The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination (31 page)

problem-solving effects of,

recalling,

recording,

routine dismissal of,

shoe,

soul recovery through,

as survival mechanism,

Younger Self as separate individual,

See also
creativity, dreams and;

dreaming, nine powers of;

dreams, as historical agent;

health, dreams and dreams, as historical agent,

Churchill as pilot and,

human development in,

Islamic dream psychology and,

in/11 attacks,

in Ottoman Empire,

Dreams and Their Interpretation
(Ibn Sirin),

dream seers,

dream symbols,

Dreamtime,

dream trackers,

dream traveling,

“Drops of Jupiter” (Train),

drumming,

Dunne, J.W.,

E

Earthshine,

Easter Island,

Eastern philosophy,

Egypt, ancient,

Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands),

Einstein, Albert,

Elizabeth I (queen of England),

emotion, transformative ability of,

Emoto, Masuru,

end-state images,

energy paths,

England, intelligence service in,

Entry into the Realm of Reality
(Buddhist text),

Eriksson, Leif,

error, benefits of,

Ethiopians, ancient,

exercises.
See
games/exercises

F

failure,

fairies,

fear, dream reentry because of,

fibromyalgia, dream imagery as cure for,

Fierz, Henry,

Findhorn experiments,

Fire in the Crucible
(Briggs),

Five-Minute Oracle,

Fleming, Alexander,

forgotten contract dreams,

Franz, Marie-Louise von,

freedom, dreaming and,

future, dreaming and,

dream seers and,

early-opportunity dreams,

early-warning dreams,

precognitive dreams,

survival through,

time as space and,

G

games/exercises

book-skimming game,

car radio game,

Coincidence Card Game,

community vision,

dream home,

dream reentry technique,

Five-Minute Oracle,

Lightning Dreamwork Game,

spirit of play and,

See also
dream games

Gatekeeper, the,

Gawain, Shakti,

Gehry, Frank,

getting lost,

Ghana, historical imagination in,

ghosts,

Giacometti, Alberto,

Gibson, William,

Gilbert, Martin,

giving up,

gods, in disguise,

Golden Horn bridge (Turkey),

Goodyear, Charles,

Greeks, ancient,

group dreaming,

Gurske, Marybeth,

H

hair loss, dream imagery as cure for,

Harper's Magazine,

Hau Maka (Polynesian priest),

healing images,

human electrochemical system and,

power of,

sources of,

triggers for,

types of,

health, dreams and,

diagnostic dreams,

dream healing,

energy paths,

imagery for self-healing,

prescriptions through,

heart's desire, waymaking for,

Hesse, Hermann,

hidden hand, looking for,

Hilprecht, Hermann,

historical imagination,

history parallelisms in,

personal, clearing,

rhyming sequences in,

See also
dreams, as historical agent

Hitler, Adolf,

Hoffmann, Albert,

Hölderlin, Friedrich,

Howe, Elias,

Hudai Effendi,

I

IBM,

Ibn Abi al-Dunya,

Ibn Sirin,

“(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction” (Rolling Stones),

Icelandic sagas,

I Ching (Book of Changes),

ideas, projection of,

imagery, personal,

imagination

blocks and,

building,

child mind and,

claiming power of,

crisis of,

defined,

healing images,

historical,

masters of,

as place,

power of,

reality of,

routine dismissal of,

sympathetic,

vision transfer and,

waymaking and,

See also
imagination, seven open secrets of; vision

imagination, seven open secrets of,

1. By picturing our blocks, we can move beyond them,
   
2. The body believes in images,
   
3. If we can see our destination, we are better than halfway there,
   
4. The Big Story is hunting us,
   
5. There is a place of imagination, and it is entirely real,
   
6. We can grow a vision for someone in need of a vision,
   
7. The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results,
   

India, tsunami of 2004 and,

indigenous cultures, dreaming as awakening in,

See also
Aboriginal Australians;

Iroquois Indians;
specific culture

“In Dreams” (Orbison),

inner compass

dreams and,

Three Only Things and,

vision and,

inner/outer interaction.
See
mind/matter

interaction

intention

coincidence and,

community vision and,

dreaming and,

imagination and,

oracle consultation and,

vision transfer and,

invention

dreams and,

serendipity in,

Iraq, historical imagination and,

Iroquois Indian Museum (Schoharie Valley, NY),

Iroquois Indians,

dreaming as awakening,

imaginative power of,

Islam, dream dimensions of,

Alam al-Mithal (“Realm of Images”),

dreams as mandate for authority in,

dream visitations in,

martyrs' dreams in,

soul journeys in,

is omorphy,

See also
synchronicity

J

Jacques, Freida,

Japan

healing story from,

imperial divination department in,

Jingikan,

Joan of Arc,

journal keeping,

Julius Caesar,

Jung, Carl,

on archetypes,

on dreams and ethics,

Pauli's dreams and,

synchronicity theory of,

K

Ka'us, Kai,

Kekulé, Friedrich August von,

King, Martin Luther, Jr.,

King, Stephen,

kitchen dreams,

Koestler, Arthur,

Kukatja people,

L

Lady Tree (Domrémy, France),

Legend of Bagger Vance, The
(film),

LeGuin, Ursula,

Lennon, John,

Leonardo da Vinci,

letters, crossed,

Library Angel,

life, rhyming in,

Lightning Dreamwork Game,

Lincoln, Abraham,

Lincoln's Dreams
(Willis),

Lord of the Rings
(Tolkien),

lost, getting,

Lou, Athena,

Louis Lambert
(Balzac),

Lucrecia de León,

Lukacs, John,

M

Madison (WI)

author's experience on flight to,

dream workshop in,

magic

natural,

passions of the soul and,

magnets, double,

Mahfouz, Naguib,

“Make it up as you go along” (song),

Makiritare people,

“Man Comes Around, The” (Cash),

Marcus Aurelius,

marketplaces, messages from the world at,

marriage,

dreams and,

vision transfer and,

McCartney, Paul,

McClellan, George B.,

mental telegraphy,

“Mental Telegraphy” (Twain),

Mernissi, Fatima,

Mesopotamia, dream interpreter in,

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY),

Millionaire Course, The
(Allen),

mind(s)

child mind,

mingling of,

Mind, Body, Spirit Festival (Sydney, Australia),

mind/matter interaction in author's airplane flight experiences,

coincidence and,

human emotions and,

in Jung/Pauli correspondence,–

in mingling of minds,

in psychokinesis,

in quantum physics,

Three Only Things and,

mirror dreams,

Misery
(King),

Mitchard, Jacqueline,

Monahan, Pat,

Monster.com,

motion, coincidence multiplied during,

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,

Muhammad (prophet),

Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY),

music, dreams of,

Mystic (CT), dream workshop in,

N

NASA,

natural phenomena, messages from,

Nebuchadnezzar,

New Forest (Hampshire, England),

New World Library,

Nicklaus, Jack,

Nietzsche, Friedrich,

night guardians,

nightmares,

Nin, Anaïs,

9/11.
See
September (2001) attacks

9/11 Commission,

Nine Powers of Dreaming.
See
dreaming, nine powers of

Nine Rules of Coincidence.
See
coincidence, nine rules of

Nobel, Alfred,

O

objectivity, dream mirrors and,

“observer effect,”

Octavian,

O'Hare International Airport (Chicago),

“old place” dreams,

Omar, Mullah,

omens,

O My God Peaches,

oracles,

oracular speech,

Orbison, Roy,

Osman (Ottoman founder),

Ottoman Empire

dream mandate in,

fall of, historical imagination and,

P

Paracelsus,

parallelisms, historical,

parallel worlds,

passions, magic worked by,

Pattern Recognition
(Gibson),

Pauli, Wolfgang,

Pauli Effect,

Peacemaker,

“Pearl, The” (Gnostic tale),

Persian philosophy,

Pharai, oracle of,

Philip II (king of Spain),

Philippi, battles of,

Pike Place Market (Seattle),

play, spirit of,

Poland, Soviet occupation of,

Polynesians, ancient,

Port Arthur (TX),

precognition,

Pressfield, Steve,

Price, H.H.,

process images,

projection,

psychokinesis,

Purgatorio
(Dante),

purpose, dreams and,

Putting Your Question to the World,

Q

al-Qaeda,

quantum theory,

R

Raine, Kathleen,

receptive images,

relationships, dreaming and,

Return of the King, The
(Tolkien),

rhyming sequences,

Richards, Keith,

Richmond Daily Dispatch
,

Rilke, Rainer Maria,

“Ring of Fire” (Cash),

Rolling Stones,

Rome, ancient,

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,

rubber walkways,

Rumsfeld, Donald,

al-ruya
(true dream),

S

sagacity, “accidental,”,

Sankofa (Ghanaian symbolic bird),

“Satisfaction” (Rolling Stones),

Scheherazade story,

Schultz, Howard,

scientific innovation.
See
invention Seattle (WA),

author's experience on flight to,

author's marketplace experience in,

Self

dreams and,

journal keeping and,

as mirror,

self-healing, dream imagery for,

self-veiling,

September (2001) attacks,

serendipity,

setbacks, as opportunities,

Seven Open Secrets of Imagination.
See
imagination, seven open secrets of Shakespeare, William,

shamanic drumming,

Shannon (Confederate soldier),

She Who Dreams
(Burch),

shoe dreams,

Sibylline Books,

signs,

sleep

“committee of,”

problem solving during,

Society for Psychical Research (England),

somatic messages,

Sosio's fruit stand, Seattle,

soul journeys,

soul loss,

soul recovery, dreams and,

soul remembering,

Soviet Union,

Spanish Armada,

Speckled Bird, The
(Yeats),

spirit instructors,

spiritual gravitation,

Stegonagraphia
(Trithemius),

Steinbeck, John,

Steinhardt, Arnold,

Stevenson, Robert Louis,

Stilwell, Arthur,

stories.
See
Big Stories

Suhrawardi (Persian philosopher),

Suleiman the Magnificent (sultan),

superheroes, as healing images,

superstition,

symbolism,

sympathetic imagination,

synchronicity,

Synesius of Cyrene,

T

Tagore, Rabindranath,

Taylor, Jeff,

Therapeutic Pen,

Thoreau, Henry David,

thoughts, as effect-producing actions,

Thousand and One Nights, A
(Mernissi),

Three Geese in Flight,

Three Only Things

Big Stories discovered through,–

blocks to,

claiming power of,

failure and,

living by,

See also
coincidence; dreams; imagination

time, as space,

Time Machine, The
(Wells),

time shift,

time travel,

Tocqueville, Alexis de,

Tolkien, J. R.R.,

Train (musical group),

transitions

family, dreams and,

I Ching and,

serial coincidence and,