From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   2020/04/15 Wednesday:  Total Self-Actualization?   
      
   Well, self-enlightenment, for starters...   
      
   From Last Night's Meditations: (That time one spends thinking when one cannot   
   fall asleep:)   
      
   Self-Enlightenment Handbook (the Bible)   
      
   ALL [thought | action | choice | emotion | love | reality] ("God") originates   
   from within. However, I feel Jesus sums it up FAR more effectively with just   
   two simple words: "I AM."   
      
   Last night's dreams, however, were a bit limited:  One began "at the house   
   across the NE corner of the field", in their back yard, with what looked like   
   two ape-men / big-foots of a *somewhat* menacing appearance, but not quite   
   attacking.  Meanwhile,    
   there was at least one small, dog-like critter, perhaps smaller than a black   
   Scotty, most likely a Cairn Terrier (think "Toto" from the Wizard of Oz, only   
   this pup was darker, nearly black.  I *suspect* the troglodytes *may* have   
   been gays, not quite    
   possible to tell) The dog seemed to attack my right hand, as if he had somehow   
   fit my entire (unclenched) fist into his jaws.  Unfortunately, the only way to   
   remove the critter was to start pounding its skull onto rock.  That particular   
   method created    
   feelings of empathy for the critter, and nearly abject sorrow at having to   
   "kill" it to get it off my fist, but the way I figured it, the dog should   
   never have attacked my hand in the first place.  Clarity 6 or *maybe* 7.   
      
   In another dream, there was some type of context in discussion, but it's all   
   gone.  What I recall most were the faces of women, as if they were images from   
   the past, most notably about the time of the American Revolution.  They seemed   
   to be wearing    
   powdered wigs and had whitish faces (think French Revolution style) although   
   they had a more English appearance, and the overall setting seemed   
   Revolutionary Colonial-American.  I saw one predominant face with two   
   supporting faces, and what *seemed* like    
   an American male of note, however, "he" pretty much was NOT a point of focus,   
   in that I remember almost nothing about him, other than he had *some* kind of   
   association with George Washington.  Clarity 5, perhaps.   
      
   In yet another dream, a team of horses were (chasing?!?) a wagon downhill,   
   with another wagon careening down behind them.  The rear wagon *bumped* into   
   the horses, which caused a slight kick, but the action of flowing downhill   
   seemed to all "fit"    
   together.  The time period seemed "out West" (Wild West?  circa 1860-ish.)    
   Clarity 6.   
      
   Finally, there was this scene outside of a building with a door that needed to   
   be opened in order to get inside.  The trick to OPEN the door was to program   
   the device!  It simply required someone to say, "DOOR" "OPEN SESAME" and the   
   door then was    
   programmed to open to the phrase "Open Sesame".  It seemed to have a flaw,   
   however, that ANYONE could re-program the command simply by saying "DOOR" as   
   the program-start-code-word-entry point.  Clarity 7 or 8.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)