Session 844

Mass Events, Session 844

I’ve got a couple of points to make …

One is that because objects just originate in man’s imagination anyway, there’s always a strong connection between objects and man’s dreams.  They act as symbols of inner reality, so it’s only natural that whether he’s aware of it or not, man perceives objects in such a fashion that they also stand for symbols that first originate in his dreams.

This also has to do with large events, that you might for convenience’s sake think of for now as psychological objects – that is, events seen and recognized by large numbers of people in the same way that objects are.

The Christ drama is a case in point, where private and mass dreams were then projected outward into the historical context of time, and then reacted to in such a way that various people became exterior participants – but in a far larger mass dream that was then interpreted in the most literal of physical terms.  Even while it was, it also got the message across, though the inner drama itself was not recalled; and as the dream merged with historical events, and as it was interpreted by so many, its message also became distorted – or rather, it mixed and merged with other such dreams, whose messages were far different.

Look at your nuclear-reactor troubles at the plant by Harrisburg (Three Mile Island).  The entire idea of nuclear power was first a dream – an act of the imagination on the part of private individuals – and then through fiction and the arts, a dream on the part of many people.  Instantly, probabilities spun out from the dream in all directions, vast potentials and dangers.

It was hardly a coincidence that this particular situation arrived in the social climate first of all portrayed in a movie.

Nuclear power stands for power, plain and simple.  It stands in man’s dreams as belonging to God: the power of the universe.  Man has always considered himself, in your terms, as set apart from nature’s power – and there must be a great division in his dreams between the two.  Nuclear energy in fact, then, comes as a dream symbol, and emerges into the world as something to be dealt with.

Fundamentalists think of nuclear power as a force that God might use, say, to destroy the world.  That event in Harrisburg means one thing to them.  Some of the scientists equate nuclear power with man’s great curiosity, and feel that they wrest this great energy from nature because they are “smarter than” nature is – smarter than nature, smarter than their fellow men – so they read those events in their own way.  The probabilities are still surging, of course, and in private and mass dreams people try out all kinds of endings for that particular story.

And in all, millions of people are involved, who will be affected of coursed to one extent or another.

There was a tie-in, and it’s that the Christ drama happened as a result of man’s dream, at least, of achieving brotherhood – a quiet, secure sense of consciousness, and a morality that would sustain him in the physical world.

The Christ drama did splash over into historical reality.  Man’s fears of not achieving brotherhood, of not achieving a secure state of consciousness, or a workable morality, result in his dreams of destruction, however they are expressed.  And indeed, the present physical event as it exists now at the energy plant near Harrisburg can easily be likened to – and is – a warning dream to change man’s actions.