5th gate - you?

[dreamways]

The first four gates of dreaming are described in detail by Carlos Castaneda in The Art of Dreaming.  After the fourth gate comes the "Sorcerer's Crossing," as described by Taisha Abelar in the book by the same name. They don't call it a gate of dreaming, but it is where you find your path basically, or your nagual more precisely.  The best that I can explain the gates of dreaming is that it is the opening of the seven chakras of the dreaming body, and therefore you could look at dreaming practices as kind of a "dream yoga," where you move past the physical body to the etheric plane and start working on the dreaming body as a discrete being.  When dreaming has come full circle and you use the dreaming body to walk the physical body around, the exact opposite of how we lucid dream, that is the seventh gate of dreaming.  At gate one, we use the physical mind to control the dreaming body, and at the seventh gate we use the dreaming mind to control the physical body.  You know you are at the seventh gate of dreaming, when you try to wake up but instead you keep dreaming but can see from the dream through the eyes of your physical body. It feels and appears very strange but also familiar, even though night looks like day and vice versa, and you can see through objects such as walls.  In this state, you can see all types of energy, such as energy bodies, the assemblage point, inorganic beings and flyers.  Just keep lucid dreaming the Carlos wrote about and it happens naturally.