Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Dream Yoga

I share what  I learned  from my adventures in Consciousness  during all states (subtle, causal, nondual).  Being perfectly awake in the boundary-dissolving dream state began when I was a girl-child.  I recall vividly still,  trying to  learn how to stand on air by stepping off a chair - and succeeding! I taught myself how to fly too. I learned from first hand experiences that certain 'nightmares' stimulate psychic responses and create psycho-emotional healing by safely releasing pent-up energy of fear or rage. 

In my  Spiritual Advisor voice, few pointers:

We come to raise you above the limitations  of pain and grief...We  try to educate , but also know when to let go.  All of us are on the journey whether we call it that, or not.  Conscious Spiritual Hero follows its Heart and Vision, always.
We wish  to remind you, that significant dreams  are like messengers who invite  us to  see there is  something very  real in  their message.  Those events are the  containers which house the subtlety of meaning, but  is up to us to notice  that. . .All experiences  appear to be 'out there' , but if we look deeper  everything we see in the 3D world, in  sleep/dream states  and (awake) during Yogic sleep state, takes place in our  consciousness...this is why we can 'work' with them.

If remembered, some dreams are nothing but mambo-jumbo of unconscious processes.

 Others, form the 'significant category' dreams, are  like open windows  inviting us to step into subtler, deeper  dimensions and 'read' their content with a 'higher mind'.
We must be able to discriminate between  one's mind dive into its subconscious and its 'formations', and the subtle body's 'messages'.

Waking up in the world behind this world  can be disorienting to the not yet fully awakened awareness. One who aspires to become 'awake' has the option  to willingly explore the contours of the psyche  through  non-ordinary states of consciousness, will succeed.  Buddhists  call this practice "dream yoga".
All are on this journey even if we don't pay attention to the inner world...Those who pay attention, know that our  depth reveals a 'bigger story', which  gives us  the courage to live bigger and braver  lives  (once our psychological landscape gets cleaned up/healed).  Often times the darker niches of our psyche release scary images,  and our instinct is to run away from it -  in the same manner we run away  in waking life  from our insecurities - but possible (been there, done that).  It takes courage to keep keeping on even when the going gets difficult.
It's hard to  admit  that we may indeed be filled with violence and pride.
It's  hard to admit we harbor within our mind and heart  bitterness,  jealousy,  resentment ,  that  there is selfishness .... and that we thirst for  worldly power.

Our Heroic selves, out of compassion, look courageously at those uncouth traits and admit  'this is our karmic lot', and  decide to give ourselves permission  to not blame others for our not exactly  pure as freshly fallen snow personalities.
Don't  wait for others to change first . . .They may be pushing your sensitive buttons, but this is your life, your Soul's journey,  wait not for anyone to do the heavy lifting for you.
It is up to us to take responsibility for our psycho-emotional healing.
If you can afford it, find a good psychotherapist  to help you sort things out.

Draw inspiration from Prayer, or spiritual literature ...
Know, that the Master in you (your highest Self/God - the same Master which is in me also)  waits patiently for your co-operation.
When you truly recognize  the Significance and Meaning of this message, you will move forward with a song of Gratitude in your heart.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Supra-Cosmic BrideGroom Has My Back!

The apex-point of one's Soul's journey of transformation and integration of the highest planes of consciousness, includes receiving a direct and unveiled 'intervention' from the above. This Grace-given 'intervention' is the descent of Supramental Consciousness upon the Soul - which 'is more ruthless than Love and happier than heaven' (to borrow Sri Aurobindo's words) - by which the Knowing Self directly comprehends its 'status' and the nature of the Ultimate Reality. Such a thing is possible because the spiritual form Luminescent with transcendental luster, transcends the confines of its gross and subtle material bodies. . .
This happens at the post-enlightenment stage - and includes all types of experiences: Such as:
This AM hour (in Yogic awake sleep), the Sho who moves in an ocean of Divine Bliss, stood in a very high structure looking out the window gazing lovingly, knowingly, at the sight of two magnificent White Horses in full gallop advancing towards me. . .Before my very eyes the Stallion morphed into a most handsome Beloved, and we fell into each other's arms floating within the Stream-Light of perfectly braided Bliss/LoveMelody.

What it the significance-meaning of this type of encounter?
The 'me' standing in the window of a very high structure, is the Witnessing awareness bearing witness to what Divine Bliss is/signifies. The White Horse is the symbol of the Purity and Power of the Soul in her Ultimate Freedom state. . .The transcendent Beloved yields to one who is ready to receive its Bliss-Strength.

(By whatever name) God is the Symbol-maker, and the fully awake mystic recognizes the subtlety of meaning couched within these types of experiences.
In Sri Aurobindo's words on symbols which I second: 'A symbol, as I understand it, is the form on one plane that represents a truth of another'.

It is worth remembering there are many ascending levels of spiritual bliss and the highest of all stations, is reached when the Union of the Soul with the Essence/Bliss of the Absolute Supreme, is complete. This is what God-Realization is about in the embodied sense. This is what the Ultimate Consummation of the Soul with the Essence of the Supreme Beloved is about. This is what being one with all Reality - in the visible and invisible domains of creation - is about.

The Upanishad lists ten ascending levels of bliss before one reaches the Bliss of the Brahman, "and each level a hundredfold the intensity of the proceeding level".
One who bears witness to this revelation, can describe in great detail the types of Initiations one must 'receive' before one reaches this Kosmic address. This happens at the apex-point of Soul's journey through transcendent Light and Sound - and it's not for the faint of heart.

Sri Aurobindo's words on 'transcendent Bliss': "A transcendent Bliss, unimaginable and inexpressible by the mind and speech, is the nature of the Ineffable. That broods immanent and secret in the whole universe and in everything in the universe. Its presence is described as a secret ether of the bliss of being, of which the Scripture says that, if this were not, none could for a moment breathe and live. And this spiritual bliss is here also in our hearts. (skip)
Thus universalised, personalised, raised to its intensities, made all-occupying, all-embracing, all-fulfilling, the way of love and delight gives the supreme liberation. Its highest crest is a supracosmic union. But for love complete union is mukti; liberation has to it no other sense; and it includes all kinds of mukti together, nor are they in the end, as some would have the absolute union of the divine with the human spirit, sayujya; in that reveals itself a content and mutual presence, sampya, salokya, ananda of mutual reflection, the thing that we call likeness, sadrsya, and other wonderful things too for which language has yet no name."
Source: intyoga.online.fr/bhakti.htm   Synthesis of Yoga Pt : The Yoga of Divine Love.

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