THAT DAY

Go out with my friend Cory to hear some standup comedy in the back room in El Rio Bar. Our bar-talk swings round to ESP. Both of us have experienced flashes of it. I mention The Candle of Vision by "AE" (George Russell), a century-old but rigorous guide to visualization with some powerful examples: George wanted like-minded friends, pictured what he wanted, and within weeks he met... W.B. Yeats! Now that's manifestation. The New Age is not new, and the folks who started it weren't fools.

THAT NIGHT

Dream 1: WHAT E.S.P. IS FOR

I use ESP to sense the underlying structure of the world. It's useful to predict earthquakes--political and scientific ones too. When the tectonic plates shift, and there's a new given.

Really, sensing people's hidden characters or getting an occasional stock tip... those are nice, but just side benefits. ESP's meant mostly for larger things.

NOTES

• ESP: in bar, talked of AE, master of manifestation. What if it's true? As it is, I waste my intuitive gifts, seeking a girlfriend when I won't clean up my life and get out where manifesting can HAPPEN.
• ACTION: ask for NONsexual messages, see what romance has been occluding.

Dream 2: FURRY ROMANCE

I long envisioned a filmscript--a furry romance between a predator and herbivore, both drawn to the music scene on a planet in cultural transition. The twist: our "wolf" is female, our "deer" male. So much for our stereotypes of male hunter, female prey!

Now I dream it, shifting viewpoint between them, easily identifying with both. Why not? They're both musicians. And misfits. The only community really accepting them them is other artists.

NOTES

• Cross-species romance: I'm reading Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver; Grace, wolf-bitten as a girl but usually human, loves Sam, briefly human in summer but forced into wolfshape all winter--the virus is temperature-sensitive.
• Filmscript: Cory talked of her filmmaking ambitions; I said good scripts are the bottleneck.
• ACTION: Take it literally--write this as a filmscript? Lotta work and a hard sell since it'd be costly to produce--a whole nonhuman world. But...
• ACTION: Maybe it's a different kind of prompt--to play out more, & record. I repeatedly dream of these lovers finding each other thru music.

Dream 3: I'M A CHARACTER DEFINED BY DREAMS

"Wake" remembering the above two dreams and considering what they say about the dreamer--especially since what they say is intentional! I'm a character in a story, and our author likes to characterize us via dreamscenes!

These two dreams sum me up pretty well. A gifted furry--evolved from some other line than apes! Isolated, one of very few of his species in the area. Smart, but relying a lot on intuition. Who relates as much to the environment as to other creatures--as cats do--and is MEANT to be that way.

Then I wake again, to find I'm not a book character--and I look human again. A relief? No. A disappointment.

I felt more like myself in the dream.

NOTES

• Dream 3 points out the goals of Dreams 1&2--both to reassure and prod. I was written this way, it's in my genes--or the intentions of my Creator (possibly an Intelligent Designer but certainly a Kooky one.)
• ACTIONS: quit worrying about finding a mate! She'll show up when I quit hiding from her (and when she's available; may not be now). Meantime, do my work as a shaman--helping others and making my art. Write draw & sing my dreams... like this.

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