Dreams And Dreaming

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of sleep. Though for some of us we still sleep deeply even to the wee hours of the morning. The “deep
sleepers” Thus light sleeper are more likely able to remember dreams.

The Menangkabau tribes of Indonesia believe that the real life force, the sumanghat, actually leaves the body
in both dreams and serious illness. The shaman, or Dukun, must project his conciousnes into the realm of dreams in
order to placate or harry the malicious malignant spirits who are hostile to the subject

Dreamtime of the Aboriginees is a primal state which embraces the creation of the world at the very dawn of
our time. It is the realm of the mythical beings who fist breathed life onto the universe.. Their culture extends back
over 40,000 years, the oldest spiritual culture of the world. The Shaman is known as the Karadji. To become a
shaman you are killed in the dreamtime, he is then chosen by the spirits of the dreamtime who throw an invisible force
which transfixes him ...

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