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The Eternal Mind

We are told all is mind in the hermetic philosophy. Walter Russel said there is one Mind and we are expansions of this one mind. Intelligence permeates everything. We are active partakers in this unity and therefore we are the hands that manifest that intelligent will here in the physical realm. In a sense, we are all mediums for invisible forces. These invisible forces are the archetypes that make up the realm of ideas. The Neo-Platonists taught emanationism. Emanation, from the Latin, emanate meaning “to flow from” or “to pour forth or out of”, is the mode by which all things are derived from the first reality, or principle.

Our minds are expansions of these archetypes and create universal patterns and functions that drive us… The collective archetypes are distributed and give qualities according to the 7 planets and the 12 signs of the zodiac. Our minds are instruments of our spirit souls, (individualized conscious entities). We as entities bond to a mind which is formed from these pre-existing archetypes, and we are conditioned into this realm we call earth with a collective of other mind entities that are also collectively holding the realm together.

Since our minds and creative faculties are all connected and powered by the same sources, ideas trickle down and crystallize in the material realm of fixed forms. So what connection does this have with the stories we tell and pass down such as theatre plays and dramas (Rama) art, songs, poetry, etc? The truth is they are all the final product of all of the creative ideas, thoughts, and archetypes that finally through the madman’s hand and divinely inspired mind, paints paint the picture that was once invisible and creates a form. It is said that Chopin the great musician penned man’s soul in his music. We as humans manifest the unmanifested. The unmanifested is already a perfect idea. So the music is already there, we have to bring it down through inspiration.

All of these works of art contain common themes such as the journey of the hero. The journey of the hero is the same journey the sun takes every year and every day. The sun is born and then dimmed by winter, the hero faces an adversary and loses something, then the hero goes off to learn and prepare to conquer the darkness, once he is ready he slays the darkness, and light returns. This is the path of the sun through the zodiac. We create stories that reflect universal archetypes. It is in our nature to do this. We are fractals of the one mind hence we think alike.

These stories from ancient scriptures are all heroic tales as well as more modern-day works of art such as anime. Animes such as Naruto or Dragon BallBall Z, or video games like Zelda all have deep esoteric symbolic meaning in them. This is what makes them the most prized works of art in our generation. Did the author of Little Red Riding Hood consciously know he was writing about the sun, and the journey of the soul when he added certain elements in the story which are symbolic representations of seasons and changing of the day into night? It matters little, whether we are conscious of the properties and functions or not the output is still the same. If you are conscious you could go to lengths to add more descriptive symbolism however it comes out naturally though through the unconscious archetypes. This is why all stories, dramas, poems, and love songs follow the same journey. In life we live out a rhythm, we have ups and downs, we work hard and see results only to be defeated, we then build ourselves back up and reach a point higher than what we had attained before. A great master once said an is always followed by a decent descent. When we are down we prepare for our highest pint of victory. This is the common message in hero stories because it is the story of the soul and its triumph over circumstances.

What circumstances will your soul triumph today?

Yoga of Dreams

Dream yoga is the art of waking up in our dreams and becoming conscious of them, conscious that we are in a dream, in another realm. Some mix this up with lucid dreaming some with astral projection. Lucid dreaming is becoming aware and manipulating an interior realm that you are creating and inhabininginhabiting. Astral projection is to utilize a higher vehicle in this case the astral body to travel in the world and other realms in which you see things as they are and are not able to control the outcome of things as you can in the internal lucid dream.

As children, we came with lots of energy and were able to astral project and lucid dream very easily. When we are kids we have potent energy stored in our pineal gland. We are connected to the field and the three states of consciousness are subtly mixed. The waking and dreaming state are overlapping. As we grow older these seem to separate and we experience them one at a time. We wake up and we are in the I Am and we go about our day. We go to sleep and enter the realm of dreams where we lose faculties of discrimination and become automatic, unconscious that we are dreaming, then we experience the dreamless state where we merge with the inner being and experience no being. This does not have to happen. If we become fully awake in the waking state when we are going to work, relaxing with the family, or experience experiencing pleasure or discomfort we can become awake in the astral plane as well. In dream yoga, you have to remind yourself throughout the day up to 30 times to check if you’re dreaming or not. By doing this repeatedly it will transfer into the realm of dreams and you will be performing the same reality checks that you did when you were awake and you will then wake up.

The astral plane is more real than the physical waking state. The dream state is either conscious or unconscious, mechanical or methodical it all depends on your ability to wake up and remain cognizant during the waking hours. The Tibetans prepared for death through the practice of sleep. Perhaps when you die the individual being is now unable to respawn into the physical waking state and goes between the deep sleep and the dream state. One would want to be fully conscious of this process. When we become lucid and conscious in the internal realms we can teleport to the superior dimensions, There we can play and partake in the pastime of Krishna visit ancestors or even people who are still alive in the present time, In the Upanishads, it says the higher realms are full of chariots and ethereal women and men to be joyous an interact with. The dream realm does not have to be a frenzy of unconscious patterns that took place in your waking state hence most dreams are repeats of what happened during the following day. If we become lucid, instead of calling for and summoning a desire to be fulfilled we can ask to be taken to a spiritual teacher or the true universities of the soul that are on the other planets. We can ask to allow our defects to be revealed to ourselves, we can talk to our inner being and seek guidance in our daily lives!

We spend a huge portion of our lives in unconscious sleep, if we become conscious we can utilize that time to add value to our life span.

Around and Around We Go

 

     

The ancient Tibetans taught that if we spin clockwise we can propel the spinal fluids and allow them to rise thus opening and spinning the chakra wheels. We also spin our electromagnetic energy field around and get things in motion. We are generating kinetic energy maintained and produced through a motion under concentration and will.

     This comes to us naturally when we are kids, we love to spin around and around and become dizzy. With a well-balanced chakra system and developed concentration, you should develop the ability to spin without getting dizzy. This is accomplished by not moving your attention from the area of your horizon at the tip of the nose. The Sufi mystics accomplish this through the whirling dervish dances which are a form of prayer and meditation. Physically it is helping the system spin the chakras positively and get them out of the negative downward polarity.

    Practice: With arms extended in the shape of a T spin gently and go up to a comfortable speed, feel that as you spin the energy from the bottom of the spine is propelled upward towards the head, spin 21 times clockwise, stop and focus attention by bringing arms upward while slowly inhaling then bring hands into prayer position and lower to the chest as you exhale.

This is a great way to get your chakras spinning positively. As we live from day to day our chakra wheels tend to rotate downward or not at all. Spinning clockwise will get them to function properly again. The dizziness felt is correlated to the amount of imbalance. Attempt to stop spinning and regain your sense of balance using your willpower. It should feel as if the room is swaying and you are using your will to make it balance and become normal as you are now standing still.