Dreamways

"Millions of Chinese-made toys have been pulled from shelves in North America and Australia after scientists found they contain a chemical that converts into a powerful 'date rape‘ drug when ingested. Two children in the U.S. and three in Australia were hospitalized after swallowing the beads.“ ("Millions of Toy Beads Recalled; Covering Turns into 'Date Rape‘ Drug,“ The Denver Post, 08 Nov 07). This world affairs event reported in a news article sounds exlactly like the stuff of fairy tales and sleep nightmares.
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"Botox Appointments Faster Than for Moles, Study Finds“ reads the disturbing headline of a disturbing article by Natasha Singer in The New York Times (20 Aug 07). The article goes on to explain that a study published in The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology reported that "dermatologists in 12 cities offered a typical wait of eight days for a cosmetic patient wanting Botox to smooth wrinkles, compared with a typical wait of 26 days for a patient requesting evaluation of a changing mole, a possible indication of skin cancer.“  read more »

As mentioned earlier, the practice of active imagination includes coming into relationship to the full spectrum of one's self. The African Ancestors helped me to do this by teaching me to focus my attention in much the way a camera's zoom lens functions. Thus I was able to gain perspective via the panoramic view and then engage more objectively during the face to face encounters with my various shadows.

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Man Douses Co-Worker at Disney World with Gasoline. (Orlando, Fla.) A tussle between two workers in the hippo pond at Walt Disney World’s Animal kingdom early Thursday morning ended with one man doused in gasoline and the other in jail, accoring to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. The two men, employees of a Disney contractor, got into an arugment while cleaning the pond ..  read more »

Working at Tang’s Imports in Boulder when I was an undergrad at CU: I’ve never much thought about that job. But last night I was visited by image upon image from that store. I saw the front area where the cash register was. The back of the store, with its huge windows opening onto the mall hallway and parking lot. The eagle’s nest office. D.L., the cute and ultra-neurotic manager. Doper cutie, J. and his bearded friend, whose name I forget.  read more »

The dream world journey presented in the second volume of Neil Gaiman's Sandman series (The Sandman: The Doll’s House, 1995. New York: DC Comics) opens with an African male initiation ceremony. At the close of the ceremony a warning is issued: „Love is no part of the dream-world. Love belongs to desire, and desire is always cruel.“ This seems a bit melodramatic, but these assertions are good food for thought. Perhaps the key question is: what is love?  read more »

"Pianist’s Widower Admits Fraud in Recordings Issued as His Wife’s" (The following excerpts are from an article by Alan Riding, The New York Times, 27 Feb 07, pg. B3) "The widower of a much-praised but little-known British pianist has admitted passing off recordings by other pianists as those of his ailing wife to win her the recognition that poor health had denied her, according to Gramophone, a British magazine.

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The Jungian-Senoi Dreamwork Manual by Strephon Kaplan-Williams. (1986. Berkeley: Journey Press). "One of the central values of dreamwork is developng a relationship to one's own inner authority. Dreams come from within, from one's own sources, and not from some outer authority, however knowledgeable. The dream, then, coupled with a dream-actualizing methodology, enables people to become self-determining and self-directing in their daily lives." (pg. 35)

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Starring Toby Jones, Daniel Craig, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Daniel, this movie is another telling of Truman Capote's story revolving around his book In Cold Blood. I had thought, after Phillip Seymour Hoffman's turn in Capote, that this second movie would be pointless. I was pleasantly surprised to see that this other revisioning of those people and events is quite interesting.

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EIROPA 2005

Par saknēm būt. Tai zemzemē, ne stars
Kur nenokāpj. Kur gaisma neieskatās.
Bez putna galotne. Bez lapām zars.
Bet dzīļu avots stīgas smalkā matā
Un nedrīkst pārtrūkt. Sakņu melnais darbs
Bez atelpas. (Pat ziemas miegs ir šķietams.)

Krāt. Barot. Dzirdināt. Būt mēmai saitei starp
Visrūgto nīcību un dzīvi. Baltam ziedam
Caur savu kroplo, neredzamo esmi
Dot saules gaviles un dailes spēku paust.

Par saknēm būt. Un ziedus neapskaust.

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