About a week ago I was at the UNHCR building in Kuala Lumpur working with a group of English translators from Myanmar on the subject of dreams. My wife had invited me to the class because she teaches them higher level English a couple of times a week. As in most of my dream meetings …
I don’t remember my dreams. In all of the dream meetings that I have done in the past 15 years this is the statement I hear the most often. How can I remember my dreams better? Why don’t I remember my dreams? I don’t dream. Here are some things that might help. 1. Dreams are …
Act in accordance with the counsels of the Lord: that is, rise up in such wise, and with such qualities, as to endow the body of this world with a living soul, and to bring this young child, humanity, to the stage of adulthood. So far as ye are able, ignite a candle of love …
Early this week Debby and I spent 3 days among the aboriginal people of Malaysia, the Orang Asli. In Malay the word orang means people and asli which original. An orangutan literally translated means a person of the forest. Many of the Orang Asli live in an area known as the Cameron Highlands which is …
My Short History of Abandonment Up and until 1997 I never had an employer who deliberately abandoned me. Mind you I have had a lot of moments of incompetence as probably most people do, but no one ever asked me to leave my job. Then, when I felt I was getting really great results in …
In almost every dream meeting that I have facilitated, I have always gotten the same recurring question. “Why can’t I remember my dreams?” I have answered this question in multiple ways which all have some validity to them. Forgetting your dreams has a lot of to do with attention. We know from research on memory …
A couple of nights ago I had two dreams related to the effects on me of other people’s jealousy. In the first dream someone who was part of my past had been accused of a murder and the clues of the murder were left in the food lying around. Not long after that in the …
Dost thou reckon thyself only a puny form When within thee the universe is folded? The Seven Valleys and Four Valleys. Baha’u’llah Last night in my dream I was at a beach somewhere it seems like California. I went into the water and before me were these huge waves of the crushing type so I …
The other night I was in the city of Puchong doing a meeting on Dreams with a group of about 10 people. One of the women there had lost her husband to cancer a few months back. As I was speaking to her about her dreams and about her self, it was just so apparent …
So here I am in the middle of someone else’s living room with a group of people I have never met before except for one or two. I am in a country that is thousands of kilometers away from my country of birth They have been invited by the host to a presentation on “Becoming …
“So far as ye are able, ignite a candle of love in every meeting, and with tenderness rejoice and cheer ye every heart. Care for the stranger as for one of your own; show to alien souls the same loving kindness ye bestow upon your faithful friends.” Abdu’l Baha (Baha’i Writings) So in my …
The National Geographic Channel as well as Animal Planet have a few shows featuring a wonderful adventurer photographer (what a great job) named Austin Stevens. He had a whole series of shows on tracking down and photographing the 10 most deadly snakes in the world and then reframing the experience for us so that we …
Yesterday was an extremely trying day for me in the development of detachment. I mean here I was going along fine and making great progress in my mind with the virtue. I actually could begin to see myself doing stuff. And then I went to this horrible meeting where it was all about a couple …
So there I am last night on the golf course playing a round of golf. That is all I remember. Sometime later I am with Michael Moore, the documentary maker, Farenheit 911, Sicko, etc.. Both dreams are a mixture of positive and negative so it lets me that whatever the issue is inside, I have …
Recently I was doing marriage counseling with a couple who had been separated for a few months, had gotten back together and now were looking for some ways to preserve their marriage. I have to admit that I was really reluctant to see them as a couple, which is a practice I normally don’t do …
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 …
These are some of the things that I have found very helpful in the change process. 1. The process of change is never ending because the spiritual dimension to life is infinite. This means that there is always limitless potential to actualize. 2. The best kind of transformation occurs by submitting to what the Creator …
Well I am starting to actually learn a few new lessons about working with authority and it is paying off. I was thinking today that it is a like like running the hurdles. The best hurdlers have such smooth form that the hurdle motion is a real thing of beauty. They don’t fight the hurdles, …
Last night Debby and I hosted a meeting in our home with about 15 people on the topic of encouragement so I thought I would share a few thoughts about it especially the questions. The nice thing about organizing a meeting in your home and inviting people to it is that only the people who …
Earlier this morning, when I went out for one of my normal midweek holiday runs toward KL’s Lake Gardens, an interesting question made its way into my head. The question was this. Is there a place you can go where all of the changes that you want to make in yourself already exist? What was …
Not too long ago I found myself in a bit of hellish feeling in the midst of paradise. So here I am sitting in a meeting talking about facilitating young people’s experiences, but right next to me is a person who seems a bit out of place. I can sense her discomfort, perhaps boredom. It …
For the longest time I have been dealing with my own development by focusing my attention on two types of character origins. The first has to do with the issues that arise out of the issues that come from family because we all inherit strengths and weaknesses and it is the job of the current …
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 …
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 …
I like to reserve Sunday mornings for my long runs so today I decided that it was time that I give myself a challenge by upping the distance to 21 k. I haven’t run 21k for awhile, but I have been gradually increasing my activity level in the last few weeks so when that happens, …
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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