09-16-2011, 12:00 AM
Have been reading and found this texts, which I found very much like what CC write about dreaming, but the chinese do contact immortals and celestial beings in dreaming rather than the inorganics CC plays with.
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dreams and dream superstitions
Exploration (Library of Social Science)
By LIU WEN YING ZHU
Chinese dream theory
from 'Zhou Rites' – six types of dreams
'First is accurate dreams, second is startling dreams, third is
thoughtful dreams, fourth is waking dreams, fifth is joyful dreams,
sixth is fearful dreams'
Wang Fu classified dreams into ten categories in his 'Treatise of
a Hidden Man'
'General speaking, dreams may be direct, or they may be symbolic;
they may involve vitality, thought, personality, feelings, or the
times. In them may be reversl, sickness, or sexuality. The ten
elements are general parameters of dream interpretation.
Extraordinary dreams mostly have a reason; few are meaningless'
In the 'Grove of Pearls in the Garden of the Teaching' a buddhist
scripture, there is cites to an earlier source distinguishing dreams
into four types: dreams resulting from physical indisposition,
prescient dreams, dreaming connecting the supernatural with humanity
(including communication with spirits in dreaming) , and dreams
coming from thoughts.
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Master Wang Liping (born 1949 – 18th heiritage of the
Dragon Gate Taoist sect) considers Taoist theory and practice dealing
with dreaming to present the basic nature of the existence of the
unverse on a higher level.
There is passive and active dreams.
Passive dreams may be expressions of the persons subconsiousness
or they may be stimulated by external influence. They are not the
result of the will of the dreamer.
Active dreams. Cultivated vitality, energy and spirit (three key
concepts in taoism) can be used to connect with ordinary people (with
not cultivated vitality, energy and spirit) to creat dreams.
There is another type of active dreaming where one set up a topic
to dream on and then finds the answer in dreaming.
Dreaming is a kind of mode of existence in which vitality,
energy and spirit operate in concert; its form of manifestation in
time and space is extremly fluid and free; this is how taoist
practitioners use dreams to awaken mental power, to relate to other
people, and to transcend the barriers of time and space.
As for the meaning of dreams taoist looks at 'the image' the
structure behind that and then the reason behind the structure. Where
the images relates to the relationship and balance/inbalance between
the human and the universe. The meaning of active dreams is
self-evident.
By different uses of vitality, energy and spirit, it is possible
to manifest form or not manifest form; herein lies the secret of the
'art of reproducing the body' (covering manifesting other places or
becoming invisible)
quotes from 'Opening the Dragon Gate – the making of a modern
taoist wizard' by chen kaiguo and zheng shunchao – translated by
thomas cleary.
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dreams and dream superstitions
Exploration (Library of Social Science)
By LIU WEN YING ZHU
Chinese dream theory
from 'Zhou Rites' – six types of dreams
'First is accurate dreams, second is startling dreams, third is
thoughtful dreams, fourth is waking dreams, fifth is joyful dreams,
sixth is fearful dreams'
Wang Fu classified dreams into ten categories in his 'Treatise of
a Hidden Man'
'General speaking, dreams may be direct, or they may be symbolic;
they may involve vitality, thought, personality, feelings, or the
times. In them may be reversl, sickness, or sexuality. The ten
elements are general parameters of dream interpretation.
Extraordinary dreams mostly have a reason; few are meaningless'
In the 'Grove of Pearls in the Garden of the Teaching' a buddhist
scripture, there is cites to an earlier source distinguishing dreams
into four types: dreams resulting from physical indisposition,
prescient dreams, dreaming connecting the supernatural with humanity
(including communication with spirits in dreaming) , and dreams
coming from thoughts.
***
Master Wang Liping (born 1949 – 18th heiritage of the
Dragon Gate Taoist sect) considers Taoist theory and practice dealing
with dreaming to present the basic nature of the existence of the
unverse on a higher level.
There is passive and active dreams.
Passive dreams may be expressions of the persons subconsiousness
or they may be stimulated by external influence. They are not the
result of the will of the dreamer.
Active dreams. Cultivated vitality, energy and spirit (three key
concepts in taoism) can be used to connect with ordinary people (with
not cultivated vitality, energy and spirit) to creat dreams.
There is another type of active dreaming where one set up a topic
to dream on and then finds the answer in dreaming.
Dreaming is a kind of mode of existence in which vitality,
energy and spirit operate in concert; its form of manifestation in
time and space is extremly fluid and free; this is how taoist
practitioners use dreams to awaken mental power, to relate to other
people, and to transcend the barriers of time and space.
As for the meaning of dreams taoist looks at 'the image' the
structure behind that and then the reason behind the structure. Where
the images relates to the relationship and balance/inbalance between
the human and the universe. The meaning of active dreams is
self-evident.
By different uses of vitality, energy and spirit, it is possible
to manifest form or not manifest form; herein lies the secret of the
'art of reproducing the body' (covering manifesting other places or
becoming invisible)
quotes from 'Opening the Dragon Gate – the making of a modern
taoist wizard' by chen kaiguo and zheng shunchao – translated by
thomas cleary.