If you have ever been to one of my dream meetings, you will almost always hear me say that snakes are about change, transformation especially at the beginning stages of change, but there is hardly another animal on the planet that evokes so much fear as a snake. Part of the problems with snakes is …
So suppose last night you were dreaming about having intimate relations with someone or that you just really gorged yourself or were taking illicit drugs. In real life or maybe even in the dream you might be feeling like you are doing something wrong. You may wake up feeling full of guilt for something inappropriate …
Last night I had the following dream. I was sitting on a dock by a lake or lagoon and put my hand in the water. Something grabbed my hand from under the water. It didn’t have sharp teeth, but seemed to have a strong grip. I was wondering what it was and then I pulled …
So here I am in my dream last night (early this morning) yelling at a young pre-adolescent girl for messing up some tables with a mixture of what seemed to be lipstick and paint. It seems like the activity is over and we are moving onto something else, but each time that the tables are …
Last night I had a dream in which I was getting a lot of kids to be involved with play, but then their were parents standing around and they kept getting in the way, and then in the next chapter of my dream I couldn’t find any of my things in the place where I …
When Baha’u’llah, the prophet founder of the Baha’i Faith, was teaching His Faith and revealing scriptures in the 19th century, the local Muslim clergy often became jealous of His might and power, which caused them to conjure up ways to discredit Him. One of the ways that the thought of was to challenge Him to …
As I wrote in the my last post, when people becomes abusive with power, they get so much into their animal selves that being in a relationship with them is really negative for both you and the abuser. The best thing to do is to leave the relationship until their justice in the environment. But …
In the last post I was writing about not being in someone else’s nightmare but being able to live in your best energy as if your life were a dream come true. In Neuro-linguistic programming we have some ways to help people out of this bind so I thought that I would write a procedure …
So here we are, Debby and I, in a local Chinese Restaurant located at Mile 6 outside of the city of Sandakan, in the Malaysian territory of Sabah on the island of Borneo. The couple we are with are from Indian ancestry, having grown up Malaysia, and realizing that when a person cannot take a …
Last night I had a dream that took me back to elementary school. The dream was pretty vague but it left me with one of the difficulties that I had growing up in that era which probably still exists in this era. The dream recalled memories of some students who were not extremely intelligent, had …
It seems to me that a large percentage of the current problems we are having in our world come from taking things that are meant to be deep and metaphorical in a literal and shallow way. We see it most often in fundamentalist religion’s ability to convince large numbers of people that scripture is meant …
“Aren’t a lot of dreams just meaningless firings of the brain?” This is a question that I have heard at least 100 times in dream meetings or private conversations. Whenever the question is asked, my first inclination is to ask the person how their own life is so meaningless, but it is a bit abrupt …
Someone asked the other day when I was doing a presentation on dreams to some young people if I thought that the books about dreams that tell you what each thing means are worth buying. I told her that it can be problematic because most books don’t teach you how to read a dream and …
What does it mean when someone appears in your dream? If you have read my postings in the past, you know that I believe strongly that dreams are given to us so that we can become more of our true selves by developing new qualities and processes. One thing most people have not thought about …
What should you do when you have a dream with animals? When there is a snake, a dog, a shark, an eagle, a deer, how do you regard these symbols? Dreams with animals in them are always about developing specific spiritual qualities like courage, playfulness, strength, humility, and joy. As soon as an animal appears …
Most of the cultures and religions in the world have classified spiritual energy into four categories which are the heart, mind, body, and spirit. Jesus said, for instance, that we should love God with all of our heart, mind, spirit, and strength. In dream language or mythological language such as in native stories the four …
“I was going down stairs to get some water. On the way down a statue of cats came alive and were staring at me. Down stairs there were two purple jaguars circling around me. Om my chair there was a sleeping lady with Ron from Harry Potter. wrapped around her arms and Ron said, “If …
Sabah is a federal territory of Malaysia, not a state in its own right. It is like the Yukon or the how the Northwest Territories used to be in Canada. It, like Sarawak is located on the northern part of the island of Borneo which Malaysia shares with Indonesia. We arrive in Kota Kinabalu, K.K. …
“About a week ago I dreamt that I was flying and then I went on an amazing adventure and it was so wonderful. And then suddenly, in my dream, I went back home and something terrible happened. It woke me up and when I tried to go back to sleep and remember the great adventure, …
Not long ago I received this communication from someone who I have never met. Hi, I am from Ohio. Something very strange happened to me…….I had various dreams last night and in one dream there was a guy named Richard Hastings(that’s me). Richard Hastings had told my husband the world was ending soon (“didn’t you …
It is hard to imagine another place in the world that has suffered as much since the 1970s as our neighbor to the North, Cambodia. Barely a decade has passed since the series of invasions and the horrific civil war have ended. As we are flying into Siem Reap (literally Siam Defeated) my expectation is …
Last night in my sleep I dreamt that I was on a path in an unknown place trying to get somewhere. I don’t quite remember where I was going, but it was a social event. Along the way I ran into an abandoned 5 year old who was drinking beer and begging for money from …
It is not surprising to me that after I wrote my last post about Godzilla and the principle of opposition that, without having read the post, someone sent me an account of their 3 year old child’s nightmare with a dinosaur. The dream is as follows. “I dreamed that a dinosaur was chasing me – …
In Chapter 11 of Dreams for Peace, (see Hastings) Godzilla comes into someone’s house causing panic and huge fear where everyone ends up fleeing for their lives. Some don’t make it. It is easy enough when you are doing the initial dream analysis to see that the dreamer is running away from a perceived fear …
I am not sure if many people have reflected on this question on where God is, so I decided to throw out a few thoughts to share some of my observations. What I have observed is that the location of God seems to move around according to the cultural context. In the Judeo-Christian culture that …
One of my little addictions is watching war documentaries on various history channels. I have seen a lot of people die on TV. I think it has to do with the fact that I am always trying to do new things that require facing the enemy of tradition. Today, I watched a show about World …
When I first began teaching in 1975 there was a huge counter movement to what I had been studying at one of the most progressive schools of education for that time period, the University of North Dakota. The counter movement was called “Back to Basics” which capitalized on the mistakes of the progressive movements so …
Last April my wife and traveled to Vietnam. So here I am in the middle of Hanoi about 9 am in the morning faced with the challenge of crossing a busy street with 2 million motorcycles and no traffic lights. This could possibly be a North American’s worst nightmare because in the U.S. pedestrians have …
Isn’t it interesting that we use the word dream both for when we dream of doing something in the future and also for the stories that we receive while we are sleeping? They are not all that different. Many people love the waking dream of flying off to many different countries. When I am flying …
Last night I dreamt that I was downtown at a movie theatre with my wife. While I was trying to choose what to watch, I got separated from her because she went to the washroom. The longer the dream went on, the more it became apparent that the choices were really bad, mostly horror type …
Richard Hastings is an expert in change work and dream work and author of Dreams for Peace. He is a Baha'i and currently lives in Vancouver, BC. Read more...
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