sident, you’re a sham. His bodyguards started to rush but Bush turned around and stopped them. He approached me with a questioning, almost dumfounded look, inquiring…

In another dream Bush was giving one of his vacuous adolescent lectures and I shouted out from the audience, you’re empty George! You have nothing to say. There were no threatening figures around and I just walked further into the assembly and Bush followed, picking my pocket like a little child will do when they annoy to gain attention. Later I noticed him in a group of children, though a grown man, pointing a toy gun at no one in particular, wrapped in his own imagination as little boys often are. The thought came so clearly: he never grew up.

I’d say these portrayals of the sitting president, though springing from the subconscious, have an acute quality. Here is a man relishing a position for which he has little qualification or substance, a nation adhering to his office though the pretense grows increasingly shallow, a regressive belief riddled outlook leading the world’s most powerful blunt force with stunted intellectual and emotional development.

What to make of all this?

First of all, like the fabled populace in the Emperor’s New Clothes, it’s time to wake up! The clothes have no emperor. By and large throughout the United States and certainly around the world people are awakening to the corruption of the Bush presidency. But beyond the incompetence and illegality of his administration, there’s another more developmental progression at work, for the immaturity of this president’s leadership is calling this nation’s citizenry to grow up ourselves.

Way back in the 1990s when lots of folk were getting fat on the fiat riches of the dot.com illusion and the Clinton paper money trough, how much activation was there for evolution in our culture? Al Gore wrote his book on the imperiled Earth in Balance and got far less attention than the Inconvenient Truth, in large part due to people today being forced to engage civic issues because of the shameless promotion of harmful industry and subversion of progressive technology that the Bush administration has fostered on behalf of their corporate financiers.

Another level of evolution is unwittingly being catalyzed by Bush. His misdirected leadership and the collaboration with his errant policies by a subservient and corrupt Congress along with the corporately controlled media have promoted a new importance in personal leadership, as well as cooperation in that leadership among ad hoc groups more concerned with serious issues than the self serving wastefulness and cronyism that marks Washington and international relations.

I may be looking for a silver lining in a black storm cloud, and if I was living amidst the ruins of Iraq I may not have the breadth to write this, but I do have the freedom and I do see the opportunity we have as a nation, to grapple with this issue of false, immature leadership, and to use the aberration of the Bush regime to not only redefine the vast difference between our decaying governance with what the enlightenment portrayed in our original founding, but to take that witness within for our own growth and development, to prepare the ground for a new vision that would include ourselves and the world once again on the path of societal and truly spiritual evolution.