Let's go on a dream quest, a journey
don Juan is our spiritual guide
It's about time to re-discover your dreams
the following is excerpted from The Art of Dreaming by Carlos Castaneda
its gonna take awhile for me to record it all, the book is dense and beautiful
Explanations always call for deep thought.
But when you actually dream, be light as a feather.
Dreaming has to be performed with integrity and seriousness,
but in the midst of laughter
and with the confidence of someone who doesn't
have a worry in the world
Welcome to the seven gates of dreaming
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The first gate is a threshold we must cross by becoming aware of a particular sensation before deep sleep. A sensation which is like a pleasant heaviness that doesn't let us open our eyes. We reach that gate the instant we become aware that we're falling asleep, suspended in darkness and heaviness.
To cross the first gate we must be able to sustain the sight of any item of our dreams.
In order to diffuse the evanescent quality of dreams, sorcerers have devised the use of the starting point item. Every time you isolate it and look at it, you get a surge of energy. Start out slowly recognizing a few items in your dream and gradually increase the number. As soon as you feel the images begin to shift and you feel you are losing control, go back to the starting point item and start all over again.
Upon reaching the first gate, you reach the energy body. Dreaming is the art of tempering the energy body.
How to gain energy is known as the sorcerer's way. They intelligently redeploy their energy by cutting down anything they consider superfluous in their lives.
There are two ways of facing our being alive. One is to surrender to it, either by acquiescing to its demands or by fighting those demands. The other is by molding our particular life situation to fit our own configurations.
When sorcerer's talk about molding one's life situation, they mean molding the awareness of being alive. Through molding this awareness, we can get enough energy to reach and sustain the energy body, and with it we can certainly mold the total direction and consequences of our lives.
Self-importance is not only the sorcerer's supreme enemy but the nemisis of mankind.
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You reach the second gate of dreaming when you wake up from a dream into another dream.
You should only wake up when you are naturally through with dreaming, but while you are dreaming, you should dream that you wake up in another dream. In other words, to change dreams in an orderly and precise manner. Another way is to use the items seen within a dream to trigger another dream.
The true goal of dreaming is to perfect the energy body. And luckily a perfect energy body will act as a safety valve which will stop the dreamer from using their dreams for indulgence. Then at a given time their dreaming attention must make them surface. Thus you are able to distinguish between dreaming and being awake.
don Juan is our spiritual guide
It's about time to re-discover your dreams
the following is excerpted from The Art of Dreaming by Carlos Castaneda
its gonna take awhile for me to record it all, the book is dense and beautiful
Explanations always call for deep thought.
But when you actually dream, be light as a feather.
Dreaming has to be performed with integrity and seriousness,
but in the midst of laughter
and with the confidence of someone who doesn't
have a worry in the world
Welcome to the seven gates of dreaming
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The first gate is a threshold we must cross by becoming aware of a particular sensation before deep sleep. A sensation which is like a pleasant heaviness that doesn't let us open our eyes. We reach that gate the instant we become aware that we're falling asleep, suspended in darkness and heaviness.
To cross the first gate we must be able to sustain the sight of any item of our dreams.
In order to diffuse the evanescent quality of dreams, sorcerers have devised the use of the starting point item. Every time you isolate it and look at it, you get a surge of energy. Start out slowly recognizing a few items in your dream and gradually increase the number. As soon as you feel the images begin to shift and you feel you are losing control, go back to the starting point item and start all over again.
Upon reaching the first gate, you reach the energy body. Dreaming is the art of tempering the energy body.
How to gain energy is known as the sorcerer's way. They intelligently redeploy their energy by cutting down anything they consider superfluous in their lives.
There are two ways of facing our being alive. One is to surrender to it, either by acquiescing to its demands or by fighting those demands. The other is by molding our particular life situation to fit our own configurations.
When sorcerer's talk about molding one's life situation, they mean molding the awareness of being alive. Through molding this awareness, we can get enough energy to reach and sustain the energy body, and with it we can certainly mold the total direction and consequences of our lives.
Self-importance is not only the sorcerer's supreme enemy but the nemisis of mankind.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You reach the second gate of dreaming when you wake up from a dream into another dream.
You should only wake up when you are naturally through with dreaming, but while you are dreaming, you should dream that you wake up in another dream. In other words, to change dreams in an orderly and precise manner. Another way is to use the items seen within a dream to trigger another dream.
The true goal of dreaming is to perfect the energy body. And luckily a perfect energy body will act as a safety valve which will stop the dreamer from using their dreams for indulgence. Then at a given time their dreaming attention must make them surface. Thus you are able to distinguish between dreaming and being awake.
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