Book 1: An Illumination of Matthew       Part 1: The Dark Ground of Christ       Chapter 2: Of Dreams & Magi         This recording reflects my thinking process with respect to this chapter, which aims to be a commentary on Matthew 1:18-2:23.  I open up a discussion of a psychoanalytic picture of dreaming, and of Christianity's debt to Zoroastrian religion.   I have not clarified my theses yet, so the thinking here is circling around a center which remains dark.  I am including headings below to aid in following the train of thought.  I am looking for people to think with me, so please share any reflections or questions with me.        0:15: Joseph & Joseph: the dream of grandiosity & the grandiosity of the dreamer - 1:25: What does “dreaming” have to do with actual dream-specimens? - 2:15:  Dreaming within Wilfred Bion’s metabolic model of ‘learning from experience’ - 4:05:  Freud as pioneer opening up the terrain of dream exploration in the modern world - 6:02:  The dream as the link, in the modern world, to myth and religion - 8:35:  Teleology and trickery in dream life - 10:30:  Jung and the creative unconscious - 11:20:  Freud’s “historical-critical” approach to the sacred text of the dream - 12:32: The will to conceal and the will to reveal in the dream-intelligence - 13:30: Herod and the magi, Herod’s paranoia - 15:07: Who are the magi? Christianity’s relationship to the religions of the East - 16:41: The split between fundamentalism and “everything is the same” - 18:15: “We saw his star rising in the east” - 19:02:  Magi & the Zoroastrian religious development - 21:58:  Zoroastrian concept of “Asha” as precursor of the logos - 24:04: The Zoroastrian origin of the messianic golden age - 25:14: Duality and the differentiation of Yahweh and Satan - 28:16:  The 'Ransom' view of atonement vs. penal substitutionary atonement - 29:57: Schelling’s ontotheological view and the “pre-temporal sequence” - 33:28: The East-West gradient of religion - 35:55: The heart of Zoroastrian dualism: the truth and the lie - 36:48: 2nd temple Judaism, “the teacher of righteousness,” and messianic expectation - 39:35: The radical humility & unusual self-interpretation of the exilic community

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