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Occasionally, I have dreams that have no images, no strong emotional context, but are idea-based. Such dreams might involve the repetition of a phrase over and over again. It’s as if my dreaming self is telling me to remember. Don’t forget. Wake up, write it down. Rather than multi-dimensional, these dreams can feel very two-dimensional  – like the image above.

One such dream I recall oddly enough featured the Supreme Court. There were no images of court members, not any issues before the court, not even a gavel pounding the bench. Only the words: Supreme court decision. Except ‘decision’ came out slurred in a non-sensical word. But later, when I said it quickly to myself, I realized it sounded very close to ‘decision.’

Supreme court decision. I remember wondering what could this mean, and thinking what a boring dream, and thinking that while I was dreaming!

There was one other element in the dream: the color green. So as some part of me was spewing out, Supreme court decision  over and over again, I thought of the meaning of green, and tried to analyze the dream while it was taking place. I thought that green might indicate an important court decision related to the environment.

I also thought of green light, as in the court giving the go-ahead. I thought maybe it related to the issue of the moment, the national health care program and the mandate that every adult buy health insurance. But that decision isn’t expected until sometime in June. So why was I dreaming about a decision is early April?

I forgot about the dream until April 16 when we were driving home from Orlando after a visit with daughter Megan. I don’t know why it came to mind, but I mentioned it to Trish.

An hour later, we arrived home and picked up the mail and newspaper. There on the front page of that day’s paper was a detailed analysis of the health care issue before the supreme court.  As a former journalist, I always glance at the by-lines of articles. When I looked at this one, I smiled. The name at the top of the article was Laura Green.

There was my color. A synchro. Why I picked up on it at week or so in advance is just one of the mysteries of the dream world.

The man in the photo is a resident Bugarach, France, who is saying, “Don’t come to my village for the end of the world.”

Okay. We won’t.

But apparently thousands think it’s the place to be Dec. 21 when the Mayan Calendar runs out of days. The reason is that the French village of 200 is nestled at the base of a peculiar mountain that is attracting the throngs who hope aliens will save them from the end of the world.

According to The Inquisitr, the pilgrims, already more than 20,000, believe that when Doomsday arrives, aliens will appear in UFOs at Pic de Bugarach to rescue all people awaiting them. They will be flown off and relocated for the dawning of a new age. BBC reports that for years, there have been rumors circulated on Internet that Pic de Bugarach is home to powerful aliens and that on apocalypse day, December 21, the top of the mountain will open and the UFOs will emerge to rescue those gathered in the area.

The mountain is called the “upside-down mountain” because, according to geologists, its top layer is an overthrust from the Iberian plate, and is older than the bottom ones. According to French tradition, the mountain inspired Jules Verne’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth” and Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

The local authorities have grown nervous about the goings-on in the area, fearing the possibility of a mass action such as suicide. They have asked the French government to move troops into the area for security. According to The Independent, more than 100,000 are expected to come to the mountain in time for the 21 December “beaming up” of believers aboard UFOs.

BBC reports that a special parliamentary committee has warned that the sects may commit mass suicides in 2012 if the spaceships do not come to save them. A report alleges some people have bought land in the mountains and are planning to building bunkers where they may survive the expected catastrophe at the end of the world.

The mayor says the villagers are worried about these goings-on: “We’ve seen a huge rise in visitors. Already this year more than 20,000 people have climbed right to the top, and last year we had 10,000 hikers, which was a significant rise on the previous 12 months. They think Pic de Bugarach is ‘un garage à ovnis’ [an alien garage]. The villagers are exasperated: the exaggerated importance of something which they see as completely removed from reality is bewildering. After 21 December, this will surely return to normal.”

Not to outdone by the French, some American travel agents apparently are offering special one-way deals  to Amageddon.

We are weary of the Dec. 21 hype – and have been so for some time – but we couldn’t pass up this one. After all, you don’t hear much about upside-down mountains.

Our post, Atlas Shrugged Turned on Its Head, brought comments from a couple of individuals who wanted to know what system we advocated if capitalism is so corrupt. Here’s the answer.

This documentary is stunning. It’s narrated and financed by a visionary named Foster Gamble, who rejected his path as a scion of the Proctor & Gamble fortune and chose to seek another more equitable path. Here you will learn about new energy and its connection with ancient wisdom, a hint about the meaning of crop circles, while the last half deals with the forces fighting to maintain the status quo and how they do it.

As Daz says, Thrive should be shown everywhere, and quickly. There’s a synchro in here for us, too, given the proposal we’re working on now. But more on that later. Here’s the movie, courtesy of You Tube.

If you follow us on Twitter, we apologize for any direct message that reputedly came from us about how you are the subject of a nasty rumor. Do NOT click that link. Our twitter account was hacked after our synchro books editor’s twitter account was hacked and we responded to her. Sigh.  The hack was actually clever: nasty rumors about you. Really?? Rumors? Who did I piss off?

These idiots apparently have a lot of time on their hands and enjoy stirring up mischief. At any rate, we corrected the problem and apologize to anyone who was affected.

If you were hacked, you should:

1. Report it to twitter. We couldn’t find a link for that.

2. Disable all associated accounts – and change the passwords on those accounts and on your twitter account.

3. Test your new passwords.

4. Tell the hackers to get a life.

What are we to make of this double image of  Queen Elizabeth, which is her official Diamond Jubilee photograph? It’s an interesting view with the reflection leaving an interdimensional impression. She is peering at us in a quite regal pose, but also looking away into another world.

Note the Knights of Templar cross on her sternum, which – thanks to the mirror – appears on both sides of her body, one below her left breast, the other below her right breast. No wonder mirrors are considered magical tools!

What interests me most about the photo, however, is the crown. The two images don’t appear to be identical. Look at the top of each one. The crown in the mirror seems level, while the one in the foreground appears uneven with peaks and valleys. An optical illusion, right?

When I was in college, I read Ayn Rand’s  Atlas Shrugged. For those of you haven’t read it, here’s a summary from Wikipedia:

Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in the United States. Rand’s fourth and last novel, it was also her and contains Rand’s most extensive statement of Objectivism in any of her works of fiction.

The book explores a dystopian United States where many of society’s most productive citizens refuse to be exploited by increasing taxation and government regulations and disappear. They are led by John Galt. Galt describes the strike as “stopping the motor of the world” by withdrawing the minds that drive society’s growth and productivity. In their efforts, these people “of the mind” hope to demonstrate that a world in which the individual is not free to create is doomed, that civilization cannot exist where every person is a slave to society and government, and that the destruction of the profit motive leads to the collapse of society. The protagonist, Dagny Taggart, sees society collapse around her as the government increasingly asserts control over all industry.

I enjoyed her characters and the love story between Dagny Taggart and the mysterious John Galt. Then I reached the very long speech that Galt made – 27 or 30 pages – on capitalism and profit and thought, Huh? Why didn’t an editor cut this sucker to two paragraphs?

At the time, I didn’t understand enough about capitalism to realize that speech formed the core of Rand’s dangerous belief system. In a nutshell,  her take on capitalism is that there should be no government regulation. None. The free market regulates itself  and when government tries to regulate it, creativity is stifled and profits nosedive.  And oh, there are no free lunches – no Social Security, no Medicare, no welfare, no health care for the poor. Forget all that.

I re-read the book about ten years later and hated it. I didn’t know at the time that a man named Alan Greenspan was a student of Rand’s; Greenspan served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006. After 9-11, he’s the one who encouraged Americans to use their homes as ATM machines, to refinance and use that additional money to bolster the economy by shopping.

Like economist Milton Friedman, Greenspan was a proponent of a self-regulating market, a term I never really understood. I mean, is a market  a human being with a conscience? Does a market know the difference between right and wrong? Greenspan – like Friedman, like Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, like Congressman Paul Ryan – believes in trickle down economics.

I’m sure you’ve heard the term: the upper one percent in the U.S. shouldn’t have their taxes raised because they are the job creators, the ones who supposedly hire you and me and all the rest of us. And because they are the job creators, the belief says, we – the middle class, the poor, the elderly – should be the ones who pay higher taxes. Huh?

Congressman Paul Ryan is the author of the infamous Ryan plan for how to put the country back on track to a brighter economic future. The core of it? Cut social services across the board – i.e., scrap Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, and give the very rich a new tax break, and get rid of government regulations on everything, so that the oil companies and insurance companies and banks will have higher profits. And really, don’t worry about it, all you peons out there, because the market self-regulates.

Well, once it became public knowledge that Ryan – a Catholic – was a proponent of Ayn Rand, an atheist,  some Catholic bishops denounced him. So now Ryan, no surprise, suddenly doesn’t embrace Rand’s teachings.

What is so puzzling is that even though the financial meltdown of 2008 was the result of trickle down economics, of the Milton Friedman and Alan Greenspan and Ayn Rand economical view, even though the self-regulating market on Wall Street turned out to be enormously greedy, this philosophy is still advocated as an answer to economic woes.  But don’t take my word for it. Read Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine.

“Based on breakthrough historical research and four years of on-the-ground reporting in disaster zones, The Shock Doctrine vividly shows how disaster capitalism – the rapid-fire corporate reengineering of societies still reeling from shock – did not begin with September 11, 2001. The book traces its origins back fifty years, to the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman, which produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today. New, surprising connections are drawn between economic policy, “shock and awe” warfare and covert CIA-funded experiments in electroshock and sensory deprivation in the 1950s, research that helped write the torture manuals used today in Guantanamo Bay.”

The bottom line, I think, is that as we move deeper into 2012, many of us are becoming even more aware of how the old paradigms no longer work. It’s time to turn Rand’s form of capitalism, based on personal greed at the expense of everyone and everything else, on its head. It’s part of that dying belief system. Politicians who advocate cutting social safety net programs that protect the most vulnerable in society, who propose banning contraception and overturning abortion, who believe that corporations are people, who propose doubling the interest rates on student loans, who think it’s okay to drill oil wells a mile deep in the ocean,  who believe that torture is just fine…it’s time for these guys to hit the road, Jack.  Their worldview is broken.

It’s up to the rest of us to put the pieces together in a new way that is beneficial for all people, not just the privileged few.