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dancing  with  the  two  frog legs dangling down.  She says
that  she really wants that pin and  I  feel relieved.  I  help
her look for more like it, as it only costs $3.
     The  jewelry store also  carries  children's  coloring/cut-
out books.  I  flip  through one  of  them  and  see that you
have  to color the pictures,  cut them  out  and  paste them
together  to  make  a  complete  picture.  I  think  that this
might  be  difficult  for  younger  children.   Perhaps  these
should  be  sold  to  adults.  Perhaps  they  should  make a
simplified version for children.
(J.B., Sterling, Virginia)

COMMENTARY ON THE DREAMS

     We  who  discussed  these dreams were impressed by
them.  The dreams intimate  the potential (both good and
bad) of  experimental publication.  They  reveal the inner
questioning that seems prompted by the invitation of the
Sundance    experiment;    the   invitation    to   share,   to
cooperate, to recognize Oneness;  the invitation to know
Self.  The dreams seem  to know what we can only guess.
     Recalling   the  themes  found   in   the  collection  of
dreams in the first issue of the Journal,  we find similar
themes  here.  For  instance,  the  images  of  dancing, of
circles,   of   meetings   and   gatherings   are   becoming
familiar.  There  is  again   the   theme   of   the   possible
conflict of interest between the individual  and the group.
Perhaps the sense of conflict has intensified, for we find
more  than  one  mention of  persecution  of  "outsiders."
We  also  find  the  theme of  uncertainty ("
Who are we?"
was  the way a dream  in  our  first  collection expressed
it): the "group with  no  name," the "unseen host,"  and the
"blind driver."
     Some  of  the   dreams   demonstrate   the   archetypal
patterns  associated  with  the Sundance experiment. The
image  of "men carrying a tree with a forked branch"  is a
common  theme  in  the  tree rite ceremonies, such as in

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