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DREAMING TO
HEAL OUR LIVES
In
our dreams, we have access to a personal doctor who makes house calls,
provides an impeccable diagnosis of our physical, emotional and spiritual
condition, and doesn’t charge a cent. If we are not in touch with our
dreams, we are missing out on a tremendous resource for self-healing. Here’s
why...how to bring the energy and magic of dreams
into daily life, in four easy steps.
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THE CARTHORSES OF
CREATIVITY:
Breakthrough Science on the Clapham Omnibus
One
of the most famous, and most controversial, dreams in the history of science
is the dream that revealed the shape of the benzene ring to German chemist
August Kekulé (1829-1896). Was it a sleep
dream, or an image that came in a lightly altered state of consciousness?
 I went back to
Kekulé’s own account, in his writeup of the
extempore speech he gave at the 1890 Benzolfest many years after his
visions, and compared rival translations of his remarks in German. Something
that struck me immediately was that his perception of the “dance” of
chemical elements was not a one-off affair. He described a similar
experience seven years earlier that gave rise to his theory of chemical
structures. He made it clear that in years between the two visions he had
developed a practice of seeing or thinking in visual imagery. [more]
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| THE QUOTABLE
DREAMER
A Patriot in His Dreams
“The
night before the Russo-German pact was announced I dreamed that the war
had started. It was one of those dreams which, whatever Freudian inner
meaning they may have, do sometimes reveal to you the real state of your
feelings. It taught me two things, first, that I should be simply
relieved when the long-dreaded war started, secondly, that I was
patriotic at heart, would not sabotage or act against my own side, would
support the war, would fight in it if possible. I came down-stairs to
find the newspaper announcing Ribbentrop's flight to Moscow.”
- George Orwell, “My Country
Right or Left” (1940)
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