Welcome to the Course

✨ We are delighted to walk this powerful journey of ancient remembrance, dream weaving and awakening with you ✨

“What do you do when you are in your huts at night? Do you watch TV?”

The man answered, with a slight but respectful amusement,

“No. We keep our eyes on the night.”

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You will be guided and inspired during the five weeks by Dr. Tayria Ward

This revolutionary 5 week online course will offer an exploration of our original terrains of mind, those which humans inhabited for 98% of human history.

The ability to communicate with every element of life and matter, in earth and stars, is genetically coded into the human; it is our original psychic endowment, patterned into our creation at the cellular level. This capacity of mind and thinking is indigenous to every single human.

In each session we will have time for teaching as well as time for questions and answers and sharing’s.

Tayria speaks to you:

“this will be a wild and fun adventure. Your stories await to find their voice and be made available too.”

Botanical drawing of tiny tuft of grass above ground with its very deep root system underground. 

For personal reflection, the tuft is each of us, and each thing - our roots go so much deeper than we can see "above ground."

Please don't share this image publicly due to copyright of the researchers.

Module Zero:

Considering Our Origins in Consciousness

Live Webinar recorded on July 10th, 2024

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Quotations from Module One

“As a man now reasons in dreams, so humanity also reasoned for thousands of years when awake.” 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche 

“Every civilized human being , however high his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.” 

~ C.G. Jung 

“[The shamanic personality] journeys into the far regions of the cosmic mystery and brings back the vision and the power needed by the human community at the most elementary level.” 

~ Thomas Berry 

“All of our technology is an externalization of powers innate in the human organism. Aerospace travel, computerization, electronic communication, the probing capacities of microscopes and x-rays, the remote viewing abilities of telescopes, and even nuclear fission are accomplishments that tribal shamans and mystics have experienced inwardly by cultivating the innate potentials of consciousness. The inner life knows none of the constrictions of time and space. The journey to other worlds and the adventure of exploring the universe beyond the earthly domain belongs to spiritual awakening, not technological development. The ancient myths assure us that when we reawaken in the reality of the Dreamtime, we will discover the expanse of cosmic time and space to be inwardly navigable and experiential.” 

~ Robert Lawlor (Voices of the First Day) 

“We learned this from Ancient beings, humans are the youngest living creatures on the planet. The elders are the winged ones, the four leggeds. They don’t mess it up. We messed it up. We have to learn from them.” 

~ Chase Iron Eyes 

“The decisive question for humanity is: are we related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of our life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance… If we understand and feel that here in this life we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change. In the final analysis we count for something because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted.” 

~ C.G. Jung, MDR 

Suggested Reading

~ Dr. Tayria Ward’s Dissertation and comprehensive Bibliography

• Ward, Tayria. Dissertation: Reawakening Indigenous Sensibilities in the Western Psyche. https://tayriaward.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Dissertation_7_8_04.doc.pdf?x94509

• Anderson, Erik Jampa. Unseen Beings: How We Forgot the World is More Than Human.

• Berry, Thomas. The Dream of the Earth.

• Berry, Thomas. Befriending the Earth.

• Berry, Thomas. The Great Work.

• David Bohm. Thought as a System.

• Fuller, Buckminster. Critical Path.

• Fuller, Buckminster. And It Came to Pass but Not to Stay.

• Fuller, Buckminster. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.

• Goodchild, Veronica. Songlines of the Soul: Pathways to a New Vision for a New Century.

• Jung, C.G., Sabini, Merideth, et. al. The Earth has a Soul: C.G. Jung on Nature, Technology and Modern Life.

• Jung, C.G., Memories, Dreams, Reflections.

• Kharitidi, M.D., Olga. Entering the Circle: Ancient Secrets of Siberian Wisdom Discovered by a Russian Psychiatrist.

• Lawlor, Robert. Voices of the First Day.

• Lushwala, Arkan. The Time of the Black Jaguar.

• Lushwala, Arkan. Deer and Thunder.

• Lushwala, Arkan. The Spirit of the Glacier Speaks: Ancestral Teachings of the Andean World for the Time of Natural Disorder.

• Marlan, Stanton. The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness.

• Schrei, Joshua. The Emerald Podcast. Animism is Normative Consciousness.
  https://open.spotify.com/episode/5OpoIw1W9VuLddeum7v8l2

• Strand, Clark. Waking Up to the Dark.

• Swimme, Brian. Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe.

• Von Franz, Marie Louise. The Way of the Dream: Conversations on Jungian Dream Interpretation with Marie Louise von Franz.

• Watson, Lyall: The Nature of things: The Secret Life of Inanimate Objects.

• Yunkaporta, Tyson. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World.

Movies to watch:

• Dances With Wolves.

• Thunderheart.

Websites:

• Way of the Rose: https://wayoftherose.org/

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Quotations from Module Two

“We should regard dreams as an endangered species, a casualty of technological advance… Dreams are an oasis of spiritual vitality… they represent our primordial habitat, our last wilderness… and we must protect them with as much fervor as the rain forests, the ozone layer, the elephant, and the whale.” 

~ Anthony Stevens 

The Two-Million-Year-Old Self 

“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.” 

~ C. G. Jung 

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” 

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti 

“The difference between history and mythology, is mythology is true.” 

~ Guru Singh 

“Dreams… are pure nature, they show us the unvarnished, natural truth and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and run into an impasse.”  

~ C.G. Jung 

“The dream is a spontaneous self-portrayal in symbolic form, of the actual situation in the unconscious.” 

~ C.G. Jung 

“A dream is a psychic fact.”  

~ C.G. Jung 

“We can say the dreams are the letters of the Self which the Self writes us every night telling us do a bit more of this, or a bit less of that, or go ahead to the left, or go ahead to the right. And as I say, when one looks back one sees there is a pattern in this, as if the Self is having a plan with us, a kind of destiny.” 

~ Marie Louise Von Franz 

“The sacred portal of the 5th dimension is the dimension of the dream. 

  When we enter into the dreamtime, it’s the only time we are connected with the most powerful spirit forces. 

 We access this every day when we go into our dreams. 

 There is great power in intentionally entering our dreams. 

 Power naps – 5 to 10 minutes - can become lifetimes for the spirit, billions of years for the 

soul, because they transcend all time & space. 

 Open your heart to receive all of the blessings that we can receive from this dimension. 

 Our dreams can be so vast. Things can change in a split second.” 

~ Puma Quispe Singona 

Jung in Africa, conferred with the medicine man, asking about their dreams.  

“He answered with tears in his eyes. In old days the Labons had dreams and knew whether there was war or sickness and whether rain comes and where the herds should be driven. But since the whites were in Africa, no one had dreams anymore. The divine voice which counseled the tribe was no longer needed because the English knew better.” 

“Five hundred years ago, European colonization of North and South America and Australia began, and so initiated the final death blow to archaic consciousness founded in the Dreaming. The archaic world perception, its customs, initiations and languages, had held the invisible realms as an essential part of every moment of daily life. This world view finally sank into an ocean of blood, as an estimated 60 million hunter-gatherers and other indigenous people perished. (p. 51)”.

~ Robert Lawlor 

“The moment when the Europeans arrived on the North American continent could be considered as one of the more fateful moments in history, not only of this continent but of the entire planet. As we look back on this occasion it becomes increasingly clear that it was a moment of awesome significance, not only for the indigenous peoples, but for all the various plants and animals of this continent. Every living being on this continent might have shuddered with foreboding when that first tiny sail appeared over the Atlantic horizon.” 

~ Thomas Berry 

“No objective can be of greater significance for human survival than the recovery of the Dreaming.”  

~ Robert Lawlor 

“I have never made any discovery by logical thinking. All of the knowledge came to me in moments of silence and moments of synchronous insight.” 

~ Albert Einstein 

“What is the cause of the difficulty in the first place? The cause of the difficulty in the first place has to do with the discontinuity between the human and the non-human and the assumption of the human that they have rights to exploit the non-human.

“The greatest destructive force of Western Civilization comes with the kind of jurisprudence that structured America. We wrote a constitution that gave all the rights to humans. And the non-human has no rights. It is simply there as a background for the human.” 

~ Thomas Berry 

“There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.” 

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer  

“If the brain holds the old meanings, then it cannot change its state. The mental and the physical are one . . . . We could say that living as we do, we probably have a great deal of subtle brain damage. In other words, the brain is damaged at a subtle level that might not show up at the cellular level but deep in the implicate order. Eventually of course, it shows up in the cellular level too.” 

~ David Bohm 

“Sometimes as I wrote I had the sense of my mind being re-configured to accommodate some new way of thinking – or maybe an old way, long forgotten by our species, that Our Lady was teaching us again.” 

~ Perdita Finn, The Way of the Rose 

The Lady’s message to Clark and Perdita: 

“The changes to come will disrupt your way of life, but they will be a greater disruption to your way of thinking. It is your way of seeing and understanding the world and your place in it that must undergo the most profound transformation.” 

“A new revelatory experience is needed, an experience wherein human consciousness awakens to the grandeur and sacred quality of the Earth process. This awakening is our human participation in the dream of the Earth, the dream that is carried in its integrity not in any of Earth’s cultural expressions but in the depths beyond our capacity for active thought. We can only be sensitized to what is being revealed to us. We probably have not had such participation in the dream of the Earth since earlier shamanic times, but therein lies our hope for the future for ourselves and for the entire Earth community.” 

~ Thomas Berry 

“The potential of the Dreamtime is still alive within us, both physically and psychologically, and holds the promise of an astonishing awareness that stretches beyond the bounds of our five senses. No objective can be of greater significance for human survival than the recovery of the Dreaming.” 

~ Robert Lawlor 

“All human beings are descendants of tribal people who were spiritually alive, intimately in love with the natural world, children of Mother Earth. When we were tribal people, we knew who we were, we kn knew where we were, and we knew our purpose. This sacred perception of reality remains alive and well in our genetic memory. We carry it inside of us, usually in a dusty box in the mind’s attic, but it is accessible.” 

~ John Trudell (actor, Thunderheart) 

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Quotations from Module Three

“When you see your matter going black, rejoice for this is the beginning of the work.”

 ~ Rosarium Philosophorum

“The nigredo is not the beginning, but an accomplished stage. Black is, in fact, an achievement.”

~ James Hillman

“(Regarding the Nigredo) the magnum opus begins at this point.”

~ C.G. Jung

“(Regarding the Nigredo) these operations are excruciatingly painful and resist uplifting dialectics.”

~ Stanton Marlan

“Make no mistake about it – enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with become better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the façade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.”

~ Adyashanti

(Regarding the Nigredo) “There is no way to will ourselves out of this situation. Only by confronting and suffering the ordeal within ourselves will we be able to create a world beyond modernity and postmodernity.”

~ Jurgen Kramer

“For the indigenous people of South America, the black jaguar is the much-respected spirit, related to death, to the healing powers of thunder and lightning, and to all sacred forces that purify and renew life when it becomes stagnant or sick. Its medicine provokes a fast healing that doesn’t wait for a process to happen. It just shows up and says ‘enough of this” and terminates it. It doesn’t act out of cruelty or to punish; this is a medicine that works to support life’s balance. Even when it apparently brings death and destruction, in reality, it is protecting the health and continuity of life. Unlike other sacred powers, this one doesn’t give us exactly what we ask in our prayers; it gives us what we really need, even when it hurts. When a power like the black jaguar shows up, it is time for change and there is no possible negotiation.”

~ Arkan Lushwala

“It is time to change, and if we do not change something stronger than us is going to do it for us…  In times of renewal, it is the Black Jaguar who rules. At this time, it is common for many people to experience major losses in their lives; some are brutally taken out of their comfort zone. Many see their old life not working anymore or feel afraid when seeing destruction happen in the rest of the world. It all means just one thing: it is time to change.”

~ Arkan Lushwala

“The point is, we don’t know how powerful a stimulant artificial light is – far more powerful than nicotine or caffeine – until we have tried to give it up for an extended period of time. And very few of us are capable of doing that without falling hopelessly out of synch with the modern world.”

~ Clark Strand

“Let there be darkness. The last true revolutionary act left to human beings in the twenty-first century is to turn out the lights.”

~ Clark Strand

“The Bible is a thought experiment that shows us what becomes of the species that defines itself apart from nature, imagining a future for itself that is separate from the world’s.”

~ Clark Strand

“To go into the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.”

~ Wendell Berry

“It is not time to be post-human.

It is time to be most human….

There might come a time when we say we are done with human things,

But it is not this day.”

~ Sam Hurley (poet)

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Quotations from Module Four

“The ancient word “songline” (oime in Greek) is relevant for its meaning refers to a pathway to another world and to the nuances of these non-ordinary and subtle realities. According to indigenous Aboriginal cosmology, the dreamtime and its songlines rule the universe. The ancestors were thought to have scattered words and musical notes along their trails as they walked over the land. These “dreaming-tracks” provided ways of communication between widely dispersed tribes, and a song was both map and direction-finder to those who shared one’s Dreaming.”

~ Veronica Goodchild, Songlines of the Soul

“As I read the Russian psychiatrist Olga Kharitidi’s (1996) book, Entering the Circle, an account of her profound experiences with shamans in the Altai mountains in Siberia, I was astonished as page after page described detailed images and inner events with which I was personally familiar. I have recorded my own dreams for over 25 years, and sometimes felt while reading Kharitidi’s story that my own dream journal could be set along side her narrative with a number of notable intersections. Throughout the book, dream after dream that I have had was brought vividly back to recollection, and I entered the dreamscapes again, this time knowing that someone else had been there too. The experience caused me to bring more sharply to focus what I have always more vaguely understood about the dream world―that it has its own ontology, its own geography and terrains. These landscapes interpenetrate those that our eyes and minds have been trained to focus upon. Western consciousness presently has to be asleep, relaxing its developed structures, in order to be aware of these worlds. But a conscious awareness of them can, and needs to be, recovered.”

~ Tayria Ward, dissertation Reawakening Indigenous Sensibilities in the Western Psyche

“And as I have said, when your people intersect with those from another world, it will not only change your people’s beliefs, it will transform the very structure of their being.”

~Olga Kharitdi, Entering the Circle

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Quotations & Treasures from Module Five

Simona Kossak, Polish biologist who lived with wild animals:

https://culture.pl/en/gallery/the-extraordinary-photographs-of-simona-kossak-image-gallery

Prayer mantra:

I call myself to myself.

I call myself to myself.

I call myself to myself.

Across all lifetimes.

Across all timelines.

Across all dimensions.

Across all realms.

I am all parts of myself.

Tayria ~ “I love ALL the books I put on my list, but I guess to highlight would be:”

Veronica Goodchild, Songlines of the Soul

Arkan Lushwala, The Time of the Black Jaguar

Robert Lawlor, Voices of the First Day

Brian Swimme, Cosmogenesis

To read more about joining the Dream Groups:

I am now offering Dream Groups on Zoom for those looking to work their dreams in a small group setting. The groups are capped at 6 participants and meet for a two-hour session each week for six weeks. The cost is $333 for the series.

The next series are set to begin on:

Tuesday, September 17, 11:00-1:00 EST

and

Wednesday, September 18, 12:00-2:00 EST

Learn more here: https://tayriaward.com/events/

To connect with Tayria please email her directly (as oppose to the contact form on the website): tayriaw@sbcglobal.net

“Dear N., I was pleased to hear that you now have a house and land of your own. This is important for the chthonic powers. I hope you will find time to commit your plant counterparts to the earth and tend their growth, for the earth always wants children-houses, trees, flowers- to grow out of her and celebrate the marriage of the human psyche with the Great Mother, the best counter-magic against rootless extraversion. With regards to you and your dear husband, Always your faithful, C.G.Jung.”

~ C. G. Jung, Nature, Technology and Modern Life

“The Bible is a thought experiment that shows us what becomes of the species that defines itself apart from nature, imagining a future for itself that is separate from the world’s.”

~ Clark Strand

“Thought creates the world, and then hides and says it didn’t do it.”

~ David Bohm

“A piece of land that is allocated for domestication loses its original identity as drastic measures are taken to cultivate it – trees and boulders are removed, the growth of other plants is inhibited, insects and animals are sent into exile, birds are discouraged from visiting. If we accept that mind is a part of the fabric of everything that is, then we might see that to the extent that our earth’s land has been cultivated and domesticated, so also is our mind no longer the natural, native mind we were born with as a species. It has been radically altered.

“However the thinking of the heart by nature is not so capable of domestication, it resists cultivation, it remains wild and fierce and utterly diverse. The rules and rationales of the heart are of a different realm, and will not easily submit to those of the head. Fearing this darkly uncontrollable region, humans have thus split themselves from this motherland; and the split is evident in every faction of our consensual reality.”

~ Tayria Ward, dissertation Reawakening Indigenous Sensibilities in the Western Psyche

“It seems more likely..

That the inanimate structural pattern integrity,

Which we call human being,

Was a frequency modulated code message

Beamed at Earth from remote location

Man as prime organizing

“Principle” construct pattern integrity

Was radiated here from the stars –

Not as primal cell, but as

A fully articulated high order being…”

 ~ R. Buckminster Fuller

"The soul comes 'from the stars' and returns to the stellar regions."

~ C.G. Jung, CW 9,i, par. 343

“I did not come to save you. I came to remind you of who you are.”

~ Jesus in the Lost Gospels

“If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you.”

~ Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas

“The classical civilizations regarded the whole as unchanging, but we today find ourselves in a developing cosmogenesis.

This revelation is not small. It deconstructs everything, must undo all of our false assumptions of how we have set up everything – our educational and religious institutions and modern societies and economics fixated on the human agenda.

This is a cultural pathology, blind to the planetary and cosmological implications and urgencies of our disastrous situation. All of these institutions too small to deal with the cosmological nature of what is taking place.”

~ Brian Swimme, Cosmogenesis

“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.”

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Thomas Berry to Brian Swimme:

“You have a chance at succeeding.

At what?

Awakening a new era. The exciting action of our time is the creation of a cosmological form of humanity.”

“Come to understand you are not a scientist. You are not an American. You are not male. You are not even primarily human. First and foremost you are a cosmological being.”

“The universe in the mode of a human.”

~ Brian Swimme, Cosmogenesis p. 212

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”

~ Dalai Lama

“The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

~ Marcel Proust

“I was up in the night, going over all the losses, betrayals and cruelties of these last several months, then I considered all the thoughts in the world and decided to choose the ones that were made of beauty, kindness and poetry.”

~ Joy Harjo

Lost ~ David Wagoner

Stand still. The trees ahead and the bushes beside you

Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,

And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,

Must ask permission to know it and be known.

The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,

I have made this place around you.

If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.

No two trees are the same to Raven.

No two branches are the same to Wren.

If what a tree or bush does is lost on you,

You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows

Where you are. You must let it find you.

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Learn more about Beautiful and inspiring Dr. Tayria Ward

Tayria says “As humans in many ways we threw out the baby with the bathwater. Our connection with the intelligent voices of the non-human world and those of the invisible world have been undervalued, often severed, to the detriment of our health psychologically, emotionally, physically, socially and environmentally.”

Tayria’s work is to help recover this health. One of her major tools in working with individuals and groups is focus upon the messaging system in the dreams of the night. She has written down her own dreams and worked with them consistently since the age of 24. She studied the worlds religions avidly for many years, has worked intensively with shamans from Africa and a variety of other traditions, has studied the theories of Carl Jung for decades, including completing her doctorate in Depth Psychology, and worked for many years in analysis of her own dreams with some of the finest Jungian analysts. She is uniquely qualified to assist persons on an in-depth spiritual and psychological quest.

Learn more about Tayria on her website:

https://tayriaward.com/about/