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Posts: 3981 · Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 12:49 am

Dear Raka,

While I thank you for your invitation I do not feel that I could contribute anything of real value to this exercise. I do not myself ever wish to be restricted by the teachings or the values of my culture (most of which I cannot accept as being my own), nor do I identify with any conventional mainstream religion This being said, I do respect the rights of others to do so, and am constantly concerned that I may unintentionally misinterpret an unconscious symbol, and thereby possibly offend someone from a totally different religious and cultural background other than my own.

I must also confess that just as with reading the Tarot my interpretations are to a large degree intuitive and do not therefore necessarily always agree with someone else's general meanings for them written in a dream dictionary.

While I can recognise the great value behind what you are attempting and would sometimes consult it in passing if I believed that our cultural and religious differences were especially significant or even relevant, I would effectively continue to "read" the person's dream directly from their aura (psychically) and unconscious mind as I have always done in the past, without wanting to feel in any way tied down to the universal meanings on your or anybody else's list.

Thanking you again for the great compliment, but I do wish you well in doing this as I feel that this possibility has been overlooked for far too long, with potentially disastrous consequences for interracial and religious harmony between us and the members who we are genuinely trying to help to better understand the possible meanings contained within their dreams.

Love and Light,

eye_of_tiger