Author: Denise

(Saturday, March 25, 2017)

Scientists are showing me a list of the alkaline foods that are best for my health. For some reason they tell me to eat less apples (my favorite fruit) even though they are alkaline, not acidic.

Day notes:

Yesterday Alexander, a research scientist from the Mayo Clinic, came to the house to do my blood draw for the University of Michigan Retirement Study. Chris and I have contributed to the study for 10 years or so.

I have a comprehensive list of alkaline foods in my kitchen. Some researchers and physicians, such as Dr. Weil in Tucson, say that is pseudoscience. But increasing numbers of scientists think alkaline diets benefit auto-immune diseases. My naturopaths call osteoporosis an auto-immune disease. For about a year I have been subscribed to an email newsletter from a lead cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic named John M (his area of expertise is atrial fibrillation). In one email he talked about his initial skepticism about earthing (grounding the body’s electrical field by walking barefoot on stone or the earth). But now he thinks it may indeed have healing properties. In a webinar I listened to a few weeks ago, another physician stated the same: that in ten years earthing will no longer be “fringe,” just as fish oil, omegas and vitamin D benefits are no longer considered pseudoscience.

I love getting guidance in dreams about the health of my body! I think the dream is telling me to eat less fruit, more vegetables, which was the message from Heidi The Naturopath.

(Saturday, February 18, 2017)

Long, complex vision of the dream conference:

I arrive in the registration lobby. Under my right arm I carry the doll-sculpture I call Edie. She is created not by me but by the great ceramicist Akio Takamori (who passed away unexpectedly last month). Rather than the rough, textured surface of my actual piece, the dream doll has the smooth, graceful, raw surface famous to Takamori. Beautiful!

From registration I move to the gallery, where I have volunteered. I am not well-received. I don’t fit in. I don’t exhibit the standard, middle-class academic sensibility that is desired here. But there is a set of mounting tools needed by the gallery that I am able to fire, to temper, so that they are strengthened and made more useful.

I move through other rooms in the conference, rooms full of people. Out of the corner of my right eye a transparent tarot reading appears, floating in the air above the heads of the dreamers. It is hard to decipher the cards because they are not fully manifest. They arrive from the spirit realm. I think The Fool is at the top of the spread but I can’t be sure. All cards seem to be from the major arcana.

It is time for the dream hike. I head out with the group but am diverted. Off the beaten path go I, walking alone up a dirt road to the top of a hill where I lie down, nestling in the soft warm sand. I love the smell of the moist earth. A black crow flies low, fluttering his wings over my body and laughing loudly, crow-style. We are kindred spirits.

I rejoin the hikers. They have reached a large, rectangular reservoir. Richard W. and another man push through a wire gate and dive into the pool of water. This makes me happy. I appreciate their playfulness and sense of physical freedom. Bravo!

Day notes:

Crow is shape-shifter, trickster. Protector of the Akashic/Ogallah. “All things are born of women” is signified by Crow. Crow lives in the void with no sense of time. Crow sees past, present and future.  Crow’s eye is the gateway to the supernatural. Walk your talk and speak your truth.

(Saturday, February 18, 2017) moon third quarter Sagittarius/ tarot Temperance

Again I am present in my grandmother’s house, in its square, two story dream format.  The house sits in a wide-open, empty field at grey dusk. “I” stand in the upper level. “I” am a spirit being of elevated height. My feet rest peacefully on the wooden floor but my head and torso reach out of the roof, into the eternal sky. Infinite tranquility.