Specific Uses
Followers of Eckankar frequently keep dream journals, since they view dreams as important teaching tools and as a gateway to "Soul Travel," or the shifting of one's consciousness to ever-higher states of being.
The School of Metaphysics (SOM) in the United States teaches students a daily discipline of keeping dream journals. They view dreams as messages from subconscious mind informing the dreamer of how the conscious waking state has been used to create. Recorded dreams over time and space are viewed as a spiritual autobiography. In the Dreamer's Dictionary, SOM Gov. of International Education Barbara Condron explains that a sense of spirituality is necessary for a sound mind and a strong body as this is the quest for self knowledge and wholeness. During sleep, the dreamer's subconscious mind experiences the freedom to go into the past, present, and probable future, unimpeded by the conscious mind. It is during this activity that dreams are captured and remembered.
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