This is nice. :)

After my expereinces at Burning Man, and some very vivid dreams, an hypothesis of mine, is that at some point in the near future the dreamworld and the so called "real world" will merge and become one seamless reality full of infinite freedom and delight. Here is the link to that post:

Breaking the Veil

Thanks Paul,

Yeah that's something I believe too. Thanks for the link to that entry of yours aswell, it was cool to read through that. I found myself agreeing with it almost word for word as I read it. I think that as we leave behind the conditioning, rules and falsity of the current reality the nearer we'll get to that place. The Others, the guides and the merging of planes etc in the above pointed to the same type of thing.

"The barriers between this plane and the others begin to disintegrate."

Quoted from Saturday's Daily Telegraph (UK):

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A British health charity has called for an investigation into evidence that smoking cannabis may cause psychosis in people at risk of mental illness.

Rethink, which campaigns on behalf of schizophrenia sufferers, said the mental health risks of using cannabis were not widely understood.

The organisations said in a statement that: "There is strong evidence from a wide range of sources that long term and short-term use of cannabis can 'trigger' a psychotic episode of schizophrenia in people who are at high risk of developing schizophrenia --- for instance, people who have close family members who have schizophrenia."

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If the dreamworld and the so called "real world" will really merge and become one seamless reality, then I'm a bit hesitant to say that for everyone on this planet this experience will lead to a state "full of infinite freedom and delight".

In fact, I think the transition will be quite painful. Those, who have trained themselves for lifetimes, who "collected the knowledge and wisdom of the hidden arts" are here now exactly for that reason: to make the transition as easy as possible.

If this is not so, if all our dreams are only that: dreams, if at the moment the Earth starts shaking below us, we cannot leave the uncertainities and doubts behind and say with an absolute 100% that YES LORD, I'M LISTENING (or anything else, depending on the order one belongs to), then there is not much chance that we can make it.

When the social protecting layers dissolve and people lose their heads, then we will start tripping really hard. That's when those who learned to navigate the chaos, who have the faith in That which is beyond form, can come and reawaken to their role as cosmic navigators, guiding the tribes through the death and rebirth of us all.

Cellux,

It's hard to say. But I think you underestimate peoples resolve. Already they spend a 1/3 of their life in and out of various dream states. They aren't going crazy now, and almost everyone who finally manages to have a lucid dream, describes it as immensely and profoundly liberating and wonderful. How then would this be any different if the lucid dream state become a more pervasive form of consciousness?

I know this, the more I experience lucid dreams, the more I am able to take those pleasurable experiences with me into waking life, the more joyous, calm, peacful and centered the rest of my life becomes.

It's all nice and well until one meets the shadow in the dream.

Is humanity prepared to deal with such a frightening emergence of the shadow yet? Even the most experienced trippers get shivers when they think of the horrors of the dark side. And suppressing it, "talking them down" won't work this time. Those who cannot overcome duality, will use all possible means to fight the daemons, project the negativity outside, which can easily lead to a kind of apocalypse scenario (kill'em all). The guides will have to be quite clever, even tricky to overcome these resistances.

I'm sure we'll witness some rather good jokes as the wise fools play Hitler for those who need it and lead them with a psychedelic twist at the end from totalitarian hell straight to liberation. :-)

Cellux : Thanks for the quote from the Telegraph, but if you're implying that I'm wacked out off weed then I'm sorry to say that I'm not. (or how you got psychosis either. Disintegrating barrier between conscious/unconscious projected into possible future scenario?) Sorry to disappoint you anyway if that's what you meant with that. I can understand how what I wrote could seem overly fantastical, but it was after all only thoughts and images that came to mind.

I agree that, assuming something resembling a singularity is going to happen, the transition could be quite painful for some or even many, after all leaving behind the 'reality' you know unprepared could be a big shock with it's associated problems trauma's etc. I can imagine it being chaotic, but if it does go off it's also possible that the influx of energy from higher dimensions would align them with their higher selves as the energy reached them, resulting in most conditioning being cast off insantaneously as soon as the body, mind and spirit entered, or re-entered, that state.

A massive rise in spirit energy could equal an equal rise in focus, skill, perception and intuition, (re-membering) making it not so much of an apocalypse type affair after all.

my rant was not meant as an offense. most probably that quote I've used to explain my point was not really adequate and well chosen here.

btw, I like this idea that as soon as people get to know their transcendental Self, their fear would be immediately dissolved simply because nobody would hold onto fear-based "solutions" and any tactics of avoidance/denial in the conscious presence of the Self.

There would be no need to uphold "evil", so it would automatically go away.

Let it be.

Cellux,

If human history and the present is not humanity confronting it's own shadow then I don't know what is!! :)

Humanity is already confronting its shadow to an extraordinary degree. I would go so far as to say that modern times is almost entirely defined as humanities "darkest hour". The wrathful dieties seem to be having their way with the world right now. We are on the verge of total annilihation unless we as a collective species "wake up" from the nightmare that we're in. This site was inspired for that very reason... to hopefully inspire, provoke and wake up people enough to make a difference... to see that we have alternatives to destruction and oblivion.

Tapping into our dreams can be immensely therapeutic. I fail to see how you find the idea of everyone on the planet taping into thier dreams more lucidly (via lucid dream work) a problem. If it is as dangerous as you claim, perhaps we should ban ALL books on lucid dreaming, put Stephen Laberge in prison for life, and outlaw all other mind expanding techniques while we are it. Wait, now that I think of it, certain segments of society try to do something like that already. Drug war anyone? The drug experience is not necessarily indicative of this transformation. Lucid dreaming and tripping on DMT are quite different, unless you have already tripped on DMT, and you re-experience it in the dream state.

My point is, that what humanity desperately needs is an authentic connection to spirit, to heal ourselves, to transform and ultimately to transcend and become an integral part of the greater cosmos.

It has been my experience that when given a choice people, no matter what their background, always choose the path of least resistance and pain. Most people experience suffering because they don't yet realize that suffering is optional. This is what the buddha taught, but has obviously failed to translate to a large enough audience to make a difference - especially in the west. I believe that we are on the verge of a breakthrough that will empower lots more people to tap into their spirit. To some degree this is already happening, and I consider it to be the least reported story in the world today.

No offence taken, thanks for the reply Cellux.

Yes, I think it's a possibility that the transcendental self is something that would dissolve fear. Especially if any future merging of planes involved a reconnection to it. I keep thinking back to a dream I had where I was guiding others in a place where order had collapsed and a dreamstate was present, a lot of shadow manifestations where around and there was a person gripped in fear bringing forth shadows, or demons with their connection to that fear. I was telling them in some way that all they had to do was stop thinking about it and it would leave. I remember seeing the manifestation that had appeared and simply by willing myself to push it out of my mind it went away. By shifting my awareness from it and not clinging to it in any way, seeing, perceiving, or thinking, it left.

The strange part was that I was in such a pure state of mind that my intent/will/awareness was perfectly focused and I was free from any type of attachements. I look back and think of myself in that dream as a sorcerer/warrior, I had no doubt or fear at all, and it's a state I aspire to in my waking life.

I believe 100% that if any leap in consciousness returns us to that state of mind this whole consensus reality will literally be cast off like a shell, and that's including any anger or hatred directed at the people that have repressed Humanity right up until that point, any negative state of mind will be seen for what it is, a draining of energy.

(of course I don't know what will actually happen to those people, I have the idea that maybe we will be pulling them out of the feelings of fear and guilt that they've attached themselves to because of what they've done/are doing. Maybe they'll create their own hell that we will have to guide them back out of.)

Thank God that there are really people like you in this world.

I always thought that your nation plays a lead role in dreaming out humanity's future. Perhaps this is somehow connected with the fact that you are a relatively young nation, you don't have such deep roots and tradition, so you can fly higher than most of us. For some, you may seem even childish and naive, but this is exactly what makes you ideal dreamers. You dare to be eccentric, strange and "irresponsible". Be proud of it.

Thanks for being who you are. :-)