05-08-2010, 12:00 AM
Perhaps this is a good place for this.
Stopping the world: My first experience with this was gazing at city traffic. For about 30 seconds, it became alien to me, as if I had never seen such a thing before. Now, I often see it as a perhaps a third world visitor to an American city might view it; not entirely alien, but very foreign.
Perception: Changes here are likely bringing me to Losing the Human Form; I believe that is the correct thing. This means that I find I no longer share perceptions about many ideas of reality that average human beings accept as fact. An example is Castaneda's 'Syntax' concerning the Big Bang. Where common belief is linear, ie: Beginning leading to End, I now accept the place of infinity, the circle or spiral of indigenous (such as Australian) thought, a concept which implies the unknown, as far as mortals are concerned. The idea of a beginning of universal existence becomes unlikely. Or, I could ask the question, 'what was there before God?' or 'what did God make the heavens and Earth out of?' Ha! I am in opposition to conventional rationality here, but on the path of insight and progress. I'm still like a kid asking too many questions.
The known, the unknown and the unknowable. All summed up in a simple phrase.
Dreaming: Many of my dreams tend to be violent. They are also complete, lucid events, as opposed to those which are flimsy. I admit flaws in my lifetime Tonal as the reason for this. But, the experience of adventure is intoxicating! Once, I was a bandit, looking for a place to hide in a city. On a more productive line, I have identified dreams of places and character that occur more than once. Some of these date to before I studied Castaneda. One sequence is new, and puzzles me. In these, I am in a rambling building, some parts of which are add on single-wide trailers. There are other people present, men and women, with whom I interact. We are trying to escape a tyrant. And the tyrant is unusual in the extreme! A male, he is young, looks to be Asian Indian, dark skinned. And, he appears to be pregnant. At least he has the distended abdomen of a preganant woman. He has the power to destroy by thought, but must become aware of our presence by sight or sound in the average manner. I don't know what this means, other than the Sci-Fi I read is invading my dreams! Asimov's Mule?
I have had two dreams of the informational type, although I learned they were contaminated by my self importance. By that I mean that the dream message was accurate, but I thought it was about me, when it was not.
Truly, the Nagual Warriors' path is a lonley one.
Any serious comment about all this is welcome. Lonewolf?
Stopping the world: My first experience with this was gazing at city traffic. For about 30 seconds, it became alien to me, as if I had never seen such a thing before. Now, I often see it as a perhaps a third world visitor to an American city might view it; not entirely alien, but very foreign.
Perception: Changes here are likely bringing me to Losing the Human Form; I believe that is the correct thing. This means that I find I no longer share perceptions about many ideas of reality that average human beings accept as fact. An example is Castaneda's 'Syntax' concerning the Big Bang. Where common belief is linear, ie: Beginning leading to End, I now accept the place of infinity, the circle or spiral of indigenous (such as Australian) thought, a concept which implies the unknown, as far as mortals are concerned. The idea of a beginning of universal existence becomes unlikely. Or, I could ask the question, 'what was there before God?' or 'what did God make the heavens and Earth out of?' Ha! I am in opposition to conventional rationality here, but on the path of insight and progress. I'm still like a kid asking too many questions.
The known, the unknown and the unknowable. All summed up in a simple phrase.
Dreaming: Many of my dreams tend to be violent. They are also complete, lucid events, as opposed to those which are flimsy. I admit flaws in my lifetime Tonal as the reason for this. But, the experience of adventure is intoxicating! Once, I was a bandit, looking for a place to hide in a city. On a more productive line, I have identified dreams of places and character that occur more than once. Some of these date to before I studied Castaneda. One sequence is new, and puzzles me. In these, I am in a rambling building, some parts of which are add on single-wide trailers. There are other people present, men and women, with whom I interact. We are trying to escape a tyrant. And the tyrant is unusual in the extreme! A male, he is young, looks to be Asian Indian, dark skinned. And, he appears to be pregnant. At least he has the distended abdomen of a preganant woman. He has the power to destroy by thought, but must become aware of our presence by sight or sound in the average manner. I don't know what this means, other than the Sci-Fi I read is invading my dreams! Asimov's Mule?
I have had two dreams of the informational type, although I learned they were contaminated by my self importance. By that I mean that the dream message was accurate, but I thought it was about me, when it was not.
Truly, the Nagual Warriors' path is a lonley one.
Any serious comment about all this is welcome. Lonewolf?