Dreambody Work

You dream of one state and wake up in a mood and with some physical experience.

All the various states/worlds/bodies are present in a given moment.

In waking life we have a tendency to marginalize many of the more subtle states and concentrate on our everyday personality/identity.

We focus on the dominant tone and marginalize the sub/over-tones.

Our essence is the sum of all our sub-tones/states.

We feel best if we don't marginalize our overtones. When all facets of our bodies are combined we feel like we are on the right path.

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What do we mean when we talk about the dreambody (click to open a word file with a more detailed description) or the dreaming body?

At one level it refers to the Mystery that's beyond the physical realm including these physical bodies we experience moment by moment.

One way of experiencing the mystery is to ask the question: What is this hand, e.g., that I'm looking at? We can describe it as:

- something we see
- experience as a feeling or
- a movement or
- analyze as being comprised of various chemical components.

But, can we ever say what it IS? At this level we can refer to the dreambody as:

• the Tao
• the Self (Jung)
• the Mysterium Tremendum (Rudolph Otto)
• God
• Consciousness
• Ground of Being
• or the sentient realm
• It manifests as the vital energy ("élan vital" - Bergson) connecting the entirety of the universe
• Bohm uses the term implicate order
• Rupert Sheldrake describes it as the morphogenitic field, the underlying pattern manifesting in particular bodily forms

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The Dreambody from a general perspective is the process of dreaming or the organizing principle in the background. When we talk about the specific Dreambody concept, about the body and its dreaming we differentiate between three levels in which the dreaming body manifests itself, you can also think of parallel bodies:

1. The CR (consensus reality) body

• or the physical body with its material, biological and physiological processes - the body of our skin, fluids, organs, and bones.
• The body that we take care of by caring for our diet, taking our supplements, exercising, going to the doctors or other health care practitioners etc…

2. Then there's the vital or dreaming body

• which refers to the subjective and energetic quality of our physical experience.
• This might be like the burning and itching sensations accompanying a rash including our night-time dreams of, e.g., a fiery and scratching cat.

3. The essence body - the experience of a guiding force or general direction in life.

• It expresses itself in flirts and tendencies, a felt sense that we can't quite describe in words.

While we distinguish between the essence, vital/dreaming, and physical bodies, we can't make any absolute separation between them. We can describe them as co-inhering or super-posing in one another.

We experience ourselves in parallel worlds or in super-positions of these parallel worlds.