Dreaming and Mapping
Collections of Stories of a Series of Cities
Dear Readers,
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Inspiration for Today’s Post
Lately, I’ve been getting more questions from clients about the origins of the work I do as a clairvoyant. In searching for more of a connection with my ancestry, I’ve been studying Kabbalah with a rabbi since last year. If you are interested in Jewish mysticism, I highly recommend taking his classes. They are open to people of every background and I’ve found the lessons to be deeply meaningful and applicable to everyday experiences. You can find out more about his courses at https://matthewponak.com/
When I took a course from him earlier this year at Hebrew College, we were given a voluntary prompt about what it means to take action on ideals. I responded by sharing the following family story with the class. I am now sharing this with you, too, in case you are interested in an example of how this work can be passed down through many generations. While this story features just one of many lessons about spirituality that I learned from my family, you probably have your own stories based on direct experiences, previous lifetimes, or personal ancestral traditions. If so, you are welcome to share some of them in the comments. Thank you for reading, and for helping to keep these memories alive!
Introduction: Reflections on Refraining and Reframing
When I make a decision based on fear, it is often driven by my mind. Refraining from taking action because I am afraid of what might happen if I do has never worked out for me. Inversely, if I take an action because of what feels right in my heart, everything has a way of working out well, and sometimes surprisingly so. It takes faith to follow a feeling but it’s a different kind of knowing that ends up making more sense and bringing me greater happiness than anything my mind has decided is “right” based on how I think things “should” be. Fortunately, it is possible to transcend or transform feelings of remorse that linger long after ignoring inner guidance. One way that’s worked for me is by making amends through a change in choices. For instance, if I previously dismissed a premonition that turned out to be right, I can make amends by taking action on my intuition in a future situation.
Fortunately, when I am less connected to my emotional life, I tend to get guidance in dreams and it is there that I cannot deny what I am feeling—as long as I am listening.
Dreaming and Mapping:
Collections of Stories of a Series of Cities
I first learned about the importance of having faith in feelings and taking action on them from a family story about dreaming, mapping, and ancestral travel.
My father and grandmother used to tell me a story about how our family ended up in America. As the story goes, there were people in our family who sometimes experienced precognitive dreams. They also used to consult with maps and ask for mystical assistance when travelling to another city. These dreams and maps had a higher purpose: they were seeking divine help in an attempt to avoid pogroms. My grandmother described how our ancestors would visualise a light that shines on a city or town, or sense a change in temperature when moving their hands over a map. In the absence of a physical map, an inner map can be consulted with one's eyes closed. Apparently, it’s necessary to be free from fear if one wants to accurately hear or sense these messages. When an instruction or direction is uncertain or confusing, a spiritual advisor can be sought for increased clarity. This use of dreaming and mapping was passed down from generation to generation and guided countless ancestors from city to city and country to country over the centuries.
There came a time when several people in our family were having the same dreams about the future. These were in contrast to the dreams of former centuries. They were more like recurring nightmares, so my father told me, and foresaw that the pogroms in Europe would become much worse. The overarching warning was that our family wouldn’t survive if they stayed. This time when they consulted the map to ask for divine guidance that would lead them to another city, the destination pointed to an entirely different continent. Moving that far away seemed like a colossal hassle so they abandoned the idea for a while. Yet the dreams continued, containing additional details and increasing in persistence and insistence. These shared dreams spanned over a period of years, to the point that they could no longer ignore their clear and foreboding messages. So they followed their dreams and made the move from Kyiv to Philadelphia. That was in the 1890s. The family that stayed behind died in Auschwitz.
I learned from this story to use a combination of dreaming and mapping when deciding where to live. I think of this as following my heart instead of my mind. An example of following my heart was when I moved to Canada. I had never visited Canada before and did not know anyone here, but I was having vivid and tranquil dreams of being here before I even considered the possibility of a move. I knew this had worked many times before for my family so I consulted a map and looked for a point of light that stood out. More specifically, the light might be imagined as emanating from the cosmos or emerging from one’s heart. Sometimes the rest of the map dims and a light lands on the spot where I need to travel next. As this happens, my eyes follow the point of light to see where it ends up (and where I will end up).
I had applied to three universities but the light from my heart shone only on Vancouver Island, so that is where I went. I moved here before I had been accepted into any of these programmes. Weeks after my move, I received my first letter. Months later, I heard from the other two programmes. I was waitlisted at a university in Ontario, I did not get accepted to another programme on the mainland, and the one and only acceptance letter I did receive was to study in Victoria. Those letters confirmed that the dreams and the light and the map had been right.
One of the first times I used this technique was when I was choosing an undergraduate university and the light on the map kept indicating Sonoma. This didn’t make any sense. I don’t even drink alcohol, so why would I move to a place that's known as a tourist attraction for vineyards? The university even offered a degree in winemaking. It seemed so wrong, yet my heart was telling me there was no other city that would be more right for me at that moment. So I followed the guidance and moved to Sonoma. As it turns out, there is nothing about those times that I would change in hindsight. They ended up being some of the best years of my life.
After the move to Sonoma, I started using this technique for shorter excursions and vacations, which didn’t always seem like enough reason to get a map out. That’s when I discovered I could close my eyes and ask for a light from the cosmos or my heart space to show me the way on an inner map while in a meditative state. Maybe it was a lazier way of using this technique, but it worked.
Dreaming and mapping can also prevent me from travelling to places that wouldn't be right for me. Many years ago, I applied to teach in South Korea. Even though it seemed like the logical thing to do, especially as there was a recent Writer’s Guild strike that had caused me to lose my job, I could not bring myself to accept any offer that came my way. I was so caught up in the idea of this move that I tried to force the light to land on Seoul and change my fate, yet every time I traversed the space of an inner or outer map, the light in that vision moved back to Los Angeles. But I was already in Los Angeles! It seemed I could not shift the trajectory of the story, no matter how much it didn’t make sense. So I followed the message of the map and stayed. Within a year, I was led to two unusual opportunities, neither of which could have happened anywhere else in the world, and both of which combined to become the work I am still doing today. Along the way, I was blessed with an impactful and lasting spiritual experience (another story for another time) that I likely wouldn’t have encountered had I ignored my feelings, forced my will, and moved to Seoul. All these gifts were thanks to the family dreams of former centuries, and the insights of an inner map that brought me to each city where my heart was meant to be.
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“ For instance, if I previously dismissed a premonition that turned out to be right, I can make amends by taking action on my
intuition in a future situation.” - So true, Kyra.
I often feel that inner knowing. It’s very hard to explain that kind of thing to my very logical husband. It has never really steered me wrong. Even if it initially felt like it was a mistake, eventually the true purpose would come to light. I also feel pulls to places. Not lately but I identify with that.