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[WebenBanu]

She was saying how they used to not let people shave their heads, because it was considered a "punk" hairstyle and not conducive to spiritual aims or a community awareness.  

[WebenBanu]

(She had a shaved head, btw- and I think a pierced eyebrow as well^_^)  

[WebenBanu]

I was saying how that was odd, because I would have associated the shaved head with priestly purity.  

[WebenBanu]

She agreed with me, of course.^_^  

[WebenBanu]

At some point in the conversation I started using the term "beastly purity" as another kind of purity on a level with "priestly purity."  

[WebenBanu]

It probably sounds like a derogatory term- that's the way in which "beastly" is usually used, but that was not how it was intended or received in the dream.^_^  

[WebenBanu]

Many people think of things in a spectrum between being "beastly" or "spiritual"- with "beastly" things being low or base, and "spiritual" things being lofty or intellectual.  

[WebenBanu]

In this case I was thinking not so much "base," as "basic." The foundation of one's character- as ingrained in the personal being as "animal instinct."  

[WebenBanu]

That would be a kind of purity which would be a very unique and treasured gift- a purity which was not so much refined or acheived as rather, quite simply, a permanent state of being. An aspect of the soul itself.  

[WebenBanu]

I really love dream language in the way that it can convey concepts like this.  

[WebenBanu]

I remember another dream where I came across a concept expressed through this sort of language.  

[WebenBanu]

It was after I'd had an argument with someone whom I considered to be a very dear friend.  

[WebenBanu]

In the dream, she told me that we'd been placed under cardiac arrest.  

[WebenBanu]

"Heart" arrest, like house arrest- we were imprisoned within our own hearts, unable to venture outside our own thoughts and feelings to accept the thoughts or feelings of the other.  

[WebenBanu]

That was a particularly sad situation. I never did find out what she had become upset about, but I did try everything within my power to talk about the situation with her. She had completely closed her heart to me at that point, but at least I had no cause for regret.