Discourses on Dreams

by Mark Bukator

As many of you know by now, Serge Grandbois and I recently published a book called, “Discourses on Dreams”. I wanted to take the time to share with you some of the stories behind the book, as well as to give you a peek inside its covers.

This is our first book and it represents a three and half year arduous journey. It may come as a shock to many of you, since Kris did most of the talking¹ and the stories appear to write themselves, but I can assure you that it was much harder than that.

I have never written a book before and when we first set out to write this one, I had never written so much as a blog before. I had no clue how to put the chapters together, how to thread the various conversations together or how to insert my own thoughts and experiences. These were talents that I did not know existed within me and scared the living daylights out of me.

The real difficult part of putting this book together though was that the journey itself changed me. Each walk that we took, each conversation that we held affected me in ways that I could never have imagined. Not only were we writing a book, but I was also exploring the material, experimenting with the concepts and striving desperately to apply the knowledge and wisdom that Kris shared with me.

I am not the same person now that I was then due to the profound changes and great strides that I have made as a direct result of these discourses. It gives me great pride to share these experiences with the readers and to assist others in accelerating their understanding of whom and what they are, as well to help others understand their own role in conscious creation and the magnificent powers that they wield.

Disclaimer: Those who venture forth and read this book, like myself will be changed. Your dreams will change and the way that you look at dreams will change. This book contains many powerful tools and resources, many of which are unique to this book and to Kris.

Now, if you are all willing, I would like to open the book up to Chapter 24 and invite you to come along with Kris and I as we take a walk on September 09, 2007. The chapter is called, “Dream Associations” and it details one of the many resources available to all of you wonderful dreamers.

KRIS: In one of the recent dream discussions, we spoke about utilizing a grid as an aid to focus upon other aspects or areas of a specific dream or any dream, as well as utilizing it in many other areas of life.

MARK: Yes, I remember that.

KRIS: There are also many other kinds of tools. And one of the most interesting requires the utilization of both the conscious mind as well as the dream state itself. And this is simply based upon the idea that you review your dreams, dream recall, dream material and adventures and so on, strictly from the point of view of the conscious mind, after the fact. As if, somehow or other, the dream itself happened perhaps to someone else and you merely happen to be at times a witness, at times a participant, at times both. And though you may on many occasions still recollect and reconnect with the emotions and feeling tones of the dream, you still view the dream itself as if you are experiencing something quite separate and outside of your ordinary selves’ experiences.

MARK: Right.

KRIS: This is perhaps the standard perspective on dreams and dream recall. The description of utilizing the grid can begin to change that somewhat, and it can begin to bring in a different kind of experience concerning your dreams. And what we are proposing then, would take this up to another level altogether, engaging the dreamer from the conscious perspective directly with and within his or her dream experience. Not as if he or she is something separate from the he or she that he or she is within the dream, but that this is truly an expression of themselves wholly, completely and holistically. This will broaden the horizon of awareness in the dream experience from the conscious perspective, and give you an entirely new definition of a point of view concerning what it is you do within your dreams.

And it is actually far more important when you get into this kind of dream exploration to cultivate a wider and wider conscious perspective upon the dream activities, because this will completely and radically impact your consciousness, your sense of yourself, who and what you think you are, and your abilities of consciousness. The process is relatively simple, emphasis on the word ‘relatively’, as for some people this might prove slightly more challenging than for some others. But altogether the degrees of satisfaction and fulfilment derived from this small experience can indeed be much deeper than anything we say implies concerning the experience itself. Of course it is helpful that you already keep a dream journal of some kind.

Keep an archive of your dreams and do know that when you archive your dream with pen and paper, or however you do it, perhaps with a recording device of some kind, remember that you are already interpreting that experience from the conscious mind’s perspective and it is quite easy to not notice how much of the dream itself you have already censored. And this process also requires that you do keep an archive of your dreams, and you would engage the process immediately after archiving your dream on that day or morning.

Thus immediately upon taking down and archiving as much of your dream as you remember, keep focusing upon the feeling tone, the emotions and anything else of the dream experience that you can hold in your awareness. And from that position of holding as much of the dream in your awareness, allow and even request of your subconscious mind, allow dream associations to begin to flow. And by this we mean, for instance, if you have dreamt that you went on a merry-go-round in an amusement park and do remember we are not looking for interpretations of symbols here, but there is something else underlying the notion of dream interpretations, because that is often a powerful stumbling block for dreamers.

Thus we are looking to go beyond the stumbling block of dream interpretations at his time. A different kind of interpretation will make itself known rather rapidly. And at this point in this process, what we are looking for is in line with the idea that you may have dreamt of seeing a merry-go-round, of being on the merry-go-round, of hearing a merry-go-round; whether in an amusement park, in a museum, in a book, on a television program, in a film, someone talking about it, and any other dreams that may have had similar elements, to begin showing up, any other threads with similarities to begin showing up.

Perhaps you may then find, in your mind, the recollection of a dream you had three days ago, five weeks ago, two years ago, slowly begin to show up in your awareness. There may be subtle differences, and there may be even vague notions of similarities but nonetheless do not dismiss them, incorporate them and note those down. There is no need to go looking them up in your dream archives per se, but allow similar associations, even if vague, to become part of your present awareness, filling up the landscape of your mind with a little collage or montage of various imagery also related.

Perhaps within another dream you saw a small pony, or perhaps in another dream you saw an amusement park where you would normally expect to find a merry-go-round. Or perhaps in another dream you saw a little girl’s bedroom and on her dresser there was a miniature merry-go-round or an image of a merry-go-round, or perhaps a Barbie-doll house with a merry-go-round. All such imagery is quite legit and allow it to come to the surface following association after association, thread upon thread, letting it go where it takes you. Follow the lead. Do you follow so far?

MARK: Yes, I do, in fact I have an example. A common symbol or a common element in many of my dreams is water; the Niagara River, Chippawa Creek, waves, canals. Sometimes I’m in the water, sometimes I’m in a boat, sometimes I’m just looking at it, but it’s a very common occurrence.

KRIS: Indeed. Now the idea is to allow all of these things to start popping up into your mind. Take note of all the various feeling tones that are expressed with the various imageries. Some may indeed be very similar and others different. Take them all in, do not dismiss or discount anything. And if you can, note those down as well. You may even start bringing up images and experience within your living context that may have brought about dreams later on or that may also be associated, somehow or other, with dream events. But perhaps you will be reminded of a dream of a merry-go-round that later on led to an experience where you saw the very same merry-go-round as you saw in your dream first, and in your living after. And allow those kinds of connections to also come to the surface. That is the first part of these experiences…

The rest of the method can be found in Chapter 24 of “Discourses on Dreams”. For more information or to purchase your copy, please go to www.krischronicles.com.

Sweet Dreams!

End Notes :

1 Serge Grandbois is a trance channeler who channels Kris “an Energy Personality Gestalt.” Mark, Serge and Kris can be listened to live on ThatRadio.com every Thursday.