{"id":30,"date":"2010-07-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/2010\/07\/how-shared-dreaming-saved-georges-job.html"},"modified":"2010-07-09T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T05:00:00","slug":"how-shared-dreaming-saved-georges-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2010\/07\/how-shared-dreaming-saved-georges-job.html","title":{"rendered":"How shared dreaming saved George’s job"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"airplane<\/a><\/span>Shared dreaming is not only wonderful fun. It can help us on the roads of everyday life. It can save your job. Consider the following true-life narrative, involving a couple I know well:<\/p>\n

George, a senior executive, dreamed he received an
\nurgent summons from one of his bosses to meet the boss at his second
\nhome on the beach. George woke with the sinking feeling that he had just
\nbeen canned. <\/p>\n

When he shared this dream at one of my workshops, which he
\nwas attending with his wife, I suggested that if it were my dream, I
\nwould want to go back inside it and get some more specific information,
\nby the technique I call Dream Reentry. I told George that he could ask
\nanother person in the workshop to go inside the dream with him and act
\nas tracker – gathering information for him from an independent
\nperspective – in an exercise in conscious shared dreaming in which we
\nwould use shamanic drumming to fuel and focus the journey.<\/p>\n

George
\nwas excited by this plan. He invited his wife to be his partner and
\ntracker. At the end of my drumming, they were eager to share their
\nreports. They described the boss’s beach home as if they had inspected
\nit with a real estate agent. Being a guy, George had spent more time
\nlooking at the den and the deck than at the kitchen and the closets, but
\ntheir accounts – of a place neither had ever seen, outside their shared
\ndreaming, were remarkably similar. <\/p>\n

They returned with far more than the
\nlayout of the beach house. They now had information on a crisis brewing
\nbehind the scenes in George’s organization that – he realized – could
\ndefinitely cost him his job unless he made certain moves, fast. He acted
\non this data from shared dreaming. The upshot was that when he was
\nsummoned to his boss’s beach house for a crisis meeting six months
\nlater, he did not have to ask the way to the bathroom since he had
\nalready been their in his conscious dream. And he was sitting on the
\nright side of the table, with those had kept their jobs and had to tell
\nothers about downsizing, because of the action he had taken with the
\ninformation gained in his shared dreaming.<\/p>\n

*You’ll find much more about the techniques of Dream Reentry and conscious dream tracking, in my books Conscious Dreaming<\/i><\/a> and The Three “Only” Things<\/a><\/i>.I have recorded a CD of shamanic drumming for dream travelers and Dream Reentry, Wings for the Journey.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Tracking contrails photo by Savannah M. Caitlin<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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