Why Dreams?

Dreams bring healing.

Learning to uncover the healing in our dreams is a practical and esoteric approach to self-discovery. Throughout human history, countless cultures have used dreams and dream work to access a deeper understanding of who we are as individuals and our trajectory as a collective.

In this pivotal moment, when so many old stories are cracking open around us, dreams can serve as an anchoring tool and a means of understanding how we inhabit and create transformation. Dreams are a vector of change: they offer us a way inward, to a felt sense of belonging, and our capacity in the world.

My approach to dreaming is focused on supporting folx and communities to garner more agency, and turning dreams into healing where capacity becomes a lived experience.

Collective Dreaming

Dreaming in community is one of the oldest and most potent living traditions of dreaming we have. We can see its practice still alive in the Achuar, Navajo, and Aboriginal traditions. We can also see the remnants of collective dreaming in Ancient Egyptian and other orphic traditions. What binds these various traditions is an understanding that dreams connect us to the unseen, the beyond, and can be a guide for our well-being in waking life.

Collective dreaming is a practice in which we come together to listen and uncover the meaning of one another's dreams and journeys here in this life. It is rooted in a deep commitment to empathy, cultivating collective safety, and supporting existential agency. Dreams grant us our visionary capacity for the future, breaking away from the social projections and fragmentation that we have become mired in.

My practice is rooted in the work of Jeremy Taylor. Taylor brought dreaming into collective spaces, from prisons, churches, and activist communities to hospice. His work sits as the core inspiration and vital ethical center of my own work, which presents dreams as a gift of our souls' journey and should be explored with ardent tenderness and commitment to expansion.

About
Adam Elmaghraby

Adam Elmaghraby is the founder of Blue Lotus Dreamwork, an assemblage of his lived philosophy, spiritual practice, and ancestral explorations. He is the son of Egyptian parents who came to the United States in the 1970s, which paved the way for him to become a philosopher, dreamer, innovator, and herbalist. He is blessed to draw upon his Egyptian cosmopolitan ancestry and continuous renewal with herbal courtship to support our cultural awakening to sacred practices.

Adam has completed degrees in Philosophy and Pan-African Studies and an MBA in Design Strategy. He has been practicing and facilitating dream work for 9 years.