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My name is Don Boulet, (pronounced boo-lay). DreamWorks is composed
of my thoughts, experiences, ideas, and opinions and is built from over
twenty five years of my own compelling interest in finding understandable,
personal answers to the questions raised by our dreaming experiences as
well as by the events in our conscious, waking lives which, at first glance,
don't seem to many of us to be connected. But I've found that they are.
These conclusions are based on all that I've read, seen, conjectured and
experienced. Many threads from many sources have been woven into my own
fabric of understanding here. What I have learned, I wish to share, in
the hope that some of my findings will be of benefit to others as they
weave their own webs of understanding.
This brief autobiographical
sketch is given for any who might be interested in the whys and wherefores
of how I got the information which I use in my work with dream material.
If nothing else, it should explain, my interest in dreams and how
important is the part that I think they play in our lives.
Conformity
Doesn't Work for Me (Scorpio
w/Scorpio Rising)
I was reared in a fairly fundamentalist Christian household, though
my parents did not see eye to eye on some matters pertaining to religion
and each even attended different churches for some time. By the time
I reached my middle teens, I had decided that religious matters were
just a bunch of hocus pocus and superstition...for the ignorant masses.
I still had some questions about how "reality" worked but I knew I'd
have to create my own answers...if I was ever going to have any that
satisfied my spirit of curiosity as well as my personal sense of logic
and justice.
So,
having rejected most theological dogma, I entered adulthood with a rather
common, materialist, "this-is-all-there-is" philosophy. I know now that
this mindset has been developed in our culture by the "religious" devotion
to so-called "scientific" answers which have to be arrived at by the application
of deductive reasoning. We come up with a theory, gather input through
the 5 senses with an agreed upon "yardstick", analyze and test the result
and come to "ultimate" conclusions. This, the "materialist mindset" tells
you, is all that you can know about the nature of reality. What I wasn't
taught at that time in my life, and what many people are still unaware
of, is the fact that there are at least two other types of reasoning which
our minds are capable of utilizing.
Attempt
at Conformity Nearly Kills Me
I mentioned this aspect of my early life, and something about the faculties
of Mind, to set the stage for what was to come later. Using the aforementioned
analytical mindset, I completed a college degree in Advertising Design
and received a commission as an Officer in the U.S. Air Force. After college
I went through a year of pilot training, and then various survival schools.
Finally I trained in the F4 Phantom and was immediately on my way to Vietnam.
After about 9 months of regular combat "strike" duties, I was assigned
to a special squadron of "FAST FACS (forward air controllers)" who's mission
was to fly very low (treetop and below) and very fast (600+ mph) for visual
reconnaisance of enemy ground activity. About a month or so into this
mission, I was shot down and spent 4 hours on the ground, alone, in Laos.
It seemed like the whole Air Force was just above the clouds but all this
combined force just wasn't enough to break holes in the clouds for the
choppers to come and pick me up. It was frightening, to say the least,
and it put my "analytical" mind to the most critical test it had ever
encountered...personal survival.
After
it became apparent that I had done everything I was trained to do, followed
all the rules and completed all the steps...and still was, essentially,
helpless...it came to me that I had one last option. I considered the
stakes, and initiated the final option, even though it was very difficult
to do. My last option was to say a prayer to a God that I was fairly sure
didn't even exist. So I did.
It was something like "God....if you exist...you're the only hope
I've got of getting out of this one." Then I thought of a benevolent
smile on some faintly outlined majestic face that covered the horizon
just behind the jungle trees.
I didn't
realize it until later, but about the time I made that prayer, a couple
of very brave U.S. ARMY chopper pilots back in Vietnam, who were finished
with their day's mission, just happened to hear about a "jet" going down
out "west". They rounded up a couple of volunteers, violated standing
orders to not fly out of the country, and crossed the border at tree top
level in their small, slow Huey helicopter, armed only with a painted
red cross on the nose and a couple of rifles carried by the crewmen. After
searching for several hours in that hostile environment, they picked me
up, picked up the other crewmember on the other side of the rocky ridge,
flew us out of that jungle and brought us to the safety of their Army
base on the coast of Vietnam. I realized later that they were not part
of the Search & Rescue force. They didn't have to be there but they
came anyway. This impressed me.
I am here today because four brave men risked their lives multiple times
for someone they didn't even know....and it wasn't even their job!!.
Now that is Love!
The
"True" Meaning of the Event
I also realized later
that I had had a premonition before takeoff that morning that I would
not be bringing that aircraft back to the crew chief as usual. I just
"knew" this as I returned his salute upon taxiing out of the aircraft
revetment shelter. This really bothered me. It didn't fit my mindset.
You just "can't" know the future. Then later I talked to my fellow aircrew
member about it and he told me that he had the SAME premonition before
takeoff. This REALLY got me to thinking.... ....and
thinking! And it caused me to do some heavy duty questioning about the
nature of reality and the human mind. Soon I was out of the service and
about to begin a career in commercial art. So in order to prepare myself
for a "creatively responsible" position I began to read books on creativity.
Many were biographies of the great inventors, artists and innovators of
our culture.
The
Search for "Real" Answers
I read
like a detective, searching for patterns and clues as to why these people
could do what they did. I noticed that each one told a different story
but with the same underlying pattern. There was a particular "frame" of
mind they got into which allowed them to come up with brilliant ideas.
Today, we call them "altered states of consciousness".
Over
the ensuing years, I continued to read about, and experiment with, hypnosis,
ESP, meditation, alternate energy forms, colored light's effects on biological
systems and dreams. I also studied philosophy, world religions, UFO's,
ancient history (through legend and myth as well as the history books),
and the idea of reincarnation. After reading hundreds of books on these
subjects, I began to realize that DREAM study offered the most practical
method of personal inquiry into the burning question that was driving
me on. I wanted to know if the mind of Man could somehow bridge the gap
between the past, the present and the future and "know" what the future
would bring. I wanted
*it* to happen....AGAIN!
How
Dreams Fit In
So
I began a 20+ year dedication to recording my dreams, alongside a daily
journal or diary of my thoughts and life events which continues to this
day. There was much frustration and not a little psychological, as well
as physical, pain in my life. The physical pain was an artifact of my
ejection in Viet Nam and was in great part responsible for the psychological
situations. I tried to quit the program on more than one occasion but
I would always be brought back to the understanding that I couldn't let
so much investment of time and energy be wasted. So I kept at it...until
the Spring of 1994. Then came the breakthrough in my understanding. This
also happened to coincide with hitting "rock bottom" in my personal life.
I finally had reached the point that I could see no future in continuing
it.
The
Present...
But
what I "found" in all of this is still, to this day, amazing to me...because
it keeps growing and expanding. I know it is not self delusion when others,
who have learned of the process, can apply it in their dreams and in their
lives and they find that it has that special "aptness" which I call the
"AHAH!" factor. Some of those who have studied their dreams in our weekly
group discussions for over a year have expressed to me that they find
some real meaning and value in the information.
Many, many people have also emailed me on the internet and expressed the
same sentiment.
But I've also learned to apply the symbol method I've developed from dream
study to things like the Bible and to art, music and myth of all times,
making them far richer in terms of showing me their patterned truth than
they were before.
So,
I feel that this information is worthwhile to every individual on the
planet...maybe the most worthwhile thing possible...How to understand
the Self...in the Self's native tongue...symbols...the language of dreams!!
What
I'm Trying to Do With It
What
I now know is not written anywhere else in its complete form, to my knowledge.
(I'm still working on it but it will take time.) Meanwhile, through online
and personal dream discussion I am trying to disseminate what I have learned
to people who are interested in testing its validity and practical value
in their own lives.
Who
hasn't wondered about that "wierd" dream they had last night? Who hasn't
wondered, even for a moment, if it "meant" anything? How does this tie
into "religion" with a little "r"? Are the two somehow connected? Why
have all cultures before the recent era of scientific materialist thought
put so much credence on dreams? And how does Nature itself give us the
"clues" in it's myriad forms and multiple layers of patterns? Are "we"
as individuals, microcosms of the macrocosm?
I hope
to be able to communicate some of this to all who are interested. I have
no wish to spend a lot of time and energy with those who are not ready
to learn what I have found. Those who wish only to refute the experiences
of another have obviously found their own niche of understanding and have
no need to be interacting with DreamWorks. A horse only drinks when it's
thirsty. But I hope that those who do work with this information will
expand upon it and develop it even further through their own experimentation
and personal application....AND I hope that they will share what they
have learned with those others who happen to be in their respective spheres
of influence. And I am sure that those who decide to work with these techniques,
and an open mind, will also begin to see the patterns of regularity that
define the skeletal framework of dream grammar. I think that the rules
of this grammar will become obvious to them as their experience level
increases.
A
Junction in History
I know
that the information learned in the study of the self is something which
the world needs very badly to understand....and especially the kids, because
they are the future. I also believe that the human race is at a critical
juncture in its evolutionary development through time. Consequently, many
individuals at this time are feeling compelled to make major changes in
the way they "understand" this coming reality. The seeds of understanding
have been already sown, through the development of world events, language
and, even the amazing parallels presented to us by the computer age. All
are repeats of the pattern of development of the personal SELF...and
each of us IS a Self. Notice that I didn't say "has" one. The Self or
Soul, as I speak of it, means individuality or unique portion of the whole.
I'm convinced that YOU are not a body which happens to "have" a Self or
a Soul. Rather, you are a Self/Soul...a unique composite of conscious
energies and memories....which happens to occupy a body at this time.
The repeating pattern which I have found, and would like to show you evidence
of, can be summed up with the following:
Consciousness
IS the primal force in nature... ...including YOUR nature!
Aknowledgements
To name all of the
sources which have helped tie up loose ends in my understanding would
be an almost overwhelming task for me at this time. However, I feel
that I must mention the readings of Edgar Cayce. These readings by America's
so-called Sleeping Prophet, through my personal study over time, have
continued to provide fitting answers equal to my own growing ability
to understand them.
And I must also
express gratitude for the works of Carl Jung, especially his discussions
of the anima and animus, which provided the instrumental clues that
I needed to begin to understand that gender is the the "key",
the Rosetta stone to dream interpretation. It is gender which metaphorizes
the difference between the inner and outer, and which thus forms the
basic, ground level patterning for the Self's operational divisions
and allows us to finally realize how and why the subconscious mind uses
the symbols that it does in our dreams.
To the countless
others who wrote books or shared waking life experiences, and even to
those who have played the various roles in my dreams, I also give my
heartfelt thanks. All of them together provided the fabric and all I
had to do was look closely enough to begin to discern the threads and
the weave.
Again,
welcome, and I sincerely hope that you find some value in return for
your invested time here at DreamWorks.
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