Voice Dreams
“It is
said that disembodied voice dreams may occur at any time but
particularly when a soul is in distress; then the deep self cuts to
the chase, so to speak. Bang! A [person's] soul speaks. And it tells
us what comes next.”
Clarissa
Pinkola Estes (Women Who Run with the Wolves, p. 277)
Have you ever had a
night-dream in which a voice spoke without being attached to an
image? Sometimes, it is just the calling of your name. But the voice
that calls your name is one you will never forget. I recall a dream I
had as a young woman when my family of origin was in the midst of one
of their many snarls. As with a lot of families, when two people were
angry with each other, rather than speaking directly to the person
with whom they had the beef, they triangulated others into the
quarrel. More often than not, those internal family conflicts turned
into two warring camps who talked among themselves, but not to each
other unless it was to hurl insults and accusations. You may have had
some experience with this in your own life.
This particular quarrel
involved my father and my grandfather, who were less than fond of one
another. My dad kept telling me what I needed to say to my
grandfather and to my mother, who was defending her father in the
quarrel. In the midst of this family conflagration, I had a voice
dream in which I was told, “You must change the paradigm.” Very
clear, very straight forward, except for the fact that I had no idea,
being young and ignorant, what the word paradigm meant. Apparently
knowing this, the voice had said the word so that I could hear the
silent g in the middle. So I looked it up in the dictionary. Then, I
told my father that if he had a issue with my grandfather, he needed
to talk to him and work it out—that telling me and expecting me to
take care of the problem was not fair, and would not work. He had to
man-up and take care of it himself. Of course, that was not what he
wanted to hear, but it did change the paradigm.
Voice dreams are direct
communications from the soul. As such, they require serious
attention. If you have such a dream in which only your name is
called, consider yourself “called” in the Biblical sense.
Remember the Old Testament story of Samuel, the child who was given
to the temple as a gift by his grateful mother? (1 Samuel 3) He heard
his name called three times, and thinking Eli was calling him, he ran
to see what the old priest wanted. But it was not Eli calling. It was
“the Lord,” which is to say, the voice of God within—the soul.
This is not to say that should you hear your name called in a
night-dream, you must go out on the mountainside to live as a hermit
and preach to the children! But it does mean that you're called to
live from your soul, and not from your personality. When you fall
into chaos, your soul will speak directly to you. It will pull you up
and set your feet back on the path. Your responsibility is to
listen—and follow directions.
In the Spirit,
Jane
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