Guruvir

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project dreamcatcher

What is Project Dreamcatcher?

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Yogi Bhajan imparted a set of teachings that are transformative, elevating and accessible to all students. In turn, this project aims to inventory the transformative and mystical experiences known to those who have practiced Kundalini Yoga and Meditation. I am collecting descriptions of visions, metaphors, meditative experiences, and profound dreams to use in a novel. Your voice is essential.

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February 28th, 2008 | 3 Comments

Invitation to Participate

Dear Community,

I am writing to invite you to participate in a project that I have actively been working on for the past year and that I have silently been called to work on for the past seven years. My project is a novel about a spiritual journey that works to detail the struggle and joy of encountering deep experiences in a modern world. It is a story born of my own experiences with Kundalini Yoga and Meditation.

I recently graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor’s Degree in The Study of Religion and Creative Writing. During my time at Harvard I was investigating the use of language by mystics, novelists, poets, and writers of magical realism in order to understand how to best bridge the gaps between thoughts and experiences. What I have found is that there is no steady bridge. Rather there are stepping-stones between the realms and one of the most powerful stepping-stones is the written story.

With this information in mind, I began work on the book about a year ago. In April of 2007 work on this book abruptly stopped due to intense pain in my arms. I was diagnosed with acute tendonitis and was promised it would clear quickly if I rested. With rest, summer solstice and a juice fast the pain did not clear and I began to pray for help and for answers to narrative questions that I felt were also creating the physical block.

By winter solstice the pain was gone and I received the answer to one of my biggest narrative questions. That is, how do I write about Kundalini Yoga and Meditation, White Tantric Yoga, Yogi Bhajan and capture the essence of our experiences? How do I express the invisible dimension of experience? The answer came during a meditation and it was quite simply that the community must have a voice within the book and this voice will use the metaphors and symbols that are the closest to this invisible dimension. What I learned, then, was that this book could not just be about my story.

This new voice will speak with certainty in the same way we would speak to each other, assured that there is an invisible presence that guides us, that our Teacher is with us. This voice will draw forth the images of our community that have been found in dreams with the Master. This voice will speak of what it has seen in meditation. This voice is your voice.

In turn, I invite you to share with me your stories, so that I may collect the visions, metaphors, meditative experiences, and profound dreams and use them in the book.

Thank you for being my family.
With all my love,
Guruvir Kaur

To participate, fill out a questionnaire.

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Questionnaire

Basic Info
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  9. You may contact me with follow-up questions.
History of Practice
  1. How long have you been practicing Kundalini Yoga and Meditation as taught by Yogi Bhajan?
  3. Do you feel it is your spiritual path? If so, how did you come to find it?
  5. Did you know Yogi Bhajan? If so, how would you describe your relationship?
Transcendant Experiences
  1. Have any meditations had an especially profound effect on you? For example, you did a meditation for forty days or more and saw a particular change in your consciousness in relation to some trauma or compulsion. If so, what was the meditation, how long did you do the meditation for and what was the change?
  3. Have you had any visionary or transcendent experiences during meditation? For example, did Yogi Bhajan appear to you and tell you something? Did you see the Tree of Life? Did you feel as though you entered another realm of existence? Of course, there are many other possible responses here, and that is what I am most interested in. Please describe these experiences with as much detail as possible and feel free to include descriptions of not only the physical and visual content but also of the energetic and extrasensory content. Also, if you would like to comment on the meaning of this experience please do so.
  5. Has Yogi Bhajan visited you in your dreams? If so please describe the dream including the story line (what exactly happened, what you saw), the quality of the dream (lucid or fuzzy), the emotional content, the energetic content. The spiritual content (were you given a message or meditation) and any relevant contextual information that is necessary for understanding the dream’s meaning in your life.
  7. Have any other saints or healers visited you in your dreams? If so please describe the dream in the same detail described above.
  9. Have you experienced any miracles? Please describe in detail.
  11. Any other profound experiences that you would like to share?
Release Form
  1. Grant: For consideration which I acknowledge, I grant to Alexandra Muñoz also known as Guruvir Kaur (“Company”) and Company's assigns, licensees and successors the right to copy, reproduce, and use all or a portion of the statements (“the Interview”) for incorporation in the published and unpublished writing of Company (the “Works”) as well as for all other purposes, including advertising, trade or any commercial purpose in connection to the Works throughout the world and in perpetuity. I permit the use of all or a portion of the Interview in the Works in all forms and media including advertising and related promotion throughout the world and in perpetuity. I waive the right to inspect or approve use of my Interview as incorporated in the Works. Release: I release Company and Company's assigns, licensees and successors from any claims that may arise regarding the use of the Interview including any claims of defamation, invasion of privacy, or infringement of moral rights, rights of publicity or copyright. I acknowledge that I have no ownership rights in the Works. Company is not obligated to utilize the rights granted in this Agreement. I have read and understood this agreement and I am over the age of 18. This Agreement expresses the complete understanding of the parties.
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