Oh Leo why does my higher dream mind hate me? |
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I have talked regarding the Higher Dream Mind so often that it has been referred to, and as you can see from below, I have been asked to address the subject specifically... |
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Oh Leo why does my higher dream mind hate me? |
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That Collective Conciousness, isn't that what alot of people interpret as ''that piece of God that is within all of us''? |
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Luminous Spacious Dream Masters That Holographically Communicate
among other teachers taught me
not to overestimate the Value of our Concrete Knowledge;"Common sense"/Rationality,
for doing so would make us Blind for the unimaginable, unparalleled Capacity of and Wisdom contained within our Felt Knowledge;Subconscious Intuition.
Good question. |
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Are Carlos Castenada books worth consulting about this subject? |
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NO! |
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I find all of this very interesting, and can definitely see this as being one of the intersections between modern psychology and spirituality. Having our dreams continue to socialize us even after we've gone to sleep has huge benefits in the development of a human being. Like many oneironauts, I agree that dreams definitely hold meaning beyond random interpretation of neurons firing and the brain attempting to make significance out of it, but have never heard this phenomenon referred to as "The higher dream mind". I'm currently taking a psychology course, and inevitably the subject of whether or not dreams have meaning will come up. Obviously, people with dream recalls and experiences less regular and vivid than someone like me might take convincing of the fact that dreams are significant to our lives, so I would ask you this. What do you see as specific evidence that dreams are NOT random images constructed from random mental activity during sleep? That they're not arbitrary series of images that we later apply relevance and meaning to through interpretation? |
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The ONLY thing Science is equipped to do is Quantify. Science can count beans. Any evidence you suggest would have to consist in a quantifiable little hill of beans. |
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Well, Leo, I'll give you my bit on dreams and see if you can help me. |
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Well I have just bought "The Art Of Dreaming" by Carlos Castenada and while 50% of it is probably bullshit, it is still a very interesting worthwile read |
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There's nothing wrong with reading a book. There could be something wrong with how one interprets a book, but simply picking up a book, any book, and reading it, should never be regarded as a sin by anyone with a genuine interest in the truth. Leo's take that anyone who reads a Castaneda book is a liar puts him hand in hand with fundamentalist book burners. |
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Actually, after reading a bit more I find a lot of it very implausible; is any of it true? |
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I feel im living proof of this. This may seemed farfetched to a lot of people but this is what ive experienced. Recently I moved into a very different environment than what im used to; and havent felt myself lately. Ive been having LDs that are far from my control nightmares almost. It seems under times of stress in your dream world, it reflects on real world. The fewer the things go right in your dream world, to me, seems to have some correlation with stress and fewer things going "your way" in real life. It seems that the subconcious is talking to the concious and this translates into dreams not going in your way. Maybe im looking too deep into this but that day i dreamed of myself throwing up slugs uncontrollably. i knew i was dreaming and i could do nothing to stop it, whatever i did the subconcious seemed to have a hold on me. I was thinking that my subconcious self image felt it was appropriate to express how it felt through this drastic image. Just like you throw up in real life when you get sick, maybe my subconcious is not operating properly thus reflecting on my life and vis versa. dunno lemme know what you guys think |
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You know, that's the same thing Carlos Castenada said. "What is the Truth?" |
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Well.. I've read all of Castaneda and all the anti-diatribes by the so-called intellectuals (who were very quick to champion him at the outset) and although I've never heard of this "Peer Review" journal, if it's written by pseudo-intellectuals I wouldn't give it toilet time.. |
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The new evolutionary paradigm will give us the human traits of truth, of loyalty, of justice, of freedom. These will be the manifestations of the new evolution. And that is what we would hope to see from this. That would be nice.
So this guy debunks Castaneda on the say-so of Castaneda's peers? Those same peers who initially championed him? |
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