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001 - "Wilkerson, Richard" <rcw - DREAM : at the psychic fair
002 - "Wilkerson, Richard" <rcw - Dream Title "Looking for something evil"
CinnamonG
003 - "Wilkerson, Richard" <rcw - Strange Cat
004 - "Wilkerson, Richard" <rcw - Translucent Brain
005 - "Wilkerson, Richard" <rcw - Vividly coloured fish
006 - "Wilkerson, Richard" <rcw - Black Swans
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From: "Wilkerson, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DREAM : at the psychic fair
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:57:38 -0700
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<bigger>DATE : 12 may 1999 06:25
DREAM : at the psychic fair
=3D( my mother went to bed really early last night, about 22:00 as she was
sleepy. i worked on a bit of internet history which i had taught to the
naval students earlier yesterday. i needed a couple powerpoint slides to
address some questions they had on how government had adopted use of
computer networks rather late compared to the military deployment of
arpanet. particularly i spent some time researching the 1984 AT&T
divestiture in the reagan administration after the antitrust action of
nixson ford justice department. economists on the internet were not
making as many parallels to the current microsoft antitrust suit as i had
thought. apparently, the sherman precedents against standard oil, AT&T
and IBM were much stronger than the present microsoft case which is a
much smaller company in terms of employees, thereby concentrating more
wealth and control into fewer executives at the top. i quit early,
around 02:30 and went to sleep with only a little difficulty because of
the warmth of the night. still have not turned on the air conditioner.=20
)=3D
the psychic fair is a dusty sort of affair. gathered together outside in
a dry, grassy field far away from anything civilized or urban. there
must thirty large victorian tables set up side by side. at each table
sits the various practitioners of different forms of divination, maybe
four to six people at one table then another who has a table alone,
depending on how much space is needed for the process.
i walk among the tables and marvel at the variety of methods for divining
one's fortune or personality. here there are several forms of the i
ching. one man casting three coins while another heats a turtle shell
over a propane burner. i wonder where the 49 yarrow rods are, as that
was always my preferred method of casting the hexagrams. at the next
table is a tea leaf reader with her pot of brew and next to her a woman
with thick spectacles scries myopically into a crystal ball. =20
there is a haruspex all alone peering into a disemboweled white dove,
entrails spread across the table with care. no one seems to want to
hear about the doubled lobed liver of this perfect victim. other doves
coo in a wicker cage waiting their chance to expose the twists and turns
of destiny. they do not seem perturbed by the fate of their recent cage
mate on the table before them.
at the next table several gentleman sit waiting customers. one of them
has a silver samovar that has a white ceramic tile hanging by a red silk
string. he turns over the tile to reveal some blue chinese characters
etched on one side. "feng" he announces to the others and they seem
suitably impressed.
someone throwing rune stones on an animal fur. another constructing a
tower of thin rods. someone else with rorschach ink blots. a large
contraption of shiny brass that clicks and wheezes when you wind it up
with a peculiar shaped key. a man with long fingers feeling the bumps on
the skull of a patient young woman.=20
a turbaned swami with magnetic eyes channeling the dead. so many
different ways to conjure the future or the past.
i have not decided which to try. i hardly need the future told to me as
my life seems to go its own way whether i will it or not. perhaps it is
lack of interest more than anything else. we live. we die. life goes
on. what else needs to be said? still since i am here i can hardly not
try any of the sundry harbingers.=20
tarot cards might be entertaining. i find a sweet young woman with gypsy
black hair ready to spread her cards for a coin. i watch her manipulate
her gray backed cards and start to lay them out, some face up and some
face down. i follow closely, but this is a layout that i am unfamiliar
with. certainly not the celtic cross, but her arrangement does terminate
with the seven card daath pack at the end. she is puzzled. "this ending
seems to contradict the structure before it." she says. "i do not see
how this future follows from what has gone before it. it makes no sense
at all. i must have done something wrong."
i take several of the cards and rearrange them. "i noticed when you laid
them out that these four cards in their cardinal order, you did not
follow the pattern you used over there." the card faces are cryptic
pastel images, not the crowley deck nor the ryder pack. i seem to have
the seven of swords in my hand, but i do not see it very well. something
about the card causes my eyes not to focus on it properly. maybe
something about the perspective is wrong.
"i do not think i could have made so elementary of a mistake." she says
to me, but she shrugs her shoulders. "i will ask my teacher what the
significance of a mislay is. clearly this is an ill formed result."
"or maybe my life is just too screwed up to make sense to you?" i say
with a half way grin. i am secretly impressed that she can recognize and
admit nonsense in the cards instead of merely accepting whatever shows as
some expression to make sense of. cause and effect ought to hold for any
valid divination just as it does for the physics of the world being
shown.
now i see someone i recognize: matilda fultz sitting at a table with
maybe fifty glass jars and containers spread out before her. i do not
recognize the method here. "this is herbal prognostication." tilly
explains to me. "pick a jar that seems to appeal to you." =20
i look over the apparatus. every jar is different size and shape, mostly
antique canning jars with those dull metal screw on lids that had the
white glass inside. some of the jars have dried powder or whole leaves
inside. there is one with an obvious brown mandrake root in it. some
bottles have ground glass stoppers and contain a liquid extract. finally
i choose a jar more for its shape than its contents. this jar is
rectangular, just over an inch wide but seven inches wide. i like the
thick clear glass and the way it has been shaped. also, the jar is
inside a thin wire cage like it might explode. i notice almost after the
fact that it has maybe half an inch of wet red pulpy material on the
bottom. there are many small white seeds also. "what is this?" i ask,
handing over the jar.
tilly wrinkles up her nose in distaste. "tomatoes and ketchup."
"do you think we can brew up some herbal tea while we do this?" i notice
some chamomile blossoms in one of the jars. maybe she has some yerba
mate.=20
=3D( i wake 06:05, well rested and no tendency to go back to sleep. i wish
i would have stayed asleep to see what tillie was to do with the herbs to
divine something. i had a feeling that it involved tasting or smelling
small samples of each and that she did not care for the coming taste of
her tomato concoction. i have never heard of herbal divination so have
no idea what that ritual might entail. an association for my study of
history last night to those methods of divination seems evident. both
are concerned with interpreting events. )=3D =20
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From: "Wilkerson, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dream Title "Looking for something evil" CinnamonG
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:02:03 -0700
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Dream Title "Looking for something evil" CinnamonG
Date of Dream 05/12/99 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.
Dream Dream take place somewhere down south or
southwest. Somewhere like the Grand Canyon. My husband and I and a couple
of others are following, looking, chasing something; and we keep running
into something evil. The higher up we climb the more dangerous it becomes.
I'm scared but say nothing. Some people tell me to stay w/them but I say I
must keep by my husband's side. Then husband tells me I must jump and put a
chute on me, again I'm scared but say nothing. The rains come and start to
flood. To go to higher grounds it is believe we run into evil. Noone is for
sure but I'm the only one willing to take the chance. Then I wake.
Comments by Dreamer Husband and I are divorcing. I notice in dream he
doesn't leave my side and I'm scared to leave his but yet I don't won't to
be with him.
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Permission Comments Would like to hear any comment on this to better
understand.
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From: "Wilkerson, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Strange Cat
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 20:35:08 -0700
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Dream Title Strange Cat
Tami
Date of Dream wed. am, May 12, 1999 6:45 am
Dream I was in a house in California(I actually live in
Kansas) and everyone(?not my family, not my friends, just people in the
house. Me being there wasn't an issue) was using all of the showers
upstairs. Someone told me to try the kitchen so I went downstairs. I was
mildly irritated to find no bathroom at all downstairs, so I wandered over
to the refridgerator (olive green, but not ugly) and proceeded to open it,
exclaim out loud "this is stupid, I can't take a shower with a
refridgerator, what am I doing here" then I flipped to a different view in
the kitchen (about 6 feet back from the refridgerator, facing it, a kitchen
island to my right, stairs to my left, sliding door and window to the right
of the refridgerator) I looked on the floor by the island and a huge
decorative conch shell was sitting beside it. That wasn't strange because
we were in California, and the ocean was nearby (dream logic, also in the
dream, I had remembered that you needed to b!
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e careful of the animal that lives in the conch shell???) I was looking at
the shell when a fluffy orange, striped tail came out of the back of it.
It looked like a big orange tabby cat (kind of bright) and when it had
emerged I noticed that it had 2 heads. One head was a passive head, eyes
not opened and no movement of the mouth, the active head only cracked its
eyes open (and I didn't seem all that concerned about that in my dream) the
mouth was meowing, but I didn't actually hear its sound, I just knew it was
making one. Then I awoke, Vividly aware of all of the details.
Comments by Dreamer I had no fear, just mild curiosity, also mild
irritation at the inconvenience of no shower.
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Permission Comments Sure, that's fine. I can't seem to make heads or
tails of it, maybe someone else can
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From: "Wilkerson, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Translucent Brain
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 22:07:03 -0700
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Dream Title Translucent Brain
Date of Dream 5/12/99 8:00am
Dream I had a very disturbing dream last night. I
drempt that I was looking in the mirror and that I had very stringy hair
and when I combed it aside, it revealed my translucent head with carrots
and corn slices imbeded in my brain. I tried to peel one of the carrots
off, but it gave me a strange, tingling feeling and something told me that
I should just leave it alone. Then I thought about eating it and
visualized myself doing it. Then I held my breath and my head turned hot
and heated up until my head turned opague again.
Comments by Dreamer I normally wouldn't worry about something like
this, but the dream has been haunting my day-dreams all day today. Every
time I stop doing something, I think about the dream. It must be a warning
of something but I don't know what. I currently have a head full of hair
and I'm 19 and going slightly gray. Maybe it has something to do with my
upcoming exams. I really don't know.
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Permission Comments Comment away on this. I'm very curious about it.
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From: "Wilkerson, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Vividly coloured fish
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 10:58:01 -0700
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Dream Title Vividly coloured fish
Island_Fox
Date of Dream May 11 12:10 AM
Dream My dream was of vividly coloured fish. Turquoise
and yellow fish, were swimming in a huge aquarium. A whole wall was covered
by this aquarium.
On the other wall was shelves and they had the same coloured fish in small
fish bowls.
My aunt was indirectly involved in the dream because it was her home but I
never saw her.
The only way to get out of the room was to use a motor boat and I had to go
through a trap door in the wall that had the huge aquarium covering it.
The dream seemed to go on for some time.
At one time or another I was in the boat but in the ocean now and the ocean
was an angry ocean. There was a station where i could go to the bathroom
and it was filthy..........
That's about all I can remember, but I didn't have to get up to go to the
bathroom I just woke up rolled over and went back to a peacefull sleep
Comments by Dreamer Beautifull Turquoise and Yellow Colours
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From: "Wilkerson, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Black Swans
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 11:35:52 -0700
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Dream Title Black Swans
Date of Dream Saturday 24th April 1999
Dream In my dream I had a vision of some black swans on
a very still lake.
I believe that black swans have some significance, but can you tell me what
that is???!!
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