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There are two sections to this page: FAQs and Favourites. For Favourites, go to the end of the FAQs section.
FAQs
Q: Is Lost Language of Dreams affiliated to any organisations?
A: We have no affiliations to anything whatsoever. Other organisations have beliefs that affiliates must subscribe to. We subscribe to no beliefs whatsoever in our organisation. We subscribe to the idea that other people have a duty to think out for themselves what their own beliefs should be. Thus it would be inappropriate for us to be affiliated with any other organisations; educational, religious, or otherwise. We accept any creeds or beliefs. In a nutshell, our ethic is tolerance.
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Q: You say that you have taken the understanding of dreams to a new, much higher level than has been achieved previously. Please explain this.
A: We are aware that there is a general perception that dream interpretation is easy and somewhat trivial. Anything can be trivialised. Dream interpretation has been trivialised to the extent that it has become both meaningless and useless. Not only that, but dream interpretation has become a game that doesn’t even work.
An example of this would be playing Sudoku and thinking that you are doing the kind of mathematics that will allow you to derive Einstein’s Theory of Relativity from scratch. In the same way, dream interpretation is a whole other ballgame. We are talking here about the kind of intellectual processes that that are way beyond the most advanced computers. Seen from below, the distinction is hard to see or to understand. To really understand the value of dream interpretation and why it is meaningful, you have to learn how to do it.
Consider the old Chinese proverb which goes something like this:
He who knows not, and knows not he knows not, is a fool. Shun him.
He who knows not, and knows he knows not, is ignorant. Teach him.
He who knows, and knows he knows, is a wise man. Heed him.
As regards dreams, those who are interpreting dreams are of the nature of fools; they don’t know and they don’t know that they don’t know. The outcome of learning how to really interpret dreams is that you pass through the state of ignorance, where you are aware of how little you know, to the state of wisdom where you both know and know that you know.
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FAVOURITES
We have been asked to name our favourite books, films and video games etc. This is a brief, off-the-top-of-the-head introduction to our favourites. They have been chosen on the basis of what we think is good and enjoyable and of what will be of value for our clients to experience.
FILMS AND TV SERIES
Flash Gordon (music by Queen)
The Ox
Ingmar Bergman films
Dune (film and tv mini series)
The Voyage of the Unicorn
Ridley Scott films
the ‘Carry On’ films
Pelle the Conquerer
Life of Brian
Little Big Man
Jeremiah Johnson
2001: A Space Odyssey
Gorky Park
The Motorcycle Diaries
Japanese anime e.g. Appleseed
Andrei Tarkovsky (most films)
Local Hero
Whisky Galore
Planet of the Apes (original version)
The Time Machine (original version)
Kelly’s Heroes
Morgan Freeman (most films)
Classic Japanese cinema
Classic Indian cinema
Water Margin (tv series)
Dr Who: any of the first 6 Doctors
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Sabina the Teenage Witch |
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Singing, Ringing Tree
Werner Herzog films
The 10th Kingdom
Star Wars films
David Lean films
Ealing comedies
Babette’s Feast
Soldier Blue
Dances With Wolves
Spaghetti westerns
Ray Mears tv series
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Howl’s Moving Castle
Kaspar Hauser
Breaker Morant
The Maggie
Amadeus
Hammer Horror films
Harry Potter films
In the Heat of the Night
Shawshank Redemption
My Brilliant Career
Monkey (tv series)
Dinotopia
GI Jane
The Name of the Rose
Murder, She Wrote |
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence;
Australian cinema: Australians do a good line in humour e.g. The Dish and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert;
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance;
Jacob Bronowski’s Ascent of Man (tv series);
David Attenborough (any of his wildlife series);
The Barbie films (Island Princess, The Diamond Castle, The Nutcracker etc);
Sean Connery films (as James Bond, Outland, The Hill, The Wind and the Lion, The Man Who Would Be King, Hunt For Red October);
Jacques Tati films (M. Hulot’s Holiday, Mon Oncle);
Battlestar Galactica (early episodes of the latest version);
The Italian Job (Michael Caine version);
Kurosawa films (Seven Samurai, Dersu Uzala, Kagemusha etc.);
Canadian Film Board did some good films;
I, Claudius (BBC tv series);
War and Peace (BBC tv series with Anthony Hopkins)
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VIDEO GAMES (the only console we have experience of is PS1 and PS2) |
Final Fantasy series
Drakan: the Ancient’s Gates
Primal
Summoner and Summoner 2
Spyro series, Rayman series
Doom
Civilisation |
Abe’s Odyssey (PS1)
Harry Potter (PS1)
The Mark of Kree
Grand Theft Auto
LOR: The Third Age
Van Helsing
………Japanese games tend to be high on our list….. |
POETRY |
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E A Poe
Browning
William Blake
Shelley (Ozymandius)
AE Housman (Yon Far Country)
Emily Dickinson |
Kipling
Wilfred Owen
Sun Tzu
Walt Whitman
Christo Botev
Octavio Paz
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Anna Akmatova
Burns (Scottish vernacular, but not his serious stuff) ;
Tennyson (Ulysses, Morte d’Arthur, Lotus Eaters, Lady of Shallot);
Coleridge (Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan);
WB Yeats (Second Coming);
Walter de la Mare (most but esp. The Listeners);
RL Stevenson (children’s poetry);
TS Eliot (Practical Cats and the Wasteland);
The Kalevala;
Beowulf;
Sir Patrick Spens (anonymous);
Derek Mahon (A Lighthouse in Maine, A Disused Shed in County Wexford) |
PLAYS
(Not big on theatre; too expensive, too difficult to get to.)
Ibsen, Chekhov and some Shakespeare (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Tempest) |
BOOKS/AUTHORS |
Herman Melville
Franz Kafka
TH White
Lord Dunsany
Lawrence Durrell (Esprit de Corps)
Mark Twain
Grimm’s Fairy Stories
JG Farrell (Singapore Grip etc)
Don Camillo stories (Guareschi?)
Richard Leakey (anthropology)
Jorge Luis Borges
JK Rowling
The Blue Nile / The White Nile |
Joseph Conrad
Italo Calvino
HG Wells
Arthur C Clark
any mythology stories
The Moomins
RL Stevenson
Herman Hesse
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tolkein
Olaf Stapleton
Graham Greene
Plain Tales from the Raj |
Tales from the South China Seas;
Mrs Chippy’s Diary and some of the author’s (Alexander’s) books on Antarctic exploration e.g. Endurance;
James Hogg (Justified Sinner);
Scots authors do a nice line in ‘grim’ as in “abandon hope all ye who enter here” with books such as House with the Green Shutters and Gillespie;
CG Jung’s autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections; Not (!) Proust’s
A la recherché du temps perdu;
Almost all Russian authors except Solzhenitsyn;
…of modern books, many children’s fantasy novels |
MUSIC |
Bach
Sibelius
Some Mozart
Shostakovich
Ravi Shankar
Rameau
Hildegard of Bingen |
Greig (Peer Gynt)
Beethoven
Prokoviev
Tchaikovsky (esp. ballet music)
Red Army Chorus
Gregorian chants
Bangra music |
Gospel music
Wagner (esp. Ring of the Nibelung);
Almost anything that has African roots, from traditional to jazz and blues;
Almost any Russian composers and many Germans too |
VISUAL ARTS |
C D Friedrich
Galen Kallela
Gustav Dore
Brueghel
Early Bauhaus
Monet
El Greco
Hopper
Flemish (e.g. Vermeer)
Boyle family
Viking
Santa Sofia (Istanbul)
Ethnic African
Egyptian
Maori carving
Australian aboriginal art
Mexican revolutionary art
Ansel Adams |
Oehme
Dali
Da Vinci
Hieronymus Bosch
Van Gogh
Velazquez
MacTaggart
Wyeth
Braque
Medieval German
Anything Gothic
Pre-Raphaelites
Moorish art
Islamic art
Bower birds
Wats of SE Asia
British colonial architecture
Sebastiao Salgado |
Henri Cartier-Bresson;
Sculptures by Michelangelo and Donattelo;
Art of Central/south American civilisations;
Some German Expressionists;
Northern and eastern European art;
Almost anything Russian from Rublev through social realism to the present day;
Archaeological sites of antiquity as discovered by Heinrich Schliemann (Mycenae, Troy) and Evans (Knossos);
Pre-historic cave paintings;
Tibetan Buddhist architecture and yak butter carvings;
Zen gardens.
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