Not a Nightmare

[kokopelle]

This morning I had one of my "not a nightmare, but it probably would be for other people" type dreams. I dreamed that certain types of trees/vines had come alive and were killing people. The only safe move was to seek a place that did not have the killer plants. The dream then fast forwarded. Society as we know it now had collapsed, but the survivors had figured out how to live alongside the predatory plants. During this part of the dream I was with some people outside. Things were normal enough in a nice-to-be-alive-after-the-apocalypse kind of way. Then a little rodent was seen. For some reason it reminded me of the killer vines. This is an example of my having knowledge originating from a undreamed transitional part of the dream. Anyway, the rodent turned out to be deadly too. We were forced to get indoors and seal ourselves off from the killer rodents. Sigh... my dreams are frustrating even if they are classically nightmares.

I found the killer plant angle interesting given my spiritual slant, but then again, I've been having issues with that too. I'll write about the spiritual stuff another time.

Comments

[chimerae.livejournal.com]

I've been oddly obsessed this weekend about Sylvanus and The Wilde Hunt. As far as I know, there's no overlap between them.

The thing that jumped out at me in my reading again and again was the quote "Great Pan is Dead." Seemed like the reference was important as in "Pan's back and he's pissed."

If one were to believe the Greek historian Plutarch (in "The Obsolescence of Oracles" (Moralia, Book 5:17)), Pan is the only Greek god who is dead. During the reign of Tiberius (A.D. 14-37), the news of Pan's death came to one Thamus, a sailor on his way to Italy by way of the island of Paxi. A divine voice hailed him across the salt water, "Thamus, are you there? When you reach Palodes,[8] take care to proclaim that the great god Pan is dead." Which Thamus did, and the news was greeted from shore with groans and laments.

Makes no logical sense to me. How's your health been?

[greensh.livejournal.com]

Pan is associated with sexuality and this aspect of humankind is not dead. I've been thinking a lot about the topic.

The wikipedia article on Pan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(mythology)) does offer a alternative view to Plutarch's history...

Robert Graves (/wiki/Robert_Graves) (The Greek Myths) suggested that the Egyptian Thamus apparently misheard Thamus Pan-megas Tethnece 'the all-great Tammuz (/wiki/Tammuz) is dead' for 'Thamus, Great Pan is dead!' Certainly, when Pausanias (/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)) toured Greece about a century after Plutarch, he found Pan's shrines, sacred caves and sacred mountains still very much frequented.

My health is good. My physical strength has been increasing with the almost daily lifting, sorting and transporting of mucho stuff. I am having a small spiritual crisis, but it has not translated over to my overall mental state. I credit the cymbalta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymbalta) I am taking for my stability. My blogging has been pretty pedestrian and perhaps it could be more "energetic" if I were not taking the cymbalta, but my coping with life would suffer and the suicidal thoughts would (probably) return.

[chimerae.livejournal.com]

I'm not as sure about this as I am about some things, but I think Pan as sexuality is a mistranslation through our cultural and historic lens(es)

I think it's much much more than that -- as best as I can discern Pan and Sylvanius represent essential feral lifefulness in a form that can be channelled but never contained by logic or any other human systems.

In our current world, sex would be our closest clear vehicle. I would include drunkenness, eating, shopping, and violent expressions altho those have been boxed up pretty neatly by culture and practice.

[chimerae.livejournal.com]

I think you reflexively capture this in your photography. I think that's why people take your wolf photos for those game thingys

[greensh.livejournal.com]

Soon I will be moving on to taking pictures of people. While I've taken pictures of people in group situations (i.e. dance), I've not purposely posed them. The "sexy" aspect of my photography will be more apparent when I take this leap.

cymbalta

[chimerae.livejournal.com]

This was the email from www.storypeople.com today

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I read somewhere that if given a choice between sex & peace of mind, she said, most people would choose peace. Personally, I said, I do fine with a little anxiety.
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I personally would do fine with a little LESS anxiety

Re: cymbalta

[greensh.livejournal.com]

For most people (hopefully!!!) "a little anxiety" does not include continuous suicidal thoughts. Such a condition is really not fun, and does weigh on the rest of life. I'm happy with the less anxiety for now too.