... defines fairy as "all things absurd, nonlinear, nonsensical, irrational, and madly poetic" (Froud, Intro); all of these traits are facets of the human, logical interpretation of the unconscious realm. Within the context of the Faery tradition of Witchcraft, this is the "Talking Self," or the conscious mind, describing the "Younger Self," or unconscious mind (Simos, p. 35). The human mind contains ... "triple Hecate's team" (l. 370) mentioned in Puck's second-to-last speech. The three serve metaphorically as a triple-faceted representation of the commonalities between human and fey. From ...

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... REM, with this reason in mind the dreamer can assume that if they are having a lucid dream that they are about to awaken (Ullman and Zimmerman 1979). The next genus of dreams is nightmares. Nightmares are very simple in nature but there are much contained within them. Nightmares come from highly suppressed negative emotion. This negative emotion can be directed toward oneself ... male penis and hollow round shapes symbolizing the female vagina (Freud 1900). Freud thought if either of these symbols appeared in a dream that the individual had suppressed sexual tension within their emotion...

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... of you are sitting here listening to my presentation is subject to doubt. However, Descartes points out that we often make mistakes about precisely these kinds of things when we dream. When you are dreaming, it may seem to you that you are sitting in your chair, reading, when in fact you are fast asleep in your bed (Descartes, pp. 12 ... the Matrix implies dying in the real world: "The body cannot live without the mind."" There are at least eight subcategory of the unreal or "dream world-: simulation (neuro-interactive), image (of self), digital entity (a self), dream, appearance, menta...

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... that he was awake when in reality he was merely dreaming. It is possible, according to him that our whole life could be a dream. He also questioned the truths of logic and reason since it is possible that he could be deceived by a demon which has the ... propositions are not merely clues to modes of reasoning; they are those modes of reasoning. The rationalist theory that the will is a faculty within the mind, and that volitions are mental processes that the human body transforms into physical acts, is therefore a misconception. This theory mistakenly assumes ... circumstances or situatio...

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... the right state of mind, to be receptive to the gentle emissions of the unspoken language and also the subtle conversations that people have within them selves, those rarely if ever expressed openly. The activity of the mind is extremely complicated and multi-dimensional. Our awareness of the ... have pythons in their bellies. These special features allow the witch's spirit soul (geist-zeele) to travel through the night directed by the witches dream and feed off the life-energy of other people. The incentive for this activity is two fold: one is a craving for human flesh (a ... the witc...

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... I had no reason to believe that there were physical objects independent of my sense data, I should have no reason to believe that other people exist except as part of my dream. The goal is thus to show that appeals cannot be made to the testimony of other people, since this testimony itself consists of sense data, and does not reveal other ... people's experiences unless my sense data are signs of things existing independent of me. Therefore within my private experiences characteristics must be found that show that there are in the world things other than myself and my experiences. The ...

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