THE DREAMKEEPER

All joking aside, I believe it will assist the readers, both those familiar with this site and those who are newcomers, if they have a concept of who and what the Dreamkeeper is. I have gotten some astonishingly humourous letters in the past decade or more asking me why she is visiting humans and passing messages on, what does she look like, where does she live, does she "take over" my body when she's here, and the most common one --- is she an alien or an angel?

Let's go backwards in a kind of "once upon a time--- long, long ago" manner and proceed forward.

From my earliest memories, there was a presence that made itself known in my life. As a child, the presence would appear in my room at night in the form of a luminous and twinkling being, dressed from head to toe in a shimmering, hooded garment in shades of purple. Where there should have been a face and hands, there were fields of twinkling stars, and although there was no face for the being to speak from, I could "hear" the messages in my head. None of this frightened me and I felt completely safe in the presence of this being. Children frequently have a good sense of who and what is safe to be around, and I never felt uncomfortable on any level. In fact, it seemed like the most normal thing in the world and I was quite astonished when my sisters and my schoolmates didn't have similar experiences. I learned rather quickly to keep it to myself.

That was the version of the Dreamkeeper that I saw as a child, but that is not the "appearance" that is in my head now when she comes for a visit. That is explained in a great deal of detail in the new book.

You will note that from this point forward, I refer to the Dreamkeeper as a she. That's because, as a child, I determined that her energy felt nurturing and feminine. In reality, the Dreamkeeper is neither a feminine or masculine energy but a combination of the two.

Since I was a child, I've had psychic visions of events that would come to pass in the future, not only for family and friends, but for the world. Trying to communicate these things to the people around me made for a most unusual and uncomfortable childhood at times, especially when the event I had "seen" came to pass. But the Dreamkeeper would come and reassure me that there was nothing wrong with me and tell me that it would get easier as I grew older. It didn't occur to me to ask her who she was or why she was there. And I never questioned the future visions and past lives that she showed me in a series of movie-like visions. In my heart, it all made such perfect sense that it would have seemed silly to question her about it. I knew on a "gut level" that it was real and valuable and not to be questioned.

The Dreamkeeper faded from my everyday life for chunks of time as I progressed through childhood, the teen years, and young adulthood. But she was always there with quiet encouragement or warnings of impending danger that saved my own life several times and prevented my own children from being harmed.

Now let's fast-forward for several decades. My children were grown and out on their own, I was recently divorced, and I had gone back to school to get a Master's degree at Goddard College in Vermont.

A few years earlier, I'd had a long series of health scares and the Dreamkeeper had come back into my life and told me to paint to heal myself. Paint? I hadn't picked up a paintbrush in over 20 years! But paint I did and gradually my health returned. It was at that point that I began graduate school and, while doing research, was traveling throughout England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. And oh my --- she was talking non-stop now!

I am digressing for a moment now. There are several books "in the pipeline" toward completion, including one that details all the many shades and variations of mystical experiences that I had during those years overseas. I will make an announcement on this website when those new books are ready.

Back to my earlier train of storyline --- the Dreamkeeper began to give me sessions of automatic writing which were so concise and deeply spiritual that I decided to take a chance on being considered a complete lunatic and I requested that my advising team at Goddard College allow me to include some of this work in my 300 page book being written as a Master's thesis. After some heated discussions between various faculty members on campus prior to my return at the end of the semester, I was given permission to include the Dreamkeeper work ---- so it is officially part of a Master's degree from an accredited university in the United States.

One of the upcoming books that I mentioned above, The Mystical Landscape, contains the long explanation of how Mark and I met, fell in love, and got married. All of these events were happening while I was working on that degree. And in the middle of that, the Dreamkeeper began to do vocal channeling while I was in a waking trance. Now didn't THAT make for some interesting bends in the road of a new relationship!

As I wrote my doctoral dissertation a few years later on the subject of Mysticism, she whispered valuable fragments of information to me and I had a broader appreciation of what those medieval mystics were aiming for!

For almost fifteen years, she has given me information to share with the world --- encouragement, words of warning, messages of love and hope. And the reader may wonder why she comes to me and what is her reason for bothering with humans at all.

She comes because she has hope that we will survive -- in one form or another. She has been a quiet bystander as waves of humans progressed to the stage of attaining astonishing technological abilities, but then we undid ourselves through greed and hatred and were thrust back to a more primitive state and had to start all over again. She knows that we are on such a threshold yet again --- and she is watching to see if we progress in a smoother manner than times long past.

We share a link --- a resonance pattern. When she says to groups that we speak to, "We are she and she is we" -- she is acknowledging the fact that we have been linked throughout time. The longer explanation of why and how will be in one of the upcoming books.

You will note that I say BOOKS. I re-released the updated and doubled-in-size original book, The Dreamkeeper approximately two years ago. There is another book of future visions for the next several decades, Darkness Folding Inward, that I will hopefully release within this year and then I will revise and release The Mystical Landscape.

Whether it is the written words or the spoken words, the books or the lectures, there is no agenda from the Dreamkeeper except concern and love. And I am blessed to be a part of this work.

Deborah

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