{"id":2263,"date":"2011-04-14T16:08:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T20:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2011-04-14T16:14:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T20:14:26","slug":"stuffed-toy-of-the-day-dreaming-in-the-magic-mill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2011\/04\/stuffed-toy-of-the-day-dreaming-in-the-magic-mill.html","title":{"rendered":"Stuffed toy of the day, Dreaming in the Magic Mill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve been writing in this space about the ways the world gives us messages through synchronicity and symbolic pop-ups, some of which can be so in-your-face that even the dullest imagination finds them hard to miss. To categories like Vanity Plate of the Day and Crazy T-Shirt of the Day, I find I must now add Stuffed Toy of the Day, because of a charming incident on the plane that brought me from JFK airport to Stockholm overnight on Wednesday\/Thursday.<\/p>\n

I noticed that the little Swedish girl behind me had a huge stuffed tiger in her lap. She was delighted to introduce him when I asked. She then brought out, from under the tiger, a second stuffed toy – her sheep. I told her I was delighted that she had created a peaceable kingdom where the tiger lies down with the sheep. I had told a fierce favorite story about the tiger and the sheep at the end of my last workshop, so I was also noticing a life rhyme.<\/p>\n

At Stockholm’s Arlanda airport, waiting for my connecting flight to Tallinn, I was struck by a line at the top of a piece of graphic art on a wall near my departure gate:<\/p>\n

Dreams are snapshots of the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Exactly! Every active dreamer comes to know this. I wish that statement was on the wall of every shrink and dream analyst who looks only for the personal subconscious in dreams.<\/p>\n

<\/a>When I arrived at Tallinn, the friend who is coordinating my Active Dreaming workshop drove me to a hotel at the edge of the beautiful Old City, with a view over the towers and spires. The hotel is in a converted factory complex named (in 1856) for Ilmarisen, a hero of the Finnish epic, the Kalevala, who operated a magic mill that groud out stupendous quantities of grain, salt and money. In my room, I found an elegant card on my bed with this thought in Italian and English:<\/p>\n

E il momento di cominciare a sognare<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s time to start dreaming<\/strong><\/p>\n

After 20 hours of travel, I am very ready to dream in the magic mill!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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