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Yesterday *she knelt on her heels, with knees together and hands on her lap; so at times today, but also at times with knees separated and hands in her lap: and occasionally, I think, sitting rather than kneeling, with lower legs crossed quite close in front of her and hands resting just in front of the crossing of the legs. The first posture is associated more often with the bowed head, the last with the direct and continuing regard of those intensely blue eyes.** The progression of postures, from first to third, is also associated with a developing maturity: the first posture might be of a child, a young girl, say ten years of age in bodily terms; the third posture might be a girl, a young woman, say sixteen to twenty years of age, or even more; but it is hard to be certain.

*[See last previous entry]

**cf [[Redbook5:336-341][19880904:2022#]{Emptiness of the Spirit}[4th September 1988]] 339 [ – renumbered as 341 (ref unclear but possibly to Rudyard Kipling’s poem ‘Merrow Down’, which is reproduced on 340-341 (as renumbered from 338-339), 9^th verse]

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*The presence of the** Angelic Undine*** is as strong today as yesterday,* and in the same place, although her position (ie that of her limbs) changes slightly.

I do try to head off the more obvious and facile psychiatric interpretations: hence (partly at least) the attention I pay to sexuality in this context.**** I am [also] aware that the creation of imaginary playmates# is a characteristic of young children. However, such behaviour is (I believe) commonly associated with loneliness, and I am not lonely. Nor do I recall any such [imaginary] playmates in my own childhood;#* nor has anyone ever informed me that I spoke of any.

If this is creation, it is not invention: it is creation at a far more profound level than is commonly available, a level at which it makes sense to ask who or what exactly is doing the creating. From my point of view it is more like discovery.

*[[Redbook5:285-287][19880814:0040]{Undine (1)}[14th August 1988],] 287 →

**[Presumably, the foremost one in [Redbook5:285-287][19880815:0040]{Undine (1)}[15th August 1988]ff]

***[[Redbook5:283-284][19880814:1910]{Undines}[14th August 1988]]

****[eg [Redbook5:276][19880814:1130c]{Two Dreams: Of swimming with fair-haired girls [continued (3)]}[14th August 1988];

[Redbook5:277-278][19880814:1130e]{Dream Nakedness}[14th August 1988];

[Redbook5:279-282][19880814:1540b]{Sexual Intercourse (& Dream Nakedness)}[14th August 1988]ff;

[Redbook5:285-286][19880815:0040]{Undine (1) [continued]}[15th August 1988] para 3 &fn***;

[Redbook5:287-290][19880815:0935]{A Narrative Dream: Future Security Forces}[15th August 1988]]

#[In the traditional sense….]

#*[[Redbook4:219-224][19871213:2005]{Walking with the Fair-haired Girl}[13th December 1987]]

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When I first awoke* I was disconcerted to find myself having what appeared to be a racist dream.* However, the details suggest otherwise: that it should be a minority group in a near-future urban pluralist society which should wreak destruction is not illogical, and Black[...] [people] are visually the most obvious symbol for a minority group. Black[...] [people] also were put in terror by them; and a black [sic] anarchist or terrorist showed real sorrow at what he had to do – more so than the Security Forces, as it happened.

I do not now think that the dream is about Black[…] [people] at all. It is about Security Forces.** Yesterday during an enforced break from writing I was troubled by what I might have left out of the Outer M~ section of the booklet, in terms of Outer Action/Military Conquest/Justice. I believe that this dream contains at least a part of what I left out, and will now attempt to include: about the role of M~ Outer (M~) principles in the modern and near-future World; which is why I have dealt with this dream in such detail.***

*[See last 5 previous entries]

**And the different kind[s] of Security Forces: ie Reds, and Blues/Greys.

***[The dream is distinctly relevant to the world at the time of transcription (ie now);**** it would be interesting to know whether similar events had occurred, or had been represented in films, before the time of the dream. & cf also [Redbook4:67-70][19870821:1020]{Evil at Hungerford}[21st August 1987]; & see also a possible source at [Redbook2:57][19740909:0725b]{A Trip to the Colonies [continued(26)]}[9th September 1974]]

****[See, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westgate_shopping_mall_attack (– Nairobi, Kenya, 21/09/2013)]

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*(5) As we returned with one or more members of these security forces – who did not have red helmets – from the site of the previous scene** through the now peaceful streets {–} he was explaining to us that he was sorry they had not come out earlier, but they had to find out who it was that was doing it; ‘for example, whether it was all black men’.***

*[See last 4 previous entries]

**[See last previous entry]

***An ambiguous remark.

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*(4) After some attempts to escape in passages etc., I was fleeing down a long, daylit tunnel (like one of those enclosed aerial walkways you find in airports) – I was with, or was,** a father with his family. But we were headed off. We shammed dead, and the black men were at first convinced. However, one of them by a trick (eg Well done, it’s all safe now) persuaded the youngest child to stop shamming; then with an expression of regret (eg I wish you hadn’t done that), and real tears, raised his gun to kill the child, and us.

At this cliff-hanging point the black man and his companions themselves fell dead, and security forces appeared.

*[See last 3 previous entries]

**This kind of dream frequently uses shifting personal viewpoints. <880817>

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*(3) I escaped and tried to find someone to warn. But in this world (as I now realise) dedicated to entertainment and instruction, even the Military Police in their red helmets were in the pubs, which were noisy and crowded. The only Officer I found was hopelessly drunk; I remember asking an ordinary soldier to take me to an Officer. While I was looking for another one – there were distractions, like people performing party trick acrobatics – the anarchists struck.

*[See last 2 previous entries]

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*(2) At a certain point my companion and I got lost trying to get back to the museum. After several unsuccessful attempts we entered what might have been a service (or services) route, and stumbled by accident on the fringes of what seemed to be a secret meeting of a group of black anarchists.# There were several terrified black women around. Hiding with (I think) a black girl, we (she and I) found two large mysterious wooden crates, distinctively shaped, which filled us with horror: we felt that they were connected with the anarchists, and dared not open them for fear of the death that was inside.

*[See last previous entry]

#‘anarchists’ is my waking description of them.

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In outline, the narrative dream* had, I think, five stages:

(1) A future world, perhaps possible in a generation or two from now, clearly** dedicated largely to entertainment and instruction: we were in a kind of museum centre, in this case I think devoted to the Kennet and Avon Canal.*** But it was vast, and surrounded by a mixture of older and futuristic buildings in an inner city area (I had**** the strong impression that almost everything from the post[-]World War II period in the area had been torn down, and quite right too).

*[See last previous entry.]

**(as I now perceive)

***[The K&A featured in the writer’s childhood, and in [1].]

****{(then – or since?)}

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I had wondered whether the waking intensity of this kind of experience* would mean that the equivalent dreams would no longer appear. What in fact I got this morning was a narrative dream, of a type which I do not recall having had for a long time.**

Incidentally it occurs to me that as my dreams of a significant kind generally seem to occur in the morning – and I vaguely remember reading somewhere that this is usual for this kind of dream – and as I often wake up in the morning with an erection – and I vaguely remember reading somewhere that this is also not uncommon – it would not be surprising if when the dreams involve unclad girls, the sexual state is projected onto the dream – ie it is not necessarily the other way round.***

It is also vaguely in my mind that when I have had – generally long ago – significant dreams of a more ‘Christ’-like or general experience, they have more commonly**** occurred in the middle of my sleeping period – mainly because I can remember on some occasions lying awake in the darkness in an altered psychological and/or physical state, before returning to sleep (and sometimes having forgotten some of it when I re-awoke).

*[See last four previous entries]

**[See next entry ff]

***Don’t forget that some of the unclad girls in the dreams are distinctly nubile, ie physically developed. (UNCLAD sounds like a United Nations agency.) <880817>

[But not all – cf [Redbook4:221-222][19871213:2005e]{Walking with the Fair-haired Girl [continued (5)]}[13th December 1987]; & of course [Redbook5:275-276][19880814:1130b]{Two Dreams: Of swimming with fair-haired girls [continued]}[14th August 1988]. Earlier accounts & analyses, & recollections, suggest that any sexual feeling or arousal occurs during awakening from the dream, not during the dream itself, which would also help to reduce the possibility that the dreams were actually due to the physical state – a conclusion which, in the circumstances, would be hard to bare [sic]. In the writer’s experience, sexual dreams or dream-fragments are sexual all the way through, are explicit, and do not have the sense of significance accompanying the type of dream discussed here. See also fn*** to [Redbook5:285-286][19880815:0040]{Undine (1) [continued]}[15th August 1988] <-20180102&5>]

****(or at least fairly frequently)

[It so happens that if the personal day is mapped onto the Inner Circle, the “significant dreams of a more ‘Christ’-like or general experience” may be perceived to occur at the +C†I~ degree, ie the top of the Circle, and the dreams of females around the r~-g~ sector, ie the “female” degrees of Love and Revelation. <20181029>]

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What is their* function? They are Spirits of Love, of course; and they and particularly the one kneeling nearest are here to help me, I believe; although how exactly, I cannot say.** Certainly they are not here to ‘do my bidding’: the idea makes me recoil in horror. But wherever the need is, they are there.

*[See last three previous entries]

**With Wisdom, maybe? <880815>

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It is interesting that not long before this* [W] had sat with me in [...]** my study, and I had thought that she had never looked more beautiful: a face transformed by an inner serenity like a glow within the skin, accentuating the high cheek bones and curling golden hair which remind me more of the G~ than of the R~ Degree and Type. When I told her, of course, she became self-conscious and pulled faces.

Earlier on still, I had wondered whether the sharper sense of smell*** would be followed by a brighter light (but was confused by having replaced a 60W[att] with a 100W[att] [light] bulb!).

*[See last 2 previous entries]

**[....]

***[[Redbook5:279][19880814:1540]{Fiction and Reality [continued]}[14th August 1988]]

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