Strange Wisdom
Jan. 10th, 2006 05:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tinhuvielI had another LOST dream very early this morning. It concerned the final episode of the show, documenting the survivors' struggle to depart the island before a giant volcano erupted. There was something creepy about tiny vicious animals that ate only bones, but would chew through your flesh to get to your bones, it didn't matter to them.
I can't remember most of the dream, really, but I do remember what Kate said at the end of the dream as she, Jack, Sawyer, and some others I didn't recognise escaped the island and watch the volcano explode.
"When placed in an impossible situation, the body has no choice but to follow the lead of the spirit. It's in this time that the true mettle of the individual is tested and comes to light."
What she said has haunted me all day and I think it's the key to why I long for major upheaval. It's the inescapable trauma of the physical that forces spiritual evolution and it's historically evident that the best and worst of Humanity comes to the surface during these times. We're long overdue for such a dread occurrence, methinks. Honestly, I don't know if I'd pass such a test. I'd probably exhibit the worst Humanity has to offer. Judging by my fellow humans and my lust for calamity, I haven't very much faith in myself.
It was one of those kinds of dreams where you know that the person speaking to you isn't the person you think it is. It was Kate speaking, but it was actually someone else wearing Kate's skin. It had the feel, the dream did, of a strange wisdom imparted by a "guide" (I hate that word, as it's overused by New Age Fluffy Bunny Assholes) or wise spirit. It felt like the meditation of the Canopy Ruins I had about ten years ago where a Tarmian spirit told me that "Reality is peripheral."
I have the urge to meditate on the Tower card.
I can't remember most of the dream, really, but I do remember what Kate said at the end of the dream as she, Jack, Sawyer, and some others I didn't recognise escaped the island and watch the volcano explode.
"When placed in an impossible situation, the body has no choice but to follow the lead of the spirit. It's in this time that the true mettle of the individual is tested and comes to light."
What she said has haunted me all day and I think it's the key to why I long for major upheaval. It's the inescapable trauma of the physical that forces spiritual evolution and it's historically evident that the best and worst of Humanity comes to the surface during these times. We're long overdue for such a dread occurrence, methinks. Honestly, I don't know if I'd pass such a test. I'd probably exhibit the worst Humanity has to offer. Judging by my fellow humans and my lust for calamity, I haven't very much faith in myself.
It was one of those kinds of dreams where you know that the person speaking to you isn't the person you think it is. It was Kate speaking, but it was actually someone else wearing Kate's skin. It had the feel, the dream did, of a strange wisdom imparted by a "guide" (I hate that word, as it's overused by New Age Fluffy Bunny Assholes) or wise spirit. It felt like the meditation of the Canopy Ruins I had about ten years ago where a Tarmian spirit told me that "Reality is peripheral."
I have the urge to meditate on the Tower card.
