Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Wine making the old ways

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Wine making the old ways
Dear readers, in our previous post we have mentioned several time that the first inhabitant of Genzano probably lived in the caves in the chasms below the town of Genzano. There are reasons to believe that it is true, just because this could be the only explanation possible that these caves were dug out from the first inhabitant of this region to shelter and live in them; but in my young days they were used to make wine, so let me tell you about how we made wine in those caves.    
WINE MAKING IN GENZANO CHASMS CAVES
Dear readers I am really going to talk about wine making in Genzano, now don’t get me wrong but this is not the place where the famous wine Cinzano is made, so in this hub there is not going to be any, chin, chin; chin, chin Cinzano? But the reason I am writing this is that Genzano happens to be the place where I was born and lived my young life and therefore, I would like to tell you how and what we used to do then. So, let me take you to see another place at another time, because I would like you to see what I saw when I was young, so that you would understand the old way of life that we were living in Genzano in those times at a certain special time of the year, when it was wine making time. And I may suggest that perhaps my readers could compare the ways of living of those times with today’s ways of living, just to give this article an extra meaning so to speak.
Genzano and its caves
This is where the first inhabitants of Genzano used to live in the beginning and now they make wine
Even today, when I think about the town of Genzano di Lucania, and therefore the town where I came from, I cannot help thinking about the chasms and their caves at the time of wine making as a whole unit, and I cannot help thinking about the time of wine making in the chasms caves when I was young, because we were involved in wine making, since we had some vineyards and a large share of one of these caves, so we made our own wine in the cave. Nowadays, when I think of wine making I mentally recall what was going on in this chasm where we had our cave and we made our wine, so let me tell you how I feel about it, I feel that there was something very unusual and scenic about this chasm in this town, which I believe that people from outside and not familiar with the sort of set up would be amazed to see, if they could see it happening as it was happening when I was young. Because at the time of wine making the whole chasm seems to become alive in its unique way; with so many people going around in this archaic place, and you could feel as if you were living in another era; or perhaps you would thing that you were dreaming, or that you were living on a different planet.
If you look and try to imagine what’s going on at this upper end of the chasm, which is the beginning of the chasm situated next to the old town and this is where most of the caves are and therefore the busiest place at this time of the year. This chasm doesn’t seem to have a name nowadays, but I think that it was called Vallone St. Antun. (Chasm St Antony)
During most of the year this wild and dangerous place has been almost deserted, except for a few people passing in the ancient and steep stone paved main road, which was once very busy for centuries, because the town’s people of that time used to go to the fountain of ‘Capodaqua’ to do their washing, and also to fetch good drinkable water for their own needs in their houses; because the water of the fountain Cavallina which is/was the fountain situated in the town was not much good to drink, and at the same time, before the reticulated water supply came to town, this fountain Cavallina wasn’t big enough to supply the whole town.
But after they brought in the reticulated water supply to Genzano, I guess that this was early in the 1900, therefore soon after that the town’s people installed running water in their own houses as soon as they could afford it. And so the old custom of going to the fountain of Capodaqua to wash and bring water to town slowly died down. So nowadays the people of Genzano don’t go to the fountain of Capodaqua as much as they used to go, that is except at the time of wine making, because it is easier to fetch water from the fountain to the caves, than it would be to bring down the water through the steep road from town. So during the year, generally there are only a few people coming down the ancient road on their ways to some of their own fields or vineyards past the chasm, or just a few owners of the caves, who would be coming to the caves to take home some wine.
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Life in the chasms
Life and sounds in Genzano chasms when I was young
Now I would like to describe to you the scene in this chasm, in the same way as I have experienced it when I was young. So let me go back in time to the time when I was a teenager, to the interesting time when I was helping to carry the harvested grapes from the vineyards to the caves: Perhaps this is the best and possibly the only way to describe what it was like then, which also is how it had been for centuries before my time; but nowadays even this scene may be slightly different as even here things are changing, because they have made those narrow paths wider, so that they can go down the chasm with a tractor, instead of carrying all those heavy weights on horseback.
Now, at the time when I was a teenager I used to help at grapes harvest time, my job was that of a donkey-boy, while I was helping to carry grapes to our cave to make wine. So, I would have an ass with me to help me carry the grapes to the cave, in the morning I would go to the small stable to get the donkey ready, then I would go to the vineyard to load the donkey with grapes, and then I would drive the donkey to the cave unload the grapes and crush them with the crushing machine. In order to load the grapes onto the donkey, the donkey had a special heavy saddle fixed on its back, so that we could tie two large watertight wooden bins on her back, one on each side.
Those wooden bins would old about two bushels each, so the donkey would be carrying about 80 to 100 Kg. of grapes per load, depending on how packed down the grapes was in the bins. In my early youth there was no other way to carry the grapes down (or up) the chasm, in order to get to your cave and make your wine, as all heave loads were carried on horseback so to speak.
On the way down to the caves one had to be very careful with one’s own donkey or horse, as a fall of the donkey or horse could end in a major disaster, and as we went down the steep main road and turned into the paths of the chasm to reach our own cave, the paths would become smaller, so small that we had to find and wait in a wider bay, if somebody else was coming the opposite way, and also we had to be extremely careful when we were approaching some places where there were sheer drops of up to ten meter below us.
But not withstanding all the dangers and hardships of this wild place, the chasm would be crowded with people at this time of the year. People would be everywhere, and they would be busy to all doing different tasks, all depending on how advanced their grapes harvest or wine making would be, because in this geographic position and also the fact that it is a hilly country the grapes would not ripen all at the same time, but they would ripen according to the amount of sun the vineyards receive and the altitude.
Therefore, while some people, who would have their vineyards in a lower and sunny altitude would have already harvested their grapes and made their wine, there would be others that would be only starting, and they would be starting by going out with a saddled donkey to Capodaqua fountain to fetch water, (This is a fountain which I have already mentioned above and which I will describe to you later on) the donkey would have a pair of small casks tied on its special saddle, which the owners would take to the fountain and fill them with water, and then take the water to their caves for washing their vats and casks, so they would be ready to start the harvest of their grapes. There would be others that would have already done so, and they would have started to harvest their grapes and bring them in, as soon as the grapes would reach their caves they would be crushed with a Crushing Machine which would be sitting on a large vat.
Crushing Machine and sounds in the chasm

This is a grapes crushing machine, we would set this machine on a vat, then we would empty the grapes in it and crush them by turning the handle. 








Large wooden vats were used to make wine in them, they were set off the ground, so that the new wine could be collected from the bottom, by opening a purpose made hole. 







The Crushing Machine was a useful devise for wine making, which was becoming affordable to the small wine maker when I was young. It was very useful because it saved a lot of hard work; because before the Crushing Machine came out all the grapes that were brought in from the vineyards had to be thrown in a vat first, then when the vat was full, all the grapes juice had to be drained out of the vat and transferred to other containers, while a man or two would go into the vat with clean bare feet, to tread over the grapes until they were all crushed, and then the grapes juice had to be transferred back into the vat to become wine, you see, the type of wine we made over there needed to be together with the husks and stems to ferment, so all that work needed to be done.
Anyhow, when the Vat would become full of crushed grapes juice together with the husks and stems, it would be left to ferment for a week or so, during that time somebody would be checking on the progress of the wine, and once a day would be pushing down into the new wine the husks and stems that have arisen to the top, so that they will all ferment together until the new wine is ready. When the fermentation stops, then the new wine would be ready to be transferred into a clean sealed wine-cask. The large and already cleaned wine casks, which is a must to open up and clean them up as soon as they become empty during the year, at this time they must be rinsed out and resealed to take in the new wine. It usually will take an expert to reseal them properly, as they must be watertight to keep to new wine in without leaking. Now the Cooper who is the expert to do this job is called to reseal the wine-casks, and he would be very busy indeed at this time of the year. Of course there are some of the owners who felt confident enough to reseal the wine-casks, since they have seen the Cooper doing it so many times before, and therefore they felt that they did not require help from the Cooper, that is if the wine-casks were not too large and they would be in good conditions.
I would like to point out now that at this time of the year, the Cooper who is the expert that builds and fixes wine-casks is very busy indeed; but the poor guy during the whole year has not been doing much work, if he was lucky he could have done some work at a steady pace with his skew-axe during the year, like carving seasoned oak-tree-wood to make some new casks, or to fix and replace a rotten peace to the old wine-casks or vats, or just doing odd jobs in order to earn a living: but now being grapes harvest and wine making time he is very busy indeed, because there are a lot of people that require his expertise at this time.
The resealing of the wine-casks is/was a very noisy job; and since at this time of the year there would be always a few people doing it at the same time, because it is grapes harvest time and wine making time and it lasts only a few weeks, as a child I felt that the sound that they made was very peculiar but pleasant to me, and as a child I would even stop playing and listen to it for a while, since the acoustic of the chasm made the sound very interesting to me: The noise that they made when they struck with the hammer on the cask iron-hoops in order to tighten and reseal the casks run like this: The hammer would start the echo going when it hits the iron-hoop, and that sound will reverberate within the wine-cask itself, then within the cave and within the chasm in a very close chain reaction, which sounds like a very long continuous sound very much like a large bell, which starts with a high steel sound and ends with a low wooden sound.
It would usually be nice to be in the chasm at this time of the year, because during this time of the year there would be lots of people coming and going all day long, and they would be doing all sorts of activities in wine making, now most of these people would know each other, and being a friendly country place they usually would greet each other’s and exchange a few friendly words, most likely about their progress of their grapes harvest and wine making.
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The wine press and its crew
The wine press and its crew
typical wine press of those times



In the end the wine would be stored in large wooden casks 





The wine press and its crew

And last of all of these activities there was also the mechanical wine-press, which would be going around the chasm’s caves to press the remains of the grapes after wine making, in order to extract the last bit of wine from the husks and stems.
The wine-press could be hired complete with the crew, and the crew of the wine-press was a very noisy lot, as they were five or six strong men, which would be moving the wine-press from one cave to another wherever they would be required. They were a sight to see and to hear, as they were very vociferous while they were moving the wine-press through the narrow paths of the chasm, and they were shouting at each other in order to overcome their difficult task: Heave! Heave! Pull! Push! Heave! They would be shouting at each other. I suppose they would be already a bit drunk, even though it is still early in the morning, since they are usually offered a drink of the new wine, from the owners when they complete a pressing job, so they would be affected from the last drink of wine that they have had. Anyhow they would come to your cave when you were ready, and they would set their press in front of your cave, then one or two of them would go into the Vat to fill up containers with the dregs, and they would pass these filled containers to the others to fill up the press, and once that the press would be full, they would press the dregs through a system of livers, they would go around the press pushing these levers that would be attached to a huge steel nut on a long stem, and through these devises they would press the dregs dry.
Then they would release the pressure and open the press to empty it of the dry pressed dregs, and they would refill the wine press again and repeat the operation until all the grapes remains would be squeezed dry.
Once they had finished a job, they would pack the wine-press ready to move to the next cave, they would leave the dregs of the pressed grapes in front of your own cave to do whatever the owner’s wanted to do with them. So now there would be the smell of the fresh grapes’ dregs. By now the owner would have offered them a drink of the new wine that they had pressed. He would be almost praying them to drink, or at least to have a taste of the new wine. So after having a drink they are ready to go.
And off they go again shouting at each other: Heave! Heave! Pull! Push! Heave! As they move away from one cave to another cave. And so the chasm resounds with their voices above all other people voices, and the acoustic of the chasm which seems to help the scene makes it even greater.
And this is the way that I remember the chasm and the wine-caves at the time when I was young. And this is the place that some of the inhabitant of Genzano used to live a long time ago, but when I was young and even nowadays they are only used to make their wine, or they might even be left unused and all the wine casks and vats are rotting away; this is the new sign of the times since everything today is changing very fast, so we might have to say goodbye to the old times forever.

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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Modern problems

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Modern worldwide problems

These are African migrants at a detention center, in Zawiya, Libya. They are waiting for their chances to go to Italy or other European countries. The government is struggling to cope with the number of sub-Saharan Africans migrants.


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There are many boats full of people from Africa arriving on the Italian coasts just about every day. One may as well ask where are we going to end up?
Source: From the Internet



MODERN PROBLEMS
Modern worldwide problem
Dear readers of Genzano it blog, this time we are not going to post the post that we said we would, we will be coming back to that later on; but we will be posting this new type of blog post, because the problem that we see coming could and would also affect Genzano itself, so we would like to say how we see what is happening in the world about the refugees or illegal emigrant, and how this could affect us all.
This article are our personal views of the problems that are happening these days in the world; so we would like to have our say by writing this article about illegal emigrant and refugees, because we would like to highlight this modern worldwide problem, hoping that somehow people will be more attentive to this phenomenon of illegal emigrant that force their way into another country.
We all know that we should be more willing to help these people in need, especially if they are real refugees running away from wars and other extreme happenings that rends their place of residence dangerous or useless, but at the same time, we should face the truth and see that we all have a limited capacity to help these people, therefore when that capacity is exhausted, we need to be really careful that we don’t end up in a bad way ourselves and instead of being able to help others we need help ourselves from other people, because we have lost the capacity to be self sufficient.
This is the danger that some parts of world are facing today, we really should try to see where all this illegal emigration might take us, you see sometimes we have reasons to believe that this illegal emigration is a dangerous thing that the world unwillingly allows to go on; it is like invading another country without waging war, but some of us don’t see the danger that these illegal emigrant bring with them.
For instance Italy is decriminalizing clandestine immigration; this seems to give more say to the new arrival of clandestine immigrant, because they are not viewed as criminals just because they are illegal immigrants. Okay that seems very good from the immigrant point of view, but at the same time it encourages other new emigrant to move to Italy. As we all know Italy has only a limited capacity to absorb the influx of emigrant. Therefore the politicians are kidding themselves that they need people to work, in order to pay for the aging pensions and other welfare that the government pays for; but the question here is where is the work that these immigrant can do, when there is no work for the Italians people that are already there?
What we have said above is just a view of how we see this worldwide problem or phenomenon that is happening these days. The worrying part of it is that it seems to increase; in 2013 Italy has had over 40,000 illegal immigrants and this year is increasing, so nobody knows how all this will end. Anyhow let us see what has been happening lately and then we will come back to discuss other financial problems.
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More boat people        
This photo above shows people in Libya waiting in this detention centre for a chance to go to Italy, or any other European country.
The Libyan government said that they are struggling with these enormous arrivals of migrating people and would like more aid from EU countries.
There is a report that a boat with 400 people sank and many people are feared dead.      
Looking at what is happening it is hard to say what the receiving countries could do to avoid other consequences that could follow from this overflow of forced emigration, what seems most important here is this that we should try to help the most in need, but we have to keep in mind that we cannot help them all, so we need to find ways about how to slow this emigration down, after all the people that reach Italy and other European nations look well and healthy, so they are not really starving where they come from.
Therefore they could have stayed in the country of origin longer, but that is not all, because not only they come without being invited, and worst of all is that they pretend from the Italian government a house or some sort of accommodation; they have really a twisted view of what is fair for everybody to ask and receive, since they think only about themselves, you see, they don’t see that for whatever the government could be able to distribute to the people, first and foremost there must have been somebody that worked hard to make those things.
 For these reasons of production, all those things that the government might have available should first of all be given to the people that have produced, and then if there is anything left, they would be distributed to the incoming immigrant that have never done anything to produce them. I know that some of you are going to say that I am a hard man, but that is the only way that the world can afford to go on. Now what we have said here is about what is happening in the Mediterranean Sea between Africa and Europe, but there is more as you will see in the article here under.



This is a photo at the border of USA and Mexico, there is really a great difference in the two country, that is the reason why the Mexican want to move to USA.
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Male climbing the border fence, it is really a huge fence here. Well not all the border fence is this huge, it would be very costly to build it, because the border is 3169 Km long if I remember right.
Source: From the Internet







The USA problem and others
In the article above we have talked about the emigrant problem in Europe, but also the USA has got this sort of problem with the people from Mexico that somehow find the way how to cross the frontier and enter USA, but over there at least the authorities try to stop it, and for this reason it is kept to a minimum and that is a good thing for many reasons. One of these reasons is the danger that they bring with them, because the receiving country may become impoverished and then their people want to move to another country, well I suppose this might not apply to the USA but in general terms this is what could happen.
Now let us leave behind the emigrants that want to move to another country for financial gain, and let us talk briefly about the refugees from war thorn countries. These refugees really need some help and we should give it to them, but here we really should be cautious, we should really screen them to see whether they are refugees that other people have caused to become refugees, or they have taken part in the causing of the wars and refugees that are going on, this is important to know, because they might be those type of people that might cause the same problem wherever they go. We hope you see what we mean. 

The Crusaders was a holy war that accomplished nothing but many people died for the idealism of freeing Jerusalem from the Saracens.
Source: From the Internet



Risk refugees
Now that we are talking about war refugees let us look at those refugees that bring the most risk to the receiving country. Here you might have a shock to learn that the refugees that bring most risks are those refugees that come from religious wars, any type of these refugees bring danger with them wherever they go, because of their beliefs and because they are trigger happy; we need only to look at past religious wars and other meaningless acts that religious people have caused to understand what we want to say here. Let us just mention a couple of the most senseless things that religious people have done: The crusader is one and the other major one is the inquisition, these two acts have killed thousands of people in the name of God and religion. Therefore those extremist religious fanatics are to be treated with suspicion, we should be really careful to accept them easily in our country. We could say more but this means that we have to point out directly to those religious groups that we think are dangerous and we are not prepared to do that.

The Spanish Inquisition - YouTube

If you don’t know about these two negative religious events of the Crusaders and the Inquisition try to read some of their history. You see today the religious people will avoid mentioning any of these acts. 
Now, here we would like to point out that the problem is not entirely the fault of religions, but it is rather the way that the people use them, this is one of the reasons why we have written our religious writings where we attempt to modify religions in such a way that it would be harder for people to use religions for their own advantages.
That is all for the time being, but we will say more if we need to say more later on.        

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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Dream 6 and dreamed about God

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We dream many dreams during our life and some dreams seem to be more important than others, so here we have written a couple of dreams. We also try to explain what these dreams might mean, in our own personal ways.

Dream number 6
Another dream that is a bit confusing at the moment, but it could mean something of importance in the future. Again here I am running away from danger, but I don’t know from whom, in the end I am standing on a boundary wall, and by looking down I can see a group of soldiers standing within the precinct, I believe that these soldiers want to capture me, one of these soldiers that I see is somehow a friend of mine, so I try to catch his attention, and when I did, I tried to talk to him by just looking at him and not saying a word, but just thinking what I wanted to say to him, he seemed to understand everything that I wanted to communicate. So he communicated it to his commander, who then looks at me, and we communicate in the same manner. And all is solved by this strange way of communication.
Now, is this dream a futuristic dream and if this dream is futuristic: Does this dream mean that one day some chosen people will be able to communicate in a telepathic manner.
Here I will stop talking about my many spiritual dreams and go back to talk about the first dream.
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And this is the most important dream of my life

THIS IS THE DREAM THAT IS SLOWLY CHANGING MY LIFE
First of all let me explain our human position:
There are times in our lives when we dream, and we think that our dream is a very special dream. And therefore we think that, that special dream has a special meaning for us. Therefore some of us want to believe in our dreams.
There are people who believe in the Afterlife, so they believe that they will go to Heaven or to Hell when they die, or perhaps they will go somewhere else. There are people that will swear that they have seen the Afterlife, in a dream or in a coma. But no one can prove it to you.
Anyhow I am saying this because I have dreamed a special dream and this is what I dreamed that night, the 18th April 1994, which happens to be one of my daughter’s birthdays, and I believe that this dream is a premonition dream.
THE MOST IMPORTANT DREAM OF MY LIFE;
This dream starts like this; I am at the top of a flight of stairs, in a very airy building, which is very much like a large shopping centre; there are a lot of people on this flight of stairs going about their business. But we all seem to be just standing there, nobody seems to move much or be in a hurry to move at all. I happen to be standing near a lady, and we both have intention to go down this flight of stairs, that is whenever the crowd gives us the chance. This lady that I am with seems to be my fiancé, and we are both to get married soon, in the same church I really got married. I am really trying to be nice and sweet to her, and I could not see any reason at all when all of a sudden she left me and everybody else, and somehow she managed to go down the flight of stairs and went away from me.
The dream here fades a bit away, but restarts somewhere else immediately.
And then, there I was floating in the air a few meters above the ground. (There are times when I dream that I am floating above the ground, or above a crowd of people, most times I feel stressed, and I try so hard to fly until I float above and over the people, or above and over my problem, whatever that problem might be). But this time I am floating uphill on a large hillside that resembles a hillside in the country that I came from: there is a small dirt road on this large hillside that will pass in front of the town cemetery on the way to town.
While I am floating, I am making the sign of the cross like when one is praying several times for unknown reasons, it was doing it perhaps because I felt uneasy or in danger: In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and again and again I was doing it.
With some difficulties I float above and across an unknown bridge. But then the dream changes and, I am entering a church together with the same lady, that lady which I was with when I was at the top of the flight of stairs at the beginning of the dream. (This lady that I am with is supposed to be my wife, but she does not look exactly like my wife, mostly because, her hair style is like the Madonna that we used to carry around town, when there is/was a religious procession.) There are only a few pews in this Church that we have entered, and perhaps a dozen people sitting there. This Church is situated right at the top of a high hill. Its interior looks very ancient and tidy, it is very airy but small; one could say that it is only a Chapel. But the pries there is the best pries one can ever have, because the pries there is God Himself.
I and my lady companion go to sit in a pew, she sits so far away from me, so, I try to sit closer to her and be nice to her, but she gets up and goes away, just as she went away when we were standing on the flight of stairs at the beginning of the dream.
After she left I kept sitting on the same pew in the church, and I was wondering why she had left me so suddenly, then I turned my head around and saw that on this special golden-stone-floor as only the ancient people used to built the Priest appears, or should I say that God Himself appears, or perhaps it is the Holy Spirit that appears to me. He is/was a middle aged man of martial appearance, taller than an average man but not a lot taller, well dressed but His cloths were only normal everyday cloths, I could say that He is the most perfect man that I have ever seen. Suddenly I found myself beside Him and He placed one of His hands on my head, and His other hand on my back, just where my back is usually sore, and then He said: THIS MAN IS A BIT OLD, BUT SO WHAT!! And then again while He was putting a bit more pressure where my back pain usually is: BUT SO WHAT!! (As if whatever the matter was with me, the outcome would make no difference at all). And then He let me go.
So I moved away from Him to go back to my sit, but before I sat down at my sit I turned around, and from where I was I could see Him again on that golden-stone-floor, as He (god) was turning away from us and leaving us. At the same time I became aware that He was carrying in His hand a large hoop as His symbol of power.
The hoop seemed to be about eighty centimetre plus in diameter, and attached to the hoop there were about two dozen little hangers, and on each of these hangers there were several small pieces of material like cloth, He (God) just touched one of those pieces of cloth as to demonstrate: and from the four corners of the church; I heard voices which sounded like, as if all the molecules of air were talking with a single voice, and they were saying: He touches one of these pieces of material, and He knows everything up to the smallest possible existing particle.
Here my dream slowly fades away.
What a shock one can have to dream about meeting God, so, later on when I woke up in the morning I thought; maybe I am going to die soon? Perhaps that's the reason why I had this dream about meeting God? But it was not going to be that way.
This is what I mean when I say that I have dreamed about God.
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Since the day that I dreamed my first religious dream, The most important dream of my life, I have been thinking what does my dream mean to me, and I have come to the conclusion that my dream may have many meanings, some of these meanings I am trying to explain here-under. 
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Meaning of my spiritual dream/s
(1) My dream “The most important dream of my life” might mean that I am a really good and lucky fellow, because I have seen God in my dreams, and even if it was just a dream, to dream about God, is the greatest dream that one can ever have.
(2) My dream may mean that my subconscious was worried at that time, and led me to dream this dream about God, because I had to find a way out of my fear of dying suffocated at night. Remember that one night when I got really sick, I felt as if there was an evil spirit that wanted to suffocate me. So in order to find my courage again and fight back, with my scared inner thoughts, my subconscious had to find a way out, and dreaming about God and God touching me, this would give me protection from God, and no evil spirit would dare to touch me if I was protected by God, because God would put that evil spirit right where it belongs.
(3) My dream may mean that; really there was an evil spirit that wanted to harm me that night, and because in God’s straight ways it should not have happened; God came into my dream and touched me to set things running the way that they should have been running.
(4) My dream may mean that I had to go through extreme pains in the future, and God knowing that came into my dream to help me and give me strength, because to survive extreme pains one needs to believe in the highest hope, and God being the highest hope possible came into my dream, as if He wanted to say to me, believe in me if and when you suffer I will help you overcome your pains, because I am your Father and I am also your friend. So if you believe in me I’ll be able to help you.
(5) My dream may mean the forecast of the hard life ahead of me, since there is a saying that says; only him and God knows how hard his life really is! And this saying applies to me perfectly; because after the dream, my life has really been hard for a very long time. And in the dream there is also the forecast of my wife living me, which has really happened even if it does not seem to be so evident. Because my wife only pretends to be my wife, but she is not my wife anymore of her own free choice, and that’s the way that she wants it to be.
(6) My dream may mean anyone of these suppositions above or all of them together and perhaps even more. But I have to stop thinking about what my dream may mean, and I have to think about what this dream has meant and done to me until now.
I want to tell you that to dream about God is a very important and potent dream, and such a dream has the capacity to even change many things in the life of the dreamer. So if I say that this dream has changed me, you’d better believe me because it has.
For a start I am a believer now more than I have ever been before my dream, and the more I think about my dream the more I believe in God. So now because I believe in my dream, God expects me to believe in Him, and follow His Commandments. And therefore because of my dream I believe in God more than ever now, and I also believe in the Afterlife. As anyone can see this is the reason why this dream is slowly changing my life.
I also believe that, since God came into my dreams, if I live according to God’s will, I will have a good chance to be within God’s presence when I will pass away.
Therefore now, because of my dreams about God, nowadays I am a real believer and I am praying again and I have written a list of prayers, which I pray to God at least one of these prayers every day, but usually I end up by praying most of them every day of my life. There are lots more prayers in my writings, which may change a bit from time to time according to the needs of the day, they are to be found somewhere else in my writings.
There are a few more spiritual dreams that I could to tell you, but I am not going to.
I want only to ask you, after all these God sent dreams; do I have gained enough insights to write God's things? What do you say to that?
I am editing this hub and I would like to add another link to link to more God send dreams, they are in Hub, Importance of religion
May God bless us and guide us to understand his will.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Religious personal dreams

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Religious dreams are very important dreams, because they can even change a little bit the dreamers' behaviour, when they really believes that they have dreamed a spiritual dream.






Religious dream number 2

Dear readers in this post we are going to write a few religious dreams, starting with, My religious dream number 2
This dream number two is a special short dream, at the end of a long and strange dream that is not worth to write it all here, but then towards the end of the dream it changes and becomes more intense, and there I was struggling with the adversity of life; I have to say here that this dream is written here in order to record my religious dreams,(my religious dreams), it occurred about seven years after my first religious dream, The most important dream of my life. It is a special dream because; when I woke up I felt that I had dreamed a very deep dream, and that I had reached very close to God life-force.
This dream seems to be connected to the first dream because, during my dream I felt that somehow I was invoking God to give me some strength or power, so that I would be able to overcome the awkward situation that I was in, and in doing so, at the end of the dream I seem to have received that extra power.
In this dream, I seem to be standing with people that I know in real life, and somehow I was poorly dressed, so poorly dressed that my clothes were worn out rags, therefore I was feeling ashamed of myself. Therefore I was praying God to help me, and although my prayer was a very strange prayer, I was praying to God Almighty with great faith, since faith was-and-is the only way possible to reach out to God. And these are the phrases that I was praying God with, as they were stuck in my mind when I woke up:
Dress me as you like!…….
Tell me what to do!.......
And I shall obey and do it!
And after praying thus, I seemed to have received some super powers, even my clothes grew up from within themselves, and I became able to float through the air standing up, and while I was floating thus, here and there I would stop to talk and council some people, and they would listen to me and accept my advice happily, because I seemed an important person.
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 Dream number 3 and 4

Dreams number 3 and 4.
Dream number 3: In this dream, I seem to go around in many unknown places, some are good and some are not so good. At one stage of my dream I seem to be in danger, because some evil force or people are after me. So, while I run away from this danger, I try to find some safety by knocking at a door, the door opens and an old Lady let’s me in, I felt safe in there, because there were some wise mature people inside, I wanted to thank the Lady for letting me in: But they all seem to smile back at me, as if I knew only half what was going on. So I started looking around to find the reason, and there I see my own mother beside me in company with the old Lady: So I could not help it; (as I was aware in the dream that my mother had passed away a few months before) So I asked my mother: (in my own native language, which translated in English is) Who sends you here to help me? Is it Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary?
This dream ends here and I seem to wake up.
Dream number 4: I had one more dream soon after this dream that I have written above, that is after a couple of nights or there about: and here again it seems that the evil force or evil people are after me, it is because they think that I have in my possession something that’s very important to them, I don’t know what this something is, but they are all after me anyhow. They seem to catch up with me, and I feel that I could not escape from them anymore, so I knew that I was in grave danger because they were the evil ones. So in my despair I turned to heaven and prayed God to help me. There was not a cloud in the sky when I started to pray, but soon two large eyes formed in the sky and they were looking down upon me, and winged at me benevolently, a large and well defined head formed in the sky like a portrait, and this head seemed to fill up most of the sky. At the sight of this God send head figure the evil ones were frozen with fear, and did not move a single step to grab me. So they all stopped in a corner frightened.
(Today I believe that this head figure in my dream may well be our lord Jesus Christ, as we know in religions there is no one more powerful than Jesus Christ that protects people from the evil forces, so, it has to be Jesus.)
At the same time I became aware that, what the evil ones wanted from me did not belong to them or to me, but was something that had to be divided into three parts, and one part of this belonged to mother: The dream did not explain who the mother was, and since it is very unlikely that it would be my mother; then the mother very likely would be mother nature.
After that, when I woke up in the morning, this dream became very important to me, because in the morning I found a red spot on my forehead between my eyes, it was small but it was just like one of those religious people from India make on themselves when they dress up for religious events.
So my question is now: Did I in my dream really call on this heavenly force? And the heavenly force came to help me, and then left a sign on my forehead to let me know who that heavenly force was, and that I should remember the meaning of this dream that I had dreamed.
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Spiritual dream number 5
This is another God sent dream that seems to come again on a date that for me would be easy to remember. Since this dream is like “The most important dream of my life” that I dreamed on my daughter birthday, this dream comes on my son birthday. Because of this coincidence one is led to believe that there is really God, or a guiding force that is able to connect the whole cosmic life force that surround the earth, which may very well be where most of our dream come from. 
Anyhow, at the end of this dream, God drops a white robe over me.
My dream is in the night of 28/29th day of April 2002 which happens to be my son Giuseppe’s birthday, again I dreamed one of those God sent dreams.
After dreaming a long dream about a strange place and also strange happenings, at a certain stage of my dream I start feeling that I am in danger. What happened next, it may seem strange but then all dreams are strange, because while I am running away from this danger I start jumping things, I start jumping small things first and then bigger and bigger ones, in fact I start jumping on roofs of small buildings, and then from one small building to another, but the danger seemed to be following me all the time. I start feeling that I may not be able to jump from roof to roof, as the roofs got higher and farther apart: But I had to keep going because on the ground below me things were very hot, so hot that everything was frying, Looking from the top of the roofs were I was, I could see dogs bodies that looked like roasted pork on the pavement, as all the ground seemed to burn but there was no flame. So I kept jumping from roof to roof, until I reached a very large building much larger than all the others, and I knew that this building was safe. But I had to get into this building fast before the heat would reach me, and as I am on the roof of the building next to it, and there was a large window at my level, I had to try to get in through the window, but the window was closed and I was worried that I would not be able to get in, somehow I approach the window, and while I am looking for a way to open the window, and worrying that perhaps I might not be able to open the window, I touched the large window pane while I was saying to myself; O my God I will never be able to open this window: But no sooner the window felt my touch it recognised that I was a person that should be let in, and it opened inward immediately, I got in and falling on my knees I started to pray to God who had just saved me, as in my mind there was no other way, but it had to be God who had made the window open for me.
So, while I am praying God on my knees thus, I looked around and saw a very large man, and I knew that this man was God; He looked at me with a benevolent smile and dropped a white robe over me. I felt very pleased that God had dropped this white robe over me, even though, I don’t know what it might mean.
Here my dream starts to fade away.
Anyhow these are some of the spiritual dreams that I remember to have dreamed, of course there are a lot more, but they don’t seem very important, so I will stop here because I believe that we have said already enough in this post.
So see you in our next post with another dream and the meaning of these dreams.

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Religious personal dreams
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Next time with, the meaning of these dreams
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