Friday in the Second Week of Lent

"Here comes this dreamer. Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; then we shall say that a wild animal has devoured him, and we shall see what will become of his dreams."

The Australian aboriginal concept of the primordial “Dreamtime”, as captured in tribal art

Historically, we tend to respect “threshold events”, especially dreams, in spiritual tradition. A threshold event is one which brings us to the lychgate beyond our reality, trapped as we can be in the corporeal world.

All religions do so, because dreams represent t…