Henry Reed’s Dream Tent

The other person who has worked with this use of dreams and nonlocal awareness is psychologist Henry Reed, who has taken a different approach.

Henry began his career as an academic on the Princeton faculty. But, over the years, he found himself increasingly drawn to nonlocal experiences in the context of ritual. Henry understands a key point about rituals, all rituals: These focused ceremonies are the product of human decisions derived from the tension between tradition and innovation. They are designed, whatever is done or said, to create sacred space where one can feel safe opening oneself to nonlocal awareness.

I particularly appreciate the Dream Tent experience Henry has created which seems, to me, a natural complement to the steps used by Dale. In Henry’s ritual, which arcs back across the centuries to the 4th Century healing shrine of Asclepius, you, as the person seeking a healing or visionary dream, first pray for a dream that invites you to partake of this mystery rite. Once invited to do so, you create a sacred space (temenos) by erecting a tent aligned to the non-local archetype of the axis mundi. The tent becomes your womb for a rebirthing experience while you sleep.

In the Dream Tent, just as the ancient Greeks did the Abaton, you spend the day fasting, meditating, and journaling about the purpose of the dream incubation and what receiving a special dream will mean for one’s spiritual life path. Going to sleep while meditating on a special dream mantra, you awaken with the recollection of a healing or oracular dream, one that requires no interpretation as would an ordinary dream. Sometimes the dream occurs right in the tent itself where the person seems to awaken to a spiritual presence confronting the dreamer in their sleeping bag, reminiscent of the visionary dreams incubated and recorded at Epidaurus.

Henry’s Dream Tent birthed a novel procedure--the Dream Helper Ceremony. A surrogate group of “Good Samaritan” dreamers dream for a troubled person’s undisclosed problem. They do it simply by setting the intention to do so. The ritual is minimal, and the individual dreams not as profound as those from the Dream Tent, but the group’s dreams evidence the “wisdom of crowds” and demonstrate a collective, non-local empathy for this person, with healing and advisory dreams that dovetail right onto the “target person’s” issue.

A few suggestions: If you try these rituals, do not talk to people outside of your support circle concerning them. Adults doing novel rituals is a concept easy to ridicule, and poke fun at. To those not open to working with consciousness engineering like this, the rituals will seem uncomfortable and strange. And you may feel strange talking about it. So don’t.

I also recommend that you incorporate Dale’s steps into Henry’s ritual, and that while you can use Dale’s steps frequently, you use Henry’s Dream Tent ceremony sparingly, making its occurrence a significant event. Remember that when you strip away the details of how the ceremony is done, underneath you find the same concept of the bio-circuit and its dynamics that you have learned to be aware of in the standard Remote Viewing sessions.

From Opening to the Infinite. by Stephan A. Schwartz