I dreamt that I was attending a lecture in which Joe McMoneagle was describing one of his remote-viewing experiences. “I often get assignments like this,” he was saying, “but in this case the target was actually an aircraft called Tower One.”
“He means a B-17 Flying Fortress,” I thought, still dreaming. “A tower is like a fortress.”
The scene then changed to exactly what I had been expecting when I started these experiments: a clear and distinct image of a Tarot card. It was an old Italian-looking card, in an art style somewhat suggestive of the Sola Busca. It depicted a white tower with a red cupola at the top. I thought the cupola somewhat resembled the crown at the top of the Tower in the Rider-Waite deck. Unlike a real Tarot card, though, the dream image did not show the Tower being destroyed, its top blasted off by lightning. The tower was just standing there, perfectly intact, and nothing was happening.
I woke up and recorded the dream content. Despite my new policy of giving myself plenty of time to analyze the dream content and consider possible cards, leaving the card under my pillow all day if necessary, in this case I decided there was no need for that. I had literally heard the word Tower and seen a Tarot card depicting a tower with a crown-like cupola. What could it possible be but the Tower? Even the reference to a B-17 as "Tower One" seemed to indicate that card. The Tower is numbered 16, so "Tower + One" gives us 17, the number of the aircraft in question. Obviously the Tower. What is there to think about?
I turned it over, and it was the Four of Wands.
And there it is: the tower with the red cupola. In fact, the background of the Four of Wands really suggests an un-destroyed version of the Tower. Besides the cupolated tower itself, we have the two figures dressed in red and blue. On the Tower card, they are falling to their death; on the Four of Wands, they are safe and sound. With a little imagination, one can even see in the garland, with the four staves protruding at the top, the wings of a B-17 with its four engines, each propeller represented on the card by a little cluster of leaves.
One of the most famous B-17s, the Memphis Belle, even has a woman in blue on the left and a woman in red on the right, exactly as in the Four of Wands.
(I think I may be the first person in history to look at the Four of Wands and see a Boeing B-17 bomber -- but thanks to this post I won't be the last.)
I feel pretty confident that if I had taken just a little more time to think -- if I had even taken the time to ask, "But if it's not the Tower, what would be my second guess?" -- I would have arrived at the Four of Wands as either my first or second guess. But feeling confident now is meaningless; any case I can make for the Four of Wands now is not a prediction but an ex post facto rationalization.
I've got to be stricter with myself in the future if this experiment is going to have any meaning. No turning over the card until after I've taken the time to consider all the possibilities and make a ranked list of guesses -- no matter how obvious the answer seems!
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