{"id":1760,"date":"2023-06-16T06:35:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T13:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2023-06-16T06:35:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T13:35:54","slug":"dreamword-from-the-dream-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/dreamword-from-the-dream-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreamword from the Dream World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dreamword from the Dream World<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

It was not the voice of a Marine drill sergeant, or a wise old man like Gandalf, but softer, more mysterious, like some poet dropping his voice at the end of a deep poem to draw the audience in. The line was: \u201cModemus is the key to the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

AI tells me: \u201cI\u2019m sorry but I couldn\u2019t find any information about \u201cmodemus\u201d. Could you please provide more context or clarify your question?\u201d\u00a0 Further dialogue with AI got no further than \u201cthere is no such word.\u201d<\/p>\n

I love it that AI does not yet have access to dreams (but they are close). My dream is not at all bothered by the fact that there is no word \u201cmodemus\u201d in the known languages. This tells me the dream knows more languages than we know, or perhaps the dream likes to make up words.<\/p>\n

The word has a Spanish flavor to me, so I asked Paco his take on it. Paco writes:<\/p>\n

It only makes sense to me as a conjugation of the verb moderar,<\/em> which means \u201cto moderate,\u201d or modelar, \u201cto model.\u201d But in either case, modemus would be incorrect. I don\u2019t know any verb moder,<\/em> thus no modemus. You could say, moderamos <\/em>(present indicative), or que moderemos<\/em> (present subjunctive) \u201clet us moderate.\u201d But if it came from a dream, it might yield to more whimsy. My fantasy says, how about trying: \u201cLet us moderate.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, this throws us back to another word: moderate. Let\u2019s unpack this word and see what lies beneath its shell. It comes from the IE root -med, meaning \u201cto take appropriate measures.\u201d This developed into the senses of \u201cto abate excessiveness,\u201d \u201cto regulate,\u201d \u201cmitigate,\u201d \u201crestrain,\u201d \u201ctemper,\u201d \u201cset a measure,\u201d \u201cto keep (something) within measure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clearly, we are in times of unrestrained intemperateness, excessiveness, and lacking in keeping things within measure. So, we lack moderation as things become more extreme. In Paco\u2019s fantasy, \u201clet us moderate\u201d is the key to the future. Surely, this would be good medicine for curing our preset ills.<\/p>\n

But can we, as divided as we are, willingly take such medicine? The medicine may be available, but will it be taken? So far, there are precious few signs that this can or will happen.<\/p>\n

As I was working on the dream, I was struck by a strong intuition that the dreamword was a name: Modemus<\/em>! This did not get me any closer to the meaning of the name, but the sense of personalization<\/em> had a strong impact on me. My immediate association was to the figure that Jung referred to as \u201cthe coming guest.\u201d My sense is that only something of this dimension would have the \u201cpower\u201d to break through the miasma we are sinking into, something from realms that are beyond our conscious realities. So, I wrote out: The Coming Guest, Modemus, is the key to the future.<\/em> This sense of personalization implies that the coming guest is coming closer, closer in time, closer in space, closer in some sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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