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Thursday
16Apr2009

...AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON...

Prospero:


Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

W. SHAKESPEARE - "Tempest" Act 4, Scene 1

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A few days ago I listened to a program entitled Parts OF A Whole where Michael Toms, of New Dimensions Radio, interviewed David Bohm, the world renouned physicist whose approach to quantum physics addressed the totality of existence, including matter and consciousness, as an unbroken whole.

Today we tend to take this approach for granted, forgetting how long it took for the human mind to be able to apprehend reality as an interactive and subjectively perceived phenomenon, rather than an objectively observable, relatively stable ground of being. However, when one realizes that this interview took place in 1983, one cannot help but to feel humbled by Dr. Bohm's brilliance.

I hope you will take the time to listen to this interview. Aside from the fact that it is an interesting and entertaining exchange, Dr. Bohm raises an issue of the utmost importance for the future of our species and of the planet we inhabit. I feel so strongly about this that, if I were in charge of things, I would make it a mandatory requirement, for anyone pursuing any kind of higher education, that in order to be admitted in class he or she must first listen to, and show an understanding of, this program's content. Or, to be more precise, of its implications.

Are you curious? What could this thing be about? And how could it be so relevant to us humans and to the earth?

And what could a 1983 interview reveal, that we should pay so much attention to it?

Most of all....what does any of this have to do with dreams?

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Come join us tonight for our usual "Every Other Thursday Night In NYC" group meeting, located at 301 West 55th Street, buzzer # 4, and you shall find out, once and for all.

Look forward to a quantum bit of dream exploration with you.

Don't miss it. For real.

rma