The sacred interplay between asking and receiving. Before you fall asleep tonight, pause. Take a moment to consider a question, an inner desire you have to know. What question lives in your heart right now? What are you genuinely curious about? This simple act of forming a question or intention before sleep is not just helpful for dreamwork. It is the doorway to Sophia herself, to gnosis, to direct knowing. Your intention is your will, your magnetism. It is a desire distilled down to its essence. The universe cares deeply about what you need to know. This is not about obsessive desires to control or know everything. That impulse comes from fear and anxiety; you know the difference. What we are talking about is the sacred quality of genuine curiosity, the kind that arises from the questions of your soul. In the ancient oracular traditions of Greece and Egypt, and likely in many indigenous culture across the world, the question itself was paramount. What you came to the oracle to understand, and how closely this question aligned with your true heart’s desire, was directly related to the quality, specificity, and usability of the information you would receive. The oracle could only respond to what was genuinely asked. The world and its possibilities are always far more vast and generous than our limited minds can comprehend. When we ask questions that leave us open to new possibilities and perspective changes, we receive more powerful information in return. This is why flowering questions work so much better than yes or no inquiries. Rather than asking “Should I take this job?” which closes down the field of possibility into a binary, we might ask “What do I need to know if I were considering this new direction?” The difference is profound. One demands that spirit squeeze itself into our tiny “yes/no” framework. The other invites the dreaming realm to show us something we have not yet imagined. In dreamwork, creating an intention puts you into relationship with spirit, with the consciousness of existence itself. You become part of the natural call and response that has always existed. Without a question, it becomes far more difficult to interpret and receive the information that comes through in your dreams. The response is intimately related to the question. The dream speaks directly to the intention, to the desire. When we set a clear question before sleep, we create a container that can actually hold a dream’s wisdom. Without that vessel, dream images can feel scattered or meaningless. The question provides context that allows seemingly random symbols to reveal their coherence and purpose. Sometimes we need to ask the same question for many nights in a row. You might spend a month asking for the same guidance, returning to the same need. This is not failure. It is like water wearing away stone. Each night we return to the question, we deepen our commitment to knowing. We signal that we are serious and ready to receive. Sometimes the wait itself is part of the lesson, part of the medicine we need. This interplay between question and answer, between asking and receiving, is beautifully illustrated in an excerpt from How a Mountain Was Made by Greg Sarris that speaks to the indigenous traditions of the land I live on in Sonoma County, California. In this passage, twin sisters Question Woman and Answer Woman, who are often depicted as crows, sit together in dialogue: One day, Question Woman was curious, which, of course, was not unusual given that curiosity was her usual state of mind. She was sitting with her twin sister, Answer Woman, in their usual spot next to the fence on Gravity Hill. Below them spread all of Santa Rosa Valley. On this clear summer afternoon, they could see as far as the ocean, all the way to Marshall and to Tomales Bay. “Tell me, Answer Woman,” she asked, “How do stories come to you?” “Quite simple,” answered Answer Woman. “You ask me a question, and my answer comes up in the form of a story. After all, the best answer to anything will always be a story.” “But I still don’t understand, where are the stories located? Where is their home?” “Stories are like invisible seeds,” answered Answer Woman. “They live in the very air we breathe; they are around us at all times. When you ask me a question, it is like one of the seeds has been watered, and a flower grows, one of the ever-lasting spirits, and it talks to me. That is my power, my gift. To understand what that invisible flower spirit is telling me. Of course, the flower spirit is not awakened; the seed does not sprout and grow without your question.” Question Woman and Answer Woman, Sitting on Gravity Hill In some ways, the sisters are two aspects of the same consciousness; both sisters live within us. Question Woman embodies our sacred curiosity, our capacity to ask what we truly need to know. Answer Woman represents our innate ability to receive wisdom, to hear the answers that rise up in response to our genuine questions. We need both. We must learn to work with both. Dreams are stories. They are personal myths that arise in response to what we most need to understand. Answer Woman is correct: the best answer to a question is always a story or a myth. The myths that survive through centuries do so because they continue to answer our deepest, most heartfelt questions. Setting an intention before sleep is a radical act of self-trust and self-love. It acknowledges that you already have access to wisdom. You are not broken or lacking. You simply need to ask and listen. This shifts everything away from seeking external answers and toward recognizing your own internal authority. This is not knowledge gathered from books or based on blind faith. This is gnosis, direct knowing that lives in your body, felt and sensed. Once you know something this way, it is yours forever. You become the oracle. You develop the capacity for self-gnosis, for this embodied knowing that cannot be taken from you. So tonight, before you close your eyes, ask yourself what you truly need to know. What question is alive in you right now? Speak it quietly to your dreaming mind. Trust that the invisible seeds are already there, waiting for your question to water them into bloom.

The art of conscious descent. Noticed any basements in your dreams lately? Caves? Subterranean corridors? Catacombs? The leaves are falling, the seasons are turning, and the underworld is calling us to journey deeper into the depths of ourselves. There is a lot of energy in the cosmos supporting us to lean into deep transformation. In addition to the seasonal shift, Venus has just entered the underworld. Venus follows a 19-month cycle that ancient sky-watchers tracked with devotion. For about nine months, she appears as the Morning Star, rising before the Sun in the eastern sky, meeting the waning crescent Moon each month. Then she disappears for two to three months, passing behind the Sun in what’s called superior conjunction. Venus reemerges as the Evening Star then, in the western sky after sunset, for another nine months, this time rendezvous-ing with the waxing crescent Moon . This rhythm—visible, invisible, reborn—mirrors the archetypal pattern of death and renewal that humans have recognized for millennia as an integral part of life in physical form. I’ll be honest: astrology has always felt a bit like trying to read a map written in a language I don’t quite speak. The complexity, the charts, the aspects—it’s all so elaborate that I struggle to integrate it into my practical life. What I want is something I can actually see in the sky, feel in my body, and bring in to potentiate my dreams. This is why I love tracking Venus’s meet-ups with the Moon and her journey into the underworld. Not as an abstract astrological concept, but as a living, moving presence I can mirror in my own life. Last weekend, on October 19th, came the final meeting of Venus and the Moon. Venus has been our Morning Star for seven months. Now, if you look for Venus in the pre-dawn darkness, you won’t find her. She has sunk below the horizon, drawn closer and closer to the Sun until she disappeared entirely. For the next ~three months, Venus will be invisible as she journeys through the underworld to meet her shadow. Ancient cultures tracked this pattern with devotion. They didn’t just observe it—they recognized it as a sacred story playing out in light and motion above them. They knew that Venus, unlike any other “wandering star,” died and was reborn with reliable mystery. Myths were told to match the sky. The Sumerian Venus myth is simple in outline and profound in resonance: Inanna (Venus herself, the Goddess), radiant Queen of Heaven, hears a call from the Great Below. Her sister Ereshkigal reigns there—the dark twin. Inanna chooses to descend, she chooses to answer the call, but passage requires a price. At each of seven gates, she surrenders a piece of her power, her identity, her protective layers. At the first gate, she removes her crown. At the second, her lapis lazuli earrings. The third gate takes her necklace. The fourth, her breastplate. The fifth demands her ring. At the sixth gate, she removes her jingling girdled belt. Finally, at the seventh gate, she surrenders her royal robe. Naked and humbled (from the word humus, meaning earth), Inanna enters the underworld and faces death. She hangs on a hook for three days. Then, through intervention and transformation, she returns, not as she was, but remade. She has found the secret of parthenogenesis, giving birth to herself. Inanna reclaims her clothes and jewelry as she ascends, but she is no longer the same queen. She has been to the depths. She knows the secrets to wisdom and beauty that only one who journeys through death can know. Inanna's Quest This isn’t a cautionary tale, it’s a map for renewal encoded in celestial mechanics. We cannot heal what we will not face. We cannot grow beyond what we refuse to release. The sky has been teaching this for millennia. She goes down As we go down We follow her underground Hail to Inanna Who died To become born Starhawk and the Reclaiming Collective We can follow along with this myth, with the sky, through our bodies. Each meeting of Venus and the Moon corresponds to an energy center in our body, representing a layer of identity being examined and released. Each gate that Inanna goes through represents the purification and rebalancing of an energy center. Here’s where we’ve been: Gate 1 - April 24, 2025 | Crown Chakra: The Crown - Relinquishing authority, how you think you should be. Meeting humility and dignity as the illusion of control dissolves. Gate 2 - May 24, 2025 | Third Eye Chakra: Lapis Lazuli Earrings - Releasing old perceptions and the stories you’ve told yourself. Seeing with your true inner vision, beyond conditioning. \ Gate 3 - June 22, 2025 | Throat Chakra: The Necklace - Surrendering the voice you’ve performed for others. Finding your authentic expression beneath the practiced words. Gate 4 - July 21, 2025 | Heart Chakra: The Breastplate - Removing the armor around your heart. Meeting vulnerability as strength, compassion without protection. Gate 5 - August 19, 2025 | Solar Plexus Chakra: The Ring - Releasing false power and where you’ve given yourself away. Standing naked in your willingness to meet the world beyond ego. Gate 6 - September 19, 2025 | Sacral Chakra: Jingling Girdled Belt - Letting go of creative blocks and sexuality as performance. Allowing flow to move you into an undulating dance with life. Gate 7 - October 19, 2025 | Root Chakra: The Royal Robe - Surrendering the last covering, the deepest identity. Standing naked in pure being-ness, rooted in our essential true self. This is what happened last weekend. Inanna entering the nigredo We are in the invisible time now. Venus has completed her descent and now gestates in darkness. On February 17, 2026, she’ll be reborn in the western sky after sunset as the Evening Star. On March 18, 2026, Venus will meet the moon once more, and thus begin her long journey back from the underworld. This is not empty waiting, this is the fertile void where transformation happens. The old self has been dismantled. The new self is composing itself in the depths. This can be a difficult time. We stand naked, having let go of what we thought had protected us—the habits, relationships, patterns, jobs, homes, and identities that we had grown accustomed to. Perhaps they did protect us in the past and perhaps they had been genuinely positive influences. Maybe we actively chose to release them or maybe they left on their own accord. Either way, there has been a death and we’re now in an in-between time of reckoning. This is a time to grieve. To be still. To rest. To listen to the body. To feel the feelings without rushing past them. This is not a time to numb or check out—though if brief respites are needed, that’s okay too. Honor what the nervous system needs. This change, this stripping away, can be a lot of work energetically for the body. Psychologist Francis Weller calls this phase the nigredo —the blackening, the time of decomposition before regeneration. It’s a purification time, though not the kind that feels clean and light (that will come in the spring). It’s the purification of compost, of breakdown, of matter returning to its essential elements. Here’s what happens after the big thing leaves: all the little things start reshuffling. It’s like a river system when a large boulder has been removed. The water that once flowed around that obstacle now has to find a new path. Sediment is released. Upstream and downstream, everything adjusts. Eddies form in different places. The current redistributes. It takes time for the whole system to come back into equilibrium. This is the time we’re in now—that period of rearrangement after the de-rangement of the chaotic frenzy we just passed through. The ancient Greeks actually ritualized this process: Dionysus presided over sacred de-rangement, the frenzied dancing that catalyzed rebirth and revitalization. The chaos wasn’t the enemy—it was the threshold. Consider what the trees teach us. After the fall leaves drop, the tree reabsorbs up to 90% of their nutrients back into its roots and trunk. The letting go is not loss—it’s retrieval. The tree takes back the energy it invested, reclaiming what it needs for the dormant season and the spring to come. This is the invitation for us right now: to receive the energy back from what no longer serves. You released it. You were brave enough to let it fall. Now let yourself soak in the energy you gain from that act of courage, from participating in the cycle of exchange, from trusting nature’s reciprocity. When Venus returns, she’ll reclaim her vestments as she ascends through seven more Moon conjunctions. Maybe she puts her clothe back on differently now; she’s been to the underworld, she knows herself. You inner goddess giving birth to herself Here’s where we’re going: Gate 1 - March 18, 2026 | Root Chakra: The Royal Robe - Reclaiming your foundation, but knowing now what is truly essential. Gate 2 - April 17, 2026 | Sacral Chakra: Jingling Girdled Belt - Restoring creative flow and sensual power, now informed by your shadow half, no longer obscured. Gate 3 - May 16, 2026 | Solar Plexus Chakra: The Ring - Taking back your power, but wielding it with underworld wisdom. Gate 4 - June 14, 2026 | Heart Chakra: The Breastplate - Protecting your heart again, but with new capacity for true intimacy. Gate 5 - July 13, 2026 | Throat Chakra: The Necklace - Speaking again, but with the truth and authority of one who has been silent. Gate 6 - August 11, 2026 | Third Eye Chakra: Lapis Lazuli Earrings - Seeing clearly again, but with vision deepened by darkness. Gate 7 - September 9, 2026 | Crown Chakra: The Crown - Reclaiming your true sovereign self. Standing in full, empowered integrity. This is the way of our internal goddess, the eternal pattern of transformation. It always begins with chaos—the necessary destruction, the dismemberment, the letting go of everything that once defined you. You cannot skip this step. The descent demands we surrender what we thought was essential, only to discover what is truly essential beneath. Before sleep tonight, consider setting an intention to dream. Ask to dream yourself into your next incarnation—the version of you that is waiting to emerge. What will you know that you don’t yet know? What will you integrate from this underworld journey? How will you move through the world when the spring comes again? This is an invitation to let yourself be unmade. This is also an invitation to allow yourself to be reborn.

What if your dreams carry wisdom and creative breakthroughs that could transform your waking life? I believe that they do...and if you're curious to learn more, you're in for a treat because I have a special invitation for you below.  But first let me share a story with you. When I first began my qigong practice I had no idea what the "side effects" would be. I hoped they might include physical healing, relationship improvements, and anxiety relief. I was completely surprised when my dreams "woke up." The Great Dream Maybe some of you can identify with this experience. Where dreams used to be mostly processing the day, strong emotions, and anxiety, do they now seem more "pure," more elaborate, and powerful energetically? Have you noticed your dreams becoming powerful extensions of your qigong, yoga, or meditation practices? Here’s my dream story: March 2020. The world shut down, and I got a serious cancer diagnosis. My whole world changed overnight—actually, it changed twice over. That first week, I was drowning in the kind of anxiety that made me think: if I have to live like this for the rest of my life, I don’t want to live it.  It was crippling. Nothing I tried could touch it. Until a dream came. I had this dream that was like watching a funny movie—I wasn’t even interacting, just watching and laughing. I woke up smiling, literally laughing out loud. The anxiety was completely gone. This dream had given me a healing that nothing else in my waking life could touch. It told me two crucial things: dreamwork was going to be essential for my healing journey, and laughter was going to be important medicine.  It also showed me something I now believe deeply—that all dreams are a form of medicine, if we know how to relate to them. After this breakthrough, I did the next logical thing and started learning everything I could about traditional dreamwork—analyzing symbols from dream books, doing shamanic meditation exercises, considering Jungian archetypes. None of this helped me experience more of what I felt during that healing dream. None of this got me closer to understanding what was happening in my hypercolor dream life. Most importantly, none of this felt compatible with how I was learning to work with energy and consciousness in my qigong practice. Since the type of dreamwork teachings I was looking for didn’t exist, I began creating them myself. Along the way, I found teachers who helped me form a relationship with my dreams rather than trying to figure them out like math problems. Eventually, I fell into a new way of working with dreams that has supercharged my waking life. The perspective shifts, breakthroughs, and healing this dream practice has brought me have been astounding. Here’s what I realized: Dreams might be the easiest way to access the “superabilities” that we know as the natural side effects of energy practices like qigong, yoga, or meditation. The periodic table came through a dream. Google’s algorithm. Paul McCartney’s Yesterday.  Edgar Cayce's famous healing modalities. Even Democracy emerged from group dreamwork in ancient Greece. What if your dreams are also carrying wisdom and creative breakthroughs that could transform your waking life? I’ll be sharing more about some practical and powerful intentional dreaming methods in my free live masterclass “Unlocking The Dreamweave” on Tuesday, September 30th at 10am PST. This isn’t dream interpretation from symbol books. It’s about receiving direct field transmissions through your sleeping awareness, using principles you’re already familiar with from pure consciousness practice. After years of merging these practices, I’m ready to share what happens when qigong energy practices meets intentional dreamwork. Hope to see you there! Unlocking The Dreamweave Masterclass : https://www.intothehumm.com/dreamweave

How to stop carrying your creative work alone and start collaborating wiht the intelligence that dreams through you. *Join my Free Live Dreamwork Event September 30th @ 10am pacific. Register Here: www.intothehumm.com/Dreamweave Creativity is not just for artists, musicians, or poets. Creativity is how we navigate the uncharted territory of our soul, how we heal from impossible situations, and how we find our way through the unknown. It is our ticket to resilience and our compass for the journey to discover who we truly are. The creative process involves sudden inspiration (from Latin "inspirare, to breathe in spirit), those lightning-strike moments of epiphany (from the Greek "to manifest divine presence" or "reveal"), and the patient devotion that follows. All creative acts involve transformation; one that by definition cannot be reversed. Something new is born and we emerge from the process fundamentally changed. The Liminal Space of Dreams Dreams bring us into liminal space, between worlds, where the rules and frameworks of ordinary life dissolve. In this threshold realm, transformation becomes possible because anything can be reimagined. While we can access similar states through meditation or other practices, dreams offer our most natural gateway to this space where new visions can emerge. Carl Jung understood this connection deeply. He recognized that psyche (soul), creativity, and myth were intimately intertwined, all emerging from the same wellspring of archetypal material in the collective unconscious. For Jung, creative works, mythological stories, and dream imagery all carried the same transformative symbols that arise not from rational thought but from deeper psychic layers, similar to what I call the Dreamweave . In Jung's framework, neurosis - or doubt in oneself - blocks this wellspring of creativity, and only creative engagement with our inner conflicts can restore the flow. Eastern traditions describe this same phenomenon differently. From an energetic perspective, what Jung saw as psychological blocks become understood as stagnant life force. Creativity represents the natural flow of what these traditions call Jing, Ojas, or Kundalini—our essential creative fire. When this energy moves freely, we access our innate creative capacity. While we know dreams help process emotions and memories, one of their lesser-known functions is to restore this flow, awakening creative channels that may have been dormant. Dreams as Creative Guide When I began practicing intentional dreamwork, something surprising happened: my creativity came alive. As an engineer, I’d absorbed the message that creativity was only permissible if it had a practical application. Yet suddenly, poems spilled onto the page, songs moved through me, and I felt a vitality I hadn’t known for years. I was reclaiming an essential part of what it means to be human. Dreams didn’t just awaken my inner artist—they also became companions in my professional life. While directing an environmental advocacy nonprofit and navigating the pressure of impacting laws and policy, I often turned to dreams for guidance. One dream in particular showed me how tightly I had been gripping a particular outcome. In waking life, I was acting as if more effort, better strategy, and sharper arguments were the only way forward. In this dream, I was arguing campaign points with an important politician who was clearly getting bored. The politician stopped our meeting short, donned a cosmic black-and-white coat ,and took me flying through moonlit skies…but I continued my presentation as if we were still in the conference room, missing the profound shift that was happening around us. Her final act—pushing me ruthlessly over a waterfall of stars—delivered the final wake-up call: I needed to stop forcing and start flowing with the mystery. From that moment, I began working with my campaigns on multiple levels. When facing obstacles, I would spend time tending to the emotional undercurrents and planting seeds of redemption and mercy in the energetic realm rather than just pushing through with more strategy. This inner work translated into outer effectiveness—my advocacy grew more powerful even as I worked less. Through dreams, I was able to discover how to move from forcing outcomes through personal effort to allowing solutions to emerge from a deeper field of collective intelligence. The Long Path of Creative Devotion The creative process is often arduous, involving sacrifice and persistence. We celebrate those flash moments of epiphany (e.g. Einstein's theory of relativity, Elias Howe's sewing machine), but forget that significant devotion came before and after those insights. The inventors still had to commit to the long work of actually birthing those innovations. Whether we're engaged in art, technology, healing arts, or the journey of self-actualization, creative pursuits require time and dedication. Dreams can be our constant companion through every step, available literally every night. More recently, as I transitioned my business away from technical consulting to focus more on teaching and coaching, dreams became my bridge between worlds. They allowed me to experience this new paradigm (feeling into the energy of teaching, connecting with future students, embodying this different way of being) long before I consciously understood what was shifting. When doubt crept in, dreams reminded me I could inhabit this new role. When facing crossroads, they revealed the deeper currents beneath my choices. Once, when I was feeling particularly stuck, a difficult dream revealed how much I was emotionally and energetically fighting with my business. This was a big wake up call. Dreams don't always comfort—sometimes they confront us with necessary truths—the medicine that stings and harsh words that shake us from complacency. All dreams contain medicine, and the ones that grab our attention often carry the strongest doses. Reclaiming Our Creative Birthright Creativity flows through everything—from the mycelial networks beneath our feet to the spiral galaxies above. It's the force that breaks down old forms and births new ones, the energy that helps us navigate uncertainty and transform challenges into possibilities. When we partner with our dreams, we connect to this endless creative wellspring. We move from the isolation of individual effort into collaboration with the vast intelligence that dreams through us all. In a world hungry for fresh solutions and authentic expression, this partnership becomes not just personally fulfilling but collectively essential. Our dreams are waiting. They have been all along, ready to guide us home to our creative essence and help us birth what only we can bring into being. *Join my Free Live Dreamwork Event September 30th @ 10am pacific. Register Here: www.intothehumm.com/Dreamweave

And How to Stop Blocking the Medicine with Shame You know that viral meme where someone says "you cheated on me in my dream" and then gets mad at their partner in real life? Yeah, we need to talk about that. If you're bringing your waking-world moral judgments into your dream life, you're completely missing the point—and blocking some serious healing in the process. Here's the thing most people don't understand: accessing wisdom from the Dreamweave requires you to operate from what I call the perceptive mind, not your everyday analytical brain. And your analytical brain—with all its shame, guilt, and social conditioning—might be exactly what's preventing you from receiving the medicine your dreams are trying to deliver. Opening the door to new possibilities... The Dreamweave doesn't give a damn about societal norms. It only cares about restoring you to your original blueprint, your optimal way of being in the world so you can actually share your gifts. But if you're busy judging every dream scenario against your waking-world moral code, you're shutting down the very flow that's meant to heal you. Let's get specific about that sexual encounter you had in your dream last night. You know, the one that has you feeling guilty and confused because it wasn't with your partner. Maybe you've been wanting more creativity in your business, feeling stuck or uninspired. Then you had this dream. What if you just received a custom-delivered dose of life force energy, precisely calibrated to revive stagnant areas of your creative flow? What if the Dreamweave sent you an encounter with Eros himself, the archetypal source of vitality and original energy? Did the dream help you feel something in a place where maybe you felt numb? That's a sign that energy is now flowing where things were stagnant, and you might be in line for a creative breakthrough at work. If you find yourself spiraling about "what this means about me as a person" and whether you're a terrible partner, you've now blocked the healing with shame. The very thing you've been asking for—more creative juice, more aliveness, more flow in your business—came packaged in a way your ego couldn't handle, so you rejected the gift. Dreams aren't happening in linear time and space. Unless you're lucid, you're not in control of them. They're not usually showing you literal truths about your character or secret desires. They're energy experiences designed to move stuck patterns and deliver exactly what your system needs for optimal functioning. Think of dreams as a self-regulating system designed for repair and rejuvenation. You're an intimate part of this larger wholeness, whether you believe it or not, and you receive these benefits whether you acknowledge them, like them, want them, or think you deserve them. The field is always available. It's always your choice whether to receive or resist what's being offered. Here’s another take on the “cheating dream”. What if that dream where you did something you'd be ashamed of in waking life came specifically to show you the shame itself. Not as a moral lesson, but as dense emotion (no story needed) that needs processing. The story was just the delivery mechanism. Your job isn't to analyze the plot, your job IS to to feel the energy, let it move through you, and allow it to transform into flow…and eventually gratitude. Here's your practice: Don't judge. Don't analyze. Don't try to make your dreams fit into neat little boxes that your ego can stomach. Let them wash over you. Feel the energy. Stay open. Allow the meaning to reveal itself without forcing a story onto it that makes you feel better about yourself. Dreams are about the relational whole healing itself. If you're part of that whole (spoiler alert: you are, no matter how separate you think you are), then these healing downloads are meant for you. But you have to stop blocking them with judgment to actually receive them. The Dreamweave is offering you custom-tailored medicine every single night. The question is: are you going to keep rejecting it because it doesn't come wrapped in socially acceptable packaging, or are you finally ready to receive what you've been asking for? It’s your choice. The field doesn't care either way—it'll keep broadcasting the goodness. But your creative projects, your stuck patterns, and your untapped vitality are all waiting on your response. Want to understand more about how the Dreamweave actually works? Check out my previous article " Understanding the Dreamweave ” Ready to dive deeper? Join my free masterclass "Unlocking the Dreamweave" to learn how to access the hidden half of your creative genius through intentional dreamwork.

Where Innovation, Healing, and Soul Purpose Converge. Every night, as your stress hormones shut down and your nervous system settles into rest, something remarkable happens. You slip into a realm where connection flows more freely, where the illusion of separation softens, and where you join something infinitely larger than your individual mind. I call this the Dreamweave. The Dreamweave The Dreamweave isn't just a poetic metaphor—it's a living field of consciousness that exists beyond the boundaries of space and time. Think of it as a vast tapestry woven from threads of possibility, wisdom, and healing energy. Every dreamer who has ever lived has contributed to this tapestry, and every night, you add your own threads while drawing from the collective wisdom of all who came before. The Dreamweave contains everything that has ever been known or imagined. The Library of Alexandria may have burned, but its wisdom lives on in this timeless space. Every scientific discovery waiting to emerge, every artistic breakthrough yearning to be born, every healing technique that could transform lives—it all exists within the Dreamweave, accessible to those who know how to tune in. But the Dreamweave isn't just an information repository. It's also a healing field, a fundamental source of rejuvenation. Each night, as you connect to this vast network, your energy is restored, your cells are repaired, and the accumulated stress of waking life is cleansed away. The stronger your connection to the Dreamweave, the more profound this nightly renewal becomes. Most importantly, the Dreamweave holds the golden thread of your soul's purpose. It knows what you're here to contribute, and it offers nightly guidance to help you stay aligned with—or return to—your authentic path. When you're living in alignment with your true purpose, it serves not just you, but the whole tapestry of existence. In our waking lives, anxiety and stress create energetic blocks that limit our perception of connection. We feel separate, isolated, dependent only on our individual resources. But in the dream state, these barriers dissolve. Without stress hormones flooding your system, you naturally open to the experience of interconnection that mystics have pointed toward for millennia. The Dreamweave is a self-organizing system that naturally arranges itself toward the highest vibrations—love, peace, harmony, gratitude. It holds all possible threads of wisdom and innovation, but how they're woven together into something new depends on active co-creation between the field itself, you as the dreamer, your environment, and what's needed by the collective for maintaining cohesion and harmony. Paul McCartney's "Yesterday" wasn't a random occurrence—it was the Dreamweave organizing exactly the melody the world needed, delivered through a dreamer prepared to receive it. This isn't the chaotic "nuts and gum" of the collective unconscious, but an intelligently ordered field that responds to what serves the greater whole. Here's where many people miss the magic: the Dreamweave doesn't respond well to forcing or grasping. Like a master basket weaver who must know when to apply pressure and when to yield, you must learn to be both the weaver and the basket itself. You are dreaming the dream, yes—but the dream is also dreaming you. This requires what I call the perceptive mind: a state of open awareness that receives without judgment, witnesses without fixing, and allows meaning to emerge naturally. When you approach your dreams with this quality of attention, they transform from random neural firings into collaborative conversations with infinite intelligence. The Dreamweave is always available, always broadcasting. But like any relationship, the more consciously you engage with it, the richer the exchange becomes. Each time you work with your dreams intentionally, you strengthen both your connection to this field and the field itself. The Dreamweave is maintained by all of us conscious dreamers and awakened practitioners, those of us who understand that our nightly journeys matter not just for our personal growth, but for the evolution of consciousness itself. As a dedicated keeper of the dreamweave, we work to support the proliferation of harmony, peace, and love through our conscious engagement with this supportive field. In our current world, where many have forgotten how to listen to dreams, this sacred tapestry needs tending more than ever. Every time you remember a dream, form a relationship with its guidance, or integrate the spirit of the dream into your waking life, you're participating in an ancient practice of collective healing. You're helping to repair what has been torn and strengthen what supports us all. The Dreamweave doesn't ask you to believe anything. It simply invites you to pay attention and to notice what emerges when you create space for something larger than your individual mind to communicate with you. After all, some of humanity's greatest gifts—from scientific breakthroughs to artistic masterpieces—have come through dreamers who were simply awake enough to receive what was being offered. What might be waiting for you in tonight's weaving? Interested in learning more about your dreams? Meet me in Dream School: www.IntoTheHumm.com/dreamschool

In the space between sleeping and waking, where time moves like honey and thoughts shimmer like water, there lives an ancient figure known only as the Keeper. The Keeper He is neither young nor old—or perhaps he is both. His beard holds the silver of starlight, and his eyes carry the deep knowing of someone who has watched ten thousand sunrises from the other side of sleep. His workshop exists everywhere and nowhere, a vast artists workshop-library-laboratory where the impossible meets the inevitable. The Keeper is always busy. Terrifically, wonderfully busy. All day (though there is no day in his realm) and all night (though there is also no night), he tends to his great work: the Dreamweave . Picture, if you can, a tapestry that stretches beyond the horizon in every direction, woven from threads of pure possibility. Some threads gleam gold with ancient wisdom, others pulse with the electric blue of unborn innovations, still others shimmer with the deep red of love stories yet to unfold. The Keeper moves through this impossible tapestry with the focused grace of a master craftsman. Here, he repairs a snag where someone's judgement has pulled too hard on the fabric. There, he strengthens a section where a dreamer needs extra support on their healing path. Most importantly, he tends the golden threads—those luminous strands that represent each soul's authentic path through life. Sometimes a dreamer has wandered far from their true business*, their soul’s path, and the Keeper weaves in gentle reminders of who they came here to be. He might offer glimpses of a forgotten mantle of purpose, or illuminate the path that leads back to the garden of their original design. But he never forces, never pushes. He simply reveals what is already there, what has always been waiting. The choice to step back onto their golden thread remains entirely with the dreamer. The Keeper doesn't just tend the wisdom of ages past—he weaves together all possibilities, past, present, and future, creating new combinations that have never existed before. Always, always, he is weaving new patterns, sending out custom technologies* to dreamers who call for guidance. Bespoke solutions for every soul. When Paul needed a melody, the Keeper plucked just the right harmonic thread. When Dmitri struggled with his elements, the Keeper wove him a periodic pattern. When you lie down each night with your questions and longings, the Keeper listens, really listens, and begins to weave your particular medicine, the medicine that you will then birth. Here’s the thing about the Keeper that makes him both generous and wise: he knows when to step back. He is not interested in creating dependence. "You must learn to read the path of the weave yourself," he would might say, his voice carrying the warmth of a grandfather and the authority of a master teacher. "I am here to show you the patterns, to point you toward the threads you need…but ultimately, you must find your way." Sometimes, dreamers catch glimpses of the Keeper in their sleep—a sage presence in a storyline, a helpful hand adjusting their dream's fabric when it begins to fray. But he never stays long. He has work to do, after all. Uncountable dreamers, every single night, each one deserving their own perfectly tailored revelation. The Keeper of the Dreamweave works in service of something larger than any one dream, any one dreamer. He tends the great pattern that connects all sleeping minds, ensuring that the wisdom of ages remains available, that innovation continues to flow, that healing never stops moving through the world. And when morning comes and the dreamers wake, forgetting most of what they've received, the Keeper simply smiles and returns to his weaving. He knows that the seeds have been planted, the medicine delivered, the technology transferred. Whether the dreamers remember or not, they carry his gifts forward into the waking world. After all, every world-changing idea has to start somewhere. Usually, it starts with a dream. To be continued... * The etymology of "technology" comes from the Greek "tekhnē" (art, craft, skill) and "logos" (study, knowledge), meaning the systematic study of craft—specifically the ancient art of weaving disparate elements into something entirely new. ** The etymology of "business" comes from Old English "bisignes," meaning "care, or occupation" - referring to those things that are ultimately ours to pay attention to, ours to tend (our soul’s mission, perhaps.)

Cancer, Disconnection, and the Healing Inner Smile. I recently read an article by Dr. Jason Yuan on bioelectricity and the hidden cause of cancer, and it expanded my perception of how modern medicine and ancient energy medicine might not be at odds—but speaking to different layers of the same truth. Most of us learned that cancer begins in the genes.A random mutation. A rogue cell. A breakdown in DNA. This isn’t wrong—but it may be incomplete. Dr. Yuan was reflecting on the work of biologist Michael Levin , whose research suggests that cancer might not originate from damaged DNA alone, but from a deeper issue: a breakdown in cellular communication . Levin’s studies of bioelectricity reveal that cells rely on electrical signaling— not just genetic coding —to know where they are, what they’re part of, and how to behave. When these subtle signals are interrupted, cells become confused, disoriented, and isolated. Some begin to grow out of control and this is what creates cancer. More on this study with Dr. Jason Yuan: They stop being part of the organism—and begin to act like they exist alone. This is the energy of cancer: not evil, not rebellious— disconnected . Cancer is a part of the body that has forgotten that it belongs to the whole. In Chinese cosmology, there is an archetype for this kind of imbalance: the hungry ghost . A being so cut off from its essence, so severed from its source, that it becomes insatiable. It can never be full. It devours everything in its path—food, energy, attention—but nothing can satisfy it. It does not remember who it is. This is not just a metaphor. It’s an energy pattern. It lives in our culture. It lives in our illnesses. In Zhineng Qigong, we understand that health is coherence. Every cell, organ, and thought is in dialogue with the field of hun yuan qi —the universal, intelligent life energy that connects all things. When that connection is strong, the body functions in harmony. When something becomes cut off, it begins to decay, distort, or spin into chaos. The “hungry ghost” of the body emerges—not as a punishment, but as a symptom of lost connection. Healing, then, is not a war—it’s a reunion. One of the most powerful ways to initiate this reunion is through the Inner Smile . In this ancient practice, we smile gently into our body—into the liver, the heart, the brain, the kidneys. Into our blood. Into our bones. We imagine our cells smiling back. We imagine every cell of our body with a smile on its face. We imagine our body into physical wholeness, connection, and health. Practice the Inner Smile Meditation: Each smile is like a thread, reweaving the body’s internal web, reconnecting the part that forgot. There are stories of people who have used this Inner Smile practice with great devotion in the face of illnesses like cancer. They didn’t visualize eradication or attack. They simply and patiently sent a smile to every cell of their body. Over time, something shifted, the body stopped consuming itself, and the disease dissapeared. The body remembered how to be healthy again. There’s a mirror of this truth in fiction—in A Wind in the Door , Madeleine L’Engle’s sequel to A Wrinkle in Time . In it, the protagonist travels into her brother’s body, where a tiny being—deep within his cellular structure—has separated from the great cosmic dance. It believes that by disconnecting, it can assert its individuality. That disconnection, however, is what’s making the system sick. The heroine cannot force it to return. She can only offer presence, compassion, and faith that it will choose to come back into right relationship. That story has always felt intuitively true to me. Here’s the paradox: We think freedom comes from separation. But the deepest sovereignty—the truest agency—arises when we are in relationship with the whole; with each other, with nature, with the Dao, with the original intelligence of life. Michael Levin’s work points toward a future where healing is not just mechanical or chemical—it’s relational. Where the body is seen not as a battlefield, but as a community. Practices like the Inner Smile are not sentimental—they are technologies of reconnection . They help the “hungry ghost” remember its true nature. They help the body remember its wholeness. And when it does—when the cells smile back—the need to endlessly consume and grow bigger disappears. What was once fragmented becomes whole again... and the song continues. References: Endogenous Bioelectrical Networks: An interface to somatic intelligence by Michael Levin Bioelectricity Publications

The unexpected confrontation that revealed a door to unshakeable peace. I was taking a peaceful walk through my neighborhood one morning, feeling complete peace, deeply connected to the earth and the sky, when a woman in a black SUV suddenly pulled up and began screaming at me. To this day, I'm not sure what she thought I had done or who she thought I was. But she was furious—yelling insults, threatening to call the police, trying to run me out of the neighborhood. At the time, I was in what I call a state of pure consciousness—a state of deep inner stillness and clear awareness. I handled the assault with equanimity, even offering to call the police myself. She eventually drove away, and I never saw her again. Later, I went home and checked the mirror, half-believing I must have looked different somehow—like a homeless man perhaps? I felt deep compassion for homeless individuals afterward, realizing they probably face this treatment regularly. But no, just me. No changes. Then my body went into shock. For days, I was caught in emotional trauma, my mind desperately trying to make sense of what happened so I could protect myself in the future. I was confused—why was I suffering so much when I'd maintained such a clear state during the crisis? That's when I remembered a deep truth that helped me turn my suffering around: I am not my body . Peace amidst stormy skies The Four Things We Are Not This experience illuminated something crucial about who we really are—and more importantly, who we are not : We are not our bodies. Our physical form is temporary, vulnerable, and will eventually return to the earth. While we care for it lovingly, we are not limited by its experiences. We are not our thoughts. Those mental narratives that seem so real and important? They're just energy patterns flowing through consciousness. We are not our emotions. Feelings arise and pass through us like weather systems—powerful, but temporary. We are not our ego fixations. This might be the most liberating realization of all. These are the rigid patterns our mind creates to feel safe, but they're not our true nature. Understanding Fixations Fixations are the rigid patterns our ego creates to feel safe and in control. They're the stories we tell ourselves about who we are, what we need, and how life should work. Our ego fixates on being right, being safe, being special, being in control. The ego has particular trouble accepting things like suffering, aging, and death. When left unchecked, this constant state of non-acceptance creates what feels like endless work—always trying to fix, control, or avoid the natural flow of life. But here's the beautiful truth: when we remember we are not our ego, we can love that part of us while simultaneously rising above its limitations. The Power of Acceptance When I replayed my street encounter from this deeper understanding, everything shifted. Instead of judging my body's trauma response, I allowed it to do what it needed—cry, shake, feel the shock—without resistance. I wasn't identifying with these responses; I was simply allowing them to flow through. Almost instantly, the trauma cleared. I could actually watch thoughts forming before they became words, accept them, and feel them transform. I could see clearly that thoughts and emotions were not "me"—they were just energy moving through consciousness. Living as Pure Consciousness From this place of pure consciousness, we can approach each morning with a different framework. Instead of being caught in our usual patterns, we can choose: "I will not fix on my ideas. I am enjoying a playful life. I choose love, peace, happiness, and gratitude. I choose to stay in this clear state and manage my life in a harmonious way." This isn't about achieving some perfect state—it's about remembering that everything is energy. When we take the pressure off the physical and play with who we "are," we can discover incredible resilience and peace. We can reprogram our entire experience using what I call unconditional virtues—love, peace, joy, gratitude, and acceptance—not as emotions we chase, but as the very fabric of our being. The Freedom of Not-Knowing The most liberating part? Once we truly establish ourselves in this clear state, nothing else matters as much. How we act, what we say, what happens in our life—these become expressions of something deeper rather than desperate attempts to maintain our ego's story. There's no "moral high ground" to maintain, no image to protect. Our choices flow from a place of unity rather than separation, from love rather than fear. In that space, we discover what true resilience looks like: not the ability to avoid difficulty, but the capacity to remain free and playful no matter what life brings. We learn to dance with whatever arises, knowing that we are the awareness in which all experiences appear and disappear. And in that knowing, we find an unshakeable peace that nothing can ever take from us. -------- Megan Kaun is a certified Qi Science (Zhineng Qigong Science) teacher and healer by Master Wei Qifeng, a direct disciple of Grandmaster Dr. Pang Ming. Work With Me

Developing energetic intelligence is the next level of sophistication at our disposal for navigating the complex human dynamics in our evolving world. A study published in January 2025   provides the first comprehensive analysis of "biofield" therapy research, examining 353 clinical cases across multiple energy-based healing modalities. This research may significantly impact how we discuss, understand, and evaluate not only energy healing modalities, but also our awareness over how we, as fundamentally energetic beings, can potentially heal or harm those around us in everyday interactions. This study, titled Biofield Therapies Clinical Research Landscape: A Scoping Review and Interactive Evidence Map reviewed decades of research on what scientists term "biofield therapies"; healing approaches that work with the energy fields surrounding and interpenetrating the human body. The biofield refers to the complex system of electromagnetic and subtle energy emissions from living beings that is thought to regulate biological processes and maintain health. The analysis included 255 randomized controlled trials examining practices like Reiki and external Qigong (similar to Zhineng Qigong Science modalities ) across diverse populations and conditions. All of the individual studies included demonstrated measurable changes in patient outcomes after biofield interventions, which were documented through objective health measures rather than subjective reports alone. The research encompassed applications ranging from pain management to cancer support, with particular attention to chronic conditions. Notable was the inclusion of remote healing studies; energy work performed across distance, independent of physical proximity. These studies support the quantum science theory that work performed on the consciousness level of existence operates outside of the confines of regular space/time. This research introduces important questions about what we might call "energetic intelligence"—our capacity to perceive, understand, and work with the subtle energy dynamics present in human interactions. Think of "energetic intelligence" as the next level up from "emotional intelligence." Emotional intelligence helped us recognize that feelings significantly impact outcomes across all areas of life. Organizations now routinely assess emotional intelligence when hiring and promoting, understanding that technical skills alone don't predict success. Energetic intelligence could be described as the ability to understand the "vibe" of a situation or decision. Things can be 95% correct in the intellectual and even the emotional realms (it makes sense and feels good), but do we have the framework to notice when something is misaligned in the energetic/consciousness realm ? For example, you might be offered a job that looks perfect on paper and feels exciting emotionally, but something subtle feels off about the team dynamics. Even though it pays well, perhaps the role would require you to consistently give more energetically than you'd be able to receive back. Maybe you're considering a business partnership where the numbers work and you like the person, but you sense the collaboration would force you to operate from scarcity mindset rather than from abundance. You could be evaluating a project that seems logical and feels good, but energetically you sense it's trying to "fix" something that isn't actually broken, creating problems where none exist. Maybe you're in a relationship that appears healthy on the surface, but you notice a pattern where your authentic self gradually shrinks to maintain harmony, moving you away from rather than toward your true nature (you can learn more about the universal tenants of the energy/consciousness real m HERE.) If all three levels of existence—intellectual, emotional, and energetic— if the vibe is even slightly off, that energetic misalignment can persist like a slow leak, continuously undermining your wellbeing and success in ways that are difficult to identify through conventional approaches. What this study examines as "biofield" healing works directly with these subtle energy misalignments. When practitioners help stabilize these energetic patterns, the effects often ripple into the physical realm. This is one way of conceptualizing why nearly half of the 353 cases considered in this study showed positive outcomes for conditions that conventional medicine could not address. Developing energetic intelligence starts with recognizing that we constantly exist within and influence energy fields, whether we're conscious of it or not. You might experience this when walking into a room where people have been arguing. You notice it when you meet someone new and feel a sense of expansion or contraction for reasons you can't articulate. You observe it when certain people leave you energized while others seem to drain your vitality. These everyday experiences point to our natural sensitivity to energetic dynamics. This is the same subtle information that can alert us when something is misaligned at the energetic level, even when everything else appears to be in order. Most people discover energy practices like Zhineng Qigong Science when facing health challenges that conventional medicine struggles to address. They're often seeking solutions for conditions labeled as "incurable" or "chronic"; ailments that western medicine doesn't know how to treat effectively. They find encouragement in decades of research documenting this modality's effectiveness with seemingly impossible cases. Yet beyond the physical healing they initially sought, many practitioners discover something unexpected: the practice awakens their energetic intelligence. They begin recognizing how energy dynamics influence all their interactions and relationships, developing the same sensitivity that allows them to detect when something feels "off" at the energetic level, even when circumstances appear ideal on paper. The natural side effects of this expanded awareness often include greater career success, more authentic relationships, and increased confidence in navigating life's decisions with all three levels of intelligence ( intellectual, emotional, and energetic ) now working in coherence. This raises questions about everyday energetic influence. If trained practitioners can facilitate changes through biofield work, what does this suggest about our routine impact on others? Parents observe how their calm presence shifts a child's mood. Teachers notice how their energy affects classroom dynamics. Leaders recognize that their internal state influences (dare we say "heals"?!) their team. Energetic intelligence involves paying attention to the quality of presence we bring to interactions. It means recognizing that our internal state of openness or fear (contraction) may influence the energetic environment around us. This isn't about adding performance pressure but about acknowledging a dimension of human interaction that operates whether we're aware of it or not. The practical applications extend across professional and personal contexts. Healthcare providers, business professionals, parents, and others who develop sensitivity to energetic dynamics often feel more effective in their roles. They begin sensing when situations call for calm presence versus dynamic energy, or when someone needs space versus connection. The research validates what energy healing practitioners have observed: we participate in interconnected fields of energy and information where influence and transformation operate through subtle mechanisms. All pre-modern cultures had a cosmology around how to work with the invisible realm of energy fields. How modern science will choose to study, describe, and interact with this same phenomenon will continue to evolve. What existing research does suggest is that biofield interactions occur regardless of our awareness. Developing energetic intelligence is the next level of sophistication at our disposal for navigating the complex human dynamics in our evolving world. We're already participating in these energy exchanges every moment. The question is whether we're doing so with awareness and skill, or unconsciously by default.