- 7.
DREAMING
-
- WHAT
HAPPENS IN NORMAL DREAMING?
-
- THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT SHIFTS SLIGHTLY TO THE
LEFT IN A NATURAL MANNER
- ..Dreaming began with a simple observation.
The old seers became aware that in dreams the AP shifts slightly
to the left in a most natural manner. That point indeed relaxes
when man sleeps and all kinds of unused emanations begin to glow.
FFW,192 the assemblage point becomes very easily displaced during
sleep (gently and naturally POS, 50) in the course of ordinary
dreams, the assemblage point becomes easily displaced by itself to
another position on the surface or in the interior of the luminous
egg...TAOD,18,19
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- WHAT
HAPPENS WHEN WE ARE IN NORMAL SLEEP?
-
- DURING NORMAL SLEEP, THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT
SHIFTS ALONG EITHER SIDE OF MAN'S BAND ACCOMPANIED BY
SLUMBER
- During normal sleep, the shift of the AP runs
along either edge of man's band. Such shifts are always coupled
with slumber. FFW,270.
-
- SHIFTS INDUCED BY PRACTICE OCCUR ALONG THE
MIDSECTION OF MAN'S BAND AND IS NOT COUPLED WITH SLUMBER, YET THE
DREAMER IS ASLEEP
- Shifts that are induced by practice occur
along the midsection of man's band and are not coupled with
slumber, yet a dreamer is asleep. FFW,270.
-
- WHAT
DREAMING IS NOT
-
- DREAMING IS NOT JUST HAVING DREAMS; NEITHER IS
IT DAYDREAMING OR WISHING OR IMAGINING
- Dreaming is not just having dreams; neither is
it daydreaming or wishing or imagining. TAOD,29
-
- WHAT IS
DREAMING?
-
- 1.
PRACTICES TO RECONDITION OUR ENERGY SO THAT WE CAN
- INCREASE OUR PERCEPTION (MOVE THE
AP)
-
- DREAMING SYSTEMATICALLY MOVES OUR
AP
- Believing that our energetic conditioning is
correctable, don Juan stated that sorcerers of ancient times
developed a set of practices designed to recondition our energetic
capabilities to perceive. They called this set of practices the
art of dreaming. TAOD, ii Dreaming seems to be a sensation-a
process in our bodies, an awareness in our minds. TAOD ix.....The
awareness of sorcerers grows when they do dreaming. TAOD,101 A
warrior seeks power and one of the avenues to power is dreaming.
JTI,91Dreaming is the art of displacing the assemblage point at
will from its habitual position in order to enhance and enlarge
the scope of what can be perceived. TAOD, 19 dreaming is concerned
with the displacement of the assemblage point
TAOD,69.,161...Dreaming is the most effective way to move the AP.
FFW,191...through discipline it is possible to cultivate and
perform, in the course of sleep and ordinary dreams, a systematic
displacement of the assemblage point. TAOD,18,19..they called this
control of the the natural AP shift during sleep "control
dreaming" or "the art of handling the dreaming body."...to control
that shift does not mean in any way to direct it, but to keep the
AP fixed at the position where it naturally moves in
sleep...FFW,192 in dreaming there is really no way of directing
the movement of the AP; the only thing that dictates that shift is
the inner strength or weakness of dreamers. FFW,194 ...everytime
this control of your dream is exercised the inner strength gets
fortified. Fortified inner strength in turn makes the AP shift
into dreaming positions which are more and more suitable for
fostering sobriety, in other words, dreams by themselves become
more and more manageable, even orderly..FFW,199.
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- 2.
BEING AWARE IN OUR DREAMS AND HAVING CONTROL
-
- IN DREAMING THE PERSON HAS VOLITION AND
CONTROL
- ....Our art as ordinary people is that we know
how to hold the image of what we are looking at. ...we do that but
we don't know how. We just do it; that is, our bodies do it. In
dreaming we have to do the same thing, except in dreaming we have
to learn how to do it... we have to struggle not to look but to
merely glance and yet hold the image. SRP,144 Dreaming was in
essence the transformation of ordinary dreams into affairs
involving volition. Dreamers, by engaging their attention of the
nagual and focusing it on the items and events of their ordinary
dreams, change those dreams into dreaming. SRP,242. ....Only
through immobilizing our attention can one turn an ordinary dream
into dreaming. EG,139..... with our attention we can hold the
images of a dream in the same way we hold the images of the
world.. the art of the dreamer is the art of attention.
Cc,SRP,239...As soon as one learns to do dreaming, any dream that
one can remember is no longer a dream, it's dreaming. EG,140...The
control and utilization of dreams. POS,14 the purpose of dreaming,
which control and dreaming. JTI,112. dreaming is the not-doing of
sleep. EG,23. The dreamers do not lack sleep, but the effect of
dreaming seems to be an increase of waking time, owing to the use
of an alleged extra body, the dreaming body. EG,23. You can have
as many dreams as you want or as many as you are capable of, but
you must exercise adequate control and not wake up in the world we
know. TAOD,40
-
- IN DREAMING WE EXERCISE OUR ABILITY TO BE
AWARE IN OUR DREAMS/DREAMING ATTENTION
- the dreaming attention is the condition of
being aware of the items in our dream. It is the key to every
movement in the sorcerers' world. CC.TAOD, 29 Exercising the
dreaming attention is the essential point in dreaming TAOD,35 the
control one acquires over one's dreams upon fixating the
assemblage point on any new position to which it has been
displaced during dreams....an incomprehensible facet of awareness
that exists by itself, waiting for a moment when we would entice
it, a moment when we would give it purpose; it is a veiled faculty
that everyone of us has in reserve but never has the opportunity
to use in everyday life. TAOD,21,22....as we tighten the control
over our dreams, we tighten the mastery over our dreaming
attention....the dreaming attention comes into play when it is
called, when it is given a purpose..(not a process which leads to
an end result) It is rather an awakening. Something suddenly
becomes suddenly functional. TAOD, 34 dreaming seemed to begin as
a unique state of awareness arrived at by focusing the residue of
consciousness (second attention), which one still has when asleep,
on the elements, or the features, of one's dream... EG,135. The
stronger and the more impeccable the dreamers were, the farther
they could project their second attention into the unknown and the
longer their dreaming projection would last. (a matter of
energy).EG,265.
- ...It has to do with the unknown. It comes
about when unused emanations inside man's cocoon are utilized....
in order to utilize those unused emanations, one needs uncommon,
elaborate tactics that require supreme discipline and
concentration.. the concentration needed to be aware that one is
having a dream is the forerunner of the second attention. That
concentration is a form of consciousness that is not in the same
category as the consciousness needed to deal with the daily world.
FFW,127,128
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- DREAMS CANNOT BE INTERFERED WITH/DREAMS MUST
FOLLOW THEIR OWN COURSE
- dreams cannot be interfered with, nor can they
be commanded by the conscious effort of the dreamer, and yet the
shift of the AP must obey the dreamer's command- a contradiction
that cannot be rationalized but must be resolved in practice.....
when dreams are consciously or semiconsciously manipulated, the AP
immediately returns to its usual place. ...interfering with dreams
was interfering with the natural shift of the AP... Let the dream
follow its own course...FFW,193.
-
- DREAMING POSITION IS ANY NEW POSITION TO WHICH
THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT HAS BEEN DISPLACED DURING SLEEP.
- Dreaming position is......any new position to
which the assemblage point has been displaced during sleep.
(TAOD,??), (FFW,194)
-
- THE FARTHER THE SHIFT OF THE AP INTO THE LEFT
SIDE.., THE MORE VIVID AND BIZARRE THE DREAM.
- The farther the shift of the AP into the left
side.., the more vivid and bizarre the dream. FFW,193. dreams are
totally associated with that displacement the greater the
displacement, the more unusual the dream... TAOD,18,19
-
- TO CONTROL THE DREAM MEANS TO FIXATE THE AP ON
A CERTAIN SPOT/COHESIVENESS
- Dreaming practices is a way to learn how to
have cohesion.Dreaming does it by forcing dreams to fixate the
assemblage point. (We fixate it by practicing the techniques of
dreaming.... sustaining the view in a dream (this means you are
holding the dreaming position of your assemblage point TAOD,70) or
changing dreams at will) ....through your dreaming practices you
are really exercising your capacity to be cohesive; that is to
say, you are exercising your capacity to maintain a new energy
shape by holding the assemblage point fixed on the position of any
particular dream you are having ...(we maintain cohesiveness) by
the clarity of our perception. The clearer the view of our dreams,
the greater the cohesion. TAOD,70Those exercises were designed to
keep my AP fixed at the place where it had moved in my sleep.
FFW,194.... (These are tasks to train the second attention.
)EG,141.... All dreamers can direct is the fixation of their AP.
Seers are like fisherman equipped with a line that casts itself
wherever it may; the only thing they can do is keep the line
anchored at the place it sinks...FFW,194.
- .. to wake up while dreaming while the AP is
fixed in a new position. FFW,194.
-
- THE DREAMING ATTENTION, THE ENERGY BODY, THE
SECOND ATTENTION, THE RELATIONSHIP WITH INORGANIC BEINGS, THE
DREAMING EMISSARY, THEY ARE ALL BY-PRODUCTS OF ACQUIRING COHESION;
IN OTHER WORDS, THEY ARE ALL BY-PRODUCTS OF FIXATING THE
ASSEMBLAGE POINT ON A NUMBER OF DREAMING POSITIONS.
- The dreaming attention, the energy body, the
second attention, the relationship with inorganic beings, the
dreaming emissary, they are all by-products of acquiring cohesion;
in other words, they are all by-products of fixating the
assemblage point on a number of dreaming positions. TAOD,69,70..
That the only thing that counts in making that shift (into the
dreaming body) is anchoring the second attention.
EG,141.
-
- THE DREAMING BODY AND THE BARRIER OF
PERCEPTION ARE POSITIONS OF THE AP AND ARE ACCOMPLISHED AFTER
YEARS OF PRACTICE
- the dreaming body and the barrier of
perception are positions of the AP, and that knowledge is as vital
to seers as knowing how to read and write is to modern man. Both
are accomplishments attained after years of practice.
FFW,290.
-
- A DREAMER IS BY DEFINITION OUTSIDE THE
BOUNDARIES OF THE CONCERNS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
- What she meant by that was that a dreamer by
definition is outside the boundaries of the concerns of everyday
life. EG,262
-
- DREAMING CAN BE AS REAL AS EVERYDAY
LIFE
- ...what you call dreams are real for a
warrior. Dreaming is real for a warrior because in it he can act
deliberately, he can choose and reject, he can select from a
variety of items those which lead to power, and then he can
manipulate them and use them, while in an ordinary dream he cannot
act deliberately. In dreaming you have power; you can change
things; you may find out countless concealed facts; you can
control whatever you want. JTI,92...
- a man hunting for power has almost no limits
in his dreaming. JTI,98.. dreaming entailed a peculiar control
over one's dream to the extent that the experiences undergone in
them and those lived in one's waking hours acquired the same
pragmatic valence. The sorcerers allegation was that under th
impact of dreaming the ordinary criteria to differentiate a dream
from reality became inoperative. TOP,16. Dreamers move onward
without plan or thought; they jump into the reality of the world
or into the reality of dreams TSC,231 you are dreaming, but all
this is real. So real that it can kill us by disintegrating us...
TSC,248 Dreaming is real when one has succeeded in bringing
everything into focus. Then there is no difference between what
you do when you sleep and what you do when you are
sleeping...JTI,99
-
- HAVING A DREAM THREE TIMES IS A RULE OF THUMB
TO INDICATE TRUE DREAMING
- For true dreaming, he gave me a rule of thumb;
if I should have the vision three times... I had to pay
extraordinary attention to it; otherwise, a neophyte's attempts
were merely a stepping stone to building the second attention.
EG,50.
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- 3.
DREAMING IS USED TO DEVELOP THE DOUBLE
-
- THE TRUE GOAL OF DREAMING WAS TO PERFECT THE
DOUBLE
- the true goal of dreaming is to perfect the
energy body. TAOD,42. (first and second gates is to forge the EB
and the third gate is to let it out) TAOD,14 Dreaming is the art
of tempering the energy body, of making it supple and coherent by
gradually exercising it... through dreaming we condense the energy
body until its capable of perceiving. Dreaming is a way of
arriving at the energy body. TAOD,31
-
- A DREAMER CAN CREATE AND PROJECT THE DREAMING
BODY AND BE IN TWO DISTANT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME
- ...a dreamer can create and project the
dreaming body and be in two distant places at the same time. POS,
48
-
- DESCRIPTION OF WHAT HAPPENS TO OUR LUMINOUS
BALL DURING DREAMING
- What takes place in dreaming is that the right
and left side awareness are wrapped up together. Both of them come
to rest in one single bundle in the dent, the depressed center of
the second attention. EG,258. (see luminous ball.. massaging the
SA).. the feeling of being rolled up like a cigar and placed
inside the dent of the second attention was the result of merging
my right and left awareness into one in which the order of
predominance has been switched and the left has gained supremacy.
EG,259. In order to have perceived the nagual, you must have used
your double. You were asleep and yet aware at the same time.
TSC,140.
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- 4.
DREAMING IS A WAY TO GET TO THE NAGUAL,SAFELY
-
- DREAMING IS A DOOR TO THE NAGUAL
- Through dreaming we can perceive other
worlds,...(freedom to perceive worlds beyond the imagination.
TAOD,81)... Dreams are, if not a door, a hatch into other
worlds... dreams are a two way street. Our awareness goes through
that hatch into other realms, and those other realms send scouts
into our dreams....a hatch into other realms of perception..
TAOD,29 Dreaming practices in the world of everyday life..made
perceiving energy directly dreamlike, instead of totally chaotic,
until a moment when something rearranged perception and the
sorcerer found himself facing a new world. TAOD,79 dreaming gives
us the fluidity to enter into other worlds by destroying our sense
of knowing this world. TAOD,73 ...the door to the second
attention...the dreaming attention is like a river feeding into
the second attention (ocean).. ??,?? ..dreaming is naturally a way
to store the second attention. EG,141. A warrior's greatest
accomplishment in the second attention is dreaming.
EG,209.
- That's why the Nagual taught us dreaming (to
not injure the luminous layers) Dreaming tightens the layers. When
sorcerers learn dreaming they tie together their two attentions
and there is no more need for that center to push out. SRP,254
Dreaming is a practical aid devised by sorcerers..they sought the
usefulness of the nagual by training their tonal to let go for a
moment, so to speak, and then grab again. This statement doesn't
make sense to you. But that's what you've been doing all along;
training yourself to let go without losing all of your marbles.
Dreaming..is the crown of the sorcerers' efforts, the ultimate use
of the nagual. TOP,242. Dreaming was in fact a rational state ..in
dreaming, the rational awareness, is wrapped up inside the left
side awareness in order to give the dreamer a sense of sobriety
and rationality; but that the influence of rationality has to be
minimal and used only as an inhibiting mechanism to protect the
dreamer the dreamer from excesses and bizarre undertakings.
EG,261.Dreaming is the only way to gather the second attention
without injuring it, without making it menacing and awesome.
SRP,249. there is a pathway to reach it, however, which is
available to every one of us, but which only sorcerers take, and
that pathway is through dreaming. SRP,242.....the second attention
is available to all of us...dreaming brings down the barriers that
surround and insulate the second attention. TAOD,51 The second
attention is like an ocean, and the dreaming attention is like a
river feeding into it. It is the condition of being aware of total
worlds, total like our world is total. TAOD, 29.
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- 5.
WE ARE TRYING TO FIND ENERGY-GENERATING ITEMS IN OUR
DREAMS
-
- BY FINDING ADEQUATE POSITIONS OF THE
ASSEMBLAGE POINT ENERGY GENERATING ITEMS BECOME AVAILABLE TO
US
- ..we intend to find adequate positions of the
assemblage point, positions that permit us to percieve
energy-generating items in dreamlike states. TAOD,164 a process by
which dreamers isolate dream conditions in which they can find
energy-generating elements... dreaming is `an energy-generating
condition...ordinary dreams are the honing devices used to train
the assemblage point to reach the position that creates this
energy-generating condition we call dreaming. TAOD,173
-
- LOOKING
FOR INORGANIC BEINGS/SCOUTS IN OUR DREAMS
-
- WHAT ARE
SCOUTS?
-
- SCOUTS...ENERGY CHARGES THAT GET MIXED WITH
THE ITEMS OF OUR NORMAL DREAMS. THEY ARE BURSTS OF FOREIGN ENERGY
THAT COME INTO OUR DREAMS, AND WE INTERPRET THEM AS ITEMS FAMILIAR
OR UNFAMILIAR TO US
- Scouts...energy charges that get mixed with
the items of our normal dreams. They are bursts of foreign energy
that come into our dreams, and we interpret them as items familiar
or unfamiliar to us. ...the mind takes those currents and turns
them into parts of our dreams. TAOD,29 He said that among the
multitude of items in our dreams, there exist real energetic
interferences, things that have been put in our dreams
extraneously, by an alien force. TAOD,46,47
-
- AVERAGE PEOPLE HAVE MANY SCOUTS
- ..average people are subject to (more energy
scouts..when the dreams are normal) ..average people have
stupendously strong barriers (worries about self) to protect
themselves. The stronger the barrier, the stronger the attack.
TAOD,85
-
- WE WANT TO FIND AND FOLLOW THOSE FOREIGN
ELEMENTS
- To able to find them (foreign energy elements)
and follow them is sorcery. TAOD,46,47 Sorcerers are aware of
those currents of foreign energy...they notice them and strive to
isolate them from the normal items of their dreams.
TAOD,29
-
- WHY
DO WE WANT TO FOLLOW THE SCOUTS?
-
- THE INORGANIC BEINGS SUPPLY THEIR HIGH
AWARENESS, AND SORCERERS SUPPLY THEIR HEIGHTENED AWARENESS AND
HIGH ENERGY
- If we follow them to their source, (with the
organic beings' superb consciousness, TAOD,49) they serve us as
guides into areas of such mystery that sorcerers shiver at the
mention of such a possibility....TAOD,32 (the friendship)
..consists of a mutual exchange of energy. The inorganic beings
supply their high awareness, and sorcerers supply their heightened
awareness and high energy...(but this forms a dependency)
TAOD,52
-
- HOW DO
WE FIND SCOUTS?
-
- SORCERERES ENTICE THEM IN DREAMING.(BY THE ACT
ITSELF) ..SUSTAINING THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT'S SHIFT CREATES A
DISTINCTIVE ENERGY CHARGE WHICH ATTRACTS THEIR
ATTENTION
- ..those beings are enticed by us,or better
yet, compelled to interact with us... sorcereres entice them in
dreaming.(by the act itself) ..sustaining the assemblage point's
shift creates a distinctive energy charge which attracts their
attention by going through the two gates you have made your
bidding known to them...(followed) by a sign..either an appearance
or some interference in your dreams (energy jolt maybe) TAOD,46,47
They isolate scouts by the exercise and control of their dreaming
attention. (energy bodies isolate the dream scouts) TAOD,32 At one
moment, our dreaming attention discovers them among the items of a
dream and focuses on them, then the total dream collapses, leaving
only the foreign enemy. TAOD,30
-
- AT FIRST THE INORGANIC BEINGS MAY CAUSE GREAT
FEAR
- Since at the begining of dreaming we have no
experience whatsoever with them, they might imbue us with fear
beyond measure. That is a real danger to us. Through the channel
of fear, they can follow us to the daily world, with disastrous
results for us...Fear can settle down in our lives, and we would
have to be mavericks to deal with it. Inorganic beings can be
worse than a pest. Through fear they can easily drive us raving
mad.... (however).. (sorcerers) turn them into allies..form
associations..extraordinary friendships TAOD,47 But it isn't
desirable for dreamers to indulge in searching for scouts. TAOD,32
Avoid at any cost sending a feeling of fear or morbidity. The
secret is not to fear them.. The intent one has to send out to
them has to be of power and abandon. TAOD,47,48 (see also water
and FFW, ch #6.)
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- OTHER SCOUTS
-
- TAOD,177,178,179
-
- STAGES OF
DREAMING
-
- STAGES ARE BLURRED UNDER NORMAL
AWARENESS
- Under normal awareness that transition is
blurred. but different from (experience of transition states from
HA.). EG,252.
-
- 1. RESTFUL
STATE
-
- RESTFUL VIGIL IS THE PRELIMINARY STATE, A
STATE IN WHICH THE SENSES BECOME DORMANT AND YET ONE IS
AWARE.
- Restful vigil is the preliminary state, a
state in which the senses become dormant and yet one is aware. In
my case, I had always perceived in this state a flood of reddish
light, a light exactly like what one sees facing the sun with the
eyelids tightly closed. EG,129 I had stared at the darkness
throughout many sessions and was ready to visualize the spot of
coloration. In fact, I witnesses its entire metamorphosis from
plain darkness to a precisely outlined blotch of intense
brightness, and then I was swayed by the external itch, on which I
focused my attention, until I ended up entering into a state of
restful vigil. It was then that I first became immersed in an
orange-red coloration. (dreaming color)EG,256.
- After ten to fifteen minutes of restlessness I
finally succeeded in going into a state of restful
vigil.EG,129..In order for me to start dreaming or to stop it all
I have to do is place my attention on my womb. I've learned to
feel the inside of it. I see the reddish glow for an instant and
then I'm off.. this only takes a few seconds. EG,136.... I easily
entered into the first state... I had a sensation of bodily
pleasure, a tingling radiating from my solar plexus, which was
transformed into the thought that we were going to have great
results. That thought turned into a nervous anticipation. I became
aware of that my thoughts were emanating from the tingling in the
middle of my chest. The instant I turned my attention to it,
however, the tingling stopped. It was like an electric current
that I could switch on and off. EG,150,151.
- She told me to keep my eyes open and fixed on
a point right in front of me, at my eye level; and that this point
was going to turn from darkness to a bright and pleasing
orange-red. EG.251.
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- 2. DYNAMIC
VIGIL
-
- DYNAMIC VIGIL IN THIS STATE THE REDDISH LIGHT
DISSIPATES, AS FOG DISSIPATES, AND ONE IS LEFT LOOKING AT A SCENE,
A TABLEAU OF SORTS, WHICH IS STATIC.
- Dynamic vigil in this state the reddish light
dissipates, as fog dissipates, and one is left looking at a scene,
a tableau of sorts, which is static. One sees a three-dimensional
picture, a frozen bit of something-a landscape, a street, a house,
a person, a face, anything.
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- 3.
PASSIVE WITNESSING
-
- PASSIVE WITNESSING IN THIS STATE THE DREAMER
IS NO LONGER VIEWING A FROZEN BIT OF THE WORLD BUT IS OBSERVING,
EYEWITNESSING, AN EVENT AS IT OCCURS
- Passive witnessing in this state the dreamer
is no longer viewing a frozen bit of the world but is observing,
eyewitnessing, an event as it occurs. It is as if the primacy of
the visual and auditory senses makes this state of dreaming mainly
an affair of the eyes and ears only. EG,129.
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- 4.
DYNAMIC INITIATIVE
-
- DYNAMIC INITIATIVE IN THIS STATE I WAS DRAWN
TO ACT. IN IT ONE IS COMPELLED TO ENTERPRISE, TO TAKE STEPS, TO
MAKE THE MOST OF ONE'S TIME.
- Dynamic initiative in this state I was drawn
to act. In it one is compelled to enterprise, to take steps, to
make the most of one's time. EG,129.
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- WHAT'S
ESSENTIAL FOR DREAMING?
-
- 1.
ENERGY IS NECESSARY TO DO DREAMING
-
- A PERSON MUST REDEPLOY ENERGY TO DO
DREAMING
- The redeployment of energy is necessary to do
dreaming to start dreaming sorcerers need to redefine their
premises and save their energy, but that redefining is valid only
to have the necessary energy to set up dreaming. TAOD,181,182
.....the energy needed to release our dreaming attention from its
socialization prision comes from redeploying our existing energy
...the emergence of our dreaming attention is a direct corollary
of revamping our lives. TAOD, 37....Dreaming requires every bit of
our available energy...if there is a deep preoccupation in our
life, there is no possibility of dreaming.. (preoccupation means
that all your energy sources are taken on) TAOD, 150. We thought
that the essential aid to dreaming was a state of mental
quietness, which DJ had called stopping the internal dialogue or
the not-doing of talking to oneself. EG,135.
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- 2.
YOU MUST CONVINCE YOURSELF YOU ARE A DREAMER/ WHICH DEVELOPS INTO
UNBENDING INTENT/PERSISTENCE
-
- CONVINCE YOURSELF YOU ARE A
DREAMER
- ....the act of convincing yourself you are
indeed a dreamer, although you have never dreamt before, and the
act of being convinced... it requires imagination, discipline and
purpose....you get an unquestionable bodily knowledge that you are
a dreamer...You feel that you are a dreamer with all cells of your
body....Intending the first gate of dreaming was one of the means
discovered by the sorcereres of antiquity for reaching the second
attention and the energy body. TAOD,26 it starts with an initial
act, which by the fact of being sustained breeds unbending intent.
Unbending intent leads to internal silence, and internal silence
to the inner strength needed to make the AP shift in dreams to
suitable purpose. FFW,199 ...every dreamer is different. EG,129.
Every one of us is different...what you call pointers would only
be what I did myself did when I was learning. We are not the same;
we aren't even vaguely alike. JTI,98. Every warrior has his own
way of dreaming. Each way is different. The only thing we all have
in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to
abandon the quest. The countermeasure is to persist in spite of
all the barriers and disappointments. TOP,18. setting up dreaming,
consisted of a deadly game that one's mind played with itself, and
that some part of myself was going to do everything it could to
prevent the fulfillment of my task. That could include.. plunging
me into a loss of meaning, melancholy, or even suicidal
depression. TOP,17. put your silent determination, without a
single thought, into convincing yourself that you have reached
your energy body and that you are a dreamer...doing this will
automatically put you in the position to be aware that you are
falling asleep TAOD,25, 26
-
- THE ACTIVE ELEMENT IS PERSISTENCE
- the active element of such training (being
aware of your dreams) is persistence, and that the mind and all
its rational defenses cannot cope with persistence. Sooner or
later...the mind's barrier's fall,under its impact and the
dreaming attention blooms.
- TAOD,36..practice is what counts..once you get
your attention on the images of your dream, your attention is
hooked for good. SRP,241. dreaming is something one performs
EG,289
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- 3.
DREAMING MUST BE DONE WITH SOBRIETY
-
- DREAMING MUST BE SOBER
- Dreaming has to be a very sober affair. No
false movement can be afforded. Dreaming is a process of
awakening, of gaining control. Our dreaming attention must be
systematically exercised, for it is the door to the second
attention. TAOD,28.....Dreaming has to be performed with integrity
and seriousness, but in the midst of laughter and with the
confidence of someone who doesn't have a worry in the world. TAOD
21,22....what we badly need is sobriety, and no one can give it to
us or help us get it except ourselves. Without it, the shift of
the AP is chaotic, as our ordinary dreams are chaotic.
FFW,200..dreaming is as serious as seeing or dying or any other
thing in this awesome, mysterious world. JTI,98.
-
- 4.
DREAMING SHOULD BE TAUGHT WHILE IN NORMAL AWARENESS BECAUSE IT IS
SAFER
-
- DREAMING SHOULD BE TAUGHT WHILE IN NORMAL
AWARENESS
- Dreaming must be taught while warriors are in
their normal state of awareness. because dreaming is so dangerous
and dreamers so vulnerable. It is dangerous because it has
inconceivable power; it makes dreamers vulnerable because it
leaves them at the mercy of the incomprehensible force of
alignment. In our normal state of awareness, we have countless
defenses that can safeguard us against the force of unused
emanations that suddenly become aligned in dreaming.
FFW,192
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- 5.
A DREAMER MUST START FROM A POINT OF COLOR
-
- DREAMERS MUST START FROM A POINT OF
COLOR
- A dreamer must start from a point of color:
intense light or unmitigated darkness are useless to a dreamer in
the initial onslaught. Colors such as purple or light green or
rich yellow are, on the other hand, stupendous starting points.
She preferred, however, orange-red, because through experience it
had proven to be the one that gave her the greatest sensation of
rest. She assured me that once I had succeeded in entering into
the orange-red color I would have rallied my second attention
permanently, providing that I could be aware of the sequence of
physical events. EG,251.
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- 6.
TO DO DREAMING ONE NEEDS TO MANIPULATE BOTH THE LUMINOUS AND
PHYSICAL BODIES
-
- BOTH THE PHYSICAL BODY AND THE LUMINOUS BODY
NEEDS TO BE MANIPULATED
- To do dreaming one needs to manipulate both
the luminous body and the physical body. First, the center of
assembling for the second attention has to be made accessible by
being pushed in from the outside by someone else, or sucked in
from within by the dreamer. Second in order to dislodge the first
attention, the centers of the physical body located in the
midsection and the calves, especially the right one, have to be
stimulated and placed as close to one another as possible until
they seem to join. Then the sensation of being bundled takes place
and automatically the second attention takes over.
EG,259.
- from the moment that the body learns to make a
dent, it is easier to enter into dreaming.... ordinarily the dent
is created on the spur of the moment by the dreamer when it is
needed, then the luminous shell changes back to its original
shape. EG,254.
- I had acquired a strange impulse, a sensation
that my body had instantly learned to reproduce. It was a mixture
of feeling at ease, secure, doemant, suspended without tactile
sense and at the same time fully awake, aware of everything.
EG,254.
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- 7.
IN DREAMING, WE MUST FOCUS ON DREAM ITEMS THE SAME WAY WE DO IN
EVERYDAY LIFE
-
- IN DREAMING, WE MUST FOCUS ON DREAM ITEMS THE
SAME WAY WE DO IN EVERYDAY LIFE
- In dreaming one has to use the same mechanisms
of attention as in everyday life, that our first attention had
been taught to focus on the items of the world with great force in
order to turn the amphorous and chaotic realm of perception into
the orderly world of awareness. EG,139.
-
- 8.
TECHNIQUES TO HELP DREAMING: DISRUPTING ROUTINES THE GAIT OF
POWER, NOT-DOING AND RECAPITULATION
-
- TECHNIQUES TO HELP DREAMING: DISRUPTING
ROUTINES, THE GAIT OF POWER, NOT-DOING AND
RECAPITULATION
- Three techniques to help dreaming: disrupting
the routines of life, the gait of power, and not-doing.
TOP,242...he had driven my attention away, making believe that the
important problem was not doing. he explained that disrupting
routines, the gait of power and not-doing were avenues for
learning new ways of perceiving the world, and that they gave a
warrior an inkling of incredible possibilities of actions. DJ's
idea was that the knowledge of a seperate and pragmatic world of
dreaming was made possible through the use of those three
techniques. TOP,242 ...the reason average people lack volition in
their dreams is that they never recapitulated and their lives are
filled to capacity with heavily loaded emotions like memories,
hopes, fears etc. sorcerers, in contrast, are relatively free from
heavy, binding
- emotions, because of their
recapitulation..Recapitulation and dreaming go hand in hand. As we
regurgitate our lives, we get more and more airborne. TAOD,
147,148...
-
- WHERE
TO DO DREAMING?
-
- INDOORS
- if dreaming is going to be done indoors, it is
best to do it in total darkness, while lying down or sitting up on
a narrow bed, or better yet, while sitting down inside a
coffinlike crib. EG,249.
- Along the wall opposite the door was a raised
platform covered with straw mats..she said it was where she did
her meditation..she called it dreaming. TSC,79,80.
-
- OUTDOORS
- Outdoors, dreaming should be done in the
protection of a cave, in the sandy areas of water holes, or
sitting against a rock in the mountains; never on the flat floor
of a valley, or next to rivers, or lakes, or the sea, because flat
areas were antithetical to the second attention.
EG,249.
-
- WHEN
IS THE BEST TIME TO DO DREAMING?
-
- EARLY MORNING OR LATE NIGHT BECAUSE OF
INTERFERENCE BY PEOPLE
- DJ had told us that the late night or the
early morning hours were by far the best. His reason for favoring
those hours was because... he said that since one has to do
dreaming within a social milieu, one has to seek the best possible
of conditionds of solitude and lack of interference. The
interference he was referring to had to do with the attention of
people, and not their physical prescence. For DJ it was
meaningless to retreat from the world and hide, for even if one
were alone in an isolated, deserted place, the interference of our
fellow man is prevalent because the fixation of their first
attention cannot be shut off. Only locally, at the hours when most
people are asleep, can one avert part of that fixation for a short
period of time. It is at those times that the first attention
around us is dormant. EG,138.
-
- TRY DREAMING AS A NAP DURING THE DAYTIME TO
TEST CONTROL
- he suggested that I should try dreaming while
I took a nap during the daytime and find out if I could actually
visualize the chosen place as it was at the time I was dreaming.
If I were dreaming at night, my visions of the locale should be of
nighttime. He said that what one experiences in dreaming has to be
congruous with the time of day when dreaming was taking place;
otherwise the visions one might have were not dreaming but
ordinary dreams. JTI,152.
-
- WHAT
ARE THE POSITIONS OF DREAMING?
-
- FOR A WOMAN
- that the best position for a woman to start
from is to sit with her legs crossed and then let the body fall,
as it may do once the attention is on dreaming.
EG,138.
-
- LEGS IN A GROIN STRETCH SITTING UP
- In the beginning..I had done it while lying on
my back, until one day when DJ told me that for the best results I
should sit up on a soft thin mat, with the soles of my feet placed
together and my thighs touching the mat. he pointed out that,
since I had elastic hip joints, I should exercise them to the
fullest, aiming at having my thighs completely flat against the
mat. he added that if I were to enter into dreaming in that
sitting position, my body would not slide or fall to either side,
but my trunk would bend forward and my forehead would rest on my
feet. EG,138.
-
- WHAT
IS THE BEST WAY TO ENTER DREAMING?
-
- PLACE ATTENTION ON YOUR WILL AT THE TIP OF THE
STERNUM AT THE TOP OF THE BELLY
- The best way to enter into dreaming was to
concentrate on the area just at the tip of the sternum, at the top
of the belly. He said that the attention needed for dreaming stems
from that area. The energy needed in order to move and seek in
dreaming stems from the area an inch or two below the belly
button. He called that energy will, or the power to select, to
assemble. In a woman both the attention and the energy for
dreaming originate from the womb. EG,136.
-
- PROTECTING THE BELLY BUTTON TO HELP HOLD OUR
IMAGES
- In dreaming we pay attention with the belly
button; therefore it has to be protected. We need a little warmth
or a feeling that something is pressing the belly button in order
to hold the images in our dreams. SRP,144. (ex. pebble belt for
the bb). SRP,145.
-
- USING CRYSTALS/PEBBLES TO HELP TURN OFF THE
INTERNAL DIALOGUE FOR PERFECT DREAMING
- For perfect dreaming, the first thing you have
to do is shut off your internal dialogue..put between your fingers
some two-or-three inch-long crystals or a couple of smooth, thin
river pebbles. Bend your fingers slightly and press the crystals
or pebbles with them... metal pins (are effective also) if they
were the size and width of ones fingers. The procedure consisited
of pressing at least three items between the fingers of each hand
and creating, an almost painful pressure in the hands..this has
the strange property of shutting off the internal
dialogue...crystals are best..although with practice anything was
suitable...Falling asleep at the moment of total silence
guarantees a perfect entrance into dreaming..and it also
guarantees the enhancing of one's dreaming attention. TAOD,93,94.
after getting into a state of total inner silence, with her I had
to slip gently into dreaming.. TAOD.187 from doing dreaming I had
learned to enter into a state of total quietness. I was able to
turn off my internal dialogue and remain as if I were inside a
cocoon peeking out of a hole. In that state I could either let go
of some control I had and enter into dreaming, or I could hold
onto that control and remain passive, thoughtless, and without
desires. EG,46.
-
- WEARING A HEADBAND DURING DREAMING
- You must wear a headband to sleep.. getting a
headband is a tricky maneuver. I cannot give you one, because you
yourself have to make it from scratch. but you cannot make one
until you have had a vision of it in dreaming... the headband has
to be made according to the specific vision. And it must have a
strip across it that fits tightly on top of the head. Or it may
very well be like a tight cap. Dreaming easier when one wears a
power object on top of the head. You could wear your hat or put on
a cowl, like a friar, and go to sleep, but those items would only
cause intense dreams not dreaming. ..the vision of the headband
did not have to occur only in dreaming but could happen in states
of wakefulness and as a result of any far-fetched and totally
unrelated event, such as watching the flight of birds, the
movement of water, the clouds and so on. JTI,132.
-
- OTHER THINGS USED IN DREAMING
- (use of ring on finger....use of skin... skin
automatically screens energy..the use of energy exchange..the use
of using the reservoir of attention located behind the roof of our
mouths. .. .TAOD,94)
-
- SETTING
UP DREAMING
-
- CONTROLLING YOUR DREAM
- to set up dreaming meant to have a concise and
pragmatic control over the general situation of a dream,
comparable to the control one has over any choice in the desert...
JTI,97. To have a precise and practical command over the general
situation of a dream TAOD,21
-
- 1.
SUSTAIN THE IMAGE OF SOMETHING IN YOUR DREAM
-
- SUSTAIN THE IMAGE IN YOUR DREAM
- ....don't let the dream slip into something
else. (the idea is to be able to engage your dreaming attention
like looking for a specific object like your hands in the dream)
TAOD,21 ...everytime you look at anything in your dreams it
changes shape..the trick in learning to set up dreaming is
obviously not just to look at things but to sustain the sight of
them. JTI,99
-
- SELECTING WHAT YOU WANT TO DREAM
ABOUT
- a warrior chooses the topic by deliberately
holding an image in his mind while he shuts off his internal
dialogue. In other words if he is not capable of not talking to
himself for a moment and then holds the image or the thought of
what he wants in dreaming, even if only for an instant, then the
desired topic will come to him. TOP,18.
-
- WE PRACTICE SUSTAINING IMAGES BY FIRST LOOKING
FOR OUR HANDS OR ANY IMAGE IN OUR DREAM
- ..one had to deliberately dream that one was
looking for and could find one's hands in a dream by simply
dreaming that one lifted one's hands to the levels of the eyes.
TOP,16. ...you can, of course, look at whatever you goddamn
please-your toes, or your belly or your pecker for that matter.
JTI,98...description of looking for hands TOP,17.....You don't
have to look at your hands...like I've said, pick anything at all.
But pick one thing in advance and find it in your dreams. I said
your hands because they'll always be there..JTI,100...after years
of unsuccessful attempts (to find his hands).. I finally
accomplished the task. Looking at it in retrospect, it had become
evident to me that I had succeeded only after I had gained a
degree of control over the world of my everyday life.
TOP,16
-
- LOOKING AT OBJECTS IN THE DREAM SHOULD BE DONE
IN GLANCES/OR WE LOSE CONTROL
- One only strives to immobilize the second
attention only in the learning period. After that, one has to
fight the inconcivable pull of the second attention and give only
cursory glances at everything. In dreaming one has to be satisfied
with the briefest possible views of everything. As soon as one
focuses on anything. one loses control. EG,142... ..I realized
that if I did not stare at things but only glanced at them, just
as we do in our daily world, I could arrange my perception. If I
took my dreaming for granted, I could use the perceptual biases of
my everyday life. After a few moments the scenery became, if not
completely familiar, controllable. EG,52. ...take quick,
deliberate glances at everything present in a dream. If they focus
their dreaming attention on something specific, it is only as a
point of departure. From there, dreamers move on to look at other
items in the dream's content, returning to the point of departure
as many times as possible. TAOD,25 Every time you isolate it
(starting point item) and look at it, you get a surge of energy,
so the beginning don't look at too many things in your dreams.
Four items will suffice....as soon as the images begin to
shift...go back to your starting point and start all over again.
TAOD, 30,31 Remember that if you glance only briefly, the images
don't shift. TAOD,30...when they (object in dreams)..change shape
you must move your sight away from them and pick something else,
and then look at your hands again. It takes a long time to perfect
this technique. JTI,100, 112... every time you look at your hands
you renew the power needed for dreaming, so in the beginning don't
look at too many things... when you feel you can gaze at things
indefinitely you will be ready for a new technique. JTI,112 The
most serious problem the dreamer has in this respect is the
unbending fixation of the second attention on detail that would be
thoroughly undetected by the attention of everyday life, creating
in this manner a nearly insurmountable obstacle to validation.
What one seeks in dreaming is not what one would pay attention to
in everyday life. EG,142.
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- 2.
TRAVELING TO CERTAIN PLACES WHILE DREAMING
-
- TRAVELING TO CERTAIN PLACES OF YOUR OWN
VOLITION
- The next step in setting up dreaming is to
learn to travel... the same way you have learned to look at your
hands you can will yourself to move, to go places. First you have
to establish a place you want to go to. Pick a well-known
spot-perhaps your scholl, or a park, a friend's house-then, will
yourself to go there....this technique is very difficult. You must
perform two tasks. You must will yourself to go to the specific
locale; and then, when you have mastered that technique, you have
to learn to control the exact time of your traveling. JTI,113, In
order to help yourself you should pick a specific object that
belongs to the place you want to go and focus your attention on
it...JTI,152. it is easier to travel in dreaming when one can
focus on a place of power, focus your attention on any object
there and find it in dreaming. From the specific object you
recall, you must go back to your hands and then to another object
and so on. JTI,153....after finding my hands he recommended that I
should choose a locale, focus my attention on it, and then do
daytime dreaming and find out if I could really go there. He
suggested that I should place someone I knew at the site,
preferably a woman, in order to do two things; first to check
subtle changes that might indicate that I was there in dreaming
and second to isolate unobtrusive detail, which would be precisely
what my second attention would zero in on. EG,142.
-
- 3.
GETTING THE DOUBLE TO FOCUS ON ITSELF/SEEING ONESELF IN
BED/DREAMING THE DOUBLE
-
- DREAMING THE DOUBLE
- Finding my hands in my dreams was the first
pointer; then the exercise of paying attention was elongated to
finding objects, looking for specific features, such as buildings,
streets and so on. From there the jump was to dreaming about
specific places at specific times of the day. The final stage was
drawing the attention of the nagual to focus on the total self.
..this final stage was usually ushered in by a dream..in which one
is looking at oneself sleeping in bed. By the time a sorcerer has
had such a dream, his attention has been developed to such a
degree that instead of walking himself up...he turns on his heels
and engages himself in activity, as if he were in the world of
everyday life. from that moment on there is a breakage, a division
of sorts in the otherwise unified personality. the result..was the
other self, an identical being as oneself, but made in dreaming.
SRP,243. there are no defintie standard steps for teaching that
double, as there are no steps for us to reach our daily awareness.
We simply do it by practising. ...he contended that in the act of
engaging our attention of the nagual we would find the steps. he
urged me to practice dreaming without letting my fears make it
into an encumbering production. SRP,243. There are no procedures
to arrive at the attention of the nagual. (dreaming)
SRP,243
-
- VIVIDNESS AND DETAILS ARE UNIMPORTANT IN
DREAMING
- He said that to follow them (details of the
dream) was a waste of time, because details and vividness were in
no way important. JTI,112.. ordinary dreams get very vivid as soon
as you begin to set up dreaming..that vividness and clarity is a
formidable barrier .... JTI,112.
-
- DON'T INDULGE IN YOUR DREAMING
- (During the dream..Don't indulge) don't cling
to things or situations..TAOD,41..
-
- GATES OF
DREAMING
-
- THERE ARE SEVEN GATES OF DREAMING
- There are seven gates...and dreamers have to
open all seven of them, one at a time. TAOD,22 (these are
entrances into the energy flow of the universe)
-
- TWO PHASES AT EACH GATE
- ...there are two phases to each of the gates
of dreaming..the first is to arrive at the gate; the second is to
cross it. TAOD,142
-
- FIRST
GATE OF DREAMING: BEING AWARE WHEN YOU ARE FALLING ASLEEP AND
DURING DREAMING
-
- In essence, what don Juan wanted with my first
task was to exercise my dreaming attention by focusing it on the
items of my dreams. To this effect he used as a spearhead the idea
of being aware of falling asleep. His subterfuge (trick) was to
say that the only way to be aware of falling asleep is to examine
the element's of one's dreams. TAOD 35 To ask a dreamer to find a
determined item in his dreams is a subterfuge...the real issue is
to become aware that one is falling asleep...this happens by
sustaining the sight of whatever one is looking at in a dream.
TAOD,27, .....although it might seem that finding hands in a dream
might be aimed at teaching me to command my dreams. TAOD,27,a
threshold we must cross by becoming aware of a particular
sensation before deep sleep...A sensation like a pleasant
heaviness that doesn't let us open our eyes. We reach that gate
the instant we become aware that we're falling asleep, suspended
in darkness and heaviness......to do this..one just intends to
become aware of falling asleep.. TAOD,22 ..the goal of dreaming is
to intend that your energy body becomes aware that you are falling
asleep. Don't try to force yourself to be aware of falling asleep.
Let your energy body do it.. TAOD,22 ..between the last waking
moment and the first sleeping moment, a tunnel streches down deep
into consciousness. Most people do not perceive this subtle state;
indeed, you cannot be aware of it with your everyday mind. At that
instant, when you are neither awake nor asleep, this tunnel opens
up... EE,M,77. put your silent determination, without a single
thought, into convincing yourself that you have reached your
energy body and that you are a dreamer...doing this will
automatically put you in the position to be aware that you are
falling asleep. TAOD,26
- Once we reach the gate, we must cross it by
being able to sustain the sight of any items of our dreams.
TAOD,30..the art of the dreamer is to hold the image of his
dreams. SRP,144....on reaching the first gate, they also reach the
energy body. TAOD,31 to maintain (the gain of reaching the first
gate) is predicated on energy alone. TAOD,32
-
- SECOND
GATE OF DREAMING
-
- rule of the second gate..one, through
practicing the drill of changing dreams, dreamers find out about
scouts; two, by following the scouts, they enter into another
veritable universe; and three, in that universe, by means of their
actions, dreamers find out, on their own, the governing laws and
regulations of that universe. TAOD,108.the universe behind the
second gate is the closest to our own....powerful and aggressive
TAOD,110.111....the second gate is reached and crossed only when a
dreamer learns to isolate and follow the energy scouts. ..waking
up in another dream or changing dreams is the drill devised by the
old sorcerers to exercise a dreamer's capacity to isolate and
follow a scout. TAOD,107...it is the door into the inorganic
being's world...the drill is essential. TAOD,108. ..You reach the
second gate of dreaming when you wake up from a dream into another
dream. ..that is to say that one is having a dream and then dream
that one wakes up from it...the alternative is to use the items of
the dreams to trigger another dream. TAOD,40, 44 ..my mistake
..what I meant is that one has to change dreams in an orderly and
precise manner. TAOD,44.
- what is really going through the second gate
,hopping from dream to dream is the energy body. ..on crossing the
second gate you must intend a greater and more sober control over
your dreaming attention: the only safety valve for dreamers.
..(the safety valve is a perfect energy body (which is the goal of
dreaming) it has such a control over the dreaming attention that
it makes it stop when needed. TAOD,42
-
- THIRD
GATE OF DREAMING
-
- (arriving at the gate)...is reached when you
find yourself in a dream, staring at someone else (yourself) who
is asleep. ..you actually see your body asleep.
TAOD,151
- (to cross the gate) ..to move around once
you've seen yourself asleep. TAOD,141.. to make the energy body
move on its own. TAOD,169. The energy body can now move like
energy; fast and directly. TAOD,163
- ..you begin to deliberately merge your
dreaming reality with the reality of the daily world. (completing
the energy body)..the energy body is ready to come out (ready to
act). To be successful the entire energy body must be engaged.
There must be irrational fluidity. TAOD,142,143. ...while in the
inorganic realm, voice your intent to transfer normal awareness
(of the daily world) to our energy bodies. TAOD,189..
- ..the real task of the third gate... seeing
energy with your energy body. TAOD,163
- ...the last task of the third gate of
dreaming.. stalking the stalker..to deliberately draw energy from
the inorganic being's realm in order to use awareness to go on a
journey through the universe. TAOD,185
-
- THE
FOURTH GATE OF DREAMING
-
- the energy body travels to specific concrete
places and that there are three ways of using the fourth gate:
one, to travel to concrete places in this world; two, to travel to
concrete places out of this world; and three, to travel to places
that exist only in the intent of others. TAOD, 200.. in this
state.. the corporeality of the body has no significance. It is
simply a memory that slows down the dreamer. EG,52. to wake up at
any dreaming position. this maneuver is really a very complex
affair- so complex that it not only requires sobriety but all the
attributes of warriorship as well, especially intent... because
intent is what maintains the dreamer's sobriety, the alignment of
whatever emanations have been lit up by the movement of the
AP....FFW,200....Description of this. EG,50,51,52,53. You were
learning to get to your dreaming body when you dreamed that you
got out of your body. EG,139...the dream in which one was watching
oneself sleep..was the time of the double. TOP,67. in order to
shift into your dreaming body when awake you have to practice
dreaming until it is coming out of your ears. EG,141. (description
of how to direct the dreaming body. EG,261)
-
- THE DOUBLE DREAMS THE SELF
- The self dreams the double....perhaps the
ordinary dreams of the self are simple, but that doesn't mean that
the self is simple. Once it has learned to dream the double, the
self arrives at this weird cross road and a moment comes when one
realizes that it is the double who dreams the self. TOP,78.... you
could have known then that you yourself are a dream, that your
double is dreaming you, in the same fashion that you dreamed him
last night.No one knows how it happens. We only know that it does
happen. TOP,79.
-
- EXPERIENCES
WHILE DREAMING
-
- FLYING IN DREAMING
- DJ taught me on this earth and in dreaming
someone I could never see taught me. It was only a voice telling
me what to do. The Naugal gave me the task of learning to fly in
dreaming, and the voice taught me how to do it. Then it took me
years to teach myself to shift from my regular body, the one you
can touch, to my dreaming body. EG,139.... By shifting my
attention to my dreaming body, I could fly like a kite while I was
awake. EG,140. All I needed to shift into my dreaming body was to
focus my attention on flying. EG,141. Example of EG,141. The
intent of flying produces the effect of flying.
EG,143.
-
- MOVING WHILE DREAMING
- to place my awareness on the midpoint of my
body... and to sweep the floor with it, that is, making a rocking
motion with my belly as if a broom were attached to it. I remained
in a waking state. ..in a sitting position. (experiences from
this....EG,257,258) ..EG,257... she directed me to open my eyes
while I was in a state of restful vigil... in order for me to move
I had to intend my moving at a very deep level. in other words, I
had to be utterly convinced that I wanted to move, or perhaps it
would be more accurate to say that I had to be convinced that I
needed to move. EG,260
-
- GHOST DREAMING
- (dreaming about something that doesn't exist
anymore)..... whoever does ghost dreaming is marked by fate to
have ghost helpers and allies... none of us has has ever done
ghost dreaming because we are not violent or destructive.
EG,54.
-
- DREAMING TOGETHER WITH OTHER
PEOPLE
- a group of seers who activate the same unused
emanations...there are no known steps, it just happens; there is
no technique to follow... in dreaming together, something in us
takes the lead and suddenly we find ourselves sharing the same
view with other dreamers. What happens is that our human
conditions makes us focus the glow of awareness automatically on
the same emanations that other human beings are using; we adjust
the position of our AP to fit the others around us. We do that on
our right side, in our ordinary perception, and we also do it on
the left side, while dreaming together. FFW,201.
-
- UNIFORMITY IS TO HOLD, IN UNISON, THE SAME
POSITION OF THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT.
- Uniformity is to hold, in unison, the same
position of the assemblage point. TAOD,77
-
- DREAMING EMISSARY/THE VOICE OF
DREAMING
- Upon crossing the first or second gate of
dreaming, dreamers reach a threshold of energy and begin to see
things or to hear voices. Not really plural voices, but a singular
voice....It is an alien energy that has conciseness
(abruptness).alien energy that purports to aid dreamers by telling
them things...they can only tell what the sorcerers already know
or should know..an impersonal force that we turn into a very
personal one because it has a voice...we see it or hear it because
we maintain our assemblage points fixed on a specific new
position; the more intense this fixation, the more intense our
experience of the emissary...It cannot be advice. It only tells us
what's what, and then we draw the inferences
ourselves.
- (it tells you things)..anything I focus my
intent on...the DE is a force (impersonal and constant TAOD,75)
that comes from the realm of inorganic beings..everyone hears the
emissary; very few see it or feel it. TAOD,64,65,66... That was
when some voice began to tell me what to do. I've always felt it
was a woman's voice. EG,140. Her voice was the woman's voice that
la Gorda thought she heard in dreaming. EG,249. .the nagging voice
you heard, reminding you to fix your dreaming attention on the
items of your dreams, was the voice of an inorganic being.
TAOD,59...what you see in dreaming as bright or dark sticks are
their projections. What you hear as the voice of the dreaming
emissary is equally their projection.. TAOD,87..the voice can't
lie TAOD,180 ..the nagging voice you heard, reminding you to fix
your dreaming attention on the items of your dreams, was the voice
of an inorganic being. cc, taod,59 is this a reference to the
dreaming emmisary???
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OF CC DREAMS
- None of the sensory experiences involved in
dreaming are part of our normal inventory of sensory data. All of
them are baffling to me. The sensation of an itch, a tingling
outside myself was localized.. the sensation of being rolled up on
myself... I knew my toes were touching my forehead.. on a physical
plane I was sitting down and my thighs were against my chest.
EG,259. I knew that I was dreaming. I was actually sound asleep
yet I was totally aware of myself through my second attention.
POS,112.... I remained half awake, listening to the tune. It
seemed as if I were entering into a state of dreaming-a complete
and detailed dreaming scene appeared in front of my eyes. EG,117.
(my dreams) ..solely visual TAOD,71..
- ...vivid dream...I was so aware of everything,
that I tried to orient myself by reading signs and looking at
people....the more we walked, the greater my sensation of visceral
anxiety. My mind was curious, but my body was alarmed...we were in
a reality beyond what I know to be real... (after awakening) I was
numb..an unusual itching on my solar plexus kept my breaths short
and painful TAOD,24, 25 I felt a sizable jolt of nervousness in
the pit of my stomach (solar plexus); it was like a punch. TAOD,
50,135 I was like a diver, and waking up from that world was like
swimming up to reach the surface. TAOD,116.... an immense fatigue
had begun to make my eyes sore and itchy. Finally I gave up my
resistance and was pulled into the deepest, blackest sleep I have
ever had. Yet, I was not totally asleep. I could feel the thick
blackness around me. I had an entirely physical feeling of wading
through blackness. then it suddenly became reddish, then orange,
then glaring white, like a terribly strong neon light. POS,108 I
realized that seeing DJ was not a consequence of light on my
retina. It was rather, a bodily sense. POS,110 ...the light in the
dreamed changed. Images became sharper. Ths streets...more real
than a moment before. My feet began to hurt. I could feel that
things were absurdly hard. TAOD,28 Watching those people in that
dream, I experienced a fear and revulsion impossible to forget...(
DJ says) ..your energy body hooked onto the foreign energy of that
place and had the time of its life...you were examining alien
energy for the first time in your life. TAOD,39 ..some windlike
force, which I felt as a buzzing in my ears, pulled me through the
window to the outside... TAOD,42 ..pulled me into another dream
through a buzzing vortex...my dreaming practices always ended by
my running out of dreaming attention and finally waking up or by
my falling into a dark,deep slumber....the only disturbance I had
was a particular interference, a jolt of fear or discomfort.
TAOD,45...(the jolts continued, but) whenever they happened a
strange calmness always trailed behind, a calmness that took
control of me and let me proceed as if I had no fear at all.
TAOD,49 It seemed at that time that every breakthrough in dreaming
happened to me suddenly without warning. TAOD,49 It had been
relatively easy for me to learn to sustain the image of my hands
after I had learned to command myself to look at them. My visions,
although not always of my own hands, would last a seemingly long
time, until I would lose control and would become immersed in
ordinary predictable dreams. I had no volition whatsoever over
when I would give myself the command to look at my hands, or to
look at my hands, or to look at other items of the dreams. it
would just happen. At a given moment I would remember that I had
to look at my hands and then at the surroundings. There were
nights ...when I could not recall having done it at all.
JTI,111.
- I had begun to dream about specific places,
such as the school and the houses of a few friends.
JTI,152
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- description of the greyish bugs of
matter.
- TAOD,112,113,115,116,117,118
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- Saber toothed tiger TAOD,119., EG,53,
EG,160.
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- another world.. bright light..dreaming
EG,263,264.
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