Ghost in the Machine wrote:
I'm not surprised if you're somehow familiar with these allegories and examples. The perhaps surprising things at this point (if this would still surprise me at this point lol) is that while I wrote my post I learned/relearned something about myself, and especially while I read your answer, a lot more made so much sense it seemed blatantly obvious.
Before anything else, when you talk about the 'dream'.
"Our universe, our reality, it's not a virtual simulation, but it's more like a dream translated to the physical realm. Lucid dreams are on the astral, when you become conscious in a dream and you just control everything around you based upon your beliefs, intents, desires, subconscious thought, etc, this is exactly what we manipulate when we meditate and visualize things and intend affirmations, it's all the astral plane in the same manner because technically we're always dreaming even when we're awake."
There was a point in time back in 2018 (overall a very bad year for my family and for me personally) when I thought very deeply about a concept very similar to this, more prompted toward the 'virtual simulation on an unknown/misunderstood energy level', and one day I felt I was awake, while I was awake. Simply sitting in my car in a parking, not sleeping, and everything before me felt 'fake', if you know what I mean. That's when I first realized this 'reality' that we constantly witness is just the very outer layer of a very thick wall, separating us all from absolute understanding and knowledge.
"When we're visualizing something in our head, those 'images' we see, even so hazy and vaguely in some weird distant 'inner sight' is not some kind of physical thing in our head, that is the extension of our psychic conscience projecting onto the astral plane/a 'dream' where we then will with our creative desires to visualize what we want. Physically while awake it's easier to do this because we have grounded control from our primary 'logical' conscience being activate while physically awake, but in a dream it's not so easy and sometimes you need to use a tool like walking through a door to change the scene around you.
In a dream if you believe you can set something on fire with pyrokinesis and actually intend the action to do so, you set it on fire. PHYSICALLY on the material plane if you're strong enough like one of the gods, if you do the exact same thing as if you were dreaming, you set something on fire on the physical plane. Because it's the same matter of directing an intent that the astral energies then very quickly manifest materially on the mirroring plane, merging the two realms very fast."
Sorry for the long quote, but perhaps you need to re-read your own words. Not meaning to state anything wrong obviously, quite the contrary. I feel you've had an EXTREME moment of clarity and want to make sure you savor it again, letting it sink in as much as possible.
What I just gained from this is a crazy duality: while in dreams (when lucid enough to make things happen with just our willpower) we have the Power to do so, in the waking state we are grounded and have Clarity, but in neither of them we normally have BOTH.
Once we learn how to make them BOTH clash, we can use godlike powers. And I'm not saying this while merely thinking of a lucid dream (which may still serve well as a divinatory ground, for instance) but also referring to this, the waking state, in broad daylight, where we may feel powerless compared to that dream where we could fly or use pyrokinesis and were absolutely confident our will was the law.
And sure, let's add the power that comes with training, with power meditations, with unblocking chakras and all that... but in the end, I'm thinking without THIS link, even a very strong Soul could be blind to what the possibilities really are.
This, obviously, in a strong/unblocked Soul would more than likely cause something to happen to let the individual know how to perform these feats of power... but I'm thinking this concept I re-realized because of how you put it must be very well understood.
"So you're not wrong in that the gods can essentially live life in a way that for us we would deem very similar to a lucid dream. But this means the utmost control over your real intents and learning to turn this connection off and on."
Absolutely. Perhaps we're just too used to call 'alertness' and 'attention' or 'focus' as things that belong in the waking state, very far from dreams and the sleep state levels that allow one to enter otherwise inaccessible parts of one's mind.
Perhaps, the 'dream state' is much more descriptive for someone who has mastered his/her mind and has become a God/Goddess. The Human brain not for nothing is so clearly divided into two very different hemispheres, the logical left and the mysterious, unmapped and undiscovered right. Perhaps the only point of having two hemispheres was to underline the importance of uniting them through advancement of the Soul/Body link.
"You've only ever learned to program and train your mind in building up the 'intake' action, but how often do you train with "stop"? How much to you exercise and strengthen the muscle of your 'off' switch? Discipline? The effects of which when you say 'no' it works and powerfully so? I think you should practice this as it's the same principle stated somewhere on our website, that learning to do something is half the battle, learning to NOT do it, is the other half."
Perfectly savvy words, Brother. I have focused so much intent on absorbing that I find it hard to stop. This reminds me of one of the astral projection methods in the ToZ where it says to stop the chakras from spinning and turn them like door knobs in the opposite way..
Coming to think of it, although VERY rarely, I have done something similar while Void meditating and trying to relax. Moments in which I have had the impression that I have been trying to take a glimpse of something that's not staying still at all, so its shape is extremely blurred and confused, impossible to make out, but that for an instant stayed still and I had a very clear view of it. This (but I suspect only happens with one or two head chakras, third eye and sixth chakra probably) is how I observe visions. Faces, places, images of shapes or sigils. Thinking of them now, in the confused and blurred waking state, I understand I didn't 'summon' them or otherwise called upon them.. I merely was able to see.
This leads me to another thought (I'm just pinning it down on this post so perhaps you can use it too).
The thought is about the perception of time.
Maybe the only reason the visions and images seem so blurred to me now that I recall how they looked while having Clarity is because of different time perception. If you wave your hand before your eyes very fast, only changing direction outside of your field of view, you can only see a skin colored blur, can't you? BUT, if you slow your hand movement down to a manageable speed, you can make out that it's a hand, you can count the fingers you're holding out, you can tell little marks on your skin.
Maybe the reason one feels isolated from the astral in this hectic and fast moving world is really just because they can't yet slow down their mind and notice all that still exists, but on a place where time flows differently.
Maybe when we try to meditate and see or hear or even FEEL anything, we only can't as long as we don't include this understanding within us: that to catch a glimpse of another reality we can't just sit on our ass in this one and WAIT for it to come to us. Never gonna happen. Not until we somehow enter this new reality through meditation and become capable of observing it.
And maybe, one's ability to use Clairaudience and Clairvoyance, and so on, really do not depend much by something that the chakras have achieved in terms of potential, as much as it depends by our own ability to cause them to slow down and witness this other reality, becoming literally capable of learning from it.
Guess this took me a while to describe and document, but I feel it's something that could potentially make the difference and lead someone to further understanding and success in matters of the Soul.
"Also you've been mentioning this 'inability to feel' energy a lot for a while now. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this. ..........
What exactly are you expecting when you mean 'feel energy'? What do you think is how it's supposed to work? When I work with white-gold energy to clean my soul and aura, I don't 'feel' anything like a buzz in the air or tingling sensations, I might feel warm but what I do feel is a sense of relief as the energy works to get rid of filth and dross negatively holding me down, the 'air' feels more positive and the colours of the world feel more bright and happy like a chipper sunny day in the neighbourhood, I don't really 'feel' it like an element. Perhaps you just need to change you perception of feeling energy, the closest thing to the 'feeling' you seem to be referring to is nothing more than 'looking' at it and being 'aware' of it's presence there, but you don't get any kind of special sensation."
Ever since I came to the ToZ and started reading about 'feeling energy' I have wondered what that felt like. I'd hear of people reporting an 'energy buzz', effects so debilitating they had to wait days before they could try something again, hot effects, cold effects, and so on. That's when I started thinking I was doing things wrong, or that I was just incapable of feeling anything like that, and in time this became a constant problem, because I'd try to use increasingly powerful meditations and would still feel nothing from them, no matter how bright I visualized the light or what color I used on my aura. That's why I always loved the Elements, even if I could feel very little, close to nothing other than what came from the physical idea of being within the Element, like in an icy lake for cold, I still somehow felt they were the strongest energies I could work with.
So, yes, a wrong idea and wrong perception, or even expectation, of energy surely played a role in my inability to feel.
Skipping to today, however, I really wanted to tell you about something else... regarding mild-strong feeling of energy.
As I stated in that post for people that don't seem to feel energy, I've been giving a serious shot to Yoga, Kundalini Yoga and the Five Tibetans. Not even for so very long, actually, I have used mantras and Runes for much longer now but haven't noticed an effect such as this that I'm about to tell you of (hopefully, briefly).
I've been feeling 'more energetic', I used to sleep much more but now I find I can get up and start doing things something like 3 hours earlier than I normally would. I feel that I've possibly put more effort in trying to make my back flexible than I should as I have noticed a faster change than I'd think normal, not necessarily 'painful', mind you, but 'active'. It's the only word I could think of right now.
Yesterday I thought about how I would describe this to you when I would have been here typing this out, and the only example I could think of was "I felt like a water hose that had just been untangled". Hence why I feel this sensation similar to pain crawling up my spine. It feels like a factory that hasn't been used in forever, after one full day of work.
The only other effect I can report for now is something that I read about in HP Pythia's description of the effects of Demons' bioelectricity. She mentions feeling "sun burnt" but without the pain. Yesterday night I felt exactly that, on my back and shoulders. I wasn't summoning Demons though, I was just doing a few dozen Kundalini Yoga exercises.
And, not yesterday in particular but over the last maybe week or two, I have felt moments in which I wasn't sure of my stance. I mean, it's like I felt a shift in my balance... but without moving, I just perceived this while staying perfectly still.
The next course of action that I feel is necessary here is to start again using some Tai Chi. Simple movements, nothing too complicated, but I feel the need to get this energy into a more flowing form, that it can't stay put, that it needs to flow like in a water channel irrigation system in a dried up garden.
Thanks for the appreciation and for being so insightful and inspiring.
Hail Father Zeus Forever!
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