{"id":214,"date":"2016-11-16T13:02:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T21:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/tempest\/?p=214"},"modified":"2016-11-16T14:57:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T22:57:13","slug":"perhaps-the-answer-is-in-the-field-of-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tempest\/2016\/11\/perhaps-the-answer-is-in-the-field-of-dreams.html","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps the Answer Is In The Field of Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

It was the middle of the night and I was battling the onslaught of a nasty cold. \u00a0The pain of a swollen throat and waves of fever and chills were overtaking most of my waking thoughts, which had been in deep contemplation about the future of the country. \u00a0And at that moment, the strangest thought appeared in my head, as if from a voice out of nowhere. \u00a0It said \u201cThe answer to all of this conflict is in The Field of Dreams<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

And it didn\u2019t mean the Elysian Fields or some other deep-seeded myth or mystical place.<\/p>\n

No, it meant the 1989 film with Kevin Costner about an Iowa farmer who starts hearing voices and plows under his corn crop to build a baseball field.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Yeah, that pretty much was my response as well. (WTF??)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Screenshot from Field of Dreams<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Truth be told, my family had the movie on VHS, and on my own as a\u00a0young person often home by myself, I must have popped it in and watched it dozens of times. \u00a0But why? I\u2019ve never been a fan of baseball (hockey was more of my jam), though my grandfather had been on the road to major leagues as a catcher before a broken thumb and WWII sidelined him.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve actually never really thought about why I loved the movie so much. Considering it now, there\u2019s some occult themes in there \u2013 dealing with spirits\/the dead, the weaving of Fate, various worlds merging\/overflowing, the power of memory, and following your belief to manifest something despite the norm\/being considered weird. \u00a0It\u2019s also about redemption, healing, overcoming adversity and small minds, and finding common ground in a larger concept that unites us all. It also has James Earl Jones in it, which is pretty much a solid reason to see any movie, IMHO.<\/p>\n

But I haven\u2019t seen it any time recently, so it popping in my head like that in the middle of the night was even weirder. \u00a0Instead of dismissing it, I focused on it \u2013 and I don\u2019t think I\u2019m anywhere near unraveling this revelation imparted upon me in a fevered state, but I figured I\u2019d give it a shot.<\/p>\n