tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post1924966522693405212..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Lucy in the Sky with DanteGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42925038876003000782011-04-18T08:52:31.562-07:002011-04-18T08:52:31.562-07:00Lucy? Why not Lucid?Lucy? Why not <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream" rel="nofollow"><i>Lucid</i></a>?Brazentidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14185966349888770222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-82731909225700379042011-04-08T07:52:47.805-07:002011-04-08T07:52:47.805-07:00Will said "if we think the emotions and feeli...Will said "if we think the emotions and feelings in our dreams are intense, imagine the intensity of purgatorial/heavenly dreams."<br /><br />Careful of which side of the bed you wake up on.<br /><br />Philmon, did you link to Alan Parsons Project of Poe's "Dream within a dream"? I can't run the link here... if not, a fun one to hunt up.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4099089214296117602011-04-08T07:46:43.049-07:002011-04-08T07:46:43.049-07:00"Surely the angel/birds represent the higher ..."Surely the angel/birds represent the higher consciousness through which we are vigilant, and with which we "watch and pray." For there are beasts hiding within our garden, and which require a kind of night vision in order to see them. But once seen, they scatter. They are unable to endure the glance -- the glancing blow -- from on high."<br /><br />It's not enough to be Sitting in an English Garden Waiting for the Sun, seek it, and you shall be found, dei or knight.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3497439410325750412011-04-07T20:00:06.826-07:002011-04-07T20:00:06.826-07:00"I told you 'bout Strawberry Hill
You kno..."I told you 'bout Strawberry Hill<br />You know the place where nothing is real"<br /><br />So 'es dead, is 'e?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZyNKrYo9I4" rel="nofollow">A dream within a dream.</a>philmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10385793223534322848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-3734428627387727512011-04-07T16:48:27.179-07:002011-04-07T16:48:27.179-07:00As for nightmares, that is a small taste of hell/p...<i>As for nightmares, that is a small taste of hell/purgatory, and is again one we can't experience in waking life. Dreams have a quality of emotion all their own. </i><br /><br />Finally catching up today, indeed they do. Interesting point about the taste of hell/ purgatory. I hadn't thought of them that way, but of course you're right.<br /><br />Much food for thought today.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26588608122128901022011-04-07T15:56:19.202-07:002011-04-07T15:56:19.202-07:00Indeed I have seen from extremely unrelated source...Indeed I have seen from extremely unrelated sources, from the Orthodox to the Buddhist, that there is a connection between dreams and the afterlife. <br /><br />I guess that makes sense, in so far as the dreams give us a good look at the content of our souls, some of which we otherwise go out of our way not to see. We may one day shrug off the body, but the accumulated thoughts and feelings may be harder to slough off. Especially if we have no idea where we are, as will probably happen to a large number of people.<br /><br />But what do I know, I have a hard time remembering most of my dreams, and I don't remember the otherworld at all.Magnus Itlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445902788427523461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-74760454431101565262011-04-07T14:10:22.332-07:002011-04-07T14:10:22.332-07:00>>Dante is able to safely fall off to sleep ...>>Dante is able to safely fall off to sleep and even to dream, where free to wander farther from the flesh / and less held fast by cares, our intellect's / envisionings become almost divine<<<br /><br />Purgatory itself being a dream, Dante's dream is a dream within a dream. By "dream" I don't mean something unreal, albeit it might be phantasmagoric. I think when we sleep and dream, our souls leave the body to an extent, though we are still tethered to the body. In a very real sense,we do enter another place that is populated with our own projections - there can be times, however, when that place is open to visitors, I believe, that are not purely our own projections. <br /><br />One thing I think marks the "other place-ness" of dreams is the quality of emotions and feelings that we are subject to in dreams. We can get a small taste of paradise in dreams, one that is not really accessable in waking consciousness. As for nightmares, that is a small taste of hell/purgatory, and is again one we can't experience in waking life. Dreams have a quality of emotion all their own. <br /><br />Dreams also tend to be either quite blissful or quite nightmarish, which is to say dreams really cut to the meta-chase.<br /><br />Imagine leaving the body all together - if we think the emotions and feelings in our dreams are intense, imagine the intensity of purgatorial/heavenly dreams.willnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-63159528443842881622011-04-07T11:55:15.161-07:002011-04-07T11:55:15.161-07:00RE: Dante's shortcut and bum trips
There'...RE: Dante's shortcut and bum trips<br /><br />There's an old "Twilight Zone" where John Astin plays a stoned hippie who dies suddenly and goes to hell. He's kind of excited about it, picturing all the snakes, fire and torture stuff from medieval woodcuts. <br /><br />Instead he winds up in a room with a square who looks like the man in "American Gothic" discussing potato bugs. There is, in the room, a record player -- a changer, in fact -- with a ridiculously huge stack of records on it. The desperate hippie thinks he can at least listen to some music and starts the player that then can't be stopped. It's all Guy Lombardo records. <br /><br />He begins to weep concluding, "This is hell!" and screaming, "Bummer! Bummer! Bummer!"mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-32791612179662736172011-04-07T09:55:27.217-07:002011-04-07T09:55:27.217-07:00Haven't read yet, but had to share this. I was...Haven't read yet, but had to share <a href="http://sippicancottage.blogspot.com/2011/04/long-languid-heartfelt-plea-launched.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>. I was curious about the girl; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&v=-J8sSXO9VWk&annotation_id=annotation_261201" rel="nofollow">her video is here</a>, and worth a watch all on its own.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5867084656354457762011-04-07T09:33:57.573-07:002011-04-07T09:33:57.573-07:00I'll just ride in the back with my tail in the...I'll just ride in the back with my tail in the clouds. Carryon..Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33388611245303241402011-04-07T08:43:19.944-07:002011-04-07T08:43:19.944-07:00lucky in the sky
wv Aminta
lotsa diff things<a href="http://gorightly.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/3-lucy-in-the-sky-with-diamonds-julian-lennon.jpg" rel="nofollow">lucky in the sky</a><br /><br />wv Aminta<br />lotsa diff thingsgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.com