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Last night I dreamt of the kings and queens, the power of royalty in a very abstract sense… All of the royal families of this part of the world seemed to be involved in a game of football (perhaps played on a chessboard??). Somehow, the game was being officiated by a Shakespearian scholar…. I was counseled not to leave the country because the economy was falling apart. All of the royalty feared the populist movements that was on the horizon…

This dream could be related to an article I read last night regarding the global economic dependence on oil. It stated that when oil supplies & production starts to flatline in a few years, transportation costs will skyrocket causing a fundamental shift in the way economies do business–suburban and countryside real estate will be devalued, and a new Great Depression will commence, accompanied by a new World War, with China the belligerent, as a new economy motivated to grow, and Europe, Japan and the United States as the “allies” motivated to defend their existing economic structure and interests. Russia would be the “wild card” sitting on the side with oil reserves of its own. Strange… Perhaps the world really will come to an end in 2012 as the Mayans predicted?

Last night I dreamt that China had sent men to the moon, and, of course, left documentation of their achievement. This documentation was a plaque of some sort, metal, in Chinese. I was on the moon, somehow, and I could read it with some difficulty. It stated that China was dissociating itself from the rest of the human world, especially the Americans who had left their earlier “mark”. It was a formal, arrogant, yet meaningful declaration.

[Creative commons photo credit at flikr: Luna ]

Now if I can only learn the language in my waking state…

Last night’s dream is obviously related to the movie, Kundun, that Katy and I watched last night. It is a biography of the 14th Dalai Lama, directed by Martin Scorsese. It focuses on his struggles as spiritual and political leader, especially the invasion by the Communist Chinese in the 1950s, and the fact that no government would recognize Tibetan independence. In my dream, I was trying to find the best way to get him out of Tibet, and away from the Chinese authorities.

[Creative commons photo credit at flikr: Chairman Mao Zedong and the Dalai Lama ]

The dream dictionary states that Tibet symbolizes “persecuted ancient spiritual traditions”, and China “fine, delicate elements in one’s life being interspersed with common, unremarkable aspects”, among other things. I wonder if this at all relates to the previous dream I recorded here, where I was an outlaw on the run…