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provide for the vital uniqueness of the individual It
is
exciting to find subscribers'
dreams raising this
question right from the
start; for it is also the
question posed by the "Sundance
Experiment." (See
page 108.)
One dream does suggest
that the contrast between
the individual and the group
is not necessarily a
problem:
The dance works just as well with my backward
steps as it does with the regular steps.
Perhaps future
dreams will provide us with further inspiration.
At this early stage
of our experimental journal, it
might be helpful to attend first to the question
posed
by one of the dreams: "Who
are we?"
Dreams are mysterious. And so, a journal
that is
alive to dreams will also be
somewhat mysterious.
This is partly because we
are still attempting to
articulate the nature of
the Journal; but more so
because it is not
completely a product of
our
conscious intelligence. The other day a woman
came
to say that the subscription brochure
for Sundance
was unclear to her and that
she didn't understand
what we were trying to do with the Journal.
She then
proceeded to relate several of
her dreams in which
she was spoken to in a variety
of foreign languages
she didn't understand, but how
in several instances
she had later learned that they contained
important
messages. She wanted to know if
anyone had ever
heard of such a thing. We
told her about Alissa
Goldring's request (appearing in this issue) to receive
just the kind of story she had
to tell Thus, although
the woman did not
consciously understand the
purpose of the Journal, at some other level she did.
This incident reminds us of
one of our subscriber's
dreams, in which the dreamer received a
bouquet of
flowers from the ship's steward only to discover
that
she had received not one,
but two bouquets. She
wondered if both were for her.
Perhaps the second
bouquet is for her dreaming self.
And so with our
journal. Perhaps some of it will speak to us and
some
of it will speak to our dreams.
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