And So...

River of Dreams
The Sequel

This final chapter, your own life-changing dream, is for you to dream, to do and to tell. Swim with tranquillity in your river dreams, go with the flow, witness the source, your well spring of life, and feel the intensity of the waterfall as your spirit cascades magnificently forward, revealing every splendid droplet, withholding nothing.

Twenty-six rivers have melded with the ocean of life wherein lies humanity’s collective dream insight. See not only your own reflection returned from this ocean’s surface, but in reflection reach deeper, for it is beyond the surfaces and barriers which we believe exist that our wider reality is revealed.

This book has been a dip in that ocean. Still dripping with sea water, I see in my hand fast-fading memories, dream insights, glimpsed throughout the creation of this manuscript, evaporating into the salty air as the sun hastens to dry my palm. The sun, symbolic of consciousness, absorbs and disperses droplets of the ocean, symbolic of the collective unconscious, for you to ponder as you continue your own journey.

"I don’t believe we have to go through all this struggle and karma any more. I think things have changed to the point where we can live and come from a state of being in grace, and we can learn through joy and insight. If we can choose to learn through insight we don’t need to go through struggle."
Zohara

".......intellectually you understand something and say, ‘Yes, I know that’, but it’s not until you have that feeling that goes with it, or the actual understanding that you can do it. People can read it ’til they’re blue in the face, but you need to feel it to know it. The difference is actually doing it in your life."
Sarras

"If I look at the painting now I can stand back and realise that life is a game, an illusion. The throw of the dice in any board game appear as the chance happenings in life which take us up or down the snakes and ladders. Life is really a game, and if you can step back and see the whole board, you see life just takes us from the beginning to the end: and it’s just a game."
Calli

"Now it doesn’t matter what happens to me as I know it’s only for my own growth and my own benefit so I go with it.... I just see opportunities for growth. This attitude makes life a lot easier."
Zohara

"In conclusion my life philosophy now is that it’s actually not complicated at all! There is only really one thing: just be happy. The difference between being happy and unhappy is just basically deciding you’re going to be happy. It’s actually as simple as that. Simple, but not necessarily easy!"
Violet

"I realise now that it’s all just a script you write yourself. We are just writing scripts until we finally learn, until we write (right) ourselves to the conclusion. It is all a dream and there is nothing but love."
Wraith

"My simple understanding is biblical: When God created the earth, so the Bible says, he spoke things into existence. We’re supposed to be made in his image and I’m sure that if we can dream it, we can do it. If we can dream ourselves flying, them I’m sure we can achieve that."
Daniel

"We can say affirmations until we are blue in the face but we must simply be brainwashing the conscious mind. My dream had impact because my subconscious informed of the emotional adjustment needed to achieve my conscious objective. All the conscious mind had to do was say, ‘Yes, I’ll do it’."
Beth

"People overlook the power of dreaming and take it for granted as something that we do. We’re brought up thinking that we just have dreams and not to take it seriously, but, if you’re really feeling in the dream, which a lot of people don’t do, that the key. Touch onto the feeling side of it."
Harry

"The general message for me has been to trust myself and go with what I want to do, to stop pushing aside my feelings and experiences.... I have given up working in my old job, as it only served to stop me from being who I want to be...."
Susannah

"I had to realise that I am the special person that I always wanted to be."
Willow

"It was OK to be me. It was OK to be a little weird. Who wasn’t? Did I expect perfection from other people? No. So, why punish myself to the point of annihilation because I wasn’t either?"
Mell

"It’s all about loving yourself. I could never come to grips with that before. I thought I liked myself pretty well, but until you come to that within yourself, you’re incapable really of helping anyone else."
Sarras

"Is this the secret to curing all addictions - drugs, alcohol and so on? Funny thing is, dreaming doesn’t cost a cent."
Beth

"And even though we’re not at the end of the tunnel yet, the fact is, we wouldn’t be the same people we are now if we hadn’t gone through this period of our lives. Neither would I be living my life with such an open mind or strong sense of wonderment."
Susannah

"I realise now, looking back at my journey, that no-one could do it for me. I had to do it for myself."
Sarras

"He reaches out towards the wall and shows me a miracle. ‘See?’, he says. It’s all in your mind. If you don’t like it this way, you can make it better any time you decide. It’s up to you.’ Suddenly the wall is a yellow and orange curtain, sliding sideways, and all at once the whole room is flooded with sunlight. Finally I understood with blinding clarity that it is all up to me. As soon as I make up my mind to do it, I can free myself - pull open the curtain, see outside, go out into freedom if I want. I’m the creator of my own prison. It’s only real because I’ve chosen to believe that it is. The miracle is - it doesn’t have to be that way at all.!"
Mell

Keeping a Dream Journal

Instructions

1. Take a double-page spread for each day.
2. Record your dreams on the right-hand page.
3. Record the date (the date being the evening you went to bed).
4. Give every dream a title.
5. Don’t worry if you can’t recall the order of your dreams.
6. Write as much descriptive detail as you can remember, including your feelings and the emotional impact of the dreams.
7. Divide the left-hand page into two columns.
8. In one column, briefly record events, thoughts, conflicts, feelings, or questions of the day prior to sleep. (These may come into your dreams.)
9. In the other column, make notes on your associations to the dream, or any possible interpretations.
10. Use the last pages of your Dream Journal as an index so you can find the dreams easily.

Right-hand page example

Left-hand page example

Back page example

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