| Before Psychology and Religion, there was Us and | | | | Before greeting him, you ask Meeree, the best with |
| our Dreams - | | | | hides in the whole tribe, to make new extra strong |
| As we stand on the proscenium of the Future, in the | | | | special shoes for Jarboo. You sit down with her and |
| 21st Century's front door, it is useful to remember | | | | talk about his lame foot. This is sensitive and you ask |
| that Humans are not our things, not our technologies, | | | | her to make them in the context of the Special |
| not our web, nor our electronic codes. We are not | | | | Ceremony. She knows that these "boots" will help |
| the New Age. We are not all the research locked up | | | | him. Not only with the hunt, but also give him a new |
| in endless hard drives. We are ourselves. Our Psyche, | | | | look on a daily basis. She is a close cousin and |
| our Hearts and our Souls. We are walking around | | | | understands the tribal dynamics. She also likes Layluh |
| creatures who think and feel and get worn out at | | | | and thinks this might help that potential relationship. |
| the end of the day, then we lie ourselves down and | | | | Meeree also knows something. Layluh is pregnant by |
| sleep. And then by some recuperative magic, we | | | | Jarboo. It will be important for him to be honored. |
| billions, we "happy few" have dream lives that | | | | When you hear this, it does not completely surprise |
| somehow restore us so we can rise and do it all | | | | you, but it fits in with the Words of the Mammoth. |
| again. | | | | That Mammoth was definitely smart, even if it was |
| Dreams were at the dawn of Us. Before we had all | | | | not the Voice of the Great Spirit. |
| the above, we had our loves, our work, our incredible | | | | Omens - Bad and Good - |
| brains and our dreams. With those dreams, we | | | | You have been a Vivid Dreamer all your Life. You |
| explained the inexplicable to ourselves. With dreams | | | | come from a strong family in the Tribe, and you |
| we interpreted meaningful events and assigned | | | | have been known as a Great Hunter Family. |
| values and significances to mystery and confusing | | | | However, your Father dying of "Poison in the Gut" |
| outcomes. Dreams are the private little electronic | | | | was not a good Omen. Omens are funny. They are |
| exertions of our beings. Yes, that's how some might | | | | ways we have of making sense of the Unknowable. |
| look at them. I say dreams are the beginning of the | | | | A good Omen seems to build momentum for a |
| gods, the beginning of social continuity, the beginnings | | | | person or activity. A bad Omen gives a sense of |
| of psychology and astrology and predictive | | | | direction. Without formal religion, we pick up cues |
| statements and prophecy. Dreams are at the | | | | from Life and its many happenings. |
| nascient spark of all that we call human. Dreams | | | | Angels and Demons - |
| began science when science couldn't be even defined. | | | | Omens, good and bad get interpreted, the people |
| Dreams have been helping us since flint and will help | | | | are constantly doing this in their daily life. Everyone is |
| us with alternate realities! | | | | a Little Omen Maker for their own life. Omens don't |
| Look at those angels and demons, those scary | | | | come in little M&M drops, they seem to come in |
| apparitions on the edge of consciousness. Like scare | | | | flocks. People have noticed this forever. They say, "it |
| crows on the dusty highway, we stop and stare into | | | | seems to have a Meaning." Its how we get through, |
| the field of the night time side of us, and we smile as | | | | even if we have a highly evolved churched approach. |
| we shake. But alas, we have been dealing with angels | | | | Besides the good news/bad news events of individual |
| and demons and the unseen reason for the Manifest | | | | lives, the Tribe had its own set of good news/bad |
| World for ages. Let's look before science and | | | | news trends. Blessings and Cursings were events. |
| technology. When science was spear throwing and | | | | Long Term Trends of Blessings and Cursings were |
| making clothes, and technology was a really cool | | | | sent by Angels and Demons. All those stars up there |
| sharp stone Mammoth killer. | | | | were the gods of the universe and they were |
| The Mammoth Hunt at the Foot of the Glacier - | | | | dictating things. It was the job of Leadership and |
| Imagine the glow of a melting glacier, illuminated by a | | | | Shamanistic Interpretation to name and classify these |
| setting full moon in the predawn sky. Its Southern | | | | Angels and Demons. |
| France and, in the future, this will be called "10,000 | | | | Dreams - The Magical Language - |
| BC". | | | | Funny thing about dreams. Everybody has them. |
| You have a full stomach from a recent Mammoth | | | | Some you know you had, but immediately forget. |
| hunt, and your dreams were really vivid last night. | | | | Some you remember for a moment and then they |
| You stand up and stretch and check out your fellow | | | | disappear, Some you can remember with effort. |
| tribe members. The assembled are all safe and in | | | | Some are unforgettable. The language of dreams is |
| deep sleep. You grab a piece of meat from the spit, | | | | not immediately discernible. Symbols, visions, talking |
| still being warmed by the smouldering fire of last | | | | animals, images that meld into other images. Total |
| evenings festivities. You throw your bear fur over | | | | strangers, lovers, friends, and mute humans -- it goes |
| your shoulder. Since everyone else is asleep, you | | | | on and on. Literally anything can happen in a dream, |
| quietly move to a rise nearby and contemplate the | | | | and its own context, dreams always seem to have |
| festival of starry lights blazing in every part of the | | | | their own logic, even though the Dream Logic can |
| night sky. Vincent Van Gogh's starry night was dim | | | | change too. |
| compared to the fiery illumination you see above you. | | | | Dreams seem appropriate to the Receiver. We are |
| There is no TV news to wake you up. Or rush hour | | | | both the Author and the Audience to our Dreams. |
| traffic to contemplate. Your dream, that | | | | The personalization of a dream makes it automatically |
| unforgettable, other worldly experience you had last | | | | important or significant to the Dreamer because you |
| night is still got its grip on you. You look over your | | | | are the best authority on your own dreams. Dream |
| shoulder without thinking about it, because the | | | | Interpretation is an Art that is probably more ancient |
| spectre of the 10 tusked Mammoth of your dream | | | | that we can imagine, though it is now a rare |
| might just be real. You smile at yourself as you | | | | formalized experience that few people use or ask |
| realize - "It was just a dream." That's the first thing | | | | for. But back 10,000 BC, dream interpretation |
| humans have been saying for aeons, and you say it | | | | probably was our main "entertainment" or "sermon", |
| too. The next thing you say to yourself: "I wonder | | | | or "secret message center". |
| what it means?" In your dreams your fellow hunters | | | | "I Dreamed About You Last Night!" - |
| all got away from the 10 tusked beast. You fell on | | | | "I had a dream about you last night." Now that was |
| your back as you saw your mate crying for you afar | | | | how your mate first started flirting with you back |
| off. | | | | when you were camping near the Cote D'Azur on |
| The Big Dream - | | | | the Med. She threw a rock into the sea, and you |
| The Mammoth stopped and stood over you. You | | | | watched her body move with a new appreciation. |
| thought you would be instantly crushed, but you | | | | Somehow that statement had a bunch of meanings |
| were not. It stood over you and cried. "I gave you | | | | at once, but it was a simple statement. Kind of magic |
| my life. I travelled over mountain passes far north of | | | | actually, because the relationship started cooking |
| here and ate from a thousand places, just so your | | | | after that. There is SO MUCH electronic noise in our |
| family could eat me." You are still on your back and | | | | modern world, it is virtually impossible to imagine |
| you touch one of the tusks. | | | | what life used to be like for our human family. For |
| "I could kill you right now, but I don't. My spirit is now | | | | thousands of years the electronic firings of our |
| in your whole tribe. You have great glory because | | | | dream sleep were the TV/Entertainment of our |
| you killed me. They call you the "Great Hunter" now, | | | | world. Oh yeah, and add in God's Voice, and |
| all because you figured out a way to back me off | | | | Romantic Imaginings and Funny Visions that made |
| that little cliff. Yeah, it was smart of you, but it | | | | you blush or giggle all day long. Dreams were a Big |
| wasn't that great. I was distracted actually by all | | | | Time part of life, not just the flittering simple fanciful |
| those screaming hunters and that one sharp spear | | | | snatched vision pushed away by the rock and roll DJ |
| that stuck in my eye. It was Jarboo's long shot that | | | | on the alarm clock morning show. |
| actually did the trick. Sure you were the Leader of | | | | There is an emotional psychical component to |
| the Hunt, but you know you didn't deserve the | | | | dreams. Dreams are seldom simple problem solvers, |
| credit. Jarboo is a great spear thrower, and he never | | | | but they often have confusing, emotionally charged |
| gets the credit he should get because he has that | | | | imagery like the Mammoth talking. Dismiss the feelings |
| lame leg and its hard for him to keep up in the | | | | in dreams and you are cutting yourself off from Your |
| frenzy of the hunt. But, once Jarboo catches up, he | | | | Own Core. Dreams are the Silent Part of You nudging |
| plants that shriveled little left foot and hurls with | | | | you, shoving you, suggesting things to you. The loud |
| great accuracy. You guys have to stop making fun | | | | Ego and the Voice of Busyness sometimes get a |
| of him. He is very valuable to your tribe. The others | | | | voice, but often do not. |
| don't like the way he can't handle all the chores, but | | | | "I had a dream about you last night" also declares: |
| they forget that he is very kind to the old ones. The | | | | "This is topical." It's an immediate message - a text |
| kids follow along with him because he is slower, but | | | | message from deep within about the most recent |
| they like him. He has a sense of humor. And the | | | | pulsation of your Soul. |
| wives and girls say he is charming, but not offensive. | | | | The World of Duality - "Oh that's not good, or could |
| You know what I mean?" The Mammoth shook his | | | | it be...?" |
| head with an ironic twinkle. | | | | You have been thinking, as you watch the patterns |
| "Well, I want to thank you for telling me all this". You | | | | in life that nothing stays good and bad forever, but |
| kept on rehearsing the dream in your head, now that | | | | the Shamans are right -- everything is cyclical. Your |
| you were fully awake, but still in complete memory | | | | dream helped you stop in a moment in time to see |
| of it. The Mammoth with 10 tusks went on: "You | | | | the complexity in back of it all. Not only is life Cyclical, |
| must honor my Spirit and praise the Lame One - | | | | there is a powerful role that Choice makes. Because |
| Jarboo." Remember your Father. He died suddenly | | | | of individual choice, it seems that the Human Will is |
| from Poison in the Gut. He ate for three nights in a | | | | not completely subject to the Angels or the Demons. |
| row and did not share the food properly with the | | | | You start your speech to the Village. You want to |
| Stinky Family. Just because they are Stinky and | | | | cover lots of issues and make it memorable to |
| Obnoxious does not mean they don't contribute to | | | | everyone. "The Tribe has been watching Jarboo for |
| the Tribe. I think your Father was cursed by the | | | | many years. Sometimes we thought to ourselves, |
| Great Spirit for not properly distributing the meat. | | | | why can't that Kid keep up. When he was really |
| You don't want to suffer the same fate. Otherwise | | | | young people would pass him around on their |
| you could be known as the "Son of the Chief Who | | | | shoulders, when the Tribe would move. He would |
| Died from Poison in the Gut" Not a good Omen. And | | | | take a little bag of rocks along with him, as he was |
| that's how you figure things out down here -- with | | | | carried on people's shoulders. Well, some people out |
| Good and Bad Omens. | | | | there thought he was cursed with a bad omen, or |
| "Now Jarboo, you know, except for his lame left | | | | even that a Demon pushed him into that old tree. I |
| foot, he is quite a great guy. Besides, your daughter | | | | think that's how most people thought of him. They |
| Layluh, she gets very stimulated in his presence. And | | | | felt bad for him because of his problem. And you |
| he likes her attention, but has always treated her | | | | know, he had an automatic excuse for the rest of |
| with respect. He would take great care of Layluh, | | | | his life for not being able to keep up. But we all know |
| and he isn't cursed with that left foot. If he becomes | | | | what he ended up doing. |
| your Son in Law, his children should be normal. | | | | When the hunters gathered for the big effort, |
| Besides, you know Layluh is not the most glowingly | | | | Jarboo would listen, but everyone knew he just |
| attractive of the tribal girls, and she has that funny | | | | wouldn't be there for most of the hunt. But they also |
| voice. The big guys respect her, but she doesn't | | | | knew he would keep up for the Coup de Grace. |
| have the greatest following. | | | | Jarboo made a shot that no one could believe - right |
| Tribal Decisions, Spiritual Insights, Fateful Moves - | | | | straight into the eye. It sent the big boy down the |
| A few minutes later, after contemplating the Big | | | | cliff like a rock! Let us honor Jarboo because he |
| Dream over again, you make your way back to the | | | | worked his whole life turning a Bad Omen into a |
| camp. People are stirring. You kiss your mate who is | | | | Good Omen. The angels smiled down on him and the |
| cutting a piece of breakfast off for you. You have a | | | | Demons lost their power, because Jarboo lived his life |
| new sense of sharing because of the Big Dream and | | | | the way he lived it." |
| you are on a Mission. You mozy over to Joe, the | | | | It looks like you will be moving North this summer. |
| Shaman. You give him that warm piece of meat. You | | | | Great dreams have shown that you must listen to |
| don't tell Joe the Shaman about the Big Dream, | | | | the Bidding of the Great Spirit. You decide to |
| because he gets jealous when you talk about your | | | | commune with your Mammoth tonight, maybe he will |
| Dreams. | | | | give you some more insight. This dream has turned |
| You make your way toward Jarboo and his people. | | | | into a personal religion. And so the story starts. |
| Jarboo is a cool guy. You look at him in a new way. | | | | |