BEHOLD! THE DREAMER COMETH

“Dreams” are funny things. To some, they’re the absurd spinning laundry of our brain’s subconscious, wrung out while we sleep. To others, dreams are spiritual signposts; messages from higher realms. To First Nations people where I’m from, “dreaming” is a word that conjures entire cosmologies and sacred knowledge systems since time immemorial. To others in the Western world, the concept of dreaming, or being a “dreamer”, implies escapism and irresponsibility at best and delusions of grandeur at worst.

Surely, dreams hold very little weight in our rationalist materialist industrial modern culture. Even great visionaries and leaders are dismissed, punished, even killed for daring to have a dream.

At the former Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, the site of MLK’s assassination, reads a plaque quoting Genesis 37:19: “Behold here comes the dreamer. Let us slay him, and we shall see what becomes of his dream.”

Dreaming is socially shunned. Immature. Unrealistic. Transgressive. Dangerous. What kids do. In your own life (as most of you no doubt already know) you will not be rewarded by those around you for being a dreamer. In fact, you might be dismissed. Laughed at. Cringed at. Labelled a weirdo.

But as any change-maker, creative, witch, mystic, or spirit worker will tell you, dreaming is an essential (I would say the essential) act in both changing your personal reality and helping to imagine and create a better world for all. To dream is to believe in the seen and unseen; the space between current reality and future potentiality and our role in shaping it.

I want to develop ideas and art and healing and experiences that can’t be neatly categorised. I want to respect my own ever-shifting capacity, resting to revive with no deadline. And I want to support my people (you) more deeply. With more generosity and openness. That’s why I made this newsletter, which you can learn more about here.

Because I’m recommitting not just to dreaming. But dreaming big. I’m meeting myself at the growing edges of my comfort zone and stretching into the next layer of sharing; vulnerably, generously, and imperfectly as I help my clients do.

Next year, I will begin a Masters program focussing on therapeutic arts practice. I’ll be working relationally and exploring multi-modal expression in ways I’ve only ever dreamed of. I know this will challenge me. I want to be challenged. And I want to challenge you. That’s my love language.

I hope this weekly dispatch offers me an opportunity to practice writing something every week and crucially, sharing it. No matter how sloppy I might feel or sound. And I hope that as a gentle reader, I can continue to deserve space in your inbox by offering you some rich and honest conversation from the heart and sources of inspiration relating to creativity, magic and the occult, neurodivergence, and mental health—along with practical actions to take or prompts to consider.

The Dreamer is a FREE resource, so I’d be so grateful if you share it with any family, friends, or social networks you think would enjoy it. New subscribers will immediately be sent a welcome email containing a PDF of my download Fuck Perfect: A Creative Unlearning Workbook, plus a 10-min somatic centering practice, and 10-min guided visualisation for meeting your inner creative guide.

This is an excerpt from the latest edition of The Dreamer newsletter. Become a subscriber below to read the whole thing!

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