For 5 days I had the opportunity to enter into the landscapes of Montana and dreams. Fifteen of us gathered on the B Bar Ranch which is located at the top end of the mountain-rimmed Tom Miner Basin. The ranch is the highest deeded land in the Basin and is bordered by the Gallatin National Forest (Gardiner Ranger District) and Yellowstone National Park.
Spending time in the mountains, sitting by the fire in the big room, and in the company of other dreamers was a wonderful reminder that our lives are so much more than the violent assault on our nature by media and the rush of our culture. In these very challenging times, finding a sense of self through the imaginal of the dreamtime is not only reassurring, it is also generative. I came back to my family and my counseling practice feeling anchored in heart and soul and prepared to hold in balance the nature of all things, great and small, of mystery and fact, conscious and unconscious, pain and joy....one foot in front of the other in faith and determination and flexibility. Come and join me there if you would like....
