Post by Silas*-*Sweetie on Jul 6, 2005 2:34:39 GMT -5
Hello my name is Silas or SilasSweetie whichever you prefer. This is your first lesson of Divination with side lessons to Ancient Runes.. For your first lesson I would like you to write me and essay of what you would like out of this class.
With anything people have goals. Such as my goals are to teach class properly, put up lessons on time, not be too hard, be fun, and keep students with me the first time around.
I’d like to not have to drop anyone, but that won’t be possibly, I’ll have to at least drop one person. My reason? Students don’t do their work. I know personally they don’t do their work, I mean I used to be a student too.
Everyone has their responsibilities, this class is one of yours. You’ve signed up for this class, that means you do the work. If you have a problem with this please asked to be dropped. It is not worth the professors’ time, if you’re not going to do the work. Plus you’ll just have to get used to another class, if you are dropped from this one.
Divination
Predicting the future. Various methods are involved, including crystal balls, palmistry, tea leaves and the interpretation of dreams.
crystal ball
A crystal ball is a crystal or glass ball believed to aid clairvoyance. It is sometimes known as a Shew stone. This term was used by Dr John Dee.
The crystal ball is used by the scryer as a focus for the attention, removing unwanted thoughts from the mind in the same way as a mantra. This clearing of the mind reputedly allows the scryer to "see" relevant events or images in the crystal ball.
Chiromancy
Chiromancy or cheiromancy,(Greek cheir, “hand”; manteia, “divination”), art of characterization and foretelling the future through the study of the palm also known as palmistry or palm-reading consists of the practice (or pseudoscience) of evaluating a person's character or future life by "reading" the palm of that person's hand. (The Greek components of the word "cheiromancy" carry implications of "hand-divination".) Various "lines" ("life line", "heart line", etc) and "mounts" (bumps) purportedly suggest interpretations by their relative sizes and intersections.
In palmistry, the reader usually begins by reading the person's dominant hand. (the hand he or she writes with or uses the most.) There are three main lines: The life line, the head line, and the heart line. The heart line is the top line. It is usually deep and extends from one side of the hand and stops near the middle or index finger. This line represents what the person believes about love, their past love experiences, and what fears if any the person has about love. The next line down is the head line. This line starts at one end of the palm and ends about at the ring finger on most people. This line represents the person's mind, and whether or not he or she values intelligence and knowledge. Finally, the life line, which extends from one end of the palm to the wrist. This line represents the person's vitality and vigor.
dream
Dreaming is the subjective experience of imaginary images, sounds/voices, words, thoughts or sensations during sleep, usually involuntarily. The scientific discipline of dream research is oneirology. Dreaming is associated with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a lighter form of sleep that occurs during the later portion of the sleep cycle, characterized by rapid horizontal eye movements, stimulation of the pons, increased respiratory and heart rate, and temporary paralysis of the body. It can also occur in other phases of sleep, though this is less common. Hypnogogia, which occurs spontaneously during the approach to deep sleep, is thought to be related to dreaming.
Dreams are a language of imagery. This imagery ranges from the normal to the surreal; in fact, dreams often provoke artistic and other forms of inspiration. Forms of dream include the frightening or upsetting nightmare and erotic dreams with sexual images and nocturnal emission.
Most scientists believe that dreams occur in all humans with about equal frequency per amount of sleep. Therefore, if individuals feel that they did not dream or that they only had one dream in any given night, it is because their memory of the dream has faded. This "memory erasure" aspect of the dream state is mostly found when a person naturally awakes via a smooth transition from REM sleep through delta sleep to the awake state. If a person is awoken directly from REM sleep (e.g. by an alarm clock), they are much more likely to remember the dream from that REM cycle (although it's most likely that not all dreams will be remembered because they occur in REM cycles, which are interrupted by periods of delta sleep which in turn have a tendency to cause the memory of previous dreams to fade.)
True dreaming has only been positively confirmed in Homo sapiens, but many believe that dreaming occurs in other animals as well. Animals certainly undergo REM sleep, but their subjective experience is difficult to determine. The animal with the longest average periods of REM sleep is the armadillo. It would appear that mammals are the only, or at least most frequent, dreamers in nature, which is perhaps related to their sleep patterns.
dream interpretation
Dream interpretation is the art of determining the meaning (or alleged meaning) of the symbolic content of a dream.
Dream interpetation is a part of psychoanalysis that intends to look beneath the manifest content of a dream, i.e., what we perceive in the dream, to the latent content of a dream, i.e., the meaning of the dream and the reason we dreamt it. The seminal work on the subject is The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud.
Joseph in the Old Testament interpreted the dreams of a Pharaoh of Egypt. Daniel also had the gift of interpreting dreams, saying "There is a God in heaven that reveals mysteries."
Interpretation of dreams is also a part of contemporary pop or new age culture. See new age dream interpretation; Edgar Cayce on Dreams by Harmon H. Bro, 1968; and Edgar Cayce.
Some theories are:
Modern theories
There has been much scientific research on dreams, and modern theories attempt to explain as many facts found in scientific research as possible. These include:
• Why we dream the most before being born; why the amount of dreaming decreases at old age; why mammals born prematurely, such as rats, dream more than mature animals.
• Why depressed people dream more.
• Why we may have evolved to dream.
• to be written
Hall's cognitive theory
to be written
Joe Griffin's theory
to be written
Older theories
Freud
Freud thought that dreams were created to solve a conflict between a conscious wish and an unconscious wish, repressed from childhood, which would prevent sleep.
Freud thought that these repressed wishes were active in the unconscious during waking, but were kept from entering consciousness by a “censor”. During sleep, however, this censor is not as alert as it is during waking. Repressed wishes therefore disguise themselves to pass the censor as dreams. When we wake from a nightmare, the repressed wish has not disguised itself well enough and the censor has awoken us to full alertness.
Freud listed the possible transformations used by the wish to get past the censor as a dream:
• Condensation where one dream object could stand for several thoughts.
• Displacement where the dream object's significance is less important than the disguised significance.
• Representation where a thought is translated to visual images.
• Symbolisation where an action or a person is replaced by a different symbol.
These transformations help to disguise the latent content.
Continuation to be written
Jung
To Jung, dreams are communications from the unconscious. Most of the time, dreams can be regarded as "compensatory" views to the conscious, expressing aspects of the individual that are suppressed or neglected. This idea of compensation, of the natural tendency for the conflicting conscious and unconscious to approach a balance, is the basis of Jung's overall theory of psychological self-regulation. It is also important to note that due to the fact that they are often highly symbolic, dreams can be hard to understand and are subject to nuance and arguable misinterpretation.
Write a paragraph this will need to be quite long, about 15-20 sentences in the very least I appreciate more, about what you have learned. A few sentences on each topic covered, like theories about dreams, the definition of divination, so far and so forth.
We will study each of these topics as well as a few lessons of the divine alphabet Ancient Runes.
PM the answers to me in a week. I do realize this is a LOT of homework for the first lesson but bear with me this will get easier.
DUE DATE IS JULY 13TH !! I esnt the homework by then.
With anything people have goals. Such as my goals are to teach class properly, put up lessons on time, not be too hard, be fun, and keep students with me the first time around.
I’d like to not have to drop anyone, but that won’t be possibly, I’ll have to at least drop one person. My reason? Students don’t do their work. I know personally they don’t do their work, I mean I used to be a student too.
Everyone has their responsibilities, this class is one of yours. You’ve signed up for this class, that means you do the work. If you have a problem with this please asked to be dropped. It is not worth the professors’ time, if you’re not going to do the work. Plus you’ll just have to get used to another class, if you are dropped from this one.
Divination
Predicting the future. Various methods are involved, including crystal balls, palmistry, tea leaves and the interpretation of dreams.
crystal ball
A crystal ball is a crystal or glass ball believed to aid clairvoyance. It is sometimes known as a Shew stone. This term was used by Dr John Dee.
The crystal ball is used by the scryer as a focus for the attention, removing unwanted thoughts from the mind in the same way as a mantra. This clearing of the mind reputedly allows the scryer to "see" relevant events or images in the crystal ball.
Chiromancy
Chiromancy or cheiromancy,(Greek cheir, “hand”; manteia, “divination”), art of characterization and foretelling the future through the study of the palm also known as palmistry or palm-reading consists of the practice (or pseudoscience) of evaluating a person's character or future life by "reading" the palm of that person's hand. (The Greek components of the word "cheiromancy" carry implications of "hand-divination".) Various "lines" ("life line", "heart line", etc) and "mounts" (bumps) purportedly suggest interpretations by their relative sizes and intersections.
In palmistry, the reader usually begins by reading the person's dominant hand. (the hand he or she writes with or uses the most.) There are three main lines: The life line, the head line, and the heart line. The heart line is the top line. It is usually deep and extends from one side of the hand and stops near the middle or index finger. This line represents what the person believes about love, their past love experiences, and what fears if any the person has about love. The next line down is the head line. This line starts at one end of the palm and ends about at the ring finger on most people. This line represents the person's mind, and whether or not he or she values intelligence and knowledge. Finally, the life line, which extends from one end of the palm to the wrist. This line represents the person's vitality and vigor.
dream
Dreaming is the subjective experience of imaginary images, sounds/voices, words, thoughts or sensations during sleep, usually involuntarily. The scientific discipline of dream research is oneirology. Dreaming is associated with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a lighter form of sleep that occurs during the later portion of the sleep cycle, characterized by rapid horizontal eye movements, stimulation of the pons, increased respiratory and heart rate, and temporary paralysis of the body. It can also occur in other phases of sleep, though this is less common. Hypnogogia, which occurs spontaneously during the approach to deep sleep, is thought to be related to dreaming.
Dreams are a language of imagery. This imagery ranges from the normal to the surreal; in fact, dreams often provoke artistic and other forms of inspiration. Forms of dream include the frightening or upsetting nightmare and erotic dreams with sexual images and nocturnal emission.
Most scientists believe that dreams occur in all humans with about equal frequency per amount of sleep. Therefore, if individuals feel that they did not dream or that they only had one dream in any given night, it is because their memory of the dream has faded. This "memory erasure" aspect of the dream state is mostly found when a person naturally awakes via a smooth transition from REM sleep through delta sleep to the awake state. If a person is awoken directly from REM sleep (e.g. by an alarm clock), they are much more likely to remember the dream from that REM cycle (although it's most likely that not all dreams will be remembered because they occur in REM cycles, which are interrupted by periods of delta sleep which in turn have a tendency to cause the memory of previous dreams to fade.)
True dreaming has only been positively confirmed in Homo sapiens, but many believe that dreaming occurs in other animals as well. Animals certainly undergo REM sleep, but their subjective experience is difficult to determine. The animal with the longest average periods of REM sleep is the armadillo. It would appear that mammals are the only, or at least most frequent, dreamers in nature, which is perhaps related to their sleep patterns.
dream interpretation
Dream interpretation is the art of determining the meaning (or alleged meaning) of the symbolic content of a dream.
Dream interpetation is a part of psychoanalysis that intends to look beneath the manifest content of a dream, i.e., what we perceive in the dream, to the latent content of a dream, i.e., the meaning of the dream and the reason we dreamt it. The seminal work on the subject is The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud.
Joseph in the Old Testament interpreted the dreams of a Pharaoh of Egypt. Daniel also had the gift of interpreting dreams, saying "There is a God in heaven that reveals mysteries."
Interpretation of dreams is also a part of contemporary pop or new age culture. See new age dream interpretation; Edgar Cayce on Dreams by Harmon H. Bro, 1968; and Edgar Cayce.
Some theories are:
Modern theories
There has been much scientific research on dreams, and modern theories attempt to explain as many facts found in scientific research as possible. These include:
• Why we dream the most before being born; why the amount of dreaming decreases at old age; why mammals born prematurely, such as rats, dream more than mature animals.
• Why depressed people dream more.
• Why we may have evolved to dream.
• to be written
Hall's cognitive theory
to be written
Joe Griffin's theory
to be written
Older theories
Freud
Freud thought that dreams were created to solve a conflict between a conscious wish and an unconscious wish, repressed from childhood, which would prevent sleep.
Freud thought that these repressed wishes were active in the unconscious during waking, but were kept from entering consciousness by a “censor”. During sleep, however, this censor is not as alert as it is during waking. Repressed wishes therefore disguise themselves to pass the censor as dreams. When we wake from a nightmare, the repressed wish has not disguised itself well enough and the censor has awoken us to full alertness.
Freud listed the possible transformations used by the wish to get past the censor as a dream:
• Condensation where one dream object could stand for several thoughts.
• Displacement where the dream object's significance is less important than the disguised significance.
• Representation where a thought is translated to visual images.
• Symbolisation where an action or a person is replaced by a different symbol.
These transformations help to disguise the latent content.
Continuation to be written
Jung
To Jung, dreams are communications from the unconscious. Most of the time, dreams can be regarded as "compensatory" views to the conscious, expressing aspects of the individual that are suppressed or neglected. This idea of compensation, of the natural tendency for the conflicting conscious and unconscious to approach a balance, is the basis of Jung's overall theory of psychological self-regulation. It is also important to note that due to the fact that they are often highly symbolic, dreams can be hard to understand and are subject to nuance and arguable misinterpretation.
Write a paragraph this will need to be quite long, about 15-20 sentences in the very least I appreciate more, about what you have learned. A few sentences on each topic covered, like theories about dreams, the definition of divination, so far and so forth.
We will study each of these topics as well as a few lessons of the divine alphabet Ancient Runes.
PM the answers to me in a week. I do realize this is a LOT of homework for the first lesson but bear with me this will get easier.
DUE DATE IS JULY 13TH !! I esnt the homework by then.
