Hi All. As promised, a practical technique.
You've got the watch, right? OK, set it so that it chimes on the hour. Now, here's the method. We'll be relying on the brains natural ability to touch the non-ordinary reality, the REM state of dreaming. Ordinarily, lazy primates as we just let the experience wash over us, and make no attempt to inject our conscious selves into it. We're now going to do just that, by the simple means of suggestion. Props go to Rudolf Steiner for the first good description of this I could locate. Aside from the Australian Aborigines. Each time the chime rings, ask yourself this simple question. "Am I dreaming?" The answer, unless you've progressed much farther than this simple lesson will allow, will be no. Now, every hour, you'll be asking yourself that question. It will become a habit after a few days. That's what we want. For when you go to sleep at night, your brain will cycle through the various stages of sleep. What we're relying on is the inevitable moment when you're in the REM state and the hour strikes. If you persist in the exercise, it's only a matter of time before you are in the dream state and you find yourself asking that question. The answer will be positive. What happens next is very interesting indeed. You will find yourself conscious in the dream state. Start talking to the characters you meet there. Start exploring. Ask questions. The challenge is staying in this state for any length of time, it's VERY easy to get excited and wake up, cursing yourself for blowing it. Don't lose your cool. It'll happen more frequently the more you focus on this experiment. I could blather on about my own experiences with this method, but then I'd be no better than the organized religions. The point is, that YOU must have the experiences, and see for YOURSELF what it means. Again, I am constrained by the aforementioned activist religious zealots of our legislature from talking about some of the more interesting and profound techniques. Besides, what's above may seem weak but if you put a little elbow grease into it, the results can be pretty damn impressive. Plus it's easy on the head, if you really find the results too disturbing you can easily dismiss them as mere dreams. The blue pill is _so_ much more comforting. Here's a starter question. Ask whatever you meet there where you both are. Now, you can certainly ask after Bog. While you're at it, give Zeus and The Great Spirit a ring as well. Don't forget Shiva and the Buddha. But from my own experiments, the best experience is had by not trying to shoehorn such mystery into some crazy anthropomorphic construct. In fact, that's the challenge really, getting rid of all the social programming so you can more clearly see what is in front of you. Just like any frontier science. You do the experiment, and try to let the results speak to you without preconception or mediation. Here's another experiment. Screw your balls on tight for this one, it's a lot stronger than some long winded rap with Bog. Find a mirror in the dream time, and look into it. Wow. You never expected THAT, did you? OK Zealots, join hands and repeat after me. "Burn the witch, burn the witch, BURN THE WITCCCCHHHHHHH!!!!" For the rest, fill your hands brothers, fill your hands. K.
