The Dreams That Shape Us

Host Steve shares his story around running away and hiding from his calling, music. You get to hear all about his creative process, how it's become so entwined with his dreams, how to cultivate a relationship with your inner muse through dreams and waking relational experiences, and how creating art from dreams can be a powerful act of soul retrieval! This is an old recording of Steve being interv...

Chelsea Turpening Coxsey knew from a young age that her dreams were different. They called her to discover a hidden world of meaning and connection through symbols and signs. Instead of running away, she dove headfirst into exploring the world that opened up to her through her dreams. She dared to be a dreamer. Chelsea's website Chelsea's books Owls School of Dreaming

Do you have food focused dreams? Does it feel like your dreams may be suggesting a specific dietary regimen? Well Angela tells the story of how her dreams really beautifully companioned her on her health journey while she attempted to get to the bottom of some challenging health issues plaguing her. All original music by Steven Ernenwein Poem at the end by Steven Ernenwein For more info on Angela...

*Explicit Language Warning* Witness how dreams sometimes literally come for you! 😅 We all receive unique ways that the dreams use to really GRAB our attention, some of those ways can be pretty jarring like his. Brandon's dreams refused to see that he walked any path but his own! Hope you enjoy 🙏 All original music by Steven Ernenwein Learn dreamwork from us! www.dreamschool.net Brandon's IG: @bs...

Season 4 continues with a harrowing, but beautiful story of Georgia's grief and loss over her father's sudden passing during her childhood and the very impressive (and unflinching) way her dreams not only companioned and held her, but also challenged her to confront her deep heartache. It's a beautiful ode to her pretty much life long journey of the path of initial avoidance to finding the deep co...

SEASON 4 BEGINS! Jason gives us a gorgeous look at how dreams give us the mythic context for where we stand, what are challenge is, and where the soul has it's sights for where it wants us to arrive! You get a first hand look at dreamwork in real time and the life shaping vision his dreams are currently calling out of him! All original music by Steven Ernenwein Learn from us: www.dreamschool.net O...

Season 3 Finale - Listener Discretion is Advised For almost the last 100 years, people have been reporting dream or dream like experiences of alien encounters and/or abduction experiences. Most of these have been passed off as dreams. Our guest, Fred Zewe, argues that some of these dreams are just "screen memories," fake memories that either our brains concoct or the aliens give us to make the exp...

Many of our listeners haven't heard this remarkable story about Rochelle's dreams which showed her intimate details about an old friend's life. So take a walk into the past with us, back to our first season, and hear how Rochelle's dreaming eye spied into the life of someone she hadn't seen in years.

Ever have a dream completely interrupt a major life event you were about to go through with?! Well join Jason and Steve as they explore the dream Melissa Johnson shares with them that caused her to call off her wedding 6 weeks before the day 😮😮🤯🤯 Melissa met both of us in her dreams before the interview and each dream floors us!! You won't want to miss this episode, we had no idea what we were...

The first taste of their ability that psychics get is often through their dreams. That's how it was for our special guest, Kristen Kadi, but she got more than bargained for when she used her ability to try to track down a murderer. In this episode she shares her hair raising stories and personal insights. Original music composed and performed by: Steven Ernenwein Our one link to rule them all, all...

Lawrence reflects on the trauma and PTSD he endured throughout his life and at war and the way his dreams have aided him every step of the way! His story is so full, so harrowing, and so redeeming. He shows that a vet doesn't return home when their feet touch US soil once more, but when they accept the Warrior's destiny and then find their way back to their soul. All original music: Steven Ernenwe...

As Mary Jo Heyen said in an earlier episode, "we don't get to do this a la carte, if I'm frozen to my pain, I'm also frozen to my joy." In this episode, our guest, Kris, experiences what being cut off from both does to the heart and soul. But, providence is afoot and goes to work on her through dreams and through a 3 year life experience living with indigenous Huichol families in Mexico - where sh...

Jenni shares with us her wild story of her early experiences of astral projection that led her to lucid dreaming and how these very wild experiences from a young age deeply shaped the trajectory of her life!! Discover how 9yo Jenni, who wishes to become the first woman to build a vehicle to step outside of the universe, grows into an adult who realizes she IS the vehicle! All original music throug...

Following on the heels of mother's day, we celebrate mother's in sharing Tzivia's very heartfelt, and at times heart wrenching, story of motherhood! Tzivia actually had no intention of becoming a mother, but life had other plans for her life and we get to see how her dreams held this for her and aided her every step of the way. It's a beautiful ode to Parenthood and the little critters who crack o...

It's Oct 2020, thick in the pandemic, Greg is feeling lost for many reasons. Then his dreams come to his aid and point him in a direction and calls him to bring into the world the very thing he's been aching for. Studying Jungian thought, he's been dissatisfied with the rhetoric surrounding queerness. He has since begun discovering myths and ways to explore queerness through the Jungian lens that...

*Content Warning: listeners discretion is advised* Join Steve and Ryan Hurd as they explore Ryan's story of facing nightmares in a lucid dream, sleep paralysis, generational trauma, core wounds, and so much more!! They speak to some really hush hush topics within lucid dreaming and the initiations most lucid dreamers fail to arise to when they begin being called deeper. You won't want to miss this...

Professor Scott Sparrow knocked on Heaven's Door and it opened for him while he was lucid dreaming. A holy light filled him with indescribable love, and it set him on a course in life to return to that place and continue receiving that Light. Dr. Sparrow, an acclaimed author, professor, and dream guru, says that everyone can be blessed with the experience of receiving the Light. He prescribes simp...

Welcome to our retrospective episode where we take stock in what our podcasting journey has meant for us! We hear from 11 of our guests and what sharing their stories has meant for them, you'll get a slew of behind the scenes stories about some of our episodes, we work a dream of Steve's about doing this episode, you get to hear a secret audio Steve took of Jason and Steve's first conversation aft...

Join Steve and Alaya as she explores the impactful way that dreams can be the conduit for our ancestors and the divine to put us on our path to do the great work we came here to bring forward! Instagram: @dreamsthatshapeus website: www.dreamsshapeus.com original music composed by Steve Ernenwein. Follow Alaya on IG: @house.of.elishmar

This episode is in honor of Suzanne Stewart, the late wife of our guest Christian Gerike. The story and conversation chronicle the life and death of Suzanne and the dream Christian had the morning she left us. Suzanne passed in July of 2019 after a long journey with Parkinson's. This is a touching conversation on the way dreams companion us in our moments of loss and grief. Instagram: @dreamsthats...

Bob and Jason explore a fascinating lucid dream of Bob's. He had a lot of trepidation in honoring what it was trying to tell him, when one of the wildest stories I've ever heard of synchronicity and the connectivity of our dreaming mind occurs. The story looks at the science, looks at mystifying synchronicity, and offers a powerful example of how we are all so intrinsically connected through (in B...

Join Jason and I as he recounts a dream that set him on a wild path of discovering answers to the validity of past lives and the awakening of his gift as an author! It's all in the pasta - flavors of synchronicity abound, ancient Kings, sassy southern waitresses, hard looks in the mirror, struggle, awakenings, and a WHOLE lotta spaghetti 🤣🙏 you just wait! Special voice actress - Leah Noel Her up...

Steve and Mary Jo Heyen explore a series of 3 dreams that helped her uncover pockets of unfelt grief that led to an incredible source of healing for her. She gorgeously relays how tenderly our dreams walk us into this kind of material and how they so deeply companion us there. Two weeks after the release of this episode, Mary Jo quietly left us in the comfort of her home in the company of her belo...

Content Warning: This episode contains a story involving childhood sexual trauma. Dr Katherine Lawson courageously shares her powerful story of how her dreams helped her overcome her personal experience of childhood sexual trauma. How this recurrent nightmare she had growing up eventually led her to healing and retrieving the little girl inside of her. She hopes that by sharing this story it'll ai...

Join Jason and Dr Jonathan Hyland as they explore an amazing initiatory journey that he went on because of a presence and anxiety he felt arise within his body. It forces him to confront the unconscious on a somatic level versus strictly from an ideological standpoint. We find that this affliction eventually leads him into a deep relational experience with the unconscious and a wealth of understan...