Why have we come here? What is this world? What is our purpose here? Have you ever shaken your fists screaming at the stars, or down to the Earth, or to the graves of your ancestors, or to the deities on your altar or to the hollow-feeling air... insisting for answers to the Great Mystery we incarnated into?

This episode is a dream, one that came through my (Lauren's) dream door where I was visited by the Great Bear constellation who gave me a riddle of an answer to these timeless soul-wrenching questions that plague us all.

Does dreaming solve the human experience? No. But does dreaming open our hearts, expand our creative capacity and satisfy our longing to be purposeful, helpful and a part of it all? Yes.

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• Check out the library of courses at Herbs and Dreams on Kajabi
• Grab a copy of Lauren's book on Amazon Seasonal Herbalism: The Beginner's Path to Medicine Making and Dreaming with Mother Earth
• Learn about the magic and power of dreams with Lauren's DREAMWEAVERS: FOUNDATIONS Course, delivered all on audio to listen on the go as works with your flow. Use the coupon PODCAST to receive 25% off.

This episode is actually the first lesson in my Dreamweavers: Foundations Course. I'm offering it here for free because if you just implement what you learn here - it can change the course of your life for the better.

I begin by setting the scene around where we are at in this collective moment: dreamers who have by and large, forgotten they came to this world with the power to dream.

We explore how dreaming is the final frontier in human consciousness - one of the last strongholds of terrain where our consciousness is not tracked, exploited and commodified in this age of algorithms. By turning towards our dreams we are making a declaration to these forces - NO! We are going to maintain our ability to dream the future.

We explore how, as Albert Einstein said, we cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it. And this precise reason is WHY we need to dream - to find solutions to the many problems faced by the collective mind that has created the problems we are currently at the consequence of.

We will explore how the first step in our dreamweaving journey is to cultivate healthy soil on which to build the foundation of our dreamweaving practice. So we explore beliefs to help grow this healthy soil - beliefs that are free from the overculture's grasp such as

dreams grow soul

dreams are love letters from source

dreams are a connection to the web of life and all of nature

dreams are messages from God.

We introduce the concept that in order for them to grow, dreams require our curiosity, interest and devotion.

Want to Dive Deeper? If you like what you're hearing and want to dive deeper... check out the other ways to continue grounding into the path of dreamweaving in kinship with herbs below.

• Check out the website at www.herbsanddreams.com
• Check out the library of courses at Herbs and Dreams on Kajabi
• Grab a copy of Lauren's book on Amazon Seasonal Herbalism: The Beginner's Path to Medicine Making and Dreaming with Mother Earth
• Learn about the magic and power of dreams with Lauren's DREAMWEAVERS: FOUNDATIONS Course, delivered all on audio to listen on the go as works with your flow. Use the coupon PODCAST to receive 25% off.

Randy Morris is an elder, ritualist and Professor Emeritus of Antioch University. A gifted teacher and weaver of story, Randy is the perfect person to introduce us to the Dream of the Earth. He dives right into teaching us that the Dream of the Earth communicates to us through our instincts, feelings, synchronicities, waking visions and nighttime dreams. These are instructions from her on what is ours to do to heal the whole system, which is her whole body.

In this time of collective initiation, the dark night of the species soul, where as Randy says, no less than a new human is being born... dreams are here for us. Randy has been walking with dreams for 50+ years. He says dreams have never let him down, proving time again that they love us unconditionally and want us to do the work that we were sent here to do. Dreams are the best compass he's found to figuring out why he came. I couldn't agree more.

Randy spent early years in Hiroshima, Japan where it became crystal clear to him that all we do affects future generations. Since then his life has been fueled by a prayer to support future generations. His life is an inspiration and testament to what's possible for us all. Enjoy!

To Continue Connecting with Randy Morris...

• Check out his website www.randymorrisphd.net
• And the other fabulous organizations he's an integral part of:
  • Rite of Passage Journeys (www.riteofpassagejourneys.org)
  • Sage-ing International (www.sage-ing.org)
  • C.G. Jung Society, Seattle (www.jungseattle.org)

Want to Dive Deeper? If you like what you're hearing and want to dive deeper... check out the other ways to continue grounding into the path of dreamweaving in kinship with herbs below.

• Learn about the magic and power of dreams with Lauren's DREAMWEAVERS: FOUNDATIONS Course, delivered all on audio to listen on the go as works with your flow. Use the coupon PODCAST to receive 25% off.
• Check out the website at www.herbsanddreams.com
• Check out the library of courses at Herbs and Dreams on Kajabi

No dream ever means just one thing, and yet our task as awake humans on the other side of dreaming's door is to seek, make, and ultimately weave a meaning that is helpful and soulful into this world. How do we go about figuring out what dreams mean? This episode covers the ever-important AHA! of dreamwork. When we are consulting the Council Table of Life, our bodies inform us of when we are in the presence of truth, resonance and the flow of Spirit.

Learn about the magic and power of dreams with Lauren's DREAMWEAVERS: FOUNDATIONS Course, delivered all on audio to listen on the go as works with your flow. Use the coupon PODCAST to receive 25% off.

Want to Dive Deeper? If you like what you're hearing and want to dive deeper... check out the other ways to continue grounding into the path of dreamweaving in kinship with herbs below.

• Check out the website at www.herbsanddreams.com
• Check out the library of courses at Herbs and Dreams on Kajabi

Many herbalists know Comfrey's other common name Knit Bone... but have we paused to consider what this means on the other-than-physical layers of our being? In this episode we explore 3 different dreams featuring Comfrey to flush out just how deeply this plant knits and reweaves the threads of creation.

Want to Dive Deeper? If you like what you're hearing and want to dive deeper... check out the other ways to continue grounding into the path of dreamweaving in kinship with herbs below.

• Check out our website at www.herbsanddreams.com
• Check out our library of courses at Herbs and Dreams on Kajabi
• Grab a copy of Lauren's book on Amazon Seasonal Herbalism: The Beginner's Path to Medicine Making and Dreaming with Mother Earth
• Reach out directly to support@herbsanddreams.com

Receive teachings and inspiration from wisdom keeper Dr. Deborah Frances Dancing Crow on how to align with the flow of life. Dancing Crow begins by exploring how we are quite a complainy culture... and stresses the importance of giving thanks. She shares a gratitude ceremony involving water and the four directions, counseling us to greet the sun every morming, giving thanks to the rising sun and feeding the spirits.

Dancing Crow shares her story from 1999 when Spirit suddenly and insistently told her in a visionary state that "in the coming times it is absolutely critical to Dream the Good Dream. No matter how dire things may seem environmentally, politically, socially and personally... it is absolutely important to Dream Beauty." She shares how the plant hawthorn can help us open our hearts to relationship with Nature and All of Life.

For the world to heal, she says, we MUST connect to our hearts. Nature is the place to practice vulnerability and authenticity. It is the place our hearts will be healed. Any time in the presence of this beloved Earth elder is a precious gift, and this episode is no exception. Enjoy!

Want to Dive Deeper with Dancing Crow?

• Check out her website at www.drdeborahfrances.com where she offers shamanic consultations, naturopathic and herbal consultations, recorded teachings and more.
• Grab a copy of her book Practical Wisdom in Natural Healing: Sage Advice for Modern Times

Want to Dive Deeper with Lauren? If you like what you're hearing and want to dive deeper... check out the other ways to continue grounding into the path of dreamweaving in kinship with herbs below.

• Check out the website at www.herbsanddreams.com
• Check out the library of courses at Herbs and Dreams on Kajabi
• Grab a copy of Lauren's book on Amazon Seasonal Herbalism: The Beginner's Path to Medicine Making and Dreaming with Mother Earth

The fact that dreams "don't make sense" is often the reason people have grown a habit of forgetting instead of remembering. Most of us are used to a switch that is either on/off, awake/asleep... but dreams are not supposed to make sense to the rational mind. It's not their nature. They are non linear, irrational and multidimensional... all qualities that the waking executive function of the ego consciousness doesn't like. So we learn to forget.

One of our first tasks as dreamers is to learn to linger at the threshold of the dream door... with one foot in the realm of dream and one in the realm of awake. In this episode we flush out what Jeremy Taylor meant when he said "no dream comes to tell you what you already know, all dreams break new ground in terms of conscious awareness."

We explore how in those first few moments of awakening we might retrain our minds to tug the threads ofd reams across the dream door. The job of waking mind is to be "the scribe of dreams" - all we are doing is being in receptive catching mode. Dreams come from... everywhere and everyone else we are OTHER than exactly who we know ourselves to be when we are awake. We are always emerging into somewhere, growing in some direction. Dreams are an INCREDIBLE guide, oracle, arrow to where we are being called next and what it is that we are being called to do. Remember that the symbols in your dream are perfectly tailored, perfectly crafted for you, by you, to help you. The more random a dream symbol the more potentially transformative the symbol may be.

Want to Dive Deeper? If you like what you're hearing and want to dive deeper... check out the other ways to continue grounding into the path of dreamweaving in kinship with herbs below.

• Check out the website at www.herbsanddreams.com
• Check out the library of courses at Herbs and Dreams on Kajabi
• Grab a copy of Lauren's book on Amazon Seasonal Herbalism: The Beginner's Path to Medicine Making and Dreaming with Mother Earth
• Learn about the magic and power of dreams with Lauren's DREAMWEAVERS: FOUNDATIONS Course, delivered all on audio to listen on the go as works with your flow. Use the coupon PODCAST to receive 25% off.

Both paths of herbalism and dreaming, when done intentionally, bring us deeply into connection with the wisdom flowing through our bodies. This shortie explores what I call the 110% Safety Rule, and is rooted in listening to the body's wisdom. The rule goes like this: If you are not 110% sure that a choice you are making is good, safe and healthy then you are to stop: listen to wisdom, research and learn more before proceeding. This is true when we are doing plant identification, considering putting herbs in and on our bodies and more.

Want to Dive Deeper? If you like what you're hearing and want to dive deeper... check out the other ways to continue grounding into the path of dreamweaving in kinship with herbs below.

• Check out our website at www.herbsanddreams.com
• Check out our library of courses at Herbs and Dreams on Kajabi
• Grab a copy of Lauren's book on Amazon Seasonal Herbalism: The Beginner's Path to Medicine Making and Dreaming with Mother Earth
• Reach out directly to support@herbsanddreams.com