In this first episode of a four-part series on Visions, Dreams, Hallucinations and Nightmares, Shamanic practitioner and teacher Dory Cote addresses questions about how the human spirit is communicating with us in times when we are not engaged in thinking.
This podcast answers the following questions:
1. A listener recently asked “I have a lot of dreams that seem so real that they don’t feel like a dream but more like something that is actually happening. Do you have any ideas to share about that?” [0:36]
2. You began to answer this next question already—which is,
“Please explain what happens to our spirit when we are sleeping.” Do you have anything more to say about that? [3:55]
3. If what you say is true and our spirit is sometimes wandering around while we are sleeping, how can we be sure it will return to us? [5:52]
4. Before we go to sleep can we ask our spirit guides to let us experience a vision? [10:00]
5. What if we do not want to have these visions? What can we do about it? [11:15]
6. When I have been under extreme stress and doing intense meditation or prayer, I have experienced an open-eyed vision when I wasn’t sleeping—almost an answer to the prayer. Is that coming from the same source as the walkabout visions that you are speaking about? [13:53]
7. When someone is either experiencing either dementia or is in the death and dying process, they often see people on the other side. When my father was dying he was seeing visions of being a judge at a court near a river and it was very clear he was seeing and experiencing people in his courtroom pleading life issues that was not in the middle earth environment where his body was. Would you call that a vision, and is this part of spirit working to free from the body? [16:11]
8. This completes our prepared questions. Is there anything else you would like to add about this topic? [18:16]
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