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What Does Bob Dylan's Dream Reveal About 'the Law of Attraction'?
Copyright (c) 2008 Michael Messina
I was playing some old records (well CD's of old records) the other day and came across one of Bob Dylan's earliest numbers entitled; 'Bob Dylan's Dream'.
It's years since I last played it, which is frightening in itself, since it's a song I really love and not surprisingly the message and the vibe it contained had quite an effect.
It spoke so poignantly of a state of mind you only really experience at a certain time of life that revisiting it years later can't help but move you to tears.
I guess we all succumb to nostalgia once in a while, but the emotions that arise from this can make the moment you last felt them seem like yesterday. The fact that they are still so powerful raises an important issue with regard to The Law of Attraction.
Whenever you engage The Law of Attraction to create something you want now, you have to remember that 'you now' is not the only factor in this reality creation equation. There's also the you once were with his or her dreams and desires. If these past desires have already been realised and continue to be part of your life, no problem, but if they are not, you could be in for some difficulties if what you want now falls outside of the vision and values you had back then.
Here's what can happen.
Let's say you were a politically motivated teenager and had very strong views about social equality of One Kind or another. Frustrated at being unable to do much about this at the time, you moved on and vowed that some day you'll find a way to make a difference.
Time passes. Circumstances change and with them your priorities change too. Suddenly you have family commitments and financial goals to reach.
Somewhere deep down you still hold the values you had back when, but you no longer feel compelled to act on them. Now the focus is more on money and success.
And it is these you seek to attract more of into your life.
This is where you now put the Law of Attraction to work. And if you are clear enough about what you want, you should have no difficulty doing this.
Unless the money and success, or at least the way you envisage getting them, runs against the grain of your old values.
Now, don't get me wrong here. I'm not suggesting that those younger values are more or less important than the priorities that drive your life now. Only that they are a part of your intrinsic nature and as such continue to have an influence on the kind of reality you are truly 'willing' to create today.
Getting in touch with these forgotten aspects of yourself is part of the processing work you need to build into your reality creation programmes.
You'll find it a great help to first acknowledge them and then make peace with them.
Who knows, you may even find they add a valuable element of their own that enhances the future you're shooting for today. The world needs strong positive visions and values now as much as it did back then. Probably more so.
If you are unfamiliar with Bob Dylan's Dream, it is from an album he released in the sixties; Freewheelin'.
About the Author
Michael Messina is a writer and metaphysician, who has been writing about and researching personal metaphysics for over 30 years. Initially a student of Theosophy, his quest for inner knowledge has since taken him through elements of the Esoteric Mystery Schools and more recently into New Age Thought. He is the author of The Secret Mind Inner Guidance System. You can find out more about this at; http://www.TheSecretMind.com
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Battlestar Galactica - the Bob Dylan Connection
During the sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica’s third season finale, the song “All Along The Watchtower” by Bob Dylan reverberated around the heads of the four humanoid Cylons, Colonel Saul Tigh, Samuel Anders, Chief Petty Officer Galen Tyrol and Tory Foster. Many followers of the series have speculated about the use of the song and one guess is that the song was used as a way to show that that human beings like Lieutenant Athena and the Cylons are actually just forty light years away from Earth.
To make this hypothesis more believable, one would have to make more supplementary assumptions. First, it would have to be assumed that the song is some kind of radio wave being transmitted from a satellite. Second, the satellite might have been created to circle a particular planet in order to receive frequencies, which will in turn be sent back to Cylon hardware only. If the song can only be heard by Cylons, then that suggests that the satellite was created by the Cylons in order to further their search for the Blue Planet.
Taking all of this into account, what then is the relevance of the Bob Dylan tune? Well, contrary to what many have believed about where the meaning of a song can be found, the relevance may actually be found on the date the song was created rather than what the song is saying. Stepping into actual history for a moment, Bob Dylan wrote “All Along the Watchtower” after he survived a motorcycle accident, and it was released towards the end of 1967. Now, going back to the world of Battlestar Galactica, supposing that the show is taking place in real time, then it reinforces the fact that Earth is a short distance away. If this were true, then the Cylons are actually inching closer and closer to their desired destination.
Confusing as it might be, this hypothesis is quite interesting. It certainly provides a different perspective, but if you take into consideration what the show’s composer, Bear McCreary, said about his selection of the song, the aforementioned hypothesis would immediately lose its strength. McCreary said in his online journal that when he chose the particular song, he was told not to make it sound anything close to the original or any remake thereof. In addition, the composer chronicled his process of reinventing the song to make it sound less Earthly and more galactic. If this is the case, then the song the Cylons heard was not Dylan’s original recording, and therefore could not have been the year 1967 in Earth.
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