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January/February 2002 Spirituality
Night School

by Cathy Pfeil

For the last 11 years I have been attending a series of special classes in my dreams. I have graduated from 4 separate “Night Universities” and today continue with taking special classes, but primarily I teach and do healing work in my dreams.

The dreams began shortly after my spiritual awakening in 1988. I had a near death experience after my family was involved in a car crash. Because of internal injuries I had emergency surgery that left an incision from pelvic bone to sternum. I woke in the hospital with several light beings around my bed. They had long delicate fingers that seemed to weave the air above my stomach. Explaining to me that the surgeon had done all he could to repair the damage, they began the delicate work of repairing the field above my body. I thought they were playing the piano. “We will show you this technique later,” they said. And they kept their promise. The first healing technique I was taught in night school was how to extend my fingers into long beams of light that could knit together what appears to me as a multi-layered grid surrounding the body.

The night school time has always occurred between 12:00 a.m. and 4:45 a.m. “Night School” dreaming begins after a short period of regular dreams that often intertwines the day’s events or situations. School often begins with an experience of traveling. When my night studies began in 1988 every dream began in the same way. I would be propelled through a tunnel of light. As time went on I became very curious and wanted to learn more about the tunnel. I learned to slow down and actually look at the tunnel. It was math formulas and geometric shapes. I have always thought it was humorous that this piece of information would be revealed to me since I have always had such trouble with numbers. The secret of the “tunnel formula” is definitely safe with me.

On the other end of the tunnel was always a park-like setting with a carved stone bench and a water fountain. A teacher would come towards me and we would walk or sit together and discuss what the class was to be about. My first classes were the longest, sometimes lasting several months on one concept. Other times a lesson would happen in one night. As I learned about one subject I would be offered opportunities in waking state following the teaching to test out the level of my new understanding.

I had been going to the temple courtyard in my dreams for over a year when I attended a slide presentation of sacred sites. One of the slides showed my bench. I got so excited I made the woman giving the presentation back the slide until I could really look at the picture. I explained the temple building to the side of the bench, the fountain and the hills that surrounded them. “It is exactly as you are saying. So you have been to Malta?” she asked. “Yes”, I answered, “last night in my dream I was there in class.” In my dream my Malta classroom is a thriving present time reality. The fountain bubbles and it is lush and green.

When I first began to receive teachings I thought all the teachers I worked with were angels or guides. As my work has grown to include doing teaching and healing in dreams, I now appear as that same kind of teacher I believed to be Angels. Sometimes the people I work with in dreamtime find me. I asked one of them what I was wearing in the dream and she described a new dress I had recently purchased. In her dream I appeared exactly as I am in waking life.

In dream state I created myself the same, no beautiful long legged body, no thick wavy hair, just me. I asked my night school teachers why I would do that if I could create myself anyway I wanted in dreams. “You can create yourself anyway you want in dream state, but you can in your waking life too.” He said, “You are completely your manifestation.”

I keep a journal of my dreams and reread them frequently. As I continue to grow and change, the level at which I understand the dreams increases. I have found dream interpretation books of little help in understanding my own dreams. Exploring my own dreams and what the symbols mean for me has been the best dream interpretation tool.

I invite you to consider enrolling in this special night college. The curriculum is exciting and challenging. Don’t wait for a big crash in your life to begin on your spiritual path. Say yes to Spirit, yes to understanding your dreams and yes to the in-breaths and out-breaths of your life. It is the heart and soul in the circle of life. See you in class.

An intuitive healer and teacher of the highest caliber, Cathy Pfeil is currently studying with Carolyn Myss and Dr. Norman Shealy. She works on behalf of clients with profound illnesses such as cancer and MS and uses dreams and dream symbolism in her work as a Medical Intuitive and Spiritual Healer. You can visit her website www.cathypfeil.com or call (360) 923-1875 for more information. Cathy will be participating in the New ConneXion DREAM FORUM on February 21st.