Taught online via Zoom
Saturdays, October 7, 14 and 21
2 to 4 pm ET
$100 Patreon Members / $125 General Admission

PLEASE NOTE: All classes will be recorded but it is highly recommended you attend the classes live for the richest experience.

Did you know that Abraham Lincoln dreamed of his own death? Or that a murderer in the 1990’s changed his plea to guilty when his victim came to visit him in his dreams? Or that almost everyone has had at least one dream about the future that came true?

When we dream, it is a “small death.” We are “dead to the world,” and “check out” of our earthly realm for the night. Some traditions even believe that when we are sleeping, our soul is free to wander and travel around the spirit world without the hindrance of a human body. When our souls return in the morning, it is called a dream, and when our souls do not return, it is a death. Medical statistics have even shown that the peak time for people to die from disease and chronic illness is in the early morning, right in the middle of their longest REM phase of sleep, which is the time when most people are dreaming the most deeply.

Some scholars even believe that the very concept of religion itself was borne out of prehistoric peoples dreaming of the dead and needing to find an explanation as to why the “soul” of a loved one seems to lives on, even after the physical body has been buried, burned, or torn apart by animals.

In this class, educator, dream worker, and interfaith minister Tristy Taylor—daughter of renowned dream worker Jeremy Taylor, co-founder of the International Association for the Study of Dreams — will explore the notion of linear time as an objective construction of the human mind, and how being in the dreamtime might be understood as freeing us from this construct. We will learn the signs that a dead person might be visiting us in our dreams (rather than them being just a projection of our own psyche), and tools to better communicate with them. We’ll look at about several scientifically documented past life dreams, and explore how you can tell if one of your dreams may be showing you a past life experience.

On the third session of this class series, we will be joined by dream researcher and author Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D. Kelly is director of the Sleep and Dream Database (SDDb), a Senior Editor of the American Psychological Association's journal "Dreaming," and a former President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. He is author and editor of several books, including "Dreaming Beyond Death," which we will be talking about in-depth, throughout the class series.

There will also be space in the class for students to bring their own visitation and past life dreams to explore with the group, if desired (but not required).

By the end of the class, students will have a much more solid foundation to work with death imagery in their own dreams, and be able to invite in more communication with dead loved ones, as well as past life memories. This class will invite in a new relationship to death, potentially helping to release previous fears and anxieties about what may or may not come next, after we shuffle off this mortal coil.

Tristy Taylor is a Portland, Oregon-based dream worker, teacher, ordained interfaith minister, and former hospice chaplain who has survived the sudden death of her husband, as well as both her parents dying within 24 hours of each other. Raised by world-renowned dream worker Jeremy Taylor and dream artist Kathryn Taylor, she has been working with her dreams from the very beginning. Before she could write, she was drawing and talking about her dreams at the breakfast table, and therefore grew up with a deep connection and an ever deepening wisdom in how the dream world works. She has been leading dream groups since she was 15-years old, and over the last three decades, she has grown her own dream work offerings to include art making and ritual as guided by the dream world, as well as opening the rich secrets of nightmare imagery. She has a Masters of Art & Consciousness from John F. Kennedy University, and she is currently adjunct faculty at the Chaplaincy Institute for Interfaith Ministry, where she teaches Dreamwork, Ritual Crafting, and Being with Death and Dying. She sees clients one-on-one and also facilitates online dream workshops every season. Find out more about her work and sign up for her newsletter at www.createwithspirit.com.

Images: Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ, A Eunuch’s Dream, 1874; Frida Kahlo, The Dream (The Bed), 1940