--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: >
> A number of the things I'd previously described simply cannot be > done (as they were done in the dream) in the waking state, but > they almost always will have some waking or meditative state > counterpart that I had to realize or "flash" to. Occasionally I > would tap into strata that I was not ready to integrate across > states, despite being elaborate teachings which were clearly > relevant, taught important practical lessons, meditative states > etc. and the being that revealed them would simply collapse them > to a point and reintroduce them into my (subconscious) mindstream. > As linear events unfold, I can sense that enfolded mandala > providing datum that teaches along a sequence of unfolding > waking time (if that makes sense). It does make sense, because I once tried to write a story about one of these "doesn't map" dreams. In the dream, I showed up at one of Rama's "dream seminars" mentioned earlier. However, this happened during a period of time when I was no longer one of his students, so I found it interesting, to say the least. What reminded me of it was your image of "collapsing the knowledge into a point" and storing it somewhere in your mind, conscious or subconscious. Here's the story, written as I saw it at the time, with all of the emotionality of the time. I doubt that I would express it the same way now. http://www.ramalila.net/RoadTripMind/rtm21.html > Another thing I realized was that sometimes the teaching may > not have any value outside the dream or trance state other > than to introduce to the mind the possibility that a certain > thing, state of consciousness, type of practice is possible. I fully agree. > Not only does it have the advantage of expanding the realm of > possibilities of what the mind can conceive, but also expanding > the possibility of what it can believe. Exactly. This applies to experience of witnessing the siddhis being performed as well. > Once it establishes the possibility of belief, the > possibility of that thing actually occurring, it automatically > removes an impediment to those things occurring. Yup.
