What Dreams May Come

If one thinks of the being as comprised of spiritual and physical components, where the spiritual manifests an aim using the physical and that these manifestations are evoked by the secretion of various mixtures of bodily fluids, then one has a basic understanding of how it works.

Spiritual is a word chosen without its religious connotations because there is the physical, i.e. matter and energy governed by the laws of physics, and there is the “non-physical,” that which is not and that is referred to here as spiritual.

These spiritual components can empirically be divided into intellectual, emotional, moving, social, sexual, and instinctive sources where each operates, more or less, independently of the other but the resulting secretions are a mixture influenced by all six. 

Some manifestations are heavily weighted toward one or the other of these sources but there are seldom, if any, times when a manifestation is caused totally one or even two of these sources but influenced by all in varying degrees.

Recalling the color palette, there are hundreds, even thousands of hues available from combinations of primary colors.  It is a simple step to realize the legions of reactions that are available from the mixture of six primary sources and that each reaction is a persona, created and stored for possible future use.  This lifetime is an expression of all of them.  For a thought provoking development of some of these sources, referred to as centers, read The Fourth Way by Ouspensky.

 

One will not find the aspect presented there of the spiritual/ physical dichotomy.  Nowhere in my reading of Fourth Way is the spiritual and physical dichotomy explained as the way Master, Driver, and Critic continue the development of the being.

Personae are created in order to cope with situations that are presented to the being and there are thousands of them created during a lifetime.  There are some that are used over and over; these become the recognizable personality of the named individual along with other recognizable features. 

Some personae become a permanent part of the being.  I’m not sure how or why this happens, but they become so much a part of the being that when the brain-body dies these, along with Master, continue to exist and may inhabit another brain-body to continue development until enough critical mass is achieved to move on to the next plane of existence.

In this lifetime, actions are taken by the brain-body because the spiritual component causes them.  This accounts for any and all actions taken.  The brain-body cannot in and of itself do anything.  Even the automatic body functions are the result of the spiritual component setting in place the mechanism by which they are accomplished.

It could be that the beginning of Master’s existence was with the first persona that became permanent; it could have been this lifetime or an indeterminate number of lifetimes ago.  That there has been more than one explains the incidents of “remembering.”

Genetic memory is another, and separate, phenomenon that is part and parcel of this wondrous being.  An example of this can be found in “A Parallel Life” posted on http://openfloodgate.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-parallel-life.html.

My normal posts are 1000 words, more or less, and there’s lots of room left here to continue to develop a new idea that is in process right now.

The idea of auto-suggestion, also known as self-hypnosis, also known as affirmation, also known as self-talk is presently at the fore for me.  The prospect of incorporating it along with these beliefs came through to me recently and there is a procedure that I am following.  How this works out will be seen in the future and it may be advisable for me to wait until I have the results to talk about it; but no, as usual I will forge ahead with my dissertation.

First premise: The dreams of the being are consistent with the development of Master.  Second premise: there is the above mentioned dichotomy between the spiritual and physical aspects of the being.  Third: the being is capable of stepping into the gap between the physical and the spiritual.

So this is the procedure:  Relaxing the brain-body, imagine that you are ascending along with all of the personae that you have and as you ascend, personae leave your company according to their most prominent feature.  At the first level, those associated most closely with the instinctive leave; at the second—the sexual, at the third—the social, the fourth—the moving, the fifth—the emotional, and the sixth—the intellectual.  Now as you, driver and critic without other personae, stand alone at the highest level in the vague presence of Master with a view as if from the top of the highest mountain, you repeat your dream.

The syntax of the dream is important only that it convey an accurate image of your dream.  Our brain uses words to evoke images; it is the image that we are creating that contains the dream and to which the spiritual component relates.  That image is what he will maneuver to realize.

Throughout this lifetime there have been images impressed upon me that were so strong that one day I realized that what I now had was the fulfillment of the image that I’d had.  The achievement of of what was necessary for that image to become real was not the result of a step by step campaign of which I was aware but rather a step by step campaign of which I wasn't aware except that deep in my mind there was that impression.

It is this impression that the procedure is meant to make.

My expectation is that it will and this is why I am now involved in making the effort.  By recalling my experiences above and linking them to my experiment, I firmly believe that this may be the secret to which “The Secret” refers.

  

My hypothesis is that the dream has to contain rich imagery, have content that has been experienced, even if experiences to date have to be extrapolated to the desired level, be as real as one can make them, and be taken-up one dream at a time to avoid confusion.

It would behoove one to have just a few important dreams to be realized until this capability is honed and then there is reason to believe that it could be used for many dreams.