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Thursday, 4 August 2016

Dreams, Reality, and Psychedelics


Dreams, Reality, and Psychedelics

Naked Singularity by R. Ayana

 

"My young men shall never work. Men who work cannot dream; and wisdom comes to us in dreams."

- Smohalla, founder of the dreamer religion 


I am particularly interested in the Old English definition of the term 'dream' which meant 'joy, mirth, noisy merriment, and music' which is also claimed to be the root of its modern version 'sleeping vision' .
I understand/feel life, nature, reality to be dynamic rather than made up of things which are separates. So for example, although we can use terms like 'light' and 'dark' to denote differences in a dynamic, the actual is not being able to be pulled apart into two independent things which have no relation to each other for you can neither have light without dark, and vice versa, nor know light without darkness and vice verse. So in that spirit I move on into exploring the dynamic of dream and reality.

When we go to bed, we pass through vibratory cycles, such as the first awake stage called beta waves, and then gradually into alpha waves, then theta waves, and into the dreamless sleep of delta waves,; alpha and theta are the more dreamy and visionary states. These are the main wave states commonly known about. These vibratory stages are cyclic, so we go through to delta, but then on the way to waking up we go through the stages to beta, and of course it will not be linear, but involve a cyclic nature within. For dynamics are cyclic or of a spiral nature.

Now actually, in reality, we go through these vibratory states all day also, but this oppressive enslaving corporate civilization which demands 'wide-awakeness' (beta vaves) and 'cognitive focus' on the world they claim is the 'reality' , materialism, and capitalism, because it demands slaves who are both productive and consumers, for the state. All other vibratory experience are therefore frowned up, and they push drugs to evoke beta wide-awakeness with foods and drinks which have caffeine, and sugar, in them. Also they  push drugs such as Ritalin (amphetamine/'speed') onto children in their schools. If, for example, children should dare to daydream in class they can be seen to have a dis-order! I read a person's comment regarding this recently where he said he was diagnosed with 'ADHD' and put on Ritalin for drawing in a maths class!

So in day to day, in the 'workplace' they want us in a beta vibratory wave state, but of course we also have leisure time away from the workplace, and so realizing  this they--the ones who create toxic myths which enslave-- will expropriate our alpha and theta vibratory states for their own purposes via television and cinema and sport which more often than not is continually chock-full of corporate advertising, and programs designed to push the agenda of this culture both overtly and subliminally.

Leonard Shlain claims that no matter what you watch in TV, or film you naturally go into alpha and theta wave vibratory states:


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“Beta waves are what you generate when you're concentrating on a task. Everyone knows that if you're trying to read a book, you have to concentrate. If you're in a real noisy room, you'll get up and find some place to sit that's quiet. But if you ask that person to look up from the book and start watching a television program—it doesn't matter what the content of the program is: cuddly koala bears or some violent cops and robbers program—what happens is the beta waves go away and alpha and theta waves come up.


“Alpha and theta waves are what you generate when you meditate. Who here has not had the experience of going home after a hard day's work and taking that clicker in your hand and just kind of going into a trance watching television? When asked, people say that the word they most commonly use to describe watching television is "hypnotize."

“If you look at it from another way, if you put somebody in a brain scanner, you give him a book to read, and you measure brain activity, it doesn't matter what the book is—any reading will generate it—the whole left hemisphere is lit up, and the right hemisphere is relatively dark. If you ask the person to look up from the book and start watching any television program, the left hemisphere goes dark and the right hemisphere lights up. Now, in a world that has one television set for every two people on the planet, how could that not make a profound difference in our culture?”
-       source

 [And all screens and screened devices function in a similar way - N.I. Ed]
  
The predatory corporate warmongering mindset which has taken over the power positions, especially land and money, in this civilization, uses advertising to influence the repressed 'dreaming' mind, but first it prepares us for this via its enforced 'education' system which is meticulously contrived to divide us from the deeper dreaming depths of our dynamic being, and this is why it is now a 'disorder/mental illness' to even daydream, or draw, in an education system whose to curriculum subjects are all 'left brain' subjects such as maths, writing, science, whilst the more alpha and theta oriented subjects are either right at the bottom or not even included in the curriculum at all such as art, dance, music, drama, and this is the same pattern followed almost globally now!


Psychedelic Feral by R. Ayana So we are born into a culture which has sunk so low it pushes speed onto children in schools and 'care homes' and even their own homes, yet simultaneously and extremely ironically wages a so-called  'war on drugs'! And this war is also against psychedelics which themselves very much inspire a dreaming mind. Really it is a war on plants and fungi, because cannabis and psychedelic fungi are the main enemies of the drugwar State regarding allowing  people the freedom to pick, grow or cultivate them.

I want to reiterate that by saying 'dreaming' mind this in no way is meaning how this materialist culture would define dream, which casts out the deeper dynamic of our being as though it is not always a part of who we are. Dream does not mean delusion, and seeing-things-which-aren't-there. Implying that only a rational focused mind can see how things are in their essence is a myth. In fact the denying of the awareness of this deeper part of our bring destroys critical thinking, and is a reason people get sucked into the most absurd belief systems. It is because they have been disconnected from their own being via mind control.

Psychedelics,  the original inspiration par excellence of the dreaming mind were actually called, in ancient Mexico, 'the flowery dream'. They dramatically reveal the interrelational dynamic of 'subjective' and 'objective', and how there can never be a totally independent objective out there unrelated to how we observe, feel, which doesn't mean 'out there' is not real of course. It rather means that we are a process which includes a spiral dynamic of 'in here' and 'out there'.

When children play they are doing this. They are naturally using imagination to playfully interact with the environment, but as they continually get slapped down in the schools for daydreaming, asking questions they shouldn't,  and 'playtime' is regulated by Pavlovian alarm bells, this sense of play and imagination is suppressed, and repressed, and from this trauma the culture then pushes its techno-matrix into/onto us which dulls us to the magic of actual living intelligent nature, and our connection with it.

This is why we see more and more people obsessed with their little computer devices walking about in beautiful parks full of life oblivious to all the wonder around them. They are got by the techno-hypnosis which they now need for constant stimulation. Even the eternal space for daydreaming has been bypassed because now instead of driftimg off into aimless daydreaming, they rather want to read a text, send on, watch some social media stuff, constantly buzzed for chit chat, etc. all of which limits their minds to consensual reality. The meaning of this part of an old Haiku poem would be lost to them~~
 
...The sound of water says what I think~~



This civilization through its fundamental religious age, and now its so-called 'age of reason, and science, wants to suppress imagination. It finds naturally free wild imagination dangerous. People may get 'funny ideas'. May not obey authority and start asking questions.

What is imagination?

This profit-obsessed culture dismisses naturally flowering imagination if it is not 'productive' and bringing it 'profit'. So say the scientist may imagine and work out some new way of thinking and application which then will get used for the corporate machine and its materialist ideology. It has been channeled to serve an oppressive enslaving State which drugs children if they don't conform to its definition of 'order'.

In the patriarchal mythos imagination was/is manipulated and channeled to believe the images of 'gods' and 'Gods', and abstract terms like 'Oneness'. These images were to be believed in literally, and so was their interpretation of 'spiritual reality' to be accepted as the 'truth'.

A good example of such manipulation of images is recorded in the Book of Genesis where the words of the text claimed to be the literal 'Word of God', malign these ancient preliterate images familiar and sacred to an ancient imagination, such as a Garden, Tree of Life, Goddess, Fruit of Knowledge and Inspiration and Life, the Serpent, nakedness, and of course ecstatic experience itself

The Magical Fruit is of course that which inspires ecstatic playful imaginative participatory relationship with nature and others. Living reality which is dynamic process~~~where life and death are not separate un-related 'things' but rather a mysteriously intertwined un-pin-downable spiral process which is always a dynamic of each other. This dynamic process can be seen from many perspectives: every time my finger hits a key typing this is also the very death of that action, of that letter, every breath in I take exhale the death of it and the life of the inhale and vice versa; every death of each moment is the simultaneous life of the following moment, and so on. Most people are made to think that there is 'life' now and at the end of one's physical life there is 'death' which there is of course, but it is just the ongoing dynamic which is inherent in reality. Reality is not linear.

In the more ancient and preliteral mythos of the Goddess and/or Great Mother, the Serpent represented not static immortal life, which is preferred in patriarchal myths, but this cyclic movement of life and death and regeneration, for the serpent sloughs its skin and underneath has new skin, but the Genesis story and its theological interpretations demonizes the serpent via words, forbids the 'Fruit of Immortality' and makes out that our natural state from then on we are guilty, sinful, and wrong. So this is a toxic myth which is all about divide and control, even dividing its gullible believer from their self, and then offering 'salvation' if you unquestioningly believe the very toxic myth which causes this sense of disconnection in the first place!

Lillith and Eve by R. Ayana

In Christian eschatology this mind controlling formula is sin and salvation, and in the myth which proceeds it and is 'our toxic myth' it is problem and solution. Psychologically this can be 'chemical imbalance' (problem) and psychiatric drugs or ECT (solution)!

So it is clear that in order for an authoritarian belief system to gain control over us it must first de-grade us, or rather make us feel degraded, and then offer the 'solution' which they promise will help rid us of the 'problem'. This is exactly the formula the advertising industry uses! Millions have a TV in their room pumping them millions of images and words saying what the images are to mean, along with subliminal manipulation of our 'unconscious', our dreaming mind

In this 'age of reason and science' it is not a 'God' telling you what's what via his 'Word, it is rather the 'expert' telling you, via 'science' that, for example, you have no freewill and are a robot consumer and are of no worth unless profit can be made by you and from you.

Please understand very deeply the vast loss we have suffered being spiritually and physically separated from our deeper being, and the land, and communities of others, including other species. This disconnection has been ruthlessly, violently, and relentlessly done to people over hundreds and hundreds of years.

And yet, amazingly, all this mindcontrol can in essence he utterly undone with a psychedelic trip!! Suddenly there is no barrier between dream and reality

EVERYTHING IS ALIVE. EVERYTHING IS DIVERSE. EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED. EVERYTHING IS DYNAMIC, including dreaming and reality.And this itself, the experience, is dynamic. It is absurd to want it all the time. We cannot be that intensely ecstatic all the time, and the intensely ecstatic part of a psychedelic trip is its climax, and there is a gradual, though cyclic build up to it and same going down, like sex. And then many people will 'come down' and look back and judge their experience as 'distorting reality, instead of realizing that we are distorted since childhood in the schools to be divided from the potential depths of reality! 

We are not meant to see this, and be blind to how mindcontrol is done to us, and once again it can wrap around and into you. So critical thinking is important to look into this, and integrate the living insights we have, like how dreaming and reality are a dynamic, and doing this inspires imagination and playful spirit, and the spirit of activism. To join hands with others to end this evil fucking war on psychedelics! This is urgent, because blind people are destroying the quality of life for countless other species, and humans, and the children to come. So it requires the dynamic of utmost seriousness, and responsibility, as well as the ecstatic abandon to imaginative love and play with the natural world and others~~~

Skinny Dipping Reality by R. Ayana



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Monday, 21 December 2015

The Next Step in Lucid Dreaming: Navigating Through the Astral Planes


The Next Step in Lucid Dreaming:
 Navigating Through the Astral Planes

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By now, we’ve covered the art of lucid dreaming extensively. At some point, those who find themselves having success with this technique may find themselves wondering ‘what’s next?’


astralLucid dreaming is just one of many powerful methods of traveling spiritually, such as out of body experiences, astral projection, and near-death experiences.

Once you have mastered a practice such as lucid dreaming, the next step is further exploration of psychic and spiritual worlds.

If you are interested in moving your practice to the next level, here are some ways that you can open up the limitless possibilities that spiritual travel offers.

This includes altering the lucid dreaming environment altogether by exploring other dimensions and changing the lucid dream state.

 

Use ‘Charged Symbols’

 

Current religious trends are dominated by the interpretations of scripture as they make sense in the modern world. That is, most ‘reasonable’ people will agree with those interpretations. However, when a scripture is dumbed down into a single interpretation, you often lose the literal meaning. 

In this way, texts which are rich and beautiful become a bit barren as church councils standardize broad ideas including salvation, faith, and group unity. The irony here is that Protestant ideology which once opposed the rigid nature of Catholicism have become rigid themselves in the definition of their faith. The popularity of fundamentalist fringes of these religions exists in stark contrast as a backlash to this sterilized interpretations.


Alchemy_symbols_by_sgtfarris


We’re not talking about controversial political ideas that are often found outdated in scripture, but more that the literal translations of the scripture often include esoteric symbols which could have many possible interpretations. In this way, the mystical aspect of scriptures are in many case suppressed so that they can make sense to the common believer.

The fact is, a religious (or spiritual) life is one of ambiguity with constantly changing meanings and interpretations. In this way it is the deep symbolism of religious texts and iconography that is the source of fundamentalist revivals.

After all, what is the point of a spiritual existence if your texts are mere ‘history’ and the symbolism is closed to you? In fundamentalism, doorways to the sacred are once again opened.

Toward Digital EncryptionYou might be wondering where this is going, as most of us are not fundamentalists. The fanaticism associated with many fundamentalist sects is not something with which most people can relate. However, the symbolism in these religious faiths can be ‘charged’ when encountered by an individual.

This means that they can hold a very personal power as individuals use them for prayer and meditation. During spiritual travel, these beloved symbols can have an enormous value when attention is focused upon them.

In your spiritual practice, with which images and symbols do you relate best and hold dear? It could be a Western religious icon such as the ‘Mother of God’ or an Eastern symbol such as ‘Buddha.’

Whatever it is that you love in your spiritual practice can help you in your lucid dream state, or other forms of spiritual travel. While in the out of body state, contemplate your own personal ‘charged symbol’ to see what power it can offer you.

This symbol will oftentimes act as a vehicle to extraordinary and highly mysterious states of being. In this way, your symbol is the key to a door which opens to a sacred reality.

 

Tibetan Dream Yoga

 

Milarepa, a disciple of Tibetan guru Marpa, passed down the concept of dream yoga. This is a practice with a number of steps by which the individual may gradually improve their ability to control the dream state.

First, one must become lucid or ‘wake up’ in the dream state.

Second, one must triumph over fear of the dream contents so there is the realization that nothing in the dream can cause harm. For example, the dreamer may find themselves immersed in water from which there is no escape, but can realize that they will not drown.

dreamThird, one should meditate upon the fact that waking life and dream life are similar in that both aspects of life are illusory and subject to continual change. According to the Buddhist worldview, objects that exist in life or in dreams are empty of meaning and insubstantial. In this way one’s dream can now be contemplated as maya.

Fourth, the dreamer now can change the properties of objects in their dream. For example, one can make heavy objects light, big objects small, and many objects into one. At this point, one should be able to turn something into its opposite, for example fire can be changed into water.

Past this stage, the lucid dreamer can go one to the knowledge that their dream body is similarly malleable as these objects. In this way, a realization that one is not one’s dream body should occur. When the dreamer enters the stage where they can easily change objects as in the paragraph above, they should also be able to alter their own bodies, even to the point of making it disappear.

Lastly, once all of the above can be achieved, one can visualize deities. Deities serve as a link the void, that which cannot be comprehended. In this way, the deities can serve as a doorway into the mystical void for the dreamer, as they concentrate on these symbolic images without distraction.

 

Mantra

 

dreampeaceThose who have mastered the above two forms of advanced spiritual travel may find that the use of mantra can allows them to reach even further. The practice of mantra during spiritual travel can effectively move one’s soul to different inner spaces, with the chant acting as the propulsion.

If you are in a lucid dreaming state and chanting a mantra, it is often via your own inner voice. However, the mantric sounds often express themselves as outwardly ‘loud’ as if sung by a chorus rather than simply you. This effect helps the dreamer to feel as if they are not in it alone, as if the vehicle is a bus rather than a single passenger vehicle.

The use of mantra in a lucid dream can modify the perception into different textures, densities and emotions with varying background sensations. Visually, the dreamer typically perceives a complex field of ever-changing 3-D patterns and colors.

Now that we’ve defined what a mantra can do for your lucid dreaming experience, we can explore which chants might work for you. For those with a solid yoga practice, the Sanskrit mantras found within many yogic interpretations can be effective, since they are already understood to come from higher planes of spirituality.

polls_dream_a_z_0251_876673_answer_2_xlargeThis will draw the dreamer to a familiar point of mystical origin. Above, we explored the naming of deities, and these names can work as a mantra as well.

Names of spiritual guides living or non-living are powerful mantras as the dreamer often has an intimate relationship with them.

Those of Christian origin might find that certain Psalms or even the Lord’s Prayer help them to reach higher realms of lucid dreaming. In short, anything with a positive spiritual association to the dreamer can be chanted as a mantra.

This method does require a great amount of concentration for the user, which is why it is for those who are advanced. It is however, one of the best ways to transmit the soul to specific destinations of the psychic and mystical universe.

 

Experiment With Matter

 

One might wake up in a dream and wonder what to do with their lucid state. We’ve already alluded to this great way to advance your spiritual travel, that is, playing with the matter around you.

When you realize that you are in the lucid state, it is accompanied with the knowledge that the ‘matter’ around you is not physical as in the waking state.

You may find yourself experimenting with pushing your hands through walls, or even your whole body, effectively merging yourself with that object. In this way, one might even experience the vibration of atoms which would typically make up the object we know as ‘wall.’ If you are fearful, start small with a hand or arm. However, entering fully is a powerful way to realize that the dream body is transitory in nature, and a large step toward freeing one’s self from dream-state limitations.

 

Play With Gravity

 

flying-dreamOne of the great joys, and often elaborated, powers of lucid dreaming is defying gravity or ‘flying.’ This is perhaps the first step a lucid dreamer can take to break out of imposed limitations.

Flying and the feeling of defying gravity is one of the joys of spiritual travel. One of the ways of breaking out of a

More powerful than flying, however, might be jumping off a cliff or tall building in a dream. This is a substantial step that one can take to realize the powers of lucid dreaming because it requires one to overcome what is typically a great fear.

Once the dreamer realizes that they can fly or fall from buildings without trouble, a whole world of possibilities of gravitational states opens up.

 

Skip

 

dmt_dreamingWe don’t mean skipping as in hop-scotch. We are using this term as a description to shifting through different environments, like flipping through television channels with a remote. This is a very dynamic meditation for a lucid dreamer, and requires great power of thought. Our thoughts, of course, have much greater influence in the lucid state than they do in reality.

If one is interested in ‘skipping’ through a lucid state, it can help to visualize a remote control (as in the television analogy above), radio tuning dial, or whatever is most relational to the individual’s own personal meaning. To change states, associate this symbolic act with the expectation of moving.

Whatever symbolic act is chosen, when it is performed one might experience some intermediary static as transition occurs. Then the traveler finds themselves in the new environment. One might literally ‘flip through channels’ until the desired environment is reached.

The final step is being able to find the desired environment without constantly changing ‘channels.’

Discipline, patience, and practice is required, but it is well worth the effort. Being able to do this can be a powerful way to move one’s self out of an uninteresting dream environment and into a radically different one of the user’s imagination.

 

Conclusion

 

Now that we’ve gone over some ways to improve your practice of spiritual travel, the next step is up to you. It can take some work, but it could turn out to be the most interesting aspect of life that exists to us in this state of being.

The possibilities are limitless. Perhaps you might like to share which of these works for you, or perhaps you have some novel way to realize all possibilities of the dream state that we have not covered here!



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