06-08-2014, 12:00 AM
glance left wrote:In terms of the second gate, I'm more interested in the phenomenon of simply learning to hold onto awareness upon moving through portals from dream to dream....and "following a scout" is really just another portal of a very specific variety. But to me, the ultimate value is the same. It has value in enhancing awareness....of maintaining cohesion. The relationships are fascinating along the way...interactions with other dreaming awarenesses and IB's.....all just incredible and magical! But the key for me is simply maintaining cohesion, as best I can, amidst these interactions...which are all "portals" in one way or another
To hold awarness and maintain cohesion is the purpose of the 1ºGate, not the 2º. To "go with the flow no matter how weird things get" has nothing to do with taking control of a dream, it is in fact the opposite. The inorganic presence, once it has established, looks forward to involve you in weird things, because it likes to eat your emotions (something they lack and therefore crave for). If you don´t face the entities, you are losing energy for them, and therefore you tend to lose your dreaming attention. They don´t look agressive, allways there, standing static, but in fact they are interfering your dreaming content very wisely to get your emotional energy.
Everything in a 1ºGate dream is either your mental projection or the mental projection of other beings. Thus, to go for the truth in a 1ºGate dream involves to go for the inorganic, because it is the only "real" thing there. Once they start to interfere, there is no way out but to follow their game and become a regular source of food while you live wathever adventure they invent for your amusement, or to stop flying around and face them, taking therefore control of the dream by guiding yourself the contact... something they will probably take with a very happy "at last!", What would you do if the salad you are eating starts to talk to you asking questions? Would you keep eating it or maybe leave the fork on the table to involve with it into a more interesting "contact"? Well, it´s the same.
The final goal there is to become aware of your dreaming body, till then, you really don´t move, wathever illusion of flying or racing you have, you are in fact static with an inorganic being in front of you sucking. If you could energetically move, you wouldn´t be accesible to the inorganics anymore, and that´s the goal. Now, in order to gather enough energy to do this, the only proceeding is to travel to their world, full of energy. That energy is the "only" reason a new cycle sorcerer travels to the inorganic world. It is very clearly stated by Don Juan that the energy in that world is sadly the only source of energy avaiable for sorcerers to travel to other dimensions. Moreover, you can´t gather enough energy by dreaming while the inorganics eat it every time you get lucid, so, if you want any sort of progress, the most reasonable thing to do is to re-establish the relationship with them in a more "equal" manner and start commercing energy, instead of merely getting robbed.
To hold awarness and maintain cohesion is the purpose of the 1ºGate, not the 2º. To "go with the flow no matter how weird things get" has nothing to do with taking control of a dream, it is in fact the opposite. The inorganic presence, once it has established, looks forward to involve you in weird things, because it likes to eat your emotions (something they lack and therefore crave for). If you don´t face the entities, you are losing energy for them, and therefore you tend to lose your dreaming attention. They don´t look agressive, allways there, standing static, but in fact they are interfering your dreaming content very wisely to get your emotional energy.
Everything in a 1ºGate dream is either your mental projection or the mental projection of other beings. Thus, to go for the truth in a 1ºGate dream involves to go for the inorganic, because it is the only "real" thing there. Once they start to interfere, there is no way out but to follow their game and become a regular source of food while you live wathever adventure they invent for your amusement, or to stop flying around and face them, taking therefore control of the dream by guiding yourself the contact... something they will probably take with a very happy "at last!", What would you do if the salad you are eating starts to talk to you asking questions? Would you keep eating it or maybe leave the fork on the table to involve with it into a more interesting "contact"? Well, it´s the same.
The final goal there is to become aware of your dreaming body, till then, you really don´t move, wathever illusion of flying or racing you have, you are in fact static with an inorganic being in front of you sucking. If you could energetically move, you wouldn´t be accesible to the inorganics anymore, and that´s the goal. Now, in order to gather enough energy to do this, the only proceeding is to travel to their world, full of energy. That energy is the "only" reason a new cycle sorcerer travels to the inorganic world. It is very clearly stated by Don Juan that the energy in that world is sadly the only source of energy avaiable for sorcerers to travel to other dimensions. Moreover, you can´t gather enough energy by dreaming while the inorganics eat it every time you get lucid, so, if you want any sort of progress, the most reasonable thing to do is to re-establish the relationship with them in a more "equal" manner and start commercing energy, instead of merely getting robbed.