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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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