So, it was suggested to me that I blog.  I never thought I would or should, but I figured if someone thought I should do it, it wasn't something to resist.  But what to blog about?  What do I have to say that isn't on a million other blogs?  What have I really explored that I've learned enough about to share? It's a good question.  What really interests me and will reflect well on me in the future if someone should come across this blog that I want to impress.  The thing is I have interests that I don't share with a lot of people.  You see, I've always been extremely religious.  Not in the conventional sense, not at all.  But in the Latin sense of the word, "religare," which means to reconnect.   But to reconnect to what?  Ah, that is the million dollar question.   Part of the question is why don't more people know this about me.  I went to Syracuse University to get a degree in communications to be the next Bob Costas, my ultimate goal was to host the NFL today.   But when I got there, I found those classes and the people in them impossible.   TV was their religion, and I just loved football.  I ended up getting a degree in Religious Studies and was able to study with some of the most interesting people I've ever met.  My favorite Professor there was a man named Ageahanda Bharati.  As an Austrian youth he was drafted into Hitler's army, and sent to India where he deserted.  He lived as a mendicant monk for 17 years, and then got his Ph.d in Eastern Studies from Oxford.  By the late sixties, he was head of the Eastern Studies department at the University of Washington, and was asked to leave for giving Undergraduate Coeds LSD and teaching them how to have tantric sex.  So why would I want to study communications? While in college I went on a new years meditation retreat with Jack Kornfield that has started me on a Vipassana Meditation practice, which showed me how a lot of the things I think about are repetitive and pointless.   I went straight from College to Graduate School in San Francisco at a place called the California Institute of Integral Studies.   By 24 I had a masters degree in Counseling Psychology from a program that had explored both Eastern and Western Models of the psyche.  While there, I delved deep into the work of Carl Jung, and developed a profound fascination with Astrology.  By the time I graduated, I had pretty steady work doing Astrology readings.  Astrology I had found was real.  Each and every person had a unique structure that they were born with and that was identifiable at the moment of their birth, or at any other time that their celestial arrangement could be viewed.   Archetypal structures focused each person's experience in a unique way that was objectively perceivable.  Having found this to be true, there had to be an intelligence that arranged the experience.  So, that is what I have worked to reconnect with, THAT INTELLIGENCE.
 I wouldn't be revealing myself fully unless I spoke about the way that I dream.   In my first year of Graduate School in the fall of 1991, it was suggested to me that I keep a dream journal, which I did.  Twenty three years later, I have recorded 6,500 hundred dreams. First recorded in a journal, then transferred onto my computer.   But the more impressive than the sheer number of dreams, are the re-occurring people, places and themes over the years.   The find command on my computer has allowed me to see that dreams that are several years apart, and often forgotten have a relationship to the dreams that I may dream tonight or tomorrow.  An intelligence speaks nightly, while I sleep in a language all it's own, and it is a revelatory language that comes more into focus as time passes.   Hopefully this blog will do the same thing.