This is the first genuinely new page in a long long time. I am pretty busy at work and instead of being able to concentrate on my web pages I have been forced to earn my salary.....life can be so unfair, but no matter how much they chain me to my desk, they cannot take away my dreams.....
In
many cultures where the shaman is revered, dreams have an integral role
in society. Take for example aboriginal culture, the white man coined the
phrase "Dreamtime", below is an explanation of dreamtime from
the aboriginal perspective,
it makes interesting reading....:
Dreamtime 1: This is a whiteman's term that identifies the basis on which all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people viewed the world. In other words, it formed the Aboriginal frame of mind - how the people answered such existential questions as: Who am I? Where do I belong? and What is my purpose in life? The people knew who they were, through Dreamtime creation stories that told them how their ancestral heroes and heroines created the tribal land. After the creation, the heroes / heroines decided to live in waterholes or caves etc and their descendants occupied precisely the same land that had been created by the ancestors.
Dreamtime 2: Modern day people may be tempted to think of Dreamtime stories as being fairy tales. There are in fact at least three types of Dreamtime stories:
What modern day people often fail to understand, is that the stories had a deep effect on Aboriginal people and that modern day versions of them are often ridiculous ie., translations into the English language do not convey the meaning or sense that they had for Aboriginal people. And some Aboriginal words and phrases are impossible to translate into English. It is also a fact, that some people have put meanings into Dreamtime stories that weren't there in the first place eg., those stories that refer to the water covering the land, have been used to say that Aboriginal people had a religion that included references to the 'flood' of the Bible. The fact is, that such stories refer to the end of the ice age, when the level of the sea rose several hundred feet. In other words, it is well known, that the eastern-coastline of Australia was further out to sea during the ice age, than it is today. The essential point about the Dreamtime, is that it informed Aboriginal people about their relationship to their land / family / tribe / fauna / flora and provided their lores (l-a-w-s).
The whole point of daydreaming is to escape the constraints of the accepted norm. It allows the individual to create their own world where the accepted laws of culture and science can be challenged, deconstructed and re-assembled in a manner that suits the individual.......our own Utopia. Just for a second imagine your perfect world ;-)......I suspect, although i am by no means an expert that most daydreaming takes place when an indivual feels most trapped, for example, the child in the classroom, sitting in your car in the middle of the mother of all traffic jams, the bored office worker....although in the case of the office worker there are many many work aversion techniques to be finely hone, photocopying, smoke breaks, urgent deliveries, desk tidying (that's a good one- an organised desk is an organised mind.......b*llsh*t).
In many ways this web site, "Jonah's World" is my Utopia, in the words of Judge Dredd, "I am the law"...so enjoy my dreamtime.....
Jonah: 15 July 1998
Which
way are you going to choose? 
