{"id":37,"date":"2004-01-27T15:34:34","date_gmt":"2004-01-27T19:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2004\/01\/27\/holy-relics\/"},"modified":"2004-01-27T15:34:34","modified_gmt":"2004-01-27T19:34:34","slug":"holy-relics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/2004\/01\/27\/holy-relics\/","title":{"rendered":"holy relics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a21'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; In the dream, I first approach my destination through very banal<br \/>\nmeans: I&#8217;m on a bus with Alfonso, apparently nearing my high school.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve told the driver where I&#8217;m going. I prefer to get out sooner and<br \/>\nwalk but he refuses to pull over and let me out before we&#8217;ve arrived<br \/>\nthere. This irritates me. I take advantage of some opportunity, perhaps<br \/>\na red light, to open the door myself and get out, leaving Alfonso<br \/>\nbehind. I then enter a passage leading underground. I descend further<br \/>\nand eventually reach an underground train (more like the shuttles found<br \/>\nin airports than a city subway train). I expect it to take me to my<br \/>\ndestination, which lies in South America. It doesn&#8217;t&#8211;something<br \/>\nunexpected brings the train to a halt before we get there. But somehow<br \/>\nI get there anyway. My journey terminates at a very modern-looking<br \/>\nbuilding&#8211;solid, marble walls, many straight angles, subdued colours<br \/>\nand imposing dimensions. This building houses ancient, sacred objects,<br \/>\nexcavated in Israel and Syria and sent here to South America. There are<br \/>\nseveral levels. Each one looks out onto those below and to what lies<br \/>\nbeyond the structure. Although the building seems to be an independent<br \/>\nstructure, it isn&#8217;t in open space. Rather, my whole voyage has<br \/>\ntranspired in an underground complex. I don&#8217;t see open sky at any point<br \/>\nafter going underground. I ascend on an escalator to the first floor,<br \/>\nwhich is several meters above the ground level I walked. I don&#8217;t recall<br \/>\nif I see the sacred objects. What I do find is some sort of library,<br \/>\nwith books on plinths rather than on shelves. I find a book there by<br \/>\nRudolph Steiner. (Note: in waking life, I noticed one of Steiner&#8217;s<br \/>\nworks at my prof&#8217;s house last night, just to the left of Thomas Mann. I<br \/>\nguess my mind incorporated this into the dream.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In the dream, I first approach my destination through very banal means: I&#8217;m on a bus with Alfonso, apparently nearing my high school. I&#8217;ve told the driver where I&#8217;m going. I prefer to get out sooner and walk but he refuses to pull over and let me out before we&#8217;ve arrived there. This irritates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1500],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/oneiros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}