TRUTH BUILDING

 

WAY TO PEACE

“I woke up with worries around 4 a.m. on September 12. You may have, too. A line came to me that felt like a gift from the Creator. ‘Truth is the way to peace,’ it said. Truth is the way to peace within each one of us and truth is the way to satisfaction between ourselves, I heard. ‘Truth is the way to peace between States.’” — Don Paul describes his September 12, 2001 nighttime dream revelation in his San Francisco newspaper column.

 

OMEN 

A tumbler filled with sludge.

This disturbing dream image woke me with a jolt Friday, September 17, six days after the attack on the US and the morning of the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. The bleakness of its prophesy for the coming year haunted me for days. I had an ominous sense dark forces waited in the shadows in the aftermath of the horrendous attack on the United States a week before 

The meaning of the glass tumbler took shape at a Media Alliance event in San Francisco September 22, two days after the ‘they hate us for our freedoms speech” Bush gave to Congress. 

Farhad Azad, publisher of Afghanmagazine.com, who in 1975, as a boy, fled Kabul with his family to the United States, spoke about centuries of struggle for his native land —from power hungry czars to the bloody decade long bloody dance Soviets with the Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan presidencies— destroyed his culture-rich country for their own political and economic ends. Kabul, the capital, vibrated with art, music, and literature.

When he finished, an observer standing next to me whispered, “What about the pipeline?” 

“What pipeline?” I asked.

“The one going through Afghanistan to the Caspian because going through Iran or Russia is out of the picture,” he explained. The route through either of those countries was the shorter route— but politically untenable.

As he spoke, I wrote in my notebook, “It’s about oil,” drew a picture of the tumbler from the September 17 Rosh Hashanah dream, and put a box around the word “oil.” 

At that moment, I knew the so-called U.S. war on terrorism was about oil. The dream held the key to the truth behind the impending massive US military response to the September 11 attacks.

 

MALIGNANCY 

“I had a vision when campaigning for Al Gore during the 2000 presidential election. It was filled with fire and death and war. Gore was benign, but Bush was making war. George Bush meant war/malignancy. The vision was of war, fire, and disaster. War was a weapon to dominate as a world power,” a San Francisco State University Student described his dream occurring during the 2000 Presidential General Election between Vice President Al Gore and Texas governor G.W. Bush.

“Five days before 9/11, I sensed disaster,” the student told me during an April 25, 2002 teach-in at SFSU.

 

These are among the dozens of dreams about 9/11 I have reported on for the past 25 years. These and others will be included in my forthcoming book, HIDDEN TRUTHS: Dreams Reveal Rising Tide of Fascism Engulfing America.

As always, you are invited and encouraged to share and explore your dreams — personal, political, planetary. Write joyce at joycelynn dot com