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I guess that makes me Highly Refined Ghetto... Cause it ain't that deep down...😬

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As I slept last night, between 10pm and 2am, I experienced one of the most profound and memorably vivid dreams I have ever experienced.

I was facing another figure at a distance too far to cover in three sides, and just out of vision in that blurry quality that dreams possess. We were both breathing rapidly, panting deeply with eyes locked through the haze.

I understood we had been engaged recently in single and mortal combat of some type, and that we were at an impasse for a brief moment as to how to advance our re-engagement, when a third figure entered from out of sight and held council with my adversary.

Immediately I felt the full and complete sense of knowing that not only was my death fated and unavoidable, but that it was integral to the very continuance of some imminently greater cause. That it must occur.

I was instantly relieved of all tenseness, all fear, all anger. I signaled to both figures that that was so by giving them two thumbs up, before turning slightly, and releasing my gaze without closing my eyes. On the periphery of my perception I saw the newly appeared figure advance rapidly, raising his blade.

Two thoughts occurred to my dream self at that moment istantaneously but not simultaneously. The first, would death feel like pain? Then, would I retain any conscious awareness after the blow was struck?

The answers to those two questions were answered by death the same way life answers many of our questions, in reverse order.

Of course because it was a dream, (not to steal from my executioner any talent or skill at his task, for I judged it a clean an honorable death on all sides at it's conclusion), I felt first my head bump the floor, but as pressure, of pain I no longer had comprehension.

The only feeling that occurred as my vision receded from three edges and waned to black was of a sinking, fading warmth that receded into the center of my being, and of complete peace and stillness of what we call mind.

In retelling this dream to my wife only a few hours after, I did not know who the other figures were. As in the recounting, they were told to her as unknown adversaries. In fact... When I refer to anything within this dream experience in the first person that is only to frame the narrative. I understood in the dream, and on recounting that it was not me in the dream. That is to say, not even an avatar of me. Just that my awareness was present within that of the other on that level.

Through retelling, and the process of writing it out in this post I believe I received answers to as many questions as I did new questions for which I will now start to search for answers... I believe I know the identities of all three figures for example...But I will share those answers I feel I did receive... And the observations that have brought me a new level of understanding of self, death, and being at a later time.

If you read this, thank you. It is factual and unembellished. I hope it sparks in you something. 🙏🏼💙

Tyrkir Skot Wyrdson

/ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /
"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. He is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language, his work having a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day. Goethe took up residence in Weimar in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl August, in 1782. Goethe was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement."
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Born: Johann Wolfgang Goethe, August 28, 1749, Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire
Died: March 22, 1832, Weimar, Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German Confederation
Occupation: Poet, novelist, playwright, natural philosopher, diplomat, civil servant
Alma mater: Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
Literary movement: Sturm und Drang, Weimar Classicism, Romanticism in science
Notable works: Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Elective Affinities, "Prometheus", Zur Farbenlehre, Italienische Reise, West–östlicher Divan