{"id":2048,"date":"2025-06-28T15:25:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T22:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2025-06-28T15:25:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T22:25:01","slug":"saturday-memory-for-6-28-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/saturday-memory-for-6-28-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Memory for 6.28.25"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday Memory<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

June 28, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n

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In my yet unfinished novel (Dreams: The Final Heresy<\/em>), one of the darker characters is the Faceless Monk. He is Cardinal Broga\u2019s right-hand man, his fixer. When I am actively writing, I write from what I call imaginal space. The characters occupy this space, and I can see them and hear them. Since I do not plot or outline or write from conscious expectations or ideas, I am mostly in the position of a kind of scribe. The imaginal contents take the lead in what gets written down.<\/p>\n

Near the end of 2018, I woke from a nap experiencing either a receding dream or a hypnopompic image. The image was the Faceless Monk and he announced that there would be major and disastrous cyberattacks in 2019. The image pierced me with an intensity difficult to describe. The fictional character was clearly referring to an outer reality and not to a time point or theme of the novel. I wondered how this would change my experience of the Faceless Monk when I return to writing the next scenes of the novel. So, here we have a fictional character, entering a dream (or vision) and announcing future events in the \u201creal\u201d (outer) world.<\/p>\n

What is the psychological status of such a phenomenon?<\/p>\n

In my experience, I do not question the \u201creality\u201d of a dream, vision, imaginal space, or things I experience of the outer world. They are all real experiences<\/em>. The issue for me is not the reality status of experiences of any kind, but more the nature of the eros relation to any<\/em> experience (regardless of source) and what I do<\/em> in response to such experiences.<\/p>\n

I am aware of the dire warnings of cybersecurity specialists about the inevitability<\/em> of major cybersecurity attacks. As well, I experienced the dire warning of the Faceless Monk. The latter warning pierces me more deeply, and in response, I not only want to write this brief note but also to prepare for the likelihood of coming cyber disasters. I have my own fantasies as to what these might be, as I\u2019m sure you will have as well.<\/p>\n

The ontological nature of the Faceless Monk and his knowledge of future events in the world fall readily into the nature of prophetic intelligence. How this comes to be is unclear. Like Pirandello\u2019s characters in search of an author, fictional characters, like dream characters, can function as autonomous beings outside of and independent of ego consciousness. They can \u201cknow.\u201d<\/p>\n

More about this another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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