Things are never as bad as they seem So dream, dream, dream Johhny Mercer/Frank Sinatra Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Volume 5 Issue 6 Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams JUNE 1998 Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams Electric Dreams To subscribe to Electric Dreams Send from the address you want to subscribe to electric-dreams-request@lists.best.com And put in the body of the e-mail only: subscribe your-email To unsubscribe from Electric Dreams Send from the address you want to unsubscribe to electric-dreams-request@lists.best.com And put in the body of the e-mail only: unsubscribe your-email Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z E L E C T R I C D R E A M S Volume 5 Issue #6 28 June 1998 ISSN# 1089 4284 Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z Electric Dreams on the World Wide Web USA www.dreamgate.com/electric-dreams AU www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mettw/edreams/ Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z -- Send Dreams and Comments on Dreams to: Bob Krumhansl --Send Dreaming News and Calendar Events to: Peggy Coats --Send Articles and Subscription concerns to: Richard Wilkerson: --For back issues, editors addresses and other access & Staff see ELECTRIC DREAMS ACCESS INFORMATION at the end of this issue Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z Get this issue with graphics by subscribing to edreams-web-request@lists.best.com Put in body of email only: subscribe your-email Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z=Z 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 ++ 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! XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX JULY 17, FRI deadline for submission FOR Next Electric Dreams vol 5(6) XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Editor's Notes +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ 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 subscribe your-email (change your-email to your own email address) 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 browser offline for quick and easy reading! Subscribe by sending TO: edreams-web-request@lists.best.com Put in body of email only: subscribe your-email You can see the latest issue online at http://wkweb4.cableinet.co.uk/dma/ed/start.htm 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 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 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Dream Airing Notes, letters to the editor Send to rcwilk@aolcom +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From Patricia Kampmeier 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Electric Dreams Cover Artist: Bryan A. Smith 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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. To subscribe to ed-core and discuss dreams with Tony, send To: ed-core-request@lists.best.com In the body of your email put only subscribe your-email ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Lucidity Institute has a new email newsletter You can subscribe at: http://www.lucidity.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= DREAM TREK By Linda Lane Magallon Play Day In The Dream State =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= 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. _______________________________________________ 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. . =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= "Levels of Dreaming" Extract from "Sleep On It and Change Your Life", by Jane Anderson, pub HarperCollins Australia, 1994 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= 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. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Signs of Simulation, Symbols beyond Value Jean Baudrillard and Grassroots Dreamwork in Cyberspace. Richard Catlett Wilkerson +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= 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. . 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). +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ " DIVINE MESSAGES " " DIVINE RE-TURN CONTINUED" Dr. Deus +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ 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 Caesar’s 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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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. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< W E B S I T E & O N L I N E U P D A T E S <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< 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 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< D R E A M C A L E N D A R July 1998 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<|||||||>>>>>>>>>>>|||||<<<<<<<<<<<< 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. 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