Thanks to everyone who responded with your takes on what the John Lewis dream meant. I feel like there was truth in all of the answers. Maybe that was the point of the dream: to make us think about our own roles in protecting democracy and of those who we choose to represent us to maintain it. I hope that John Lewis is at peace, longer in pain and watching over the country as it navigates this difficult time.
The shoe that I feel is going to drop is the next set of ways they are hoping to steal the election. DeJoy was lying when he said the USPS would continue to deliver ballots. The GOP and their dark money oligarchs, like Putin, have a multi-pronged attack to stay in power. They hope to create election chaos and an indeterminate winner. I do not think they will succeed but I feel them trying.
They all know that Trump has lost the election, so they are working on any way they can steal it. Hand-deliver your ballots. (Make copies of them too, for what its worth.)
Whatever happens, we are looking at the most important election of our lifetimes.
What can you do, besides helping people vote the right way? Help people get their ballots in, however, they must do it. (Not the post office unless your state has taken action to fix the postal service).
There is also something we can do individually, to raise the vibration of our collective. Make peace within yourselves. Forgive your adversaries and all of the people in your lives. Make of yourselves a light.
Then send light to our country, to the Biden campaign, and the good Congressional candidates.
Come to the Circle of Light on Wednesday nights at 8:30 EST/5:30 PT. We will be sending light to America and the election from now until as long as we need to do this.
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There is also something we can do individually, to raise the vibration of our collective. Make peace within yourselves. Forgive your adversaries and all of the people in your lives. Make of yourselves a light.
Then send light to our country, to the Biden campaign, and the good Congressional candidates.
@jeanne-mayell, thank you for sharing those words of wisdom. I've been reading daily meditations based on the writings of Henri Nouwen. Recently I've been struggling to find peace within myself and understanding and compassion for the T supporters. My answer came in the following message:
The power of the darkness around us is strong, and our world finds it easier to manipulate self-rejecting people than self-accepting people. The great spiritual call of the Beloved Children of God is to pull their brokenness away from the shadow of the curse and put it under the light of the Blessing. Physical, mental, or emotional pain lived under the blessing is experienced in ways radically different from physical, mental, or emotional pain lived under the curse.
Nouwen, Henri J.M., You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living, compiled and edited by Gabrielle Earnshaw, Convergent Books, (2017), p. 8.
@deetoo What a powerful message for our times! We can all take that message:
"The world finds it easier to manipulate self-rejecting people, than self-accepting people."
Reminds me that every Wednesday's Circle of Light, we make this affirmation: "May I be filled with loving kindness. May I be held in loving kindness. May I accept myself just the way I am."
When I watched Nouwen lecture, he would begin by looking upwards towards the heavens. This was so unusual to see in a professor at Harvard, even at the Harvard Divinity School which was more cerebral. He lived on campus and had converted one of his rooms to a meditation chapel. Anyone was welcome to walk into his apartment and up to that room and sit in prayer or contemplation.
@jeanne-mayell as a Georgia resident and voter... I am planning on hand delivering my absentee ballot.. our voting machines were tampered with I feel.. by Brian Kemp when he stole the election. I don't trust that they maintained the integrity of the machines. At least hand delivering will have a written record. Does anyone get a feel on the reliability and accuracy of the our voting machines?
I read your wonderful dream several times. I’m not much of an interpreter but I would like to learn.
Considering all the bile and acrimony that John Lewis experienced and channeled through his body in his lifetime, it seems appropriate that he would come to an empathic seer like you to sit with him as the last of his pain drains away, freeing him to travel on.
Another thought...do you experience gastrointestinal issues? Have you ever had an ulcer, or do you hold your emotions in your gut? Maybe John came to you to remind you to take care of yourself and to let your emotions pass through, too.
Take this with a huge grain of salt as I have no idea why I felt compelled to write this.
I think John Lewis is representing The Body Politic in your dream. There's a lot of disease in the system and it will require a lot of hand holding by all of us to heal. Certainly there is currently a lot of bile...
His district in GA has been firmly blue for a long time, it was redrawn in 2012, but he stayed in the seat despite that. I do suspect that putting all the offshore votes in that district is a way of saying that since that one district is blue and likely to remain so, you all don't get to influence voting in multiple districts (kind of like it's viewed as a "lost cause" by the rethuglicans).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%27s_5th_congressional_district
I read your wonderful dream several times. I’m not much of an interpreter but I would like to learn.
Considering all the bile and acrimony that John Lewis experienced and channeled through his body in his lifetime, it seems appropriate that he would come to an empathic seer like you to sit with him as the last of his pain drains away, freeing him to travel on.
Another thought...do you experience gastrointestinal issues? Have you ever had an ulcer, or do you hold your emotions in your gut? Maybe John came to you to remind you to take care of yourself and to let your emotions pass through, too.
Take this with a huge grain of salt as I have no idea why I felt compelled to write this.
@lowtide When I read about the dream I also got the feeling that this was a message about a possible health issue. @baba if you've had any type of strange gastrointestinal issues or odd pains lately it might be a good idea to bring it up with your doctor.
I just woke from the strangest dream, and felt the need to write it down. It took me forever to fall asleep tonight, and now I'm very bleary from the dream and waking up, so this may come across totally discombobulated.
My daughter (in my dream, she was much younger; a child) was told she had a growing infection in her foot, and her leg needed to be amputated from the knee down, and it needed to happen the next day. We woke up the morning of the surgery, and wrote a long thank you and goodbye note to her leg ON her leg (I'm stretching my memory ... can't remember which leg). We got to the hospital, and Mike Pence was sitting at a desk, and Joe Biden was standing and smiling. I handed Pence a shoe box, and in it was the shoe for the foot about to be amputated. I told him, "we don't need this anymore." Pence looked uncomfortable and disgusted, and handed the box to Biden. Biden said, "I don't think he liked that," and I responded, "Then he probably shouldn't see her leg." Biden smiled, then took my daughter's hand, and led her into a hallway. I asked what they were doing, and Pence smiled smugly and said, "No, they've left for surgery." I got panicky and started to shake my hand, and ran to the door to stop them and hug my daughter goodbye, I felt like I hadn't prepared her or comforted her ... she just was TAKEN ... but outside the door, in the hallway, was a family - they looked like a different ethnicity or religion, and were looking around the hallway, confused. When the saw the open door, they looked hopeful and tried to come in, so I quickly shut the door.
And then I woke up. Now I have a pounding headache, reflux, and am not sure how long it will take to fall back to sleep. But I thought maybe you would have fun with the dream.