Introduction to Understanding Dreams
What's In a Dream?
The following is an excerpt from The Dream Book, by Betty Bethards:
Is there some deeper meaning behind this universal experience we call dreams? Or are dreams some strange, mysterious phenomenon that spontaneously happen on the night shift of life?
Throughout recorded history humankind has valued the dream. Over time they have been thought of as a source of guidance, inspiration, prophecy, prediction and problem solving. One thing for sure is that dreams are a common experience to us all. Dreams know no boundaries between young and old, rich and poor, races, religions and nationalities. In every culture we find some version of “sleeping on a problem” before making a decision. The Bible and other ancient texts are filled with examples of how dreams have played important roles in people’s lives.
What is this wonderful dimension that is so near and yet so far? To understand the real meaning of dreams we must delve beneath the surface to the purpose of it all – why are we here? That in turn leads us to the age-old question: Who am I?
We Are Inter-Dimensional Beings
Dreams begin to awaken us to the fact that we are spiritual or interdimensional beings, in the third dimension, or time-space, but we are not of it. Dreams are like a letter from the higher self to the conscious mind. They awaken us to higher resources of knowledge within ourselves, giving us information on what is happening in our daily lives and how to meet and move through the problems that face us. Dreams also give us information on the future, so we are forced to ask, “How could I know a thing like that?”
A dream helps us realize that we are here only temporarily on the stage of waking reality. What we call life is really a school. There are many schools or levels of consciousness in the universe, and earth is one of the most important. During our sojourn here we are learning more about the true nature of our being. We are learning that we are infinite creative energy or love energy, and that all of our hurts, disappointments and disillusions come from a failure to recognize this truth of who and what we are.
The name of the game is growth. In all our experiences we either go through or grow through them. If we just go through our experiences, then we will repeat them again and again until we learn the lesson behind the experience. If we grow through them, we are free to move on to the next step or level in the learning process.
Because of your past karmic ties and awareness of lessons to be learned, you intentionally have chosen the circumstances of your present existence. Before you ever incarnated you knew what the first 28 years of life had in store for you. You chose your parents, sex, race, nationality, socioeconomic conditions, Astrological sign – all of it. Whatever your circumstances, you set them up. If you chose anything less than a perfect body, it was for a reason: never to punish, only to teach. There is no accident or coincidence in life. Nothing happens by chance. Everything we perceive as suffering is really a wonderful opportunity to correct past mistakes or imbalances and move ourselves toward our ultimate goal of enlightenment.
Once we get the concept that we have created our own situation here in this earth school, we are able to ask why. What is my positive lesson? What is this experience teaching me? Then at last we can stop blaming others for our unhappiness and realize no one can limit our lives. We cannot change others, but we can change ourselves and move beyond any given situation. Every relationship and every experience is nothing more than an opportunity to grow through limitations.
Dreams Documented Through History
Many people throughout history have used dreams for insight and creativity. Many works of art, music and writings have been given through dreams.
- Joseph in the Old Testament was released from prison because he could interpret the Pharaohs’ dreams.
- Joseph and Mary were pre-warned to get Jesus out of town before all of the babies were killed.
- Beatles legend, Paul McCartney, composed the melody for “Yesterday” in a dream one night in 1964.
- Lincoln had a dream two weeks before his death showing him laid out in state because he was assassinated.
- The Aborigines and many American Indian tribes would begin many of their mornings by sharing their dreams in order to seek their purpose in life and get guidance.
Read More about Dreams
- Dreams can help awaken your spiritual hotline to insights to yourself
- Find out more details about interpreting dreams
If you would like to read more about Dreams, a link to Betty’s book, The Dream Book, is available below. In addition, if you would like to hear Betty talk about Dreams and how to interpret them, a link to her audio download is also available below.
Dreams
By Betty Bethards
$18.00
This is a live, historical recording of Betty Bethards speaking on dreams. We spend one third of our lives in the dream state so if you aren’t working with your dreams you are losing free help. Dreams are one of our greatest tools for understanding ourselves.
Symbols in dreams are universal around the world. Betty explains in this seminar and her book that dreams are your most treasured source of knowledge because the conscious mind cannot get in the way to distort the message from your teachers (in other words, we can’t color or influence our dreams). Dreams give us a daily reading on what is happening in our lives. They provide a door to the super-conscious mind for insight, problem solving and higher teachings from the other side. The most valuable tools we have for helping ourselves in life are free and available to all of us. They are dreams, prayer (affirmations and visualizations), and meditation. If we take advantage of these, much of the guesswork, confusion and hardship of life can vanish or at least, be managed better.
Each seminar has two recordings: Side 1 and Side 2.
This seminar is available in two .wav files.
- Each seminar is $18.00/title
- If you are interested in all 23 titles, the price will be $220.00 (35% discount).
