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Strephon Kaplan-Williams, international dreamwork expert, analyzes dreams and life situations for personal consciousness and effectiveness in life. Use for inspiration and perspective on self-development following the wisdom of your dreams.
Strephon gives the values he is committed to in giving his podcast talks out of his direct experience in working as a psychologist and teaching dreamwork for guidance in life. (20 minutes)Strephon says hello. I speak today on what I have to say about living life.If you don't know me or my books, or even if you have known me in your life, I want to speak to you personally as to why I am doing these talks.What people most know me as is a dream and dreamwork expert. I get the largest number of listeners and students when I teach how to work with your dreams for personal guidance and fulfillment in life. Yet, I say that I am also equally concerned about living other aspects of life such as relationships and consciousness awareness itself.I differ from many speakers in that I do not speak from the basis of a religion or set philosophy. I wear no costumes. I do not entertain with guru laughs and looks. I do not perform symbolic behavior such as rituals are. I am no guru of any sort. I have no followers, nor do I want any. I am no razzle-dazzle front man for new ideas to corporations and large groups of people. I live in almost total obscurity at the low income level, and mostly like it that way.I speak primarily from an individual psychological perspective. I am retired now from working as a psychotherapist and dreamwork teacher for twenty years in California and fifteen years in Europe, where I now live. I have always tried to be real in my work with people. This means also that I have kept working on myself so as to learn personally from working with others. These are my fundamental values.Now in my seventies I write books, do podcasts, reflect and live a simple life of retirement with my few friends and my consciousness, love partner. These talks are central to my new outreach.Here I am talking about myself, my personal ego and what it still wants in life when you probably want to know what you gain in inspiration and good insight from listening to what I have to say.Life does not just belong to the young. If you are young you might want to hear from certain older persons who have insights from living their own lives in the ups and downs that are existence.What maybe characterizes the aware young is their greater openness to living a full and open life as it comes.Is it true that you will talk openly about anything, and do things your parents and grandparents only dreamed of doing?Is it true that you want to live richly and accomplish important things in your life?Is it true you want to go beyond, maybe way beyond, you present self as you enter life and grow with it?Is it true you have less fear than your parents have, less need to just play it safe in life.As a psychotherapist in California and in Europe I have helped many of your parents' and grandparents' generation. Believe me, they had horrible problems, and maybe still do. Why, because they came out of a repressed society. The world wars and the Germans acting out was a symptom of what was already happening in almost every family in America and the Western world. Children should not speak unless spoken to, was one of the little rules every child was to adhere to. Imagine as a child not being able to speak freely at the table, and being hit and punished, and sent away from the table if you did so.These were the conditions under which your parents had to start their lives. They were all born into an ongoing war situation. The dominant attitude for a child to live under was that the parents were right and that the parents should decide what is right for their children. If the child tried to rebel and assert its own rights and needs, the parents would punish and do their best to win the power game with their own children. Horrible Horrible Horrible!I know it. You know it.You, you parents, your grandparents, were born into an ongoing war called the normal family. Thus I have worked all my adult life to help adults free themselves from their rigid and deadly pasts, to rid themsel
Transforming Nightmares helps us accept and deal with our fears, dealing with what we are afraid of . Why motivate your life by focusing on your fears and trying to make yourself safe? Deal with your fears and you will live a fulfilling life.Why do we dream nightmares? What do they show about ourselves? What must we face in ourselves and life to heal our nightmares, and thus ourselves?
Here is a dream shared on our Consciousness Forum, Dreamwork2000.com. All dreams shared there are to help individual dreamers and to educate the public.
Our view from experience with thousands of dreamers is that dreams are messages in imagery and action about our unconscious and emerging selves, best said in this statement: Every night we are in training with the Dream Source to make conscious our lives and live an integrated and meaningful life.
Here is our young woman dreamerâs nightmare in her own words.
She says: I often have nightmares that leave me afraid to fall asleep. I am searching for some answers and advice. Last night I had a nightmare about twin sisters, one black haired one blond. One evil and one good. Portions of the dream are vague but what I recall clearest was the ending. The women were supposed to be depending on one another. The black haired twin told the blond that she would watch her back, to go where it was safe. The black haired twin stabbed her in the back with a fork and then used a device to make her explode. It was very graphic; then the black haired twin ate the flesh that remained on the fork. My nightmares leave me covered in sweat, out of breath and terrified. I am afraid to go to sleep and ashamed of fear and the violence of the dreams. I am 26 years old, happily married with a very supportive husband and the mother of two beautiful boys. I would greatly appreciate any advice or just someone to listen who won't judge me. Thank you in advance.
The podcast deals with Strephon's analysis of the nightmare's issues and what to do about them by changing fundamental attitudes in ourselves.
Last Supper by Leonardo Da VinciDan Brown's Da Vinci Code is as true and as fictional as the Christianity's New Testament, points out Strephon in this talk about the value of truth in life. Strephon confronts the Church with its hiding the earliest Christian Documents in its Secret Archives. He praises Dan Brown for his courage to dramatize the Church's hiding the truth of who Jesus was. Strephon goes on to assert the value for each of us living from truth in our own lives. (22 minutes)Why is the Da Vinci Code so popular? Not, says Strephon, because it is a great work of fiction. It isn't. Yet it raises a great modern issue. The truth of Christianity and the Christian Church. Is the Church a cover-up of the true Jesus as a human being?Dan Brown dramatizes the issue. While it may be fiction that a secret organization of the Catholic Church kills people to keep hidden the truth about Jesus, it is true that this same Church just a few centuries ago killed over a million people in the name of protecting the Church's truth.Thus, Strephon points out the courage of Dan Brown to point to the dark side of the Christina Church. Strephon takes this courage to live the truth home to each of us. Are any of us hiding deep, dark secrets from those who relate to us and need to know? Do we ourselves live from truth and honesty in life, or from deception and making up stories?Strephon points out that Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is just as fictional and true as the Christian Church's The New Testament. Is it possible that The Christian Church is not facing the truth about its own fiction, and that the over sixty million readers of Dan Brown's book at least unconsciously know this fact?
The way not to love contrasted with the way to love. Getting clear on the reality of love can make a big difference in how you live your sex life. Strephon offers practical advice. (13 minutes)
This is Strephon's first podcast on the general theme of gaining self-awareness and development through working with ones dreams. (21 minutes)A dream is not necessarily meaningful in itself. It must be worked with and accepted by the dreamer as meaningful for the dream through its dreamwork to become meaningful. Strephon's approach to dreams and dreamwork is to watch carefully what you, the dreamer, are doing and not doing in your dream? We ask also, is your own behavior in the dream congruent or incongruent with the rest of the dream?The suggestion is that if you are in conflict or not related to other characters and dream events you will also in outer life have difficulties in being accepting and congruent with them and their situations.By following Strephon's podcasts you will be engaging in a consciousness course by experiencing the meaning of the dreams Strephon talks about as he developed their themes and wisdom aspects.Strephon Kaplan-Williams is an international expert on dreams and the new dreamwork, as reflected in his many books over the years. His best seller in America and other countries has been his The Dream Cards. However, his dreamwork manuals are the respected classics in the field used in college and university classes as well as by the general public.Now in retirement age Strephon gives his podcasts and continutes to write new books.For more of his perspective see www.dreamwork2000.com and its blogs.
Dying or coming back to life in dreams and life, as indicated by a dream. Strephon shows what to do about such a situation in the dream and in your life. Does the dream man come to life again or not? Should he be let go to die? (17 minutes)Dream shared at Consciousness Forum, dreamwork2000.comFriday, April 14, 2006 DreamI dreamed a man was in a casket...had been embalmed...I walked by and saw his body was lightly covered with fine , greyish ( like what looks like mice have been shredding). Apparently he had been in the casket a while... the shocker was this..as I was looking at the body he started opening his eyes...and they had the slimy stuff like fish's eyes... I was terrified but I still made a tremendous effort to get other's attention to say he must not be buried ...he's coming back!!! Then a white coated dr. scientist type woman came to me and said....No way ,,,we have never seen this actually happen and it's too late.... I gathered my friends and we hurried and pushed the casket thru an old maze like barn area where horses and cows were kept...we were going to hide him so they could not bury him...any comments?
See Consciousness Forum at www.dreamwork2000.com and the works of Strephon Kaplan-Williams, famous dreamwork psychologist and writer. Author of the best selling Dream Cards and other books on dreamwork.
How to work with your birthday dream for insight and guidance in the coming year. Strephon shares the significant dream he had during his seventy-second birthday. (15 minutes)Strephon's birthday dream to show the spiritual context within which he lives his life, based in part on following his dreams and in part on living the wisdom teachings of the historical Jesus.
A talk about handling the feeling memories of love nostagia for certain persons and experiences of the past, most often not fully realized. When we finally realize the life potential of a nostagic memory, such as finding at last a full love relationship. (16 minutes)
We take an adult dream about childhood dynamics and point out how the dream shows the dreamer's struggle to become fully herself by seeing her parents now in their true reality, including their dark sides that she must watch out for. (17 minutes)Principles to live by:-Separate out from parents to be your own person.-Make conscious your childhood identity created by your biological parents so that you can free yourself from this childhood identity and become truly adult in an adult world.-Use your dreams and dreamwork to separate out from inner images and attitudes of childhood attached to images of parents and you as a child.-The work of becoming adult means freeing yourself of childhood images, expectations, defense systems, attitudes and values.-Become your own person. Choose to be your own self in your adult life.The inner key to adult life is to remove from your inner self the parental influences of childhood that keep you dependent inside to the images and attitudes put on you in childhood.Thus, even if you are not seeing your parents, or living with them, you can still be controlled by the image of yourself that you had to identify with, even as you rebelled, so as to get along with your parents who dominated you in childhood.
A man's fear dream is analyzed by Strephon Kaplan-Williams. He suggests changes of behavior and attitude towards a life lived without fear, yet dealing with all life's problems in positive and effective ways. (17 minutes) All dreams from Dreamwork2000.com are used with permission in the interest of cultural understanding.Let us ask the fundamental life question, says Strephon: What would it be like for you, for I, to live the events of our everyday lives without fear?Why be afraid of anything in this life? What is there to be ultimately afraid of?Fear is perception of possible loss. Thus we only are afraid of losing that which we are holding on to, even if that attachment something is our own life.Fear is perception of possible loss.We are only afraid of what could happen, not what is actually happening now. When you are in the midst of a situation happening now, are you not simply dealing with the situation as it is to the best of your ability?Yes, to the question, but only if you are not also putting energy into what could happen.Why put energy into what could happen when you need maybe all your energy for dealing with what is happening now?Let the proposition be: We need all our energy now for problem-solving what is happening now in our life.Who is the one person who has most influenced our present culture? Who is the founder of modern psychology? Not Freud, not Jung, not a wealth of psychologists.Who then?
Strephon gives the basic value of working regularly with your dreams. He also gives the fundamental technique for finding guidance from almost every dream you dream. Dreams change and develop our perspective on ourselves and life. (21 minutes)By the way, from whom or what do you take guidance in how to better live the moments of your day?Our personal egos make our choices, yet for better perspective than we already have, where do we go, what source do we trust?Even, is there a possibility that a superior guiding source actually exists?I differ from many dream interpreters and teachers in that I seek guidance from my own dreams through dreamworking them. Too many others focus on offering guidance to others on what their dreams means but judging from experiencing the personalities of these people they seem to lack a certain truthfulness about their own condition and so act the wise savant with others who share their dreams with them.
Lullabys give healing to children and adults as they fall asleep at night. Strephon says a sleep meditation for having healing dreams at night. He sings his own words to the Brahms lullaby. Use for healing. (7 minutes)Lullaby and good nightSing you softly and smilingLullaby and Good nightSing you swift over the sea.Lullaby and Good nightSee my baby so charmingLullaby and good nightSing my baby to sleep.Lullaby and sweet night,My little prince charming,Lullaby and sweet night,Guide you safely to shore.Lullaby and sweet night,My little princess charming,Lullaby and sweet night,Guide you safely to shore.Lullaby and sweet night,May your dreams be so healingLullaby and sweet night,May your wanderings be dear.Lullaby and good night,Sing you soft or the sea waves,Lullaby and sweet night,Bring you safely to shore.Lullaby and good night,When you wake in the morning,Lullaby and good nightWe will love you so dear.
Freeing your sexuality of attitudes and labels put on Sexual Orgasm. Strephon, dream psychologist, makes a case for not forcing orgasm but for allowing the natural orgasm that leads to other levels of relating. (23 minutes)The Dream Card 43 Transformation is from Strephon's Dream Cards, 110,000 sold around the world and used by many as a wisdom synchonicity tool. See Dream Cards Interactive: www.dreamwork2000.com.
Strephon suggests living by a set of values, a credo, to counter the attitudes and values put into us by our parents and society. If we do not develop our own credo we suffer spiritual death. Two credos are recited by Strephon. (11 minutes)The Dream Warrior Credoby Strephon Kaplan-WilliamsI have no dreams, I am born in the nightI have no problems, my problems I take as my own and give them to nobodyI have no lust, I live creatively life's energies as they arise in meI have no love, I express caring and passion in all that I doI have no innocence, I take things as they comeI have no guilt, I have betrayed no one by meeting their expectationsI have no hate, all can deny me at any place and at any timeI have no anger, I am continually wounded by the rough edges of lifeI have no peace, my heart is full of emptiness as I let all of life inI have no center, the center is not where I can place itI have no I, the I that is me resides in all my choicesI have no life, what I want is never what I getI have no death, there is no place that I can call homeWarrior's CreedI have no parents: I make the heavens and earth my parents.I have no home: I make awareness my home.I have no life or death: I make the tides of breathing my life and death.I have no divine power: I make honesty my divine power.I have no means: I make understanding my means.I have no magic secrets: I make character my magic secret.I have no body: I make endurance my body.I have no eyes: I make the flash of lightning my eyes.I have no ears: I make sensibility my ears.I have no limbs: I make promptness my limbs.I have no strategy: I make unshadowed by thought my strategy.I have no designs: I make seizing opportunity by the forelock my design.I have no miracles: I make right action my miracles.I have no principles: I make adaptability to all circumstances my principles.I have no tactics: I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.I have no talents: I make ready wit my talent.I have no friends: I make my mind my friend.I have no enemy: I make carelessness my enemy.I have no armor: I make benevolence and righteousness my armor.I have no castle: I make immovable-mind my castle.I have no sword: I make absence of self my sword.-written by an anonymous Samurai, Fourteenth Century [The Awakened Warrior : Living With Courage, Compassion, and Discipline Rick Fields, editor. 1994]
Sex evokes issues that need a Sexual Ethic. Strephon Kaplan-Williams, dreamwork psychologist, gives realistic and compassionate perspective. Couple and multiply relationships given an ethic. Children and Adult Sexual Rights. (31 minutes)