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Last week I was interviewed for the Belcultassi podcast out of England. It was an interesting and interactive interview of gnostic insights combined with Mr. Belcultassi’s focus on Gurdjieff. I’d call this an intermediate level gnostic interview… The interview was prerecorded and aired on 2/27/25. I sat through the entire run of the show and made additional comments in the chat bar. Here’s the link:

Dreams–Parables of the Night

Today’s episode is a replay of an episode first posted July 9, 2021. In those early days of the podcast, there were no accompanying transcripts. So here is your first chance to read the transcript of this episode.

This episode is about dreams. What are they and how can you go about keeping track of and interpreting your own dreams? I was first trained in dream interpretation back when I was working on my master’s degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and this was a gestalt type of dream interpretation, as popularized by Fritz Perls. Later on I spent a number of years teaching myself Jungian dream interpretation. Then when I was working on my master’s degree at Azusa Pacific University, which is a Christian university, I studied dream work through the lens of the Bible and also incorporated Jungian dream interpretation into that practice, and dream work became one of my major modalities when working with counseling clients. And then later on again, when I was working on my PhD, I studied the hermeneutics and rhetoric of dreams, because my PhD is in rhetoric, and hermeneutics is the flip side of the coin of rhetoric.

Rhetoric is the ability to persuade others of your point of view, and hermeneutics is the ability to decipher points of view. So, I’ve written a number of articles over the years about dream interpretation. If any of you would like dreams to be interpreted, you may go to my GnosticInsights.com website and send me a message using the comment form, and we can talk it over.

So by now, having listened to episodes of Gnostic Insights, you understand what a meme is in the sense that we use it here on Gnostic Insights. A meme is a basic unit of information. It’s not just the cute posters that people make on the internet. And I suggest that our personalities are largely defined by the memes that we hold on to, and it’s these memes and our reactions to them that contribute to our behaviors and to our karma. These memes constitute what could be called vibratory patterns that are held in the transpersonal field, or sometimes known as the Akashic Record or the quantum vacuum. This is a shared memory field accessed by all of us here on Earth. These memes aren’t personal within our brains, but they live in this shared transpersonal space.

So, apparently, personal memes are actually harmonics of the collective memes that we all share in common with everyone who actually holds on to that meme. The particular shadings of your memes differ slightly from the next person’s as to be expected among fractal replications of a single phenomenon, but all who hold the same meme recognize its pattern and are affected by it. So, for example, the meme of cup. If I say cup, you have a vision of a cup that immediately comes into your mind, and I have a vision of a cup that immediately comes into my mind. Mine might be a large coffee mug with pictures of kitty cats on it. Yours might be a dainty little cup made of porcelain with beautiful flowers or any other sort of cup. But it’s the idea of cupness. The cup is what holds the liquid, a