Category Archives: Dreams
Heaven: Many Hints, One Hypothesis (“Paging Dr. Hawking”)
“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” Perhaps the most distinguished … Continue reading
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The Power of Synchronicity (“Mind-Releasing & Community-Building”)
When Swiss psychiatrist C.G. Jung wrote his 1952 essay “Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle” he provided several examples of the experiences he called synchronicities. Sometimes also referred to as “meaningful coincidence” or “acausal parallelism” synchronicity generally involves three ingredients: a) … Continue reading
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The Individual & Community (“The Interpretation of a Dream”)
On the morning of September 13, 2005, Deborah Louis woke up in her Texas home dreaming of an image. She reached for her pen and jotted it down, later transferring it to her computer. She also wrote down a … Continue reading
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The Interpretation of Dreams (“In the Aftermath of Tucson V”)
“And certainly we should take care not to make the intellect our god…” [1] Readers familiar with the phenomenon of dreams and dreaming may be forgiven if they immediately assume that this post’s title was inspired by Sigmund Freud’s trailblazing … Continue reading
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In the Aftermath of Tucson IV (“The Tree of Life”)
Both a legend from the Bible and a dream from one of the 20th century’s more infamous murderers were compared in last week’s post to dreams and visions of alleged Tucson shooter Jared Loughner. In all cases, it would seem … Continue reading
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