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The festival incident of the dream state was highly fascinating, and it did represent a particular state of consciousness above all—one in which reality is perceived in a different fashion. The dream (last night) reflected and updated old Sumari traditions that honored God as a god of festivals, of celebration, traditions, that built upon the idea of life itself as a celebration.

Remember again that the intellect can see only so far, and that it uses the cause-and-effect kind of logic, while magical events leapfrog that kind of orientation. A small note: Your new (TV film) equipment is fine with me, and can if you wanted to serve us all quite well. Ruburt’s dream, by the way, also signaled him that he is now approaching what the Sumarians used to call “the time of festivals,” or a time of grace. All of their ceremonies were joyful and life-giving.

[...] Some connection with, is it—ablutions or washings, and with some kind of festival type thing.

(“Some connection with, is it—ablutions or washings, and with some kind of festival-type thing.” [...]

(The festival-type thing is also good, and refers I think to the letter from Bill Ward that accompanied the art. [...]

(This Saturday evening we’re to be visited by Scott and Helen Nearing, who are spending the day at programs for a homecoming festival at Mansfield.

[...] A note: The next day, Jane and I saw the Nearings in color on a national TV broadcast from the festivities at Mansfield. [...]

One of the reasons, Joseph, for your own lack of festive spirit in the past has been the result of your realization that this gap between idealism and action is great. [...]

On the night in question we went to a nightclub in search of a festive atmosphere. [...]

[...] There have been numberless village festivals, or intimate family gatherings, and church services performed on Easter Sundays now forgotten. [...]