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When a Voice in a Dream Gives You “The Answer”
{Subtitle: The Codicils: A Vision for 21st Century America & the World.}
© John W. Robinson Dream Awareness Network Oct. 6, 2020
Some definitions of the word "idea" are as follows: [1] a thought, plan, or suggestion about what to do, [2] an opinion or belief, [3] something that you imagine or picture in your mind [4] any conception existing in the mind as a result of mental understanding, mental awareness, or mental activity.
With this lead in, I want to present an idea for any explorers that are new to the world of understanding their dreams. This is the idea that you can incubate a dream by suggesting and affirming to your inner self and your conscious self that you wish to experience a dream about a certain topic or more specifically to receive an answer to a question, or to receive practical guidance in the solving of a real life problem.
This is a practice in the art of dreamwork that I have been using for over 50 years with many successes. Jane Roberts, author of the Seth material, refers to it and other practices as becoming A Dream Art Scientist. At times, the practice will take persistence to develop. But if you are disciplined in the practice it will eventually become your expectation that you will receive the information from a dream that you seek. I believe this practice illustrates the admonition to:
• Seek and you will find.
• Ask and you will receive.
• Knock and the door will be opened.
The practice is that of dream incubation, or to develop or produce a dream about that which you are incubating. One of my most recent experiences at dream incubation deals with a concern many people have with the present state of perceived chaos, confusion over a vision for the future, and a lack of a continued movement toward equality & justice for all. These are all indicators that the experiment in democracy that our American culture has been involved in for so long, appears to be evolving. But, it is not just an American experience, it is a global experience.
It is with a history of proving this method in my dreamwork and a belief in its power that one night a few weeks ago, before falling asleep, I suggested to my conscious mind, subconscious mind and inner self that I desired and expected more insight and a solution to the societal anguish and confusion that millions are experiencing at this historical time. How do we as a society move forward?
With that background, I awake from a dream that night with this action taking place. My dreaming self like my waking self is asking the question to another personality in my dream. I am aware of another personality being in the dream event even though upon awaking I could not identify that personality. What impacted me was a voice that stated very clearly – “Reread the ending of Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time and you will discover your answer”. Awakening from this dream and the certainty of the voice in the dream, I felt that I had received the answer to my suggestion, or incubation of the ideas stated above.
Immediately upon getting out of bed, I went to the family room which now serves also as a writer’s office for me. I found the book among the many books authored by Jane Roberts, or books by others sharing their experience with the material. At last count I think it totaled about 35 volumes.
I opened the book to the section suggested by the dream voice and began reading. It did not take long before I discovered the answer to my specific request for the dream incubation.
There it was in plain sight in black & white very clearly laid out. The word is Codicils.
I knew then I had read about the Codicils, previously in the books “Psychic Politics” and “…The Museum of Time”, and at the time had an idea, that I wanted to write a blog about the Codicils because I believed them to be a touchstone in the evolution of civilization and its move toward justice and equality for all while developing humanity’s nature to it full extant.
(Moment Point Press - 2000 edition – Copyright © by Robert F. Butts
© 1976 Jane Roberts (Prentice Hall)
I will now share with you my rediscovery of the Codicils as recorded by Jane Roberts in The Oversoul Seven Trilogy and Psychic Politics. The source I begin with is the literary fiction work The Oversoul Seven Trilogy. The Trilogy was transmitted and written by Jane thru altered states of consciousness. The quotes I will use come from the 1995 Amber-Allen Publishing edition of the Trilogy, published by Robert Butts (Jane’s spouse) over 10 years after Jane’s physical death.
The following quotes are from sections of the referenced work beginning on page 538 and ending on 545 (last page in the trilogy). Open your mind to a new awareness and understanding. To set the stage, passages from the book’s last chapter follow.
“George was always embarrassed for Window when he spoke for Christ or Monarch; he couldn’t look him in the face. Grinning, he said, “the George?” “Well, I’m George anyhow.”
“I’m deeply honored,” “Monarch said.”
“He is the George, “Leona whispered mentally, and he isn’t, I can tell. Something’s …distorted.”
“And then obviously you aren’t trying to steal the Codicils,” Monarch replied to George, with relief.
“Seven interrupted.” “We’re trying to make sure that the Codicils do appear in your time. You must be dream travelers.”
…”George shook his own head. He knew that whatever Window would say was true. But how did he know”?
“Window began: “I use to speak for a personality called Monarch—as you know. Well, suddenly that consciousness and mine merged. I knew Monarch’s life and he knew mine. But his was a world that makes ours really look sick. I’ve never been so happy in my life as when I glimpsed pictures of that world through his mental images. And his world was based on completely different ideas than ours is….”
“While Oversoul Seven was so concerned with finding the Codicils, the words “the Codicils” kept sounding through Josephine’s mind. She sensed some odd familiarity as if she herself had run across that particular phrase in some significant way before. That is, she thought the words meant “appendages to a will.” Yet suppose in this connotation, they meant “appendages to the will” – to man’s will?” {My note added: In this use “man’s will” refers to mankind, or humanity’s personal will in the generic sense.}
“With no particular destination in mind, she walked up the stairs to her small study and found herself examining the piles of books stacked so neatly on the bookshelves. “The Codicils”, she muttered angrily, anxiously. As if by themselves, her hands began rummaging through the books, fingering the pages. Yet she had the odd feeling that her fingers knew what they were doing, that she had in mind some particular goal beyond her conscious knowing.”
“…She suddenly yelled out in triumph and exaltation as she found the phrase, the particular phrase that was so vital. It was in an old book, Psychic Politics, by Jane Roberts, written many years before. There it was – the blueprint for mankind’s future, the blueprint that she was now completely sure was also written in the tissues and cells of the species itself. She read quickly, triumphantly:”
CODICILS
(Alternate hypotheses as a base for private and public experience)
1. “All of creation is sacred and alive, each part connected to each other part, and each communicating in a creative cooperative commerce in which the smallest and the largest are equally involved.”
2. “The physical senses present one unique version of reality, in which being is perceived in a particular dimensionalized sequence, built up through neurological patterning, and is the result of one kind of neurological focus. There are alternate neurological routes, biologically acceptable, and other sequences so far not chosen.”
3. “Our individual self government and our political organizations are by-products of sequential perception, and our exterior methods of communication set up patterns that correlate with, and duplicate, our synaptic behavior. We lock ourselves into certain structures of reality in this way.”
4. “Our sequential prejudiced perception is inherently far more flexible than we recognize, however. There are half steps – other unperceived impulses – that leap the nerve ends, too fast and too slow for our usual focus. Recognition of these can be learned and encouraged, bringing in perceptive data that will trigger changes in usual sense response, filling out potential sense spectra with which we are normally not familiar.”
5. “This greater possible sense spectrum includes increased perception of inner bodily reality in terms of cellular identity and behavior; automatic conscious control of bodily processes; and increased perception of exterior conditions as the usual senses become more vigorous. (Our sight, for example, is not nearly as efficient as it could be. Nuances of color, texture, and depth could be expanded and our entire visual area attains a brilliance presently considered exceptional or supernormal.)”
“Josephine’s glance slid down the page. The Codicils were followed by comments by the author. There was a paragraph called Comments on the Codicils. It seemed to apply to Codicil #1 and to the five Codicils in general at the same time. She read the pertinent passages quickly and impatiently.”
COMMENTS ON CODICILS
“Acceptance of these first codicils would expand practical knowledge of the self, break down barriers that are the result of our prejudiced perception, and restructure personal, social, and political life.”
“Concepts of the self and practical experience of the self must be broadened if the species is to develop its true potentials. Only an evolution of consciousness can alter the world view that appears to be our official line of consciousness.”
I, John, will digress from quoting from the book and say to the reader of this blog that there are two more pages of Comments on the Codicils that are a must for reading and understanding if you hold the view I do that our culture and the world needs to change its current direction, or the survival of mankind as we know it may be in jeopardy. I encourage you from my heart, to seek, find, read, and become aware of these Codicils. The realization of your human potential may be at stake. Now I am returning to quoting from the book to bring this blog to an ending.
“…George the First cried out: “Zounds, what luck!”
“You’ll never know,” Seven whispered to George mentally. “Goodbye, dear friend, at least for now.” He grinned and added, “It’s been a –uh—super relationship. You succeeded in your pursuits far better than you know.”
And Seven knew that it was all right, that everything was all right, always had been all right, that it had only been their anxieties and doubts that ever made it all seem wrong. They were all couched and safe, forever secure, forever jubilant at the heart of their own beings. There was never anything to be afraid of, if only they trusted the great sweet security that forever held the vitality of their beings, for they were all truly splendid, a part of a loving universe that cradled them forever in a safety and love literally beyond all comprehension.”
In closing this great example of the type of information you may get when you choose to incubate a dream, I encourage you to follow my lead. You may become aware of a new worldview that may be in your future now. A future governed by the CODICILS discussed in the two books referenced. Or, you may just become aware of the power of your dreams for releasing dramatic changes in your life. Either way the process is a win-win situation.
Look for more blogs on this site in the future expanding on these Codicil concepts while being related to my personal dreams and experiences or related to the dreams or experiences of others.
(Note: Incubation image courtesy of C4DL Lab)
Appendix
The Codicils were first received by Jane Roberts from her mental library and published in her book Psychic Politics-An Aspect Psychology Book, published in 1976. The Codicils I share above were included at the end of the third book of the Oversoul Seven Trilogy, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time, a fiction novel. This is the reference to which my dream voice first led me, pointing me in the direction of the answer to my question. Jane published the first book of the trilogy The Education of Oversoul Seven in 1973. In 1979 The Further Education of Oversoul Seven was published. The last book of the trilogy Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time was published in 1984.
In the book Psychic Politics, chapter 21, Jane shares how she received the Codicils. She describes the source as a type of psychic library.
“…Finally one morning as I sat at my table, I saw the library transposed against the living room wall. My double sat there, reading a book. At the same time, the word “codicil” kept coming into my mind again. I heard it mentally, at first faintly and then it sounded louder and louder until I wrote the word down and waited. Then I knew that the material to come represented an alternate model for civilization to follow, and that I was transcribing my book from one depicting such a model—a model that we hadn’t chosen in the past. The codicils would represent a fresh hypothesis upon which to build a new, better civilization.”
As Jane reflected and expanded on what she was receiving, she suddenly realized:
“That the rest of the book would deal with an alternate model for civilization to follow based on the codicils I had just received and others to follow”. … “The rest of the material came very rapidly, and I found myself caught up in a vision of the world far different than the one we know.”
“The codicils, followed, would lead to a government as natural, orderly, and spontaneous as the seasons in which each individual brings personhood to fulfillment to the best of his or her ability, and in so doing automatically plays a potent role in the development of the entire society. Such a civilization would be based upon the following codicils, added to those already given.”
Additional Codicils
1. Each person is a unique version of an inner model that is itself a bank of potentials, variations, and creativity. The psyche is a seed of individuality and selfhood, cast in space-time but ultimately independent of it.
2. We are born in many times and places, but not in a return of identity as we understand it; not as a copy in different clothes, but as a new self ever-rising out of the psyche’s life as the new ruler rises to the podium or throne, in a psychic politics as ancient as humanity.
3. Civilizations both past and present represent projections of inner selfhood, and mirror the state of the mass psyche at any given time. We hold memory and knowledge of past civilizations as we hold unconscious memories of our private early current life experiences.
4. From our present, we exert force upon the past as well as the future, forming our ideas of the past and reacting accordingly. We actually project events into our own new past.
5. Each generation forms a new past, one that exists as surely as the present, not just an imaginary construct but as a practical platform—a newly built past—upon which we build a present.
6. Options and alternate models for selfhood and civilization exist in a psychic pattern of probabilities from which we can choose to actualize an entirely new life system.
And so, just as a dream can have a false awakening; an experience where you think you have awakened from a dream and begin reflecting on it, only to find out you are still dreaming when your consciousness in the dream gives you a clue pointing toward that fact; - I will now have a second ending to this report with a quote from Seth (Jane’s teacher) used as the closing to Jane’s book Psychic Politics.
“I am a poor imitation of the voices of your own psyches to which you do not listen. I will be un-needed, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the fountain of your own beings; when you realize that you do not need me for protection, for there is nothing you need protect yourself against.”
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Reflections
on My Conversation with a Tree I had completed the tale of my conversation
with a tree which is told below, and it had been edited, but I hesitated to
post it, feeling like a key element was missing. It was this morning that new
intuitions surfaced. I think what was missing was my realization of the
connections between my past and my present awareness, and a deeper
understanding of those connections. This story shows how all of our experiences
in life are linked together, moving us in a general direction according to some
as yet undiscovered blueprint for our life, that is always a part of our psyche. I added
this reflection as a prelude to my story about my conversation with a tree
because I think it contains an example of how we all have fractal patterns of
experiences, both psychological and physical as we go through life. We can
learn more about ourselves if we can learn to recognize these patterns. This
was also one of the topics covered in the Jean Houston class I reference below. During my childhood and throughout my formative
years, plants were significant in the lives of my father and grandmother who
raised me until age 9. I remember the first house I lived in and one of the
activities my father was engaged in the whole time we lived there – about 7
years. My father probably always planted
a vegetable garden in the backyard. The garden seemed large to me when it came
time to pull out weeds, even though I know it must have been small, maybe only
about 10 X 20 feet in size. When the bounty was ready to harvest, I would
be sent to the garden at times, to harvest the rewards Nature and hard work had
provided. I had sometimes even helped plant the seeds or seedlings and before
that, clear the area of unwanted grass or weeds in preparation of the planting.
Watering the plants was also one of my chores as a small child. After the
harvest was piled in the kitchen, I remember helping my grandmother clean the
various varieties of vegetables and prepare them for canning. At times there were
enough to last until the next season. Through this experience I learned to grow
beans of different varieties, tomatoes, cucumbers, collards, spinach, okra,
corn, onions, potatoes, lettuce, squash, bell peppers, and probably some items
I have forgotten. During the early summer months, I also remember car trips out
of town to pick wild blackberries, raspberries, and plums that would be growing
alongside the country roads. It was only upon reflection of that
experience later in life, that I realized that my father had taught me valuable
lessons about Nature, survival and life that he had learned growing up on a
farm in Alabama during the depression years. I never heard him complain about
any of those experiences. He always seemed to have a can-do attitude, and only
lost that attitude in his late fifties when faced with the challenge of a body
diseased with cancer – the cancer overcame that attitude. Even today, May 2014,
there is a small patch of yard about 2 ft. X 10 ft. with tomatoes, beans and 3
colors of bell peppers growing. It’s not that I have to plant and sow, like my
father did, but more that it is an example of what I learned from my father. I
think it is also the wonder and enjoyment of watching the magic; how a tiny
seed goes through all the transformations as it produces a new harvest of
seeds; the source of propagation and survival of that species. Although my grandmother did the work of
preparing, canning, cooking and serving the nutritious garden items, it was her
love of flowers that made a different kind of impact on me. Depending on the
season, I was her little helper when her plants needed watering or covered up
in the wintertime when a frost or freeze warning was made known. I think she
had an intuition for when they needed covering since we had no television and I
don’t remember her listening to the radio that much, even though she must have,
unknown to me. She must have taught me how to propagate plants by cuttings as
well, because it is something I have always done for the plants that are conducive
to this method. Grandmother loved to keep Easter lilies, poinsettias,
hydrangeas, and begonias in clay pots or old metal cooking pots setting around
on the front porch to admire when we would sit out there on the swing or in the
rocking chair taking in the scene as life flowed by. Outside my office window
in the butterfly garden and around the yard are now poinsettias, hydrangeas,
and lilies of various types, along with butterfly attractors as the fragrant
varieties are labeled. It all makes sense to me now that this
morning when I was “guided” to pick up a book, open it, and began reading on page 253, that I had
found what may have been the key element I felt was missing, that I needed to
complete this blog. The book’s title is On Channeling Your Higher Self
by Henry Reed. It is based on the teachings of Edgar Cayce, once called America’s
greatest “sleeping prophet”. The passage I will share is in the chapter titled Being
a Channel of Healing Forces, under the heading, The Secret of the Green
Thumb. I have always been told by others that I “have a green thumb”, when
they get to know a lot about me. So, I would like to share this passage with
you and I think you will see the connection with my story below. The Secret of the Green Thumb “Luther
Burbank, the famous American horticulturalist, knew the secret of the creative
force active in the life of plants. In his Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa
Yogananda, the influential Indian master called Burbank an American Saint.
Yogananda visited with Burbank on his trips to America. He was delighted with
Burbank’s spiritual orientation to his plants. The results he achieved through
this orientation were evident in his experiments with plants. Burbank admitted
to Yogananda that he talked with his plants. He developed thorn-less cacti, for
example, by telling them that they had nothing to fear and thus no need for
such protection. Although he knew that the will of the plant is much stronger
than the will of a human being who might wish to bend the plant’s habits,
Burbank learned the secret of blending new life patterns into the plants
structure. “The secret of improved plant breeding” he told Yogananda, “apart
from scientific knowledge, is love.” Burbank was a practiced meditator. It was
by meditating with his plants, that he learned their secrets. He noted that
sometimes during such communion, he felt close to what he called “the Infinite
Power.” At such times, he admitted to Yogananda, he was able to heal the sick as well as the plants.” Would it surprise you to know that after
reading the passage above, I remembered reading the autobiographies of Luther
Burbank and George Washington Carver at about age 11, to be used for elementary
school book reports? And later, as a
senior in high school, my senior term paper was on Dreams. There are indeed fractal patterns of experience
through our lives we can discover if we take time to explore the deeper
connections between the events we experience. There
are more lessons in the above passage from Henry Reed’s book, than there is
space in this blog to include. They will be topics of other postings and of the
classes I teach at Enchanted Spirits
Metaphysical Shop (www.enchantedspiritsshop.com/ ) in Dunedin, FL. If
you would take the time to meditate on the truths and messages in the passage
above, especially if you know of someone who needs help in healing, you will be
amazed at the results you can achieve. Now, to the story my conscious mind thought
I would be telling, before my subconscious, prompted by my higher self or inner
self as Seth calls that part of us, directed me to a broader and deeper story. My Conversation with a Tree (As revised May 2014) Awakening
to Your Life Purpose, taught by Jean Houston is the title of a class I took in
Feb. 2012. My first exposure to Jean was about 1983 when I bought her book ThePossible Human: A Course in Enhancing Your Physical, Mental, and
Creative Abilities, published in 1982. It was described as a comprehensive
theory and program for conscious creativity. I immediately liked her writing
and teaching style. I found the many exercises would deliver new insights as
promised. It was my exposure to this book back then that led me to take her 7
week online class in early 2012. I was looking to validate in my mind the
direction my life was taking, since I felt I had experienced a new awakening to
my life purpose. I enjoyed all of the learning exercises Jean
led us through in that 7 week class; especially the ones about discovering our
entelechy and having a conversation with a tree. Because I had become a student
of the Seth material since 1982, both of these concepts and exercises were
comfortable to me. I also had explored similar ideas via many other sources in
the past. This blog is to finally share publicly what I shared with my group in
Jean’s class. After telling the story of my conversation with a tree, I will
share some of Seth’s comment on nature and consciousness. After all, in order
to carry on a conversation with a tree, I would have to assume, at least
temporally, that a tree has a consciousness. No, I am not crazy, nor have I
ever been classified as such. The assignment for one segment of Jean’s
class was about communing with the Beautyand Majesty of Nature; to understand
we are part of Nature with a capital
‘N”. We were to carry on a telepathic conversation with a tree by first asking
a tree for some guidance. Communing with nature was certainly not new to me.
Neither was the idea that trees and plants as well as animals might have a type
of consciousness that was suitable to their environment. I had even
superficially talked to the trees in the “The
Green Cathedral” (Mill Creek Park) in Youngstown, OH while jogging in that
beautiful environment. What was new was the concept that a tree might seemingly
and telepathically respond to my inquiry. Even if it was my own subconscious
that communicated the message, my goal at the time was fulfilled and I felt
that I received a pertinent reply to my inquiry and had performed the task
associated with the lesson. So, one day I ventured outside my house to
pick a tree to “talk to”. What follows is a report of that experience: I looked around the house and at the bushes
in the back that border the pool. There are several hibiscus bushes there. I
would love to see them in full bloom, showing the beauty of their red and pink
blossoms. I have not been happy with them lately; they are not blooming at all.
I decided it would be best to find another tree or bush. I then had the message
come back to me that maybe the problem was of my doing! I had not really been
nurturing them for a few months and like ourselves or our loved ones, if we
ignore them, there is a break in our connection. The message to me was to be
conscious of taking action about extending my love more, instead of dwelling on
things or people not living up to my expectations. I assessed that I needed to go out among the
hibiscus; to prune, fertilize, and wash them in a soapy solution to rid them of
aphids; to cut away the higher limbs of surrounding plants so they get more
sunlight. Without enough sunlight they cannot carry out photosynthesis in the
way they are designed. Without the proper nutrients, their immune systems would
not function as Nature intended. It is not much different than the way we have
to nourish our mind, spirit, and heart bodies. I went looking for a tree to fulfill the
assignment, determined to do my part for the health of the hibiscus. My heart led
me to the water, where I have always found my peace when it has been clouded by
worry. I have often meditated with the sound of the waves lapping the
shoreline. As I am doing my usual walking meditation
along the beach, I look around at the bushes and trees. What stood out to me were
the tall palm trees that lined the shore of both sides of the causeway leading
to the island where I sometimes walk the undeveloped beach. As I sat on a bench underneath these enduring
palms, I telepathically began to speak to them. “Magnificent palm trees; I know that all
things in the universe are connected. I know you are connected to all the rest
of the many palms here; and even connected to me. I know this. Though I speak
to one, I am speaking to all. I breathe in the oxygen you breathe out. You
breathe in the carbon dioxide I breathe out. Our bodies exchange atoms and
molecules. We are made of the same stuff. You don’t worry about being worthy of
the rain, sun, nutrients and love you receive. You know you are loved. You are
the subject of many photographs and paintings. People celebrate your being. They
rest in your shade. You stand tall above all the other plants around. You have
a higher perspective about things. You have weathered many storms and still you
grow and spread your branches to shade those in need of shade. You stand tall
and are grounded. You bend with the wind and are bathed by the rain. What
feedback can you give magnificent tree?” Am I on the right track, the true
course, the path to my higher purpose?” Am I on the “Yellow Brick Road"? I
listened, but got distracted by the water, the wind and the birds and started a
conversation with them. After an hour, not
receiving a clear cut answer from the trees, I decided to return the next day
and try again. Arriving at the beach the next day I walked
along the shore until I came to an isolated spot and sat on a bench to meditate
while listening to the sound of the waves breaking on the shore; something I
have done hundreds of times before when I needed to talk to Nature. I sat
quietly with my eyes closed and listened. What came first was some unexpected reflection
on the story of my wounds and resulting grief I felt I had experienced in life;
the next assignment to complete. Even though I thought I had worked completely
through that past, I felt emotion, energy flowing through me, as I reflected on
the experience. Tears gently flowed down my cheeks. It was a good thing I had
my sunglasses on and there were hardly any people walking the beach that
morning. The ones that did occasionally strolled by, walked with their heads
down looking for shells, hardly concerned about me. Our heart’s mind always displays greater
wisdom that our rational minds. This period of meditation on the beach let me
know I could again visit that story of grief from the past and share it with others.
This would be the essence of the next exercise in the class. It was after that experience, while sitting
quietly in the sun, listening to the waves gently crash on the shore, I
received a message from the trees. “Yes,
we are grounded. We stand tall and we don’t worry about what tomorrow will
bring. We have weathered many storms and we still rejoice every day in what
creation has provided us and we are filled with gratitude. We continue to grow
and we shed old branches to make way for the new ones, letting the winds blow
the old branches away to become part of the earth again; earth that nourishes
all humankind. We love the sun, the rain, the wind and the storms. We accept
things as they are. What caused it is the past. We live in the spacious
present! Take heed of our existence.”…The message continued: … “Let your
limiting beliefs fall away as our old branches do. Make room for new ideas,
beliefs and joy to come into your life. The opportunity for you to grow and be
a co-creator will never cease. Stand
tall, grounded in your beliefs until you find personal evidence to change a
belief that no longer serves you as you transition to a higher level of
consciousness. Trust the true Nature of things, your impulses, and intuitions.
What do you think moved civilization along and advanced consciousness, but your
collective impulses and intuitions? They are the source of your inspirations,
innovations and collective growth. Go in peace and be aware of the signs,
synchronicities and choices you make. The power to choose from among
possibilities is the greatest power you have to contribute to co-creation. The
point of your power is always in the present moment. Stay on the path you are
on for now. You will know when and if a change is needed. Be happy! Don’t worry!” So it went that day with the trees. The tree
was right! I stayed on the path I was on and my opportunities began to expand;
not only opportunities for the expansion of my consciousness, but also
opportunities to help others in their journey and growth. I was on a journey of
value fulfillment for myself and at the same time, contributing to the value
fulfillment of others. “Since
dreams are a by-product of any consciousness involved with matter, this leads
us to the correct conclusion – that trees have their dreams, that all physical
matter, being formed about individual units of consciousness of varying
degrees, also participates in the involuntary construction of the dream
universe.” – Early Sessions Book 3 Session- 97 by Jane Roberts. For more insights into this topic, look
for a soon to be posted blog titled: CONSCIOUSNESS: What is it? How does it
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Inner Consciousness – The Road Less Traveled
Posted on June 30, 2012 at 1:28 PM |
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Inner
Consciousness
– The Road Less Traveled Some people don’t associate
consciousness with dreams, since many scientists and biologists just view
dreams as random firings of synapses in our brains. But, if you have ever
undertaken a serious study of your own dreams for a long period of time, you
probably are aware of the experience of becoming lucid in a dream. Lucidity in
a dream means you are mentally conscious of the fact that you are dreaming
while you are experiencing the dream events. You may have found, as I have,
that when you become lucid you can direct some of the events of the dream while
it is taking place. It is an experience that will stay with you. It does not
mean that you will be able to do it all the time or even most of the time, but
the experience does give you a wider understanding of the scope of the
attributes of consciousness.
A similar experience and
revelation is true in a dream experience when you become fully aware that you
are moving through your dream landscape in a “dream body” that is quite
different from your physical body that remains on the bed. In this case, there
is part of your consciousness with the dream body while the cellular
consciousness of your physical body maintains normal body functions.
As I have experienced during
creative visualization exercises, you can transition into a dream state that
fits the theme of the visualization while you are awake. In this case, part of
your consciousness moves into the creation of a “dream event” that takes over
in the visualization that your ego consciousness started. You immediately
become aware that a shift has taken place and your subconscious is bringing you
information from deep within your psyche that gives you new insights and
sometimes answers to questions you had about directions in your life, the same
type of insights that night dreams can bring to your awareness. I will share an
example from my experience.
One day, nearly 3 decades
ago, I was sunning by a pool, relaxing my mind and body contemplating some
decisions about the direction of my life. I was pondering two options that I
could take related to occupation. Let’s say options A and B were the choices. I
intentionally started a creative visualization in my mind where I was traveling
along a road. It was a typical two lane road with trees and bushes alongside.
There was no one else traveling on this road at the time. Ahead of me the road
forked into two different paths representing options A and B. I wanted to see
which path my mind would choose when I got to the fork in the road. I was
consciously creating this visual up to this point.
Before I arrived at the
point of decision, my intentional visualization suddenly changed into the venue
of a dream. Right in front of me, a third road was coming toward me right out
of the sky, right out of the clouds! I was astonished; this scenario was not
part of my conscious intention when the visualization began. The road came
toward my direction and stopped. The beginning of it was about 5 feet above the
“real” road I had been traveling on.
My intuition “told” me this
was the road I was to take. The road was too high off the “real” road to step
onto. With full determination I ran toward this road. When I got to it, I
jumped as high as I could and grabbed on to it with all my strength. I struggled
a bit, to hold on, but finally felt like I could make onto the road. With a lot
of effort, I pulled myself onto the road coming from the sky and started
walking up it. The road was at a steep angle like going up a mountain drive.
Soon I came to where it leveled off and started walking down the path. When I
came to what appeared to be a vista, I stopped and looked at the beauty and
relaxed, catching my breath. I wondered where this road was taking me.
The visualization and
“dream” ended. I knew my life would be headed in a new unplanned direction. In
the future I would be going down “the road less traveled”, with a higher
purpose! The portion of our
consciousness that often gets a bad rap is our ego. From a natural perspective,
our ego is that attribute of our consciousness that helps us maneuver through physical reality. It is also our
self image; sometimes over-inflated. Our ego is meant to protect us in physical
reality. Our goal should not be to eliminate our ego or “kill it”, but to
enlist its help in attaining the fullest spiritual development possible. The
ego does not want to be shut out of such a fantastic experience. The ego can be
a prime partner in consciousness evolution as we move toward our fullest potential
for value fulfillment. It’s helpful to view your ego in partnership with your
inner self or inner consciousness.
As you will see below, I
agree with Seth that scientists must look within to fully understand what
consciousness is. It will never be found as a “thing” no matter how big the
instruments are that they use to search. As Seth says in The Nature of the
Psyche, by Jane Roberts, “Consciousness is a particular quality of
being. Each portion of “it”, contains the whole, so theoretically as far as you
are concerned, you can leave your body and be it simultaneously. There is
consciousness within each conceivable hypothetical point within the universe.
There is therefore “an invisible universe: out of which the visible or
objective universe springs”. In 2012, scientists and quantum physicists are
now focusing on this idea as they hypothesize about “dark energy”, “dark
matter” and the “God partical”.
I recently read an article on consciousness via the web site
Big Think; (www.bigthink.com ) – About
how science can’t really define it or find the location of consciousness. Below
is my reply that I posted to the site.
“Yes, I think we are foolish – or at least shortsighted and suffering
from a lack of vision when our thinking restricts us to safe, yet incremental
refinements of what we’re convinced we already know. How many times in the
history of civilization and “Science” has the rigid and convincing belief about
“what we already know” been overthrown by new exploration, vision and
understanding? Dare we count the number of times science has been wrong?
Sometimes the refinements about “what we already know” are just restatements of
yet to be proven “false beliefs” about “what we already know”.
I will offer just a brief summary of an alternate view of this
“thing” called consciousness that science is attempting to define, dissect and
ultimately control. First, I ask the question “what is this thing we call a
self”? I don’t think I would get disagreement from any Physicist today that we
are an apparent physical body/organism that is a field of energy. I think the
Biologist would agree that we are a synergistically organized system of other
physical systems that are also fields of energy i.e. the organs that comprise
our body - An organized gestalt of various energy systems.
As a field of energy, the heart can be kept “alive” without being
inside the physical body just as the other organs can be kept alive similarly. And, what about the cellular structures which
synergistically combine to make up the organs? Cannot they be kept “living”?
Even the molecules that make up the cells can exist by themselves just as the
elemental atoms that make up the molecules. So what is it that sustains this
marvelous system we call self?
It is of course energy systems in various forms combining to
support what we perceive as a “physical” being. Einstein’s basic equation
states the equivalency of energy and matter (mass). Maybe we are a gestalt of “awareized”
energy appearing as matter (as related by Seth when explaining units of
consciousness – The Unknown Reality Vol. One by Jane Roberts, Session
682 p.39).
Could it be that the scientific community has been looking for consciousness
as matter, a “thing”, when they need instead to have vision. Instead of holding
onto rigid ideas and assumptions about “what they already know”, what would it
mean to look for consciousness as an energy system? Maybe we are a gestalt of
awareized energy – consciousness in chemical clothes. Some new ideas to ponder might be:
Maybe
our mental energy and that of the scientists would be better spent using our
consciousness to look within this self that is an energy gestalt instead of
looking through instruments to find a “thing” that can be dissected. Even some
of the quantum physicists today are at the point of wondering if they will ever
find the “God Particle” they are spending many billions of dollars looking
for. Maybe the ultimate building block
of nature is not a particle at all. Maybe it is an “awareized” electromagnetic
consciousness unit that will never be seen or totally understood. Can the
scientist accept that “reality”? Can you?”
By
John W. Robinson
www.DreamAwarenessNetwork.org |
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