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for the dreamer. So the dream
follows the rule that
seldom, if ever, can a single dream be worked
through
in isolation.
Here is the dream:
"There
is a lot of moving around. The
action finally
settles in the front hall of
my house. There is a slim,
well-dressed, mousy sort of character who is trying to
kill
me. He is using a fork-like implement with four
tines and
a wire mesh shield. He never actually attacks me with
the
fork, only with the shield as though trying to hit me with it.
At some time, I become aware of knowing he is the Devil.
"After a long struggle, I
manage to take the fork away
from him. I finally subdue him by pinning the shield,
and
him, to the wooden floor with the fork. It's
hard to get it
into the floor, but I know it's important to push it in
as far
as it will go.
"I am kneeling over
him and I want to use the Latin
phrase meaning, 'Satan, leave this person!' but I can't
get
any further than 'Satanus ...' So I
say, in English, 'Satan,
Lord of Darkness, Lord of Fire, leave this person!' I
also
make the sign of the
cross twice: once as a person
crossing himself, and once using the exaggerated
motion
a priest uses when he absolves or blesses a congregation.
"Then there is peace.
The man lifts his head and sits
up, no longer possessed, and starts
to leave. As he is
going out the door, I say to him,
'George (my deceased
father-in-law), the only way you
can prevent this from
happening again is to face the little things
as they come
up.' "
Simple
message, simply stated: It's going to be Hell
if you don't face up to your Shadow in small ways
every
day. It seems to compensate a
conscious attitude of
the dreamer that if things which are
unpleasant can be
forgotten, they will go away. But the dream has
gone to
elaborate lengths to convey this message, and so
it may
be possible to use the details to find out what this moral
means not only to the dreamer, but to us all.
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