification: )n what area of life does this problem present
itself? For example, a relationship, a career conflict, health problem,
etc. Try to be as specific as possible. )f it seems to be a relationship
issue, for example, what kind of relationship issue? The more varied
the way you express it, the more discussion, the more material for
the focus person to process, the greater chance of important insights.
•Diagnosis: What is the underlying obstacle that makes the fo-
cus person’s issue difficult for them to resolve? Why have they not
been able to resolve this issue and bring it to us instead?
•Prescription: Finally, what creative or positive patterns in the
dreams suggests a solution or a path toward resolution. (ere we are
looking for prescriptive statements. To use as an example the two
sample dreams stopping at a traffic light, getting cream for the cof-
fee , we might create prescriptions such as Things you take for
granted may suddenly change, be alert! or look before leap!
TO DO:
Dreamers: Email to me your three-part hypothesis or profiler’s
statement . Do so by [time, day, date].
Focus Person: Read the commonalities and add them to your list.
You will receive a separate email concerning your assignment for
this cycle.
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 2) Email text to Focus Person:

[FP name], please email me your Dream Petition. Feel free to ex-
plain a bit about the concern, question, or problem for which you are
seeking guidance from the Dream (elper Circle. (elp the dreamers
understand why your question is important to you and why it mat-
ters. Also, please respond to each dream individually, noting aspects
of the dream that are recognizable or applicable to some aspect of
your situation. The dream may relate to the stated concern or some
other aspect of your life.

TO DO: [FP name], please send to me your response by [time,

day, date].

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 Cycle 6: The Dream Petition is Revealed
Note to Admin: Email the entire group the compilation of sum-
mary hypotheses, together with the FP’s statement of reveal and
dream responses. Place this material in the body of an email, not an
attachment. )n the email text below, a sample of how to present the
dreamer’s material is shown. Please replace the sample with the ac-
tual material from your circle.
Email text:
(i folks, the curtain has risen on our mystery. Below you will read
the petition that [FP’s name] wrote out requesting our help. You will
also read {FP’s name}’s responses to each of your dreams. Below that
is the compilation of the dreamers’ final -part hypothesis, so you
can compare them with what {FP’s name} wrote.

Dreamers, you have two tasks for this cycle. The first is to share
with us your response to learning the [FP name]s’ actual challenge,
as you compare it with what the dreamers came up with, by posting
your answers to three questions. The second task, to be done AFTER
you’ve sent your post concerning the first assignment, is to perform
a special dream interpretation exercise and post the results. Be sure
to complete both by [time, day, date].

[FP’s name], your task for this cycle is to comment on each of the
dreamer’s summary hypotheses.

Below is [FP name]’s sharing with us the challenge that was in

focus and their response to your dreams.

Admin:
Copy the email response from the focus person and insert
here.
A Sample response from an FP:
Thank you to everyone for all the energy you have put into this
to help me. )t is very much appreciated.
My Dream Petition: (ow do ) learn to let go of my past identifica-
tions to become more of what ) could be?
Notes: ) am in the process of moving out of a -year career and
want to start a new life. ) am feeling that ) should have some idea of

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what ) plan to do so ) can be focused on getting there. ) have some
general ideas, but no formalized plan yet which is leaving me a bit
unsettled. ) also have come to the realization that to get there, ) am
going to have to let go of some activities, obligations and commit-
ments that have made my life too hectic.
Focus Person’s responses to your dreams:
Jake’s dream: ) thought about not throwing the baby out with the
bath.
Angie’s dream: Church involvement is one of those things ) think
) must release..

Below are the summary hypotheses submitted by the dreamers:

Admin:
Copy the dreamer’s responses of hypotheses and insert below:
(ere is a sample:

Jake:
) think the focus person’s area of concern is that she wants to
make a change in her life. ) also believe that fear is blocking Abby
from the solution to her concern. She may also feel stuck in her cur-
rent situation and may be unsure how to change or end the relation-
ship. She may also have fear of reverting to old ways in herself or
the other person.
Angie:
. )dentification. My intuition is telling me that her issue many be
something created by a bad habit.
. Diagnosis. She hasn’t been able to solve this problem herself
because there is much fear surrounding her
. Prescription. Time to pamper take care of yourself in a very
big way.

Now that we are aware of [FP’s name] challenge, and their re-
sponses to our dreams, dreamers can perform their own assessment.
Please study the material above and then respond to these questions:

•What is the relationship between {FP name}’s statement and the

group’s summary hypotheses?

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 •Does the group’s summary hypotheses give a different slant on
{FP name}’s concern?
•(ow do the themes common in the dreams point to something
concerning {FP name}’s challenge?
Please do not give advice! )nstead, explore and point out connec-
tions between the material the dreamers’ produced and [FP’s name]’s
stated challenge. Finish this task earlier enough to have time to enjoy
the second part of your assignment without hurrying.
Once you have written out your responses to the three questions,
then it is time for you to do a special investigation. )f you had more
than one dream for [FP’s name], choose the one dream that seems to
connect best to their stated challenge. Reread that dream and its title
so it is clear in your mind. Then click on the following link. )t will take
you to a recording of (enry Reed leading you in a special dream in-
terpretation exercise. At the end of the guided meditation, (enry gives
you instructions for what you are to write out for sharing. Answer
the question posed exactly as he instructs.

http://edgarcayce-intuitionschool.org/intuitiveheart/title.mp

Follow the instructions, then record the insight you receive. Please
add this information to the responses to the three questions. Email
me all that material, and ) will compile them and send to everyone.
You need to finish both assignments by [time, day, date].

TO DO:
Dreamers:
•Compare [FP’s name]’s statement of the challenge in focus with
the summary hypotheses and answer the three questions.
•Listen to guided meditation and write out your response
•Send me the above by [time, day, date].

Focus Person: For each dreamer’s statement of the hypotheses,

please write a comment, by [time, day, date] and email to me.

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 Cycle 7: Final Reflections
Note to Admin: Compile all of the titles and insights. Add to that
list, the comments received from the FP regarding the dreamers’ hy-
potheses. Email this combined information to the entire group. Ask
the FP to respond to the statements and to suggest how the FP might
deal with their challenge given the information received. Encourage
the dreamers to share their reflections on our circle experience.

Email text:
Below you will read the compilation of the dreamers’ personal
reflections upon their dream, as well as [FP’s name] responses to
your statement of hypotheses.
Admin: Please copy the responses from everyone and insert
them here:
A Sample of what might be submitted:
From the dreamers:
Jake: Dream Titlei: ) am helping with a Baby
Some part of me is bringing something new into the world, and
the caretaking requires new help, as if ) need new skills for the new
me.
Angie: Dream Title: ) sense a Mystery in the Church
Religion doesn’t do it for me, but perhaps spirituality could lead
me to the new me.

Sample response from FP:

Thanks for all your observations. ) feel a lot of what you all have
said applies. ) needs to go through for spiritual growth. As far as a
separate issue going on with me concerning a decision that concerns
others, there is something )’ve been working on.

)t’s time for some final reflections and we will then close the circle.
Dreamers, please send me an email that provides responses to
the following questions:
•What was it like to try to have a dream for someone?
•Were there any special or unusual experiences?
•(as participating in our circle given you any new ideas about
dreams, dream interpretation, or the use of dreams?

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 •What have you gained personally from your participation?

[FP’s name], we would love to hear your final comments on our

circle? Please respond to these questions:
•What was it like to be dreamed for?
•Do you feel you’ve received some benefit from our circle’s re-
sponses?
•Do you have some new idea about how you might now deal with
your challenge? What might be your first next step in doing so?
•)s there anything else you’d like to say to your dreamers?

TO DO:
Dreamers: Send me your responses to the questions posed to
you , by [time, day, date].
Focus Person: Send me your responses to the questions posed to
you, by [time, day, date].

When everyone has emailed their responses to the questions, )

will be sending you a final summary report, containing the material
we’ve shared. You’ll have that as a lasting document to your partici-
pation. Thank you so much for your cooperation over this seven day
period!
END OF MESSAGE
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this email and paste it into the transcript document and save again.
Note to Admin: At the end of the cycle, when everyone has sent
in their responses to the evaluation questions, copy that material
and paste it into your document, transcript and save again. You may
need to withhold the transcript until all have responded. Send email
reminders if necessary. Be sure include late responders into your fi-
nal transcript.
Thank you so much for your work. )’m sure you will find that the
circle participants are very grateful to you for making this opportu-
nity possible.

Email text:
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material we exchanged during our circle. Our circle is closed now,
but we still welcome comments. We are in the process of improving
this online experience of the Dream (elper Circle. Your feedback
would be great. Any thoughts on how we might improve the experi-
ence for the dream helpers and focus person would be most appreci-
ated. We’d like your thoughts on how the mechanics or logistics might
have gone smoother and any other suggestions you may have to en-
hance the experience for future online dream circles. Thank you so
very much for your participation. Cooperating in a circle to serve the
healing of another person has tremendous spiritual significance.
Wouldn’t you say so?
END OF MESSAGE

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 Conducting The Dream Helper Circle:
Hints for a Face to Face Group

)t can be fun to set up situations that allow people to discover

their dream medicine. One way we can often discover hidden talents
is when we offer to help someone else. The same thing applies to
dreaming. Can you imagine dreaming for someone else? )f dreams
are personal, in other words, about ourselves alone, is it neverthe-
less possible to dream for someone else? )t turns out, in fact, that at-
tempting this seemingly paradoxical task actually provides a uniquely
educational handle on dreams, their meaning and their extraordi-
nary Value. We call this unusual experiment the Dream (elper Circle
D(C .
) described this unique experiment in a previous chapter. D(C
began over twenty-five years ago as a serendipitous discovery in an
intentional community setting, and then took form as an experiment
in group dreaming. The experiment began as an attempt to investi-
gate dream telepathy using an alternative, transpersonal, approach ,
but has evolved into a useful method to introduce people generally
to the power of dreams. )t’s Value as an analytical investigative tool
has not diminished, but its popularity as an experience in the seem-
ingly magical power of dreams has superseded its perceived research
Value. )f you want to read about its history, its scholarly and scientific
background, as well as case studies of actual sessions, see the notes
at the end of the book. (ere my focus is going be on helping you
envision the process so that you might be able to try it for yourself,
sharing it with your friends, students, clients, or possibly your research
participants. D(C has a natural drama, a genuine human appeal, and
it provides a caring, human service while providing people an op-
portunity to learn something about dreams.

Dream Helper Circle Summarized

The basic scenario of D(C is that a group of people volunteer to

dream about the undisclosed problem of a person in distress. When

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the group reconvenes, the dream helpers report their dreams and
examine the collection for common patterns. )gnorant about the fo-
cus person’s FP situation, the helpers use the common patterns to
form hypotheses about the nature of the problem, its background,
underlying cause, and, suggestions for the problem’s resolution.
When they’ve finished processing the dreams, the FP reveals the
problem and responds to the dreams and the group’s analysis. Typi-
cally, the group’s analysis proves to be extremely relevant to the FP’s
concern, to the surprise of all. The helpers then interpret their own
dreams on a personal level to answer the question, What can ) learn
about myself from my dream that might be helpful to the FP’s con-
cern? This final step in the process shifts the focus, as D(C concludes
by the group’s sharing of personal insights centered about a com-
mon focus.
The results of D(C have been consistent over many years, in a
variety of contexts, conducted by persons of varying backgrounds and
amount of dreamwork experience. The interpersonal drama of the
D(C is effective in increasing participants’ dream recall showing the
power of motivation. D(C also increases people’s appreciation of the
Value of their dreams. Upon returning in the morning, most people
may have recalled a dream, but rarely can anyone detect anything in
their dreams that might be relevant to the FP’s concern. After seeing
the patterns in the dreams, however, and hearing the FP’s response,
most participants realize that their dreams are highly relevant. One
of the Value of the group approach is that it does allow the detection
of common patterns, which then help focus the efforts to interpret
the dreams. (ow can dreams see in the dark, to use a metaphor, so
well? To discover that one could successfully dream for someone else’s
undisclosed problem raises respect for the mysterious power of
dreams.

Introducing A Dream Helper Circle

There is a natural human drama to D(C that speaks directly to

most people. Someone is in distress and is asking for help. The par-
ticipants are being asked to look to their dreams. They can empa-
thize with the basic scenario, and find it intriguing. A major Value of
D(C is that it can be introduced to audiences relatively new to dreams

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without having to provide a lot of background about dreams, dream
incubation, the Maimonides dream telepathy research, the objective
and subjective level of dream interpretation, unconscious projection,
or any other theoretical context that might relate to understanding
the dynamics of D(C. This type of discussion can be saved until the
aftermath of D(C, when people find their curiosity significantly fo-
cused. D(C can be introduced simply as an experiment to test the
power of dreams by putting them to constructive use. Afterwards,
people are highly motivated to ask questions about the nature of
dreams that permit the startling results that D(C deliver.
By helping many people who have wanted to learn how to con-
duct D(C, ) know it can be introduced to a group with a simple invita-
tion, Would you be interested in attempting to dream for one of our
group members to see how we can use our dreams to obtain intui-
tive guidance? The group need not focus on the psychology of dream-
ing, but rather on the practical issues, such as who to dream for and
how to retrieve the dreams. That D(C can be set up independent
from any theoretical perspective is one of its strengths, because it
doesn’t require any prior commitment from a participant to any par-
ticular belief. All it requires from participants is that they are willing
to try to remember their dreams in order to help someone in need.

Selecting Someone In Need to Dream For

What’s most important to the success of D(C is that group per-

ceives that they are responding to someone’s genuine need, and not
just trying an experiment. )n other words, the FP to whom the
dreams are directed should be selected in such a manner as to arouse
in the dream helpers a feeling that there is a need to help the FP. )
recommend asking for a few volunteers to put their names in a hat,
and then have a random drawing.
To create the appropriate group perception, it should be explained
to the group that the requirements to volunteer as a FP is that the
person be currently confronting a real-life challenge or dilemma that
is causing some emotional distress. )nterpersonal situations, dilem-
mas, or life choices are the most amenable to D(C, but some people
have found that financial and health issues have received clarifica-
tion through D(C. The worst questions, not suitable for D(C are hy-

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pothetical, abstract, or vague questions, such as What shall ) do with
my life? )t would be better to ask, Why don’t ) know what to do with
my life? The important point is that the volunteer have a specific,
focused issue for which help from the group is requested. The nature
of the question is not mentioned, of course, but the perception in the
group should be, these volunteers need our help!
To choose among the group of volunteers a lottery seems effec-
tive. The perception in the group needs to be not only that the volun-
teers who are submitting their names are in need of help, but that
fate has actually selected the most needy volunteer for whom the
group will focus their dreams. This fate factor seems to make it
easy for helpers to dream for someone other than the person they
were hoping would be selected. )n fact, ) often ask the entire group to
bless the container holding the names of the candidates: Let’s bless
this drawing so that the person who most needs our help, and who
could best be helped by this process, by this group assembled here,
be the name s chosen by this drawing. Then we draw a name, or
names, from the container, depending upon the number of groups
we will form.
Regarding numbers, ) have found that having a group size of about
seems optimal. Too few people and it is harder to see patterns in
the dreams, too many and it takes too long to process the dreams.
The rule of thumb ) use is that we select one FP for every eight people
in the audience. That means that if ) have a hundred people at a work-
shop, ) would try to get about people to volunteer to stick their
name in the hat and we’d draw out names. ) have regularly con-
ducted D(C in groups exceeding a hundred, but most people find
themselves operating in a small group that allows dreaming for one
person only. Conducting a single group, with the conductor partici-
pating, is the best way to learn about the subtleties as well as the
power of D(C.
The perceived need factor needs to be emphasized. )t is impor-
tant to D(C. Don’t make it secondary to some concern for abstract
experimental design. ) have found that people who conduct D(C in
ongoing dream groups, for example, run into a problem if they de-
cide to adopt the strategy of simply having people take turns being
the FP. Then the group’s perception is that the FP is not truly in need,
rather it is simply that it is this person’s turn. D(C becomes a group

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exercise rather than a genuine expression of help. )n an ongoing
group, it would be better to introduce D(C by saying, We have avail-
able to us a great dream process for helping someone in need, so
whenever one of you finds yourself in a crisis in home, don’t tell us
about it, but rather ask us to conduct D(C for you.! Some groups do
not meet regularly, but come together only when one of their mem-
bers requests a D(C. Set up by phone, the members dream the night
before they assemble in person to process the dreams.

Preparing to Dream

There are no specific instructions for dreaming for someone else.

Because in some situations there can be a time lag between setting
up the dream experiment and the night of dreaming, ) often ask the
FP to autograph several pieces of paper and hand them to the dream
helpers. Upon receiving an autograph, the dream helper can say to
the FP, ) promise to remember a dream for you tonight. Making the
verbal promise aloud, directly to the FP, seems to provide enough
commitment to be effective.
Motivation to recall dreams is high, but participants are not sure
that they have the skills to act on that motivation. Giving a few tips
on dream recall seems sufficient. One might refer to the question-
naire given in the earlier chapter on the art of remembering dreams,
to help people focus on where they can direct their efforts at dream
recall.
The person least likely to recall a dream is the FP. Fortunately, the
success of D(C is not dependent upon the dreams of the FP. A more
productive task for the FP is to do some journaling before going to
bed, writing about the question or concern and clarifying the focus. )
always ask the FP to write out a statement concerning the nature of
the help being sought, a statement that the FP will read to the group
the next morning at the appropriate point in the processing of the
dreams.

Processing the Group’s Dreams

There is a logical progression to processing the group’s dreams

that most people can easily understand. When, for example, ) con-

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duct D(C for multiple, simultaneous groups at large workshops, the
groups conduct their own dream processing after hearing my simple
instructions. )nitial processing goes on with the FP listening, but not
participating, and without having revealed the nature of the concern.
Thus some of the group’s processing is done blind, as in the blind
men and the elephant–in this case, the elephant is the FP’s problem,
and the blind men are poking that elephant with their dreams.
The first step is to hear all the dreams. Note taking is encouraged
to facilitate pattern recognition. The one exception to the rule that
the FP be a silent witness to the process is that they can tell their
dream, if any. Discussing any of the dreams, however, is discouraged
until all the dreams have been told.
The second step is to look for common patterns, either in the sym-
bology, feelings, or other attributes. ) use the following example to
encourage finding more subtle patterns in the dream narratives: )n
one dream, the dreamer stops at a traffic light, and when the light
turns green, the dreamer is about to resume and enter the intersec-
tion, when it is necessary to brake suddenly as another car running
the red light from the right speeds through the intersection. After-
wards, the dreamer resumes traveling. )n a second dream, the dreamer
gets up from watching TV to go into the kitchen to get a cup of coffee.
After pouring the coffee, the dreamer goes to the fridge to get the
creamer, and upon beginning to pour the cream into the cup of cof-
fee, the dreamer discovers that it has gone sour. The dreamer re-
turns to the fridge, gets a new carton of cream, pours it into the cup
of coffee and returns to TV.
There are no common symbols in these two dreams. When ) ask
audiences if they can see the similarity in the two dreams, everyone
raises their hand, but when ) ask people to state in words the nature
of the commonality between these two dreams, they have a lot of
trouble doing so. ) point out that it is easier to intuitively perceive the
story of the dream, but to put it into words is difficult, which is the
challenge of dream interpretation. ) offer, as an example, one verbal
formulation of the commonality as events unfold contrary to expec-
tations, momentarily thwarting anticipated movements. There could
be other ways of expressing the same thing, with slightly different
nuances, such as Someone is about to do something when some-
thing unexpected blocks the way. )n the group, therefore, it is worth

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hearing everyone’s attempts to put into words the dreams’ common
patterns, so the FP and the helpers can hear different versions. )t is
one way the blind folk touch the elephant with their dreams, trying
on various verbal formulations. Most often, it is such narrative pat-
terns that suggest the nature of the FP’s question.
The third step is the profiling, working backwards from the pat-
terns found, to answer three key questions:
What is the subject matter of the FP’s question—financial,
health, family, career, or some other? Most groups find this an easy
one. )t is useful to refine that answer. For example, if a family prob-
lem, what kind of family problem, exactly?
What is the underlying cause of the problem? )f a family prob-
lem over conflicts of life goals, what causes this to be a problem? Com-
munication defects? Financial constraints? Different Values? Trying
to answer these questions further refines the group’s perception of
the patterns in the dreams.
What do the dreams suggest doing about the problem? To an-
swer this question, it is useful to look at constructive actions in the
dream, or lessons learned from the dream narratives. )n the two
sample dreams, for example, one lesson might be, Look before you
leap!
) have found that groups often lack the patience to explore these
questions in much depth. There is a tendency to look over at the FP
to get some kind of feedback. ) encourage the groups to persevere
on their own efforts, asking themselves, What kind of situation would
lead to this kind of patterns in the dreams? Again, attempting to ver-
balize the intuitions that the patterns evoke challenges the group’s
ability. Their own personal experience with human dilemmas does
provide a basis for matching the patterns in the dreams to typical life
situations and dilemmas. ) quote Aristotle, who claimed that the ba-
sic skill of dream interpretation was the recognition of resemblances.

Getting Feedback from the Focus Person

When the analysis seems complete, then, and only then, does the
FP speak, by reading aloud the statement of concern written the pre-
vious night. The FP may then respond to the group’s hypotheses and
to the details of the dreams. By this time, the FP has a lot of pent up

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reactions to what has been heard. For example, if you ask the FP, have
you found the group’ conversation interesting? the answer is invari-
ably an enthusiastic, Yes, indeed! The FP’s feedback shows that the
group’s blind dream speculations faithfully followed the contours of
the problem, its background and implications, even if not identifying
it exactly or correctly.
At this point it is helpful to dissuade the group members from
giving advice to the FP, but to look instead to the dreams. Knowing
the actual stimulating agent that prompted the dreams, their signifi-
cance takes on new light. People are surprised to see how their
dreams, which did not seem particularly significant when they re-
corded them, are now linked meaningfully to a specific subject mat-
ter. (ere is an excellent educational opportunity for exploring dream
interpretation.
)f nothing else, the dreams have, by this time, created a strong
sense of group empathy with the FP’s concern. There may also be
some suggestions about how to resolve the issue or otherwise re-
spond constructively. To get even more helpful information, it is nec-
essary for the participants to interpret the dreams at the personal
level. This revelation of the subjective confessions embedded in the
dreams provides an important dimension of information as to how
each helper has internalized and responded to the FP’s dilemma.
Several methods of dream interpretation can be used for this por-
tion of the dream processing. )n self-facilitated groups, ) instruct
people to create titles for their dreams, reflect upon what truths about
oneself the dream title suggests, and to extrapolate those conclusions
to the FP’s situation. )f there is time for homework, ) assign more
elaborate methods involving journal writing techniques.
Whatever the method of dream interpretation that is used, this
final step brings the dreams back to the dreamers at a personal level.
)t shows that a dream can be both a personal confession and yet, at
the same time, meaningfully reflect attributes of an external situa-
tion. D(C has the unique quality of illuminating this dual capacity of
dreams. )t also has the advantage of insuring that whatever diagno-
sis and prescription that might go on during D(C will be grounded
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 Evaluating the Results

The examination of D(C began in a context of dream telepathy

research. A study conducted under the supervision of Stanley
Krippner, involving no personal contact between the FP and the
dream helpers, showed that the FP can discriminate dreams specifi-
cally intended for them from dreams intended for other FPs or ran-
domly selected dreams. This study also verified the helpfulness of the
dreams collected. The fact that people can perform the task required
by D(C, i.e. dream for another person, with only minimal instruc-
tion, whereas most experimental methodologies for influencing
dream content require elaborate pre-sleep procedures, suggest that
D(C taps into a natural, intuitive process. Underlying D(C is some
form of intuitive impression formation or intuitive communication.
) have created a waking intuitive helping process comparable to the
dream task, called the )ntuitive (eart Discovery Method, that makes
a useful control procedure for evaluating the contribution dreams
make to the apparent success of D(C. ) describe that method in the
next chapter. )t involves the helper person intuitively remembering a
certain past experience to use as a teaching story to provide a new
perspective on the FP’s undisclosed dilemma.
Research conducted with people who have served as an FP sug-
gests that one of the main, positive contributions of D(C as an edu-
cational tool is that besides demonstrating the transpersonal dimen-
sion of dreaming, it makes people feel connected to one another at a
spiritual level. The FP serves as a catalyst to allow the participants to
draw closer together, through their dreams, in appreciating their
common human condition and their unique resources available for
responding to it creatively.
When discussing the results of the dream sharing with the par-
ticipants, ) find that while there may be questions as to whether the
dreams were telepathic, transpersonal, or special in any way, the most
constructive focus seems to be on what people are learning from the
experience. Rather than focusing on the telephone, as it were, we
focus on the telephone conversation, in this case, what we have
learned about an issue of human concern. ) find that the more deeply
the group allows itself to see into the issue at hand, the more recep-
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 Hints for Processing the Group’s Helper Dreams

Sometimes it helps to have someone designated as facilitator to keep

things on track, loosely.
Everyone tell his or her dream s , focus person going last. Note:
The focus person should make some brief notes about the dreams for later
response in step .Other group members may make notes to keep track of
the dreams and the comments in what follows.
Group searches for repeating patterns in the dreams. Patterns may
be images water , feelings fear , characters unhappy children , situations
someone running from someone , or more abstract themes feeling
blocked by contradictions . Most important patterns are not the symbols,
but the emotional patterns of dramatic tension in the dreams.
Group uses the repeated patterns they found to form a hypothesis.
The hypothesis contains three parts:

What issue is being dealt with? For example, a relationship, a

career conflict, health problem, etc. Exactly what kind of ... issue?
What is the diagnosis as to underlying cause? For example, the
relationship problem is caused by conflicts in ideals, underlying jealousy,
etc.
What is the prescribed remedy? For example, more time spent
on communication is indicated.

After the group has decided and clearly stated a hypothesis to the
focus person, then the focus person reveals the area of concern being fo-
cused on and respond to the dreams and discussion.
Focus person reads request written from night before.
Focus person notes which dream segments accurately reflected ar-
eas of his or her life.
Focus person responds to the group hypothesis in terms of its ap-
parent accuracy or Value.
After focus person responds, group refrains from giving advice, but
restricts comments to further dream processing. Group brainstorms, for
example, how various dream segments and/or repeated patterns might re-
late to focus person’s area of concern in ways overlooked by focus person.
Group members process their dreams for personal meaning and
share with group insights about how their dreams reflect truths in their
own lives. Simple method: Title your dream. What does the title of the
dream say about you? What do you learn from yourself about your dream
that might be helpful to the focus person and his/her concern?

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