{"id":223,"date":"2011-02-06T08:27:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T08:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/2011\/02\/a-dream-is-what-makes-me-dive-in-headfirst.html"},"modified":"2011-02-06T08:27:25","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T08:27:25","slug":"a-dream-is-what-makes-me-dive-in-headfirst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2011\/02\/a-dream-is-what-makes-me-dive-in-headfirst.html","title":{"rendered":"A dream is what makes me dive in headfirst"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Remedios<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Shamans use poetry, sung or spoken, to achieve ends that go deeper than our consensual world. They create poetic songs of power to invoke spiritual help; to journey into nonordinary reality; to open and maintain a space between the worlds where interaction between humans and multidimensional beings can take place and to bring energy and healing through to the body and the physical world.<\/span><\/p>\n

The South American paye<\/i> takes flight with the help of “wing songs”. These flight <\/i>songs help him to borrow the wings of the kumalak <\/i>bird [a kind of kite] that is a main ally of shamans.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the Inuit, the strongest shamans are also the most gifted poets. One of the reasons their spirit helpers flock around them is that they are charmed and exhilarated by the angakok’s poetic improvisations. Inuit shamans have a language of their own, which is often impenetrable to other Eskimos. It is a language that is never still. It bubbles and eddies, opening a whirlpool way to the deep bosom of the Sea-goddess, or a cavernous passage into the hidden fires of Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

My favorite Inuit shaman-word is the one for “dream”. It looks like this: kubsaitigisak. <\/i>It is pronounced “koov-sigh-teegee-shakk”, with a little click at the back of the throat when you come to the final consonant. It means “what makes me dive in headfirst.” Savor that for a moment, and all that flows with it. A dream, in Eskimo shaman-speech, is something that makes you dive in headfirst. Doesn’t this wondrously evoke the kinesthetic energy of dreaming, the sense of plunging into a deeper world? Doesn’t it also invite us to take the plunge, in the dream of life, and burst through the glass ceilings and paper barriers constructed by the daily trivial self?<\/span><\/p>\n

Shamans know further uses for dream poetry. They call the soul back home, into the bodies of those who have lost vital energy through pain or trauma or heartbreak. And from their journeys, they bring back poetic imagery that can help to shapeshift the body’s energy template in the direction of health. Mainstream Western physicians agree that the body believes in images and responds to them as if they are physical events. By bringing the right <\/i>images through from the dreaming, the poets of consciousness explain dis-ease in ways that help the patient get well, and interact with the body and its immune system on multiple levels without invasive surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n

As dreamers, we tap into the same deep wells as poets and shamans.<\/span><\/p>\n


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La Llamada by Remedios Varo<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


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