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This picture shows a tree whose branches intertwine with its roots – the Celtic principle of the weaving of the Upperworld and the Lowerworld to create Middleworld. The picture tells us a lot about the dream. It is an oak tree, with its roots and branches plaited together forming a circular twist which encloses the trunk of the tree. There is no beginning and no end to this twist. In the lore of the Tree of Wisdom and Tradition the branches hold Upperworld and the roots, Lowerworld. Middleworld, the place where we humans have our incarnations, is at the centre of this. At the bottom of this picture is the word ‘Duir’ which means oak. At the top is the word ‘darwent’ which probably refers to the River Darwent in Derbyshire. This may be the place where the stone was made. The area is closely associated with King Arthur.
The modern transpersonal psychologist, Roberto Assagioli had a threefold diagram of consciousness, Assagioli’s Egg, which holds a similar idea of upper, lower and middle worlds Here is a picture of my version of it. The super-conscious is Upperworld and the transpersonal star there is Arianrhod’s Spinning Tower, Caer Sidi. The Unconscious is Lowerworld and the transpersonal star there is the Lord of the Beasts. The Dream is the place where ideas take shape and, if the dreamer is sufficiently skilled, they can bring the dream into Middleworld and manifest it. |
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Dream Weaving is
Waling Between the Worlds. Dream is not fantasy, it is the creation
of reality. So many traditions tell us that we dream our reality into existence.
The Australian peoples say only as much reality as we can dream can exist – we
need to dream larger dreams!
The
river Derwent flows through the city of Derby, which the Romans called Darwentio.
It is the river abounding in oak trees and its name derives from the British
word derw which means oak tree. The name Derwentio, means abounding in
oak trees. The same British word-root is found in the River Dart in Devon, the
River Darent in Kent, the River Darwen in Lancashire and the Yorkshire and
Derbyshire Derwents. In the modern city, just below the site of the Roman fort,
is an area called The Homles and Holme is an old word for oak. 