Dreaming with the Earth-Mind

Traumatic experiences transform individuals and communities in many ways. The path of recovery and healing is supported when engaging our spiritual faculties and abilities as well as turning to ancestors in their many forms for guidance and direction. Whether through signs, intuition, synchronicities, or dreams, we can discover how to powerfully engage the activist spirit within to serve the earth and all life.

Kimberly R. Mascaro, PhD, LMFT, is a psychotherapist, educator, and coach with a focus on ecology, spirituality, consciousness, somatics and womens’ issues. She has facilitated workshops and retreats on these topics globally. For more information on the author, please visit www.consciouschimera.com.

Kimberly R. Mascaro
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 233
Bibliographic Info: glossary, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2025
pISBN: 978-1-4766-9655-3
eISBN: 978-1-4766-5615-1
Imprint: Toplight

Disclaimer ix
Acknowledgments xi
Preface 1
Chapter Summary 3
Introduction: How I Got Here 5
      My Personal Story of Coming to Maui 5
      The 2023 Maui Fires and Immediate Aftermath 11

1 A Brief History of Maui 27

2 Indigenous Mind 35
      Living from Your Indigenous Mind 40
      Indigenous Science Is Science 42
      Reflections and Considerations 56

3 Waking Dreams 61
      Cross-Cultural Waking Dream Experiences 64
      Waking Dreams on Maui 65
      Other Views on Waking Dream–Related Phenomena 70
      Reading the Signs 74

4 Know Your Medicine 83
      Initiation 91
      Paleolithic Ancestry 93
      Rediscovering My Italian Identity 103
      Ritual 116

5 Live Your Medicine 121
      Ceremony 121
      Sacred Activism 128
      Planting Seeds of Experience 133
      Spiritually Transformative Dream Experiences 138

6 Dreaming with All Relations 141
      Ancestral Dreaming 147
      Ecological Dreaming 157

7 Journeys into the Dream Arts 169
      Practice Safety 173
      Dream Incubation 177
      Collective Dreaming 183
      Radically Proactive Hope 194

8 Conclusion 198

Epilogue: As It Stands Today 203
Glossary 207
Resources 211
Bibliography 213
Index 221

• “Dr. Kimberly Mascaro offers us a heartfelt, authentic and personal look at her journey and relationship with dreams, with eco-psychology, and with ancestors, weaving her lived experience on Maui during the fires with her own ancestral history. She respectfully highlights indigenous viewpoints and provides us with sound action suggestions and her own brand of dream medicine, inviting us to develop our own relationship with the land and our peoples. Bringing her professional expertise combined with her deep love of the earth, Mascaro weaves mystery, indigenous and modern science, history, ancestral work, and dreamscapes into a seamless whole. I highly recommend this compassionate book.”—Linda Yael Schiller, MSW, LICSW, author of Modern Dreamwork

• “The summer I spent in Honolulu in 1960 was one of the happiest and most memorable experiences of my life, and I have returned several times, not only to Oahu and to the other islands as well. I feel very protective of Hawaii and Hawaiians and am very suspicious of authors who try to give themselves an ‘alpha imprimatur’ to burnish their reputations. After reading this book, I had not need to be concerned about Kimberly Mascaro’s account of her time in Maui, as she immersed herself in the history and cultural of that magical island, fathoming in Indigenous knowledge, suffering with residents through the devastating fires, and participating in what she justly calls ‘sacred activism.’ Her background in the ‘dream arts’ make her a unique storyteller, especially in her call for reviving the ancient creation myths that were a product of dreamtime and applying them to humanity’s contemporary evolution.”—Stanley Krippner, PhD, author of A Chaotic Life

• “Dreaming with the Earth-Mind is infused with phoenix energy, rising as it does from the real life flames and ashes of the 2023 Maui wildfires. Dr. Kimberly Mascaro combines her own powerful voice with those of the indigenous people she interviews, in a passionate cry for us to listen to our ancestors and the land they walked. Mascaro explores anger as a sacred ally, creation stories and labyrinths, plant spirit guidance, and life as a collective waking dream. This rich journey from destruction into activism highlights the way that disconnection leads to collective shadow, and enforces the transformative power of hope. Mascaro urges us to recall the ancient ways and dream with the land so that we can rise, phoenix-like, into a creative new relationship with our planet. Reading this fiery book is an initiation into the mysteries of ecological dreaming and the art of sacred activism.”—Dr. Clare Johnson, author of  The Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming and Elixir of Sleep, founder of DeepLucidDreaming.com