Dreams are mostly garbled memories of astral travel (see here and here [2] and here, and quite a few places in Lobsang Rampa's books).
We are ALL more than just blood and bone and electrical impulses: we also have a non-physical body (well, several, actually), and when we sleep, not only do the body recharge and the brain reset (is that like the urban myth of having to turn smart phones off once a week? :) ), our spirit renews itself by going back to the astral - well, those who have evolved before a bare minimum do at any rate.
The ubiquitous view that dreams are not that actively ROBS us of so much of our birthright - not just the chance to sensibly use precognition (which I have written about elsewhere see here, here), but also the chance to develop lucid dreaming (see here and here: it basically means becoming aware of the fact that you are dreaming while you are dreaming, and thus being able to direct your "dream"), and thus exercise and develop a key part of our psychic potential, the part that will be most directly used when we pass over. And how stupid it is to pass that opportunity over.
Naropa talks of what can be done here in one of his yoga's (see here [2] and here), as does Joan Grant in her books (particularly "Winged Pharaoh"), but also Katherine Kerr's book "The Black Raven", which I am currently reading, hints at the work required to master working with your dreams.
And maybe that's the problem - the work. We are a lazy lot, generally, and someone saying "hey it's OK, you don't have to do anything, just listen/read this and this is what it all means"(i.e. - dream interpretation - which I have NEVER encountered with ANY sort of statement or inference that something needs to be done) is probably going to have wider appeal than someone saying "hey, that actually means something significant, and things may NOT be OK, so you might have to get off your backside and do something about something" - which is what this and my related posts are about. (Post Script - maybe that is why so many people have a problem accepting things like psychic attack ... the world is a simpler, less scary place if all you have to focus on is your own growth needs, rather than also taking into consideration the fact that we all impact on each other - not just for bad, also for good - and, at higher levels of reality, we really are all connected together ... )
On that point of work, don't forget: tonight (i.e. Sunday) at 9 PM (my apologies - the 9-30 PM was in error) your time, let's meditate on peace.
I've added the main topic of this post to my signature block, in the "provocative quotations" section.
There's another topic from Katherine Kerr's book "The Black Raven" that I am thinking about: that of the ancient idea of "humours" in relation to health. This goes back to the Ancient Greek (and older) idea of the world being created from four elements, which seems to be the basis of the four worldly elements (plus aether) used in much modern Western magickal work (also see here, and follow the discussions through), but was also used in medicine up to the Middle Ages (see here, and here). Now, there is no doubt in my mind that modern medicine addresses physical health FAR better than medical theory from a few hundred years ago, but I wonder if there is something from the humours theory of medicine that could be applied to the health of our etheric body? After all, I consider that to be where our meridians are mainly connected to, and the Asian idea of the five elements (see here, here, here and here) explains what is happening with those quite well ...
Just another thought :)
Don't forget: tonight, 9 PM (my apologies - the 9-30 PM was in error).
[1] BPF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Forces. See here and here for more on this.
[2] Please see here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").
Love, light, hugs and blessings
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux?)
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I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "pagans for peace" project, and here for my bindrune kit-bag.
- One size does NOT fit all.
- May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
- Ban the dream interpretation industry!
- A home is for living in, not feeling, becoming or being rich or a “better” class than others.
- The secret to being (financially) rich is not to have lots of money: it is to have an income above the poverty line, and then make whatever sacrifices are necessary in order to live within 90% of your means.
- Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master.
- Armageddon is alive and well and happening right now: it is a battle between the indolence of "I only ..." and/or "I just ..." and/or "Everyone knows ... " and what Bruce Schneier [2] calls "security theatre" on one side, and perspicacity and the understanding that the means shape the end on the other.
- The means shape the end.
- Sometimes you just can't argue with a biped that is armed with a sharp stick, a thick head and not too much in the way of grunts.
- Spiritual love is far more than just an emotion - it is a concept, thoughts, actions and a way of living.
- One of the basics of serious spiritual / psychic work is that the greatest work is that which we do on ourself, which seems trivial to many. Our own Innermost Essence, which is our Higher Self / Soul / Spirit, has the power to do so much, and is actively participating in the creation and sustenance of this physical reality. Some mote of our conscious or unconscious knows that, which is why we seem inclined to be dismissive of Self Mastery - which is a bit like the child who sees an adult spending money to buy toys, and fails to recognise the daily grind of work which has led to having the money.
- My favourite action movie of all time is "Gandhi". However, I loathe the stereotypical action movie - and, for similar reasons, I loathe many dramas, which are often emotionally violent, more so in some cases than many war films.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing. (based on writing by) EDMUND BURKE
Your children are not your children. ... They come through you but ... they belong not to you ... for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow KAHLIL GIBRAN
We didn't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Those whom we cannot stand are usually those who we cannot understand P.K.SHAW
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, and the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change." SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY (US Attorney General 1966 Speech)
People I'm currently following or reading, or have considerable respect for, include:
- Red Catherine, a Romani woman living on Artemis, in South Australia;
- T. Thorn Coyle;
- Fire Lyte;
- http://paganinparadise.blogspot.com/;
- The Wild Hunt;and
- the Order of Scathach.
Tags: astral travel, consciousness, dreams, elements, levels, Lobsang Rampa, meridians, personal responsibility, planes of existence,
First published: Sunnudagr, 15th September, 2013
Last edited: Sunday, 15th September, 2013
