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.

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.

Built on Great Ground of Knowledge

Everyone has the right to express their opinion, but not to their own facts, this is why I  check my results with others whose expanded consciousness arrived at same conclusions.
Few examples:

*  Literalism is the biggest barrier today of really understanding the profundity of religion.  + There is no way the finite is going to comprehend the Infinite on its own. + It has to be the Infinite taking the initiative, and that is the meaning of Revelation.  Huston Smith


*  We do not found ourselves on faith alone, but on a great ground of knowledge which we have been developing and testing all our lives. I think I can say that I have been testing day and night for years upon years more scrupulously than any scientist his theory or his method on the physical plane. That's why I am not alarmed by the aspect of the world around me or disconcerted by the often successful fury of the adverse Forces who increase in their rage as the Light comes nearer to the field of earth and Matter.  Sri Aurobindo  

http://spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.com/2011/03/on-living-myth.html

*  Consciousness and Force are the twin essential aspects of the pure Power of existence.  Aurobindo

* The men and women who have undergone this transformation and now have this expanded consciousness and bright imagination are known to be in the samadhi state of oneness with the cosmic consciousness. All the great mystics who have written on the subject have given their own symptoms openly and plainly. That is the tradition. And from their descriptions, one can compare one's own condition.  Gopi Krishana, Kundalini for the New Age


http://spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.com/2010/01/miracle-that-lies-beyond-self-concern.html

http://spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.com/2009/11/whatever-i-pay-attention-to-will-grow.html

Shiva / Shakti Marriage - Om / Hrim

I learned via direct experience the significance of  Shiva / Shakti's  eternal embrace, which is the individual bodily representation of the Supreme Cosmic power -- a  power which creates and sustains the visible and invisible worlds / dimensions. 
Kundalini  Shakti   unites with  her Beloved Consort in the transcendent realm within one's body-mind-soul system, but before that takes place  many factors come into play on this journey without a map. . . A great many  encounters  with the  Divine Forces within ones innermost sanctuary in the vastness of the Supreme Existence  have to be experienced before one arrives  at Supramental state. 

In Aurobindo's verifying words:

"After realization of the Self, there are many things beyond that. The divine guide within urged me to proceed, adding experience after experience...Till I arrived at Supermind."

One of the most significant occurrences on this pathless path is the fact  that in advanced  Soul evolution  the deity Archetypes introduce themselves to ones consciousness in the subtle realm.
My mystical / encounter with Kwan Yin , and  my Initiation  (by Her)  was the most precious Gift!

 It also means -- in words of author Ken Wilber -- that at this point:

"The self is then no longer exclusively bound to the ego, but it is bound to its own Archetype. The point is that as each higher-order  structure emerges, the self eventually identifies with that structure -- which is normal, natural, appropriate." p. 237
(also)
"And thus the archetypes, the true archetypes, are the Forms of our own highest potential, the Forms of our own true nature, calling to us to remember who and what we really are. And in their last action, they are set aside and deconstructed -- the ladder that, having served its purpose, is discarded -- and there stands instead the radiant infinity that was always already shining through and beyond those Forms altogether." p. 359 - both quotes from The Eye of Spirit

 Real mystical experience  takes place within ones  "glorified body" --  which is the body and the intelligence which the awakened Soul has -- the part of ourselves which literally sees the uncreated Light of Creation.  The same Light that is  within the depth of every being. 

This is possible because in the subtle level, the Soul and God unite, at the causal level  the Soul and God are both transcended in the prior identity of  the Spirit / Pure Formless Consciousness -- no longer  (in) union  of God and Soul, but  in the state of  Ultimate Identity  with  the Godhead / Spirit / Supermind, plus Love-Bliss.

Or, as Aurobindo put it:   "Supermind is an eternal reality of the divine Being and the divine Nature."

Those who  don't recognize the importance the awakened Soul,  think  that this "sacred marriage", or "sacred sexuality" topic can be resolved/unpacked  with their  mental/cognitive intelligence, and therefore insists that sex with human partner means / is  the same thing as the transcendent  Shiva and Shakti's  erotic union   (24/7  mystical experience within ones body). The real Ultimate Consummation . . .Real Union eternal self-Soul with the Essence of the Absolute Supreme Being. 

There is a lot of confusion around the topic of so called  'sacred sexuality' circles,  because people  don't know / don't recognize that,  that  the awakened Soul experiences life outside of earthly time.
In the flesh,  the sex act has a beginning, middle and it ends.  Nothing permanent about that.
Calling something "transcendental",  when it's "not even close",  doesn't make it so / doesn't make it "the real deal",  just because he/she insists it is.
Sex gurus  are hugely misguided in this area, but alas, they are the ones whose words are taken as a something final.  They are welcome to do  and say what they want,  as long as they don't claim theirs is the last word!

And then there is me.....a big nobody who has the chutzpa to challenge them?
Not I!  but the Shakti-in-me!

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Transcendental Bliss is the intellect-defying  God/dess / Divine Shakti / Awakened Soul, frequency vibration,  which has no beginning or end.
It can never "end" because once one gets plugged into the Celestial Flame of Love, one can't fall out of it! . . . .
Individual Enlightenment is for the sake of all beings! -- for the sake of evolution of consciousness itself. 
Simple, Pure, Hearts can't fall out of it!

Shakti and Shiva's bliss  frequency looks like the brightest, the most eye-dazzling diamond imaginable. This  Star-like diamond doesn't have a price tag. . .
Aurobindo  said that this 'diamond' energy "may indicate the Mother's Light at its intensest, for that is the diamond white light". 

As for its purpose? 

Transcendental Bliss-energy flows out of the Crown chakra into the world's hologram / subtle planes. 

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I blogged about personal  meta-mystical experiences with "triangles" and am glad to see  others verifying words on their spiritual  significance.  Some named it 'sacred geometry' , which are  first Forms of  unqualifiable Spirit.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagram

"Within Indic lore, the shape is generally understood to consist of two triangles - one pointed up and the other down - locked in harmonious embrace. The two components are called 'Om' and the 'Hrim' in Sanskrit, and symbolizes man's position between earth and sky.
The downward triangle (*which appeared directly before/in my eye of contemplation in its silver-bright glory) symbolizes Shakti , the sacred embodiment of femininity, and the upward triangle symbolises Shiva, or Agni Tattva, representing the focused aspect of masculinity".

Also this (my) Yogic experience:  I noticed in night sky's canopy two stars -  witnessed their spiraling down motion. . .the closer they got to earth, the larger their silver bright glory. . .Next, their  now morphed Forms resting on my front garden / lawn in shape of two very large,  old fashioned looking,  ploughs.  I have been ploughing the Fields day and night ever since (mystically speaking). 

Brief reminder note: I  was Soul-directed to become energy healer in a  Yogic experience in  1993. My first meeting / interaction with my Master took place in the subtle . She tested me, by asking to "pick up" a small, shimmery-black stone in the shape of a square. I confidently picked it up and instantly felt  massive surge of energy lifting  me off the ground.  Two or three weeks later I singed up for the Workshop even though I had no idea what 'energy healing' was about.   The Workshop was exciting!   (Then) In my  first in-class practice session I spend most of my time streatched out on the massage table.  My Master was balancing my energy and  something very  interesting happened.  At some point  in  her soft (meditative) voice she instructed me  to stay still  - explained,  that a  "huge triangle came over us".  I came to that class with a back pain, went home without it. 

This is why the triangles  and the square -  which  many years later I saw in  Aurobindo's symbol - made me jump  with joy, because  I could instantly  See what that represents! 
The funny thing is, I discovered his work when my blog-writing was well on its way. I read short quotes  here and there (over the years), but  it was hard to me to get my head wrapped around his terminology. It was that, but  also that  he was a "spiritual giant".  Now more than ever I am glad I didn't know his work  prior to my Yogic and mystical experiences.  It  reassures me that my  subconscious mind didn't 'create' them in order to fulfill  some  egoic want.   

Mirra's (Sri Aurobindo's spiritual partner)  quote on 'glorified body' is interesting to me:

"When the physical body is thoroughly divinised, it will feel as if it were always walking on air, there will be no heaviness or tamas or unconscious-ness in it. There will be no end to its power of adaptability: whatever conditions it is placed it will immediately be equal to the demands made upon it (...) lasticity will enable it to stand the attack of every hostile force . . : (*yes!)
it will present no dull resistance to the  attack but  will be, on the contrary, so pliant as to nullify the force by giving way to it to pass off . . . (*yes! that's why Supracosmic Tonglen Duty works, but this process is much, more complicated then what Mirra presents, bec. the attacks come from living beings whose (vital) mind's parasites unleash their furry)
Lastly, it will be turned into the stuff of light each cell will radiate the supramental glory.
Not only those who are developed enough to have their subtle sight open but the ordinary man will be able to perceive this luminosity. It will be an evident fact to each and all, a permanent proof of the transformation which will convince even the most sceptical."

http://www.kheper.net/topics/Aurobindo/Supramental_Ship.html 

I think Mirra's vision was on the right track, but I question those last three sentences, since even I need a proper lighting to see my golden light aura -- which I discovered by fluke w/eyes open i.e. in 94' - also, next to the skin a finger-wide blue ribbon of light, I named my Heavenly Robe.
I think Mirra got  overly optimistic? 

Great Compassion - Gentle & Wrathful

This epoch's biggest  tyrants are dying off

The latest, on the word stage "Arab Spring" people movement, was started when critical mass of wrathful proportions galvanized people's sense of hope. It's not over their suffering, but one thing is for sure  once  people declare, "This is nuts!!! we suffer because our leader is a heartless, greedy bastard!!!! ???? "  Once this  realization is born in peoples' minds, it can't be pushed back - no matter what.

The world is on the edge of a New Dawn . . . .

Our deterministic sciences think theirs is the last word. . . Hearts and  minds numbed by 'hard sciences' is it any wonder so many believe that the 'good life' is measured by outer manifestations of of success - measured only in materialistic terms.

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Today's  story on how Love's  energy rises to the occasion when the  opportunity presents itself:

Exactly one week ago I was at the grocery store . . . My back was turned, so I didn't hear or saw what transpired exactly, but was close enough to hear garbled word-scuffle.
Next, I noticed  a man walking  by me slowly muttering something angrily in a different language while  gesticulating angrily . . . .Our eyes met, I sensed he wanted to talk, so  I  asked:  "did someone say something rude to you?"
This  handsome middle age man with  neatly tied  pony tail   told me that  the  store employee  insulted him:  
 "He called me trash!",  then continued speaking in Aboriginal language  and arm-waving towards the door behind which the kid/summer help disappeared.  Later he told me  he spoke in his native (angry) "Thunderbird" voice.

My first response was to apologize "for all ignorant  white people", adding ""They don't represent my voice. There are many of us who respect your culture, your humanity" --  he jumped in and said, "respect the spirit, yes".
I suggested he speaks to the stores manager to report the incident. He waved his arm in a 'who cares, it won't change a thing anyway!' and asked  not to worry about him.

Still, moment later in mid-sentence the verbal attack's energy carried his steps towards the stores' back room door (behind which the young man disappeared)   while punching the air with his fist. 
When he returned to where I stood he appeared much calmer.

I reassured him not all white people were this ignorant. . . He agreed.  We talked some more.
He told me he longed to go back to Thunder Bay to be with his "spirit people".  Now with smiling face  he  began really looking at me. . Looking with  trusting eyes.
By then I sensed he was a homeless person. 
My giving attention to his pain and  my words 's intention was to reassure  him   that no one can take away his dignity.

We parted after goodly few minutes of  quality  time. . . His now relaxed body language and smiling gently face reassured me the ignorant punks words lost their hold on him, and we parted.

A bit later I finished my grocery shopping  and saw him  standing by the door... He  wanted to tell me something about the art  piece  (etching)  on a tall apartment building across the street -- he  explained  that the  picture of  the  Thunderbird  and sun's rays above his form was his People's Spirit  "who talked to people". He  was the messenger of the  of the Great Spirit / Sun.
Added  he was hopeful that  in few days he will be with his people in Thunder Bay.
He did say at this point that he was homeless.  When parting  our ways I wished him "best of luck!"

Moment  later,   he called out,   and once again  came up to speak to me - this time without a word he  took my right hand  and held it with both hands and head bowed down  for several   seconds, before 
uttering:   "Your Grandfather was very wise", then  walked away.

See what happened in this particular scenario?

Compassionate concern  gave something to this beautiful man, and the energy-consciousness of Great Compassion/Love  gave  something to me in  return.

I didn't know this man's name, he didn't know mine, but that didn't stop LOVE  from shining through us.

LOVE's Agenda pt. 2

Soul's essence-frequency opens up channels of new possibilities and expanded awareness to what and 'who' we are. It exposes our harmful-thinking patterns , codependent ways of relating to one another, our defensive posturings, our addictions to dogmas and judgments -- all that and more .

She will never give up reaching out to us no matter how scary the (emotional) ride gets. . . Her beckoning "come hither, you can trust this process" is free from judgments - but it's up to us to accept the challenge. . . Up to us, to feel through those painful energies (in order to release their hold on us).
There is everything right, and nothing whatsoever shameful about emotional self-healing. Meds can't do that for us (they can 'stabilze') . Other people can't feel and release our fearful energies.

Fearless psychology focuses on one thing, and one thing only:  Lets focus  what this 'now' moment is presenting to us no matter how much fear-energy may get stirred up . . .

Fear may get stirred up, but the Compassionate Warrior   recognizes its posturings and  gently reminds us:  "It's not who we are  in the depth of our being!" then  invites us  to enter those darker corners of our mind.

There is no good  excuse to continue judging all   'shortcomings'!
The Compassionate Self knows this and doesn't want to let us off this  hook!
Knows, we  need a lot of compassionate self-support while we grow our angel wings.

It whispers gently: "Let's not pretend that held-in grief or swallowed emotional pain isn't real. Let's bravely embrace the 'shadow' , then give it permission to "let 'er rip!"

Then and only then we can lay  on the Altar of Forgiveness our dramas and posturings, our guilt and shame (and shaming).
If you can forgive yourself, then that same  compassionate grace  can be extended to others.

LOVE has no greater agenda than this

The Path of Trusting Surrender

In spiritual sense both trust in, and surrender -- surrender to the Divine within one's core of being -- are the two most important principles to be embraced by one who wants to consciously participate in discovering who, or what we really are.
Some  insist that what can be perceived with the eye of mind and with the eye of flesh,  is   IT,  and  argue mightily there isn't any sort of  (not of this world) 'Evolutionary Impulse' (some call Eros).

The adventures types are wired to push the evolutionary  edge and venture where even the Angels dare not . . .because this is our destiny . . . The spiritualized consciousness operates within the supramental domain -- it is how we discover there is a Secret Purpose working for our evolution and it needs our  participation.  The  transcendent She, our secret self-Soul is nudging us to  perform the will of the one Spirit. 
I  have lived in that kind of trusting surrender. . .and to me,  the nudging  feels like a  command  drawing one to enter into deep participation  for the sake of all beings.
 This path is not for the faint of heart.
 In contrast, the classical / traditional  idea of enlightenment is about reaching Nirvana and a movement out of the everyday world.

By nature I never have been the faint of heart type. . . even my  4 year old self  declared her independence by  refusing  learning  prayers  by declaring: "I will dance for God!"  (I mentioned this in my Little Girl poem in my first blog entry).
I always felt that joyful, numinous  intense something tugging at my Soul's strings making me dance instead of walking many,  many times!   I felt deeply this same  joy  - despite  some sadness of  having my entire family and friends  overseas -  when  my teen self danced  alone in a park  after dark on the shores of lake Ontario.  I lived within walking distance from the lake and spend many hours there in that same blissful state.  There were times I  deeply missed my family and at those times, the most soothing thing for me was walking on the rail tracks  because  it reminded me of home.

Years later,  this  same Bliss-impulse  placed  me/She who has no name on  the topmost rung of the spiritual Ladder  to witness  something and to receive the Influence  which Impressed  upon me...
 'I will never turn away from suffering'.  *Soul level mystical Vision-experience described in,  Divine You Report From The Divine.

http://spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.com/2010/05/divine-you-report-from-divine.html

At the zenith-point of Soul evolution  we push and expand the boundaries of acceptability...
This is why this path is not for the faint of heart.  At this stage-point  one has the courage to claim (I do)
I jumped out of all possible systems (traditions) because I am no longer bound by any of them.
Supramental Mysticism is beyond the structure of guru and roles,  because it is the very nature of one's eternal Soul / Light  Bliss-Body being, to seek union with her Kosmic Beloved. . .
And, when that happens. . . This time in Hafiz' words: He summed up perfectly what the fully ascended Soul bears witness too:
I have learned so much from God that I no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew. The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me that I can no longer call myself a woman, an angel, or even pure Soul. Love has befriended me so completely it has turned to ash everything  and freed me of every concept and image my mind has ever known. 
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I named Sri Aurobindo my 'primary peer review person' (I check my Depth's data  results with those who  have undergone the same or similar Transformation and Integration process, and attained same, or similar level of mystical embodiment).
So, once again  with deep gratitude in Sri A words:

"Because it aims not at the departure out of world and life into Heaven or Nirvana, but as a distinct and central object. If there is descent in other Yogas, yet it is only an incident on the way or resulting from the ascent - the ascent is the real thing.
Here the ascent is the first step, but it is a means for the descent . It is the descent of new consciousness attained by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the Sadhana. Even the Tantra and Vaishnavism end in the release from life; here the object is the divine fulfillment in life.
Because the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realization for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth-consciousness here..."