Seeing Dreams With a Clear Eye

This Convenience Commentary writer advocates leaving aside too many old beliefs (superstition) and too many expectations (reverence).The writer is from the convenience tradition that privileges the current moment as the only sure source for dream validity.She adheres to one of that tradition's primary tenets: the theory that a selectively-remembered past, and an imagined future (both impossible to avoid), present us with counterfeited impressions of possibility.

Seeing Dreams with a Clear Eye

I believe counterfeiting dreams hath done mischief.

I fear reverence and superstition to be a narrow compass.

The results of this combination are injurious.

Commercial Convenience 3 - An Invigorating Dream Beverage

This dream advertisement appears to have been created around the turn of the 20th century.Convenience scholars have estimated this date based on the composition and the content of the ad.The style of the advertising copy matches the early-twentieth century advertising style.The boxed dream product tells scholars that the ad creator was living near the end of the industrial revolution when commercial food and drink packaging was in full development.

An Invigorating Dream Beverage

—a real part of the solution, not merely something to drink with hope—

Diversi-Tea

If you feel stuck

There's a reason

If something interferes with your dreams,

use this powerful drink.

Deadly Sin Inconvenience - Sloth

Here, again, are the upside-down hearts used by this familiar Inconvenience writer.She discusses sloth in this piece, and the contents are straightforward and clear.Convenience scholars do read an important piece of evidence for discerning this writer's identity.She uses images related to gardening, which tells readers that she is familiar with the agricultural calendar.At some point in the writer's life, she has been exposed to at least one growing season in the natural world.

Deadly Sin Inconvenience - Sloth

Fully convince that work is evil

Do not try it

Do not plant

Do not hoe

Do not harvest

All is unnecessary

Homestead Convenience 37 - Break Down the Self

The writer of this homestead convenience advocates deconstruction, and the phrase break down is used as both a verb and a noun.When break down is experienced as a noun, the writer recognizes that a seeming break down may actually be a creative experience, and/or an experience full of grace.

Convenience scholars have parsed this passage and have noted that the phrase break down may denote any life experience that causes (or is caused by) stress, depression, anxiety, trauma, etc.

The scholars do NOT attempt to trivialize the physiological causes of a break down, and they do recognize professional help (if required) as contributors to insight and transformation.

When used as a verb, the convenience writer suggests that breaking down habitual ways of thinking, feeling, or behaving is useful. Breaking down is deliberate in this case.Please note that the writer speaks of necessary repairs. She advocates repair, which scholars take to mean a reassembling of thinking, feeling, and behavior.She advocates transformation.

Farm Convenience 37 - Break Down the Self

to break down one's self is to lighten experience

provided the necessary repairs render

Insight and Transformation

Commercial Convenience 90 - No Guarantees

This Convenience writer warns against the results promised by some of the convenience advertisements and convenience commercial concerns.The writer warns that a client should not expect new dreams to be forever protected, or expect the new dreams themselves to protect the individual from all possible future misfortune.The writer advocates seeking increased freedom in the present, and firmly states the belief that improving the present is a full and satisfactory result.

The End of Bad Dreams

Bonded for 20 and 10 years

Your dream is NOT protected by this 20-year bond.

You are not safeguarded against all troubles, for that guarantee is not possible.

Skillful, dependable work in the present can possibly provide a sense of freedom far beyond the current experience,

and it is enough.

Deadly Sin Inconvenience - Envy

Note the upside-down hearts at the top of the left and right margins that mark this text as an Inconvenience.This Inconvenience writer emphasizes secrecy, dissatisfaction, and discontent.The writer also comments on the infectious aspect of envy, and notes that it can be encouraged by falsehoods.

Establish Envy

The seeds of this are born in secret and should be extensively cultivated.

First attempt to sow the seed in bulk.

If the seedlings do not grow and satisfy, reach for a dissatisfied friend.

Discontent may be transferred from one to the other

Water with misleading statements.

Homestead Convenience 31 - Transmutation

Some practitioners favor the idea and act of transmutation, rather than replacement.This convenience writer believes that the energy in old, or no-longer-useful, beliefs or dreams can be changed into a new kind of experience.Please note that the writer advocates NOT beginning the transmutation until all other attempts and all other avenues have proven fruitless.This writer believes the fruitlessness to be natural and inevitable.The writer's comments about coming to the laborious tells clients that there is work to be done.The end of the tether does not mean immediate peace, but it can mean the first step in healing.

Farm Convenience 31

Transmutation

Come to the inevitable, to the natural, to the laborious.

Reach the end of the tether and

undertake sufficient care that no particle be lost.

 

Academic Appendix A - Curiosity

Curiosity has been of immense importance for convenience writers throughout the centuries.This convenience academic makes curiosity the most important appendix of her life's work.

Appendix A.

Curiosity

The invention of questions was the most important discovery

in all the world.

Direct and Clear Light Convenience

This convenience writer makes bold statements about the important of her practice. She was a prolific convenience writer, practicing in the St. Louis area between 1830 and 1894.Convenience scholars have remarked on the distinctive craft, style, and tone of her work, also noting the nineteenth-century images of St. Louis that are always included.

Direct and Clear Light Convenience

I have written this by a direct and clear light.

I writing feeling and its descriptive quality.

I work and write wonders.

 

Deadly Sin Inconvenience - Gluttony

Here is another deadly sin inconvenience, marked with an upside-down heart at the top of both the left and right margins.Somewhat curiously, there are fewer academic analyses of this inconvenience.Some convenience scholars have believed this is because there is no real need for analysis.They believe that the inconvenience itself more than adequately expresses its intent and its distress.

Grow Gluttony

Never a little bit.

Many, many, many more.

Never enough.

Much, much, much more.

To our sorrow.

Forever.

Anytime Convenience 33 - Interested and Curious People

This convenience writer encourages curiosity as a remedy for depression.She maintains that interests can woo the mind from dark and brooding thoughts, that curiosity can pull focus away from the troubled self.

Anytime Convenience 33

From time unknown

the secret of feeling independent of gloom

is found in interested and curious people.

Anytime Convenience 63 - Restrain Unpleasant Barbs

This Anytime Convenience writer recommends moderating discourse.She suggests that refraining from unpleasant speech is an act which contributes to serenity.But serenity for whom?Most convenience scholars propose that the idea of harmful speech being injurious to others is implicit in this convenience.The same scholars also agree with the Convenience spiritual community that this writer primarily focuses on the speaker's agency and the consequences of the agency for the speaker [emphasis mine].

Anytime Convenience 63

Restrain from unpleasant barbs.

This modification is necessary for

the peace of the soul

and

the happiness of the heart.

 

Homestead Convenience 12 - Cut While the Sap is Dormant

Unlike the inconveniences, which often encourage action while experiencing the problematic emotions of anger, pride, lust, gluttony, etc., this convenience encourages working with serenity.The convenience writer advises allowing the emotions to settle and become dormant, suggesting that tranquility leads to a more effective treatment.

Homestead Convenience 12 - Cut While the Sap is Dormant

Cut while the sap is dormant

to strengthen the side

Deadly Sin Inconvenience About Anger

This is another Inconvenience based on one of the seven deadly sins: anger.Inconvenience practitioners recognize how much resentment and anger can affect the behavior of clients, often driving them into the very the behavior the inconvenience community desires.The writer notes the universality of human anger by commenting that both the sensitive and the insensitive personalities can succumb to it.The word manure is used as a socially-delicate comment on the quality of the encouragement required to stoke the fires of rage. The images of the gardening tools emphasizes the necessity of this manure.Note the upside-down hearts that signify inconvenience.

Animate Anger

Tender skins may work best on anger,

although tough skins are not too difficult either.

Plant impatience and resentment,

mulch with manure and harvest

Grace Convenience 68 - Light and Heat

Grace convenience 68 is both a warning and a path of recovery.It tells the reader that ignoring ideas and the imagination is dangerous, because ideas will lose their energy.Sincerity and grace can offer redemption and healing to the imagination via sincerity and grace.The convenience is a warning against wasting time and dismissing creative gifts, but it also offers the solace that creativity is never absolutely and finally extinguished. 

Grace Convenience 68

Restoring Light and Heat

If the imagination be left unattended, the lustre of an idea will be destroyed

and then the dream can only be recovered by sincerity and grace

Homestead Convenience 116 - Connecting Dreams

The writer of this convenience appears to have been mechanically-minded, and provides readers with explicit visual cues.This convenience is a good reminder that it is not always necessary to completely discard old dreams.New dreams can be infused with the images and energy of old dreams, and can be grown from their compost.

Connecting Dreams

When it is desired to connect a new dream with an old one,

without loss of energy,

it can be done as shown in figure 142.

Extend the inside of the new dream to the outside of the old one,

and, when ready,

pump the ideas from the old to the new dream

and the new dream will float to the top.

Convenience Ad - Eclipse Dream Remover

Here is another dream advertisement. I'm going to go ahead and categorize it as both an advertisement and a renegade convenience.In dream work, there is (of course) the possibility of a placebo effect, and I cannot categorically claim that this paste did not work for someone, somewhere.Other convenience scholars agree, although some convenience practitioners believe we are being unnecessarily pedantic in bestowing any kind of legitimacy to products such as the No 1 "Eclipse" Dream Remover.Pedantic or not, here it is. 

Deadly Sin Inconvenience 7 - Pride

Here, again, is the Inconvenience writer who based her instructions on the seven deadly sins.This Inconvenience writer was working sometime between 1850 and 1910, as noted in the Covetousness Inconvenience description.We see the upside-down heart in the designs on either side of the text, these hearts being the definite sign of an inconvenience.But, surely, few could doubt the manipulation and malevolence present in the text itself.Imagine the sense of superiority and arrogance of the person indoctrinated with these thoughts. 

Promote Pride

Support a bosom swelling with pride.

Label all like this: perfect, precious, important, good, absolute, first, always preferable, fine,

select class, favourite, the more striking, better, wise, the best _______, the best _______, and the best ______.

Always.

 

Modes of Protecting Convenience - Wall of Grace

Many Conveniences mention grace, but there was one particular convenience writer who repeatedly stressed the importance of it.This is one of her creations.She tells her readers that letting go may be necessary.She suggests that human effort may ultimately prove ineffective, but that a wall of grace can be an answer in severe situations. 

Modes of Protecting Convenience - Wall of Grace

Many persons are at a loss for a simple contrivance for effecting the desired purpose.

When the situation is severe, a wall of grace may be formed.

Inconvenience 33 - Check the Dosage

Inconvenience 33 is an exhortation to watch and assess the effects of poisonous thought and suggestion.The writer tells the reader that it is possible to poison another's thoughts without triggering suspicion.Assessing the effects of the poisoning allows the practitioner to supply any needed increase in infection; it needn't take much extra effort to achieve the desired results.

Inconvenience 33

The poison enters and decay takes place unsuspected.

Check the dosage.

Very little extra outlay is usually sufficient for adding strength to the decay.