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Out of Body Experience by Heather Ifversen.

Does the world of astral travel and out of body experiences (OBE) originate with the divine feminine? I think so. Men (and all people) can have these experiences, too, but I believe they originate from the feminine side of consciousness.

I had some interesting astral travel dreams last night. I visited every apartment and home I ever lived in and they were all meshed into one giant place. Here I was able to wander from room to room and casually eat whatever occurred to my hungry self that I wanted to eat in my ‘home.’

I was surprised when I walked downstairs and saw a male and female couple living in this part of the dwelling. It was like an apartment beneath me and the stairs joined the units. But the man in the dream did not want to speak to me so I held my tongue. Instead I walked back upstairs to my space and wandered around some more.

I wandered around my rooms, which were extensive, and I found my two cats I used to have together. They are both deceased now, but I reached down to pet one and I felt his winter coat and his hind claws as they dug into my arm, like he used to do to show his affection for me. Cats use claws in a variety of ways, but this cat, MoMo, used his to show his love to me when I petted him by pushing his hid claws into my wrists. I woke up so thankful I had seen my cats. I had to rush into the bathroom and brush my teeth to convince myself the dream was not real.

When I returned to bed I was still traveling in my dreams to apartments and this time I met a woman. She was a little older than me and said her name was Rose. I was so pleased she lived in the apartment with me. She was cooking and talking to me like an old friend. I am convinced we knew each other though she was a stranger to me in life.   Rose told me many stories as I continued to wander through these rooms.

In real life, some of these travels are memories I cherish that live inside my mind.   I was able to wander through them with the help and guidance of my feminine side. When I approached my male side, it was mum. Simply put, this side of me does not help me to travel out of body (OBE), it keeps me enmeshed in the mundane world, which is needed sometimes (a lot actually).

I love to journey like this in my dreams and am able to mainly because I am sober when I sleep. This frame of mind helps me to experience the astral world more clearly then when I imbibed substances like alcohol and cannabis. It’s not that I feel these substances are wrong – they are just wrong for me at this point in my life. When I’m sober I feel a strong urge to travel astrally and visit places I cannot go in real life right now or ever. How could one put together a montage of former residences and visit them all in one night? Impossible! Yet the dreaming mind makes it quite possible indeed.

As the surrealist painters and poets knew, the dreaming mind offers a variety of experiences that are just not available to the waking mind. The landscape of dreams can change quite suddenly and the action changes, too. I find a comfort in embracing my OBEs when awake. I can contemplate them and feel a sense of familiarity or sometimes strangeness that is welcome. All of the feelings dreams bring are important to me and always have been.

I have been a student of my dreams since my 20s. I used to keep dream journals. The blog is my dream journal now. It’s a way of recording these important experiences. I’ve opened up my dream journal to the public, so others can peer into it easily.

Now my dreams are no longer private. It’s true I still am selective about sharing and writing about them. It’s not necessary to write about all of my dreams. I concentrate on those I find most interesting.   The dreams where color is bold and it is apparent I am traveling outside my body are what Carl Jung called the ‘big dreams.’ These are the dreams I strive to share with the public.

— Elizabeth Kirwin

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Blue Bear by Heather Ifversen

Last night I had fantastic full color dreams that I want to share. I am certain I traveled to Colorado, where I met some interesting women and men who showed me around. One woman in particular, the first I met, was a stranger to me. She entertained me in her home and when we were through, we took a walk with her dog. There were several dogs in the area, but I noticed a large black animal was there, too. It was a huge black bear! It stood out from the dogs as being a wild animal.

I was not afraid of the bear. This fear would be the usual approach for me spotting a bear in the woods. Instead, I took notice it had a distinctly blue glow surrounding it, as if it were marked as special.

Next the lucid dream took me to the studio of two men, who were obviously musicians. They were working on a project and I was watching their progress. I went looking for a drink in their refrigerators and found one. As I drank the beer it tasted awful, so I put it down and got another one. The second beer I put down again and lost it. This signifies I did not want beer as a drink. Since I am do not drink alcohol, I put it down and never tasted it again.

The two men showed me a large console that was rectangular and had a huge video and audio screen. It could be manipulated to produce video. I was fascinated with this device and as I played with it to figure out the function, the men just seemed to disappear. I was left alone with the device to use it myself.

Next I appeared on the doorstep of two women who were obviously a couple. They were happy to receive me into their home. I believe I traveled from New Jersey, where I live, to their home in Colorado. I was a guest and they were prepared to receive me. I saw their names on the mailbox but cannot recall them now.   Often text is introduced to me in dreams but it is hard to remember unless I write it down upon waking.

The home I was visiting was immaculate and well cared for, compared to the studio I just visited, which was a small mess. This was a study in contrast between how men live together and how women live in a much more orderly space (this is not always the case, but mostly plays out as such). The women had thoughts on Colorado to share with me, and I listened. They told me that the wilderness areas were full of wild animals and lots of surprise beasts, too. The women said I had come for a very special purpose of seeing the animals, and them, too. I found them both interesting.

When I left their home I took note of the names on the mailboxes and I vowed to return there.

The dreams concluded with me waking up.

I felt a strong pull towards Colorado upon waking and knew with absolute certainty that’s where I visited in my astral projection. During my life in reality, I spent 2017-2019 in Colorado and was able to travel widely in the state. I saw many things, including lots of wild animals while living in the Black Hawk and Nederland area. Yet I never once saw a bear! I saw two bobcats on the property where I lived. I saw a large brown moose run down a side street in Nederland. I also saw a lovely red fox on my way down the road from Nederland to Black Hawk. The fox revealed itself to me at sunset. I also saw a black moose running around the neighborhood at a friend’s house in Black Hawk.   In each instance I was enchanted by the animal sighting and loved watching them. Moose are considered dangerous in Colorado, because they charge human beings with all of their weight.   I am thankful I was in the car for the large brown moose sighting. For the black moose sighting I quickly went inside the house.

Large mountain lions also populate the Nederland area, making it unsafe for the locals to go out and walk their dogs on some evenings. The mountain lions show during nocturnal hours and are quite large. I heard stories about mountain lions coming into a trailer park and jumping from rooftop to rooftop. This was quite scary for the residents of the trailer park, as one can imagine.

In my astral projection/lucid dreaming about Colorado, the people were so hospitable and I was unafraid of the wild animals. I felt immune to any harm the animals might bring me, which is unusual. When lucid dreaming and waking in between, I always stayed in the same general area of Colorado and experienced more people. This amazes me, but I have developed a way of stationing myself in lucid dreams. I don’t move around on the bed but stay in the exact position on the bed when I briefly wake and recover the lucid dream. Then I deliberately set my intention to stay in the lucid dream and explore further. This seems to work for me as I continue in the dream narrative. Sometimes I switch locations in a minor way, but the thread of the dream remains the same. I am able to capture a moment in dreaming and direct the rest of my dream narrative towards that moment.

I Can See in the Dark by Heather Ifversen.

Right now I am exploring the idea of the rise of the divine feminine.   This is an ancient pagan dictum, to embrace the goddess all around you and within self. Certainly, the goddess rises in a number of ways. The most profound way is in a shift in consciousness. This is what the mind knows to be true. It is not always a truth reflected in 3D reality but rather what the mind and heart know to be truths about self in all dimensional realities.

I have been in direct contact with a friend from South Carolina. I reached out to her first but now we are on the same tangential plane. Her name is Heather Ifversen and she is a visual artist who submits her work for inclusion on the FairiesInAmerica blog. She feels the magical shift, too. It’s coming around through lots of women I know. The rise of the divine feminine is a shift in consciousness that reveals the inner truths about our own divine power. Many pagans believe in these magical shifts. They come about organically and can be seen by the dreaming mind.

In this blog post, she has painted a self-portrait. I love when women artists paint themselves because it always reveals their true inner and outer nature. In this piece she is set squarely by the river where she spends her time fishing and camping.   These favorite activities bring her closer to herself and the natural world. Lately, she has had car problems so visiting her spot is not practical. So she goes there in her mind and with her art instead. The divine feminine is a spirit that’s a driving force in her life.

Switchback Trail by Heather Ifversen

I have been dreaming about old friends and old friends are dreaming about me. Having deep knowledge about another when you haven’t seen them in ages is a magical shift. Dreams, though less concrete than waking life, are no less important. Dreams point to patterns of behavior and help us analyze the self. I have been a student of my own dreams for well over 30 years. I started with a deep study of Jungian analysis of dreams in my 20s. This provided a good foundation for the work I do now. In an effort to understand my dreams I am sharing them with Heather Ifversen. Then she sends me work that helps explain the dream. The work is already painted in many cases and comes from her vast archive of visual art. Sometimes she will paint for the writing, too. It just depends on the mood and subject matter of the piece.

I am drawn the Heather’s work because it details a very busy unconscious mind. My dream life is quite busy, too. Heather once suffered a fall and a brain injury that opened up a huge creative reservoir of work for her. It essentially let loose a most powerful energy in her mind that in turn inspired so many strange paintings. I love her bold use of color and the mind mapping that goes on in her work. Her mind is surreal, and she is constantly grasping for – and achieving – more of other dimensional realities. My work is so similar that we decided to collaborate to invoke the spirit of the work together. The dream work is deep and exhilarating. It has an energy all its own. Heather is a part of my phantastical world and dream life realities. It’s an honor to work with an artist who is so accomplished and committed to her own work everyday.

Learning about another’s struggles is also a form of listening. This helps us to understand our own struggles. Self-help can come from another’s struggles. We identify and have empathy. Heather struggles with her old car, the death of a beloved dog, and the ending of a partnership of almost four years. I struggle with caring for my father and feeling a bit isolated from other artists. I also fight with addiction issues that have been with me throughout life until recently. I suffer from anxiety and panic disorders which are present in my life. By reaching out to each other we help one another heal.

Night Traveler by Heather Ifversen

The divine feminine is a merging of souls, coming together for the greater good. It’s like a gathering on the 5D plane of existence, which is why dreams and daytime intuitions are so important. This gathering of souls drawing together is a strengthening of the bond we have for one another.   Whether someone is going through illness or financial hardship, artistic struggle or damage to one’s property, we can reach out and connect in the 5D. Sharing art makes things better, not worse.

Healing can occur through togetherness.   The healing begins when one is alone but is transformed through togetherness. Collective healing is a sign that the divine feminine is at work. Learn to pay attention to the needs of others and you can heal yourself.

Collective sensations are felt in groups. If one person is ecstatically happy this mood can spread to others. If one person is depressed in a group this too can spread. But there is always a chance to change the mood and help the person depressed – collectively. This is what I hope to achieve through this collaboration. Through space and time, this collaboration will help each one of us who participates or reads these messages. It is my hope that by communicating we will help one another on the healing journey.

— Elizabeth Kirwin

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Underneath by Heather Ifversen

I had an interesting dream early this morning, where I knew I was out-of-body.  In the dream, I was carrying a woman while she performed a wild dance in front of a large crowd.  The crowd was dancing ecstatically with her.  I was dancing too, but mostly trying to keep up with her movements while I threw her in the air.

The movements where quite challenging for me and very physical. As she descended from throwing her up in the air, her head would wobble off.  The woman would gently rearrange her head on the top of her spine and we’d begin the dance all over again. The crowd went wild. She seemed undeterred by her head wobbling off.

As the dance began to wind down, the crowd slowly dispersed.  I began to relax as my role as dancer was winding down too. I saw the crowd leave and I decided to go too.

I found a small ravine that led to a stream that was quite wide. I took my shoes off to cross the stream. When I did this I saw a turtle and I asked it if this was the best way to cross the stream. The turtle spoke out loud.   It asked me, “Would you like me to give you a ride?” I felt the turtle speaking was so natural. I replied, “Yes, turtle, I would love a ride.”

At that precise moment I woke up. I knew I was headed for turtle island, a place I said I wanted to visit through astral travel with a dear friend in Florida. For us, turtle island is a real island in Fort Meyers, Florida. It’s a place on the Gulf of Mexico where turtles birth their eggs each season. Sea turtles come up from the Gulf and dig large holes where they will bury their eggs. It’s a sacred place to me and Linda, and we have done magic there. I only go there in the morning, because it’s cool then. The turtles go there at night and secretly dig their holes for their young must be born away from the ocean in order to survive.

Once, while walking in my favorite park in New Jersey, I saw a box turtle had come up from the crick. It was inland just a bit and busily digging a hole with it’s back legs. I knew immediately what it was doing. The turtle was going to give birth to its young and was digging a hole for the eggs. I saw this as magical communication that I would reach turtle island in my astral travels.

I see my dream as confirmation that I will reach turtle island in my astral travels. I plan to meet Linda there and do magic with her in my dream. She is a quite accomplished magician and I have faith now this trip will transpire. Or, maybe the dream was signaling me that I already arrived on Turtle Island and was just about to be transported to my friend. As out of body dreams go, it’s hard to ascertain what is really going on until you arrive at your planned destination.

Learning by doing is my main objective with out of body experiences. When I wake up in the middle of an intense and colorful dream, I immediately try to sleep again and place myself in the same exact setting. The talking turtle was still with me.

Animals speak to us all the time, albeit in their own language. It’s up to us to interpret them. This is why I call it the Rise of the Divine Feminine. These talents are present in all of us and need only be developed and practiced. Each night, I practice lucid dreaming in order to get better at it.

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— Elizabeth Kirwin