An example: a few years ago I had a dream that ended on a horrifying note. I puzzled about its meaning until, quite by accident several months later, I read a book that revealed to me what it meant. In hindsight, the dream could not have been about anything else, but there was no way I had come to a conscious understanding of the dream’s subject until months later.

If you pay attention to dreams, this will happen with increasing frequency.

PS I really like your Zelda icons!

I like that part. Reminds me of God’s commandment to never make graven images.

Also, I am intrigued that the taking of a picture “would somehow be disrespectful”. Maybe because it would be a false representation of the scene. Or maybe the angel would think you’d “stolen its soul”. In light of fantastic planet’s “virtual identitiy” vs. “real-life” threads I’m starting to think that this superstition has some merit.

Since I became an occult investigator, my life has turned into one non-stop party! I’m having so much fun, and learning all kinds of cool things about myself and the world. It’s really an absolute blast!

Wine and candy are suggestive of a festive atmosphere, a party.

Could your dream have something to do with this site?

There is a theme of transformation and action in this dream. The water — the primordial symbol of fluidity — is in a profoundly active and directed state, active and linear. The light turns into an angel, and the camera turns the angel back into light and subsequently into a photograph. Then you have the wine changing to foam (nectar?) and glass into candy. (And don’t forget the Christian archetype of water changing to wine).

Both water and glass are reflective and have the potential to be luminous, so you have the interplay of luminosity and fluidity.

What recent invention has been introduced into your life, and how has it illuminated your spirit?

I just started reading his sight and he has some great thing to say about time and the four ages of matter.

I really like hearing about dreams in general. I think that the more we learn about the world as illusion the more important our dreams will become.

Joseph Campbell likens our dreams to the three natural things that are seen as luminous (giving off light) in our material world (lightning, fire, sun).

http://www.jayweidner.com/TimeRiver.htm

The great return of the alchemical tradition is the road back to a science based on timeless spiritual principles. Alchemy is the science of human development, the art of turning glass into light and lead into gold. But as any true adept will tell you, these are merely metaphors for the deep and secret mysteries of the spirit. As we in the West reestablish contact with the primordial source of life and wisdom, we shall shed the veils that conceal the profound nature of ourselves and this planet.