Man's dream of OBL contains message for Americans

SHADOWS WITHIN US: DREAMING OF OSAMA BEN LADEN

Posted by Kevin Kovelant on May 3, 2011

Ran onto an article by somebody who had a dream about Osama recently and thought those on DU might find the dream fascinating for its insight into our conflicted attitudes.

The article begins like this:

"The world is a-buzz over the death of Osama bin Laden. The thing is… I feel absolutely nothing. Other than a twinge of sadness. Sadness that it has gone on this long. Has it really been almost 10 years?! I guess it has. At times it feels like yesterday. At times it feels like 30 years ago.

"I still remember the day vividly, and I still have problems watching the footage. I wasn’t in New York, nor was I near where the plane did or did not hit the Pentagon. But I lived close to both, and had dear friends in New York at the time, and I worked close enough to the Pentagon that what was normally a 30 minute commute home turned into 6 hours.

"Was it worth it? Was it worth all of the lives? All of the American lives? All of the Afghani lives? All of the Iraqi lives? All of the people everywhere caught in the crossfire? Not to mention all of those disfigured and wounded?

"I can’t, in all honestly, say that I believe so. And again, while part of me feels like bin Laden’s death brings some closure, I had hoped that he would be captured alive. I would have preferred a trial. At the time of the attacks, I wrote a lengthy essay on justice vs. revenge for the company newsletter for a now former employer.

"I’m not sure that this is justice, but vengeance."

Read on. The dream the author tells is fascinating and a little chilling:

http://dreamstudies.org/2011/05/03/shadows-within-us-dreaming-of-osama-bin-laden/

thank you

That's kind of creepy.

To deny our shadow is to deny the truth of our humanity. On the societal level, to always project evil as something external is also to deny the truth.

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