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Great post, Amy!

About the name of Jesus. A few people don't realize that the letter "J" is a recent invention. It's only five hundred years old, or so. It's a variation of the letter "I".

In the old Latin language, the name of Jesus is Iesu. This is awkward for English speaking people, because of the diphthong or gliding vowel ("ie" sounds like "yes" minus the "s") and because of the fact that in Latin and the languages that descend from it the "i" has always the same sound, but in English the written "i" has many variations of sound.

The letter "e" has that same sound as the Latin "i". I often mix up "this" and "these" because I can't distinguish well the short and long vowels. For Spanish speakers, a "bitch" and a "beach" sound the same. Shibboleths are fun!

That Latin "I" of Iesu is the same sound as the Greek iota letter and the Aramaic and Hebrew yod. Although they say that in semitic languages it sounds closer to the modern "J" or the "Y" in "Yeshua". Maybe in Greek and Latin that foreign sound was lost, and the closest equivalent was a pure vocalic sound.

Or, perhaps, the modern Hebrew language imposes a Germanic sound on the Yod letter, and the ancient Yod of the Jews of 2000 years ago had the same vocalic "I" sound of all the other languages of the Mediterranean region. I don't know enough. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a disputed topic by obscure phonologists in the academia.

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In Thai it is "Yesu" too.

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Super-duper esoteric Stack. Thanks! Some say dream interpretations reveal more about interpreters than dreamers, but I’m guessing Colorado. The juxtapositions seem most dreamlike to me, and I was invited to Denver literally this morning. Or maybe I dreamed I was.

I'm sorry you met a horror film too early and ever. A grinning idiot once told me about feeding his unsuspecting nephew a jalapeño. I think idiot deserved a karate chop. People with no grasp of child development ruin their own authority, bruise little psyches, and worse. Ignorance is as destructive as malice.

I think denying demons exist is a doomed and dangerous way to cope with reality. I believe faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, recalling scripture, and invoking His name keep demonic activity at bay. More of us should try trusting Him when He says, “Call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me” (Psalm 50:15). At any rate, I’d rather have Christ and scripture in my head than be distracted by demons. Or I could be wrong and that’s just how I cope. Even so, it’s a fascinating topic, and maybe one of the most important.

The apocalyptic dream: methinks you are gifted with empathy and the Lahaina tragedy is unresolved.

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You guessed correctly on the dream of the bunch. It was the one in Colorado which perhaps seems like the most mundane one. All of the features in it could be true to my life: my brother does have a timeshare and his wife has many relatives whose weddings are used as an excuse to make a holiday of it for the family. At the time I had this dream Oh had recently died and he had broken the glass on a Buddha amulet a few days before he departed by angrily throwing it to the ground. After his death I saw this as an especially bad omen (it is considered one in Buddhism), like he did not want anyone trying to save him this time.

My relationship to Jesus, the Bible and Catholicism is a very nuanced one. I've had conversations with priests, Mormon Missionaries, the German monk (Buddhist but also raised Catholic) my Mother (of course), Jehovah's witnesses, ministers and others. I felt that Buddha saved me (as the Thais all exclaimed after the motorbike accident) was something which God put in my path so I have followed accordingly. But does that mean I am renouncing Jesus, or the message of Christ Yeshua, or not? Would I want to be that type of martyr, even if it was given as an opportunity to cleanse the sins of the world? Who would really?

On this point I go the most back and forth...

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None of us would have the courage to climb Golgotha and go through with it unfalteringly. Only Jesus did, and that is why he is our Lord. However, we can be inspired by him: learning to stand by what is right without compromise is fulfilling in so many ways… and forgiveness is one of the most overwhelmingly powerful experiences.

I don't think Buddha, Jesus or Muhammad are mutually exclusive, I have found interesting things in all three. In fact, they tend to convey similar messages, localized for their respective cultures (that's the translator speaking there!).

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We’re incredibly blessed with many sources of wisdom and sound perspective (like Amy’s Substack!). I find truth in every major religion, more or less, and I wish everybody would draw peace, love, joy, and strength from wherever they find it. That’s one reason why I hesitate to point out that Jesus is credited with saying, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” and “I and the Father are one” (John 14:6 & John 10:30). I’d write off those claims as outrageous if 1) lots of sane people made the same claims and 2) I didn’t find His teachings consistently practical and beneficial.

It's good we can discuss such things here. I’m blessed to be among friends.

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A few weeks ago, I was having dreams about being sort of lost/trapped in an Adams family style house, a bit goofy, but still 'couldn't find the door'. A night later, it was a music gig dream where nothing was going right and again lots of rooms involved. The kind of dreams that leave you a bit exhausted upon waking up, you know. ...But i was sleeping for a few days in a new room I usually dont. (I returned to the previous room and not had such clazy dreams since)....and I think the room is a bit....energetic...from a litany of previous housemates. Glad the 'lost' dreams stopped at least they tired me out. Strangely the room I am back in is closer to the gddam 5g meter than the other room, so that must be human energies perhaps.

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I do wonder if electromagnetic frequencies from 5G and smart meters disrupts these sleep dream cycles and by how much. I generally dream more vividly and memorably in Thailand though I have dreams in both places and wonder what this relates to, whether chemtrails, electrosmog, more chemicals in food and water and the like. I am sure that some of it is an attempt to dim these channels.

I look for big picture themes which right now in my dreams is definitely crossroads/moving house. Your dreams seem to indicate a lot of voices competing for your attention and having difficulty finding your center in it...

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I used to dream about aliens as a kid (as I'm sure many did)

now I dream that I'M the alien, the stranger, the odd one out, walking among people I used to recognize...

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I think many of us feel like we're the alien and more by the day! What is this world?

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whatever is going on, I hope we can right the ship!

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This is really good Amy. Going to send this to Kimberly Steele. Maybe she will have some answers for you. I do not engage people I do not know in my dreams (deep sleep). Have had it happen, even when being intimate with a girl, where the person turns into the dark figure I am all too familiar with and it puts me into a state of sleep paralysis.

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I somewhat recently started to dream regularly. I don't really remember them, but I don't really want to remember them. They are always weird.

One very weird is that maybe 50-75% of the time, 95-100% of a dream has nothing to do with me. I vaguely remember a very weird dream that wasn't entirely physically possible, but the weirdest part was that it was NOT a place a knew, or people I knew, or a situation I knew, either personally or from a book, etc. Sometimes I have dreams that are obviously about me, but then sometimes there is almost nothing in a dream that I can relate to myself or experience, and I find that very strange and don't know what to make of it.

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OK - I'm going with #3 as the dream. For several reasons.

I've walked at the base of an active volcano . . . although you can take precautions, it is not safe. I have a hard time believing your horse would not object to the temperature of the ground while you noticed your shoes literally melting while riding. Any time I have been riding, my horse always noticed a danger before I did. So I'm going with #3.

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I probably worded that poorly. You are correct that no horse would be stupid enough to walk on a volcano but we dismounted and left the horses near the base. That was volcano Pacaya/Fuego overlooking Antigua, Guatemala. There have been several eruptions on it in the last several years the deadliest being in 2018 and I doubt the area is open for what we did in 2007 or so, but no, not the dream...

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OK then, now I'm going for #1. If the boat REALLY tipped to 90 degrees - and NOBODY fell out - then I'm guessing this is the dream. Because at 90 degrees - SOMEBODY is not staying in that boat.

PS: If I've missed again, I'm blaming another "probably worded that poorly" episode. LOL!

I remembered my dream better this morning - but here it is. It was basically an abandonment dream. It was some sort of assignment/operation thing. There were three of us. A big crowd, lines, a distraction, and when I looked up - separation from my buds. They were gone. No where to be seen. Confusion. Indecision - what to do next. Not really panic, just a "now what?" feeling. Like whatever the thing was -- a task, training, whatever -- it was over. Weird.

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I think your dream has a profound note to it as ultimately we all become an N of 1: an individual who must find his or her own mission in this life. It sounds like you've taken on a countercultural subgroup with a mission, but then, dispersed by the crowd, you find yourself standing alone. Figuring out what to do then become important.

I don't think I misworded this time. I think it was very close to a 90 degree angle when the longtail tipped over the crest of a few of the biggest waves and it is basically a miracle that we made it to Racha Island without capsizing or anyone falling out (one guys cell phone was soaked and no longer worked). I mean we all did grab onto the side on the big waves. We had all of these supplies for the Siam Bar setup and could not take a speedboat to the island with them. The trip had been postponed a few times due to the stormy weather. Remarkably most of the supplies under the tarp in the center didn't really get wet or destroyed (my computer, at the top of the center of the tarp, survived) though some things like plastic chairs it didn't matter. We were all soaked top to bottom and I kissed the sandy beach when we arrived on shore with a generous thank you to the Heavens..

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Three things:

1. Well - the rest of your scenarios all sound like they could be real. So - I'm done guessing. Maybe - one last guess - the hospital and baby ok scenario?

2. Your interpretation of my dream does make sense. Also, just lost a close family member - so that could play into it.

3. For the people who are not dreaming and/or not remembering their dreams - this is not a commercial, BUT - I tried that supplement SEROVITAL for better sleep and totally got my dream life back - first time I tried it. Check it out. https://www.serovital.com/pages/science

4. How come I am the only one trying to figure out which is real and which is dream?

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LOL some people more skim things and others take a while to find my longer worded work. Some might be scared to guess. Who knows? Thanks for the link though!

Sometimes my dreams are the more mundane world. I have been curious about the people who commented that they don't have dreams or don't remember them. Two things that came out in talking to people over the years face to face about this stuff was: 1: Whoa. Your memory is like really freaky good. I don't remember anything that happened to me before the age of 5, or 6, or 7 or something. And I'm like really? God. We didn't move back to Ohio until I was 5 and I have like a ton of memories of the Oceanside California trailer before then and then 2: Wow. Your dreams are like crazy freakishly weird. I don't remember my dreams/almost never remember/don't care too much.

I think like a lot of mysteries of the world which the dark powers would prefer to be kept hidden have been subconsciously seeded as being unimportant or irrelevant, so nobody pays attention to them at all. They discard them as meaningless noise and I think this is by design of the paradigm we all find ourselves trapped in now.

Losing a relative, especially if you felt that this person was on your team so to speak would definitely contribute to a dream such as that. I've been pondering the dream I had last night. In the dream me, my first husband Oh, Ka and this other unknown Thai man were packing up the remnants of our old house and loading things onto the man's motorbike truck to move into a new house. I went into a bedroom in the house where we had had some international guests stay before who had discarded some things in the corner before they left. I found all of these half empty, 1/3 empty, just a shot left at the bottom liquor (spirit) bottles. There was a half empty flask of whiskey over here and a 1/3 full bottle of laoa khao mixed with energy drink over there, some moonshine mixed with watermelon, 1/3 bottle of tequila with lime margarita mixer, 1/2 bottle of brandy, a tiny bottle of vodka et cetera. I'm looking through this mixed assortment and decide I want to hide it from the guys for now. I come out front and everybody is gone, apparently to take another load of our stuff to the new house.

They don't come back and eventually I walk to the main road. I find my first husband Oh sitting under this overpass bridge drinking from the whiskey flask I had seen before.

"You found the liquor." I rolled my eyes.

Oh shrugged. "If the Gods give, can take."

"Look I don't want Ka getting into that stuff. You know how he is. If he starts hitting the booze we will never get out of here."

"I want to talk to my brother. Before he go." Oh told me. The Thai moving man with the motorbike truck pulled up and we went back to the old, almost empty house. Oh immeditely tells Ka about all of the booze I'd found in the guest room.

"Look I wanted to have a party after we go to the new house with it! I think if we mixed it all together in a big bowl with maybe some strong fruit or energy drink it would be very good!"

My dream ends with Oh telling me that this is a terrible idea. As he was a bartender he probably is correct. Nonetheless I start trying to mix some of the booze in this huge mixing bowl anyways...

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so -- WAS it the hospital baby scenario? Dream or real?

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I don't dream.

Ever.

About anything, good or bad.

I look at my natal chart. I see that my Neptune is retrograde. Maybe I should have more dreams! Someone is stealing my cheese!

But Neptune is in opposition to the Moon. Not fun.

Neptune in the 6th house and the Moon in the 12th house. So weird!

Mercury trine Neptune. I quote an astrology site, re Mercury trine Neptune: "Vivid dreaming and daydreaming come with this aspect. You may have psychic abilities or at least a solid and accurate intuition. Your senses are finely tuned to pick up the vibration energy from other people and your environment."

All of that is false in my case. Or mebbeee Neptune deludes me into thinking I don't have intuition. I don't know, LOL!

I don't like Mercury in my 11th house. The 11th house sucks! It's a roach motel for the soul! Mercury should be living in a RV, not in the 11th house.

I hate my natal chart. Most of it. It's just wrong. I need another birthday, with better planets.

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I really laughed at this. Something that bothers me about delving too deep into natal charts is that especially with Ai driven 10,000 words of babble, you can absolutely get baffled with bullshit. When I dig below the surface on my chart I find all sorts of stuff which doesn't seem that accurate, but when I just take a 10,000 foot sweeping big picture viewpoint of main themes, it sounds pretty accurate. I think I am a quintessential Pisces, for example (my sun sign) and me and my husband (very close natal chart to mine) do share similar characteristics despite being born and raised in radically different cultures. But when I get farther afield to my Mercury being in Chiron or my Neptune being in trine with Jupiter or Saturn or being at the 26th degree of the third harmonic or something it starts to look like a bunch of static on the airwaves again. Something which I find useful is a real world signal to look at something on there: a comment made in passing by the German monk regarding North and South nodes revealed an interesting pattern which I knew intuitively before I saw it. An interpretation by another real human does wonders, in short.

My experience is that Sagitarrius sun signs are the biggest skeptics, by the way...but I could be wrong. I'm sure your chart is just what it needs to be! ;-)

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I'm glad you laughed, because that was my intention.

Thank you for your comment, I appreciate it. Talking to another human being to get a clear signal... who ever knew!🤣🤣

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I do not recall any dreams lately. Perhaps I am not sleeping long enough to allow dreams to come.

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For the people who are not dreaming and/or not remembering their dreams - this is not a commercial, BUT - I tried that supplement SEROVITAL for better sleep and totally got my dream life back - first time I tried it. Check it out. https://www.serovital.com/pages/science

You will know within 1 to 4 doses.

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I rarely ever remember my dreams. Love, hugs, and PERSEVERE yall!!!

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Also wanted to post this link here as well. It’s from Kimberly Steele who has helped me battle demons in my dreams.

https://kimberlysteele.substack.com/p/some-occult-dynamics-of-sleep

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