The relationship between dream & death is sometimes indistinguishable for someone who has shifted into another state of consciousness. For example: lucid dreaming, near-death experiences & meditative trance-states, whether naturally or induced.
What is it that these things have in common?
Death. Dream. Gnosis.
I rather like being in places where the rules are different than what most people accept as reality!
SAMADHI is a good example.
For anyone unfamiliar with the term Samadhi:
a state of deep concentration in the object of meditation, a state of being totally aware of the present moment; one-pointedness of mind, the highest stage in meditation, in which a person experiences oneness with the universe. Comparable to a death/rebirth experience.
Your Will being in sync with the universe can happen during lucid dreaming, or other altered-consciousness experience (gnosis). Therefore enabling you to control your dreams & your waking LIFE, if you dare.
What I want to know is, how do these experiences affect thoughts & actions? How many are actually ready to embrace evolution of the mind? And how many lose their minds in the process?
Red or blue, which pill did you take?
"In sleep we dream of only two forms of government--anarchy and monarchy. Only kings and wild people populate my night. Monads and nomads. But in dream we are never ruled except by love or sorcery, which are the skills of chaotes and sultans. We do not rule--but we cannot and will not be ruled..."
TAT TVAM ASI
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Monday, July 02, 2007
Neuro-Programming: Aquaphobia
There's nothing like the sound of moving water to calm me into bliss...
Oddly enough, I have spent the past 10+ yrs. feeling the exact opposite about water. I had a traumatic experience when I was about 10 yrs. old in a man-made spring. Something about feeling slimy algae in my toes, fish rubbing against my legs and seeing a WATER SNAKE swimming close that made me not want to even step foot in water again. Sometimes I even got nervous in the shower when the water would fill up to my ankles...even though I KNEW it was just the bathtub & nothing was in it...I have a crazy imagination. Every shower for the next couple of months was a session of subjecting myself to paranoia, but I did it anyway.
I have been slowly overcoming the fear since then, but now 10+ yrs. later, here I am up to my knees in water, without fear, paranoia, or anxiety, almost at the point of conquering the fear completely.
How did I do it? Neuro-Programming. I had to endure a number of mindfucks in the process, but hey, it worked!
It took me over 10 yrs. to overcome my fear of water, and now I understand why it happened. I had never been so intimately close to life in the water before. The fish were just annoying and uncomfortable, making me aware of my discomfort in social situations. As for the water snake...the serpent has always promised to bite me, even in dreams. I needed time to understand that it wasn't trying to kill me, but teach me the very lessons I wanted to know. And the symbolism of moving water was the understanding of death, which was going to become an important role in my life. Growing pains are a necessary part of evolution.
And now that I am ready to face them, all my inner demons (doubts & fears) are resurfacing in very defensive & destructive ways...I have become Kali, drunk off the blood of the demons she's slayed, doing her Dance of Destruction. Dark Protective Mother, illuminator of Death, Time, & Dream. The only way that Kali stops the dance is when Shiva sacrifices himself at her feet...the Destroyer, sacrificing himself in order to neutralize her destruction. Now THAT is love.
How I adore my Sadhu even more for being my Shiva.
I have thought about this a lot lately...if Shiva can find inner peace and self-control, opening his third eye to burn desire to ashes...then I can definitely overcome all the little things that are holding me back in life. Fears, paranoias, confidence issues, etc.
I believe that when Kali is shown honor, the difference between dream and reality is blurred...all is real, and all is illusion. It is in this state of mind that we will find our strength and overcome the things that are holding us back, whatever our inner demons may be.
I believe that when Shiva is showed honor, we will find our zen to react calmly, peacefully, & sincerely in any situation.
Freedom...Truth...Temperance...Tolerance...Humbleness
And this is why I say:
OM KALI MA! OM NAMAH SHIVAYA!
Oddly enough, I have spent the past 10+ yrs. feeling the exact opposite about water. I had a traumatic experience when I was about 10 yrs. old in a man-made spring. Something about feeling slimy algae in my toes, fish rubbing against my legs and seeing a WATER SNAKE swimming close that made me not want to even step foot in water again. Sometimes I even got nervous in the shower when the water would fill up to my ankles...even though I KNEW it was just the bathtub & nothing was in it...I have a crazy imagination. Every shower for the next couple of months was a session of subjecting myself to paranoia, but I did it anyway.
I have been slowly overcoming the fear since then, but now 10+ yrs. later, here I am up to my knees in water, without fear, paranoia, or anxiety, almost at the point of conquering the fear completely.
How did I do it? Neuro-Programming. I had to endure a number of mindfucks in the process, but hey, it worked!
It took me over 10 yrs. to overcome my fear of water, and now I understand why it happened. I had never been so intimately close to life in the water before. The fish were just annoying and uncomfortable, making me aware of my discomfort in social situations. As for the water snake...the serpent has always promised to bite me, even in dreams. I needed time to understand that it wasn't trying to kill me, but teach me the very lessons I wanted to know. And the symbolism of moving water was the understanding of death, which was going to become an important role in my life. Growing pains are a necessary part of evolution.
And now that I am ready to face them, all my inner demons (doubts & fears) are resurfacing in very defensive & destructive ways...I have become Kali, drunk off the blood of the demons she's slayed, doing her Dance of Destruction. Dark Protective Mother, illuminator of Death, Time, & Dream. The only way that Kali stops the dance is when Shiva sacrifices himself at her feet...the Destroyer, sacrificing himself in order to neutralize her destruction. Now THAT is love.
How I adore my Sadhu even more for being my Shiva.
I have thought about this a lot lately...if Shiva can find inner peace and self-control, opening his third eye to burn desire to ashes...then I can definitely overcome all the little things that are holding me back in life. Fears, paranoias, confidence issues, etc.
I believe that when Kali is shown honor, the difference between dream and reality is blurred...all is real, and all is illusion. It is in this state of mind that we will find our strength and overcome the things that are holding us back, whatever our inner demons may be.
I believe that when Shiva is showed honor, we will find our zen to react calmly, peacefully, & sincerely in any situation.
Freedom...Truth...Temperance...Tolerance...Humbleness
And this is why I say:
OM KALI MA! OM NAMAH SHIVAYA!
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