A dream which has not been interpreted is like a letter that has not been opened. There is a need for one to recognize that a dream is a message which we send to ourselves and which we have to understand in order to comprehend ourselves. Dr. Freud was the first individual to give the interpretation such a systematic and scientific basis. He gave us the tools for understanding of dreams, which anybody can use provided one learns how to handle them. One can hardly exaggerate the significance of dream interpretation. First of all it makes us aware of feelings and thoughts that exist within ourselves and yet which we are not aware of while we are awake. The dream, as Dr. Freud once put it, is the royal way to the understanding of the unconscious. Secondly the dream is a creative act in which the average person demonstrates creative powers of those whose existence one has no idea when one is awake. Dr. Freud discovered, furthermore, that our dreams are not the simple expressions of unconscious strivings but that they are usually distorted by the influence of a subtle censorship which is even present when we are asleep and forces us to distort the true meaning of our dream thoughts (the “latent dream”). Thus, if they are disguised, the censor is deceived, as it were, and permits the hidden thoughts to pass the frontier to consciousness. This concept led Dr. Freud to the assumption that every dream (with the exception of children’s dreams) is distorted and has to be restored to its original meaning by dream interpretation. #RandolphHarris 1 of 17

During the night, humans have many impulses and desires, especially in the nature of pleasure and the surreal, which would interrupt one’s sleep were it not that one experiences these wishes as fulfilled in the dream and hence does not have to wake up to seek realistic satisfaction. Dreams are the disguised expression of fulfillment of wishes. However, one obvious objection to this theory is that we have many nightmares which would be difficult to explain as fulfillment of a desire, since they are painful to the point of sometimes interrupting sleep. Yet, this may be because there are sadistic or masochistic wishes which produce great anxiety but are still wishes which the dream satisfies even though another part of us is frightened of them. Other dreams may also represent any feeling, wish, fear, or thought that is sufficiently important to be present during our sleep, and its appearance in dreams is a sign of its importance. Many dreams do not contain a wish but offer an insight into one’s own situation or into the personality of others. In order to appreciate this function, one must consider the particularity of the state of sleep. During sleep we are liberated from the task of sustaining our existence by work or by defending ourselves against possible dangers. (Only signals of an emergency wake us up from our sleep.) We are not under the influence of the social “noise,” by which I mean the opinion of others, common nonsense and common pathology. Perhaps one could say that sleep is the only situation where we are really free. This has consequences: we see the World subjectively and not from the viewpoint that guides us in our waking life objectively—that is to say, as we must see it in order to manipulate it. #RandolphHarris 2 of 17

For instance, in a dream the element of fire might express love of destructiveness, but that is a different fire from the one which one can bake a cake. The dream is poetic and it speaks the universal language of symbolism which is basically common to all times and all cultures. It is, together with poetry and art, a universal language which humankind has developed. In the dream we do not see the World as we have to see it when we manipulate it; rather, we see the poetic meaning it has for us. You have heard the saying, “Do not cast your pearls before swine,” well that goes for your dreams and even things you may share in therapy. Some people are rationalists with a lack of artistic or poetic inclination, and hence they have almost no feeling for symbolic language whether expressed in dreams or poetry. The lack forces upon them a very narrow concept of symbols. One ether understands them as psychological disturbance or sexual in nature—and the range of possibilities in the respect is great, since a line and a circle are exceedingly widespread forms of symbolism—or one understands them only by finding out through associations with what else they were connected. It is one of the most peculiar contradictions that many professionals are so little capable of understanding symbols. “Now the Angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak (terebinth) at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, and his son Gideon was beating wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites. And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, The Lord is with you, you mighty man of [fearless] courage. And Gideon said to him, O sir, if the Lord is with us, why is all this befallen us? And where are all His wondrous works of which our fathers told us, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? #RandolphHarris 3 of 17

“However, now the Lord has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian. The Lord turned to him and said, Go in this your might, and you shall save Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you? Gideon said to Him, Oh Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Behold, my clan is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house. The Lord said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall smite the Midianites as one man,” reports Judges 6.11-16. This feature, more than any other, brings out the wide gulf which separates the Hebraic from the Greek view of knowledge. In the latter, knowledge itself is purely theoretical…whereas in the Old Testament the person who does not act in accordance with what God has done or plans to do has but a fragmentary knowledge. For example, the Hebrew word for know generally refers to something one does. To know love, we must not only know about love but act lovingly. Likewise, to hear the word of God means not only to listen but also to obey. We read in the New Testament that by loving action a person knows God, for those who do what is true come to the light. Jesus declared that whoever would do the will of God would know God, that God would come and dwell within those who heeded what He said, and that we would find ourselves not by passive contemplation but by losing ourselves as we take up the cross. The wise human, the one who built one’s house on rock, differed from the foolish him in that one acted on God’s Word. Merely saying, “Lord, Lord,” does not qualify us as disciples; discipleship means doing the will of the Father. Over and over again, the Christian Bible teaches that the gospel power can be known only by living it. “The Lord touched their eyes, saying ‘It shall be done to you according to your faith,’” reports Matthew 9.29 #RandolphHarris 4 of 17

Our theological understanding of faith is informed by this biblical view of knowledge. Faith grows as we act on what little faith we have. Just as experimental subjects become more deeply committed to something for which they have suffered and witnessed, so also do we grow in faith as we act it out. Faith is born of obedience. The proof of Christianity really consists in following. Only the doer of the Word is its real hearer. Follow the way by which [the committed] began; by acting as if they believed, taking the holy water, having masses, et cetera. Even this will naturally make you believe. Believe in God and you will have to face hours when it seems obvious that this material World is the only reality: disbelieve in God and you must face hours when this material World seems to shout at your that it is not all. No conviction, religious or irreligious, will, of itself, end once and for all [those doubts] in the soul. Only the practice of Faith resulting in the habit of Faith will gradually do that. People are told they ought to love God. They cannot find any such feelings in themselves. What are they to do? The answer is act as if you did. Do not sit around trying to manufacture feelings. Ask yourself, “if I were sure that I loved God, what would I do?” When you have found the answer, go and do it. “The LORD is with you, O valiant warrior,” reports Judges 6.12. How you see yourself and how you feel about yourself will have a tremendous impact on how far you go in life and whether or not you fulfill your destiny. The reason your self-concept is so important is that you will probably speak, act, and react as the person you think you are. Psychologist have proved that you will most consistently perform in a manner that is in harmony with the images you have of yourself. #RandolphHarris 5 of 17

If you see yourself as unqualified, unattractive, inferior, or inadequate, you will probably act in accordance with your thoughts. How can we apply the faith-follow-action principle to leading a church, to planning worship, and to nurturing personal faith? First, a top priority for churches must be to make their members active participants, not mere spectators. Many dynamic religious movements today—ranging from sects like the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and the Unification Church to charismatics and discipleship-centered communities—share and insistence that all on board be members of the crew. That is easier said than done, but it does provide a criterion by which to evaluate procedures for admitting and maintaining members. As a local church makes decisions and administers its program, it should constantly be asking, Will this activate our people and make priests of our believers? If research on persuasion is any indication, this will best be accomplished by direct, personal calls to committed action, not merely by mass appeals and announcements. In worship, too, people should be engaged as active participants, not as mere spectators of religious theater. Research indicates that passively received spoken words have surprisingly little impact on listeners. Changes in attitude resulting from spoken persuasion are less likely to endure and influence subsequent behaviour than attitude changes emerging from active experience. What is needed is to have listeners rehearse and act on what they hear. When the people sing responses, write their own confessions, contribute prayer, read Scripture responsively, takes notes on the sermon, utter exclamations, bring their offerings forward, pass the peace, make the sign of the cross, or sit, stand, and kneel—acts that viewers of the electronic church do not perform—they are making their worship their own. #RandolphHarris 6 of 17

The principle has its limits, of course. We can become so preoccupied with doing things that we no longer have time to quietly receive God’s Word of grace and direction for our lives. Like the Pharisees, we can substitute our deeds for God’s act or to think that any kind of action will do. To say that action nurture growth in faith is not to tell the whole story of faith. However, it does tell part of the story. The action-attitude interplay can also inform Christian education and Christian nurture. Researchers have found that the attitudes most likely to affect our actions are those that we form by experience. We might therefore consider new methods of encouraging faith. Few Christian families appreciate and reap the benefits of family worship. Old Testament family practices helped people remember the might acts of God. When today’s Jewish family celebrates the Passover by eating special foods, reading prayers, and singing psalms, all of which symbolize their historical experience, they are helped to renew the roots of deep convictions and feelings. Among Christians, family celebrations are becoming more common during Advent. With a boost from the church, home-based activity could be extended to celebrate all the great themes of the church year. Although church and family ritual may sometimes degenerate into a superficial religious exercise, few of us appreciate the extent to which the natural ritual of our own personal histories has shaped who we are. Many of the things we did without question in childhood have long since become an enduring part of our self-identities. Indeed, because we have internalized our own rituals, we find it difficult to recognize them as rituals; but it is easy to recognize other people’s rituals. #RandolphHarris 7 of 17

The overarching objective on which all these points converge is this: we need to create opportunities for people to enact their convictions, thereby confirming and strengthening their Christian identity. Biblical and psychological perspectives link arms in reminding us that faith is like love. If we hoard it, it will shrivel. If we use it, exercise it, and express it, we will have it more abundantly. Every person has an image of oneself. The question is, does your image of who you are line up correctly with who God says you are? Individuals who see themselves as God sees them are usually happy about who they are. Do not look for your reflection in others. Know that you have been created in God’s image and He has crowed you with tremendous honor. “What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of [Earthborn] man that You care for him? Yet You have made him but a little lower than God [or Heavenly beings], and You have crowned him with glory and honor,” reports Psalm 8.4-5. Christians who see themselves as God sees them feel good about themselves, because they know that God loves them and He feels good about them! They can honestly say, “Thank You, Father, for creating me the way You did. I know that You have a purpose and a plan for me, and I would rather be me than any other person on Earth. You have promised that You have good things in store for me, and I cannot wait to discover them!” My dear Devouts, just being within earshot of the way of perfection should, not turn you away or make you depressed. Rather, it should provoke you to fly higher, and if that makes your nose bleed, to sigh more for such a life while still on Earth. Would that you have arrived at a point where you no longer love yourself above all else! #RandolphHarris 8 of 17

Would that you stood at the ready for Jesus’ command, and the command of the Father has put over us. That would please Jesus much, and our whole life on Earth would pass in joy and peace. God wants us to see ourselves as priceless treasure. He wants us to feel good about ourselves God knows we are not perfect, that we have faults and weaknesses, and sometimes we make mistakes. And yet, God loves us anyway. He created us in His image, and He is continually shaping us, conforming un to His character, helping us to become even more like Him. That is why it is important that we learn to love ourselves, faults and all, not because of pride or egoism, but because that is how our Heavenly Father loves us. We can hold our head up high and walk with confidence knowing that God loves us unconditionally. His love for us is based on what we are, not on what we do. However, up to this point, if I may be permitted a painful observation, My dear Devout, many of us have a lot of excess baggage to leave behind. We could resign it totally to Jesus Christ. Then we would get what we want. Gold refined in the fire by Jesus—that tis to say, as it is in the Last Book of the New Testament (3.18), rich in Celestial Wisdom, poor in all other wisdoms. Jesus has said it before, and He will say it again. While on this Earth, we should be humbler and have more faith and follow the Ten Commandments. There was a community in Virginia, where someone lost their life because they were a victim of a crime. The community responded by going to church more and putting the Ten Commandments back in the school because these rituals and laws remind us to be good people. #RandolphHarris 9 of 17

God believes in us even more than we believe in ourselves. So often, we sense God telling us that He has something big for us to do. However, we say, “Oh, God, I cannot do that. I am just a nobody. I do not have the skills or talent.” God sees you as successful. You may not believe that you are at the pinnacle of success, but that does not change God’s image of you. God still sees you exactly as His Word describes you. You may feel unqualified, insecure, or overwhelmed by life; you may feel weak, fearful, and insignificant, but today dare to start seeing yourself as God see you—successful! We are also prepared for reality with a ground floor (Nature) and then above that one floor and one only—an eternal, spaceless, timeless, spiritual Something of which we can have no images and which, if it presents itself to human consciousness at all, does so in a mystical experience which shatters all our categories of thought. What we are not prepared for is anything in between. We feel quite sure that the first step beyond the World of our present experience must lead either nowhere at all or else into the blinding abyss of undifferentiated spirituality, the unconditioned, the absolute. That and an angelic World. That is why many believe in immortality who cannot believe in the resurrection of the body. That is why Pantheism is more popular than Christianity, and why many desire a Christianity stripped of its miracles. I cannot now understand but I well remember, the passionate conviction with which I myself once defended this prejudice. Any rumour of floors or levels intermediate between the Unconditioned and the World revealed by our present sense I rejected without trial as “mythology.” #RandolphHarris 10 of 17

Yet it is very difficult to see any rational grounds for the dogma that reality must have no more than two levels. There cannot, from the nature of the case, be evidence that God never created and never will create, more than one system. Each of them would be at least extra-natural in relation to all the others: and if any of them is more concrete, more permanent, more excellent, and richer than another it will be to that other super-natural. Nor will a partial contact between any two obliterate their distinctness. In that way there might be Natures piled upon Natures to any height God pleased, each Supernatural to that below it and Subnatural to that which is surpassed it. However, the tenor of Christian teaching is that we are actually living in a situation even more complex than that. A new Nature is being not merely made but made out of an old one. We live amid all the anomalies, inconveniences, hopes, and excitements of a house that is being rebuilt. Something is being pulled down and something going up in its place. To accept the idea of intermediate floors—which the Christian story will, quite simply, force us to do if it is not a falsehood—does not of course involve losing our spiritual apprehension of the top floor of all. Most certainly, beyond all Worlds, unconditioned and unimaginable, transcending discursive thought, there yawns forever he ultimate Fact, the fountain of all other facthood, the burning and undimensioned depth of the Divine Life. Most certainly also, to be united with that Life in the eternal Sonship of Christ is, strictly speaking, the only thing worth a moment’s consideration. And in so far as that is what you mean by Heaven, Christ’s divine Nature never left it, and therefore never returned to it: and His human nature ascended thither not at the moment of the Ascension but at every moment. #RandolphHarris 11 of 17

In that sense not one word that the spiritualizers have uttered will, please God, ever be unsaid by me. However, it by no means follows that there are not other truths as well. I allow, indeed I insist, that Christ cannot be at “the right hand of God” except in a metaphorical sense. I allow and insist that the Eternal Word, the Second Person of the Trinity, can never be, nor have been, confined to any place at all: it is rather in God that all places exist. However, the records say that the glorified, but still in some sense corporeal, Christ withdrew into some different mode of being about six weeks after the Crucifixion: and that He is “preparing a place” for us. “And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint,” reports Galatians 6.9. “There is [now no distinction] neither Jewish or Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is not male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus,” reports Galatians 4.24. “You also must be ready therefore, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not expect Him,” reports Matthew 24.44. It is not enough to have citizens and to protect them; it is also necessary to give some though to their substance. And seeing to the public needs is an obvious consequence of the general will, and the third essential duty of government. This duty is not, as should be apparent, to fill the granaries of private individuals and to exempt these people from working, but rather to maintain abundance so within their reach that to acquire it, labour is always necessary and never useless. It also extends to al the operations regarding the preservation of the public treasury and the expenditures of the public administration. Thus, after having discussed the general economy in relation to the government of persons, it remains for us to consider it in relation to the administration of goods. #RandolphHarris 12 of 17

This part offers no fewer difficulties to resolve or contradictions to overcome than the preceding one. Certainly the right to property is the most sacred of all the citizens’ rights, and more important in certain respects than liberty itself, either because it is more intimately linked with the preservation of life, or because, being easier to usurp and more difficult to defend than one’s person, more respect needs to be given to what can more easily be stolen, or finally because property is the true foundation of civil society and the true guarantee of the citizens’ commitments. For if goods were not answerable for persons, nothing would be so easy as eluding one’s duties and scoffing at the laws. On the other hand, it is no less certain that the maintenance of the state and of the government demand costs and expenditures. And since anyone granting the end cannot refuse the means, it follows that the members of the society should contribute their goods toward its preservation. Moreover, it is difficult on the one hand to maintain the security of the property of private individuals without attacking it on the other. And it is impossible for all the regulations bearing on inheritance, wills, and contracts not to restrict the citizens in certain respects regarding the disposition of their estate, and consequently regarding their right to property. However, besides what I have already said about the unanimity which reigns between the authority of the law and the liberty of the citizen, there is, in relation to the disposition of goods, an important point to be made which eliminates several difficulties. #RandolphHarris 13 of 17

The nature of the right to property does not extend beyond the life of the property owner, and the moment a human dies, one’s estate generally no longer belongs to that individual. Thus, prescribing to one the conditions under which one can dispose of them is actually less an apparent alteration of one’s right than it is a real extension of it. In general, although the institution of the laws which govern the power of private individuals in the disposition of their own estate belongs only to the sovereign, the spirit of the laws which the government must follow in carrying them out is that, from father to son and from relative to relative, the family’s goods should leave the family and be alienated as little as possible. There is good reason for this in favour of children, to whom the right to property would be quite useless, were the father to leave them nothing, and who, moreover, having often contributed by their labour to the acquisition of the father’s goods, are associated in their own right with his right. However, another reason, more remote and no less important, is that nothing is more baneful to mores and to the republic than continual changes of status and fortune among the citizens, changes that are the proof and the source of a thousand disorders which overturn and confuse everything, and because of which neither those who were raised for one things and find themselves destined for another nor those who rise nor those who fall can adopt the maxims or the lights suitable to their new status, and much less fulfill its duties. The corporate identity crisis is intensified by the speed at which events are moving. For they very speed of change introduces a new element into management, forcing executives, already nervous in an unfamiliar environment, to make more and more decisions at a faster and faster pace. Response times are honed to a minimum. #RandolphHarris 14 of 17

At the financial level the speed of transactions is accelerating since banks have computerized. They are even offer lone services twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. For a fee, you can even get a lone at 1am, deposited into your account with in a few hours. Some banks have even relocated geographically to take advantage of time zone differences. Time zones can be used as a competitive edge. In this hotted-up environment, the big corporations are driven almost willy-nilly to invest and borrow in various currencies not on an annual, a ninety-day, or even a seven-day basis, but literally on an overnight minute-to-minute basis. A new corporate officer has appeared in the executive suite—the “international cash manager,” who remains plugged into the Worldwide electronic casino twenty-four hours a day, searching for the lowest interest rates, the best currency bargains, the fastest turnaround. Nor is this function trivial. Like famers who make more from selling land than from growing food, some major corporations are making more profit—or racking up greater losses—from currency and financial manipulation than from actual production. Also, a new storm of online banks are creating a tsunami of new financial institutions for customers to choose form and offering high investment rate, zero interest loans, and direct deposit advances for free because they know consumers do not read the fine print. They can offer such good deals because they are not federally insured, so their customers could lose all of their money and never get it back. However, that is unlikely, unless a disaster happens. #RandolphHarris 15 of 17

In marketing, a similar acceleration is evident. Marketers must respond quickly in order to insure the survival for tomorrow. Network TV programmers are accelerating their decisions on killing new TV series that show rating weakness. No more waiting six of seven weeks, or a season. Another example: Johnson & Jonson learns that Bristol-Myers is determined to undersell J&J’s Tylenol. Does J&J adopt a wait-and-see attitude? No. In an amazingly short times, it moves to cut Tylenol’s prices in stores. No more weeks or months of procrastination. The very prose is breathless. In engineering, in manufacture, in research, in sales, in training, in personnel, in every department and branch of the corporation the same quickening of decision-making can be detected. And once more we see a parallel process, though less advanced, in the socialist industrial nations. COMECON, which used to revise prices every five years when it issued its five-year plan, has been forced to revise its prices annually in an attempt to keep up with the faster pace. Before long it will be six months, then even less. The results of this generalized speedup of the corporate metabolism are multiple: shorter product life-cycles, more leasing and renting more frequent buying and selling, more ephemeral consumption patterns, more fads, more training time for workers (who must continually adjust to new procedures), more frequent changes in contracts, more negotiations and legal work, more pricing changes, more job turnover, more dependence on data, more ad hoc organization—all of it exacerbated by inflation. #RandolphHarris 16 of 17

The result is a high-stakes, high-adrenalin business environment. Under these escalating pressures it is easy to see why so many business people, bankers, and corporate executives wonder what exactly they are doing and why. Brought up with the Age of Information certainties, they see the World they knew tearing apart under the impact of an accelerating wave of change. Water flows from high in the mountains. Water runs deep in the Earth. Miraculously, water comes to us, and sustains all life. Water flows over these hands. May I use them skillfully to preserve our precious planet. O Lord, the God of America, You are rigidly just and righteous, for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as is this day. Behold, we are before You in our guilt, for none can stand before You because of this. for one who was a perfect human ‘mid all. Who once was saved through goodness at Thy call, Redeemed from overflowing floods of water—Save her who standeth steadfast as a wall, save her, our Father. For one unblemished in one’s works and ways though tried tenfold who, lifting up one’s gaze, saw angel forms, and ran to give them water—save her that shineth as the sunlight’s rays, save her, our Father. For that loved son who asked his aged sire, “Where is the lamb for offering made by fire?” For one who heard the tidings, “Here is water”—save her that wandereth in exile dire, save her, our Father. For one’s sake who before one’s brother came to take one’s blessing—hoping in Thy name; for one whose flocks increased by troughs of water—save her that was a palm-tree in her fame, save her, our Father. For one who meet to serve Thee Thou didst deem, apparelled as a bridegroom doth beseem; At Massah tried, at Meribah’s sad water—O save that goodly mountain of our dream, Save her, our Father. Love myself? Those words do not come easy for me, Father. However, with all my heart, I want to learn how to love myself, not so I can be America’s Next Top Model and bask in self-adulation, but so I can more deeply appreciate who You have made me to be, and that I might more effectively express Your #RandolphHarris 17 of 17

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