Dissolving Body Image

Have we not all had a dream in which we were not aware of having a body, but were only a disembodied point of perception? It has happened, certainly, but I can’t say that I ever caused it by wishing it so during a Lucid Dream.

Would there be any advantages to dropping one’s body image? I think Lucid Dreaming depends so much upon one’s Energy Level, that perhaps it would be a saving economy to dispense with sustaining the illusion of having a body. Yet, perhaps sustaining Body Image is no more wasteful of energy than sustaining any other piece of the Dream Scenery; however, the Astral Projection and Out of Body people suppose it a real coup to be able to shake everything off except for the simplest point of perception, allowing them to go to higher levels. But if it should allow the Astral People to go higher, then shouldn’t it also allow us dreamers to go deeper. The smallest objects can get through the finest filters.

Even if it does not give a particularly significant advantage in boosting dream efficiency, still we can admit that often the Dream Body Image can be troubling. Do we not often find ourselves with distorted faces and repugnant bodies in dreams. Lucidnina remarked on having had a dream with the Pope only to find that her face had been rather unwashed. Being a simple point of perception would eliminate these embarrassments.

But then we would need to wonder about Agency, that is, our ability to carry out actions and communications, if we are not embodied. It’s true that every time I have found myself in a dream as a Point of Perception, it was enough to simply witness events. In this sense, sometimes Knowledge is enough Power. Yet it would be interesting to know whether we could still Act and Communicate even if we were disembodied – to speak to others telepathically and to move objects with a kind of dream psycho-kinesis.

But perhaps we may find that the Body Image is nothing that can be too easily dispensed with, yet we may discover that it can be modified. Anne Catherine Emmerich, Catholicism’s foremost visionary and seer, who many may recognize as having been the source for Mel Gibson’s screen play for the movie “The Passion”, she once had a Vision of the Transfiguration of Christ. The Bible mentions Moses and Elijah showing up to have a brief visit with Christ, but Anne Catherine Emmerich noticed that Malachi also was present. What was distinctive about Malachi was that where Moses and Elijah appeared quite human, though in glorified bodies, Malachi was must less anthropomorphized than the other two, and according to our Seer had the look of being much more like a Pure Spirit.

So, if we cannot rid ourselves of Body Image entirely, perhaps we could work in our dreams for a more spiritual presentation.