MOON
GARDEN
Dreamwork as a Collective Practice
With Adam Elmaghraby
FOUR CONSECUTIVE MONDAYS
NOVEMBER 17TH - DECEMBER 8TH
7-9:30 PM PST
ONLINE VIA ZOOM
ENROLLMENT CLOSES ON NOVEMBER 13th
Moon Garden is an immersion into the wisdom of dreams, plant allies, and collective imagination.
You will learn to harness your dreams as guides and a supportive structure for your health and healing. In every session, we will learn about dream work from different perspectives, spanning indigenous/animist to modern discourse, brought to life in a weekly projective dream circle. Projective dreamwork is a participatory method for workshoping dreams in a group.
*This offering does not require prior experience with dreamwork; all are welcome to participate in discovering dreams for health and healing.
Weekly requirement: Dreamers are invited to keep a dream journal and actively participate in the immersion, and to approach their fellow participants with a deep empathy to create a collective space. Each week will have a practice, homework, to deepen your person dream practice.
Sessions
Week 1 – Claiming the Dreamer & Sleep Hygiene
Theme: Awakening to the Dream as Messenger
Intent: Establish the foundations of a dream practice and create the collective container. We will introduce how we activate dream recall and how we approach dreaming in a collective container. We will discuss the importance of sleep hygiene for practical dream work and practice.
Key Activities:
Why we dream — indigenous and metamodern perspectives
The world behind the world, why the spirit comes to us in dreams.
The world view of the self: Monophasic vs. Polyphasic invitations and practices.
Sleep hygiene, sleep, and dreaming
How to recall and record dreams
Projective Dream Circle & Jeremy Taylor
Excerpts from Taylor
Homework: Begin a dream journal, join our class chat.
Week 2 – Metamodern Dreaming & Rewilding the Inner Landscape
Theme: Collective dreaming, a cultural assemblage.
Intent: We will embody the theme of Assemblage from ecology, combing concepts of the self to explore cultural narratives, practices, and dream traditions to attune to our personal journey. We will also be discussing the importance of projection in understanding our waking and sleeping lives.
Key Activities:
Rooting into living traditions, indigenous dreaming practices
Achuar, Shipibo, Navajo, and others…
Ancient Dream Traditions: Ancient Egypt, Hindu/Buddhist, Biblical, and what rediscovering.
Rewilding, an affront and a new narrative for the inner landscape.
Why these themes and ecologies matter, projection, and our unconscious stories
Homework: Continue dream journal, and draw/depict/explore dreams through art practices.
Week 3 – Dreaming in the Garden: Dieta, Plant Allies, Totems, and Mythic Relations
Theme: Communion Beyond Waking Life
Intent: We take our assemblages into the inner mythic and delve into eros as a guide into relationships with plant, animal, and elemental guides through dreamwork.
Key Activities:
Dieta, container of revelation and healing
Polyphasic awakenings, how mysticism reawakens the senses and is balm of our time.
Discussion: Dreaming during dieta — reciprocity and respect
Collective mapping: totems, elements, and dream ecosystems
Homework: map your allies, who is your council, and who are your guides? Identify 2-5 guides and their significance. What lessons do they have to teach you?
Week 4 – The Great Dream: The Bardo, Lucid Dreaming, and Consciousness Unravelled.
Theme:
Intent: As dreams awaken us, how does it guide our expansiv thinking of extradimensional states of consciousness and open our perception. We will discuss where our great dream interacts with the collective dream. We also learn how esoteric traditiona have used dreams to activate fuller definition of consciousness, a more inclusive perspective of liminal states, lucid awareness, and cosmology that brings mythic attunement into waking life.
Key Activities:
Techniques for lucid dreaming and in-dream awareness
Tibetan dream work and the Bardo discussion
Altered states, what dream work has to teach us about consciousness and navigating our consciousness
Final assignment: Create a personal Dreamer’s Manifesto or “Myth Map,” what great dream are you invited to inhabit and live into?
About Adam Elmaghraby
Adam Elmaghraby is Soraya's father, his forward-looking ancestor. He is the son of Egyptian parents who came to the United States in the 1970s, which paved the way for him to become a philosopher, dreamer, innovator, and herbalist. He is blessed to draw upon his Egyptian cosmopolitan ancestry and continuous renewal with herbal courtship to support our cultural awakening to sacred practices.
Adam has degrees in Philosophy and Pan-African Studies and an MBA in Design Strategy. He is a professional researcher and futurist who helps people and companies understand the momentum of the world around them. In nature, he meets spirit at his altar while creating community and cooking.
Adam has been practicing and facilitating dream work for eight years. His plant allies include Rose, Tulsi, Chiric Sanango, Tobacco, Maca, Psilocybin, Mullein, Una De Gato, and medicinal mushrooms.
Register for The Garden Under The Moon
We understand that everyone’s financial situation is different. To make our services more accessible, we offer a sliding scale payment option. This allows you to choose a payment amount that is comfortable for you based on your resources.
For those who are able to contribute more, your support helps us provide the discounted rate for those in need.
This is our general price point, reflecting the standard cost for this course.