Harry Potter and the first Chakra

Currently reading the Harry Potter series for the first time.  For a long while I suspected there may be some relation to the seven books in the series and the seven chakras of the human energy system so here are my unedited notes from my first read through of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.  And when I say unedited, I mean unedited.  I will fix names and such when I have a chance. Or not.  Maybe I will just use these musings in other ways:

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Root Chakra

Harry becomes homeless

Harry is poor, or thinks he is

Harry is forced to live at the fringe of the Dreazley home having to live under the stairs, below the bottom

After Harry learns who he is, suddenly he has a vault full of money.

After getting Hogwarts, Harry proceeds to break rules that should get him kicked out of Hogwarts. First, after Neville is injured after misflying his broom and drops his Forget-Me-Not charm taht is swiped by Malfoy who is also breaking the rules and promises to put it high in a tree, Harry takes off after him. But instead of being kicked out, because Mrs Monicle sees him make an impressive catch, she gets him on the Squibbage team.

Later that night, after Malfoy challenges Harry to a wizard duel, Harry breaks the curfew rule and brings Ron, Herminie, and Nevillie along with him. Not only do they break curfew and wander the halls of Hogwarts after midnight, they break a further rule and end up in the forbidden corridor.

One of the reasons I was not attracted to Harry Potter right from the start is because I know there is no such thing as a “sorcerer's stone” and that what the title is referring to is the fabled Philosopher's Stone.

I honestly do not understand why Americans are fine with having things dumbed down for them. First Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone insults my intelligence and secondly it wounds my pride as an American.

I think most Americans are just as capable of understanding the concept and history of the Philosopher's Stone as any given European and so it makes no sense to me to talk down to a population, unless you want that population to stew in its own ignorance. But how does promoting someone else's ignorance help anything?

The same thing happened with Pan's Labyrinth which I think was a 2008 movie Guillermo Del Toro. I was very excited to see this film but as the movie went one I became increasingly disturbed by a lack of Pan. Why was it called Pan's Labyrinth when it was Faun who controlled the labyrinth? Listening to the commentary track, Del Toro said it was because the producers didn't think Americans knew who or what a faun was, but you know what? We can look it up.

This may be part of the lesson of the first chakra: Don't believe what your education system tells you. Suss it out for yourself! Risk getting kicked out of school. The school is there to serve you, not you it.

The Place of the Skull 44 88

Shocking information or synchronicity.

I am literally shaking as I write this down.

I watched a video this morning on an old pagan rite I had never heard of called Liberalia.  The video was a decode by YouTuber EnterThe5t4rz decoding the 44th episode of Inspector Gadget.

Inspector Gadget wasn't a show I had ever seen too much of as I had outgrown most of my interest in Saturday morning cartoons at this time although the few episodes I did see seemed more entertaining than most children's fare.

I did remember Inspector Gadget's battle cry which was Go! Go! Gadget! and then usually he would create a gadget out of his body.  I realized that GGG = 777 and I conveyed this to EnterThe5t4rz who responded back and asked me if I had noticed the skulls in Gadget's eyes when he is falling over a waterfall, which I had missed.

But since 5t4rz brought up the skulls it brought up the memory that Winneconne Wisconsin which I remember meaning something like Place of the Skull but before responding I wanted to double check the meaning and I ended up on the Wikipedia page where I was stunned, floored, overwhelmed to see that Winneconne is located at 44 degrees North and 88 degrees West. 

Other things that occurred to me about Gadget while I was writing this, he has two companions, Penney and a dog.  I don't remember the dogs name, I only remember Penney's name because 5t4rz mentioned it in his video but the dog can represent Sirius, the Dog Star and most revered symbol in Freemasonry but the dog also acts as the little white dog in the Fool card.  The dog that attempts to warn the fool he is about to go over a cliff.  Since the fool is caught up in his own thoughts, he doesn't heed the dog's warning and falls over the abyss but the dog, being loyal to it's master, accompanies him becoming a sort of conscience for the fool as he proceeds on his journey.

As the morning proceeded, 44's keep turning up.  I just want to get this up so I can share it with EnterThe5t4rz and put more work into it later if I need to.

Here is the video:

Here is a link to the Winneconne Wisconsin Wikepedia page (oh! Look at that: WWW)

Two Dreams Belated

20151025 Dreams

Swimming with Dolphins

I dream I am in some sort of suspense movie, there is some McGuffin some bad guy is after and one by one we are being cornered by his lackeys

[note: resuming after about a week]

When my character is cornered, I don't have whatever McGuffin the bad guy wants and I find myself knocked out. When I come to, I am on a yacht with some of the other people kidnapped and we look out and we are in the middle of the ocean and dolphins are swimming all around us.

I exchange glances with some of my compatriots, one a lovely woman, and the next thing we are all in the water swimming with the dolphins. I am a little worried because I keep thinking I am seeing sharks but they always turn out to be carved debris the dolphins have dreged up.

20151026 Dream

The Long Swim Home

I am recording this about a week after I had it. I haven't really dreamed, that I remember, since this dream.

I think I am a kid. It is confusing, at times I seem to be a kid and at other times I seem to be a very immature adult.

We are at a party, I remember wanting to go home, which is Madison in the dream. I text a great aunt and uncle of mine who have been long deceased. I don't know why I am texting them but I ask them for stuff and they seem to respond either materially or with advice.

In the dream I am in love with this girl and I want to take her out on a date so I text this aunt and uncle. I don't hear back from them. In the dream, the phone is older, pre-iPhone type razor phone with fireworks as the wallpaper. I don't hear back immediately so I proceed to head to the beach. Now I am a child of about 8 or maybe 6, I have a lot of childish boy energy and even though I feel older than the other kids when we are playing in the sand I am still one of them.

I climb a dune and the city of Madison can be seen, the entire skyline and there is so much blue because of some atmospheric condition. I laugh like a child and say, 'Look! Madison is Blue!'

I want to go home but the adult with us isn't ready yet so I prepare to swim. In the dream, we kids swim all the time from the shore to Madison, but it is quite a distance. Before going into the water I am putting my cell phone in a plastic bag and I have gotten a text back from my aunt and uncle: NOT YOUR MOTHER! Is all it says.

As I have finished recording this dream, I feel a sigh of release from deep inside, as if everything has been on hold until I've finally recorded this.

Dream of Art Fair and Balloon Ride

20151024 Dream

Me and my fiance are going to some sort of neighborhood art walk of some kind. Driving there is weird and the sequence repeats at least once. I'm driving and looking for parking, we come to a place where the road is blocked off for the art fair. I make a left turn up this hill that describes an arc around a big grassy knoll. We park and my fiance has to go and talk to someone else right away and so leaves me on my own. The parking sequence then repeats only this time there was rain and as I try to drive up the hill around the knoll the car slides to the bottom of the hill and gravity is off, the car is like a bumper car in a reduced gravity environment.

So I am on my own and I am walking toward an info table and the lady tells me there is an unannounced group that is about to perform just across the street. Well, I am the only person in this area, other than the information woman, and she is talking to someone on the phone trying to let them know where the performance is going to be. She ends up putting a Richard Nixon mask on the street the nose pointing the way.

I walk across the street and there is an alleyway where a bleachers has been erected. I see some props on the stage, one is a highly stylized vampire coffin and I can see an actor inside preparing and there are other props like this with people getting ready.

I ascend the bleachers and head for the middle of middle of the bleachers and I see two women who are performers walking down from the top row of seats. I'm a little worried they are going to bore me by talking about social justice stuff, I get this impression from the stage props although now I do not know what triggered this, and one woman asks me my name and then asks me about my brother.

I start telling everything about my self and how my brother's death affected me and I feel weird doing it, like I am giving too much information. She asks me about money and I explain I inherited some money and bought a house with it. The other woman seems judgmental about it, like “how can you have money and a house when there are so many problems in the world” while the other woman is not judgmental at all.

My fiance arrives and I ask her if it isn't incredible that this is going on, how we lucked into seeing this performance but she goes on a tear about how, in announcing the show, the organizers where splattering all over everybody. I don't see it that way, but I do wonder if they sent out a psychic message and because I was already close to the stage there was no need to hit me with it.

My fiance ascends from my lower left to above my right shoulder as the actors take the stage and the bleachers are transformed into a basket for a hot air balloon as we start to rise up into the air.

As we are flying were are not very high up yet and I can see houses in a neighborhood. We are gaining height but there was on roof that is scraped by the bottom of the basket. As I look down, I think I am looking at the roof to my house which is later confirmed because there are a pair of shoes in the back yard and the dream fills me in I was doing something to freshen the shoes and I had changed my shoes before coming to the art fair. There is a man sitting on my right and I exclaim to him that we have just gone over my house and I would have tidied up the back yard a bit if I knew we would be flying over. He says something to to effect that I shouldn't worry about it.

The balloon describes an arc and we are in an open field at the edge of the neighborhood. The man on my right directs my attention to an evergreen tree at the edge of a field and a road and there is a man standing inside the tree poking his hand out waving at us. It is a very white hand and then other actors appear on either side of the tree and start singing a song but we are too high up to hear them properly and I think about how amateurish the show is but, on the other hand, I am getting a free balloon ride.

Then I begin to wonder how they turned the bleachers into a balloon basket and how, since I was sitting in the middle of the middle of the bleachers, I ended up with such a good view at the edge of the basket. I feel bad for the people in the row behind me because I don't think they can see anything and they might not even be aware we are in a hot air balloon.

Dream of Dr Michio Kaku and Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson

Dream 20151023

I dream I am showing my fiance around a place I used to go when I was a kid. In reality, it is the Seven Bridges hiking trail in Cudahy Wisconsin which is on the shores of Lake Michigan but in the dream it is more like a resort.

We go into a bar that is part of this resort and behind the bar water is coming in under the wall and the water is part of the tide. I see the body of Doctor Michio Kaku being tossed back and forth by gentle waves. Behind the bar is a standing plank over the water and as I witness the corpse of Dr Kaku gently wafting under and out from under the plank, I have a flash of an earlier dream where I am seeing Dr Kaku's face in an imperfect bubble rising like the moon into the sky and the sense that someone is showing me Dr. Kaku's face so I will pay attention. Telling me, in fact, to remember or dream about Dr Kaku.

My fiance acts nonplussed and walks behind the bar and starts fixing drinks while I call the local police. I am in a near panic and nobody else in the bar seems to care that there is a dead body in the tide. As I am on the phone with the police I am having a hard time telling them where I am because my conscious memories of the Seven Bridges Trail is messing with this dream version of a resort but in the end the police seem to be on their way.

As I am getting off the phone I want to turn my attention back to my fiance behind the bar but I notice out of the corner of my right eye that Doctor Neil deGrasse Tyson is sitting at a table, noticably drunk.

In the dream, I just remember him more by his deGrasse name than his last name and I ask him, “Dr deGrasse, was there some sort of convention you and Dr Michio Kaku attended?” He starts talking about Dr Kaku as if he were still alive and I ask him if he is aware that Dr Kaku is dead, drowned, behind the bar?

But then the police appear, Dr deGrasse is looking at the direction of the lake seeming a bit sad or angry but anything he said did not stay with me into my waking life.

In part, I feel almost as if someone was psychically projecting Dr Michio Kaku's image into my head based on the faint memory him his image in an earlier dream but why or what it could mean, I do not know at this time. Also I do not know if I was specifically singled out to receive the dream or if it was a general broadcast that went out to man people dreaming last night.

If you remember dreaming about either Dr Michio Kaku or Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson, or if you were a part of some experiment to project thoughts of these public figures on our around October 22/23 2015 please post below.

The Bearman and Spiderwoman

20150812 Dream

I went to bed with an idea of dreaming for money advice. How can I make more money?

I had a series of complex dreams that I cannot remember much of. When I first woke up I lay in bed for a few minutes asking to recall my dreams but nothing was coming for several minutes.

Suddenly I flash on a big black man wearing a bright red shirt. He was guarding a door into some sort of slum apartment where me and a partner (it was a little like a police procedural). We were coming out of the building after talking to a woman who had something to do with the case we were working on.

I have a flash of her earlier in the dream getting us past the big burly black guard. He simply obeyed her when she commanded him to let us through.

On the inside of the building it is dark and dingy, exposed piping everywhere and as we open the door the bright sunlight and the bright red shirt the black man wears is a striking contrast. He holds out his hand for some kind of payment. My partner isn't having it and he just says something like, “The lady let us in.” as explanation as to why he isn't going to pay anything. I feel I should pay the man a little token. He doesn't seem mean and I feel a two dollar tip would be appropriate.

First I pull out my wallet but then I think better of it. That I have plenty of change and I don't have to open my wallet here and expose what I might be carrying. Which in the dream is only about $80-$200. I start sorting through my change looking for eight quarters. I find four and set them on a car hood that is nearby. I find three more and then I find a fourth quarter that has something stuck to it. It is like a small plastic mushroom camp, black with white dots. I try to free the quarter from it and maybe I do. I am not sure. I know I am thinking about that quarter is going to be sticky and I apologize to the man because of it but I might have given him the quarter with the plastic cap still glued on.

When this flash came to me, I decided to try and go back in the dream and ask the man some questions. At this point I didn't have as much detail as I have written above. I could only remember a black man in a bright red shirt and that we had gone into the building with a woman.

I decided I would ask the man who the woman was and why we had come to see her.

He told me she was a spider and that he was actually a bear. I had some memory of about 8 pipes the spiderwoman had shown me and the two top ones were the most important to me. The number 8 was related to these pipes and I felt 8's going down each of them. And maybe the vision of a city or a highway. I can almost see me in the dream, my eyes and forehead in the space between the pipes. I think I will try to do a rough sketch of what it looked like in order to honor this dream.

I asked the bearman some other questions about the dream. I asked him why he was wearing such a bright red shirt and he indicated that it represented danger but also just something to grab my attention (this worked as my first memory of the dream was almost an image of the searing red shirt in the bright sunlight). I asked him another question about the spiderwoman but he couldn't give me an answer. Perhaps I need to go back into the dream and talk to her, once I formulate a proper question.

Even though it seems to me the spiderwoman is the more important character I have the bearman the first credit since it was his image that allowed me to remember the dream.

Reptile And Robot

20150810 Dream

This dream is very complex and confusing. It appears to take place in a kind of composite of the backyard of the house I grew up in and the backyard of my aunt's house that wasn't too far away from where I lived.

When I first become aware in the dream, I am roaming the property with some dogs. I'm not sure how many dogs. Two I know from my youth but there are other dogs here too. At the far left-hand of the property facing away from the house is a stream or or creek of some kind. There is an aligator sleeping in it.

For some reason, I am not afraid of the sleeping aligator at this poin. There are two dogs sleeping under a tree about ten to twenty feet from the creek. One of the dogs that I knew when I was younger follows me on the property as I am doing whatever chore I am doing.

I come back to the creek area later and the alligator and the dogs are still asleep but then I notice the alligator stir. I call to the dogs to come to the house. In my mind, I am aware that alligators can move up to 60 miles an hour on land. This one is moving slowly enough and while I am in a heightened state of alertness in case I have to rescue any of the dogs, I am still thinking about how ancient the alligator is, that it is a living dinosaur. But about halfway to the house the hole dream shifts to an episode of Last in Space as the alligator changes into the Robot from that show.

In many ways, the Robot is more dangerous than the alligator because the Robot is mad. It can think, unlike the alligator that only seeks to quell its appetites. As I get the dogs to the house, it is actually a spaceship, much larger than the Jupiter 2 from the TV show, and there is a security area.

I suddenly know in the dream logic that everyone knows the Robot is mad and we have made a security entrance that we don't believe the Robot can get past. I get the dogs inside but I hear the ripping up of the security apparatus. Prior to going into the main living quarters of the ship, there is a large warehouse type area filled with all kinds of things the savvy space traveler might need. Mostly crated up in boxes and stacked high until needed.

I go into the main house to warn everyone that the Robot has broken through the security but nobody thinks the Robot can get past the main door and they don't really care or try to help me in any way. I try to get all the dogs into the main living area but they are scattered around the crates.

By now the Robot has broken in and is heading down one of the aisles. I think I have a chance to stop it if I can get behind it. I do and grab it from behind and pull it backward so that if its weapons discharge they will go up and not risk damaging the main living area. I think I then pull the power pack from the Robot but as I wake up, I think about the Robinsons traveling through space with a mad Robot. I think maybe this is why many of the aliens they encountered where hostile How did they introduce the Robot to the new beings they met? “Hello, we are the Robinson family from planet earth and this is our mad Robot who once tried to kill all of us while we were in stasis.”

Also, after thinking about this dream for a while, I was struck by the dichotomy of the threats. That this dream stretched all the way back to the dawn of time all the way to the space age. In a sense, I shouldn't be surprised. This is the programming I grew up with. Planet of the Apes, Lost in Space, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek: All of these entertainments at one time or another warned both of devolving back into the primitive and at the same time offered dire warnings of the bright and shining future offered by science and technology. What, exactly was I being programmed for?

I think this is even more insidious than the common religious programming or the familial programming I received growing up because religion and family were treated seriously while this stuff was treated as entertainment and nobody really monitored or tried to decode it. So baby-sitter television kept me quiet for hours at a time and the unchecked programming just seeped in.