{"id":46902,"date":"2024-07-06T19:14:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T02:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=46902"},"modified":"2024-07-06T19:14:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T02:14:53","slug":"how-joan-of-arc-visits-us-in-our-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2024\/07\/how-joan-of-arc-visits-us-in-our-dreams.html","title":{"rendered":"How Joan of Arc visits us in our dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Frise surmontant le cycle peint de \u201cLa vie de Jeanne d\u2019Arc\u201d.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

On the 7th of July, in 1456, a retrial of Joan of Arc found her innocent of the charges of heresy. It was twenty-five years after the Maid of Orleans had been tied to a stake and burned alive. Give it another four hundred years and she would be declared a saint.<\/p>\n

And. Who she really was and what she believed and what she experienced have been burned to ash with the bonfire.<\/p>\n

However.<\/p>\n

I read somewhere someone say \u201cJoan of Arc visited me in a dream last night.\u201d<\/p>\n

She can do that. She does that.<\/p>\n

There was a sort of resurrection. Several. The 7th of July when while a quarter of a century dead, like dead dead, a tribunal officially said she was innocent of any heresy. With that the flesh and blood person became a symbol. A dream. If you will. Actually someone who could visit others in their dreams.<\/p>\n

In her case she becomes an icon for a nation. But there\u2019s a lot more. A young woman dreams and new world\u2019s emerge.<\/p>\n

I think about how we become dreams. All of us. Some with fire, others with tragedy, others with age or love. All of us become part flesh and part dream.<\/p>\n

For me this is the art of our lives. Learning how to dream and then to dream into life.<\/p>\n

And with that I think of how we can and sometimes do visit each other in that world which joins us all\u2026<\/p>\n

Dreams\u2026<\/p>\n