05-17-2009, 12:00 AM
Sometimes I wake up knowing some particular thing that I didn't know before.
These moments or minutes of mental/spiritual Clarity fade quickly, but not completely.
I am left with the residue of the thought or thoughts that shake my world as it was before those thoughts came to me.
That is a good thing.
It is as though these spiritual ideas cannot survive the light of the conscious mind. Or only in shadow form.
Two modes of thought. Mutually exclusive.
To put words on them dillutes them almost to the point of water only.
A few days ago I awoke in that state of Clarity, thinking that Lucidity in dreaming is a veil that confers greater abilities. Once a person goes through that
veil, (one that I have not experienced very many times), other abilities having to do with dreaming then become available.
Like any other "veil" it is a boundary that divides one condition from another.
Coupled with that idea was the realization that there also must needs be a Lucidity in waking life.
This Lucidity while awake would be a deeper realization of our condition while awake just as Lucidity in dreaming is a deeper realization of what we know while
dreaming.
Couldn't this "Waking Lucidity" be the very same thing as the Clarity that I have described?
These moments or minutes of mental/spiritual Clarity fade quickly, but not completely.
I am left with the residue of the thought or thoughts that shake my world as it was before those thoughts came to me.
That is a good thing.
It is as though these spiritual ideas cannot survive the light of the conscious mind. Or only in shadow form.
Two modes of thought. Mutually exclusive.
To put words on them dillutes them almost to the point of water only.
A few days ago I awoke in that state of Clarity, thinking that Lucidity in dreaming is a veil that confers greater abilities. Once a person goes through that
veil, (one that I have not experienced very many times), other abilities having to do with dreaming then become available.
Like any other "veil" it is a boundary that divides one condition from another.
Coupled with that idea was the realization that there also must needs be a Lucidity in waking life.
This Lucidity while awake would be a deeper realization of our condition while awake just as Lucidity in dreaming is a deeper realization of what we know while
dreaming.
Couldn't this "Waking Lucidity" be the very same thing as the Clarity that I have described?