{"id":5771,"date":"2013-11-21T02:41:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T07:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/?p=5771"},"modified":"2013-11-21T02:41:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T07:41:27","slug":"harriet-tubman-dreamed-for-liberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2013\/11\/harriet-tubman-dreamed-for-liberation.html","title":{"rendered":"Harriet Tubman dreamed for liberation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"-<\/a>Harriet Tubman is an iconic figure in American history \u2013 the runaway slave from Maryland\u2019s Eastern Shore who went back to the South, braving great dangers, to free her fellow-slaves and became the most successful \u201cconductor\u201d of the Underground Railroad. Yet the secret of Harriet Tubman\u2019s achievement has rarely been told. She was a dreamer and a seer. In her dreams and visions, she could fly like a bird. Her gift may have been associated with a near-death experience in her childhood, when an angry overseer threw a two-pound lead weight that laid open her skull.<\/p>\n

We learn from her how great gifts can spring from our wounds. Harriet herself said she inherited special gifts \u2013 including the ability to travel outside the body and to visit the future \u2013 from her father, who \u201ccould always predict the future\u201d<\/p>\n

In The Secret History of Dreaming, <\/i><\/a>I examine the evidence that her ancestors were Ashanti, and that she may have inherited something of the Ashanti experience of dream tracking. I also look at the influence of the first, fiercely brave and inspiring, itinerant black women preachers, whose example may have helped Harriet develop the power to transfer her vision. She could sing courage into people\u2019s hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harriet Tubman is an iconic figure in American history \u2013 the runaway slave from Maryland\u2019s Eastern Shore who went back to the South, braving great dangers, to free her fellow-slaves and became the most successful \u201cconductor\u201d of the Underground Railroad. Yet the secret of Harriet Tubman\u2019s achievement has rarely been told. 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