{"id":29676,"date":"2015-04-18T10:59:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T14:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=29676"},"modified":"2015-04-18T10:59:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T14:59:43","slug":"orphic-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/04\/orphic-dreams.html","title":{"rendered":"Orphic Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I recently had a dream in which I was at an academic conference of some sort. After listening to a paper, in which Orphism had been mentioned, I asked a question, asking the presenter to say more on that subject because it is an area that I\u2019ve long been curious about but with which I am not particularly familiar.<\/p>\n<p>And then I woke up \u2013 presumably because my brain did not have the requisite information to fill in what the speaker would say about Orphism.<\/p>\n<p>And so here\u2019s another reason to become broadly educated \u2013 if you don\u2019t, it may interfere with you getting the sleep you need.<\/p>\n<p>If any readers of this blog are well-versed in the Orphic tradition and would like to share their knowledge, please do so!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-29677\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/04\/Orphic.jpg\" alt=\"Orphic\" width=\"487\" height=\"224\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had a dream in which I was at an academic conference of some sort. 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