08-29-2008, 12:00 AM
But if we were not supposed to relive it, or at least revisit the realm it came from, why give instruction on how to do it?
You are right, since what one learns from contact with Objective Reality is life changing, we can't just walk away from it. We are challenged
to practice what we learned to integrate it.
The import to such contact is to completely change one's world view. After the first contact one found that certain teachings were in agreement with it,
such as Buddhism. Christian sayings took on new import. Having some familiarity with the teachings made all the difference, saved one really.
In the last 30 years, I've had about half a dozen waking visions. Each one has been a lesson, and each lesson is very deep.
The last one after 9/11/2001 was an entire system of spiritual development. (!)
It's very elegant. I taught it as a class to people. And the one's that attended all of the sessions "got it". I could tell.
The point is to teach people how to transform the ordinary into the Sacred.
However the wisdom, the information did not come from me, it's only there if I can drop the ego, become selfless.
Then for me to remember my "system" all I have to do is take a conscious in-breath, and it's all there.
What really takes skill is to communicate this with other people.
So this is a Possibility we all have. Indeed it's the purpose of our existence.
I can imagine how disorienting this would be, if a person experienced near-complete ego loss, when they were completely identified, that they would think they
had gone nuts, since they would lose all of their reference points. However in my case it wasn't really a big deal, since I never felt a loss of control
over the process. The process was one I intended, could manage, etc. The only thing I can't manage of course it facing the unknown is always a brand new
experience.
You are right, since what one learns from contact with Objective Reality is life changing, we can't just walk away from it. We are challenged
to practice what we learned to integrate it.
The import to such contact is to completely change one's world view. After the first contact one found that certain teachings were in agreement with it,
such as Buddhism. Christian sayings took on new import. Having some familiarity with the teachings made all the difference, saved one really.
In the last 30 years, I've had about half a dozen waking visions. Each one has been a lesson, and each lesson is very deep.
The last one after 9/11/2001 was an entire system of spiritual development. (!)
It's very elegant. I taught it as a class to people. And the one's that attended all of the sessions "got it". I could tell.
The point is to teach people how to transform the ordinary into the Sacred.
However the wisdom, the information did not come from me, it's only there if I can drop the ego, become selfless.
Then for me to remember my "system" all I have to do is take a conscious in-breath, and it's all there.
What really takes skill is to communicate this with other people.
So this is a Possibility we all have. Indeed it's the purpose of our existence.
I can imagine how disorienting this would be, if a person experienced near-complete ego loss, when they were completely identified, that they would think they
had gone nuts, since they would lose all of their reference points. However in my case it wasn't really a big deal, since I never felt a loss of control
over the process. The process was one I intended, could manage, etc. The only thing I can't manage of course it facing the unknown is always a brand new
experience.