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E.l.e.c.t.r.i.c D.r.e.a.m.s
Volume #13 Issue #9
September 2006
ISSN# 1089 4284
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C O N T E N T S
++ Editor's Notes
Richard Wilkerson
++ Global Dreaming News
Harry Bosma
++ Cover: PsiberDreaming 2006
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Elizabeth Diaz
++ Column: An Excerpt from the Lucid Dream Exchange
Lucy Gillis - Editor
Ed Kellogg III, Ph.D offers a new challenge
++ Column: A View From The Bridge
Exploring Mandorla Energy
Jennifer Star
++ Dreams: "Public Space"
And
"Dharma Displacement"
Stan Kulikowski II
++ Column: The Dream as an Archeological Dig
DreamRePlay with David Jenkins, PhD
++ DREAM SECTION: Kat Peters-Midland
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Editor's Notes
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Welcome to the September 2006 issue of Electric Dreams, your portal to
dreams and dreamwork online.
If you are new to dreams and dreamwork, there are a few e-lists where
Electric Dreams people seems to congregate that might interest you. One is
dreamchatters@yahoogroups.com
Subscribe by going here and registering
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dreamchatters/
.. and another is the IASD bulletin board. Please, no dreams interpreted
here, just discussion of dreaming and dreamwork topics.
http://www.asdreams.org/subidxdiscussionsbboard.htm
As you probably know if you have been following Electric Dreams, the big
online IASD PsiberDreaming Conference is coming later this month, and at
Electric Dreams we want to support the event as much as possible. Thanks to
Liz Diaz, the ED Cover this month is pretty much a reproduction of the 2006
PsiberDreaming Conference poster. The prices for this online conference
make it practically a give-away at under $40 for two weeks of discussion
with the dream researchers doing work on the extreme edge of dreaming. Hope
to see you all there: www.asdreams.org/psi2006
In this issue:
Global Dreaming News editor Harry Bosma, brings you dream news and events
from around the world, online and offline. If you have dream news you want
to get out, please send those to Harry for next month's publication at
ed-news@...
Lucid Dream Exchange (LDE) editor, Lucy Gillis, regularly shares gems from
her publication with Electric Dreams. In this month's Excerpt, E. W. Kellogg
III, Ph.D. explores the experience of light in dreams. What can it be? What
is its source? Ed offers some experiments for lucid dreamers to find the
nature of dreamlight. Read about this in"Exploring the Bizarre Physics of
Dreamspace Part 2: "Dreamlight"
The space created between two intersecting circles is an almond shape
sometimes referred to as a mandorla. Besides being an interesting shape and
the Boolean overlap of space logic, this concept has a long history of
serving to focus our attention on the intersection of the TWO, of the
resolution of the opposites, of the reconciliation of the incompatible. In
"A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, Exploring Mandorla Energy" Jennifer Star summarizes
the explorations of the World Dream Peace Bridge and their take on the
mandorla and how it can be used to revision world peace.
Our Dream Section is a bit smaller this month, so I'm including two dreams
from Stan Kulikowski II, "Public Space" below and "Dharma Displacement" at
the end of the Dream Section. Stan often contributes selections from his
unique dream journal. If you have dreams you would like published, please
enter them in the form at
http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm
David Jenkins, PhD., the director of Berkeley based DreamRePlay, pulses
online each week useful hints and techniques for dreamworkers. In this
month's selection, " The Dream as an Archeological Dig " David explores the
truth, the many levels of dreamwork.
This month we're featuring a short dream section with dreams with dreamers
enjoying while watching a statue of Jesus crying blood, talking with a dead
father, acting in a movie, and searching for a friend.
If you have dreams to share, use the dreamflow form at
www.dreamgate.com/dream/temple
Janet Garrett archives past issues so you can search out specific articles
and authors in an easy-to-access format. These articles contain a wide range
of information for dreamers and dreamworkers. You can see her work progress
and view hundreds of article on dreams at:
http://www.improverse.com/ed-articles/index.htm
Cover by Liz Diaz,
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For those of you who are new to dreamwork,
be sure to stop by one of the many resources:
http://dreamgate.com/electric-dreams
http://dreamgate.com/dream/library
http://dreamunit.net/news-en/
Electric Dreams in PDF: (thanks to Nick Cumbo)
http://electric.dreamofpeace.net/
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From Planet Dream,
-Richard Wilkerson
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G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S
September 2006
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Got news? Email Harry Bosma at his special
ed-news@... address.
Online:
- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
- Dream of Peace Network
- 2006 IASD PsiberDreaming Conference
Physical world:
- UK: Founding of new group
- Toronto: Dreamreading Seminar
- USA: Robert Moss
- USA: Jeremy Taylor
- South Carolina: Dream Studies Program 2007
- Berkeley: Dream Art Show
- Berkeley: Free lecture by Bob Hoss
- Berkeley: the Dream Institute
- Santa Fe: Workshops by Victoria Rabinowe
Reminders:
- Dream Workshop in New Lebanon, NY
- Virtual Dreaming Art Gallery
- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
* * * ONLINE * * *
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- Strephon Says: Podcasts and blog
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By following Strephon's podcasts you will be engaging in a consciousness
course by experiencing the meaning of the dreams Strephon talks about as he
developed their themes and wisdom aspects.
Strephon Kaplan-Williams is an international expert on dreams and the new
dreamwork, as reflected in his many books over the years. His best seller in
America and other countries has been his The Dream Cards. However, his
dreamwork manuals are the respected classics in the field used in college
and university classes as well as by the general public.
Now in retirement age Strephon gives his podcasts and continues to write new
books.
http://strephonsays.com/
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- Dream of Peace Network
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The Dream of Peace Network website is a portal, bringing forth peaceful,
positive energy from the dreaming, into the waking world. This site aims to
showcase some of the wonderful creations and projects inspired by our
dreams, list current adventures being undertaken by groups of active
dreamers, and generally serve to connect and network the wider dreaming
community.
http://www.dreamofpeace.net/
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- 2006 IASD PsiberDreaming Conference
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Scheduled from September 24-October 8, with an additional two weeks of
read-only availability, the fifth annual PsiberDreaming Conference will
bring together a stellar cast of presenters and workshop facilitators along
with live chats, contests and bulletin board discussion.
The conference will feature a special discussion of the Physics of Psi
Dreaming, with a presentation of Dr. Montague Ullman's paper, "The Dream in
Search of a New Abode" and response by Mark Schroll, Ph.D., along with a new
conference feature, the presentation and discussion of several papers and
workshops in either Spanish only or Spanish and English. This feature of the
conference will be led off with a paper by Stanley Krippner Ph.D. and Rosa
Anwandter, Ph.D.: "Dreams and Shamanism in Latin America." This experimental
approach to programming reflects the growing internationalism of IASD.
Dolores Nurss and Curt Hoffman will serve as innkeepers at the conference
Psiber Dream Inn, where weary travelers can stop by and share a tale. In
anticipation of the conference, the Psiber Dream Inn has opened as The Outer
Inn on the regular IASD Discussion Board, which as always is freely
accessible.
Go to
http://asdreams.org/psi2006 for full details.
* * * PHYSICAL WORLD * * *
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- UK: Founding of new group
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Do you live in the UK?
Are you interested in dreams but feel isolated?
Would you like to meet people of a similar mind and be part of a UK-based
group connected to IASD?
If so, please contact me - Kate Adams (UK academic contact for IASD). I am
organising a new UK group and am holding a one day meeting on Friday 15th
September 2006 at Bishop Grosseteste College, Lincoln, to discuss ways
forward. The day is free, which means that places are limited and booking is
essential.
For a copy of the programme and a booking form, please email
kate.adams@... or write to:
Dr Kate Adams,
Senior Lecturer in Education Studies,
Bishop Grosseteste College,
Newport, Lincoln LN1 3DY, UK
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- Toronto: Dreamreading Seminar
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A Method For Using Dreams In The Healing Professions
Presented by Christopher Sowton, N.D.
Date: November 4 & 5, 2006
Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day
Location: The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine
Cost: $250 for health-care professionals
$175 for Naturopathic Alumni Association members
$125 for students
Using video clips of actual dream material Christopher will introduce a
practical method of understanding and making use of dreams in clinical
practice. This seminar will be valuable for any practitioner in the healing
professions who wishes to make better use of their client's dreams.
For more information or to register,
visit www.ccnm.edu/conted.html or call 416-498-1255 ext. 255
The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine
1255 Sheppard Avenue East (at Leslie Street)
Toronto, ON M2K 1E2
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- USA: Robert Moss
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For your convenience, here are some highlights from the calendar at:
http://mossdreams.com/
Soul Leading
Five-Day Advanced Training
Sunday-Friday, September 17-22
Madison, CT, USA
http://mossdreams.com/2006sept.htm#soul%20leading
The Three "Only" Things
Evening Workshop
Wednesday, October 4
Albany, NY, US
http://mossdreams.com/2006oct.htm#knowledge%20network
Healing through Dreams
Evening Talk
Friday, October 6
Sperryville, VA, US
http://mossdreams.com/2006oct.htm#virginia%20fri
Soul Remembering
Weekend Workshop
Saturday-Sunday, October 7-8
Sperryville, VA, US
http://mossdreams.com/2006oct.htm#virginia%20weekend
The Power of Active Dreaming
Evening Workshop
Friday, October 13
Wakefield, RI, US
http://mossdreams.com/2006oct.htm#wakefield
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- USA: Jeremy Taylor
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September according to the schedule of Jeremy Taylor. For more, see
www.jeremytaylor.com/pages/schedule.html
September 14-Nov 2 - Sonoma, CA
Class at Osher Life Long Learning Center, Sonoma State University, School of
Extended Education; meeting every Thursday, 9:45-11:30. Open to all.
"Exploring Dreams and Our Evolving Spirituality." Contact: 707/664.2691 or
email
barbara.brooks@... or go to www.sonoma.edu/exed/lifelong/
September 8-10 - Boulder, CO
Caritas Spiritist Center Weekend Workshop: "Spiritism, Healing and Dreams,"
Friday Lecture: "Looking Into the Dream Mirror: Spirituality and Dreams."
Schedule: 7-9 Friday night. Experiential workshop: 10-4 Saturday and 10-2
Sunday. Friday lecture is $15. Saturday/Sunday Workshop is $110 before Aug
25 and $125 after Aug 25. Mail $50 deposit for the full weekend or $15 for
Friday only, to The Caritas Spiritist Center, 3775 Iris Ave, STE 3B,
Boulder, CO 80301. For directions and registration call 303/449.3066 or
caritascenter@...
September 13 - Berkeley, CA
Chaplaincy Institute program for Interfaith Ministers. Must be enrolled, but
visit their website to learn more about them: www.chaplaincyinstitute.org .
1:30-4:30 Dreams Class.
September 14-Nov 2 - Sonoma, CA
Thursday mornings (9:45-11:30) the Osher Learning Center at Sonoma State
sponsors an 8 week class (open to all) "Exploring Dreams and Our Evolving
Spirituality", on the Sonoma State campus. Open to all. Contact Lou Miller
at
lou.miller@...
September 15-17 -Miriam's Well Retreat Center, Saugerties, NY
Weekend Workshop at Miriam's Well: "The Political is Personal: Dreams and
the Larger Community." Jeremy has been offering workshops at Miriam's Well
for several years. It's always intense and fascinating. Great setting and
wonderful staff. All are welcome - new folks and returnees. Cost: $75
registration fee (tuition is waived), single room is $120-$150 and a double
is $100. Optional food plan is $90 which includes breakfast, lunch and
dinner on Saturday and breakfast on Sunday. Contact Richard at
richard@...
September 20 - Berkeley, CA
Lecture at Jesuit School of Theology/New Directions Sabbatical Group:
"Meaning in Dreams and Dreaming." Open only to those enrolled in the
Sabbatical program, but contact Bruce Leshers for more information about the
program:
blescher@.... Find out more about the Jesuit School of
Theology at www.jstb.edu .
September 23-24 - San Rafael, CA
Weekend Workshop meeting Saturday, 9:30-5:30 and Sunday, 9:30-1pm. Open to
all. This will be focused on intensive group dream work. Meeting place will
be in in Lucas Valley (just outside San Rafael). Space is limited. Cost is
$75. Contact Kathy to register (707/422.9308) or
ktaylor597@...
September 26, Oct 24, Nov 28, Dec 12 - Santa Clara, CA
Four meetings, 6-8pm: "Exploring our Dreams and Our Evolving Spirituality."
All are welcome. Location: Santa Clara University/Osher Lifelong Learning
Institute. Contact Janet for more information at
jvander51@.... To
register, call Nicole Marciano at 408/554.2382.
September 27-May 30, 2007 - Burlingame, CA
Meetings are on Wednesdays, once a month: 5-6, Jeremy lectures, 6-7 Dinner
and 7-9pm is experiential dream work, at the Mercy Center, Burlingame:
"Dream Work as Spiritual Practice: Spiritual Guidance from Beyond the Small
Self" OPEN TO ALL. Contact Catherine to find out more about the program:
cregan@...
September 29-October 1 - Napa, CA
Retreat: Friday(7-9pm) - Introduction to Group Dream Work, and Saturday
(9-5pm) experiential workshop, and Sunday (10:30am) Jeremy will lead a
service for the Unitarian Universalist congregation. Contact Yvonne
(707/226.7127) at
borntoage@...
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- South Carolina: Dream Studies Program 2007
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Dear Dream Enthusiasts,
Justina Lasley and the Institute for Dream Studies (IDS) are excited to
announce the 2nd year of the dream studies program, to begin in January of
2007! This dream certification program will consist of four weekend group
sessions in Charleston, South Carolina throughout 2007, as well as on-line
group sharing and individual home studies throughout the year. Whether to
explore your own dreams or learn to teach others to do the same, this
innovative program is "one of a kind" - truly unique and enriching to
participants of various backgrounds.
The enrollment is limited to the first ten students accepted. To review
additional information regarding the dream certification program, visit
www.dreamswork.us/institutefordreamstudies.htm
Justina Lasley
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- Santa Fe: Workshops by Victoria Rabinowe
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Offering Workshops in Santa Fe and elsewhere. Weekly Studio classes, every
Tuesday from 1:00 to 6:30 p.m. at Victoria's Santa Fe Learning Center.
Custom designed courses of study, workshops and retreats for groups,
conferences and professional trainings. Internet "remote" workshop projects
for individuals and groups.
Here are workshops coming up in September. Also visit the website
http://victoriadreams.com/
September 5
THE DREAM AS SERENDIPITY / SYNCHRONICITY
Tuesday 1-6:30
The Dreaming Arts Studio
1432 Don Gaspar
$35.
September 12
THE DREAM AS FAIRY TALE
With Freya Diamond
Who will be leading September dreamgroups until my return from San diego &
the birth of Sean's baby!
September 19
THE DREAM AS THE POLYMORPHOUS SELF
Tuesday 1-6:30
The Dreaming Arts Studio
1432 Don Gaspar
$35.
September 26
THE DREAM AS THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Tuesday 1-6:30
The Dreaming Arts Studio
1432 Don Gaspar
$35.
October 3
THE DREAM AS THE BOOK OF LIFE
Remembrance and forgiveness
In Honor of Yom Kippur
Tuesday 1-6:30
The Dreaming Arts Studio
1432 Don Gaspar
$50.
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- Berkeley: Dream Art Show
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Dream artists Diane Rusnak & Dorothy Nissen present a new show.
Chroma Collective
Giorgi Gallery
Sept 5 - Oct 1
2911 Claremont Ave
Berkeley, CA
510 848-1228
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- Berkeley: Free lecture by Bob Hoss
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Sunday, Oct. 29, afternoon, JFKU Berkeley campus
The JFKU Dream Studies Program presents a free lecture with dream color
expert Bob Hoss. Visit his website for a bio: www.dreamscience.org
Happy Dreaming
Nancy Lund
Dream Studies Community Events Coordinator
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- Berkeley: the Dream Institute
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The Dream Institute of Northern California
1672 University Ave
Berkeley, CA 94703
1-510-845-1767
The Dream Institute offers the following during August 2006.
* Culture Dreaming *
Monthly, Saturday afternoons 3-5, $20
September 9, October 7, November 11, December 2
Culture Dreaming is an experimental ritual that gives a living sense of
interconnection. Dreams are first told in council fashion; then we explore
the composite dream co-created. Like a camera obscura that opens a window to
the world, it shows surprising relevance to current societal and global
concerns. Come once, occasionally, or regularly.
Conveners:
Richard Russo, M.A. and Meredith Sabini, Ph.D.
* Community Gathering *
Fall Equinox, Saturday, September 23, 2-5pm, Free
All welcome!
* Tibetan Dream Yoga *
October 21
Workshop: Laura Shekerjian
November 15
Lecture: Tenzin Wrangyal Rinpoche
* Dream Studies Open Forum *
Monthly: Mondays 7:30-9:30pm
Starting September 18
With Kelly Bulkeley
* * * REMINDERS * * *
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- Dream Workshop in New Lebanon, NY
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September 1 - 4, 2006
Dreams, The Imaginal Realm, and the Re-Enchantment of the World
Barbara Tedlock, Lee Irwin, Paul Devereux, Reb Zalman Schachter
Sponsored by Elixir Magazine, hosted by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan
(Watch for the upcoming issue on DreamLife (issue 3) Fall 2006
Conference info:
518-794-7834
www.abodeprograms.org
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- Virtual Dreaming Art Gallery
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Invitation. The Virtual Dreaming Art Gallery opened on the 2006 Summer
Solstice and runs through the Fall Equinox, 2006. Gallery sponsored by
DreamGate and the Electric Dreams community.
You can enter a dream art object by posting a description of the art piece
at Electric Dreams. You may also send in renditions or physical art (jpg,
gif) representations or inspired pieces. Please include copyright and re-use
rules for your narratives or pictures. The areas of discussion may shift and
evolve over time. Please use the following form:
http://dreamgate.com/forms/dream_flow.htm
Richard Wilkerson
rcwilk@...
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- Ritual DaFuMu for Peace
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The World Dreams Peace Bridge, on the 15th of each month, is holding a
monthly DaFuMu - a collective dream of good fortune - to support peace.
For more information go to:
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/dafumumonthly.htm
To join the World Dreams Peace Bridge discussion group, just send an e-mail
to
worlddreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com .
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Cover: "PsiberDreaming 2006"
Elizabeth Diaz
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Liz Diaz is a web and graphic designer residing in Austin, TX. She has
been a member of IASD for several years and volunteers her time to IASD and
the World Dreams Peace Bridge.
www.edreamdesigns.com
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An Excerpt From The Lucid Dream Exchange
By Lucy Gillis
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The Challenge continues! Ed Kellogg has been providing interesting and mind
expanding tasks for adventurous lucid dreamers. Here is part two of his
"Exploring the Bizarre Physics of DreamSpace" series. Enjoy!
LDE Quarterly Lucid Dreaming Challenge
March, 2006
by Ed Kellogg
((c)2006 E. W. Kellogg III, Ph.D.)
(This feature provides an unusual lucid dreaming task for LDE readers with
each new issue. Participants agree to accept personal responsibility for
any risks should they choose to undertake them, which may possibly bring
about mental, emotional, and even physical changes. We invite those of you
who accomplish these tasks to send your dream reports either to Ed Kellogg,
at
alef1@..., or to LDE.)
Exploring the Bizarre Physics of Dreamspace Part 2: "Dreamlight"
"Light seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where
light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes."
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) (in Loves Labour's Lost)
Do the laws of optics for light composed of electromagnetic waves/particles
in the physical universe also apply to the light we experience in dreams as
well? When we look at an image in a dream mirror, does the angle of
incidence equal the angle of reflection? Do dream mirrors actually reflect,
or do they simply serve as an appropriate symbolic medium for what the
dreaming mind projects? Or might they do something entirely different? Does
dreamlight travel at 3 X 108 dream meters per dream second?
Mainstream scientific theory promotes the idea that dreams seem a kind of
virtual reality, and that what we experience in dreams has no material basis
as such. Historically however, most cultures believed that the dream world
seems just as real as the physical world, and that the matter that makes it
up simply seems much more subtle. Interestingly, cutting edge theories in
physics, such as superstring theory, introduces the idea that our universe
may have many more dimensions than the usual four. This opens up the
possibility that dreams could take place, in a material way, in higher
dimensional space-time.
In dreams we see and experience 'light', but in my experience 'dreamlight'
differs in a number of ways from waking physical reality light, and I doubt
very much that it belongs anywhere on the accepted electromagnetic spectrum.
How does dreamlight differ? Well, in lucid dreams I've noticed that most
of the time neither I, nor the dream objects that I see, have shadows. And
as best I can recall, this also holds true in my ordinary dreams. Now
according to one widely accepted "scientific" theory of dreaming, the world
we see in dreams derives from visual imagery, etc. stored in memory.
According to this theory, some memories can emerge in dreams relatively
intact, but most usually show up in distorted forms, transmuted and combined
with other memories. I personally do not subscribe to this theory, as I
have noticed many discrepancies between what this theory predicts, and what
I actually experience in my own dreams. (For my own theory, see
"Psi-Perception in Dreams: Next Stop - the Twilight Zone." - a 2003
PsiberDreaming Conference Presentation - at
http://www.asdreams.org/telepathy/kellogg_pdc2003_001.htm ) For example,
although my waking physical reality experiences include the phenomena of
light and shadow as an almost omnipresent way, in my dreams shadows show up
more as a special effect, rather than as an intrinsic part of the
dreamscape.
My experiences have led me to propose the theory that dream objects do not
reflect, but instead emanate, dreamlight, and that 'dreamlight' and
'physical reality light' have rather different properties. And essentially
linked to the phenomenon of dreamlight, we also need to consider the
phenomenon of 'dreamsight'.
Physical sight depends on the absorption properties of specific chemical
pigments in the rods and cones of the retina to visible light, on the
geometry of the physical eye, the shape of the lens, and so on. Could we
possibly have dream eyes, made up of dream matter, that do something
similar, on the 'as above so below' principle, or does dreamsight work in an
entirely different way? Can we do anything to find out?
If I hold my dream hands over my dream eyes, my vision becomes dark -
similarly if I close my dream eyelids. If I put on a pair of dream glasses
my vision becomes sharper - when I take them off, my vision may blur. Of
course dreamsight may work on entirely different principles and each of
these effects may happen simply because I unconsciously and habitually
expect them to. However, I also unconsciously and habitually expect to see
light and shadow effects - yet these rarely occur despite similar
expectations. Through careful observation and considered experimentation,
lucid dreamers can learn something about how they see in dreams, and what
they see in dreams. And perhaps by comparing notes, and taking note of
unexpected commonalties and differences in the results of such experiments,
we can begin to lay the groundwork for an understanding of dream reality
based on first hand evidence, rather than on theories and opinions of
armchair philosophers and scientists.
The Challenge: Exploring the Properties of "Dreamlight"
When you next become lucid in a dream (where you know that you dream while
you dream) pay attention to the manifestations of light in your dream
environment. Look for "a source of dreamlight" - a dream sun, a dream moon,
a dream lamp, even a dream fire (does it feel hot?) . . . If you can find a
source of "dreamlight", do you find dreamshadows behind objects that it
illuminates? If you pick an object up that has a dreamshadow and move it
about, does the dreamshadow behave similarly, or differently, to the way a
shadow of a physical object would?
If you can find a dream lamp, try turning it on, and off. Does it go on
immediately, or after a delay? (I've experienced both). When you turn it
on, carefully observe what happens to the dream objects nearby. Do they
become brighter? Do they cast shadows? Do the shadows disappear when you
turn the dream lamp off?
If you can not find any obvious dreamlight source, simply pay attention to
objects in the dream environment. Does light appear to come from within
dream objects, or does the object appear illuminated from the outside? Does
one side of the object have more light than another? Do you see any
dreamshadows? If so, what kind of properties do they have?
Record your experiences and interactions with dreamlight sources,
dreamshadows and dream objects in your dream journal in as much detail as
possible - include colored drawings and diagrams.
Bonus Challenge: Exploring the Properties of "Dreamsight"
Although I've found it rather difficult to bring reliable scientific
instruments into the dream universe, one can perform meaningful experiments
using one's dream body as the instrument and one's lucid dreaming mind as
the recording device. For example, I came up with some experiments in regard
to the mechanism of seeing in dreams, to determine whether I do in fact
'see' in three dimensions using binocular vision. In physical reality a dry
run of the experiment works like this:
Part 1. With both eyes open look in the distance. Move the palm of your
left hand towards your open left eye. As it moves closer it will begin to
block the view. When it comes fairly close (but does not yet cover the eye
tightly) the view to the far left will disappear - however the right half of
the hand will appear transparent, as for this area the visual fields from
the right and left eye overlap, usually giving complementary - but in this
case providing competing - images. When you hold the hand closely covering
the eye, blocking all light, you will see only the visual field of the right
eye. Repeat this procedure for the other eye.
Part 2. Now with both eyes open, hold your right index finger - pointing up
- a few inches in front of your nose at eye level, in the middle of your
visual field. When you focus on the finger with both eyes you should see
only one finger. However, if you look in the distance (not at the finger),
you will see "two" fingers, an apparent doubling due to binocular vision.
Close one eye, continuing to look in the distance, and you will now see only
one finger. Open that eye, and you will see two fingers. Close the other
eye instead, and you again only see one finger, but it will appear to have
moved slightly depending on through which eye you view it, as each sees the
finger from a slightly different perspective.
I've succeeded in performing this experiment on more than one occasion while
fully lucid. In one dream I went out into a forested area, which certainly
looked as three dimensional to me as a physical reality counterpart, and I
performed the procedure outlined above. For example, looking in the
distance with both eyes, I saw my dream finger doubled - when I blocked the
vision from one of my dream eyes I only saw one dream finger.
Although the results of this experiment seemed almost the same when
performed in a dream as when done physically, it did have one difference -
in the middle of my repeating this experiment my finger turned into a twig
of about the same size with buds! However, with the same results - when
seen through both eyes looking in the distance I saw two finger-twigs, with
one eye I perceived only one finger-twig. (Incidentally, I did
intentionally change the twig back into a finger for the last trial run.)
Now this experiment does not prove beyond doubt that I see through 'dream
eyes' with 'binocular vision', but it certainly offers evidence that
supports this theory. I encourage any lucid dreamer who wants to try this
experiment to do so and report on their findings. Simple experiments of
this kind can yield intriguing and fascinating results. Do you have
binocular vision in your dreams? Monocular? Triocular? Omniocular?
As always, we invite those of you who accomplish this quarter's challenge(s)
to send your dream reports either to Ed Kellogg, at
alef1@..., or to
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A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Exploring Mandorla Energy
Jennifer Star
September 2006
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Peace Bridge exploration of "mandorla" energy as it relates to peace
started soon after I joined the Bridge in July. I had discovered a comment
made by Kathy while searching through the 2006 DaFuMu dreaming section on
the WDPB website, and I was able to find and correspond with Kathy (and the
Bridge). Then for the next several weeks, spurred by the awareness of
mandorla energy, numerous posts ensued on the Bridge related to the
mandorla. The comments, insights, and relationships to mandorla energy come
from a variety of areas such as:
-- Finding and dreaming peace during the escalation of violence in the
Middle East
-- Favorite quotations
-- Relationship to the word "duende"
-- Dreaming the mandorla for "work" and "play"
-- Shadow elements in ourselves and the world
-- Examples of mandorla energies in everyday life
-- Working out Bridge issues.
Kathy's original comment found on the WDPB website:
"From my experience peace lies in the MIDDLE of those opposites (in
Midland), for in the MIDDLE I can hold my awareness of BOTH possibilities AT
the SAME TIME. When I do that there is peace, as from that position the
former opposites transform themselves into something much more useful and
something I can practically respond to?aware of the possibilities. My mind
is at peace and I can act more fruitfully in this area of my life."
Jennifer's response on July 18th:
Last year I was made aware of the Mandorla (the center almond-shaped area in
an ancient symbol of two circles connecting) by way of a friend who was
facilitating a peace group. I did quite a bit of research on the mandorla as
I have been using mandala imagery for quite a while. In my research I had
the epiphany that peace was not the opposite of war, as many people project,
but was rather, in the MIDDLE between collaboration and conflict. It has
never made sense to me that Peace had an opposite. To me, Peace is a center
point, a place of balance. I created a computer image from this epiphany
that is attached for you to view. Your comment so fits with what I
discovered, and I was happy to know someone else who gets it!
Here are some comments about the Mandorla I found on two websites:
"To step into the Mandorla is to move beyond 'either-or' thinking--even
beyond ideas of common ground or compromise--and stand in the tension of
opposites long enough for something new to emerge. In the realm of the
Mandorla, the whole truly yields something greater than the sum of its
parts, opening doors of possibility, discovery, and creativity."
"It demonstrates the principle of 'power with,' rather than 'power over,'
and it stands as a signpost on the path of walking between opposites."
"Relational... When any two people come together, possibilities exist for
both conflict and collaboration. Holding the idea of a Mandorla in a
relationship creates a 'container' strong enough to carry multiple
perspectives. Instead of destroying the relationship, difficulties can be
transformed into new opportunities for learning, self-expressing, and mutual
benefit."
--Mandorla Resources International
(
http://www.mandorla.com/context/what.html)
"The circles symbolize interacting but complementary opposites. The space
within the overlap is the place in which we are called to 'remain', the
'liminal space' Richard Rohr speaks of... This is the place where you arrive
after you leave one room and have not yet entered another. In this place,
you are living on the threshold and this requires faith. All transformation
takes place in liminal space."
"The Mandorla, known in both East and West, expresses the standpoint of the
mystic. It symbolized for us the tensions of life, the tension of
complementary opposites."
http://www.kyrie.com/symbols/mandorla.htm
To elaborate a little bit more on the history and definition of mandorla,
here is an informational piece found at another website:
"The Mandorla, a symbol that is all but unknown today. It was used during
the times of medieval Christianity. It is an ancient symbol of two circles
coming together, overlapping one another to form an almond shape in the
middle. Jensen (1996) describes the Mandorla as similar to the image of two
Mandalas (Sanskrit word for circle) merging together until an almond shape
is formed in the center. Also known as the 'Vesica Piscis', symbolizing the
interactions and interdependence of opposing worlds and forces. The circles
may be taken to represent spirit and matter or heaven and earth (Baldock,
1990).
"Mandorla is the Italian word for almond. According to Biedermann (1994),
the almond is an ancient symbol for the closing up of valuable contents in a
hard, almost impenetrable shell.
"During the medieval times, the almond was interpreted as a symbol of the
embryo enclosed in the uterus. The form of the almond which suggests a
stylized vulva may have contributed to such an interpretation (Biedermann,
1994). It is also a variant of a halo which surrounds the whole body of the
holy person (Bruce-Mitford, 1996).
"According to Fontana (1994), the Mandorla symbolizes power as well as
spirituality, and is often appeared around the body of Christ to represent
the Ascension (Fontana, 1994).
http://www.touregypt.net/mandorla.htm
July 19, Kathy dives in to utilize the mandorla energy for dealing with and
dreaming peace for the Middle East conflict:
I think we need now especially to focus our dreaming minds on the rampant
terror in the Middle East:
-On what is happening in Iraq daily
-On the terrible new escalation of violence and bombing of people in both
Lebanon and Israel
-On the growing, by media and political means, blaming of Iran
-On the terrible anger and calls for retaliation
YET all of this has called forward such beautiful responses about peace as
well.
Kotaro said:
If my Anger was on the map of Israel or Arab/Muslim, I have to be ashamed of
it. I think Anger could be transformed into another kind of energy, much
deeper prayers perhaps. I mean Anger is not composed of only negative energy
but also positive one too.
I, Kathy, said:
Sadness for the horror of violence.
Sadness for the pain and suffering.
Sadness for the need to retaliate.
AND Jennifer - just at this time sends her most beautiful mandorla of peace.
Can we DaFuMu for peace - perhaps keeping in mind the horror of all those
images of death and mutilation and destruction ALONGSIDE of the gentle
beautiful thoughts of a "positive anger at it all", of a "call for peace
because of it all" of a "sadness because of it all?. IF we can we will be
holding our minds in that beautiful Middle that Jennifer has shown in her
mandorla-the Middle where there is PEACE. Once we are there we can see more
clearly how to act to create peace. Just being there ADDS to the PEACE in
the world and perhaps shifts the balance.
Who would like to join in?
July 19, Patricia shares a quote that holds mandorla energy:
Jennifer quotes Kathy: "I can hold my awareness of BOTH possibilities AT the
SAME TIME. When I do that there is peace . . . "
This is one of my favorite quotations:
"Papa's deep tolerance made us sense that everything in life might be
possible, perhaps even forgivable, but that one must answer largely for
oneself, be responsible, and yet not surprised if injustice were done. He
intimated further that we should courageously attract that which was
possibly impossible, to welcome it. The world consisted of the accessible,
real, factual, of all that was limited; but also of all that was created by
faith, all that was true and boundless. Only the 'dry-as-dust' rationalist
lived and was governed by the first; the romantic and enthusiast by the
second. But to combine the two ways, to weave them together with simple
decency, that was the aim of the whole man. What made him whole was that he
loosely controlled both the possible and impossible, reality and fantasy,
the factual and the true, the restricted and the unrestrained, the bounded
and the free--offsetting this duality by devoting all his will toward giving
them equal play." --Monika Mann
July 19, Jody supports Kathy's call for DaFuMu dreaming:
I just spent a long time writing to all of you in response to Kathy's call
for a Saturday DAFUMU and Jennifer's beautiful evocation of a space in the
middle with the mandorla image.
Know I send you all my many thoughts and love and big yes to joining in the
space in the middle on Saturday DAFUMU for middle east and all the hottest
spots on the planet.
May cooling rains, deep waters of our dreaming refresh our spirits so we may
hold the middle space, be the middle space of peace for ourselves and
others.
July 20, Anna shows us the relationship between "duende" and mandorla:
Lately the sense of 'duende' is very much with me--that word from spanish
music and poetry that speaks of soulfulness, of how the light and dark are
mingled; if either is ignored it's to the death of both, day without night,
spring without winter--the mandorla seems to picture this in part. So, we
have to take in the horror (so easy to 'say' it) and go forward not just
FROM but WITH that--with that terrible awareness that in a part of each of
us is that capability--and "what are we gonna do about it?" The classic
question.
Everything we can from smallest to largest, most inner to most outer. From
living peace in daily life to writing, protesting, taking whatever action
comes to hand.
The admitting of the horrors is necessary to fuel the action--thus, duende.
My recent wave of this maybe will illustrate. Feeling how much I loved my
children; being so strongly aware how I cannot keep them safe, 'make' them
happy, and then in that realizing, a taste of freedom--free to give them
their lives, and, applicable to this work here, free to do what small things
I can do to help their happiness and safety.
July 23, Jennifer has a dream with mandorla energy, finding a "peaceful"
balance between "work" and "play"
I had a very interesting dream this morning that had much anger in it, which
is unusual for me in my dream time and awake time. When I look at the dream
in relation to the intention of dreaming peace in the Middle East it makes
some sense for me. I haven't processed this dream fully yet as I only get a
vague feeling of the meaning. Actually, I am having a difficult time working
with it and getting anything down in writing. I welcome any comments. Here
is the dream...
I am at Matt's (a building contractor, and bookkeeping client of mine) home.
He and many other people are there. Feels like a party, but Matt is at his
desk trying to figure something out with regards to his business and
finances. He keeps getting distracted by all the people that are there and
they seem to not care if they are bothering him. Since I am his bookkeeper I
try to help out, but the crowd of people is also bothering me. I take a
stack of paperwork and leave to go to my office to get away from everyone.
When I get to the office, which is a building owned by Matt, there are two
couples--male/female--also just arriving there and they seem to be
interested in kayaks that are hanging from the rafters of the open-sided
building (reminds me of buildings in Hawaii). I ask them to please leave now
as I need to work. They do not respond and continue to look around. I seem
to be focused on the women as I get angry at the lack of response and
rudeness. I make several attempts to explain why they must leave but they
continue to not respond. Now I am very angry, fuming in fact, and don't know
what to do.
So, I go to the computer and turn it on, then notice that a cable has been
disconnected from the computer. I know that someone in the group of couples
has done this. Even angrier now, I take the loose cable and begin swatting
at one of the women, hitting her in the face and ranting at her at the same
time. The violence finally ends and I reconnect the cable to the computer
and it turns on in the way it is supposed to. When images come up on the
screen, one of them is the American flag.
Now there is a new woman there, someone I know, (in the dream only) and the
couples have asked her to take a picture of them. I think, "what next?" and
feel very frustrated at the whole situation. I am now feeling ashamed of my
behavior, anger, and violence and begin thinking about how I can approach
the situation in a way that the couples will respond to my request that they
leave since the anger and violence did not work. EOD
July 23, Rita H. responds to Jennifer's mandorla dream with her dream
wisdom:
Here go some of my thoughts if it were my dream:
There seems to be conflict between work and playtime? In the first scene
Matt is trying to work and there is a group of people partying around him
who do not let him do his work. Then the dreamself tries to find a place to
do work and again there are two couples who are interested in kayaking?
Maybe there is too much work being done and not enough playtime? The
disconnection of the cable from the computer may even be sabotage activity
to get me to stop working and have some fun with a physical activity?
When the cable is reconnected the American flag appears which makes me think
of American conditioned values of productivity? Then a new female character
appears who is interested in photography/ a creative outlet? And the
dreamself is just not getting the message:))and keeps getting more upset. At
the end of the dream the dreamself is trying to reframe the requests in a
more pacific way but does not seem to get the message from all these throngs
of people in her who want more fun, play, creativity and physical activity?
July 24, Anna adds her thoughts to Jennifer's dream:
A small thought following on Rita's thoughts about your dream. You say that
the anger felt through it is unusual for you in dreaming or waking life. One
understanding I have of anger is that it arises when energy is thwarted?
it's NOT the uprising energy itself, but a response to its frustration. How
else do we all feel but helpless, powerless, frustrated, and furious at
times in the face of horrors we feel but feel also unable to change?
I wonder if maybe that wise Dreaming Self was sending the message that Play
might be the way to get the Work done? There were couples interfering with
the work (real people interfering with money management?). Perhaps a sense
that it is in partnership that we best battle the disconnection that is War?
You mentioned particularly that the couples were m/f, which might be read as
alliance of polar energies? They were very interested in kayaks?I think of
water energies as exactly what the sharpness of war is NOT. In a 'particle'
universe we are separate, in a 'wave' universe the flow surrounds and
connects us all, and a kayak is a vehicle in which we are most allied to the
waves, as we manage its motion by shifts in out own hips!
These are just ideas though of course! It is a rich dream and I won't have
your own resonances with it. Maybe at least my guesses might give you
something to say yes! or No! to in exploring it.
Thank you for sending. Though I know I cannot read 'your' dream, it surely
does connect to images of my own and ripple out. I am convinced, for
instance, that the way to counter war is with what's been called "an army of
lovers". To powerfully nourish what is good in the nascent culture we want,
more than lop off what is rotten.
July 24, Jennifer interprets her dream, helped by Rita's (and Anna's)
wisdom:
Thank you deeply for your uncanny sense of the deeper levels of my
dreamself. What you say makes sense to me. These are the thoughts I've had
in reviewing the dream as a personal work/play dream:
Matt is a fun-loving man, one who does take time out to play with his
buddies and his young teen children. It was odd that he was having a party
but not participating.
I, on the other hand, have a serious problem with being too serious and not
playing enough. I have a hard time simply thinking of things to do that I
think would be fun.
I also think the element of him being a building contractor is an indication
that I need to build on a foundation of fun in order to move forward in a
healthy way.
The couples and the kayaks: I really enjoy kayaking and the last time I did
was with Craig in Hawaii two years ago for our 10th anniversary vacation. We
had so much fun kayaking and snorkeling in the ocean! And we kayaked in a
tandem kayak. Since my attention and anger was directed at the women, I can
see how that is my own anger at my lack of being able to pursue more fun,
and I am beating myself up about it.
The disconnected computer cable: I spend a lot of my time working at the
computer. Sometimes I have a hard time tearing myself away from it to do
something outside or creative. But I also love to work on the computer and
carry out many creative projects
there as well as work. Double edged sword...
The woman taking photos: Just like Craig and I did in Hawaii, we had someone
take
pictures of the two of us together, having fun. Interestingly enough, I just
visited my father and his wife on Thursday last week and the one thing I
noticed strongly was how my dad's wife took away little ways of his having
fun, shooshing him and nudging him in his side. I realize now that my
awareness of that is because I am in need of having fun and not shooshing
myself.
July 26, Jennifer talks about embracing shadow elements:
In working with shadow elements in my life, those aspects I don't want to
look at and hide away, I have found that they simply want to be acknowledged
and honored for their contribution. When they are shunned and thrown out
they will arise in my life in such a way I have to notice them, but often in
a destructive manner, like a child throwing a temper tantrum. When I
acknowledge the shadow, embrace it and love it, then a balance is achieved
and the intensity of its presence calms. I know that there are some really
big shadows in our world right now, and I am doing my best to love them just
as I love the beauty of an undisturbed natural place or the smile of a happy
child. It is the mandorla energy, the merging of opposites that helps us
find that central place of peace seen.
August 1, Jennifer shares a poem:
Mandorla...
Mystic space
Union of opposites
Living on the threshold
Standing in the tension of possibility,
discovery, creativity, transformation
A container strong enough to carry many
perspectives
A signpost on the path of walking between opposites
Mandorlas in Daily Life...
Ponder on the 'feeling' of magic during these in-between times
' Dawn/Dusk - neither day or night
' Birth/Labor - neither pregnant or mother
' Twilight Sleep - neither asleep or awake
What other mandorla times
can you think of?
~Jennifer Star
Summer Solstice 2005
August 2, Anna responds to the question in Jennifer's poem:
'What other mandorla times can you think of?'
Well...there is the obvious! When two are making love, neither one nor the
other--autonomy/communion in action!
All the Rites of Passage really--between the veils as one dies, partaking of
both realms; between child and adult.
I think mandorla is the exact human condition really. The chinese say,
?between Heaven and Earth." There is power and beauty in accepting the
limits of our embodiedness, as a river runs stronger between firm banks.
The moment of coming to an agreement in a fight--when the smaller tow of
each participant is seen to partake also of the larger whole that serves
both.
The moment of being highest on a swing--just as you begin the downward
swoop.
The moment when the inspiration of a poem takes flesh--loses potential,
gains actuality.
That sense of knowing that the past and future are one with me in this
moment.
What is called an "ecotone," that rich region where ecologies meet. I did
research on the intertidal zone long ago as a naturalist--wet, dry, sand,
ocean, full.
The experience that the practicing of scales lets one riff free-er.
On and on...
Mandorla, duende'it is one of the essential notions. If we can embody this
we can make peace.
August 2, Rita H. offers her wisdom:
I am reminded of not too long ago when I was having a difficult time
assimilating the difficult political information and wanted more dreams on
the bridge and I had that powerful collective dream of the Bridge that
reflected that all was well on the dream bridge, it was thriving, growing
and changing, and bringing in information about the inner and outer world
and that I needed to take care of myself as I was in the process of
grieving. That I could not return the Bridge to the first year of its life,
when all of us were actively involved in the inner dreaming world and
sharing our personal lives in depth and artistic expressions to come to
terms with the 9/11th tragedy. That the Bridge has a life of its own, a
river that flows in and out affected by all the participants at each moment
in time. That what was important is that we each speak our truth and pay
attention to what we can and let go of what does not resonate with us at the
moment or we can't handle. Yet also express those opinions to the group so
conversation is generated that acknowledges differences and we find a
collective way. That the Bridge represents true freedom of speech and is
able to handle a large diversity of opinions and grows in the process as an
individual separate entity as we grow individually by participating in what
we want to participate in and being the truth of who we are. I remember from
my complaints and dreaming at the time, a vivid conversation ensued, like
this one, and more dreams started flowing into the bridge. And I enjoyed
that.
So let each of us continue expressing exactly what and who we are--moment to
moment--bringing in our diverse opinions and allowing the Bridge to hold it
all, as a sacred container, the way Jean envisioned it when she created it.
And let each of us remember self care which is affected by who we are
individually, what we love and prefer, what we can handle and not handle,
participating in what we love and also giving ourselves the permission to
take hiatuses from it as many of us have done, over and over, gone away and
come back to this rich river of conversations that nourishes the world and
nourishes us all.
And the Mandorla is exactly about that, is it not, holding the tension of
opposites and creating a new shape and form in the process?
August 2, Anna shares an example of mandorla energy in response to
Victoria's nickname, "Mermaid":
I grew up on Mermaid Lane and have always felt very connected to her (a
mermaid). And have to say, isn't she exactly a mandorla?!
August 4, Anna responds to a post by Jennifer asking for introductions from
Peace Bridge members, and talks about the difference between "fighting" and
"hating":
...it's most natural to get to know one another in process,...a true flow.
I'll share a few things it calls up for me, as part of the process of our
knowing. One I feel strongly about is that for me, there's a big distinction
between fighting and hating! Maybe it is our definition of 'fight' that is
different though? You see this here on the Bridge--there are true, deep
disagreements, and strongly stated at times. This joins us, I believe,
rather than separating as hate does. To 'fight' as I'm using it, is to truly
see the other as real--exactly as real as oneself--and holding some of that
universal truth we all strive for. Thus I long for engagement with them!
Hatred though turns the other into less than, nothing, flat, something only
to be squashed so that my way can prevail. A fight can be hard--it calls for
deep trust, trust that there IS that larger container holding both views. I
guess my sense is that while we are all One, we are also each unique so that
even when we are most connected, there will be difference. Best to explore
and celebrate it than deny. Actually, I think you surely know this very
well, as it is you who has brought us the mandorla!
August 5, Rita H. shares where she first learned about the mandorla:
I finally found the book of Robert A. Johnson where he addressed the
Mandorla at length and where I first read about it. The name of the book is
"Owning Your Own Shadow"...
I hope you have enjoyed this journey into the liminal space of the mandorla.
If you would like to join us in discussion, just send a post to
worlddreams-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
http://www.worlddreamspeacebridge.org/
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Dream: Public Space
Stan Kulikowski II
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DATE : 20 aug 2006 07:02
=( yesterday was saturday. the day was uneventful. during the evening, my
mother and i watched videos from blockbuster as we usually do. the last
film was _v for vendetta_. i do not recall seeing this in the comics store
although it claimed to come from the vertigo publishers whose work i am well
familiar with. i was glad that there was never an unmasking of the
protagonist which i expected through out. i got the sleep around 01:00
without trouble. )=
the misfortunate woman is neither young nor old, rich nor poor, attractive
nor plain. she is just in need of some privacy and so has left the common
public space for the seclusion found in a public bathroom of some commercial
establishment. instead of one of those semiprivate spaces usually
segregated by sexes with stalls provided for the truly private moments, this
bathroom is generic, single occupant with a lock on the door. the whole of
the interior carries the expectation of privacy when occupied, the lock on
the door to assure that right.
the woman of misfortune is not feeling well and came in to freshen up with a
splash of water to her face to wash away her feelings of dirt and
discomfort. she turns on the tap over the porcelain sink and a feathered
spray of water rushes out of the spigot. the coldness of the spray feels
good upon her hands, face and the back of her neck as she carefully delivers
it from the constant torrent into more manageable delicate lots applied to
her person.
but the incoming stream of water is a little greater than the drain can take
away so the sink gradually fills up with a frothy volume.
she turns back the handle of the faucet but the stream does not
diminish. the woman grows a little panicky when the sink begins to
overflow, at first just the topping of bubbles goes over but eventually a
substantial curtain of liquid slops over the edges and onto the floor.
her distress grows as her shoes get wet. over the heavy hiss of the water,
she begins to let out with intermittent yelps of despair.
her cries have a lost echoing sound to them, like something not human, some
animal trapped by circumstance. they are not that loud, but have a
penetrating urgency about them, more tenor than soprano.
they communicate without words, just the basic needs perhaps to attract
attention for some assistance or perhaps to just vocalize some more personal
need to ventilate or release some internal pressure that is building up with
the outward emergency that is growing.
whatever her intention, the door to the room opens and frances barrineau
steps in. the misfortunate woman had not locked it to assure her privacy
which is good since she come into a need of help.
frances has a no nonsense attitude about her as she sets in to aid in
recovery. first she verifies that the sink handles do not operate and then
searches the square tile walls for an external cutoff valve.
she finds one near ankle height but although it lessens the force and tone
of the current, the sink is recycling its water from the drain and so
continues. the overflow would eventually lessen and stop with just
recycling but the floor is already getting shoe deep in slop water.
fran opens her purse and takes from it a white frosted plastic container.
it is conical with a short neck that just fits a closed hand. this is a
forbidden item but she usually carries it anyway.
she lifts the lid of the nearby toilet and begins to bail excess water from
the sink into the toilet whose drain is never on recycle.
the container is a little too large to fit well into the sink so it is not
getting full. frances is able to undo the air trap on the bottom of the
sink so the drain directly discharges in her container.
when she goes to pour the water into the toilet about as much from the sink
splashes directly on the floor, but the recycle in the sink is quickly
exhausted. with the sink now silent, she is able to bail some of the water
from the floor into the toilet, but gradually the excess water lowers and is
finally gone.
the misfortunate woman sobs in the corner of the room while frances tidies
up after the deluge. strangely she notices that floor is littered with
fragments of torn black plastic bits that had floated on the water. and
where did much of the floor water go? she had not bailed nearly enough and
there is no open drain set into the floor anywhere that she can see. the
pattern of plastic flotsam seems to indicate that the water had drained away
at the juncture where the wall meets the floor.
this is very strange. the seam where the wall comes to the floor seems to
be a solid juncture and yet the overflow of water escaped the room there.
there are even a few trickles still flowing through.
frances puts her hand to the place and is surprised to find that her fingers
go through the wall like it is just some illusion. the palm of her hand
does find a soft solid feel to the wall just upward, but when she grips it
and pulls up the barrier stretches upwards to enlarge the gap with the
floor. with both hands and several good tugs, she is able to make an
opening large enough for to push her head and shoulders on through to the
other side.
beyond the wall is a startling open world with a silver gray sky and a
horizon that extends off indefinitely in all directions from the backside of
the bathroom wall. there is no sun in the sky, just uniform bright
illumination from all directions, casting only a few short shadows uniformly
everywhere. the landscape is completely covered as far as the eye can see
with debris and washed up items like a beach after a hurricane. frances
pulls herself completely through the opening into the new world.
coming through, fran stands up for a better view. immediately she notices
that there are a few dead bodies mixed in with the debris, but they have a
dried mummified look, no smell of corruption as from the recently deceased.
most of the litter seems to be fabric in various shades of white but with a
mixture of darker solid bits and even a rare fragment of bright commercial
colors. a little distance away the colors reverse in an irregular island of
dark shades of black like the fabric of tuxedos. these streaks of solid
dark continue as far as the eye can see like a chain of islands on an
otherwise sea of white.
at last! fran's heart rejoices: an unregulated place, a place that is
neither public nor private. a place to escape the strictures of
totalitarian government and the repressive hand of politics and common
interest. an uncommon borderland where resistance can breed and organize
and the completely misfit can flee away to the horizon, never coming back
like mountain men did when there was an open frontier beyond the edges of
tamed civilized farmlands. the misfortunate woman has led us to a great
destiny.
=( awake at 05:50. i have a number of associations with this dream that
come to mind. i notice that this is the second egoless dream recently and
usually these are quite rare. most dreams center on myself so i am the
central actor and things happen to me, i see things from a personal
perspective. in this dream i see the two women as if from camera angles
like a film, but i am not involved nor influence the action. frances
barrineau is a friend of mine who lives now in virginia, her husband and i
having met sixteen years ago when i first came to pensacola. she has been
in my dreams once in a while, often remote from myself like this. i do not
recognize the misfortunate woman at all. the feeling of escape from
repressive government was similar to the expression in the movie _v for
vendetta_ which we watched last night, but a step more subtle like our
politics are now with economic concerns pressing us into the mold rather
than extravagant nazi regimes formed from catastrophic circumstance. it
seems to me that we do need a clear constitutional definition of the
important distinction between public and private spaces which is at the
heart of governance. libertarians recently have been concerned with
limiting government surveillance of activities that happen in public spaces
like street corners or airports. this is wrong headed. by definition
public spaces should be available for anyone to view and use the data from
such in any way. indeed, we all benefit from open access to public
resources, that is where our laws apply. but people also claim a need for
privacy and some say this is a natural right expected by default, not a
privilege licensed by the state. but private spaces have to be partitioned
off from public domain and what can go on within them is somewhat regulated.
much of our happiness comes from use of this privacy, and much misery can be
inflicted when the restrictions become too heavy handed. privacy does seem
to work like a licensed privilege rather than a natural right. prisoners
can be expected to live with none, which is one of their main punishments.
this dream seems to underscore that it is the unregulated spaces that are
neither public nor private which serve us as a safety valve for the overflow
which can not be contained by constant recycling. one of the most basic
duties of government is to survey and mark its space.
the universe is such that there will always be much more unregulated space
than has been claimed for regular use, but we have lost access to the
frontier since it so expensive to get off the planet. all of the available
usable space has been claimed and this gives our governments and laws a
repressive totalitarian nature from which some of us yearn to escape. )=
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The Dream as an Archeological Dig
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The dream you tell is rarely the dream you dreamed.
By the time you tell your dream to another person, your dream has passed
through several stages. If you carefully examine the process, you'll see
that a number of layers, almost archeological layers, have gone into
constructing the dream.
Reconstructing these layers can change your understanding of the dream.
Sadie's Dream
I dream that I go into my living room. I see my desk, but nothing is on it.
I know that my boyfriend has stolen the computer that was there.
Sadie and her ex-boyfriend had broken up recently, and he had taken a number
of items without Sadie's consent. So it was no surprise that Sadie was
certain this dream was about how the ex had ripped her off.
However, when I asked Sadie to recall the dream as it had originally
occurred, Sadie realized that she only saw a bare desk in a room. The room
felt like her living room, but nothing about the room corresponded to her
waking-life living room, and she had never seen that particular desk before.
As we pondered the fact that her ex was not actually in the dream, Sadie
realized she had jumped from that simple setting to the idea of her
boyfriend stealing from her.
It was as though her thought processes went like this:
"This is a room. It is a living room. It must be mine. It is mine. There is
a desk. There is nothing on the desk. There ought to be something on this
desk. There ought to be a computer on the desk. The computer must have been
stolen. My ex must have stolen it."
When she first told me the dream, it seemed to be a fact that her ex had
stolen the computer. Now we were aware that we didn't know that anything had
been stolen.
From seeing how she initially understood her dream, Sadie realized that,
since the break up, whenever anything went wrong in her life, she tended to
blame it on her ex.
Peeling off the Layers
Like an archeologist at a dig, you discover that your experience of the
dream occurs at several different levels:
1. You experience the dream while you're in it, using your senses.
2. You make connections and explanations during the dream.
3. As you wake up, you achieve some distance from the dream and revise your
assessments.
4. When you tell the dream to someone else, or write it down, you add
explanations or take parts out to communicate what was important to you or
to make sense of things you cannot explain.
With practice, you can separate out these stages (this list is not fixed,
you may find others). The understanding of the process can radically revise
your assessment. What had appeared as a fact-her boyfriend stealing the
computer--then was seen as an invention in her own mind. Sadie had made a
brilliant discovery: Her ex was now a convenient scapegoat.
An Example--Christine's Dream
I dream that I see my father in a green raincoat. He is coming to protect me
because I am in danger.
When I asked Christine what she actually saw in the dream, she realized that
she saw a figure in a green coat. The green of the coat reminded her of the
raincoat her father wore when she was in junior high school. That's how she
"knew" it was her father. Knowing that it was her father made her feel a
sense of safety, which then made her feel she must be in some danger.
The concept that safety and danger went together was a fascinating insight
for Christine.
Try an Experiment
With your next dream, write it down in your usual way and then go through
each part of the dream and ask yourself how you know that fact.
You will write with certainty that some things actually occurred during the
dream. But when you go back to examine those statements closely, observe
where, during the dream, you made something up to explain what actually
happened.
Then consider how you might have added to the dream when you woke up and
told it to yourself.
Finally, consider what you needed to add or change in order to communicate
the dream to someone else or to write it in your journal.
Summary
All of these processes are a natural part of dream telling but sometimes we
are more creative than is necessary.
Your mind will always naturally fill in the important blanks and create a
more coherent story.
The gift of reconstructing the dream is that, when you become aware of these
different "layers" of the dream, you create the ability to jump out of the
assumptions you are automatically jumping into.
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From the Dream Section editor Kat Peters-Midland :
This month we're featuring a short dream section with dreams with dreamers
enjoying while watching a statue of Jesus crying blood, talking with a dead
father, acting in a movie, and searching for a friend.
Dream title: none given
Dream date: often
Dreamer name: Willing
Dream text: I often dream of gratifying myself sexually, and not just from
masturbation, even though that is usually how the dream begins. It almost
always progresses to enjoying myself orally. I even feel myself in my mouth,
and become quite excited as well as extremely erect, but I never feel
sensation on my penis.
Dream comments: This dream is a frequent dream. The places and circumstances
are always different, but the core of the dream is usually the same. My
dreams are very graphic, and I almost always dream in color. At times I even
experience sensations. Anyway this particular dream does not offend me or
make me feel guilty when I wake; instead I want to know why.
Dream title: a nightmare
Dream date: 8-26-06
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I dreamed that my brother was robbed and stabbed to death
Dream comments: none
Dream title: tears
Dream date: 7/1/06, 8/24/06
Dreamer name: Jo
Dream text: I've been having this reoccurring dream (nightmare actually) and
it goes like this: I'm walking on a sidewalk in the street with someone I
know (I don't know who I don't see the person I just feel them there next to
me). We see this church and I'm supposed to go in it for some reason. The
church is huge. It has really high beautiful ceilings and there are a lot of
people and the seats are almost all filled. There are three sections, right,
middle, and left. As I'm walking in with the person I know, and they are to
my right. I pass a statue of a saint (a man) which is on my left, then a
priest that I'm supposed to give a ticket to. He then tells us where to sit
and it's the middle row. There are people to left and right of us, back and
front. Now right above to the front of us there is a stage with an altar and
three priests. Left, right and center. The one on the left and right are
both sitting on beautiful chairs. Above them is a huge statue of Jesus on a
cross. It's really high up. I start thinking these horrible thoughts which
in my dream I enjoy. I'm thinking about Jesus crying. Then all of a sudden
blood starts to flow from his eyes on everyone and I'm enjoying this. I'm
smiling. Everyone is crying and screaming trying to move out of the way
while some are sitting in amazement. Then the priest on the right looks at
me and says he knows I did it and that I'm a sinner and a horrible person.
I'm in shock that he knows and I feel horrible inside. When I look up, it
looks like there is someone above, I think it is a girl and she's moving and
speaking erratically. Her hair is matted. And there's hay up there. It kind
of looks like the top part of a theater.
Dream comments: When I wake up, I'm really scared and I cannot sleep. I
keep thinking I'm a horrible person and that I could never go to church. I'm
afraid it could happen. Until I fall back asleep then I'm logical again.
Dream title: cheating
Dream date: many times
Dreamer name: moonlight
Dream text: I have this continues dream that my husband is cheating on me.
The most recent one is when I catch him in the act and I confront him and he
admits to having sex with a beautiful women.
Dream comments: I have never had any reason not to trust my husband I don't
feel like he is cheating on me but it is really starting to bother me that I
have had this dream more than once.
Dream title: My Dad and my Death
Dream date: 8.23.06
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: My father, who I was incredibly close with passed away July
6th,2006, the day after my birthday. In my dream, I don't know how, but I
died. I just fell in a hole and it took me to heaven. I was very excited
because I knew this meant I could see my dad. So in my dream, you have to
wait on a line so you can get into heaven and I was looking for my dad. I
look across the way and I see my dad in the line to see me. We hung out and
talked and whatever we always did. Then I went to the front desk in heaven
and said "I shouldn't be dead - my father just died, my sister is so sick
she can die, my grandpa is dying, and I need to be alive." All this is true
in waking life. So the lady told me I had to play this game so I can be
alive again. I won so they told me to say goodbye to my dad before I was
alive again. I said goodbye to him and gave him this speech, how I love him
so much, he is always everything to me, and I miss him so much, and how
amazing it was to see him again even though we won't see each other for a
while. We hugged then I woke up.
Dream comments: I am a 15 year old girl who did anything for my father. He
and I were incredibly close. He was very sick but I was going to move in
with him and take care of him because I don't get along with my mom or
sister.
Dream title: tidal wave
Dream date: august 22
Dreamer name: ohya
Dream text: We were on the seashore....there was a little house, my
friend's house (someone I don't recognize). We were talking at first, and
then I saw the seawater rising up to the house. At first was just a little
water, and then I wondered why the seawater took a long time and it's not
coming. We were running here and there and the tidal wave came. When it
was over, I didn't see any dead people but I saw black and white snake, a
seawater snake, just passing through. It didn't kill anybody.
Dream comments: I'm afraid of what is this dream means.
Dream title: Bread Knife
Dream date: August 14 2006
Dreamer name: kouse
Dream text: I go to this house. I see my father, who is now deceased,
sitting in the front yard. I approach this house which has a sliding glass
door. I knock and open the sliding glass door. I see in the back of the
house a young woman. She has short dark hair. I ask her is she or the lady
of the house has a bread knife. I may have been going from one house to
another, trying to find a bread knife. The woman at this house does not have
a bread knife.
Dream comments: From the direction in the dream I can tell the setting is in
the direction of Richmond where my girlfriend lives. The first thing that
comes to my mind regarding my father is the fact that he was unfaithful to
my mother. He died at the home of the paramour. The young woman in the back
of the house reminds me of the new wife of my son.
Dream title: none given
Dream date: no date given
Dreamer name: Anonymous
Dream text: I was acting in a movie. We were going on Christmas break. I
was talking to another actor, we were discussing the duration of the filming
left after break. I told him my part wasn't that much more involved, so mine
wouldn't take that long, he was somewhat concerned about his I think it was
going to go longer than he wanted it to. We all started to leave and I was
in a large dark parking garage looking place. It started raining and I
became concerned about flooding. Then I was at a Christmas party. Bill
Clinton was there. He and I were having a tryst but we were playing it cool
at the party. I'd already given him his gift, something really nice. What he
gave me at the party was a package of panty hose. They were specially made
to keep your legs warmer but still ... pantyhose! I guess I milled around
the party a while then came home, which was to a red brick building off a
small city street. I needed something from the store, and it was morning. I
was wearing a white cotton nightdress I have; it's long and kind of frilly.
I quickly looked for shoes to put on and the first pair I found was a pair
of green pumps that some puppies of ours chewed up ages ago, except in the
dream they were intact. I slipped them on, and walked out the door and up
the sidewalk; the store was about a block away. I was walking in my
nightdress and green pumps, no robe down the sidewalk. And a convertible
pulled up beside me. Inside was Richard Simmons. He knew me and told me to
get in and he'd take me to the store. He started ragging on me about my
weight. I told him I was doing really well on my program and I've lost
weight and he lightened up, then I woke up.
Dream title: White Limos
Dream date: 8/08/06
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: It was my cousin's wedding - it was in a big stadium, they were
a hundred of people there. Then white limos started coming out. (I have
never seen limos like them and I can't even describe them.... because they
were beautiful and incredible). Then when I looked at one of them it had a
big drawing or design, it was an Elephant design. I never saw my cousin in
the dream, but I sure never seen so many incredible limos in one wedding.
It was like 10 or more of them.
Dream comments: I recently had to go to Puerto Rico because my dad was very
sick and had an emergency operation on his leg. They have to amputate his
left leg. But the day before the operation, I had this strange dream. And
by the way my Dad is doing great!!
Dream title: Searching
Dream date: August 22nd 2006
Dreamer name: anonymous
Dream text: I am in class. I think it's supposed to be high school. It's
the last class of the day and I have an urge to find someone. I keep trying
to get out of class early so I can go outside and look for the person to
come out, but I get held back. When I get outside, all the students are out
there and I am searching desperately for my friend. I see another friend
and beg and plead for them to tell me where the person is. They try to
refuse but somehow, I end up getting them to agree.
He shows me another portion of the 'school.' But this part is more
like a large house. It has hidden rooms and secret doors and hallways.
After running around through many different doors and rooms, I find a secret
hall that leads to a room. The person I'm looking for is there! He smiles
at me, and just as I am about to reach out to him, someone comes up behind
me and pulls me away. Then I wake up.
Dream comments: All the walls in the school and the house are brown
wood paneling. The person I am searching for is an old friend from my
waking life that I haven't talked to in many years. So is the person who
shows me the house. Most often, the person pulling me away from my friend
in the end is my own mom. This is a recurring dream. Sometimes the
location changes, but I have been having dreams where at least some portion
of it is devoted to searching for this same person, over and over again for
about two weeks now. I haven't spoken to this person in several years. I'm
not even sure if he still lives near me.
Stan Kulikowski II
DATE : 1 sep 2006 08:17
DREAM : dharma displacement
=( yesterday was a thursday, a rather uneventful day. i tested my powerbook
computer and found out that the lightning strike a couple weeks ago took out
about all of the peripheral inputs on it. it is surprising that the
operating system and harddisk appear normal while not one of the ethernet,
airport, usb or firewire connectors work anymore. it will probably cost
more than the computer is worth to send it away for repairs but i can not
afford to just buy a new one.
i got to bed at the usual time, around 00:30 and got to sleep without any
effort. )=
i am awake somewhat early today, a little before dawn, and i have come out
to lester's farm to help with bringing in the hay. the morning is clear and
promises to be hot and dry, just the kind of day that is good for haying. i
go into the barn, still cool from the night but there is just enough of that
gray predawn light so i do not need to turn on lights to get about.
there are only a few bales of hay left over from last season scattered about
the bottom of the hay mow inside the barn. i should throw these last bales
down through the trap into the feed lot so i can sweep out the bottom of the
mow so to prepare it for the new stacks of bales we will put in later today.
lester usually hires a few local teenage boys to help with the haying. they
walk along the fields behind the baler to toss the bales up onto the wagons
which are pulled by the tractors. i almost always work in the barn, taking
the bales off the wagons and stacking them in the mow. this is a little
more technical task than the field work as the bales have to be distributed
right to spread their weight evenly across the floor.
i am good at this mainly because i can tolerate the intense heat at the end
of the day when the hay stack fills the mow and the last few bales have to
be carefully stashed just under the rafters at the top of the barn. it is
really hot up there with the sun beating down on the roof and those rafters
contain wasp nests, bats and other manner of vermin to watch out for.
once i have cleaned the floor of the mow, the sun is just rising outside. i
decide that i will jump down into the feedlot through the dharma to enjoy
the new fresh light of the dawn.
the dharma is what lester calls the small octagonal wooden frame structure
that is attached to the back side of his barn. it is a feed trough to hold
hay thrown down from the mow so the cattle can get to it in the small
enclosed feedlot. it looks rather like a gazebo made from rough four by
four timber with a slightly curled pagoda style roof to keep the rain off
the feed. each of the eight sides has a curved arch at the top supporting
its roof between its uprights. the few leftover bales i had thrown down
from the mow are here, so i cut their binding twine with my pocket knife and
spread the loose hay around for the cows to get. then i climb over the low
neck rail to get out of the dharma.
whoa. when i look around me, i get a shock. i am no longer in the feedlot
behind the barn, but in an open field about three hundred meters away,
across the road on the property of the adjacent farm. i can see the road,
the lester's farmhouse just on the other side and the tall red barn beyond
that. how did i get out here? the small wooden dharma is standing here
next to me in the open field but no longer attached to the barn as it should
be.
even more extraordinary, there is a tall brick structure about 75 meters
from me that has the same architecture of my wooden dharma, but the pale red
bricks have an ancient corroded appearance, substantial flecks having fallen
away from their exterior with age.
this structure is about three stories high giving the appearance of having
been stretched to its limit in the vertical.
then i see the creature that this gigantic dharma was built to feed.
i suppose you call it an elephant, a creature maybe twenty meters high with
very long thick legs that taper down to improbable thin feet at the bottom.
the torso of animal is about the right size for an elephant but it is
perched up there on top of the legs which have thick bands regularly spaced
upon them every couple meters. a long serpentine truck reaches down almost
to the ground. its skin is a gray black textured with many cracks like a
bark.
the monstrous elephant is moving very slowly towards its brick dharma.
being so tall it has to take very small steps to keep from leaning off
center and losing its balance. if i hurry i can get to the brick dharma
before it does which i know is somehow attached to lester's barn just like
the small wooden one is. i walk as quickly as i can, thinking that if i
just break out to run i might disturb the otherwise leisurely pace of the
elephant towards its destination.
i am worried that with its long trunk, it can reach through into the barn
and might take things it should not.
just as i get to the brick dharma i see a small baby wearing a diaper crawl
inside and briefly vanish. i believe it has gotten over to the barn, but it
soon pops back into this side. going inside i pick up the baby. in its
hands it has three dollar bills, old and wrinkled.
these should have been hundreds, not singles. the huge mass of the walking
elephant fills the background behind me as i step through the octagonal wall
that should attach to the barn so me and the baby are instantly back inside
the barn.
"now where did you find this money?" i ask the baby, not expecting an
answer. lester usually leaves a few hundred dollars in a tin by the wall to
pay the temporary hired hands each day, but the tin is
not there. i put the baby into a small crib that has been built
into the wall as i see lester coming in, still eating his last bit of
breakfast toast in his hand.
"what is with that dharma which connects to someplace else?" i ask him as
he puts the last of his toast into his mouth.
"when i was younger, i wrote something about it." he tells me. i seem to
remember seeing a few books with his name on them in the attic of the
farmhouse but i had never been invited to read them.
"it was after i published my studies of the flying horses from india."
=( awake at 08:05. lester studebaker was my father-in-law when i was
married to janet back in ohio. he did live the small white farmhouse with
the red barn on the corner of two country roads that i saw in this dream. i
did help him with the haying in the barn for a couple seasons which was
short term summer labor that i rather enjoyed for a few days. working in
the barn was better than the walking in the fields because each bale had to
be thrown upwards over your head onto the wagon. working in the barn
unstacking the wagons, each bale was tossed down onto the conveyer belt
which was much easier. not being raised on farm work, i was never that
strong in the arms, but i was tolerant of heat and dust and the curious
vermin in the rafters. i would never be awake in a morning before lester
who always was up well before the sun. i know the term 'dharma' is some
word from indian philosophy but i do not recall what it means, and i am
pretty certain it is not a gazebo shaped structure. i have no idea how it
might apply here or what is the purpose of that huge elephant with its
rather mild sense of threat. )=
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