The Moola Mantra...featuring my family.

This dream was last night, before I got up for work.

As the above title suggests, it did, indeed, feature my family and I singing the Moola Mantra, also known as the Oneness Mantra.

The video in the following link plays the same version that was in my dream. It also explains what the Mantra means, if you're interested:

https://youtu.be/9ebpgVj3Wtg

Anyway, back to this dream: We weren't alone in our singing. There was a large group of people along with us, and together, we made a choir. We would spend time rehearsing the chant, both with just family members alone and with other people.

It might have been wonderful if it hadn't been for my emotional state. In waking life, I really like this mantra a lot, but in the dream, I felt very awkward singing it along with my loved ones, embarrassed even. What made me nervous was just hearing them sing it. I wasn't sure why, but I felt like I couldn't fully enjoy the experience.

The dream ended before I got to see the fruits of our musical labor.

When I woke up, I realized that the Moola Mantra (which I do have on my Napster playlist, in this version and the one by Deva Premal, which I love) was bleeding into my dreams, as I had dozed off while leaving my music on. In return, however, what I got was rather interesting.

I suppose I have to find time to think about what it means--right now, I don't have a clue. It's just something weird to ponder over right now.

Considering what the mantra is and what it means, it may be some kind of message about "becoming one," but this has yet to be seen.

Dreams to awaken the social conscience?

The dreams I'm discussing today were more than 20 years apart, the later of these being very recent. In the wake of recent political events and in anticipation of those yet to come, I felt I should set aside room here to share.

10 and Pregnant...and Dying

Wherever one may stand on the issue of reproductive rights, I think anyone would agree that this dream was disturbing.

I saw the dream as a news report. The story followed a 10-year-old who was pregnant as a result of rape. What was unique--and especially heartbreaking--was that she was living in hospice. Being far along in a high-risk pregnancy, she would have required an emergency procedure--in her case, a late-term abortion--to save her life. Sadly, because such a procedure was banned in Kentucky, the girl was forced to receive palliative care and live in a special hospice set aside for pregnant persons* who likely wouldn't survive childbirth.

I remember seeing this poor girl, pale and thin aside from her belly. She fully understood what was going to happen and was crying, saying she didn't want to die.

Recently, a bill passed in Kentucky which bans abortion after 20 weeks, and a permanent ban is making its way through Congress as I type this. The Kentucky bill immediately brought this dream. I now worry that a prenatal hospice housing young women and girls, who would otherwise have their entire lives ahead of them, will become a tragic reality. Luckily, there are many pushing back against these laws, and being pro-choice myself, I hope the fight continues.

*I am also an advocate of the transgender community. As such, I have used the appropriate language in my post.

K-19 Redux

Nearly 10 years ago, I posted about a very violent dream I had when I was 9. In summary, it was about a group of rogue militants called K-19 who stormed my school and slaughtered everyone who was present.

This dream came to my mind again after I watched Doreen Virtue's card reading for 2017. I don't recall the deck it was from, but the first card she drew was one called "Truth." As she drew this card, she said that she could see "American tanks on American soil," and the enforcing of martial law. When I thought back to the K-19 dream, an alarm went off in my head. Is it possible that I foresaw something that may happen? Could things get bad enough to where there could really be tanks invading schools and workspaces, targeting and executing unsuspecting people?...

Because of his rhetoric during his campaign and even long after his election, a lot of people have drawn comparisons between Donald Trump's vision for America and Nazi Germany. Anyone who's learned about World War II has heard about the atrocities at the hands of the Nazis, particularly against Jews. There were no doubt tanks on the ground then, too, targeting citizens at random. Even if the US doesn't reach that same point, chances are we may come frighteningly close.

Part of me still has hope. Too many Americans have learned from the past and are determined not to go back. I hope and pray we can keep fighting the good fight so that nightmares like the aforementioned don't become reality.

The State Puts Ariana Grande on the 27s List* (2016)

I start my comeback with yet another dream about Ariana Grande (remember her?) being executed. This time it was a legal execution--lethal injection, to be specific.

The dream was odd in nature and took place in the future. What I remember was that Ariana was condemned for something she didn't mean to do.

I won't go into detail about much of the dream, as it was fragmented and not really worth belaboring. The execution was the only part that seemed to make sense--it was as if some important message was penetrating through the nonsensical elements.

I remember, of course, seeing Ariana strapped to the gurney in the death chamber. Gary Jules's cover of "Mad World" was playing throughout the scene. I couldn't clearly see the spectators, but I sensed that at least her loved ones were present. I don't remember what Ariana's last words were, if any, but eventually, the execution was carried out, with Ariana flatlining near the end of "Mad World."

After her death, I remember seeing an article in the newspaper, which stated that Ariana was 27. Her execution played out like a scene from a movie, and at the beginning of it, I remember seeing a date marquee in the middle of the opening "frame," a date sometime in March...I think March 18. Ariana was 23 when I had the dream last year, and her birthday is June 26, which would set the execution in early 2021.

Remembering the dream two years back about her beheading, I later realized it was a dream foretelling something about her relationship with Big Sean, as confirmed by entertainment news articles--three months after I had that dream, Ariana and Big Sean broke up. It makes me wonder what's up with this one. Of course, 2021 is still four years away, meaning anything can happen. If this dream had any prophetic undertones like the one before it, then I can only hope that Ariana plays it safe in all she does and treads lightly. An execution is not a positive archetype, to be sure. She's quite talented, and I wouldn't want to see her life or career fall in any tragic fashion.

*For those who don't know, the 27s is a list of musicians who all died at age 27, many of them from drug overdoses.

Welcome to 2017.

I know--it's been almost two years, and I admit that there hasn't been a lot of commitment on my end. I apologize and make no excuses. I actually want to try to get something up on this blog.

Bear with me.