Sunday, July 31, 2005
Dreams Talking...
Dream Talking…
Since my childhood, I have been always tormented by dreams. I have always dreamt about things that happen to people around me. People that I am strongly attached to or others that are very distant. I have always kept a diary of my dreams, and observed the way they fold. It is very crazy, how our subjective mind treat things around us. I have dreamt of things, which happened the following morning, other happened years afterwards. I tend to think that our subjective mind is not bound to time as our objective mind.
I have also observed people around me and came up with several observations. Those who live active lives exclude spiritual thought and fill their minds with the fascinations of worldly affairs, pleasure and business, dream with less frequency than those who regard objective matters with lighter concern. The former depend alone upon the voluptuous warmth of the world for contentment; they look to money, the presence of some one, or to other external sources for happiness, and are often disappointed; while the latter, with a just appreciation of temporal wants, depend alone upon the inner consciousness for that peace which passes all carnal understanding.
They are strengthened, as were Christ or Buddha. They number a few, and are never disappointed, while the former number millions. Nature is three-fold, so is man, male and female, son, or soul. The union of one and two produce the triad or the trinity, which underlies the philosophy of the ancients. Each one has a physical or visible body, an atom of the physical or visible earth. He has a soul the exact counterpart of his body, but invisible and subjective; incomplete and imperfect as the external man, or vice versa. The soul is not only the son or creation of the human being, but it is the real human. It is the inner imperishable double or imprint of what has outwardly and inwardly transpired. All thoughts, desires and actions enter the soul through the objective mind.
The automaton of the body responds as quickly to the bat of the eye as it does to the movement of the whole body. By it, the footsteps of the person and the very hairs of his head are numbered. Thus, it becomes his invisible counterpart. It is therefore the book of life or death, and by it, s/he judges her/himself or is already judged. When it is complete, nothing can be added or taken from its personnel. It is sometimes partly opened to her/him in his dreams, but in death is clearly revealed.
We all have also a spiritual body, subjective to, and more ethereal than the soul. It is an infinitesimal atom, and is related in substance to the spiritual or infinite mind of the universe. Just as the great physical sun, the center of visible light, life and heat, is striving to purify the foul miasma of the marsh and send its luminous messages of love into the dark crevices of the earth, so the Great Spiritual Sun, of which the former is a visible prototype or reflection, is striving to illuminate with Divine Wisdom the personal soul and mind of a person, thus enabling her/him to become cognizant of the spiritual or Christ presence within.
The objective mind is most active when the body is awake. The subjective influences are most active, and often fill the mind with impressions, while the physical body is asleep. The spiritual intelligence can only intrude itself when the human will is suspended, or passive to external states. A person who lives only on the sensual plane will receive his knowledge through the senses, and will not, while in that state, receive spiritual impressions or warning dreams.
People rarely ever degrade themselves so low that the small voice of the desert does not bring them a message. Sodom and Gomorrah, vile with the debauchery of a nameless crime, were not deserted by the angel of love until the fire which they had lighted in their souls had consumed them. The walls of Jericho did not fall until Rahab, the harlot, had been saved and the inmates had heard for several days the ram’s-horn and the tramp of Joshua’s infantry.The evangelist Jonah, the Sam Jones of Hebrew theology, exhorted the adulterous Nineveh many times to repentance before it fell. David, while intoxicated with the wine of love, from languishing in the seductive embrace of the beautiful bathing nymph, Bathsheba, heard the voice of Nathan. Surely God is no respecter of persons, and will speak to all classes if the people will not stiffen their necks or harden their hearts.
I have also noticed that women dream more often and more vividly than men do, because their dream composition is less influenced and allied to external environments. All dreams possess an element of warning or prescience; some more than others. This is unknown to the many, but is known to the observing few. There are many people who have no natural taste for music, and who do not know one note from another. There are also those who cannot distinguish one color from another. To the former there is no harmony of sound, and to the latter there is no blending of colors. They are heard and seen, but there is no artistic recognition of the same. Still it would be absurd to say to either the musician or the artist: your art is false and is only an illusion of the senses.
One person apparently never dreams; another dreams occasionally, and still another more frequently; none attempt to interpret their dream, or to observe what follows; therefore, the verdict is, ‘‘There is nothing in dreams.’’ (Schopenhauer aptly says: ‘‘No man can see over his own height.... Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.’’) The first is like the blind man who denies the existence of light, because he does not perceive it. The second and third resemble the color-blind man, who sees but who persists in calling green blue, and vice versa.
Once upon a time, I dreamt of seeing a friend walking in my room; the vision was so vivid that I instantly got up and lit the light. After making sure that there was no intruder in the room, I looked to the watch and went back to sleep again. The next day I received the unwelcome tidings that this friend died at the exact moment of the vision.It took me a very longtime to overcome the pain from the fact that I could have done something. I later came to the realization, that no matter what power I can have on earth…I will never conquer or escape the inevitable.
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3 comments:
When I read your text, I immediately recalled the few times, that you rang me up to make sure that I am okay.
I remember very well when you rang me up 6 in the morning and asked me to take care while driving. That day was the day I completely crashed my car, I don't even know how I managed to stay alive until today.
I am just puzzled why do we get those warning signs, if we can't change anything, if what is written shall happen?
Have you dreamt about me lately?
Don't u ever loose that Purety in your heart, it is a gift, keep it, keep it...
Sou
I think if I am warned of something terrible that will happen, I would be psychologically more accepting it rather than blaming myself.
When I was attacked last January, I had dreamt about it almost 4 years ago, and I always returned to it in my diary putting question marks, because it was very weird. I never knew what it meant.
When it happened, I didn't blame myself for being un-cautious, or that I could have done anything about it. I simply accepted the fact, that it was something which God sent on my way to give me courage and power to forgive psycological and physical pain. Perhaps, God sends us those dreams so that we know that there is another dimension to what he is putting us through (i.e. to see the big picture)...
A friend of mine always tells me that He gets us prepared before taking the test, so that we know that we are there to learn, not because we deserve that or because of our wrong doings.
Don't worry, I didn't have any near dreams of you, the last one was about the basket...remember!
It was a nice dream...
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