Dream Interpretation as Spiritual Guidance
What if there's an enlightened part of you that's trying to communicate with your conscious mind all the time?
Your Inner Consciousness & Life are constantly trying to offer enlightened guidance to your conscious mind.
I hear it all the time. Spiritual practitioners are trying to receive downloads and hear what their spirit guides are trying to say to them.
But one of the most overlooked ways to connect with spiritual guidance is by interpreting your dreams, spiritual experiences, and life experiences.
Sure, the Jungian analysts have been interpreting dreams for a long time, but they have been mostly focused on individuation and psychological health.
It wasn't until my spiritual teacher started interpreting my dreams that I began to see the vast spiritual potential of dream interpretation.
So there's all this untapped spiritual truth and guidance that we're not listening to.
Your Inner Consciousness and Life communicate with your conscious mind in the language of symbolism.
So here's how it works... Your inner consciousness is your spirit, higher self, or the part of you that is connected to all of life.
Your Inner Consciousness is constantly trying to communicate with your conscious mind. And it communicates with us through symbols.
Our ego, or part of us that is trying to keep us safe, is wired to not let threatening (or liberating) information in. So it acts as gate-only letting things that are not a threat to it pass through to our conscious mind.
Our ego tends to see symbols as non-threatening and so it lets them pass through.
Inner consciousness --> Ego (gate) --> Conscious Mind
The symbols that come through are part of a language. We just need to translate or “interpret” the symbols of the dream to understand what our inner consciousness is trying to say to our conscious mind.
The spiritual guidance that comes through is direct, clear, and pure. It's like getting personalized guidance from an enlightened teacher or a crystal-clear psychic reading.
Getting an intuitive feel for your dream or spiritual experience deepens its interpretation.
So, following from above, the language of symbolism has provided a translation, much like a translation from a foreign language.
This symbolic translation is often fairly analytical and intellectual. There are Jungian scholars who do diietation and in-depth studies of the language of symbolism. And this expands our understanding of the language.
Artificial intelligence can do a decent job of translating the language if you enter in your dream.
The way we interpret the symbolism is determined by the paradigm and intention that developed the interpretation. If you look through the lens of analytical psychology, you will get a psychological interpretation.
However, if you want the interpretation to provide clear spiritual guidance, you have to bring your intuition into the mix.
Our intuition comes from our inner consciousness. So we use our intuition or our waking inner consciousness to treat the guidance from our inner consciousness. Like interprets like.
Through the experience of interpreting dreams with the intention of receiving spiritual guidance, you begin to develop an intuitive feel for it
Like interprets like. They are two different paradigms. Two t different levels of consciousness. Intellect interprets intellect. Soul interprets soul.
Having your dream interpreted intuitively provides the direct, pure truth of a spiritual experience.
There's really no substitute for the feeling of the magic of having your own dream accurately interpreted with the intention of spiritual guidance.
This provides a reference point for what it intuitively feels like when you have the right spiritual guidance interpretation. Then you can recognize intuitively feels when you interpret the dreams of yourself and others
So what you are doing is developing your spiritual intuition. The dream is just a medium. Instead of reading Tarot cards, you are interpreting dreams.
And my experience is that intuitive dream interpretation is a very direct, clear, and powerful medium.
And the fact that you had the dream feels like you received a vision or spiritual experience. And in a very real sense, you have.
So the spiritual guidance and truth that you received is your truth. It is truth that you experienced directly. The Zen folks would call it direct transmission.
This is different from something you read in a book or hear on a podcast. Those are other people's truths. (Of course, if they resonate with you and you work with them, they can become your truths.)
This dream experience is your truth. You know it to be true. Noone can ever take it away from you or talk you out of it. Because now you know.
So tell me what was going on with that dream you had the other night...
3 Applications of Intuitive Dream Interpretation
Intuitive Dream Interpretation
Divorce and the end of a relationship hit us at a deeply personal and tender place. Grieving its loss is essential. It provides an opportunity to reevaluate what we truly want in a romantic relationship.
Spiritual Experience and Vision Interpretation
Your relationship has not been right for a while. You've tried everything you know. There's still love there. The prospect of leaving is scary. Is it time to leave, or can you make this thing work?
Synchronicity & Waking Experience Interpretation
Your marriage is not working, but what about raising the kids, the money, the schools, and the house? Can you do all this on your own? You may be stronger than you think, and perhaps it takes a village.
Hi, I'm Michael
I have been interpreting dreams for clients, friends, and myself to receive pure spiritual guidance for 35 years.
When I'm not playing the drums, exploring the Pacific Northwest, or interpreting dreams, I'm facilitating sessions and retreats for people to awaken their spiritual well-being and purpose in their everyday lives.
I do this by guiding and supporting one person at a time to tune into the spiritual truth and guidance that's presenting itself to them.
I developed this form of Dream Interpretation as a clear, step-by-step approach to receive the clear spiritual guidance that your inner consciousness is trying to communicate to you.
So bring the latest whacky dream that you can remember and find out what life is trying to say to you. Not only is it liberating, but it's also mysterious and fun (like getting a really cool psychic reading).
Intuitive Dream Interpretation Practice
Phase 1
Remember & Record your Dreams Practice
Once you focus on a few simple things before you go to sleep and right when you wake up, you will begin to get glimpses of your dreams. And when you pay attention to those things, the memory of your dreams starts opening up.
Phase 2
Understand the Symbolism of your Dream
Symbolism is the language of life. The same symbolism in your dreams is found in art, mythology, religion, and spiritual experiences. Once you learn the language, you can translate what your dreams and life are saying to you.
Phase 3
Discern the Intuitive Feel of Your Dream
Now that your symptoms and issues don't define what you can and can't have in your life and relationships, you're free to move forward in your life. Ongoing guidance and support help you integrate the things you value into your new life
"The real core of the work I did with Michael is seeing how I have always been looking outward to define myself. What I have found in working with him is that I already had the resources within me to actually create the changes I wanted to make. For me, this has been the pivotal change. I have to say, Michael held my feet to the fire, and that is what I really needed. He helped me get in touch with trusting my heart and moving from that place."
Individual Dream Interpretation Session
$125
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60-minute Individual Dream Interpretation Session.
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Facilitated by Michael Hoffman, LCSW, a licensed psychotherapist and spiritual teacher with 30 years of experience.
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Sessions offered on a weekly, every other week, or as-agreed basis.
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Weekly or every other week sessions for 3+ months offer more significant and lasting benefits for inner guidance and wholeness.
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Sessions occur on Zoom, Phone, or In-person at the Ashland, OR office.
Natural Way of Being Dream Interpretation Sessions and Personal Programs
Natural Way of Being Dream Interpretation Sessions provide direct guidance from the part of you that is connected to all of life. They walk you through a complete transition to a new way of being.
Natural Way of Being Dream Interpretation Programs are ongoing coaching sessions and prescribed practices that occur weekly or every other week. As part of your program, you receive a scheduled session time.
You can also combine Dream Interpretation Coaching sessions with Weekly Sharing Circles. Combining individual and group work (such as individual sessions every other week and a Weekly Sharing Circle) is powerful and synergistic.
Committing to a personal program of consistent Dream Interpretation Coaching sessions for a period of time provides the most effective and efficient way to integrate spiritual purpose, loving relationships, and quality of life.