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The Third Reich of Dreams
by Frank Berube
“Lose your dreams and you will lose your mind.”
Ruby Tuesday, The Rolling Stones
The dreamer is describing not only how one comes to accept conditions as
they are but also the state of mind in which such acceptance grows. This
consists of a readiness to be deceived and a tendency to construct alibis
for oneself; once one has been conditioned long enough by the right
combination of pressure and propaganda, he has become so receptive and
malleable that all will to resist disappears.
During the 1930’s, Nazi Germany’s rise to totalitarian power was well under
way. Warning signs of the terror to come was being felt by increasing
numbers of people. Among them was a young woman of great courage and
insight. Charlotte Beradt recorded and collected people’s dreams about the
Nazi government’s domination of their lives; dreams that tell of the painful
political realities of the emerging Nazi State. In his essay at the
conclusion of the volume, published in 1966, Bruno Bettelheim remarked that
it was a shocking experience reading this book of dreams and seeing how
effectively the Nazis murdered sleep, “forcing its enemies to dream dreams
that showed that resistance was impossible and that safety lay only in
compliance.”
The following dream was dreamt by a man in his 30’s living in Berlin during
the early years of Nazi rule. It demonstrates the potential of our
dreamworlds to produce stories that reflect the psycho-political conditions
under which we live. Something within us is registering these disturbing
vibrations and sending out signals of danger to the frightened conscious
mind.
The author of the dream was told by the Nazi authorities to report to the
Berlin Railway Station on a Sunday morning to collect money for the Party.
Before leaving he said to himself, “What the heck, I won’t be bothered.” So
he brought along a pillow and blanket — no collection box — and took it
easy.
After about an hour Hitler appeared, wearing high patent-leather boots,
dressed as a comical cross between a circus clown and a lion tamer. The
dreamer watched Hitler use exaggerated, artificial gestures to win the
hearts of schoolchildren. Then he adopted a stern attitude as he lectured a
group of older boys and girls. At last he turned to impress a group of old
maids by acting coquettish. Suddenly the dreamer began to feel uncomfortable
under his blanket. He grew afraid that Hitler would notice that he had no
collection box — he might be recognized as one of “the group of those who
pretend to sleep.” If caught, he imagined confronting Hitler and telling him
that he doesn’t approve of concentration camps.
Hitler continued his appearances around the station with different groups of
people, and the dreamer was amazed to see that no one seemed to be afraid of
him. He noticed that someone even kept a cigarette in his mouth while
talking with him, and many more were smiling! After completing his stint at
the station, he picked up his pillow and blanket and went down the main
stairway in the station. Then the dreamer saw Hitler standing at the top of
the stairs, concluding his appearance with a song from the imaginary opera,
Magica, making extremely theatrical gestures, which had the crowd
mesmerized. Everybody applauded. He bowed and then went tearing down the
stairs, looking foolish in his purple trousers and holding his trainer’s
whip. Hitler passed by with no bodyguards and stood in line at the cloakroom
like everyone else, waiting patiently to get his coat. At this point the
dreamer thought, “Maybe he’s not so bad after all. Maybe I needn’t take the
trouble to oppose him.” All at once he realized that instead of a pillow and
blanket, he was carrying a collection box.
This dreamer sees Hitler as a manipulator par excellence — an animal
trainer — and yet the big act that Hitler puts on works in the end: the
dreamer begins to feel that things are not half bad and maybe he doesn’t
have to worry about Hitler after all. Winston Smith, sipping his Victory Gin
with tears of gratitude in his eyes, reached a similar conclusion about Big
Brother, although he got there by a different route. The average person
struggling with their conscience in the face of dehumanizing conditions, is,
like Orwell’s hero, “a hero who is basically neither good nor bad, up
against the effects of a political system which in the end leaves open but
one direction in which he can move — the one toward the movement.”
Individuals are embedded in a repressive psycho-political system, unable to
act independently or resist the forces that are propelling the motion of
society in the direction of Nazi domination.
The Third Reich of Dreams is a book that tells a compelling and revealing
story about the hidden side of WW II. It portrays how the German
subconscious mind was invaded by totalitarian fear as the Nazi’s plans
reached fever pitch during the 1930’s. The grooming of Hitler and his evil
cadre, the rise to power of the Nazi State, and the mobilization of the
country for Total War, were all carried out with cold-blooded determination
and ruthless precision by human beings whose very souls had been violated
and whose minds were controlled.
Beradt collected hundreds of dreams during 1933 through 1939, referring to
them as “diaries of the night,” providing a view into the inner world of
fear and confusion people were feeling as their personal integrity
disintegrated and their lives fell apart. The dreams she selected for the
book are drawn from the lives of ordinary people who found themselves
confronting the mental terror of The Third Reich during the early years of
the Nazi regime. These dreams show that this was a war on the human spirit.
It was secretly about capturing inner ground and blowing apart the national
psyche, destroying all the ground gained over centuries of psycho-spiritual
development, doing away with a whole generation of artists, writers, and
scientists, and burying the work of these creative people underneath the
rubble and ruin of Total War.
As American citizens who live in the land of the free and the home of the
brave, we should have learned from Nazi Germany that psychologically
terrified people can be pressured into giving up their democratic rights and
living in a police state, once their political power has been stolen from
them and their lives have been turned upside down. We now know that Nazi
propaganda was bolstered with psychotronic technology that fostered an
atmosphere of psycho-political terror, desensitizing feelings and thought
control. We have to remember that for over a decade, the frightened minds of
average German citizens were unable or unwilling to resist the insane
domination of Nazi terror, and so could not, or would not, think for
themselves and question authority. The horrifying things that were happening
were beyond anyone’s control, and so the public was swept along by
overpowering Nazi propaganda and State terror, too much in fear to object to
the abuse of power, or to do anything about the atrocities carried out
against Jews and Communists or others who threatened to undermine The Third
Reich.
The Nazis imprisoned and executed people whom they considered sub-human, and
those considered enemies of the State. Getting the public to accept this,
however tenuous their consent, is something not entirely explainable or
understandable by simply saying that Hitler hypnotized the masses. How can
human beings stand by and allow their government to enslave and kill people
in such a brutal manner and find an acceptable justification for it? Such
inhuman behavior cannot be explained merely in terms of people being numbed
into apathy for the fate of their fellow humans and allowing themselves to
be herded into the mass hysteria of a faceless mob. We must look for the
causes of this herd mentality beyond the explanation of “nationalistic
frenzy.” Racism and Ideology only go so far in explaining the soul-boggling
horror involved in their participation in mass slaughter. Patriotism and
Blood are the “front men” for the Nazi State, providing a vessel for the
forces of the collective unconscious to pour into.
It’s because of the work of renegade researchers and writers like Charlotte
Beradt that we are able to see beyond the conventional historical
perspective and open our minds to reviewing controversial material, and
hopefully coming to understand, however vaguely, the underground forces and
occult underpinnings of The Third Reich. Propaganda and state terror carried
the population along on a wave of animistic hysteria, with millions obeying
the rules and regulations of the Nazi mental status quo. Yet, Beradt writes,
“from the very beginning people from all walks of life and in all their fear
and anxiety were able, dreaming, to recognize the aims and principles of
totalitarianism and foresee their consequences, so that their dreams ring
prophetic in retrospect.”
Today, sixty years later in the USA, the technology of mass mind control has
vastly improved and is deadly in its effectiveness. Consequently, the
population of the United States is in a worse situation in terms of being
forced into mental slavery than were the inhabitants of Germany, Italy, or
Russia earlier in the century. American citizens are facing the 90’s form of
totalitarian fear, and just like the German people thought sixty years ago,
we believe that it could never happen here. But it’s clear by now that the
vast majority of Americans still do not possess an adequate understanding of
how their minds work, nor are many citizens any closer to comprehending how
the national psyche is being manipulated; in short, we’re unable to come to
terms with the fact that our subconscious minds are being controlled.
Only century-spanning, trans-generational, psychic genocide can account for
the subjugation of the mind that made possible the appalling events of the
20th century. Mass mind control technology has made leaps and bounds of
progress over the past half-century; it has succeeded in keeping millions
bound to lower levels of consciousness and a self-absorbed existence. Our
minds are sinking into the paralyzing stupor of the mental status quo, while
our freedom slips away from us and we come closer to facing the apocalyptic
abyss that the German people faced over a half century ago.
The Mental Status Quo
There are many inexplicable things about our volatile century that beg
understanding, that are more often than not left without answers, or even
end up producing more questions. Nothing much can be understood without
knowing oneself within. Our inner world is much bigger than we imagine, as
our dreams allow us to see. There is a hyper-dimensional world of vast inner
space within your mind that is beyond the reach of the senses, accessible
only by transcendent means. This hidden inner world exists beyond the
perceptual horizon of the mental status quo — it is the undiscovered realm
of the deep psyche where our dreams originate. Unknown to the programmed
mind, your awakened perception has access to other dimensions beyond the
brain and the senses, and hidden somewhere in that vast uncharted territory
is your inner self, your true self. But ego-bound people are afraid that if
they sail too far beyond the perceptual horizon of the mental status quo
(MSQ), they’ll fall off into an inner abyss, like the ships of the flat
earth that sailed too far beyond the ocean’s horizon and plunged over the
edge into bottomless space.
During earlier centuries, people from Europe knew nothing of the existence
of the continent that would become known as America. These days we’re
prevented from exploring higher states of consciousness by an ocean of
unconsciousness that isolates us on an inner island, limiting our perceptual
horizons to a short egotistical range. There are still too many people in
this world who are unaware that these other dimensions of consciousness are
part of our inner geography.
Be warned that there are political consequences for living in our own
worlds, as life in Nazi Germany has shown us. As citizens of America we can
already see ourselves losing our right to privacy, and we have to retreat
further and further away from society in order to escape from the ubiquitous
intrusions of the media and other silent invasions of our psyche. Soon there
will be nowhere to hide and no privacy for anyone, and we will be facing the
horrible political conditions faced by the citizens of Germany during the 30
’s and 40’s as their world fell apart around them, a scary situation
illustrated by the following dream.
In 1934, a forty-five-year-old doctor dreamt that he was relaxing on the
couch after his consultations reading a book, when suddenly the walls of his
apartment disappeared. He looked around and saw, to his horror, that all the
other apartments didn’t have walls anymore either. Then he heard a
loudspeaker boom, “According to the decree of the 17th of this month on the
Abolition of Walls...”
Some time later he realized what had provoked the dream. His block warden
came around to ask him why he had not hung a flag at his window. Putting him
off, he thinks, “Not in my four walls...” In another dream he finds that the
only real escape from the “Life Without Walls” was withdrawing from the
public realm, because those who give in and go along become part of the Nazi
scene and must surrender their autonomy and conform to whatever mental and
social conditions that are required of them. “Now that no home is private
any more, I’m living at the bottom of the sea.”
The Nazi MSQ
Conforming to the Nazi MSQ means that you’re going along with a set of rules
for inner behavior — thought control — while conforming to political
conditions means that you’re doing what the authorities say — social
control. As a result of having to deal with the rules and regulations of the
Nazi regime, people were being coerced into maintaining the mental status
quo, a state-approved way of thinking and behaving that came to be known and
practiced by everyone, because to say or do otherwise meant getting into
trouble with the authorities and putting your life in danger.
The Nazi mentality provided the mind with the linguistic rules and
regulations of the German MSQ, which enabled its citizens to think and speak
in standard terms. This manufactured mindset channeled thought and
conversation in the direction of conformity, and accounted for the
underlying set of beliefs that made up the dogma of The Third Reich, a
state-sanctioned view of reality.
In 1933 the author of the following dream was a 30-year old, liberal-minded,
pampered woman with no profession. In the dream, street signs had been
abolished and posters were set up in their place on every corner,
proclaiming the twenty words people were not allowed to say. The words were
listed in English, the first was “Lord” and the last was “I,” and the rest
were unclear. This dream anticipates the radical restrictions on freedom of
expression about matters relating to one’s identity and beliefs that
totalitarian regimes have exploited during the 20th century. The posters
were substituted for the prohibited street signs, conveying the idea that
people had lost their direction, were looking for signposts in their lives,
and were finding that they couldn’t speak about God or reflect on who they
were. The dream is a parable that illustrates “the dialectical relationship
that exists between the individual and the dictatorship.”
The Untold Story of The Unconscious Mind
“What if something should go wrong with the psyche?,” asked psychologist
Carl Jung over 30 years ago. Jung was a cartographer of inner space and
provided humanity with maps and charts of the lost realms of the deep
psyche. Without the knowledge and inspiration of Freud and Jung and other
pioneering psychologists, we would still be crawling around in the dark of
the mind, classifying altered states of consciousness in religious terms and
dumping any kind of transcendent experience into the psychotic and
delusional category. During this century it became possible to study the
psyche scientifically, enabling us to understand the subconscious basis of
conscious awareness, whereas before this century you could only talk about
the unconscious mind in occult or religious terms.
Telling the story of the unconscious mind is difficult because it’s not so
easy to put into words. All the words that could be useful have been taken
over by the authorities and corrupted to the core. The reason we find it so
difficult to think clearly or speak coherently about the hanky-panky going
on in the unconscious mind is because most of the terms used to describe
renegade states of consciousness have been stripped of their original
meaning and painted over with a glossy sheen. Dictionaries and encyclopedia’
s give descriptions of altered states of consciousness and non-sensory
dimensions of the mind like they were psychotic episodes to be
neuro-chemically controlled or rendered inactive by psycho-surgery.
It’s useless to depend on words when they have so little power over the
shackled thoughts of the mentally enslaved, who wouldn’t dream of leaving
the prison even if they had the keys to unlock their cells. Talking about
alien ideas is something so full of verbal booby traps that it just about
ruins any chance of seriously investigating what’s really going on in any
other world except this one. The terms used to describe our inner world as
natural and sacred have lost their ability to inspire and guide us, because
their meaning has been changed and now we have no structure of thought upon
which to build an understanding of ourselves.
Controlling thought in this way reduces the threat that the mind might be
led astray by renegade thinking, perhaps discovering the inner curtain and
pulling it aside, exposing the shady dealings of the subconscious mind and
putting an end to the long-running ego drama. Inner explorers who want to
throw some light on the darker side are forced to use matches to illuminate
the way, because orthodox religion, behavioral psychology, and materialistic
science are drawing most of the illumination from these concepts through
their domination of consensus reality and control of language. You can’t
talk about mind control, can’t talk about a secret government, can’t talk
about hyper-dimensional realities, can’t talk about hidden history, can’t
talk about the age-long story of the Human Spirit, and you can’t so much as
whisper the naked truth that a big chunk of our mind is missing. Whatever is
enforcing unconsciousness must be very powerful because it will not allow
any self-reflection or renegade knowledge to threaten its subliminal
authority and challenge its hold on the conscious mind.
The Guilt of The Guiltless
The woman who dreamt about the twenty words that couldn’t be spoken
considered herself to be quite self-centered, yet her dreams reflect a deep
understanding of what was at stake if one surrendered their mind to the
Nazis. She had a series of dreams between April and September 1933. Not long
after her dream about God and Self, she dreamt that she was all dressed up
sitting in a box at an opera house with several tiers, being admired by many
people as she watched her favorite opera, “The Magic Flute.” When it came to
the line, “This is the devil certainly,” some policemen came stomping in and
told her a machine had registered that she thought about Hitler when she
heard the word “devil.” She looked imploringly to the crowd for some sign of
help, but they all just ignored her. She glanced over to the old gentleman
in the adjoining box trying to get his eye, but he turned and spit at her.
This dream manages to capture the way so-called respectable people behave
when they’re called upon to respond to unfairness and injustice in their
midst. The opera house with its levels of curved tiers is filled with people
who do nothing but sit there and stare straight ahead when someone who they
could help is in trouble. Later, the woman described the thought-control
machine in her dream as being electric with a maze of wires, envisioning
remote-control devices and other electronic methods of monitoring and
control that were coming into use during the 30’s and 40’s.
One night, after being deeply disturbed by radio reports about book
burnings, in which the words “truckloads” and “bonfires” were used
repeatedly, she dreamt that all books were being collected and burned. Not
wanting to part with the copy of “Don Carlos” that she had since her
schooldays, she hid it under the maid’s bed. When the Stormtroopers arrived
to take away the books, they marched straight to the maid’s room, pulled the
book out from under the bed, and threw it on the truck. At this point she
discovered that she hid an atlas and not her copy of “Don Carlos,” and felt
guilty.
When we dream, there are psychological mechanisms that censor our
unconscious motives by distorting them, preventing us from realizing that
which we do not wish to be aware. If people are being subjected to
extraordinary conditions of control caused by political repression, their
dream content will be distorted. One explanation is that the mind is
attempting to alter the circumstances that are leading to surrendering
control of our lives. Because of this self-censorship, many dream scenarios
that deal with themes of submission and complicity have bizarre overtones,
in an attempt to change the character of threatening thoughts before they
manifest themselves in our dreams.
In her next dream, the milk man, gasman, news vendor, baker, and plumber are
standing around her in a circle, holding out their bills. This did not upset
her until she noticed a chimney sweep among them. The 2 S’s in the German
word for chimney sweep, Schornsteinfeger, along with his black outfit, made
him appear like a threatening gestapo character. It reminded her of the
children’s game, Schwarze Kochin, holding out their bills with arms uplifted
in the familiar gesture, chanting, “Your guilt cannot be doubted.” What had
provoked the dream was that, just the day before, her tailor’s son showed up
wearing the uniform of a Stormtrooper, to collect the bill she owed his
father. She was outraged because, before Hitler, it had been customary to
send the bill through the mail, and she demanded an explanation for a
government official collecting the money. The embarrassed young man replied
that it had no special significance, he just happened to be in the
neighborhood and wearing his uniform when he stopped by. “That’s
ridiculous,” she said, but paid the bill anyway.
The woman was aware of how the newly established block warden system
functioned and how intrusions were sanctioned by the party uniform. Her
dream indicates that she felt guilty about yielding to slight pressure and
settling the account. A minor sin of omission, but a significant one, if it
leads to more grievous abdications and lapses, “barely recognizable
injustices” which keep building up, producing a repressed state of mind that
is hard to describe. “The guilt of the guiltless,” comes from the
accumulation of these tiny abdications and hiding them away in the
subconscious, where they show up in disguise in dreams.
The Language of Consciousness
It’s simply not possible to think about and discuss matters of importance
such as the survival of the life of the mind and the preservation of our
democratic rights, if the terms and concepts used to describe
psychospiritual freedom have had their original meaning squeezed out of
them. Today, we cannot speak of threats to our inner freedom, because terms
like mind control, secret government, conspiracy theory, the unconscious,
paranoia, hidden history — have negative connotations attached to them and
deflect the mind away from investigation and study. It’s an academic “given”
that all these subjects are not to be taken seriously. The inner world
beyond the borders of the MSQ appears incomprehensible to people who have
never experienced other dimensions of their psyche. But there is no question
that an unconscious realm of the human psyche exists. Its psychological
conquest and subliminal colonization has been the deepest darkest secret of
the 20th century.
Influencing how we think by controlling language keeps our thoughts safely
within the bounds of the MSQ, leaving us quite content with ourselves and
perfectly willing to spend the rest of our lives like this. Unable to
seriously address things like psychotropic warfare and a global cryptocracy,
is a good example of language controlling thought, because if you speak of
these things you’ll be classified as a “conspiracy theorist” or you’ll be
thought of as downright crazy by members in good standing of the MSQ Club.
The dream-author had several dreams that repeatedly dealt with the new
environmental conditions of total control. The woman’s dreams pictured her
neighbors sitting in a large circle around her, silent and expressionless,
leaving her more imprisoned and lost in each one. Finally, one dream says it
all by containing no images, only words: “Am going to bury myself in lead.
Tongue is already leaden, locked in lead. Will lie immobile, shot full of
lead. When they come, I’ll say, ‘The leaden cannot rise up.’ Oh! They want
to throw me in the water because I’m so leaden...”
She had this dream on New Year’s Eve, 1933, after the traditional pouring of
molten lead. Like the doctor’s dream of seeking refuge at the bottom of the
sea, she wishes to become buried in lead, wanting to completely withdraw
from the public realm and hide from herself in the process. These
dream-fables are a warning of the insidious mental intrusions that are
gradually taking over the consciousness of the people, interfering with the
relationship one has with their inner self.
The profusion of prohibitive regulations, along with the steady control the
population, were placing increasing pressure on people’s lives, which wore
down their will and tore away their defenses, leaving many people compliant
slaves at the feet of their mental masters in only a few short years. Yet
while this may have been taking place imperceptibly, so that people became
gradually accustomed to the takeover of their minds, their dreams were
showing this process taking place quite clearly. All the small steps it took
to get to this groveling position are there to be seen in their dreams. If
one reflects on such dreams and discerns their wisdom, perhaps people wouldn
’t allow themselves to become disconnected from their inner selves, and they
wouldn’t make very good Nazis. Which is why even dreamland is invaded by The
Third Reich.
The MSQ Renegades
Drowning people’s lives in prohibitive regulations drove some people to the
brink and others into denial. If they had no way of dealing with these
forces of coercion and repression, the only thing they could do is surrender
to the authorities and submit their lives to the will of the Nazi State. But
some people must attempt to resist these insidious intrusions into their
minds and try to stop this domination of their lives by performing simple
acts of defiance. Everyday refusals to take part in the ritual destruction
of human dignity show the Spirit surviving in the midst of dehumanization.
These are the free thinkers who the authorities fear the most, because
people who have discovered their inner power and are willing to stand up to
The Third Reich are more threatening to the stability of the Nazi State than
all their other enemies combined.
The following dream was dreamt by a student whose brother had been arrested,
which caused considerable strain and difficulty in his life. There was a
party going on in a large building. People who could be arrested for
political crimes against the Nazi State, for example degenerate artists and
performers, one-time socialists, and relatives of concentration camp
inmates, were all sitting in a small attic room, making fun of the
well-dressed guests arriving downstairs. The dreamer crept downstairs and
overheard someone say that the whole house was filled with tension, and that
the stairs to the attic had caught fire as a result.! “The suspects have to
be saved “ he yelled into the bedlam. But they only shrugged, “Why shouldn’t
the suspects go up in flames?” Suspects are to be defined by the State, and
so they get to say who are suspects. In short, everyone is a potential enemy
of the state, lumping together internee and relative, artist and friend,
activist and employer, into the single category of suspect.
Communists can be dealt with using terror tactics and political subversion,
but ordinary people who are inner freedom fighters are another matter
altogether. They’re not so easy to dominate and they remain a threat to the
State by defending the Individual Human Spirit. They won’t allow their mind
to be taken over by any outer authority and they will not participate in any
activity where they have to betray themselves or hurt others. As long as
such people exist, there is a force for the Nazis to reckon with that is
beyond their capacity to deal with and control, because the inner worlds of
these human beings have not been violated by the insidious effects of mass
mind control.
The following dream, which occurred in the autumn of 1933, was dreamt by an
elderly woman who was a mathematics teacher. In her dream it was forbidden
under penalty of death to write anything having to do with mathematics. This
woman took refuge in a night club, which in waking life she would never have
set foot in. The place was filled with drunkards and prostitutes and the
music was blaring on. She took a piece of tissue paper from her pocketbook
and wrote down a couple of equations in invisible ink, all the time being
frightened to death.
Her dream reflects how absurd it is to attempt to ban something that people
naturally do everyday. When asked to comment on her dream, she replied
simply, “It is impossible to forbid what they are forbidding here!” In her
dream, she chose a nightclub to perform her act of defiance, someplace no
one would expect to find her, and a place where other forbidden things are
going on.
Sitting at a table in the dimly-lit club, she works with the tools of spies
to copy the equations that will ensure that her profession survives the
destructive forces set against it. As the environment is being transformed
by the machinations of the Nazi State, people are becoming alienated from
one another and disconnected from the activities that make up their daily
lives. Individuals are being taken away from their communities and being
turned into obedient servants of the Reich. Yet there are always defiant
ones who resist becoming dehumanized, because they are keeping alive within
themselves the flame of the Individual Human spirit.
The American MSQ
Our media-saturated minds are being anesthetized with overdoses of
doublethink and overflowing mouthfuls of newspeak. And our beleaguered
brains are being subliminally and vibrationally assaulted everyday, to the
point of dangerous psychic depletion and extreme spiritual vulnerability.
New dimensions of language are needed to orient our minds to
hyperdimensional realities and to provide a para-linguistic structure to
work with these renegade ideas. The transcendent dimensions of language that
address the life of the mind are kept out of reach of our thought processes
and continue to remain inaccessible to most of us. There are powerful occult
forces keeping people unconscious, so it may be expecting too much to think
that we could overcome our intense fear of waking up to the transcendent
dimensions of our lives.
As Orwell warned, once you take over the language, there is thought control,
and then it becomes impossible to think for oneself or question the
authorities. What is needed is for each mind to take back the language and
personally get rid of all the hype and trivia given to terms whose meaning
relates to secret dimensions of consciousness and hidden aspects of history.
We need a viable language that is equal to the hyper-dimensional realities
it is attempting to describe. In a mathematical way, physics was confronted
by the same problem earlier in the century, when its formulas and equations
ran up against hyper-dimensional phenomena it just couldn’t explain with
current theories. There had to be a bigger picture to see what was
happening, and relativity and quantum theories provided that greater
perspective.
With the new world order closing in fast, our language needs to undergo a
corresponding revolution, as the written word attempts to define and
conceptualize other dimensions of reality beyond the range of the MSQ and
the prevailing consensus reality. There is no other way to approach this
perceptual transformation of our minds: the power of the word — freely
thought, spoken, and written. Our psycho-spiritual freedom depends upon
their survival.
The Upraised Arm
During the 80’s & 90’s, American citizens have lost, and are still losing,
more of our political power and rights through the encroachment on the
freedom of the individual of frightening federal laws, but many of us are
waking up to what’s going on behind our backs, or maybe I should say, beyond
our comprehension. People today are confronting the same fear of unknown
forces that the German people were facing during the 30’s, and the
subconscious minds of individuals are registering the steady erosion of
freedom and its debilitating effects on their daily lives. As the new world
order is closing in fast, perhaps people in the United States are dreaming
similar dreams.
Three days after Hitler seized power in Germany, Herr S., a 60 year old
factory owner, dreamt that he was under so much pressure trying to reconcile
his worldly ambitions with his conscience, that he “cracked” from the
stress, “breaking his backbone,” leaving him a moral invalid, and no one
even laid a hand on him. In the dream, Goebbels was visiting his factory and
had all the workers line up in two rows facing each other. Herr S. had to
stand in the middle and raise his arm in the Nazi salute. It took him half
an hour to get his arm up, inch by inch. Goebbels showed neither approval
nor disapproval as he watched him struggle. When he finally got his arm up,
Goebbels said, “I don’t want your salute” then turned and went to the door.
There the factory owner stood, arm raised, in the midst of his workers, only
able to keep himself from collapsing by staring at Goebbels’ clubfoot as he
limped out of the factory. As so he stood until he woke up.
This dream recurred many times and in one version, “The effort of lifting my
arm was go great that sweat poured down my face like tears, as if I were
crying in front of Goebbels.” And in another: “I looked to my workers for a
sign of comfort but their faces showed absolute emptiness, not even scorn or
contempt.” Finally, while struggling to lift his arm, his back — his
“backbone” — breaks. This was a man with lifelong political convictions and
who had a strong paternalistic attitude toward his employees. Through
several demeaning episodes he is forced to humiliate and debase himself in
his own domain in front of his employees, by having to submit to conditions
that make him lose his self-respect, and through being coerced into
conforming to laws that are unfair and immoral. Herr S. was once a proud man
who commanded respect, but now “he feels alienated not only from all that is
real in his life but also from his own character, which has lost its
authenticity.”
Dreams such as the ones Beradt collected were dreamt by ordinary people
confronting repressive conditions, who were looking for psychological ways
of dealing with the silent impact of explosive social changes. Charlotte had
difficulty gathering material because people were afraid to confide their
dreams, and she often heard them say, “I dreamt it was forbidden to dream,
but I did anyway.” She states that the dreams produced by German citizens
during the 1930’s, unlike the dreams of the victims of wars and revolution
of previous centuries, were distinctive in character and content, because
“their origin in time and place is explicit: they could only have sprung
from man’s paradoxical existence under a twentieth-century totalitarian
regime, and most of them nowhere but under the Hitler dictatorship in
Germany.”
At some point during her investigation, Beradt realized that these dreams
were important seismic readings registering the debilitating effects of
totalitarian stress on the minds and lives of ordinary German citizens.
Looking at how each dream reflected a personal journey toward
dehumanization, with the dream-authors backing away step by step from their
former way of life, demonstrated to her that “the minor incident, the
personally relevant factor, shows how Nazi totalitarianism functioned.” She
wrote:
“It occurred to me from time to time that a record should be kept of such
dreams, a thought that now became a plan. They might one day serve as
evidence when the time came to pass judgement on National Socialism as a
historical phenomenon, for they seemed to reveal a great deal about people’s
deepest feelings and reactions as they become part of the mechanisms of
totalitarianism. When a person sits down to keep a diary, this is a
deliberate act, and he remolds, clarifies, or obscures his reactions. But
while seeming to record seismographically the slightest effects of political
events on the psyche, these dreams — diaries of the night — were conceived
independently of their author’s conscious will. They were, so to speak,
dictated to them by the dictatorship. Dream imagery might thus help to
describe the structure of a reality that was just on the verge of becoming a
nightmare.”
At the end of her book Beradt says that these dreams contain a warning, “the
warning that totalitarian tendencies must be recognized before they become
overt — before the guise is dropped ... before people no longer may speak
the word “I” and must guard their tongue so that not even they understand
what they say, and before we begin to actually live the “Life Without
Walls.” •
Frank Berube has written several articles for Paranoia under the pseudonym
“Disembodius.” He has now decided to come out. Please send your MSQ-oriented
dreams to him at: Frank Berube, 562 Buffington Street, Apt. 7, Fall River,
MA 02721.
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