"The cataclysmic events of 11 September 2001 have been vividly dreamt both by Americans across the country and by Al-Qaeda operatives, who have recorded and interpreted their dreams of airplanes, skyscrapers, fiery explosions—and each other. This essay explores the ontological paradox that as we are dreaming, we are a figure in another’s dream, through the Indian lens of the problem of illusion, drawing on its philosophical narratives in order to explore how we may use dream sharing to build an ethics of reconciliation, and to promote healing in a time of trauma."
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Ground Zero Dreams
Check out an essay of mine published in Cult/ure, the Graduate Journal of Harvard Divinity School, about how 9/11 has been vividly dreamt by both Americans and Islamic militants-- before, during and ever since the events of that day...
The abstract:
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