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UNCOVER THE

DAYDREAMS

HOLDING YOU BACK

Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., is a medical anthropologist who comes from a long line of Earthkeepers from the Amazon and
the Andes. The author of numerous best-selling books, Dr. Villoldo currently directs The Four Winds Society in Park
City, UT, where he trains people in the practice of energy medicine and soul retrieval. https://thefourwinds.com/

One way to think of a sacred dream is as a story This story offers me a window into my client’s unconscious
that brings meaning and direction to your life. This maps and the challenges they will find as they travel along the
story is like a map with trails that can lead you on trails defined by their story. Sometimes my client’s story will
an epic journey to a worthwhile destination. If your fail the test of destiny. The story is too small, and the horizon
map has you hiking along a parched desert, you can come up it sets is too close and cramped, or the map it provides is too
with a better narrative that takes you through a shady forest fuzzy and it’s hard to get their bearings. I know then that this
or a fruit orchard. On the desert trail we hurry along, encour- story is not part of a sacred dream and will in all likelihood
aged by the hot sand beneath our feet. On the path through soon turn into a nightmare, as in the story that follows.
the shady forest we sometimes forget our destination.
I met Roger, a man in his early 60s, shortly after he was
There are gifts and trappings to whichever road we take in divorced from his wife of many years. A successful engineer
life. But we want to be able to choose the story that is right and entrepreneur, Roger was searching for the next adventure
for us, and not always the well-beaten path selected for us by his life might take him on. He came to me for guidance, for a
fate or by society or caste. I love the part in Alice in Wonder- compass and map that would let him explore the next chapter
land where the Cheshire Cat essentially tells Alice, “If you of his journey creatively.
don’t know where you are going, just about any road will take
you there!” Here is what Roger wrote: Once upon a time there was a
young prince who traveled through the countryside until he
This is what happens when you do not have your own story— found a castle with a very large tower. He noticed that at the
you end up at the same boring destination as everyone else. top of the tower there was a beautiful princess who was only
A sacred dream is always bigger than you are and it has a des- allowed to step out once a day onto the deck of the tower,
tination that is mysterious. So be sure that you select a great which was her prison. The princess immediately fell in love
dream, for your story will inevitably take you there. When I with the prince and he became determined to rescue her.
work with a client, I ask them to write a fairy tale that begins
“Once upon a time . . .” and that includes a prince or prin- But the castle was guarded by a fierce dragon chained to the
cess, a warrior (or warrioress), and a dragon. The psychologist base of the tower. The prince called on his faithful servant and
Carl Jung said that the unconscious speaks through dreams asked him to go to the castle and test to see if the dragon was
and fairy tales. friendly. He was to measure the length of the dragon’s chain
and the distance to the nearest tall tree.

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