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Electric Dreams Volume 05 Issue 06
Things are never as bad as they seem
So dream, dream, dream
Johhny Mercer/Frank Sinatra
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Volume 5 Issue #6
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C O N T E N T S
++ Editor's Notes
++ Dream Airing: Notes, letters to the editor
++ Column: Dream Trek: Play Day In The Dream State
Linda Lane Magall¢n
++ Book Extract: Levels of Dreaming
Jane Anderson
++ Article: Signs of Simulation, Symbols beyond Value
Jean Baudrillard and Grassroots Dreamwork in Cyberspace
Richard Wilkerson
++ Column: Divine Messages: " Divine Re-turn Continued"
Dr. Deus
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G L O B A L D R E A M I N G N E W S - Peggy Coats
This Month's Features:
- Virtual University offers Dream Course in July
- Slow Wave Going to Canada
- Dream Workshop led by Gina Pearlin
- Vision Quest: A Wilderness Rite of Passage with Sparrow Hart
- Recurring Dreams: A Journey to Wholeness
- Awaken 98 New Dream Software
RESEARCH & REQUESTS
Help a Dream Student
Dreams of Fish, Worms, Wolves, Cats and Salamanders
Dreams of Children or Early Childhood
WEBSITE & ONLINE UPDATES
The Dream and the Enlightenment Corrected URL
The Endless Dreamer
- Sleep Research Site
DREAM CALENDAR for July 1998
Dream Section: This section will be out next week!
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Editor's Notes
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I was at a local (BADG) dream workers group meeting here in San
Francisco this month where one woman said that she always knew a
dream person because within five minutes they were telling you a
dream.
In this spirit, Electric Dreams has been providing some
interesting venues over the last few years for sharing dreams and
continues to develop more.
But I would like to widen the definition of dream sharing in the
Electric Dreams community. Electric Dreams has remained a non-
profit public service that attempts to draw together dream
interested folks and projects from around the world. Sometimes we
create these projects, like the DreamWheel groups, and other
times simply point to the projects of others, like the Planetary
Dreaming project of the French based Oniros group. These groups
all distribute dreams, ideas and news through 'Electric Dreams'.
In this sense, the Electric Dreams community really includes
anyone using the community to distribute information and dreams,
to network or form projects. In this spirit, I hope you consider
yourself a Friend of Electric Dreams.
For those of you who are familiar with this process, I want to
mention two items: The first is the Friends of Electric Dreams
Web Ring. With the Web Ring you can place on your site a small
link area of your own design that will connect with others
interested in the same area of dreaming. The nice ~Net Friendly~
aspect of the rings is that anyone with anything remotely dream
related can join and it increases the flow of traffic through
your site. You can set the link box up on your site to look like
whatever you like.
We are still in the experimental stage with this Web Ring and
are asking for someone who would like to oversee this project.
If you are interested, contact Victoria Quinton,
mermaid@alphalink.com.au
We are also about to launch the Dream Site Award. This award
will be given out, at least at first, to sites related to
dreaming that demonstrate a high level of quality in various
categories, such as depth of content, presentation quality,
educational excellence and so on. If you have sites you would
like considered, send them to me at ed-award@dreamgate.com
Next month we should have a clearer idea on the categories and
standards.
For those of you who are ~not~ familiar with the various
processes of the Electric Dreams community, I wanted to quickly
mention some of our projects and resources.
The ED DreamWheel: A small Email group that discusses dreams
in depth. We spend about a week or two on a dream, asking
questions about the dream and then commenting on the dream as if
it were our own, rather than telling the dreamer what we think it
means to them. Very fun and non-defensive. To join the next
group, send a note to rcwilk@dreamgate.com and say "Hey Richard,
put me on the list for the next Wheel and send me the
instructions on how to participate!"
The ed-core@lists.best.com :When we get dreams from the Net or
wake up ourselves with dreams we want to share, this is the mail
list we send them to. The dreams are archived and often commented
on, then published in the next Electric Dreams. You can send in
dreams or dream comments. Subscribe by sending an email to ed-
core-request@lists.best.com and in the Body of the email put only
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You can always view the archive of dreams sent in via our
backissues, or more recent dreams at the ed-core archive at
http://jab.org/mail/ed-core@lists.best.com/
The Electric Dreams Club House. We have two, but our Australian
site is a little out of date, so use the following address:
www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams
We have several years of information collected here for you,
including dream FAQs, bibliographies, hundreds of links with
descriptions, samples of past groups, all the backissues,
articles from ED listed by author, how to conduct research, and
much, much more.
A special note on the Links page: If you would like your site
listed in more than one category, great. Just send me the
categories and a short summary of your site.
Www.dreamgate.com/dream/resources/online97.htm
-- News, Events and Bay Area Dreaming. What to know what's going
on in dreams and dreaming this month? You can get the news,
events, latest web sites and more at Peggy Coats'
www.dreamtree.com
BADG: For local Bay Area Dreamworkers Group members, we now
have TWO new resources, courtesy of Electric Dreams, DreamGate
and DreamTree. For those of you interested in San Francisco Area
dreaming events, we have a new mail list, badg@lists.best.com
which you can subscribe to by sending an email TO: badg-
request@lists.best.com and in the Body of the Email put only
subscribe your-email
The Archive is at http://jab.org/mail/badg@lists.best.com/
Also, DreamTree has been authorized by BADG to set up a Homepage
for the local group, see www.dreamtree.com/badg
Electric Dreams Illustrated! Yes, we are now offering an
illustrated version of Electric Dreams, and it is Free just like
our text version. How? Dane Pestano puts the issue into html
format and zips the whole issue in compressed format. When you
subscribe to our edreams-web list you will get this zipped
version once a month. Just unzip and view it in your favorite
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Perhaps with all this dream work you need a dream vacation? Linda
Magallon would like to invite you to a dream-in where you can put
the intention in your mind before going to sleep to visit with
her and the rest of the gang on July 25th. Read all about this
from the author of _Mutual Dreaming_ in the Dream Trek Column.
On the other extreme, if you would like to put your dreams to
work for the good of mankind, Ann Klein is offering a dream-in
for saving the planet! http://www.dreamcd.com
If you have a hard time interpreting dreams of this magnitude,
Australian author Jane Anderson gives us an overview of her
process found in "Levels of Dreaming" and "Sleep On It and
Change Your Life".
If you prefer to zoom right to the top of the hill and throw
open the gates of heaven, Dr Deus is back with Eternal Return and
the mythological exploration of spiritually oriented dream
interpretation.
For a little contrast, I have included an article of mine on how
we might use dreams to respond to the onrush of media in our
lives. In Simulations of Reality I continue to explore the use of
Postmodern thought in Jean Baudrillard's notions that our culture
has slipped so deeply into preferences of simulation of reality
over the real thing that we no longer even know the differences.
Dreams may offer us some ways to explore the
The staff of Electric Dreams wishes to thank Bryan Smith for his
design/image contribution to the cover of this month's issue,
'Mother and Child' and look forward to seeing more of his work
here in the future.
Electric Dreams Cover Artist: Bryan A. Smith
<bryan@thinkpiece.com>
http://www.thinkpiece.com
Also, thanks to low bandwidth for the new listing:
http://www.disobey.com/low/listings/electric_dreams.htm
Hope to see you all at the dream event - both in cyberspace and
dreamspace.
-Richard
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Dream Airing
Notes, letters to the editor
Send to rcwilk@aolcom
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From
Patricia Kampmeier <patkamp@pacbell.net>
I am collecting dreams for a book!
of fish, worms, wolves, cats and salamanders, and also numinous
dreams of any kind. Series of any of these would be especially
interesting. Please tell your dream(s) and then a little about
what that symbol means for you. If you wish to show the work you
have done, including drawings, to arrive at that meaning(s),that
would be great, too, though not necessary.
Several meanings for a particular symbol are OK, since dreams are
many-layered. I would also like to know how old you were when
you had each dream.
You can email me
patkamp@pacbell.net
or use the online form
www.dreamgate.com/dream/kampmeier/
Thanks, Pat
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Electric Dreams Cover Artist: Bryan A. Smith
<bryan@thinkpiece.com>
http://www.thinkpiece.com
I am a US born citizen, living and working in Saudi Arabia, where
after years of dabbling in various artistic mediums, three years
ago I decided to purchase a computer and explore it as a means of
expressing my artistic vision. One year ago I launched my
personal website entitled Thinkpieces.
When I sit down to work my only desire is to create a composition
that strikes a deep, non-verbal harmonic chord. I hope to create
pristine unrecognizable forms in a passionate exploration of
color, texture, and shape.
My work is about exposing the content of a perceiver's ideas.
It does not depend on common symbols to convey meaning. Instead,
it hopes to speak to ambient psychological states. It is a
language, which depends on a mind imposing meaning for its
grammar. It lives during its creation and it is generative in its
final form.
My approach does not include regard, purpose, or intent. I start
with a basic shape and work with it until I see something
interesting.
I provide flow and cohesion while I insert my vision and my
impressions into an emerging image. I search for a unique
combination of light, color, texture, and form. A compelling
image. A thinkpiece. I hope you enjoy them.
I also would like to thank Richard for offering the opportunity
to participate in the vision of "Electric Dreams" and hope that
my contributions will enrich the experience of it's subscribers.
If you are interested in learning more about the artist, and
viewing his more of his work, you are invited to visit his site
at:
http://www.thinkpiece.com
You are also invited to foward comments to Bryan at:
bryan@thinkpiece.com
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If you missed the series that just ended, Making Nightmare's Pay
by Anthony Dubetz,
you can still catch the text online
www.dreamgate.com/dream/dubetz/
AND you can join us online to discuss these and other dream
topics.
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Sinatra Songs: Dream
By Johnny Mercer
Get in touch with that sundown fellow
As he tiptoes across the sand
He's got a million kinds of stardust
Pick your fav'rite brand, and
Dream, when you're feeling blue
Dream, that's the thing to do
Just watch the smoke rings in the air
You'll find your share of memories there
So dream when the day is through
Dream, and they might come true
Things are never as bad as they seem
So dream, dream, dream
thanks to DblueRose@aol.com
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Chit Chat on Phil-Lit list
Dreams, they have to be structures of narrative, or so it seems
with mine. I'm one of those that has color in dreams. I mean
brilliant colors with a depth well perceived, and my dreams are
very vivid. Most always, and I truly mean this, they consist of a
narrative that is hosted by another form that I identify as a
second personae of myself. For as long as I can remember, I have
been able to place myself, my other, main character self, through
my narrative self, into the dream's story line, whether it is
re-telling of the days awakened events, or some wild ride of the
sub conscious, they always seem to be lead by a narrative, as
well as have the feeling of being narrative. Perhaps I'm sounding
a bit from left field, but my dreams are narrative, and I can
manipulate myself portrayed in the dream, through this narrative
self, as well as the dreams story line, however, I do not always
have full control of the dream, but usually. Not always am I the
central character in my dream, but there is always that narrative
self in all my dreams, as far back as I can remember to my
childhood. I remember my dreams as if they were books that I have
read, full of image and content, story plot and all. I know,
sounds strange and far fetched, but I love to dream, I love
stories and have a very vivid imagination. That's why I enjoy
literature so much and I seem to be good at interpretation than
others in my class. I cannot find the full of this string,
especially Robert A. Gahl's original posting, but I thought I
would throw my 2 cents in anyways. I hope I haven't strayed off
the strings path on some dream tangent that sounds like some L.A.
California, hippy stuff. LOL :-)
From andreas@andreas.com (Andreas Ramos
Richard Wilkerson wrote:
"the faster/sooner one repeats the dream in the morning, the
higher the chance of recall... Dreams, then, are a secondary kind
of gift of language and always already a text.... Story telling
develops naturally out of dream recall because the only way to
really have good recall is to learn re-telling."
Along with the rest of his message, this quote seems to imply
that short-term memory, and in particular that of dreams, is
somehow temporally nondimensional. If I've understood Richard
correctly, telling the story of a dream moves it from
short-term memory to long-term memory by inserting it within
the temporal dimension constituted by narrative. Mirembe's
comments about the use of diverse languages in the dreams of
polyglots might seem to be a counterexample to the claim that
dreams are temporally nondimensional. However, it may be that
such language use is not really embedded within the temporal
meaning structures of narrative.
Any comments?
Robert A. Gahl, Jr.
School of Philosophy, Pontifical Atheneum of the Holy Cross
gahl@asc.urbe.
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Hi Group Dreamers:
I've continued with last month's group dream intention statement,
and from now on will be doing a new topic every two months. We
seem to get better results the second month on the same topic.
Statement: We dream to heal the earth!
Graphic: See the website if you can't access the attached
graphic.
How to participate:
1. Dream on this month's topic for the first week of the month,
and record your dreams.
2. E-mail me any dreams that you feel relate to the group topic,
along with any comments about them and their meaning to you
and/or impact on your life. Include dream date.
3. Specify whether you want your e-mail address included in the
posting or not.
4. Tell any interested friends about this project!
Please send me an e-mail if you do not want to participate in
this project.
Thanks, Ann Klein
http://www.dreamcd.com
Visit Interactive Dreaming for Multimedia CD Tour,
Group Dreaming Project, Free Dream Consultations,
Articles, Links and More.
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News Flash has been updated. Go to
http://www.dreamtime.net/news/newsflash.htm
Stephen H. Kapit, Futurist
DreamTime Newsletter
http://www.dreamtime.net
The DreamTime newsletter is spiritually based and focused on
higher consciousness and new paradigm living. Predictions on
investments and global events are also included. DreamTime is
the place to nourish your soul.
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From: inorganic_being@hotmail.com
Newsgroups: alt.dreams.castaneda
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 15:59:24 GMT
It is true that Castaneda has departed. The best article was in
the LA Times that devoted a very large portion of their
preciously expensive print space to Castaneda's "passing".
I imagine that some of you will lose heart due to this news. My
post here is for you...
Our first reaction to this news is based on the reporters using
the words "died" and "death". Had the papers boldly announced
his "somersault into the inconceivable" would you have been so
dismayed?
Way back in '62, Castaneda wrote that the final enemy of a person
of knowledge is "old age". You see, the human possibility that
sorcery offers is NOT the mundane immortality that many of us
secretly hope for; rather it is the possibility of an alternative
to mundane death.
Don Juan described death many times (it will tap you on the
shoulder, it will stab you like a knife, it is a rolling force,
it is whorl of dust on the road), and he also described the
difference between the average person's death and the Toltec's.
The ONLY thing that the Toltec gets is the advantage of dying
with full awareness. This opens up the possibility of sneaking
past the Eagle. At the moment of death, the Toltec gets to
perform a last dance of power, with only Death as witness -- this
last dance is the summation of all the power accumulated during a
lifetime filled to the brim.
In an interview a few years back, Carlos said that he had fully
expected to burn from within in the late 1980's -- he was very
surprised to find himself still kicking in the 1990's. It was
that extension, he said, that made him attempt to change the
tonal of the times by bringing Tensegrity to the forefront.
Only this year, he said that The Wheel of Time would be his last
book. And look, his passing (two months ago) coincided closely
with the publication.
You see, Carlos did not live stupidly, nor die stupidly. He
lived and "died" like a warrior
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DREAM TREK
By Linda Lane Magallon
Play Day In The Dream State
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During the early '90s, the Bay Area Dreamworkers Group (BADG)
hosted several Play Day meetings. This year, the Play Day returns
for an encore. Events feature dreamplay, a pot luck and barbecue,
swimming in a pool and floating in a spa. Folks also bring
playful dreams to share round the group circle. These include
humorous, punny and creative dreams as well as lucid, psychic,
mutual, psionic and epic-adventure dreams. But the most
intriguing dreams of all are those about Play Day itself.
Sometimes the participants at the event incubate a dream ahead of
time to test their precognitive skills. They bring these dreams
to share and compare with the day as it unfolds before their very
eyes.
But often there are "unseen" guests from afar. These are people
at a distance who have been invited to Play Day, but can't come
in the waking state. So they come in the dream. Prior to or
during the weekend of the Play Day, they incubate a dream, then
send it by e-mail so it can be compared with the actual waking
state event. This year Fly-By-Night Club (FBNC) sponsors the
dreaming side of Play Day.
In the past, dreamers have dreamt up portions of the menu, the
toys in the water, the figurines in the sand tray, the water
events and descriptions of the backyard, house and people at the
event. Once a dreamer dreamt up some dreamplay from the previous
year. It was the making a dream mask out of white plaster tape
using a dreamer's face as the mold. (The mask eventually became
part of a dream character costume).
Some of these dreams are literal; many are symbolic. And often
the dreams don't respond directly to the daytime events, but do
resonate with other dreams. It's as if the dreaming selves have a
party in the dream state.
Although the in-dream party might indeed look like the physical
experience, the dreaming selves are not constrained by the rules
of physical reality. Not only can they slip and slide in time,
they can look and act differently than their waking counterparts.
For instance, I might look like a Caucasian woman in waking
reality, but in the land of dreams, you might see me as an
Afro-American woman, a man or a cat. My dreaming self can play
any of those roles and more. In waking reality, I walk and talk.
In dream reality I fly and sing with perfect pitch. (Now that's
wish-fulfillment!)
Physical reality is the Play Day. Dreaming reality is the Fly-In.
In the waking state we can stroll, lounge, munch, float and swim.
But in the dream state we fly. And you, yes, YOU, are invited to
Fly-In to Play Day, along with BADG, FBNC and the readers of the
Jungian magazine, *Common Boundary.*
By the way, the July 25th date was chosen as the closest weekend
to the anniversary of the moon landing.
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Bay Area Dreamworkers Group And Fly-By-Night Club Co-present
Play Day and Fly-In
Party in the Waking State and Dream State
Weekend of July 25th, 1998
Fly-In Instructions
Snuggle into your bed, imaginatively don your flying apparel and
listen for the music of the Fly-By-Night Club anthem to lure you
into the land of dreams. Let your spirit fly and follow this
Siren call of your dreaming partners to the Play Day. If you'd
like, you can join in the song. The anthem can be found at the
FBNC web site: http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/fbnc/fbnc01.htm.
Or drop me a line and I'll send you a copy. It's sung to the tune
of "Mickey Mouse Club."
No matter when you incubate your dreams (precognitively or on the
July 25th weekend), please send along your Fly-In dreams to
CaseyFlyer@aol.com as soon as possible. Indicate whether you want
to be known by name, e-mail name or pseudonym. (*Fly-By-Night
Club* adheres to the values of the Partnership Paradigm;
confidentiality is respected.) I'll redistribute all dreams to
everyone who participates, along with a commentary about
connections with the day's events and with each other's dreams.
Your own comments and ideas are always welcome.
.
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"Levels of Dreaming"
Extract from "Sleep On It and Change Your Life",
by Jane Anderson, pub HarperCollins Australia, 1994
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Jane Anderson is a scientist, researcher, author, dream
interpreter and ABC radio broadcaster living and working in
Australia. Her third book, "The Shape of Things to Come", to be
published by Random House Australia in late July, presents the
ground-breaking results of her research into precognition. To
discover more, to join Jane's discussion forums or to consult
Jane through her Dream Interpretation Service, visit her site at
http://www.janeanderson.com.au
From her first book:
I believe we are part of a greater and timeless reality, one
which we experience vividly while we sleep, but of which we bring
back only a tiny, distorted fragment recorded in our memory as a
dream. Our waking life binds us, in my belief, within the
constraint of time and space, possibly because this enables us to
experience cause and effect. With practice and dedication I
believe it is possible to break through the illusion of waking
life and see the greater reality beyond, not only through our
dreams but also with our eyes open. My personal experience tells
me that human life is not a remarkably chancy quirk of physics,
but that it does have ultimate meaning. My brain and intellect is
still trying to catch up with this intuitive knowledge! If I keep
it open, it may surprise me one day.
My experience tells me that I am probably not a distinct and
different individual to you, but that we overlap and influence
each other all the time. I am as much a part of you as you are a
part of me, since we probably share the full range of human and
spiritual experience through an infinite number of parallel
waking realities, each individually bound by time and space, but
each accessible through our timeless, spaceless dreams. While I
may express that paragraph in a different way in another parallel
reality, in yet another I may fail to gather the courage to write
the book at all. In another I may be making a far better job of
it! Whatever I have done, am doing or will do on whichever level,
I believe my every action reverberates and influences all the
others. Somehow, on all these levels, my ultimate mission, like
yours, is to liberate my soul through the learning experience
created by time-space restrictions.
I see the power of the human mind as an incredible moulding force
which interacts with everything that appears to be physical. I
believe that the mind, once it releases its hold on rationality,
frees the soul to return to its timeless dimension.
I see the body, mind and soul in waking life as closely bound and
interacting. Our thoughts about ourselves shape the way we hold
our bodies, the way we grow, our health or lack of it, how tall
or short, how beautiful, how plain, how charismatic we appear or
how and when we age. The state of the body reflects the state of
the mind. I wish I had more control over mine!
I believe that every experience is recorded at a physical mental
and spiritual level, and, since I see our dreams as experience of
a wider reality, I believe our dream experiences filter through
at each level too. Thus, in my opinion, what we see as the
physical, psychological or spiritual causes of dreams are just
different manifestations of the same experience.
For example, I may have the misfortune to find myself in a
disagreement with someone. I may feel angry (psychological) which
makes my skin flush (physical), yet some truth about myself may
evolve because of the anger, in which case I may experience a
spiritual learning.
The same philosophy can be applied to a dream. If a dream is a
memory of an experience in a greater reality, it too will carry
physical, psychological and spiritual imprints into my waking
human memory. The dream experience may be a bit garbled, but once
I have applied my dream interpretation techniques, I should begin
to see its meaning. It is most likely that I will perceive its
meaning as being physical one day, psychological the next, and
maybe spiritual the following week, depending on my attitude and
clarity, but if I were to examine the dream closely, I might see
that the dream applied to each of these areas of my waking life
at the same time.
When I am asked to interpret someone else's dream, I find this
much clearer. It's always much easier to see in from a distance!
I can usually see physical, psychological and spiritual meaning
captured in the one dream, as if the true meaning hangs,
suspended at three levels, inextricably entwined. In order to
offer an interpretation that makes sense to the dreamer, I
usually choose to help them interpret on one level only.
In interpreting your dream I might see that you will understand
your dream better today if I explain it to you on a physical
level and suggest you get your blood pressure checked. On another
day I might have interpreted the same dream on a psychological
level and showed you why you get angry in certain situations. At
another time I might have illustrated the spiritual aspects of
the same dream, pointing you in a direction which might enlighten
your learning about the purpose of experiencing anger in your
life, and how to use this to break through into new ground. These
interpretations of the same dream might all be correct, but you
might understand one explanation more than another, or you might
see more clearly how to take effective action from the
psychological point of view rather than the spiritual.
So it is with your own dream interpretations. Look at each dream
and try out the interpretation techniques given in this book.
Then stand back and see the physical, psychological and spiritual
connotations according to your personal understanding of life.
Go for the one which makes most sense to you, and then consider
how you can take action on it to improve your life.
Jane Anderson
http://www.janeanderson.com.au
email: jane@janeanderson.com.au
PO Box 1735, Milton BC, Qld 4064, Australia
Watch for information on Jane's upcoming book in the next issue
of Electric Dreams.
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Signs of Simulation, Symbols beyond Value
Jean Baudrillard and Grassroots Dreamwork
in Cyberspace.
Richard Catlett Wilkerson
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Part of the PostModern Dreaming Series
(See Glossary & Info at end)
" We used to live in the imaginary world of the mirror, of the
divided self and of the stage, of otherness and alienation. Today
we live in the imaginary world of the screen, of the interface
and the reduplication of contiguity and networks. All our
machines are screens. We too have become screens, and the
interactivity of men has become the interactivity of screens."
Jean Baudrillard, Xerox & Infinity.
Jean Baudrillard is a cultural theorist who, like Carl Jung, became concerned
about Western Culture's abandonment of the symbolic and over- involvement with
the sign. Unlike Jung who responded by developing an individual psychology for
exploration of the *symbolic* in the personal realm, Baudrillard took on a
McLuhanian like media probe and analysis of the *sign* in contemporary culture.
His startling results take us into a hyperreal world where models of reality
dominate and reality itself has given way to simulations of the real, and
eventually to simulations of simulations that have no anchor, nor interest, in
the real whatsoever.
o Can Cultural Analysis be Applied to Dreamwork?
The extension of humanity into computer mediated communications, as well as the
general rise of technology & media has brought out the ever increasing
importance of the technological interface and extension of our species. Not only
will we extend the practices of dreamwork into new area, but we will continue to
observe the effects and transformations in dream imagery that these organic-
digital combinations produce.
Although the dream resists direct commodification & digitalization, (just try
to sell a dream, or even get someone to listen to your dream with interest), the
transition from symbol to sign is an essential turning point according to
Baudrillard in our culture becoming sign dependent. There is some marketing
around dreams and dreamwork, but it is a very insignificant part of the economy
of the sign, money or politics. Even Freud remarked with sadness late in this
life that psychoanalysis had abandoned dreams and had added nothing to his
original theory in over 40 years, an this was for the sake of the capital that
could be made from developing long term transferencial therapies (I included the
capital reasoning here). James Hillman might have developed a way to see
commodification in dreamwork. He has warned against turning dreams into objects
for use in the dayworld, but this would be a very metaphorical use of
commodification. Generally speaking, dreams resist being quantified, and in
doing so may offer us an alternative to being swept up in the endless march of
mass media, consumer advertisements and what Marx called primitive accumulation
that dominates capitalist societies that focus on the exchange and use value of
objects rather than their deeper meanings.
Perhaps more interestingly we might look at our dreams for clues to our own
cycles of consumption. A kind of Marxian Dreamwork that exposes the places in
our life we have turned into objects and been turned into objects, were we are
the repressed workers and where we repress the worker. For Baudrillard, himself
once a Marxist theorist, the world has moved past both Capitalism and Marxism
into a Fractal economy where all meanings and options have fully extended &
played themselves out and now just circulate the pieces around by means of a
code that no one controls. The use we make of the dream relates to capitalism as
much as the exchange value might. In this sense, the symbolic goes beyond the
uses we can make of the dream, and any dreamwork that favors the dream over the
function we make of it needs to gather this sense to continue. Still, we need
to begin somewhere.
o How Far Have You Personally Moved into the Hyperreal?
Baudrillard offers us an image of the 4 revolutions that he sees having
occurred in the shift from real to hyperreal. These 4 Orders can be applied to
the dream world as well as waking cultural horizons. By reading our dreams for
the dominate order, we may be led to insights about our relationship with the
signs and symbols that make up our world and inner world. When are we more like
a feudal caste society were any variance in the interpretation of an event is
considered a transgression? When are we so involved in the simulatory experience
of the dream that its relationship to the rest of the world is no longer
important? When is our desire shifted and manipulated by the objects in our
environment and where do we rebel and consider creative, subversive
alternatives?
o Sign Revolutions: A Sound Byte
The fixed and referential symbols of the Feudal/caste societies were shaken by
the Renaissance theatrics which put their meaning(s) into question. Just what
signs were suppose to refer to anymore was up to debate. The industrial
revolution made possible the serial replication of these signs, exterminating
any reference, producing an explosion of referents.. In the post-industrial era,
metaphysical models of the code create a world of simulation without any
reference to the real, an order of simulation that has no interest in the real
whatsoever. Finally, in the fractal order, the simulations implode into a viral
proliferation infinity extended and exhausted in all directions. All
distinctions and differences are interwoven, cross-bred and played out to an
extreme.
o Levels of Image
Level 0. Aboriginal symbolic exchange cultures. The image is a reflection of
basic reality. Note dream imagery in aboriginal cultures where the image is like
almost a sacrament. Even in our de-sacralized society, dreams are often vaguely
see as reflecting reality. Jung was interested in returning the dream image to
this level, though he often wanted to bring it up into the dayworld for our
personal use. In aboriginal culture, the dream can completely undermine the
exchange value system, shifting the flow of gifts and counter-gifts, marriages,
taboos and status.
Level 1. The image masks and perverts reality. Here is more a level of Freudian
dreamwork level, with the dream functioning to both express the basic reality of
desires in a disguised form just enough to let off steam, but not enough to wake
the dreamer.
Level 2. The image masks the absence of a basic reality. The dream masks the
fact that it is a dream and that there are things we don't want to dream about.
"...Power is no longer present except to conceal that there is none." (181 S&S).
In dreamwork, we teach people who are haunted by specters of power - shadows,
bears, wolves, muggers, monsters - that these figures are involved in scenarios
of empty power and can be confronted.
Level 3. The image bears no relation to any reality whatsoever, it is its own
simulacrum. Here we have moved into lucid and proactive dreaming where the
dreamer doesn't care that there is any connection with reality, the event itself
has become the reality of concern.
o Portrait of a Dreamworker:
When she was young, her dream interpretations carefully reflected the life
and reality of the dreamer, almost like she was a landscape artist. Later, her
own versions of reality began to appear in her interpretations. Some saw this as
her distortion of reality phase, others as drawing the world through her own
reality. The interpretations often seemed to mask and pervert the reality of the
dreamer. Then a desperation began to emerge, and her interpretations masked the
absence of reality, as if to protect herself and others from a flaw at the
center of the universe. Finally, her interpretations bore no relation to any
reality whatever and reproductions of images that had no original began to
proliferate.
o Dreamwork and Levels of the Sign
A way we might use these ideas in dreamwork is in recognizing the different
levels of power scenarios that play themselves out in dreaming. Baudrillard
speaks about the orders of appearance of simulation: pre-simulation feudal/caste
societies, counterfeit pre-production societies, production societies and re-
productive simulation society.
ORDER LAW FORM SEMIOTICS PROCESS
0 Feudal/caste societies - signs and their meanings are pre-determined
1 Natural Counterfeit Arbitrariness Corrupt Symbol
2 Market Production Seriality Icon
3 Structural Simulation Codification Linguistic Sign
4 Fractal Proliferation Viral metonymy Index
o The Feudal/Caste Society
Ever have a dream that felt like you were at the Round Table? Or how about
another type of cast of class society where everyone's roles were set and fixed?
Typically we like to romanticize the symbolism of such a dream. Perhaps we might
see our dream knight as an indication of our relationship to the Higher Self,
pre-figured as the king or head lf the society. Our knight and his or her
behavior becomes a symbolic singular indication of our ego's relationship to
wholeness. Baudrillard's work may offer an alternative view.
In these caste/feudal societies the representational systems; the codes, the
symbols, the signs carry clearly marked, commonly held and limited numbers of
meanings. One knows immediately another's caste or rank by the garments one
wares. The status is clearly indicated and there is little hope of changing
one's class. Anyone who tries to change the meaning of a sign is risking
punishment for the transgression. Signified and signifier are fixed.
Transgressors of this reality, dragons, heretics and infidels, must be hunted
down and slain. All unstable reference must be punished and free interpretation
is prohibited. In our dreamland we may find concerns about taboos and
transgressions. Concerns about one reality dominate. Dreams in this style may
indicate a part of personality that runs a very rigid yet meaningful game.
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o The Counterfeit Renaissance
There is a period of time before production society sets in and after the
feudal/caste society which we often refer to in the West as the Renaissance. Now
the signs begin to loosen and what they signify are more arbitrary. Does the
bible mean this, or that? Protestant movements demand that each man must make
his own interpretation of the bible. But why stop there? Everyone begins to
have his or her own interpretation of everything. The particular meaning of a
sign is freed, and an abstract code analogous to money is born. Theater is born
and there is a destruction between a thing and what it represents. Psychology
can begin as we can now question who we really are. Nature becomes important
because it is lost. In the Renaissance we find stucco floral outpourings
everywhere, in fountains, in buildings in paintings, in clothes, in books and on
weapons. Stucco was the first plastic. The sign is stripped of its original
meaning, but still refers dimly to a time when it did mean something. Too late.
The natural world unfolds in every form, but it is all on stage. It is the
theater of appearance and disappearance and changing forms. I am reminded of the
movie "Interview with a Vampire" where the vampire's stage a show, a parody of
their life which unfolds endless "real" scenarios against the background of
vampirism, but unable to refer to anything outside of the play itself. Their
reference to the real world was cut by their condition. So too this early
production society feeds on the real but is really cut off from it.
In dreams, we often encounter these worlds as well. Sometimes they are
joyously filled with creative and theatrical energy, oddly meaningful and yet
free from meaning. Strange forms evolve, masks and mistakes in identity trick
us and make us laugh. Reversals and getting back to where we once were becomes
more difficult. We find ourselves marrying people we don't know, making
alliances with strangers and creating art forms we never imagined. On the darker
side, this world can be uncomfortably unstable. Pets turn into insects, chairs
are haunted with ghosts, hospitals become prisions. Mom just ain't what she used
to be. Reality refuses to stabilize. This is the first order of simulation, the
corrupt symbol that no longer refers to what it used to refer to. At one level
this validates the living symbol that evolves and wants to grow out of its old
form. But what Baudrillard is suggesting is that these images that have outgrown
their original reference will never be able to find a happy home to live. Desire
has become grandeous and swirls upward in Baroque productions of a Heaven in
process, cupids arrow spiraling ever upward and outward.
o Modern Production Society
Here the sign produces neutral values can be exchanged in an objective world.
Just like the free worker who is now free to make what he or she wants, but
there is little meaning in the work. There is a nostalgia for ancient meaning,
but it is all appearance. The Marlboro Cowboy is a billboard commodity used to
sell cigarettes. The real meaning of the sign easily exchanged.
There is an expansion here of the production of goods, science and technology.
There is an explosion of transportation, products to buy, and services as
commodities. There is an explosion of science and technology, of national
boundaries, of different social spheres, topics to discuss, money and value. In
the Modern society there is a constant proliferation of commodities.
In dreams we find modern images in the factory, the conveyor belt, the
assembly line. But this is also the world of the Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Duplication proliferates. Dreams of serial duplication, hordes of animals
without a queen or leader, clones and eternal returns may appear. The simulation
begun in the previous stage now accelerates and a great deal of energy is put
into covering up the loss of reality. I recall a Gaham Wilson cartoon where a
group of scientists were in discussion in a large astrolab, above unnoticed, a
piece of space had torn and several angels were trying to quickly pull it back
together. Dreams where maps and territory are confused speak to this level.
Baudrillard sites Borges' story where the makers of a map had it laid out so
perfectly that it covered the real territory, except in places where there were
tattered corners. The busy activity of hiding the fact that reality has
disappeared may take simple and less harmless forms like going to Disneyland, or
stronger forms like Auschwitz where death is produced and reproduced.
Since the surface of things is now suspect and devoid of meaning, one Barbie
doll as meaningful as another, the Modern turn was to Depth. If the Real can no
longer be found on the surface, then in it must be found beneath the surface.
Once the unconscious is revealed, then what you really feel, what you really
meant, is re-discovered. Look for dreams where you feel that what is "really"
going on, where is it "really" happening is somewhere else. We can say that
psychoanalytically the self is in projection in this Order. It is in the group
that won't let your in, in the party that is just over when you arrive, in the
gift and prize given to someone else. Just not quite "here". Detective dreams,
an inability to find your way home, all lost and found dreams are of this order.
As are all equivalences, such as dreams of balance, or weighing and measuring.
What is it worth? If there is even a hope of answering this questions, we are
still in the Modern Order of Signs.
o Post-Modern Hyperrality
"The real is produced from miniaturized cells, matrices, and memory
banks, models of control-- and it can be reproduced an indefinite number of
times from these. It no longer needs to be rational, because it no longer
measures itself against an ideal."
from Simulacra and Simulation
Had the truth been that we remained in a production reality, Marxism may have
continued to be a viable theory in the world. But Baudrillard sees that what
Marx called the "nonessential" sectors of capital to be what the global process
of capital is founded upon. Fashion, media, publicity, information &
communication networks, cybernetic control systems, computerization,
cyberspatiality, digitalization and genetic code proliferation. The organizing
principle is no longer production but re-production. In this society of
simulations where it is more interesting to be involved with a simulation of
reality than reality itself, a new social order establishes itself. With the
collapse or implosion between image/simulation and reality, the ground for the
real disappears. People write in to Robert Young, an actor who played Dr. Welby,
for medical advice and Raymond Burr who played the lawyer Perry Mason& Ironside
for legal advice. Now doctors and lawyers are expected to act like Dr. Welby and
Perry Mason. The models are the pivot point of reference rather that reality
itself. Simulations now determine reality.
The continual solicitations to buy, to consume, to work, vote, give
opinions, and participate in social life consume meaning and value as
distinctions become meaningless.
Simulations have devoured reality, and models have taken over. The
production of reality in the Modern phase resulted in saturation and explosion.
Now we have implosion. Reality and meaning melt into a nebulous mass of
self-reproducing simulation. Simulations have taken over for reality, and now
generate nothing but more simulations.
The boundaries between entertainment and news collapse. The news becomes
spectacle, entertainment. Politics and entertainment implode. Polls turn the
elections into image contexts, a war of signs.
We still consume, even more feverishly. But now we buy status and presence
instead of objects. Here in San Francisco, my neighborhood has filled with
four-wheel drive wagons. We used to call them jeeps. I doubt most of these all-
terrain vehicles have even been anywhere off the road beside perhaps a sidewalk.
There are hills here, but never any snow nor weather that would warrant a 4-
wheel drive. It is very cool to be part of this urban safari. In hyperreality
what is produced and consumed are signs. The pressure on the individual is to be
socialized. Production is irrelevant and secondary.
In a surreal mode, we find pleasure in finding the unnatural in the
natural. Eruptions of moments of surreality break into the course of everyday
life.
In the hyperral, the real and imaginary collapse together everywhere. Any
moment might be a media event and we have a kind of sixth sense for this. We
scan for fakery, montage and overlay. Absolut Vodka ala the latest artist,
Absolut Mc Glynn, Absolut Philip, Absolut Goodman....
A kind of non-deliberate parody clings to everything. No one believes it is
real, nor cares. Do you have political concerns about the integrety of the
politicians? Get with it, its cool that Newt brings his laptop to congress!
In dreamwork, we cover the full spectrum. Some people use dreamwork to patch
up the holes in their reality - or gaps in their illusion of reality - places
where meaning and value have dropped out of their lives. Much of therapy is
about patching up holes in the ego. Deeper work is statistically rare. Dreamwork
can go the other extreme as well and be a vehicle for promoting a particular
singular reality. Here, the interpretations will always be the same, and the
interpretive process determines reality. Just as vexing can be the dream as god
approach, where the dream reality is determining all the reality and dreamwork
becomes a kind of religion, the dream an object of worship.
o An Alternative to Signs - The Improverse
While Baudrillard exposes very well the simulated reality we are moving so
rapidly into, his alternatives are somewhat lacking and under theorized. The
gist is to enact scenes that return us to the symbolic and burn the sign. But
his suggestion of becoming more real than real, more the worker than the worker,
more the consumer than the consumer, seem to have little or no effect on culture
and quickly play out to exhaustion in avante-gaude art scenes. Big History may
truly have ended and in our postmodern world all we can do is play with the
pieces. While this may cause sadness for dictators, nationalists, classists and
others desiring massive changes, for most of us exploring dreamwork in
cyberspace it offers the opportunity for play and experimentation.
A personal alternative is the Improverse, the intrusion of a symbolic
exchange into sign value and exchange. In the improverse, reality is created
out of the interaction of two or more singularites (dream, person, mood, sound
in the distance..) intruding into the exchange value and signs. One might say
that reality is co-determined by the participants on a local level. Avens once
said about the dream, we give it meaning, then it reveals to us its
significance. If we can hear it. Listening is as important as signing in this
universe. Having an ear for the other and being able to play off of the song
that comes from neither but from the relationship is much like the old technique
of impovisational music. In blues and folk rock jams, the musician is called
upon to listen while playing. Improvisations lead to a temporary reality or
song/jam world that includes all that are listening, musicians and non-musicians
alike. Thus the subjective-objective world is crossed. On a Social-Political
level, subversive activities often erupt in the same manner. On a larger scale
we can see the effects in such events as the tearing down of the Berlin Wall
coming directly from grassroots cultural exchange programs. On a more local
level, Bikers, sick of Auto dominated streets began erupting into spontaneous
Critical Mass bike-a-thons in the Bay Area in the late 1990's durning rush hour
traffic. In dreamwork we approach the dream without a sense of knowing, but of
interest - we try a note. This boy in my dream is my own undeveloped boy. We
listen and maybe we hear yes, maybe we hear no - but usually a whole intuition
appears that leads us on. The improverse comes into being.
References and More on Jean Baudrillard: www.dreamgate.com/pomo/
TERMS:
Hyperreal: A phenomenon where one can no longer tell the difference between real
and reproductions of the real. Reproductions even become more real than real and
experiences of hyperreal more satisfying than experiences of the real.
Image: Sometimes a visual presentation, but not always. In a larger way, more as
an understanding, as in "Let me give you an image of what happened the other
day."
Sign: Something that usually points to something else. It can be a part of
language or an event as well as a traffic sign or dream image. The sign has
parts, the signifier - like the word "couch", the signified or concept it is
referring to like the idea of couch and the referent, a concrete object like my
couch in my livingroom. In Postmodern theory, there is more and more emphasis on
the material signifier and less on the concept to which it refers. The actual
object in the real world, the referent, often seems to disappear altogether.
Simulacra: In Plato a false copy. But in modern thought were the distinction
between appearance and reality are challenged the simulacrum has more value as a
critical idea and becomes a copy without an original. The idea here being
reproduction without interest in first causes or reference.
Simulation: The process by which something real replaces the thing being
represented. Language does this in being able to transform something specific
and concrete into something abstract and universal. This brings up notions of
map and territory. For Baudrillard, the transformed "map" may be more real than
the original territory. I might enjoy a film on sky-diving more than actually
doing it. Baudrillard sees history as sliding from attention to the land to the
map leading to the disappearance of meaning. "simulation is . . . the
generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal"
(Baudrillard, 1983: 2).
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" DIVINE MESSAGES "
" DIVINE RE-TURN CONTINUED"
Dr. Deus
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Welcome once again to Divine Messages. This month's column will be the
second of three consecutive issues in which we will expose the very simple fact
of the immortality of the soul with the world's best example...the world famous
"rarissimo" oneric spiritual phenomena of Ascensions on the Winged Horse which
could indeed be, as interpreted by the Ancient Greeks, who were said to be
extremely rational in their logic thinking, an allegory of the soul's
immortality!
From the previous and following cases of Ascensions, we shall try firstly to
attempt to determine if the Legendary Universal Eternal Spiritual Winged-Horse
really exists, because as stated in April's column, in the Marduk's Victor's
Myth, the whole issue of the whole conflict, in regards to the existence or
non-existence of the Spiritual World, sways between the existence or
non-existence of this legendary Winged-Horse, which would be, the Spirit of the
also legendary Universal Monarch... the King of this Other World which, at
times, we all get to visit in dreams!
This is a good never-ending story installed a long, long time ago... for the
better understanding of the functioning of the world.
As you may have understood last month, the Winged-Horse Story is the #1
Spiritual Story in the Orient and as you shall soon see in the present column
along with next month's, that this Eternal Winged-Horse Story is by far the #1
Spiritual Story of the Whole World... which made the History of the World.
Have a pleasant flight and try enjoying yourselves while finally getting
educated a bit... :-) ...and you shall see that the Tour of the Winged-Horse in
Occident is just as much fun...as in Orient.
GRECO-ROMAN MYTHOLOGY
The other half of our World Tour, as you may anticipate, begins by the
Winged-Horse in the Greco-Roman Empire Mythology and in order to start on a
mellow note, here are a few extracts from "Origins and History of
Consciousness" by Eric Neumann... p.218-9
"The profound psychological intuition of the myth is revealed even
more strikingly in the fact that Pegasus, on being released from the Medusa,
(when Perseus cut her head off) is credited with creative work upon earth. We
are told that, just before the Winged-Horse flew up to Zeus amid thunder and
lightening, he struck (with its front hooves)the Fountain of the Muses... the
fountain of inspiration from the ground of the earth. As we shall see later,
this aspect of the Pegasus myth lies at the root of all creativity. Pegasus
carries, (at a later date) the hero Bellerophon( also called Hipponoüs,
"skilled with the horse") to victory, but is also inward-flowing libido
(energy) that wells forth as creative art...which rises up in the direction of
the Spirit. Thus, to put it abstractly, the hero Perseus espouses the spiritual
side, he is the winged one, and the gods of the spirit are his allies in the
fight with the unconscious."
All of this is to say that the Ancient Greeks, Etruscans and Romans alike
believed that Pegasus is a God from the Spiritual World ....and we shall now see
very rapidly why they interpreted this particular dream as being an allegory of
the immortality of the Soul.
The recipe of the formula is very simple and quite childish because if you
read carefully you will see that all the major Greco-Roman Gods, Goddesses, and
Heroes, namely Helios, Zeus(Jupiter), Poseidon(Neptune), Athena(Minerva),
Hermes(Mercury), Aries(Mars), Hades(Pluto), Apollo(Phebus), Eos, Selene,
Perseus, Bellerophon....and etc... all flew on the Winged-Horse and therefore
in the concept of the immortality of the soul, all these most famous personages
were in fact always the same person....
So, once again here is another string... beginning with Helios, whose story by
itself, contains the essence of the entire story.
I- Helios, is the very old Sun-God, who sees everything... for
example he is the only one who saw the rapt of Proserpine by Pluto. He is the
guy that you see in the Statue of Liberty in New-York City, wearing the Solar
Rays Crown. In the Encyclopedia of Mythology, English version, p.139, French
version p.136 we can read the following texts...
"It was related that Helios was drowned in the ocean by his uncles the
Titans, and then raised to the sky, where he became the luminous sun."
"Every morning Helios emerged in the east from a swamp formed by the
river-ocean in the far-off land of the Ethiopians. To his golden chariot, which
Hephaestus had fashioned, the Horae harnessed the winged horses. They were of
dazzling white, their nostrils breathed forth flame and their names were
Lampon, Phaethon, Chronos, Aethon, Astrope, Bronte, Pyroeis, Eous and Phlegon.
The God then took the reins and climbed the vault of heaven."
"Drawn in his swift chariot, he sheds light on gods and men alike: the
formidable flash of his eyes pierces his golden helmet; sparkling rays glint
from his breast ; his brilliant helmet gives forth a dazzling splendour; his
body is draped in shining gauze whipped by the wind."
"At midday Helios reached the highest point of his course and began to
descend towards the West, arriving at the end of the day in the land of the
Hesperides, where he seemed to plunge into the ocean. In reality,...he would
sail all night and in the morning regain his point of departure."
You see, my friends, this is "The Never Ending Story of the
Winged-Horse"...and consequently #43 goes, with great honour, to Helios.
II- Selene (Luna), also known as Mene (Moon), another extremely
ancient sideral personage, who from her gold crown was illuminating the
obscurity of the darkness of the night. Every night, beginning her journey,
once her brother Helios had terminated his own, the divine Selene with the
large wings, "after bathing her beautiful body in the Ocean, and dressing
herself in splendid clothes, would elevate herself in the sky, carried in a
chariot drawn by brilliant chargers."
Sometimes, also, she was mounted on a single Horse. (EM English version,
p.140, French version p.137).
It is said, further on, that the rays of Selene, come and caress the sleep of
mortals at night in their sleep!!
So, the #44 goes with grace to Selene.
III- Zeus, the God of Light and the source of all celestial
manifestations is the greatest of all the Immortal Gods of the Olympus...
"You are so well the Supreme Lord of the Universe that nothing on earth
happens without you, nothing in the etherian heaven, nothing in the sea."
(Cleanthus, 232 B.C. in "Hymn to Zeus".)
...also flew on Pegasus...because it is his Horse...and better than that
Zeus/Jupiter would at times transform himself into the fabulous Horse himself
and in that way he seduced many women including Carme, in Crete, who in time
gave birth to the Creto-Mycenian Goddess Britomartis! Yes! (Encyclopedia of
Mythology, French version, p.96)
"And Pegasus, taking its flight, left the earth...and flew towards the
Immortals. He now lives in the palace of Zeus, carrying Thunder and Lightning
for the pleasure of the prudent Zeus." (as reported by Hesiod in "Theogony",
280 (FM))
Zeus, is also the guarantor of the order between gods and men alike...and
is
often represented sitting on a throne with Winged-Horses at the base!
So, #45 goes to Zeus.
IV- Poseidon, the powerful God of the Sea, is, in Southern Greece,
very often represented as a Horse himself. It is said that he, Neptune, in that
form united himself with Demeter also transformed as a Mare. In the Triumph of
Poseidon, he is shown with a halo around the head, holding the Trident, while
rising from the Sea, in a chariot drawn by four Horses, therefore demonstrating
his dominion over the darkness of Sea of life and death.
"He established residence in the depths of the Aegean Sea where "had been
built for him a magnificent palace, sparkling of gold, and of eternal time
span." When he was going out, he would harness his rapid Chargers, with the
bronze hooves and the golden mane; and himself, covered by a gold armour, would
grab his fancy fashioned whip and would throw his chariot on the liquid plain.
Around him, could be seen playing marine monsters, which came from the deepest
abysses to pay homage to their Sovereign; while the joyful Sea would open in
front of him, and the Chariot would fly with lightness above the waves, which
could not even wet the axle of his Chariot. But, at most occasions, the
apparitions of Neptune were accompanied by terrible and most powerful
storms..." (Encyclopedia of Mythology, French version, p.130)
Just as Zeus, Hades and a few others, he is said to be a chthonian God which
represent the obscure forces of germination and death which favor life on
earth. They are said to have a very strong relationship with Mother Earth. As
Gods of the Depths, they can make the whole world shake from within.(EM & FM)
"Answer my prayer, Poseidon, you, who carries the Earth on your shoulder...."
(Odysseus ix, 538.)
Therefore, #46 goes to Poseidon/Neptune
V- Athena, the goddess is also known in Rome as Minerva Capta, an
Etruscan Goddess. She is strong and beautiful, and very well skilled with many
talents...among which the building of ships... and the art of weaving and
embroidering. Nothing exists in writing in regards to her flying on
Pegasus....but it is said that she is very skilled at domesticating Horses as
well as wild forces of nature.
However, she appeared to Bellerophon in a dream, ..."IN A DREAM"... THIS IS A
MOST IMPORTANT STATEMENT... and gave him a gold bridle thanks to which he was
able to tame the Horse Pegasus.
NOTHING IS BETTER LEFT UNSAID...... CHECK IT OUT.
Encyclopedia of Mythology, English v., p.108, French v., p.102... and issued
from Pindare's "Olympics" xiii, 63 to 87... for those who wish to read in
depth.
In any case, Athena, it is said "became equal to her Father (Zeus)... in both
strength and prudent wisdom."...Theogony, 896... and is represented wearing a
head-dress which is flanked by two Winged-Horses, one on each side... as in the
gold and ivory sculpture of Phidias Vth century B.C. (FM)
What she wishes to teach to humans is that it is "the Metis, the magical
intelligence, and not the strength, that makes a good Man." (Iliad, xv, 412.)
Therefore, Athena is given the #47.
VI- Hermes, the Messenger of the Gods and the Divine Psychopomp
which escorted the souls of the dead to either Heaven or Hell, is shown at many
places with the Winged-Horse , Pegasus. The EM for example, in the old original
French version, shows Hermes next to Pegasus in a beautiful painting of
Mantegna (Louvre Museum) on page 110 of the French version.
In Mead, "Thrice-Greatest Hermes", an invocation to Hermes is addressed to
"the Good Daimon Sire of all things good, and the nurse of the whole world,"
where Daimon, as Mead suggests, stands for the "Father-Mother of the Universe."
Ref. Glasson, "Greek Influence in Jewish Eschatology", p.69. Also, in "Works
and Days" of Hesiod, Daemons are "Spirits of the Men of the Golden Age."
(Dictionary of Angels, p.93)
Hermes is the psychopompos, god of the Underworld, daimon of reincarnation.
He received his art of divination from Apollo, his winged sandals from Perseus.
In Homer, it is Hermes who leads the ghosts of slain suitors to Hades. He was
given the name "Trismegistus", "Thrice-Greatest Intelligencer", because, so it
is said, he was the First Intelligence to communicate celestial knowledge to
men. It is also said, that the Cabala was shown to Hermes by God on Mount Sinai
and that, in fact, he was none other than the Hebrew lawgiver Moses! (Ref.
Barrett, "The Magus", Bibliographia Antiqua, p.150... as stated in the
Dictionnary of Angels, p.140.)
"Hermes, (the Messenger of the Greek Gods)...had in his hand the beautiful
gold wand which he used, to his own will and pleasure, to shut the eyes of
humans or to put them out of their sleep... With his wand, he would lead the
troupe, and the little souls were following, releasing small little piercing
noises. In the profound cavities of a grotto, bats were taking off with little
yells when one of them was detaching itself from the bunch suspended to the
rock." ...(Odyssseus, XXIV,1.)
Hermes, was according to different researchers, the first one to be called
"The Light of the World" and to wear the title of "Christos", which in Greek
means "Celestial Messenger", ...being the equivalent of the Jewish "Messiah"
and the sanskrit "Avatara".... which as described by the Monier-Williams'
Sanskrit Dictionary is said to mean.... "Coming down with the approval of the
higher source from which it came from and with the benefit to the place at
which it arrives." Ave!
So, with plenty of ease and agility #48 goes to Hermes/Mercury.
VII- Pluto, you know Hades, the Lord of Hell, and of the
underworld, ...well it is the same guy, once again. No kidding, this guy was
riding some fabulous horses when he kidnapped the young Proserpine. This is
again the dualistic nature showing up... and at the end of the story there is
always reward or retribution. In any case, this is the story....
"A good morning Persephone was picking up some flowers with a few friends
,when suddenly, she saw a beautiful Narcissius . But a narcissius that you
never see, with a bunch of flowers!
With a shout of surprise, the young girl precipitated herself to grab this
astonishing flower, and got away out of sight from her comrades. She was
already stretching her arms when ....in a loud noise of thunder ...an enormous
crevasse opened up splitting the ground.
And from this crevasse emerged, in a furious gallop, a black chariot, drawn by
two Horses that were so dark, that they appeared blue. And standing on the
Chariot, the frightening Hades in person."
He grabbed her and brought her in his world from where she never wanted to
come back afterwards. No one had seen anything except, Helios, the
Sun-God....who sees everything.
So, #49 without any hesitation goes to Hades/Pluto.
VIII- Aries, is usually represented with his armoured combat
(debate) gear, wearing the High Crest Corynthian Helmet, flanked by two
Winged-Horses, one on each side, and wearing a front chest Armour on which we
can see Two Winged-Horses facing each other. There is a beautiful sculpture
exposed in FM.
He often dies in combat.... but he is always brought back to life by the Gods
of the Olympus. Apparently, considered as the physical father of Romulus, he
led Rome to the Empire of the World.(EM & FM)
So, #50, happily goes to Aries/Mars.
IX- Apollo, also called Phoebus, "The Brilliant",
and assimilated to the Sun, and considered as the most powerful of all
gods....also rode on Pegasus.
"It is to Apollo, the God of Delphes, to dictate the most important, the most
beautiful, and the first of all Laws." (Plato, "The Republic", IV,427.)
At times, the Gryphon, the fabulous animal, with the body and ears and eyes of
a Horse, with wings of Eagle....has become the sacred animal of Apollo, and it
may have been substituted to Pegasus, because it belonged like him to the Solar
God. (My translation of a few lines extracted from "Lux Perpetua", p.289.)
Apollo, with the fiery eyes, is the God of Knowledge. His sight reaches
everything.... and for him there is no distance. "Nothing escapes him, no
thoughts, no words, no actions....he knows everything." (Pindare's "Pythics"
iii,25.)
Consequently, #51 is awarded to Apollo/Phebus.
X- Eos, the Goddess of the Wind....
"Sometimes she was mounted on the Horse Pegasus and bore in her hands a torch.
Most often saffron-robed Eos rode on a purple chariot drawn by two horses." (EM
english, p.143, French, p.138.)
Therefore, # 52 goes to Eos.
XI- Phaeton, a mysterious Hero considered to be the Son of the
Sun and of the Sun-God Helios.... also flew on the Chariot of the Sun. However,
being young and inexperienced he had difficulties in his task and lost control
of the Winged Horses... and the chariot flying to close to the Earth rapidly
dried large rivers and sat forests ablaze everywhere, so much that Zeus had to
get rid of him by a shot of lightning. (Encyclopedia of Mythology, French
version, p.137.)
So, Phaeton is our #53.
XII- Perseus, everyone knows that he is a good guy, he flies on
Pegasus and destroys the Gorgon ... taking her head as a present to
Athena....which becomes her Egid.
There is no need to expand on this world famous story which is a landmark in
the Mysteries of Mythology, which explains the presence of an illustration of
Perseus on the magical Horse Pegasus on page 1 of the Encyclopedia of Mythology,
english version, for example.
In any case, Perseus, in the accomplishment of his divine mission, is helped,
in this regard, by a few of the ghosts of the ancient riders of the magical
Horse of the past...Hermes, Hades and Athena. We will get to this phenomena a
little later.
So, Perseus is our Winged-Horse Rider #54.
XIII- Bellerophon, a weird personage, who flew on the
Winged-Horse in a dream and subsequently killed the Chimera..... Apparently,
question of apparitions, Athena appeared to Bellerophon "IN A DREAM", ....
THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT STATEMENT..... and gave him a gold bridle thanks to
which he was able to tame the Horse Pegasus.
(***Encyclopedia of Mythology, english version, p.108, French version,
p.102.***)
Therefore, Bellerophon, with his wonderful dream in which he flew on the
Winged-Horse Pegasus, which was interpreted by the Greeks as an allegory of the
Immortality of the soul, gets awarded #55.
XIV- Herakles/Hercules... the famous hero, was also associated
with the Winged-Horse as you may have seen in the Walt Disney movie...so he gets
#56.
XV- Oenomaos... a quite unknown personage, a son
of Aries and Harpina, whose name is derived from "Oeniros" the Greek word for
dream. This Oenamaos, who reigned close to Olympia, had a daughter named
Hippodamia, whose name is derived from the Greek word "Horse". Interestingly, it
is said that Oenomaos decided that he would give the hand of his daughter to the
man who would succeed in beating him in a Chariot Race. He was sure to win
because his Chariot was pulled by Winged-Horses presented to him by Aries, his
Father.
However, due to a wicked ruse of his own daughter Hippodamia, he lost to
Pelops... and Oenomaos found his death in the defeat. (Encyclopedia of
Mythology, French version, p.118)
Consequently, Oenomaos receives #57.
XVI- Hephaistos/Vulcan... the gold, silver and all-metals' Divine
Smith of the Gods is another Winged-Horse Rider, who is no one else than the
Creator himself and this is very easily recognisable by his works.
Besides building the Palaces of the Olympia he also fashioned the Gold Throne
of God, the Scepter and Thunderbolts of Zeus, the Magical Arrows of Artemis and
Apollo, the Armour of Hercules... and so many other wonderful things among
which the most important of all is... the Winged-Chariot of Helios!!!
Nothing was impossible for him... and to the request of Zeus he even molded
the first woman, Pandora... and was charged to give her "life", intelligence and
extraordinary beauty.
Hephaistos help Zeus at many occasions and one of his chief exploits took
place on the day that he "Cracked Open the Skull of Zeus with an Axe in order to
give birth to Athena from his mind!" ... talk about a strange Caesarian... not
for eyes to see, but for brains to see what spiritual birth is all about.
(These little extracts from The Encyclopedia of Mythology, French version, p.
118 to 122.)
So, Hephaistos receives the Winged-Horse Award #58.
XVII- Hippothoos, is another relatively unknown personage who
mingled with the Horse and mounted on the Divine Throne.
Son and Grand-Son of Poseidon, he was left to die by his own mother, Alope, and
was saved by a Horse (a Mare) who breast fed him. He was then found by some
people who brought him to the father of Alope and this guy left him to die
starving somewhere else... and the Horse came back to feed and save him again.
Later on this guy, Hippothoos will end up reigning on the Gold Throne of
Poseidon... showing that he had the same attributes.
("The Encyclopedia OF Mythology", French version, p.132.)
So, Hippothoos gets #59.
XVIII- Dionysos/Bacchus, is another of the Winged-Horse Riders of
this ancient Mythology worth mentioning.
The ethymology of his name means Dios or Zeus of Nysa, and seems by analogy to
be the Greek form of the Vedic God Soma!
In any case, besides others, he is the God of Wine, of Vegetation, of
Pleasure, of Civilisation and of Resurrection. Stories and legends abound and
the best ones regard his assassination by jealous people and his ultimate
resurrection... and as Plutarch says so well...
"Dionysos becomes the God who is destroyed, who disappears, who abandons life
and who rebirths later on."
Also, quite interestingly, Dionysos has a very unique talent of charging with
folly, or turn totally crazy and insane those who refuse to recognise his
divinity or who decide to plot against him. One of the best stories which shows
this supranormal ability is the one about the pirates who take him as prisoner
and tie him somewhere in the hold of the ship. For those who don't know about
this story, the ship was stopped by growing vegetation and the pirates were
haunted by different visions of Dionysos and finally, they all jumped off the
ship except the only man on board who had recognised the Divinity of Dionysos.
By the way, Bacchus was the most celebrated of all the Greek Gods and during
one of the main celebrations, Dionysos is shown riding in pure majesty his
beautiful "Chariot drawn by the Centaurs".
(These extracts from "The Encyclopedia OF Mythology", French version,
p.151 to 156.)
Therefore, he gets #60.
XIX- The Centaurs and the talking Horse Arion...
Since we are on the subject, we might as well discuss briefly of the Centaurs
who are simply a Trinitarian representation of the Winged-Horse Riders and their
spiritual counterparts. It shall be noted that the prophet Mohammed is at times
represented as such in Indonesia for example. Some say that the Greeks borrowed
this representation from the Vedic Gandharvas. In any case,
these were reputed for their wisdom such as Pholos who received Hercules and
Chiron who instructed Artemis and Apollo and had other numerous Greek Heroes as
Students.
Another most inspiring representation of the Horse Divinity is in the legendary
Human-Horse Arion, the progeny of Poseidon and Demeter who was a horse having
the both right feet of a human and was speaking the language of humans... just
to illustrate that this horse was of divine nature.
(The Encyclopedia of Mythology, French version, p.158 & 131 respectively.)
So, we will not grant nothing to the Centaurs, because they are the symbolic
representations of some earlier Riders already mentioned... but, Arion came and
walked...and we give him one....# 61.
XX to XXIII- The Greek and Romans Emperors
Although, we have jumped over other heroes and gods of Greek Mythology, who
flew on the Winged-Horse... this privilege of ascending to heaven on Pegasus was
also granted to other more recent and historically recognised personages of the
Greco-Roman lore which were known and remembered as the Emperors...most of them
who were simple impostors such as August, the first Emperor, who claimed to have
dreams in which Jupiter appeared to him or even the terrors of Nero and
Domitian... but, there were also some good ones who could have been true Riders
of the Winged-Horse, by their faith such as Emperor Trajan often represented
with the Winged-Horse with Pegasus...and without forgetting Alexander the Great
and even Julius Caesar,...and of course the last Emperor Julian the Apostat. For
your info, there exists plenty of material in this regard in "Lux Perpetua" by
world renowned historian Franz Cumont... and let's briefly take a look at a few
prospects...
XX- Alexander the Great, (356-323 BC) King of Macedonia (336-323 BC)
Alexander the Great....is also a rather universal personage who was motivated
by his dreams... actually his whole conquest was guided by his dreams. He also
had a fabulous Horse by the name of Bucephalis.... Bucéphale, in French... which
played an important rile in his stories simply because it was "The Horse of the
Kings of the World" (Quinte Curce VI, 5-18 )...and rightfully "The Horse of the
Universal Monarch"!
It should be noted that Alexander also appears in the Bible in the first
chapter of the First Book of the Maccabeus.... where he is stingily reported as
a being a tyrant... which is kind of contrary to everything that I've read
elsewhere. This is not normal and makes me wonder why?
And for your info, Alexander was also recognised, in 332 BC, at the age of 24,
by the Great Priests of Amon as to be a Son... or a living reincarnation of
Amon-Rê, who just like Osiris traveled the World to spread his knowledge and was
the last person to this present day to wear the title of Touthank Amon-Rê..."The
Living Image of the Sun-God." (EM, Amon-Rê section)
An interesting point to remark, is the fact that, at this time, the favorite
animal of Amon-Rê was made to be the Bull Apis....and this explains why the most
famous Dream Horse of Alexander began to wear the name "Bucephalis"...
Bull-Head... and also the reason why Alexandria, founded a year later in 331 BC,
became suddenly the Universal Intellectual and Artistic Capital of Learning for
a while....with its prestigious Libraries and Universities and a New World Trade
Center, dominated by a 400 feet high Lighthouse, symbolic of the Light of the
World... and we shall understand more about the logic of this in next month's
column.
In any case, Alexander had created, before his death at the young age of 33, a
very large Empire....which he conquered very peacefully.... people of all
countries were opening their arms to him. And still today people still wonder
why....and also why in his kingdom, conquered and conquerors were treated the
same? No oppression, no blood effusion, just happy people living in a border
free peaceful kingdom of peace...... but yet a conquest!
Anyways, Alexander the Great, because of his Horse..."The Horse of the Kings of
the World" (Quinte Curce VI, 5-18 )...and rightfully "The Horse of the Universal
Monarch" gets to receive without any hesitation #62.
XXI- Emperor Julius Caesar #101-44 BC #63
Quite strangely this world famous Roman "for a few days" Imperator, who was
primarily an historian motivated by his dreams... seems to have indeed also
flown on the Winged-Horse!!!
"The oldest representation of the apotheosis in Rome, shows us already, Julius
Caesar, standing in a chariot carried away by Winged-Horses." (Lux Perpetua,
p.293)
This may sound crazy at first sight, but Julius Caesar was a dreamer who paid
attention to his dreams and Suetone the historian (69-125 AD) who wrote the
"Lives of the 12 Caesuras" tells about an oreiric anecdote relating that Julius
Caesar, in his early 30's, during a pilgrimage to Spain, cried in front of a
statue of Alexander the Great in Cadix, shortly after he had one of his dreams
interpreted by some "Spanish Divinators" who predicted that he would one day
dominate the world.(Cesar, from the collection, "Les Grands de Tous les Temps",
published by Dargaud.S.A.,1968, p.24.)
I have a pretty good idea of what this dream could have been... but anyways,
Caesar was confused with all this and did not know to handle his conquest and
made so many mistakes and even conquered allies, like the Gauls, as if they were
enemies... and his "Incest Dream" prior to crossing the Rubicon to engage combat
against Pompee...was a true "Guidance Dream" which clearly indicated that he was
screwing the will of the Lord, who had given birth to him.
Anyways, he was not in history, the only Winged-Horse Rider who did not exactly
understand what was expected of him or partly succeeded or failed in his earthly
mission of demonstrating the existence of the spiritual world and establish the
Kingdom of God on Earth. Not really easy by any means.
Strangely enough, a short while after he was proclaimed "Imperator", during the
night of the 14th of march of 44 BC, his wife dreamt that he was getting
assassinated... and so he was on the following day, just according to the dream!
"Who was Julius Caesar?" This is a very good question... which was answered by
Jacques Madaule, author of a little work entitled "Cesar" (1959)...
"On the 15th of march, 44 BC, the curtain fell on the history of Caesar. It
rose almost immediately on his legend. Regarding his writings which he left us,
they equally hold of both. Caesar sculptured his own statue; but like these
antique stone images, we miss the glance, this glance which, dying, he rested on
Brutus. Who was Caesar? Nor his acts, nor his writings, nor his words, nor his
death, even, tell us enough. We would have needed to hear the tone of his voice
and seen shine the brightness in his eyes..."
Regardless, there are many representations of Caesars Apotheosis which is
nothing less than his "Divinisation"... riding in pure majesty on the
Winged-Horse Chariot of the Universal Monarch...in different compositions
executed in the famous paintings of " The Triumph of Caesar" by Montegna or
"Caesar, Master of the World" by Ybon...and etc., but the best remains the one
mentioned earlier...
"The oldest representation of the apotheosis in Rome, shows us already, Julius
Caesar, standing in a chariot carried away by Winged-Horses." (Lux Perpetua,
p.293)
(These 3 representations can all be seen in this little book...Cesar, from the
collection, "Les Grands de Tous les Temps", published by Dargaud.S.A.,1968, on
pages 69, 59 and 74 respectively.)
And then of course, since many people know about the Story of the Universal
Monarch and of his most famous Winged-Horse, comes an era of impostors who know
how the story works and clam to have flown on the Magical Horse... for instance
Emperor August the successor of Caesar...
O- Emperor August (63 BC-14 AD) ... he was an imposter knowing the
game, most likely because he was told by Caesar about it...and he was saying
that Zeus/Jupiter was appearing to him in dreams and perhaps it is true, but he
never transfigured into him, for the simple reason that in his time it is
someone else who flew on the Winged-Horse... and he could not be the Universal
Monarch... therefore he gets #0.
Nevertheless as Franz Cumont says in Lux Perpetua on p.292...
"The Emperors were supposed to become after their death the companions of the
Sun Invincible... "Sol Invictus", just as they had been his proteges during
their lifetime, and conducted by him towards the eternal vaults. And these are
not their emphatical flatteries, inspired to court poets by servile adulation. A
papyrus, found in Higher-Egypt, shows us the Faith in this form of Apotheosis
which spread to the extreme confines of the Empire. Phebus/Apollo himself
announces to the Romam people the death of Trajan and the advent of his
successor.
"I," says the God in his own terms " have just elevated myself with Trajan on
a chariot harnessed with white horses and I arrive towards you to announce that
a new Prince, Hadrian, to which all things have been submitted due to his Virtue
and to the Fortune of his divine Father."
This deification, obtained through the intermediary of the Sun, making place to
the Sovereign on the Chariot of the Sun, remained an Article of Faith, right up
to the end of paganism."
In any case, this declaration of Apollo, suggests that Emperor Hadrian could
have been a Winged-Horse Rider... if it was not Emperor Trajan who conquered
lots of territory on basically the same route taken 4 centuries earlier...but
Nostradamus in his Centuries mentions Hadrian four times...in 1,8, 1,9, 2,55 and
3,11 which suggests that it must have been Hadrian.
XXII- Emperor Trajan (53-98-117 AD) or Emperor Hadrian (76-117-138)
receives #64.
XXIII- Emperor Julian the Apostat (331-361-363) the last of the Roman
Emperors apparently would have flown on the Winged-Horse... because, unsatisfied
with changing Christianity, he became a fervent follower of Mithraism. Yes!
Because of his Spirituality, he was convinced that Mithra, the "Sol Invictus" to
whom he had propitiated, would be the one who would permit him to leave this
world with the hope of a better future...(Lux Perpetua, p.302)...and we know
that Mithra was one of the Riders of the Undying, Shining, Swift-Horsed-Sun! It
is said that Julian considered himself to be the Spiritual Son of The Sun and
that after his death he would be carried in a Fiery Chariot to the top of Mount
Olympus, in the whirring of a thunderstorm...to reach the palace of his Father
in etherian light."
(Lux Perpetua p.292)
So, Emperor Julian for his fair performance deserves #65.
Anyways, to the testimony of the writers and authors, one can add the ones of
the monuments and even money coins which demonstrate without any doubt the
vitality of these ancient mythological beliefs from which was inspired the cult
of the Emperors. (Lux erpetua, p.293) ... and there is so much more.
In resume, as Franz Cumont says on p.288 of Lux Perpetua.....
"It is therefore doubtless that Pegasus was regarded as an agile
psychopompos, which, in an audacious flight, lifted right up to the height of
the stellar vaults of heaven the privileged mortals who had obtained to reside
over there forever. The Mythology consecrated Pegasus to the Sun and it was
towards this Aster that he was bringing back the souls to which he had given
life and was calling them to him."
"It is the reason why this Pegasus-Saviour has been represented alone,
even without Rider, as a symbol of Immortality."
..... and further along, he mentions that all these representations, were
actually symbolic images ....."reminding of the Ascension to Heaven."
Oh! by the way, I completely forgot about the Etruscans and The
Winged-Horse in the pre-recorded initial times of the Roman Empire.... but it is
always the same story as numerous Imperial Etruscan tombstones, such as the ones
of Felsina, show the Emperors as being carried away to heaven on Winged-Horse(s)
or in chariots drawn by the same. (Lux Perpetua, p.290-291.)
.....and I hope that this has been quite sufficient to pinpoint the
fact that the Winged-Horse played a primordial role in Greece and Rome in
regards to the establishment of the strong belief of the immortality of the
soul.... and the simple reason why this particular dream was considered to be an
allegory of the soul... and also that these little resumes of the different
lives of the Immortal Winged-Horse Rider give you a little picture of the
character of this immortal personage.
And now let's head into Celtic Mythology to hear once again the same story but
viewed from another slightly different cultural angle.
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>>>>>> Virtual University offers Dream Course in July
http://www.vu.org/calendar.html
Dreams: The Key to Your Inner Self
A 6 week course starting July 13; participants can earn 1 CEU
Dreams may speak to us about many things but disguise their message in a hidden
language. This summer class will explore the nature of dreams, where they come
from, what they mean, and how to work with them to gain a deeper understanding
of the self. In addition, the class will examine dream symbols and themes, why
people dream, and how dreams relieve stress and help balance the psyche.
Students will learn to look for key elements of their dreams, how to recognize
archetypes and feelings in dreams and how to remember, influence, and interpret
dreams. The importance of keeping a dream journal will be discussed, and the
class will also take a look at how writers and artists can harness dream images
to power a piece of writing or work of art. Students
will find examples of artworks based on dreams and will learn how to write, draw
or use collage to illustrate a dream. Instructor Nori J. Muster earned her
Master's degree at Western Oregon State College in 1992 and has worked with
adolescents at risk for several years. She is the author of "Betrayal of the
Spirit" (1997, Univ. of Illinois Press), which chronicles her experiences as a
member of the Hare Krishna movement. Nori has been studying dreams and keeping a
dream journal for 20 years. CEU enrollments for Summer classes. Enrollment
deadline is 11pm Pacific, Friday, July 10. Summer classes start July 13.
>>>>>> Slow Wave Going to Canada
Jesse Reklaw, illustrator for Slow Wave, the weekly dream-comic strip, will
attend the Small Press in Ottawa eXpo on Saturday, July 4th 1998. Come have your
dream sketched and meet other talented creators of small press and indie comix,
zines and chapbooks. Day of Show Admission: $1.00 / Show Hours: 10am 'til 5pm /
Location: National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. More info:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4758/SmallPOX.html
>>>>>> Dream Workshop led by Gina Pearlin
July 12, Sunday 12-4 pm at Twin lakes College of the Healing Arts in Santa Cruz,
CA. Call the office at 476-2152 for information and registration. Guided trance,
artwork and writing will be used to explore and understand your dreams. Bring
your dreams, questions, and sense of humor and sense of adventure to this
experiential workshop. Gina is a hypnotherapist trained in contemporary, Jungian
based dreamwork. Her approach to the dream is eclectic, drawing from many
sources. She teaches a certification program in Dreamwork at Twin Lakes College.
For more information, contact glass@cruzio.com
>>>>>> Vision Quest Wilderness Rite of Passage with Sparrow Hart
The Vision Quest is an ancient rite of passage belonging to all people. It can
take place at any age or stage of life, and involves the heroic journey of
leaving familiar surroundings to enter the wilderness, not only of nature but of
our own interior, to encounter the self and obtain the support and counsel of
the profound, vital forces that reside there. The purpose of the Quest varies
for each person, but involves a search for guidance and renewal, an opportunity
to let one's old life and self die to be reborn to a new identity or new life
purpose. The eleven day Quest assists each person in making a meaningful,
successful passage through a transition, crisis, or phase of life.The first four
days are spent in preparation for the Quest, including instruction in the phases
of initiation, the four shields model of Self and psyche, archetypes and
allegories of the heroic journey, emergency and survival procedures, the
dynamics of fasting, and instruction in self-initiated ceremony. During the
Quest, each participant spends four days and nights alone, fasting on the earth.
The last three days include a celebratory feast, elders' council, and other
rituals to ground and integrate the lessons gained. Fee: Before June 15: $550;
Before July 15: $650. Before August 15: $750. Request brochure for more
information. A phone interview with Sparrow Hart is required. Ideally,
participants should sign up a month in advance in order to prepare for the
journey. Sparrow Hart has led over forty Vision Quests for individuals and small
groups in Vermont, New Mexico, and California. He is founder of Circles of Air
and Stone in Putney, VT, a program devoted to empowering people through rites of
passage and initiation. As counselor, teacher, and workshop leader, he has
worked for over twenty years to integrate modern and indigenous therapeutic
approaches to personal transformation. He is creator of numerous workshops
including the Mythic Warrior training for men. Sponsored by The Dreamwheel, 191
Sudbury Road, Concord, MA 01742 (978) 369-2634 E-mail: Dreamwheel@compuserve.com
>>>>>> Book Review: Recurring Dreams: A Journey to Wholeness
by Kathleen Sullivan
1998, Crossing Press
ISBN 0-89594-892-3
Recurring Dreams, in the words of its author, is not an autobiography, but a
"dreamography", which "tells about the restoration of a human life through the
workings of a dream." In 1980, Kathleen Sullivan began a journey of
transformation; a journey which was catalyzed by a single powerful and
disturbing dream which refused to be returned, unexamined, to the world of
sleep. Launched into a process of inner exploration by her need to unravel the
dream's meaning, she began to notice that a mysterious character was repeatedly
appearing in her dreams. This character was, on a literal level, a forgotten
acquaintance she had gone to high school with many years before. On a deeper
level, however, Victor Biento represented an important and undeveloped aspect of
her psyche. Over the next 16 years. as her relationship with this dream
character evolved and changed, so, too, did her relationship with herself. Her
dreams became not only a tool for personal growth and guidance, but a spiritual
discipline which began to permeate all areas of her life.
Told in an anecdotal and chronological fashion, and interspersed with
theoretical information and excellent dream working exercises, Recurring Dreams
is a finely woven mix of insightful experience, psychological theory and
practical suggestions for dreamers to enrich their relationship with themselves
through their dreams.
>>>>>> Awaken 98 New Dream Software
Using the metaphor of a two sided dream notebook, Awaken 98 contains up to seven
pages for recording and analyzing dreams. Pages include those for describing the
dream, recording the dream, searching for symbols, general questions as well as
personal reflective questions about the dream, interpretation of the dream, and
ways to honor the dream. Any page can be easily hidden or shown as desired so
that the process can be simplified to any desired depth of analysis. Awaken 98
is highly configurable in many other ways.
Key features of Awaken 98 include:
Wizards for stepping through the entire dream analysis process or in just
filling out one page.
A symbol dictionary which is fully editable and contains icons for each
symbol.
Personal associations can be made to any symbol and are kept as part of the
symbol dictionary.
Pages with extensive text editing use the Rich Text Format, which allows the
setting of different fonts, colors, styles, paragraph indentation, borders
and the embedding of pictures in a single page.
Password protection and encryption of files and database for protection of
privacy.
Super search capabilities allows for searches through all of the notebooks
with the ability to target any or all pages and to use synonyms as well.
Browse through the notebooks by one of many factors, including feelings,
categories, incubation questions, symbols, personal issues and of course date
and title.
Drag and drop toolbars.
Master lists which can be easily edited for questions, categories, feelings,
and other items.
A trial version is available at www.awake-software.com or www.awaken98.com. On-
line tours show typical screen shots of Awaken 98 in action. Awaken 98 is priced
at US$34.95 for the floppy disk version. An electronic downloadable version will
be available for a price of US$29.95. Technical support via email is provided
free with all orders. More info is also available at www.awake-software.com
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>>>>>> Help a Dream Student .
I am sending you this email in search of some useful and exciting information
about dreams. I am currently a student at California State University of San
Bernardino, and I am enrolled in a Philosophy class, which has directed us to
search for information about dreams. I was hoping to receive some useful
information about the following: Why do we dream? Can we dream while we are
awake? What happens in our minds when we dream?
And any other information that I can present to the class. If you would please
email me back, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely, Jennifer O'Kelley jokelley@acme.csusb.edu
>>>>>> Dreams of Fish, Worms, Wolves, Cats and Salamanders
I am collecting dreams for a book! Any dreams you might like to share of fish,
worms, wolves, cats and salamanders, and also numinous dreams of any kind would
be welcome. Series of any of these would be especially interesting. Please tell
your dream(s) and then a little about what that symbol means for you. If you
wish to show the work you have done, including drawings, to arrive at that
meaning(s),that would be great, too, though not necessary. Several meanings for
a particular symbol are OK, since dreams are many-layered. I would also like to
know how old you were when you had each dream. You can email me patkamp@pacbell.netor use the online form
www.dreamgate.com/dream/kampmeier/
>>>>>> Dreams of Children or Early Childhood
I am looking for dreamers to participate in a qualitative research study. I am
specifically looking for dreams of children or dreams remembered from early
childhood. It does not
matter if they are pleasant or scary. I am working on an innovative parenting
program, and I am hoping to improve parent /child relationships through the
sharing of dreams.
wilddreams@email.msn.com or visit my website at http://www.wilddream.com. Thanks! Lynn.
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Do you know of interesting new websites you'd like to share with others? Or do
you have updates to existing pages? Help spread the word by using the Electric
Dreams DREAM-LINK page
www.dreamgate.com/dream/resources/online97.htm. This is really a public projects board and
requires that everyone keep up his or her own link URLs and information. Make a
point to send changes to the links page to us.
>>>>>> The Dream and the Enlightenment Corrected URL
http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/EUROL/kongresse/dream/dreamwelcome.htm
An international collection of references to texts on dreams from the
enlightenment. A wonderful research tool.
>>>>>> The Endless Dreamer
www.endlessdreamer.com
Personal Life consulting for women and spiritual holidays which include dream
related inner work.
>>>>>> Sleep Research Site:
Includes some famous classic dream articles:
http://sommeil.univ-lyon1.fr/index_e.html
http://sommeil.univ-lyon1.fr/index_e.html
The Four Great Dreamers
http://sommeil.univ-lyon1.fr/articles/ecn63/ecn63.html
A Study of the Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Dreaming, M. Jouvet and D.
Jouvet
http://sommeil.univ-lyon1.fr/articles/pbrjou65/contents.html
Paradoxical Sleep - A Study of its Nature and Mechanisms , M. Jouvet
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July 4 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Jesse Reklaw, illustrator for Slow Wave, the weekly dream-comic strip, will
attend the Small Press in Ottawa eXpo on Saturday, July 4th 1998. Come have your
dream sketched and meet other talented creators of small press and indie comix,
zines and chapbooks. Day of Show Admission: $1.00. Show Hours: 10am 'til 5pm.
Location: National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. More information:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4758/SmallPOX.html
July 18 in Berkeley, CA
Intuitive Healing Accessing Your Inner Physician, a workshop which includes
dream analysis, body scanning and imagery. 10am 4pm. Fee $85. For more
information, contact Marcia Emery at (510) 526-5510 or by email,
PowerHunch@aol.com.
Jul 19 Aug 22 in Oakland, CA
"Dream Art", an exhibition of art inspired by dreams. For more information,
contact the Center for Visual Arts, 713 Washington Street, Oakland CA 94607,
(510) 451-6300
Hours Wed-Fri 10-6.
July 10-19 at Stanford, CA
"Dreaming and Awakening" A special residential training program in lucid
dreaming and Tibetan dream yoga to be held on the Stanford University campus,
with Dr. Stephen LaBerge and Dr. Alan Wallace. For more information, contact the
Lucidity Institute (tel: +1-650-321-9969, email: dt@lucidity.com) or visit the
website at http://www.lucidity.com
July 8 and 22 in Pittsburgh, PA
The Dream Workshop will meet at 7 p.m. on Wednesday July 8 and 22 at 4836
Ellsworth Avenue (Friends Meeting House), Pittsburgh 15213.
July 20-24 in Berkeley, CA
Week-long Seminar with Jeremy Taylor, Graduate Theological Union Cooperative
Summer Term. Seminar on the dream group process and spirituality. Contact Bula
Madison at (510) 849-8235 or visit the website at www.jeremytaylor.com
July 25 in San Jose, CA
Fly-by-Night Club and Bay Area Dreamworker's Group "Fly-In and Play Day". For
more information, contact Linda Lane Magallon, 408-266-5397 or email
caseyflyer@aol.com.
July 26-Aug 1 in Debenneville Pines, CA
Week-long workshop with Jeremy Taylor at the Unitarian/Univ. Religious Ed Family
Week in San Bernardino Natl. Forest. Contact: Erin Fitzgerald at (562) 498-5623
for more information, or visit the website at www.jeremytaylor.com.
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