Anna Kingsford
Kingsford was a 19th Century visionary and dreamworker, with extraordinary recall and clarity. She endured slurs and snubs in medical school to became only the second female doctor in England. Her experiences in labs of that time converted her to vegetarianism; she became an activist for the anti-vivisectionist and animal rights movements. She lived and died her ideals: never robust, she died of pneumonia probably caught by protesting outside Louis Pasteur's laboratory in a cold rainstorm.
She's one of the roots of New Age mysticism, and a lot steelier than her flabby descendents. In her view, our three great sins are: sexism (and suppression of intuition), fundamentalism (and faith itself, instead of direct mystical experience), and violence (stemming, she thought, from the belief we're mere animals--pure matter).
Kingsford wrote two books of dreams and visions:
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| BIRD, CAT, TREASURE: by Anna Kingsford; 1877/8/3, two warning dreams in one night Should Anna quit hiding her psychic dreams? She dreams a cat eats her bird & burglars loot an open house. Maybe keep hiding? |
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| THE BLOOD OF CHRIST (BUT, MOM!): by Anna Kingsford; 1879/10/17, a religious dream turning personal I argue that Christ's "blood" is a metaphor for "spiritual perfection." But my mom says I'm killing her; she begs me to repent... |
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| A DIFFICULT PATH: by Anna Kingsford; 1877/11/3, an advisory dream. I lead my daughter up a thorny path, but she's getting badly scratched. Shall I leave her in that fishing village? She wants to... |
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| DIVINE IMAGE, or, A VISION OF ADONAI: by Anna Kingsford, 1877/7/23, a waking vision Gazing at the moon, Anna finds herself touring the Solar System, meeting all the planetary guardians... CAUTION: MYSTICAL ECSTASY |
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| THE DOOMED TRAIN: by Anna Kingsford; Nov. 1876, a galvanizing political nightmare We were on a train headed for a crash. No one was in the engine. Rather than jump, my friend insisted we try... |
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| THE ENCHANTED WOMAN: by Anna Kingsford; Feb. 1877, an epic prehistoric dream. Goaded by a green spirit of envy, an Ice Age sorceror kidnaps Adam's Eve, arresting human evolution... |
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| A GAME OF CARDS: by Anna Kingsford; 1883/12/7, a god kibitzes on a Tarot game Anna trusts to luck, but her mentor urges her to plan--"Think it out!" And what are these cards? |
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| THE GOLDENE BOOK OF VENUS: by Anna Kingsford; 1881/3/15-16, a poem read in two dreams Poem from a book on how love can save lives & souls, read in two dreams of a Renaissance astrologer's library... |
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| A HAUNTED HOUSE INDEED!: by Anna Kingsford; 1887/4/12, an epic ghost dream I was warned about soul-devouring art in the haunted house, but I didn't expect to find an entire art salon... CAUTION: ABSORBING ARTWORK |
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| THE LABORATORY UNDERGROUND: by Anna Kingsford; 1880/2/2; an animal-rights nightmare. I find myself in a vault with tables where half-dissected animals writhe. Hidden in each was a human shape... CAUTION: GRUESOME |
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| THE OLD YOUNG MAN: by Anna Kingsford; 1880/2/21, a dream of a step-in soul Malaria nearly kills a talented young artist; he must retrain from scratch. Why? Well, he's not exactly himself... |
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| PAUL AND THE DISCIPLES OF JESUS: by Anna Kingsford; 1877/7/17, an indignant channeled dream Jesus's disciples kvetch that Paul, who never knew Jesus, twisted his clean simplicity into a religion... CAUTION: JARGON, HERESY (on one side or other) |
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| REVELATION: by Anna Kingsford; 1885/11/27, a prophetic, almost messianic, dream. Dreams and other revelations shouldn't be dissected--they need to be reveiled, not revealed... CAUTION: INTENSE MYSTICISM |
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| A SQUARE IN THE HAND: by Anna Kingsford; 1887/4/12, an epic nightmare with a twist I'm a French revolutionary facing a firing squad. But palmistry predicts I'll be strangely saved... |
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| THE THREE VEILS BETWEEN MAN AND GOD: by Anna Kingsford, March 1881, a messianic dream. I was shown what veils the God in us: Blood (violence), Idols (dogmatism), and the Curse of Eve (sexism)... CAUTION: FUNDAMENTALISTS (OF ANY FAITH) WILL SEE RED |
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| VICARIOUS ATONEMENT: by Anna Kingsford; 1880/1/31, an anti-shamanic dream Kingsford meets a girl who burns herself as a protest. K flips out! She rants "This is wrong!" when help is what's needed... CAUTION: RANT MIDWAY YOU'RE BETTER OFF SKIPPING |
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| WONDERFUL SPECTACLES: by Anna Kingsford; 1877/1/31, a clairvoyant advisory dream A mystic postman delivers a letter on the world's best glasses and a reply from me, telling how to find them... |
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| THE WORK OF POWER: by Anna Kingsford; Dec. 1880, a wildly uncompromising dream-sermon A dream telling how to acquire mystic power: raw food, no sex, meat, or booze; just meditate in rural solitude... CAUTION: EXTREMISM |
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