The Dream Journal

Also can dreams open our minds to other consciousnesses? Our guest today is professor emeritus Curt Hoffman, PhD. Curt is an archeologist and an anthropologist. He starts by describing that several big dreams shared with colleagues inspired his interest in dreaming. He has been a member of IASD (International Association for the Study of Dreams, asdream.org) since 1997. We play several pieces of Curt’s music whose creation was guided by explicit instructions from his dreams. He produced 768 pieces of music in 19 months and has assigned one to each card in the Tarot deck. His website sharing these pieces will be up soon. Our show music creator Rick Kleffel takes the mic to ask if Curt knows of the work of Bill Nelson who has similar dream-inspired pieces plus Rick shares his own recent dream-inspired music story. We then speak about Curt’s book Stone Prayers about identifying almost 6000 sacred sites on the Eastern Seaboard in which he provides evidence that these sites were were constructed as sacred places by the indigenous peoples of the region. Curt touches into his experiences around consciousness sharing during dreaming. He shares his dream from that morning about a liger (lion and tiger cross-breed). We take two callers: Sonia from Massachusetts asks about whether the IASD conference will come to Bridgewater soon. And Tony Russomano relays a question from Cindy from Santa Rosa about an example of some of the dreams that inspired his music. BIO: Curtiss Hoffman, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of Anthropology at Bridgewater State University, where he taught courses in archaeology, mythology and culture and consciousness. Curt has been an active member of the IASD since 1997, currently serving on the IASD Program Committee and the Hartmann Student Research Awards Committee. You can find Curt’s music here: MusicalDreamTarot.com Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on March 4, 2023.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her at katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

By following the wisdom of each dream, one by one, we can experience powerful awakening and healing. Our guest today is Archetypal Dreamworker Amy Trafford. Amy starts by saying that dreams help us find meaning in life and that even difficult dreams offer us a place of love. We talk about shadow work, projection and reaction and about how dreams help to bring us into our bodies and therefore into the present moment. Amy notes that dreams don’t judge, we judge We take a call from Julie from Vermont and talk about whether dreams are really telling us what to do in waking life or if we are projecting out wishes upon them. BIO: Amy Trafford is an Archetypal Dreamwork therapist. She also teaches dream writing groups and string workshops and the practice of presence through dreams. Amy is passionate about dreams and their ability to help us be more present, more in our physical bodies, heal trauma, and change our lives from the inside out.  Find our guest at awtdreamwork.com  and on Instagram amyt4128. Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on February 25, 2023.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her at katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

How can we create spaces of pleasure for queer and black people? What about dream spaces? This is a replay of one of my favorite recent shows. Our guest is Tuere Khanyisa, the founder of Black Femme Brunch. She is an avid lucid dreamer and she has lots to say about the pursuit of pleasure. Tuere shares some of her intense dreams including a lucid dream called The Devil and the Three Portals. She suggests that we can use awareness of absurdity to become lucid. She defines pleasure and draws me out about what brings me pleasure. She suggests that one of the ways that we learn to feel free is by choosing our own roles in life. We take a call from Ellen from Soquel who shares a dream about her daughter. BIO: Tuere Khanyisa is a Charlotte native who earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at North Carolina Central University. She works as a writer, editor, and cultural worker, curating celebratory trans and queer spaces as the founder of Black Femme Brunch. Her messianic imperative is to serve the Black queer and trans community with the radical notion that pursuing pleasure is an affirming, powerful, and reclaimed right of Black people’s humanity. She works to demystify understandings of kink, pleasure, spirituality, psychology, and sex positivity by offering people safe containers to explore and encounter them all without judgement. Tuere is a gamer, gardener, pleasure activist, spiritualist, and dream worker. Joy is the central pillar of everything she does. Find our guest on IG @FemmeFinite and at FB at Black Femme Brunch. Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Show aired on February 18, 2023 rebroadcast from a show which was recorded September 3, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her at katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

Dream Alchemy and Depth Psychology. Also Kabbalah and Tarot. These are just some of the tools in the tool chest of today’s guest, local Jungian therapist Eva Rider. We start out by defining depth psychology and how it is different from other kinds of therapy. Meaning vs. happiness. Dreams help by providing what we don’t know. Eva defines the dream alchemy phases: nigredo, albeda and rubedo. Also, death dreams can be positive. We take a call from Carol from Scotts Valley who shares a dream in which she is visited by a crow with a metal insect in its mouth. We end up talking about active imagination, warning dreams and big dreams. BIO: Eva Rider MA, MFT is a licensed Jungian-oriented depth psychotherapist, a workshop leader and presenter. Eva’s teaching incorporates dreamwork with fairy tale, myth, tarot, music, movement and art based in an exploration of the correspondences between Jungian theory, alchemy and psyche or soma as revealed through the Hermetic tree of life. Eva Rider is a graduate of the renowned Marion Woodman BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Training program. Eva has taught Dreamwork, Jungian Theory and Myth at John F. Kennedy University and teaches independently at locations in the United States and Canada and online. Find our guest at: ReclaimingSoul.com First class of Sophia Sparks free on YouTube @EvaKRider Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on February 11, 2023.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her at katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

Spiritual direction, dreamwork, meditation, fine art… It’s all about bringing the unconscious to light! Our guest today is Innerwork Center’s Carrington Brown.  Our guest speaks about how becoming aware of waking life habitual reactions can be a way to transform them into responses. She recommends identifying the dream moment of either the most emotion or of most surprise to find the place to begin exploring it. We receive an email with a dream from Marilyn of Richmond VA which was a happy dream of planting spinach in circles. We also take a call from Christine of Scotts Valley who shares a dream about escaping from a place that has turned into a psych ward. Carrington shares a number of references including Haden Institute and also Robert Hoss’s Six Magic Questions which can be found at DreamScience.org. Also check out the offerings at the InnerworkCenter.org. BIO: Carrington Brown is a retired landscape designer and mother of five grown sons, living just outside of Richmond Virginia with her husband, dogs and horses. She hold a BA in fine arts, certificates from the Haden Institute in spiritual direction and dream work, Sacred Plant Traditions Foundation Herbal program and Restorative Justice facilitation. She is an artist, painting in oil. Carrington has a meditation practice and practices ‘staying awake and present‘ following George Gurdjioffs work. Find our guest at: CarringtonPBrownsArt.com Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on February 4, 2023.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her at katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

DreamStar Free Online Counseling, using dreams in therapy and her experiences with dream telepathy. Our conversation this week is with Professor Suzanne Maniss of U Texas Rio Grande. We start out talking about how little clinical health workers learn about dreams which is similar to the small amount that medical doctors learn about nutrition. The dominant therapy mode is currently cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) which is geared toward controlling symptoms rather than shifting underlying causes. Suzanne describes this as a “whack a mole” approach. Suzanne describes her work with Scott Sparrow, PhD and how they teach graduate students to incorporate dreaming into therapy. You can apply for free sessions from these students and also take courses to learn about the technique at DreamStarInstitute.com. After the break we got more personal and speculative. Suzanne’s son Jeremy called in from Dallas and shared how they used to talk about his dreams on the way to school. Suzanne then shared an uncomfortable experience of dream telepathy. Finally, we took a call from Ray of Santa Cruz who synchronistically wanted to ask about dream telepathy and had clicked into the system before we started talking about it. BIO: Dr. Suzanne Maniss is professor and chair of the Department of Counseling at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Suzanne is a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate and first became interested in dreams during her graduate studies, as a result of which she spent ten years in Jungian analysis. Throughout her academic career, Dr. Maniss has found that students are very interested in dream work and has been able to share basic theories and techniques through elective courses and professional development workshops in the community. Most recently, she has collaborated with Dr. Scott Sparrow to bring these ideas to the students at U Texas, Rio Grande. Contact me if you’d like to get in touch with our guest. Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on January 28 2023.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her at katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

How can you dream well if you’re not sleeping well? Our guest today is neurologist and sleep specialist Dr. Chris Winter. Chris starts out talking about how he has always enjoyed sleeping and how that ultimately led him to a career as a sleep specialist.  We sleep a third of our life and sleep affects all aspects of our waking life. We talk about “eight hours a night, every night”. Is that a myth or do sleep needs really fall on more of a bell curve? You might think you need less sleep than that, but is it really enough or are you just getting by? How do you feel during the day? Also falling asleep too quickly is a clue to being sleep deprived. We take a call from Susan from Novato who talks about enjoying waking up early, even sometimes as early as 3:30am. Dr. Winter talks about chronotypes and how they vary from person to person and with age. He speaks about dreaming as a marker for getting good sleep and that dreams can be a kind of sandbox for the mind. BIO: Dr. Christopher Winter is a neurologist and sleep specialist. He is the author of The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep Is Broken and How To Fix It and The Rested Child: Why Your Tired, Wired or Irritable Child May Have A Sleep Disorder–And How To Help. In addition to optimizing the sleep of numerous professional sports organizations, he hosts the podcast Sleep Unplugged with Dr. Chris Winter which is consistently ranked as one of the most popular medical podcasts in the country. He is also the host of the Sleep.com series Sleeping Around with Dr. Chris Winter. Find our guest at: wchriswinter.com and also at Twitter, IG and TikTok @DrChrisWinter Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on January 21, 2023.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. Contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her at katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

(Fixed!) Why is inner work so important and yet so difficult? We speak today with Vicki Saunders of the Innerwork Center of Richmond VA. Vicki starts by saying that we all have unique contributions to make to the world and self-awareness will help us get what we want and to find more meaning in life. We talk about Jung’s concept of the stages of life, the tension of the opposites, shadow work and how to recognize emotional complexes. According to Vicki’s mentor, James Hollis, the biggest blocks to inner work are fear and lethargy. Vicki shares a dream that she had 15 years ago that left a big impression on her. We take a call from Rachel Douglas who is the executive director of the Innerwork Center. She calls from Richmond CA asking for ideas about how to access our authentic self more deeply. Viciki Saunders hosts on ongoing zoom class at the IWC called Mondays with Jung. The IWC will host a keynote lecture by James Baraz on Thursday January 26 called “Finding Joy in Tough Times.” Register for either event at their webpage. BIO: Victoria B. Saunders, Ph.D., has worked for the past 30 years as a professional facilitator, specializing in strategic planning, leadership training and personal development. She has a Masters Degree in Jungian Studies from the Jung Institute in Houston and also a PhD from Saybrook and another Masters degree from George Washington University. Vicki has worked with the Innerwork Center in Richmond, VA for the last 25 years. She has facilitated strategic planning sessions, book groups and workshops dealing with consciousness, creativity, and Jungian psychology. Vicki currently serves on the Innerwork Center Faculty, Executive Committee and Board, where she chairs the Program Committee. Find our guest at: InnerworkCenter.org Facebook: @InnerworkCenter Instagram: @theInnerworkCenter Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on a very rainy January 14, 2023 as broadcast from my powerless home on my cell phone.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

(Delay due to stormy Santa Cruz weather!) Paying attention to dreams can change your life. So can psychedelic experiences. We speak to Dr. Darren Jakubec who is a medical doctor and a dream coach. He runs both a pain clinic and a ketamine clinic and works as an anesthesiologist in an emergency room in northern Canada. Darren starts by saying that dreams saved his life and his marriage and gives examples of how. He says dreaming and psychedelics both offer inner revelations, and he shares ideas about how to bring such inner revelations into everyday waking life. He gives examples of how addressing emotional aspects helped patients who were dealing with issues of chronic pain. We take a call from Marlena from Santa Cruz who shares several images including an unfolding blue house, a papaya shaped liked a vagina and the word riparian over and over. BIO: Dr. Darren Jakubec has a bachelor of science and a medical doctorate. He has been trained in family medicine and in anesthesia at four different universities in Canada and lives and practices in northern British Columbia. Darren has hosted, attended or facilitated at least 12 dreamwork retreats and has also done personal inner work for most of his life. Darren has had dreamwork clients for over 10 years and practices dream work in his pain clinic, in his ketamine clinic, in the emergency room and in the hallways and rooms of the hospital where he works. Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on January 7, 2023.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.

Can dreams trigger personal alchemy? We talk to Kat Appleby about her own process, which started with a dream fragment that triggered a major somatic experience which lasted for months and turned into an ancestral memory from an enslaved ancestor. Kat shares with us how, over the last few years, her dreams have led (and are leading) her through a process of learning about her own divinity. She shares dreams of water, fire, rage, snakes, dancing women and more snakes. We talk about cultivating a practice of growing to trust yourself and how you can use ritual to explore your own dreams. We also touch into the idea of the psychoid. BIO: Katrina Appleby was a Certified Professional Dreamworker and a Mentor for the Institute of Dream Studies. Since the age of four Kat has been aware of the importance and power of dreams and dreamt often about snakes. She finds that it is indeed quite normal to meet Gods, Goddesses and power animals in her dreams. Kat joins us today from the UK. She is passionate about working with people and their dreams, especially with those that feel that they have a bigger purpose and calling and are looking to their dreams to find out which direction to take. Contact me to get in touch with our guest, or look for “The Giant’s Dreamers” on Facebook. Intro music is Water over Stones and outro music is Everything both by Mood Science. Today’s ambient music is created by Rick Kleffel. The audio can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick Kleffel for also engineering the show, to Tony Russomano for answering the phones and to Ewa Malady for audio editing. Show aired on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2022.   The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM, streaming live at KSQD.org 10-11am Saturday mornings Pacific time.  Catch it live and call in with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or at onair@ksqd.org. If you want to contact Katherine Bell with feedback, suggestions for future shows or to inquire about exploring your own dreams with her, contact katherine@ksqd.org, or find out more about her at ExperientialDreamwork.com. Available on all major podcast platforms. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal. Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Rate it, review it, subscribe and tell your friends.