Tagged with Dreams

The recent rash of shootings is beginning to look like a recurring nightmare. If we were to analyze the mass shooting phenomenon as if it were a dream, what would this show us about the state of our colletive psyche?
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If you want to know what a dream shaman of the West would be like, consider Carl Jung, as he is now revealed in his Red Book, compiled from the journals he kept during the years of his "confrontation with the unconscious," when the "spirit of the depths" dragged him, night after night, through the terrifying stages of Underworld initiation. (more)

To really engage the creative process you cannot merely look through a sealed looking glass into an alternate reality, you must fall through the looking glass and allow yourself to be swept along by the current. (more)

Usually synchronicity is thought of as a highly meaningful coincidence between a psychological event and some external happening. But I suspect that this kind of curious interconnectedness runs deeper and wider, and that cultural events, people's lives, the web of life, and even cosmic processes can behave in synchronistic ways. (more)

Some movies that have high access to the contents of the collective unconscious are "window zones" or portals between realms, and weird and uncanny things happen in their wake. Particularly, movies about dark, occult things have a long history of these crossover effects. (more)

You can visit a psychic shop in any big city and be told about your past lives: you were famous, you lost someone you loved. But the best past life regressions are like very sobering parables; they leave us with a feeling of freedom and of the multi-dimensionality of time and space. My first happened almost a year ago. (more)

Carlos Castaneda was called "the godfather of the New Age" by Time magazine. He has also been denounced as a hoaxer, opportunist, and liar. But there is simply too much in the books of obvious merit for me to believe that he made it all up. (more)

Dreaming has always been a major part of my life, as I recall having precognitive visions as early as elementary school. When I began actively working with my dreams as an adult, I realized where this feeling of familiarity was coming from. (more)

If you're still hoping for nonduality to cohere, to make your life better, to make you happier, you're still clinging to spiritual materialism.  Better for it all to be for nought.  Surrender even the hope of progress, and progress will happen on its own. (more)

When a spirit successfully crosses over to the other side, it often appears in a dream as its former healthy young self. Our German Shephard's youthful appearance in Mary's last dream about her assured us that she had completed the journey. (more)

An Interdimensional Traveler must have a moral purpose, and must be aware of all the shrinking rays that press upon us. The price of freedom for the Traveler is eternal vigilance about the sticky enchantments that would like to bind us to the Babylon Matrix and turn us into hordes of automatons and hungry ghosts. (more)

Active Dreaming is a way of being fully of this world while maintaining constant contact with the world-behind-the-world, where the deeper logic and purpose of our lives are to be found. (more)

Zeal may refuse mystery and ambiguity, and does insidiously when it says, “Now is the time: either you are coming with us to the New World or you are going to wither in your attachments to the old one.” Zeal may put its foot down, oblivious to flux, and make statements that begin, “From now on…” Zeal may say, “Oh, really?! You think you know what is going on, but you don’t know squat!” (more)

One of Inception’s less erroneous statements about dreaming is that it feels real while it’s happening; the surreality becomes apparent only after waking up. So naturally I wondered if, for example, the people sitting around me in the theater were actually part of a dream. But who was dreaming it? (more)

There was a method to Jung's madness: active imagination. It, along with the transcendent function, are the two most important discoveries Jung made in the years leading up to World War One. They describe a method of consciously entering into a dialogue with the unconscious to trigger a vital shift in consciousness, brought about through the union of the conscious and unconscious minds.  (more)

Dreams can play a fantastically transformative role in our lives. Amy weaved into George's dreams, teaching him to understand her point of view long before he even considered becoming her. (more)

In its initial stage, a spiritual awakening can look like a nervous breakdown. My experience was so off psychiatry's map that it wasn't even remotely recognized. I was immediately labeled as sick. (more)

Sleep paralysis visions are a normal, healthy part of life for thousands of psychics, shamans, and explorers of the deep mind. Like lucid dreams and psychedelic encounters, these visions present gifts and opportunities, once you get used to all the existential horror, spontaneous kundalini blasts and first chakra freak-fests. (more)

Compassion is the fuel of awakening, the cause and effect of seeing through the primal boundary of self and other and becoming lucid in our shared, waking dream. (more)

Paradise theology holds that the human heart, mind, body and soul are patterned after the divine, and that humanity's task is to realize this fully. Once it is realized, there will be a global shift that will end suffering and invite Paradise. Paradise theology respectfully, mindfully, and enthusiastically invites the end of the world. (more)

If the body seems influenced by events in the lucid state, could a consciously aware dreamer heal his or her physical body in a lucid dream? Incredibly, the answer appears to be yes. (more)

To the alchemists, creating the philosophers' stone was analogous to waking up to the dreamlike nature of the universe. Becoming lucid in the waking dream is seen as a reflection of God's ongoing creation of and incarnation into the world. (more)

Whether we're craving new creative ideas or insight into ourselves, our night-time excursions to the mercurial land of multiple meanings, shifting landscapes and beguiling mysteries seem to dangle endless fresh possibilities before us. What if we were able to discover techniques that allowed us to easily reach out and grab these possibilities? (more)