(Thursday, August 21, 2017, Chris’ 62nd birthday) moon waxing crescent Libra / tarot nine of cups, Kuan Yin
I am at a large conference where Jill Purce is holding a workshop. Hundreds of people fill many rooms.
In part of the dream I discuss a famous female artist at a round table with another woman, maybe Karen from Glastonbury. The artist’s name is on the tip of my tongue but I cannot remember it. I say that I will need to go online to find her name. I have great passion for her art. It has inspired me for many years. I am surprised at my forgetfulness. My empty mind.
In a second scene I sit across a round table from Jill. The room is populated, for the most part, by beautiful, highly spiritual women. But there are also egotistical older men from the IASD.
Jill has created an exercise based on the content each participant experienced at the Tantric Red Tara mandala ceremony. She hands me a small piece of manilla paper with writing on it that I am supposed to read back to her. The text is short, a title followed by a paragraph of just a few sentences. I read the headline but am distracted by ruckus in the room. The men are being disruptive and disrespectful. Cynical. I lose the paper I am reading from. I shuffle through a handful of other papers. My panic keeps me from finding the page that I need. I keep looking at Jill, thinking she will step in to help. But that is not how Jill lives or teaches. She silently waits for me to return to my own sense of order and calm.
Day notes:
Yesterday I received an email from a “cyber shamana” named Lorna Liana about the Transpersonal Conference in Prague. The theme is “Beyond Materialism – – Toward Wholeness.” Stan Grof is teaching a worshop and so is Jill Purce! I bought a CD from Jill in Glastonbury that I had not even opened yet. It is a recording of her presenting at the Transpersonal Conference in Prague 25 years ago. So now I am listening to her CD. Her voice makes my heart so full it almost brings me to tears.
Perhaps the artist in this dream is Kiki Smith. Bonnie and I chatted online a little about Kiki.
Unbelievable! I just went to the Transpersonal Conference website and Melinda Powell, formerly Mary Ziemer, is presenting on lucid dreams!
Wow! What a conference. I hear Prague is an amazing place. I wonder who those older, cynical men from IASD are?