{"id":4996,"date":"2013-01-08T16:23:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T23:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2013-01-08T16:23:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T23:23:05","slug":"russian-seasonal-dream-rituals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4996","title":{"rendered":"Russian Seasonal Dream Rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"

I missed Orthodox Christmas by\u00a0 a day, but here is an article on Russian Pagan dream practice.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Here I’ll try to give the “taste” of the authentic Russian tradition of dream work that has very deep roots in pre-Christian culture.\u00a0 Mainly the Russian tradition tells about highly practical dream incubation and tuning.\u00a0 The tuning rituals are connected to certain calendar dates and periods all over the year, days of the week, and time of the day.\u00a0 There is also very rich practice of using ‘magic’ objects and creating special situations for powerful dream incubation. My experience in teaching dream work shows that three days intensive in the nature is not enough to try at least either summer, or winter rituals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I missed Orthodox Christmas by\u00a0 a day, but here is an article on Russian Pagan dream practice. \u00a0Here I’ll try to give the “taste” of the authentic Russian tradition of dream work that has very deep roots in pre-Christian culture.\u00a0 Mainly the Russian tradition tells about highly practical dream incubation and tuning.\u00a0 The tuning rituals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[178,53,84],"class_list":["post-4996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dreaming","tag-russia","tag-winter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1iA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5001,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5001","url_meta":{"origin":4996,"position":0},"title":"Critiquing “Double Belief” in Russian Paganism","author":"Chas S. 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