Project Research:

1.) Guided Imagery:

To begin the dreamwork process, non-interpretive guided imagery has been employed just prior to sleep to set the stage. The concept is to do the dreamwork while in the sleeping state of consciousness.

The image used was typical: a meadow surrounded by forest with a large chair in the middle of the meadow.

During the actual dream sequence, it may be significant that no one sat in the chair. It was empty. The concept of the empty chair is a powerful symbol. Presente y Siempre

This intial step has become a proverb search. It defines parameters for the anomalous experience.  That can be seen as a kind of rough roadmap. The dream continued.

* Project Principle 1: A powerful and frightening proverbial phrase was conveyed: "Before the end of the world, the birds shall die."

That proverb was interpreted, upon waking, from the Spanish word for a particular bird: la paloma. The word has a double meaning in Spanish because it is also a term of endearment for women. It may refer to The Dead Women of Juárez.

Chilean MACHIS Support: Photo credit: http://galeon.hispavista.com 

* Project Principle 2: The second session produced the proverb: "Trust me, I know what I am doing." Apparently the group leader is not this researcher (Lindblom)! That feels appropriate as especially in Lucid Dreamwork, there is a question of abuse of control. Thereby, the non-interpretive method shall be applied sans control issues wherever possible.

The waking reaction to the principle was that it was true for all concerned: actually we do know what we are doing even in the astounding circumstance of quite uncharted waters! 

The control, thereby, shall be elsewhere to be defined as we go. Who has the control? 

2.) The second step in the dreamwork process was to devise a method based on the non-interpretive method work of Montague Ullman and Stanley Krippner. Again, the dreamwork was to be accomplished while in the sleeping state of consciousness.

The Ullman Dream Appreciation Process (DAP):

"1) A dreamer volunteers and tells a dream in detail. Others may only interrupt to ask clarifying (non-interpretive) questions.

 2) Others take the dream as their own, speaking of it as if they had actually dreamed it. They suggest what the dream might mean for them. The dreamer listens without participating.

 3) The dream is officially returned to its original creator. The dreamer may respond to everyone else's input, and may share her/his own insights.

 4) The dreamer thinks further about the dream, and reports (at a later time) any additional insights."

http://www.dreamtree.com/Resources/Methods.htm

3.) The third step in the dreamwork process was to devise a method based on the work of

Lucid Crossroads

"The Lucid Crossroads is a non physical location, open to all who can recall the visual representation and directions to the Crossroads when in certain states of consciousness. This might be regular dreaming but most people are encouraged to visit whilst in a lucid dream, astral projecting or other states that create or simulate the actual or illusion of a mobility of consciousness.

Accomplished lucid dreamers and astral projectors can use the Crossroads as a calming place to stabilize lucid or astral state before choosing a door through which to access a lucid dream or astral location of their choice.

The website http://www.lucidcrossroads.co.uk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_crossroads

Again, the dreamwork was undertaken while in the sleeping state of consciousness. 

4.) Dream Telepathy

Using a non-interpretive method, dream elements from other's consciousness shall be allowed to enter the dream sequence. "...how one person could transfer thoughts to another while the second person was sleeping, thereby influencing the second person's dreams." http://www.espresearch.com/dreamtelepathy/

See" Dream Telepathy by Montague Ullman, M.D. and Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. with Alan Vaughan

* General Principle "As Gardner Murphy said in his forword, this book "takes a giant step into the unknown."

ψ That principle, a giant step, shall become part of this research process. The unknown, if not the unknowable, shall be what is discovered: the concept of the unknowable known (Ain Soph Aur)(Hebrew, Jewish). The Boundless Light which concentrates into the First and highest Sephira or Kether, the Crown.")

http://www.experiencefestival.com/ain

To see context, see the Kabbalah: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah

Jung, C.G. (1921) Psychological Types. CW 6. p. 344 or The Psychology of Individuation. London: K. Paul Trench Trubner.

(Collected Works Vol.6 ISBN 0691018138)

Jung C.G. (1971, 1976) , Psychological Types Bollingen Series XX, Volume 6. Princeton :Princeton University Press.

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Jung/types.htm

http://www.friesian.com/types.htm

5.) Interviews:

I am interviewing people (archtypes?) for participation in the dream table. (See page on this site named Weblog for details.) I am finding the concept of interviewing to be absurd. Who interviews for a dream table? It is uncomfortable. Further, I am not the only one who is interviewing.

 One interview is with Sandra Juarez.  It is one of The Dead Women of Juárez.

Presently, I am finding I am in another position with which I am uncomfortable. These so called "principles" are evolving. Since when is dreamwork for the evolution of principles? Further, I don't see their possible application. Where is the context? (Lindblom)

Project Principle 3: "This is the way this is and that is that."

Comment: Good grief, Charlie Brown! (Lindblom)

Project Principle 4: "Life is half of it."

Project Principle 5: "There can be more than one number one."

6.) Scoring:

Casto Spirituality Scoring System,

Hall/Van de Castle.

University of California Santa Cruz:

http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Coding/index.html

Click on one of the following links to see the rules for coding that dream element:

• Characters
• Social Interactions
  • Aggression
  • Friendliness
  • Sexuality
• Activities (walking, talking, seeing, thinking, etc.)
• Success and Failure
• Misfortune and Good Fortune
• Emotions
• Settings
• Objects
• Descriptive Elements (modifiers, time, negatives)

http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Coding/index.html

http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/

Resources for Scientists:

http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/resources.html

Hall/Van de Castle system:

• All major indicators for the main content categories

• Characters
• Aggression
• Friendliness
• Sexuality
• Activities
• Success & Failure
• Misfortune & Good Fortune
• Emotions
• Settings
• Objects
• Descriptive Modifiers
• Negatives, Temporal References, Food & Eating

http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Norms/index.html

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The DreamBank is a collection of dream reports

http://www.dreambank.net/

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"We analyzed 28 dreams from Sigmund Freud and 31 from Carl Jung." http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Findings/freud-jung.html

• Introduction
• Definition of a Character
  • Codeable Items
  • Noncodeable Items
• Classes of Characters
  • Number
  • Gender
  • Identity
  • Age
• Coding the Characters
• Metamorphoses
• Additional Coding Rules
• Summary of Coding Symbols

http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Coding/characters.html

7.) Meta-analyses:

The Dead Women of Juárez

See: http://juarez.bravehost.com

8.) As the project is in a discovery phase, trial facts shall be found and tested for reliability and validity. (That method can be seen in the writings of John Dewey.)

9.) The issue of training has arisen. The members of the dream table team need training. A shall be devised for that. A trial fact way is to use the methodologies of Carlos Casteneda adapted to a Mapuche not a Yaqui cultural way.

* Disclaimer: For the dreamwork, a series of

search and discovery methodologies

were employed. These steps in discovery are presented as being a linear and non-interpretive method progression. The actual undertaking may not be as linear.  If that is the case, it shall be disclosed as we go.

Project Website: http://juarez.bravehost.com