Buddy
The Living Force
I had a very odd dream during a brief nap today. I was wondering if anyone might have some thoughts about it.
Here's some context leading up to it:
My wife was feeling down today because nothing we wanted to do together worked out due to things coming up unexpectedly and beyond our immediate control. At some point I noticed she was crying and trying not to show it. My heart went out to her, so I left my computer and laid down behind her in a 'spoon' and just held her. I know when to get her to talk and when to just be there for her.
I had been studying and thinking hard about the last page of the on-line wave concerning Love and the contextual explanation about 'ASKING' as quoted below. I had also been trying to visually and emotionally experience the understanding by simply opening my heart and asking the universe what is needed right now to fulfill the yearnings of my soul.
As we lay there quietly, I began to drift off in a light sleep. I knew that I was thinking about something as I drifted off, but don't remember what it was. Next thing I knew, I was observing fully typed out sentences flying within my view and placing themselves one after another, horizontally left to right, as if on a page. I then observed various complete phrases and sentences coming down from above the lines of type and moving around the sentences already in place as if they were comparing themselves with the sentences that were already connected. Some of the ones that came down just vanished and a few just went off to the side to wait, and new sentences were still putting themselves in place after the existing ones, one after the other, left to right, on a horizontal line, as if it were all just assembly line work.
As an observer, I wasn't participating and I couldn't read the sentences, only watch the action. The action wasn't slow or fast, just methodical, like a machine steadily running. I have the impression that what I was seeing might have been 'thinking' but whoever or whatever was doing this 'thinking', wasn't aware of me; just itself, and what it was doing.This all happened very fast and when I awoke due to my wife stirring, It seems I had only dozed for a second. I couldn't remember anything I was thinking about when I dozed off. I just remember the sensation of thinking about 'something'.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Could this have been a split second of observing my machine in action, perhaps in just a symbolic way? Or maybe it was just a dream? I almost don't dare to ask this one: Could this have been an answer to my attempt to 'ASK?' On the one hand, it seems a bit presumptuous considering my stage in the Work, but on the other, it just seems more like 'daring' in a child-like kind of way.
It was so odd, unlike any other dream, so I just wanted to share this to see if anyone had any thoughts. Thanks.
[quote author=http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/wave13j.htm]
But, how can you experience and test faith if you have no knowledge with which to experience and test faith? If your faith is small, you must establish it through knowledge. If you were given proof and the proof gave you faith, then everyone would have faith and then the "virtue of faith," which is the building and brightening of the light within through knowledge combined with faith, would have no value in moving you further along the upward path. Faith is self-evident knowledge of the inner light. It is light that grows within through effort to know truth and God by acquiring knowledge.
And it all begins with ASKING without belief, but absolute openness to receive an answer. Because, in the end, this openness of seeking without assumption or pre-formed answers is the essence of faith.
And, it seems that the asking or not asking of these questions establishes the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness. Of course, there are those who CLAIM to ask, but really do not; they already have their answer in some belief system that is an established power over them. But those who ask, who REALLY ask, are faced with moment-by-moment decisions, choices that they must make to navigate the labyrinth, hoping that those choices will take them either to the center or the exit, depending upon their "direction." Thus, if one asks with a completely open mind and heart, each moment that they are open is a moment that they are conscious. Those who do not ask are unconscious, they exist in a state of fear.[/quote]
Here's some context leading up to it:
My wife was feeling down today because nothing we wanted to do together worked out due to things coming up unexpectedly and beyond our immediate control. At some point I noticed she was crying and trying not to show it. My heart went out to her, so I left my computer and laid down behind her in a 'spoon' and just held her. I know when to get her to talk and when to just be there for her.
I had been studying and thinking hard about the last page of the on-line wave concerning Love and the contextual explanation about 'ASKING' as quoted below. I had also been trying to visually and emotionally experience the understanding by simply opening my heart and asking the universe what is needed right now to fulfill the yearnings of my soul.
As we lay there quietly, I began to drift off in a light sleep. I knew that I was thinking about something as I drifted off, but don't remember what it was. Next thing I knew, I was observing fully typed out sentences flying within my view and placing themselves one after another, horizontally left to right, as if on a page. I then observed various complete phrases and sentences coming down from above the lines of type and moving around the sentences already in place as if they were comparing themselves with the sentences that were already connected. Some of the ones that came down just vanished and a few just went off to the side to wait, and new sentences were still putting themselves in place after the existing ones, one after the other, left to right, on a horizontal line, as if it were all just assembly line work.
As an observer, I wasn't participating and I couldn't read the sentences, only watch the action. The action wasn't slow or fast, just methodical, like a machine steadily running. I have the impression that what I was seeing might have been 'thinking' but whoever or whatever was doing this 'thinking', wasn't aware of me; just itself, and what it was doing.This all happened very fast and when I awoke due to my wife stirring, It seems I had only dozed for a second. I couldn't remember anything I was thinking about when I dozed off. I just remember the sensation of thinking about 'something'.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Could this have been a split second of observing my machine in action, perhaps in just a symbolic way? Or maybe it was just a dream? I almost don't dare to ask this one: Could this have been an answer to my attempt to 'ASK?' On the one hand, it seems a bit presumptuous considering my stage in the Work, but on the other, it just seems more like 'daring' in a child-like kind of way.
It was so odd, unlike any other dream, so I just wanted to share this to see if anyone had any thoughts. Thanks.
[quote author=http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/wave13j.htm]
But, how can you experience and test faith if you have no knowledge with which to experience and test faith? If your faith is small, you must establish it through knowledge. If you were given proof and the proof gave you faith, then everyone would have faith and then the "virtue of faith," which is the building and brightening of the light within through knowledge combined with faith, would have no value in moving you further along the upward path. Faith is self-evident knowledge of the inner light. It is light that grows within through effort to know truth and God by acquiring knowledge.
And it all begins with ASKING without belief, but absolute openness to receive an answer. Because, in the end, this openness of seeking without assumption or pre-formed answers is the essence of faith.
And, it seems that the asking or not asking of these questions establishes the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness. Of course, there are those who CLAIM to ask, but really do not; they already have their answer in some belief system that is an established power over them. But those who ask, who REALLY ask, are faced with moment-by-moment decisions, choices that they must make to navigate the labyrinth, hoping that those choices will take them either to the center or the exit, depending upon their "direction." Thus, if one asks with a completely open mind and heart, each moment that they are open is a moment that they are conscious. Those who do not ask are unconscious, they exist in a state of fear.[/quote]
