Kelly Bulkeley, a wonderful author, teacher and dreamworker, has just written a wonderful article in the San Francisco Chronicle about Barack Obama's dream life.
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Here is an excerpt:
The first dream occurred when he was a senior at Columbia University, a year after receiving the news of his father's death. It started with him on a bus trip with an unknown group of people. An old white man sitting nearby informed him that "our treatment of the old test(s) our souls." The bus stopped at a grand hotel, and the old man somehow changed into a small black girl who began playing the piano.
The trip continued. Obama dozed, then awakened (still in the dream), alone. He got off the bus and stood in front of a rough stone building. Inside, a lawyer and judge discussed the fate of Obama's father, a captive in jail. The judge was willing to release him, but the lawyer argued against it because of "the need to maintain order."
Then Obama stood before the door to his father's cell. He unlocked it and confronted the man, with "only a cloth wrapped around his waist." His father smiled and said, "Barack, I always wanted to tell you how much I love you." They embraced, but suddenly his father shrank in size, and a deep sadness overcame him. Obama tried to lead his father out of the cell, but he declined and told his son he should go.
The dream ended there, and Obama said, "I awoke still weeping, my first real tears for him - and for me, his jailor, his judge, his son."
I am very touched by this dream because it really shows (in my projection) how full of love and forgiveness our presidential hopeful is. It is time we had a leader that showed a little more humanity, sensitivity and kindness towards the world.
