DREAMSCAPES

Do you enjoy re-creating your dreamscapes within everyday reality?  Magical tapestries and wisps of incense smoke playfully dancing in the morning breeze.  Spectacularly ornate altars, emerging from counter tops, window sills, and sacred garden spaces.  Draping yourself in silk and playing among the ravens and crickets at twilight.  I find it beneficial to my body, speech, and mind, to create an atmosphere of beauty, magic, and wonder around myself.  As a result, my kids praise my magical feats and my home comfortably serves as a nursery and temple simultaneously.  With joy and confidence, I am able to transform my dreams into reality.

 

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” ~Buddha

 

My son has always loved to talk about his dreams.  I love nurturing his desire to recreate scenes from his imagination.  Whether it is building a fort, designing a block castle, or painting his face with his inner vision, Maddox joyfully blends dream with reality.  I consciously support this melding of  inner and outer visions and the ability to create our unseen realities in the material world.  I strongly believe that by strengthening our imaginations and joining our waking/dreaming realities, we are able to develop critical "creative" abilities.  This form of critical thinking will help us develop new solutions to problems ranging from personal depression to global catastrophes. 

It is true that the external is a reflection of the internal.  I have been refining my shrine and temple building skills since I was a child.  Now as an adult, I incorporate it into my art, everyday fashion, and domestic chores. A few secrets - 

1.  Clean  up your temple.  Go thru old closets, boxes, file cabinets, etc.  Get rid of everything you really don't need.  Why do you have pay stubs from 1998?  A forgotten picture of an old lover?  An expired AAA card?  A shirt that you haven't worn in 3 years?  Why?  You don't need that stuff.  Clean up your space, clean up your mind. You will dream better.  You will think better.  You will find it easier now to recreate your dreamscapes and live in a magical reality.
2.  Take inventory. Now that you have cleaned up a bit, see what magical objects are around you.  Re-imagine them, if necessary, into things you wish to create.  Transforming your child's bedroom from a toddler's nursery to a "big kids" room?  You probably have everything you need if you look around the house.  Imagination and creativity are key, not money.  Try to re-purpose items as much as possible. THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX.
3.  Collect scarves.  Scarves can serve as: headwraps, capes, bandages, spit up cloths, belts, tops, slings, alter cloths, unexpected birthday gifts, window/wall hangings, wrapping paper, handkerchief, a form of entertainment, and many other things. Collect many of them in beautiful colors, textures, and patterns.
4.   Find magical friends for yourself and your children.  We are what we think.  A group of positive, like minded people is very powerful.  Lets engage with others that respect and honor our roles as magical mothers. Lets abandon relationships that are not serving our goals as responsible parents and stewards of the Earth.
5. Don't hold back.  You are a Goddess!  THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!!! Manifest your dreams!  Indulge your child's imagination.  Indulge your own imagination.  Have fun!  Laugh a lot!

Here are a few examples of my favorite "dreamscape" artists.  If you have time please check them out.  It is very worthwhile "screen" time in my opinion.  These artists are amazing!

Korean artist Jee Young Lee
Queenie Liao
Vivian Masters - The Dreamscape Project