Buddy
The Living Force
Archaea said:Hello,
I agree that my dreams may not have been 'prophetic.' I decided to post them here, however, because it seemed relevant to the topic. What struck me most about these dreams were the times and dates, and since I still remember them, I find myself counting down, even though I think doing so is silly.
And you approve of the countdown or you wouldn't be doing something you think is silly, right?
Archaea said:According to Gurdjieff it takes conscious labor and intentional suffering to produce acts of an interventional character that creatively goes against any mechanical stream. From my observations of how the C's experiment has developed all these years, it appears to me that one can see a line or course of development separating itself from the course of mechanical evolution of humanity and more people getting involved might make it solidify quicker. In the face of that, I would consider dreams of "utter obliteration" or "pockets of this or that" to be your mind processing previously acquired unintegrated information "packets" or pockets.
That seems like a likely scenario to me, but I would like to say that I believe it's possible to see the future or a possible future in dreams and visions.
I don't know about visions but of dreams, of course, why wouldn't it be possible considering that we are at least partially on a pre-determined course? Maybe it's just not 'prophetic' in the traditional sense of the word. Here's a couple of hypothetical examples:
Suppose 2 years ago, Sylvia Brown had a dream where she kept looking at a clock and every time she looked at it the time was given as '2014' although she didn't have a clock that displayed time in 24 hour format. Suppose 1 month later she goes to a yard sale and falls in love with an old grandfather clock whose price was $20.14 so she buys it with great joy. Suppose 1 year later she dreams of a cometary cataclysm where the Earth and all life on it is destroyed. She wakes up the next morning, recalls the dream and has a strong since of '2014' associated with it. She immediately sets out to make an "official prediction."
But what if she would have waited awhile? If she just kept all this in a journal or in mind somehow she might make another discovery. Two days after she wakes up from that comet dream, she reads a book of fiction that describes a cometary cataclysm in vivid terms and a character in the introduction part of this story had a clock that reminded her of her own beloved grandfather clock. What could she put together from all this so far? Maybe that on two separate occasions she simply had a dream of some kind of version of something she was going to experience in waking reality at some unspecified point in her future.
How about another example? Suppose tonight you dream of meeting and talking with a childhood best friend that you haven't seen in years or thought of in months. Tomorrow night at dinner you read the local newspaper and see a picture of this person having been chosen as 'employee of the month' at a factory or business to which you were planning to apply for work and the interviewer has the same name as you?
What could that experience suggest to you? Maybe that sometimes we dream of something we are actually going to experience - even if the experience is something trivial or something we might just read about - but the imagery is combined with other imagery from other contexts and experiences and that seem to paint a different picture when we take it at face value?
The point is that you can't know for sure until you do know and that requires paying attention to everything you possibly can, OSIT.
Archaea said:Having said that, I do find the topics of the different densities somewhat confusing, so it seems likely to me that I would try to formulate a schema of sorts in dreams to try to understand just what they are and how they work.
Well, I found them confusing too, at first. In fact, I balked at them as though I had mistaken a piece of broccoli for something that tastes good. I had to keep learning and forebear judgment until I started to see densities the way Laura just described.
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List of questions
Um, yeah. I was flabbergasted and since I was busy with other things, never did formulate a coherent reply in order to add anything of value.
Yeah... one of my favourite threads... I think you are wise to some degree Buddy, so I'd like to ask why you were flabbergasted? I kind of get the feeling that it's because of my raging ego, which I failed to keep in check when I started that topic, would that by chance be a correct assumption?
Well, I don't know about the 'raging ego' thing. I was just noting the contrast between the sheer volume of questions, their type, the way you admitted you hadn't read anything and the way that Laura specifically spelled out an exact procedure to follow to help determine good, useful questions and help ensure the questions would be asked. I wanted to link the specific thread to show you what I mean, but I can't find it ATM.