Dream Your Self into Being. Bonnie Bahira Buckner

verified my inner voice.

      Lonnie is a dear friend to this day. He is also the friend who financed the building restoration company I mentioned in the last chapter. He and I also co-founded a company that put me in the maelstrom of politics at a national level. But both of these ventures came much later. It was clear that the initial spark with Lonnie meant we had things to do together, just not that original job at the studio.

      Intuition is a part of dreaming. I learned about it by experiencing it, and then I developed my facility with it doing the dream work with Catherine.

      Bodily signs are an integral part of intuition and dreaming. As Catherine would often say: In-Tuition: learning within. Dreaming is the language of the body. Our spiritual body is housed in our physical body, thus our experiencing is through that specific lens of what we take in through our senses, and how our body responds to this information (in-formation). Thus, knowing how the body moves in response to images and feelings is very important.

      In my untrained days, I could only say that I felt “light” or “dark” about job possibilities. As I trained, I learned that I have specific movements and feelings all through my body in response to experience. For example, when I hear a truth I feel a silver, sparkling electric “wiggle” up and down the middle of my chest like unzipping a zipper, and when I make a shift an expansion occurs in the middle of my chest. These feelings are signposts and they often precede physical manifestation, which is one reason they are integral to intuition. I will talk about how to map the body in this way in “Part II.”

      Responding to intuition, as I’ve described in this chapter, often means going against conventional thinking. Dreaming requires us to make brave choices, like I did in saying no to the offers from the TV station and Lonnie. Selfhood is a brave endeavor. Making choices from our innermost Self, however, ultimately brings much greater rewards.

      In the previous chapter, I described a dream of my father’s in which he sees himself clearly finding the knife he thought he had lost. By asking his dream he stepped into a deeper, more knowing part of the Self. My grandmother extended that by showing me that dreams also allow us to connect with others. They can connect us in the way that my grandmother knew to bake the cake for Uncle Charles, as well as in the way that she would meet with family in dreams. Dreaming, I came to understand, is both individual and communal. It is access to the dream field where connections and movements outside of time can occur. Intuition is a part of dreaming, and dreaming begets intuition.

       Lesson Seven:

       Dreaming is both individual and communal. It connects us to the deepest, knowing part of the Self, and also connects us to others. We stay in relationship by responding to our dreams.