Joseph Voelbel

They are not angels. They are not demons. They are The Pack. Their primary imperative is protecting the corridors between dream and reality. This is a most complex endeavor. It involves traversing subterranean caverns, elevated chambers, and vortexual configurations. The Pack's world is one of blur, water color, and intuition. Their sensations span spectrums far beyond our capacity of sight or sound. Their daytime is illusory. Their nighttime, invisible.

As one's day is another's night, so too both waking and sleeping worlds are constantly being engaged. Since one can be awake in a dream or asleep while awake as well as the opposite, both worlds exist concurrently. Thus, spectral openings through the gates is always shifting.

The Pack knows that the veil between waking and sleeping is thinnest at dusk and dawn — when the curtains between worlds becomes enmeshed, neither thrown open by day, nor shut tight by night. Entrance through the gates feels like being the recipient of a wink or the manner in which arrives a useful idea. Such journeys can be induced by the sudden presence or absence of rain. If you've ever met a helper, guide, or spirit ally in your dream, such a figure was most likely an emissary from The Pack.

Moving between states of waking and sleeping creates bumps in timespace, and these bumps come with a host of side effects. They may include memory loss or retrieval, time shrinking or expanding, new skills obtained and old one's lost, as especially crisp visceral sensations, flashes of insight, and spontaneous self-healing. Though these alterations are minor, and many, The Pack deems such side-effects worthwhile, in comparison to not participating in new perceptual frequencies.

The Pack monitors transitions through these gates while assisting individuals with dreamtime and daytime lessons, reminding them to remain ever wakeful and thus protected.

To run, fly, or swim with The Pack is considered a high honor. Cultures practicing abilities like this include the Dogon of West Africa, whose spiritual elders, called Hogon, serve as guardians of their mythology, and the indigenous Aborigines of Australia, whose healers, called Ngangkari, act as custodians of their dreamtime memory. Let The Pack be considered synonymous with these arbiters of the great mystery, and protectors of the portals that comprise dimensions.