Hologram

Sergei Yudin - Kishlak in Novy Margelan (1893)

Waking up in the dream

At the moment we are living in a time that will display the very best and the very worst in humans with a widening gap between the two aspects in all levels of society as we become increasingly polarized in groups according to our conduct and choices in Life.

It is a process of separation between the asleep person from the awake.
Yes, a trend is emerging - questions arises during dreams and about dreams...
What are we exploring really?
People recounting their lucid dream experiences (or "out of body" experiences) all that which lead us to question the "awaken state" ; what we call "reality" and then you suddenly start to look at dream in another way - because in a way "reality" is very similar to dreaming - but slower.

Deeper Dream

A mind shift starts to happen when you then think that dreaming is just another reality - then it hits you like a ton of brick : what we call "Reality" is just a "deeper dream" - then you can see paradoxes, there are meaning - but in dreams some interesting things are taking for granted : Telepathy is there, you can fly, you can teleport, anything pretty much appears the moment you want it. Have you ever noticed, how many things that we are trying to recreates in this dimension we call "reality" are these abilities we have inherently have in dreams - devices to help us fly, to communicate remotely, to travel fast...

The dream is in you

That's the funny part - the dream is in you and that means everybody you interact with  in the dream - even you...
Because the main similarity between these dimensions is that you still have "Consciousness" - even though you might not look the same way (or even have the same name).
Dreams are the safest thing you can experience, (i.e : what's the worst that can happen really? ... waking up ... end of the list).  

And then you realize that you have been asleep while awake and while dreaming. Because becoming lucid you understand fundamentally that you're creating your own reality.


The bottom line is : it will always be your own experience.

The name that can be named

This is Dr. Wayne Dyer talking about his book "Change Your Thoughts Change Your Life"
of course this reminds a bit of "The Secret" - which was talked about in a previous post

As described in the film, the "Law of Attraction" principle shows that feelings and thoughts can attract events, from the workings of the cosmos to interactions among individuals in their physical, emotional, and professional affairs. 

it's good to know that initially Dr. Wayne Dyer was contacted to appear in "The Secret" but didn't.

the book "Change Your Thoughts Change Your Life" is not so much about "Knowing what you want" but to observe life and act in life with the life's way.

Tao means "the Way".

The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.

The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.

[...]

Other dimensions of reality

Troubled times, crisis everywhere ; but people are waking up, despite the feeling that as modern civilizations we have everything figured out. The 21st century  is sad, and fearful - haven't we forgot something along the way ? What are we really afraid of ?!

Stanislav Grof (born July 1, 1931 in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a psychiatrist, one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology and a pioneering researcher into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of analyzing, healing, and obtaining growth and insight into the human psyche. Grof received the VISION 97 award granted by the Foundation of Dagmar and Václav Havel in Prague on October 5, 2007.


source : Stanislav Grof - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Awakening the Divine Within

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56-MBWXzooY


 

Freedom

Not being angry, removing this urge to fight back or to hold a grudge.
Instead cherish the time spent as a free human being.
Solving problems I can solve.
Finding my way, my inner voice.

Knowing what you want

In the movie "The Secret" and among several personal development method - the key is usually about knowing what you want.

Obviously if you don't know what you want, you won't get anywhere - just like when you start your day aimlessly, going from one activity to the other without thinking, and when going to bed at night not remembering what you've been doing that day.

Imagine a life where you would go with the flow, being a reactive person, living a life that other people dictates for you, and follow blindly orders, actually that might not necessarily be all that bad ... I'm mean there's no responsibility, no plan, no stress. 

But recently "Knowing what you want in life", for me is like a burning question - (isn't a question that everyone should ask himself?).

When I was a teenager, I was suddenly struck by another question : "What was the meaning of life" (and later became a fan of the Monty Python).

But some years later, I think it's not an achievable goal to try finding the "meaning of life", but the tricky part, the one that requires effort is actually trying to find our particular answer to "what we want in life", in other word to find "our meaning for our life".

But the question is a very challenging one, to know what you want, you must have an understanding of the life you want to live, and the irony is usually you can't because you've never been there yet. 

One of the way usually given in the books are to visualize things.

As an exercise I found out that one way to do this, is to write stories, little stories about what you want, it really helps to visualize and clarify things up.

Let's have an example, let says I want to quit my job and start my own business with my partner (a Tourist shop) - Then it will go like this : 

Mr and Mrs Jones decided to make a difference one day, after they quits their job, they decided to buy a small shop and sell souvenirs, crafted artworks, keychains, little statues, tourists books, self made postcards, and a Tour guide business ...

At this stage already I've found out something potentially new and exciting - I can already visualize the shop, and the number of books, the shelfs etc ... and now get a new idea, putting an online store through a website.

"The Secret" vs "Smile or Die"

It's always good to see both sides of an issue before making a decision - or to listen to both sides to understand a concept better and make our own judgment.

In this video above (that follows the previous post about "The Secret") Barbara Ehrenreich is giving a different angle on "positive thinking" and how it could be cruel and actually prevent people to healthily criticize or speculate on potentials dangers.

The Secret

As described in the film, the "Law of Attraction" principle shows that feelings and thoughts can attract events, from the workings of the cosmos to interactions among individuals in their physical, emotional, and professional affairs.