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you now because of a coincidental dream that
recently
came to my attention. The dream was sent
to me by a
subscriber who is a member of a dream study
group. It
was dreamed by another
member on the day
our
subscriber brought the first issue of the
Journal to the
attention of the group. Here is the dream:
I
am sitting on top of a very tall flagpole, calling out
to
people surrounding the pole the correct botanical
names
of the flowers each is carrying and
telling them exactly
where to plant them.
The
group recognized the imagery of the
Sundance
motif in the dream but had no way of suspecting its close
parallel to my fantasy story. The timing of the dream and
its content form a double-level, meaningful coincidence.
Such synchronistic events will characterize,
I believe,
the pursuit of the Sundance Experiment.
In explaining the
Sundance motif in my first essay, I
mentioned that an important dimension to the motif
is a
concern for the regeneration of plant life, a concern
for
the Earth in Her life-giving capacity. It
was with some
surprise and pleasure that I received the following letter,
with diagram, from one of our participating subscribers:
Dear
Journal:
While
reading the article on
the Sundance
Experiment, I could not help but notice the remarkable
resemblance of the Sundance theme to the carbon ring
in the chlorophyll molecule, which is the
basis of all
physical life on earth. This ring traps sunlight, raises
electrons to higher energy levels, and does
the work
of plant photosynthesis—food production.
This is a
literal Sundance phenomenon. While
the diagram
given is greatly oversimplified, there are
twelve key
carbon atoms, roughly approximating
a circle, with
one magnesium atom in the center. Electrons, excited
by sunlight and raised to a higher energy level, rotate
through the ring. Some higher energy
electrons rise
free and perform the work of photosynthesis.
(Robert
L. Stives, Brea, California)
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