dreams, visions and epiphanies..

Dreams, visions and spirituality are not about invisible gods, devils, angels and demons dancing with dervishes in mythic heavens in the clouds or evil creatures in imaginative hells with fire and brimstone.

“You may say I’m a dreamer,
but I’m not the only one.
I hope someday you’ll join us.
And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon

https://youtu.be/QFEe4eMBb3s?list=RDQFEe4eMBb3s
Bob Dylan – Talkin’ World War III Blues

Dreamers are fueled by stories, creativity, imagination, magic, wizards, poets, witches, warlocks, dragons, creative-synthesis, legends, fairy-tales, fables and other resources for epiphanies.

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
― Langston Hughes

Dreams, dreamers and dreaming

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”

― Albert Einstein

Interdimensional linguistics … matter, unconditionally…

We can be civil, creative, literate and articulate… with adequate vocabulary and deliberate intent….

https://youtu.be/5m2HN2y0yV8?list=RDMM
John Coltrane – Equinox (Original) John Coltrane
— Tenor Saxophone McCoy Tyner — Piano Steve Davis
— Bass Elvin Jones — Drums

We live in tangible dimensions between light and darkness,

…“Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”

― Vladimir Nabokov

“Religion is just mind control.”

— George Carlin

https://youtu.be/ZEgGslcXXL0?list=RDZEgGslcXXL0
HOWLIN’ WOLF – DUST MY BROOM – LIVE 1966

“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”

— Anais Nin

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”

― Henry David Thoreau

Interdimensional linguistics matter,

“You said, ‘They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.’ ‘What,’ I asked you, ‘is harmless about a dreamer, and what,’ I asked you, ‘is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.”

― Tennessee Williams

https://youtu.be/7tpgACj_j5k?list=RD7tpgACj_j5k
David Bromberg – From his 1975 album “Midnight on the Water”, re-imagining Sam Cooke’s classic “Wonderful World”

“You’ve got to learn to leave the table, When love’s no longer being served.”
― Nina Simone

https://youtu.be/J2cV4bw5yZY?list=RDFf-0pHwyQ1g
Nina Simone – African Mailman

“You are never too old to set another goal or to
dream a new dream.“

― C. S. Lewis

Darkness at the break of dawn…

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

https://youtu.be/2xC2JZ6NLv8
The Youngbloods 🎼 Darkness, Darkness 1969 HQ

Darkness at the break of noon…

“All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, For they dream their dreams with open eyes, And make them come true.”

― D.H. Lawrence

https://youtu.be/IaHxPi9dM7o?list=RDIaHxPi9dM7o
JJ Cale & Leon Russell at the Paradise Studios, LA 1979

Interdimensional linguistics…

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

― Edgar Allan Poe

A tangible dimension between light and darkness…

https://youtu.be/ZwrT6A00Awc
Joe Bonamassa – ‘This Train’ –

…may inspire apprehensiveness, but we can survive…

https://youtu.be/9c2N7myqQmI?list=RD9c2N7myqQmI
McCoy Tyner – Survival Blues (1970)

…The fools on the hill

https://youtu.be/Pqj0SwrVoGM?list=RDPqj0SwrVoGM
The Fool on the Hill – Paul McCartney

“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. ”

― Anaïs Nin

“My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results… but it is the effort that’s heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.”

― George R.R. Martin

Even if we live in a trailer at the edge of town…

https://youtu.be/Oik6kdzEx_o?list=RDOik6kdzEx_o
Neil Young Revolution Blues

“Dreams, if they’re any good, are always a little bit crazy. ”

― Ray Charles

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

https://youtu.be/pkxKlUtoXR0?list=RDpkxKlUtoXR0
David Bromberg –

– Will Not Be Your Fool

“I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours”

― Bob Dylan, Lyrics:1962 2001

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.”

― Arundhati Roy

https://youtu.be/ZHr38NcFyts?list=RDZHr38NcFyts
Roy Orbison – Sweet dreams baby