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On the occasion of the release of his new book, The World Behind The World: Living at the Ends of Time, renowned storyteller, and scholar of mythology, anthropology and psychology, Michael Meade speaks at Saint Vincent's School on San Rafael. Michael Meade does unique and meaningful work with disenfranchised youth and returning veterans. See www.mosaicvoices.org. Also featured is an interview with Meade conducted by scholar of dream mythology Dan Gronwald and KPFA producer/host Jane Heaven.

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dreams were physical events—visions sent by God. People didn't
have dreams, they saw dreams. Dreams were real. In
ancient cultures around the Mediterranean, dreams were visions sent by
God.

Dreams
in the New Testament

Let's start by reviewing dreams in the New Testament. You'll read the
gospel's dream stories, and I'll point out features you maybe haven't
noticed before. Features that tie the magic divine dreams of early Christianity
with the magic divine dreams of ancient Paganism.

1	Dreams are sent by a God. The God may appear Himself, or He may send a messenger.
2	The God / messenger often stands over the dreamer.
3	The God or His messenger speak words the writer is able to quote verbatim.
4	Important world events are accompantied by divine dreams. This works the other way: because they are sent by a God, dreams can show that an event is important.
5	Dreams are often used as plot devices that lead to otherwise unmotivated actions.

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But as he considered this, behold, an
angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph,
son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, for that which is conceived
in her is of the Holy Spirit; 21 she will bear a son, and you shall call
his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."
22 All this took place to fulfil what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:
23 "Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name
shall be called Emmanuel" (which means, God with us). 24 When
Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him;
Then, opening
their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.
12 And being warned in a dream not
to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another
way.
Now when they had departed, behold, an angel
of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a
dream and said, "Rise,
take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and
remain there till I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child,
to destroy him." 14 And he rose and took the child and
his mother by night, and departed to Egypt, 15 and remained there until
the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the
prophet, "Out of Egypt have I called my son."

Gospel
of Matthew, Chapter 2
Besides, while he was sitting
on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him,
"Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for
I have suffered much over him today in a dream."

Gospel
of Matthew, Chapter 27
Acts
16: And a vision appeared to Paul in
the night: a man of Macedo'nia
was standing beseeching him and saying, "Come
over to Macedo'nia and help us." 10 And when he had seen
the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedo'nia, concluding
that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

The
evidence is clear. Early Christians believed in divine dreams in which:

	God gave advice.
	Through a divine messenger or a story-related person standing over the dreamer
	Speaking concise sentences the gospeler was somehow able to get down word for word, and
	Advancing the plot or motivating otherwise unmotivated actions and
	Proving the world historical importance of the event.

1
Dreams
are sent by a God. The God may appear Himself, or
He may send a messenger. Sometimes a story-related character delivers
the dream.

2
The God / messenger/
story-character often stands over the dreamer.

3
The
God or His messenger speak words the writer is able to quote
verbatim.

4
Important world
events are accompanied by divine dreams. This works the other way:
because they are sent by a God, dreams can show that an event
is important.

5
Dreams are often
plot devices that explain otherwise unmotivated actions.
The
goddess Ishtar heard my anxious sighs and said "Fear not!"
and gave me confidence, (saying) [page 171] "Since you have lifted
your hands in prayer and your eyes have filled with tears, I have had
mercy." During the night in which I appeared before her, (50) a
sabru-priest lay down and had a dream. He awoke with a start and
then Ishtar caused him to see a nocturnal
vision.
Now when they were all assembled in one place together,

Achilleus of the swift feet stood up among them and spoke forth:

'Son of Atreus, I believe now that straggling backwards

we must make our way home if we can even escape death, 60

if fighting now must crush the Achaians and the plague likewise.

No, come, let
us ask some
holy man, some prophet,

even an interpreter of dreams,
since a dream also

comes from Zeus, who can tell why Phoibos
Apollo is so angry,

if for the sake of some vow, some hecatomb he blames us, 65

if given the fragrant smoke of lambs, of he goats, somehow

he can be made willing to beat the bane aside from us.'

[Homer, Iliad 1.57- 67, 8th century
BC]
Now
the rest of the gods, and men who were lords of chariots,

slept night long, but the ease of sleep came not upon Zeus

who was pondering in his heart how he might bring honour

to Achilleus, and destroy many beside the ships of the Achaians.

Now to his mind this thing appeared to be the best counsel, 5

to
send evil Dream to Atreus'
son Agamemnon.
He cried out to the dream and
addressed him in winged words:

"Go forth, evil Dream, beside the swift ships of
the Achaians.

Make your way to the shelter of Atreus' son Agamemnon;

speak to him in words exactly as I command you. 10
So
he spoke, and Dream listened
to his word and descended.

Lightly he came down beside the swift ships of the Achaians

and came to Agamemnon the son of Atreus. He found him

sleeping within his shelter in a cloud of immortal slumber.

Dream stood then beside his
head in the likeness of Nestor, 20
Neleus'
son, whom Agamemnon honoured beyond all

elders beside. In Nestor"s likeness
the divine Dream spoke to him:

"Son of wise Atreus breaker
of horses, are you sleeping?

He should not sleep night long who is a man burdened with counsels

and responsibility for a people and cares so numerous. 25

Listen quickly to what I say, since I am a messenger

of Zeus, who far away cares much for you and is pitiful.

Zeus bids you arm the flowing-haired Achaians for battle

in all haste; since now you might take the wide-wayed city

of the Trojans. For no longer are the gods who live on Olympos 30

arguing the matter, since Hera forced them all over

by her supplication, and evils are in store for the Trojans

from Zeus. Keep this thought in your heart then, let not forgetfulness

take you, after you are released from the kindly sweet slumber."

So he spoke and went away, and
left Agamemnon 35

there, believing things in his heart that were not to be accomplished.

For he thought that on that very day he would take Priam"s city;

fool, who knew nothing of all the things Zeus planned to accomplish,

Zeus, who yet was minded to visit tears and sufferings

on Trojans and Danaalis alike in the strong encounters. 40

[Homer, Iliad, Book 2 (8th century BC)]
he fell
asleep. And now he saw in the night, as the Persians declare, a
vision of this nature-he thought a
tall and beautiful man stood over him and said, "Have
you then changed your mind, Persian, and will you not lead forth your
host against the Greeks, after commanding the Persians to gather together
their levies? Be sure you do not well to change; nor is there a man here
who will approve your conduct. The course that you determined on during
the day, let that be followed." After
thus speaking the man seemed to Xerxes to fly away.
55.
When Aristagoras left Sparta he hastened to Athens, which had been freed
of its tyrants in the way that I will now describe. After the death of
Hipparchus (the son of Pisistratus, and brother of the tyrant Hippias),
who, in spite of the clear warning
he had received concerning his fate in a dream, was slain by Harmodius
and Aristogeiton (men both of the race of the Gephyraeans), the oppression
of the Athenians continued for the space of four years; and they gained
nothing, but were worse used than before.
Now the dream of Hipparchus was the
following: The night be- [page 314] fore the Panathenaic festival,
he thought he saw in his sleep a tall
and beautiful man, who stood over him, and read him the following riddle:

Bear thou unbearable
woes with the all-bearing heart of a lion, Never, be sure, shall wrong-doer
escape the reward of wrong-doing.
As
soon as day dawned he sent and
submitted his dream to the interpreters,
after which he offered the averting sacrifices, and then went and led
the procession in which he perished.

[Herodotus, The Persian Wars, 5.55- 6 (c
440 BC), -- which you can find in: Godolpin, Francis. The Greek Historians
(1942), pg. 313- 4]
13
I saw in the night visions,
and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one
like a Son of Man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented
before him. 14 And to him was given dominion and glory and kingdom,
that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion
is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom
one that shall not be destroyed.

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