Dreaming The World To Come

With Sara McFarland and Bell Selkie Lovelock

January 23, 30, Feb 6, 13 2025

weekly, from 11:30-1:30MST/1:30-3:30 EST/7:30-9:30CET

When we can understand animals, we will know the change is halfway.
When we can talk to the forest, we will know that the change has come.
-Andrew Joe, Skagit Tribe, Washington

What if we are part of Earth’s dreaming; past, present and future? What if our gift of being human in these times is to offer our personal and collective deep imagination to Earth’s vision? Instead of knowing what will come and making plans and resolutions for the new year, we invite you to risk following your heart into the depths of the questions: 

What is Earth up to in and through these times of crises and collapse? 

How might we dream with Earth, the world to come?

What is a dream? There is the dream that visits us at night or in a sacred vision, and the dream that is our imagination expressed through our creativity. And there is the dreaming, the way humans are interwoven with life through space and time, in our own human ancestries and also other-than-human and place ancestries. We could say that Earth is dreaming us; through us and as us. We are part of and within Earth’s dreaming, which includes all creatures, and that our dreams arise directly from the dreaming of Earth. Dreams are like love letters from Life and Earth to our Souls that we might overhear.

As we re-member ourselves as part of Earth’s body and the dreaming we call Life, we awaken to the potential in our dreams. As we begin to remember our own dreams by deepening into the world of the dream and the emotions and aliveness within them, we let them guide us, rather than interpreting them. Bringing a dream from the night world into the day world, we dream into living a soulcentric life. This way of being in the world shifts the consciousness of our waking world into a deeper, more mysterious and soulful way of being. This changes the choices we make and the ways we are in relationship with our web of relationships across all strands- self, other human, wild others and unseen ones. When this happens, we can begin to listen to Earth's dreaming and center the wild voices of our world and our souls; rather than the feeding the consumerist habits of numbing and distraction, we feed Life and the Holy Wild.

We begin in the darker part of the seasonal year, with night dreams and as we circle towards the spring we will look at the ways Earth’s dream can be courted and amplified using nature-based Tarot and other divination practices. We will explore how we remember dreams, seed dreams and let the dream “work us” (rather than working on a dream). We will learn how to listen and understand their messages, both personally and collectively and how might we be guided in these times by the deep time/the dream time. And over the weeks each of us will open to experiencing how each of us uniquely might co-create the dream of this world with Earth.

Practices will include:

• Dream council
• Dream work- telling the dream, movement, expressive arts etc.;
• Seeding dreams to invite conversation with Soul and Mystery;
• Co-dreaming with Earth in these times of collapse;
• Letting ourselves be guided by Earth;
• Shared dreaming with the other participants;
• Working with nature-based Tarot;
• Inviting Earth to write through us;
• Dream deep imagination journeys and more...

Dates: January 24, 31 and February 7, 14 2025
Time: 11:30-1:30MST/1:30-3:30 EST/7:30-9:30CET
Venue: Online
Cost: Sliding scale of 125 to 225 Pounds