I think this information will be very valuable in my community.

Thank you in advance for any advice you can give.

Yours truly,
Todd

As an ‘artist’ on a more localized level, a few years ago I discovered (or rather, ‘had no option but to accept’. Ha!) that I was actually illustrating Other people’s lifedreams through the drawings I was doing. They’re immeasurably helpful for illustrating what’s in your unconscious so that it can be integrated. With an appreciation of the healings they activate, I use them as a shamanic tool and assist others in utilizing the practice themselves. Whatever you can do in the interest of uplifting the world, I say!

Besides whatever else is brought to conscious awareness, sometimes elements that you’d describe as ‘demons’ show up in someone’s illustration as well. As much as they’re an element that can cause people considerable consternation, my understanding is that – on a soul-level – Nothing happens without our permission. Our darkness /shadows are indeed something we’ve ‘enlisted’. I can’t stress enough how essential they are in helping us to realize our own Divine natures. Ultimately, what’s hidden in our shadows is never what our fears would have us believe (think ‘birthday cake’, rather than ‘scary monster’).

Although I describe myself that way, I’d like to say, though, that it doesn’t require identification of yourself as a person having psychic abilities to reveal what otherwise appears hidden from conscious awareness. As you offer with such clarity, while life is the medium, “the artist is a force of nature”. For the most part, it’s not that I receive information and impose that upon the drawings, so much as the drawings appear within the prepared surface and contain pretty much everything that’s meant to be communicated. Additional messages do inevitably come in, but it’s more that it works the other way ’round, if that makes sense. To all intents and purposes, it’s our physical Universe that does all the work! The challenge is in trusting that imagery that can seem to be incredibly nonsensical can actually be immeasurably relevant. I’m always amazed at how Miraculous it is that, even as the fibres on the tree were growing or there were subtle differentiations created in the paper as it was being pressed, an infinite number of Divinely coordinated elements comes together to influence what appears in any given drawing – a “synergistic convergence” indeed. As intimately connected as we all are, everyone is a channel, whether they’re presently conscious of it or not.

Big Medicine Love to You
Black Feather

I was astonished when had heard you speak on Clyde Lewis’s “Ground Zero” a few weeks ago for the first time and was about falling out of my seat hearing you discuss of the collective psychosis particularly spilling out of this country and all over the globe!

I have for years on my own been studying the culture, philosophies and esoteric spirituality of the far East and more recently Western archetypal psychology of Carl Jung through the work of Joseph Campbell and Caroline Myss. At this moment I am about half way through your book Dispelling Wetiko and I am amazed by your sheer brilliance of how you thoroughly and alchemically elucidate and piece together this diverse knowledge. I am currently living in Portland and would be greatly honored to sometime participate in your Awakening in the Dream group. I am a writer/illustrator/sculptor currently working on my own graphic novel project.

Thanks so much for your work! It’s helping me to transform the areas in my psyche I was before unable to reach. Your profound explanations are helping me understand and to extricate things in me I just didn’t have the internal ability to explain in words for myself. Reading your work has shone the light in the darker areas in myself that has needed it.

Very grateful,

Drew

The challenger is an ally as it helps you to find yourself by limiting and defining you. Then you say “I am not that!”, “This is not all that I am!”, “there must be something else!” etc. Your inner self is not trapped by this daemon, but you appear to be in this incarnated perspective. It is by challenge that we find truth.