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\"\"<\/a>“I dreamed I was Captain Kirk, in command of the starship Enterprise<\/em>. \u00a0Spock was outside, and in trouble. I went to his aid, though I realized when I got through the airlock that I wasn’t wearing a spacesuit. I sucked in my breath while I reached for Spock.<\/p>\n

“Spock urged me to let him go, saying, ‘What you are doing isn’t rational.’<\/p>\n

“I refused to abandon him. I managed to bring him back to the ship, still holding my breath. To get to safety, we now had to go through a kind of tunnel. Inside the ship, Spock continued to protest that my act wasn’t rational. But all the women on board gathered around, cheering and celebrating.”<\/p>\n

The dreamer woke up feeling very happy. Who wouldn’t? I observed that if this were my dream, I would notice I had found the perfect way to handle my left-brain skeptic. I’ll go beyond what he thinks is safe and rational, but I’ll always be sure to keep him or bring him back on board, because I need to him to test and verify what I am discovering in the larger universe.<\/p>\n

The dreamer, a man of many gifts named Samuel who attended recent workshops with me, is a psychologist and also a singer-songwriter. I told him I can’t wait to hear his song of Captain Kirk rescuing Spock. Maybe we’ll persuade William Shatner to sing a cover for it; he has a sense of humor and would enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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