The Black Phone

If an antique telephone, unconnected to anything, started to ring, would you answer? “The Black Telephone” is the recounting of an actual dream … one so powerful that it vibrated with an insistence on being shared. In the dream, one woman is grieving her dead husband while, across the country, another woman is grieving her daughter’s unexpected death. A black telephone from the 1950s comes into each woman’s life. Irrationally, it rings. When they answer, both are transformed by who is on the other end—and by the sacred secret revealed to them. When author Darling Graciela was little, her mother would ask about her dreams and guide her to distinguish between them and dreams that came from other worlds. As a young woman, Darling also had dreams for others—people she eventually met in real life. Now, as an elder, she knows that the dreams are a means to make life real beyond mere existence, that they help us recognize that our lives are infused by the presence of other worlds. Darling Graciela offers workshops on dream interpretation, as well as one-on-one training on how to use your dream state.

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