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Recieved: 2001/07/27 06:44
Subject: [K-list] To Maria
From: Cleocatras
On 2001/07/27 06:44, Cleocatras posted thus to the K-list:
Dear Maria,
Here is the Shaman's thoughts on the meaning of the Grizzly or Black Bear as
a spirit guide:
(You can check most animals at the site http://www.animalspirits.com)
Bear's Wisdom Includes:
Introspection
Healing
Solitude
Change
Communication with Spirit
Death and rebirth
Transformation
Astral travel
Creature of dreams, shamans and mystics
Visionaries
Defense and revenge
Wisdom
Since it was me that you were referring to that drempt of the bears earlier,
and because another person on this list has been asking me about dreams, I
assume it is my time to explain what I feel I know about dreaming.
Let me just add this disclaimer though, that I have purposefully read nothing
on this topic, and have never sought input from someone who may know more. In
fact, there are many people on this list who probably know far more than I
do, and may even come along to correct me, which would be wonderful, and I
hope they do, since I will never claim to be an expert about anything I have
ever written here, and it is a lot of energy and giving for Angelique to
generally be the one to sort things out for me. God/dess knows I love her for
all her selfless energy she spends on me, particularly in the last few posts
and her healings in the last few weeks. Between her and the Tibetan Monks'
healings, things are rapidly changing and even the color of my skin is
changing... but that is another story.
Dreaming... first, you have to ask yourself, WHY are you dreaming? What is it
all about? Let's look at the basics first: During my psychology classes, we
learned that while we sleep the mind, errr the *brain* is very active. All
the activity is sub conscious, meaning your active awareness or attachment to
the real world is not fully functional. What do they say is going on during
dreaming? Well, they say that while we sleep, we take all the sensory and
cognitive input of our daytime world in for processing and organizing, like a
filing clerk, building on the associations to other things we know and
learned and finding the appropriate neurotransmitter (stored thought) links
to create stored memory. The same way you would file a catalog into a file
cabinet, you have to figure out where to index it, what topic, how to label
the file folder and what other files it should be filed with. Everything we
cognate is comprehensive, that is we start with very little of what we know
of this world as babies and build on sensory information gathering, the more
input, the more we build on it, and the more elaborate the schemes and
multifacets of thought become.
Now the mystery of this is, and what the scientists did not consider, is
Divine Intervention, and memory from past lives, and the memory stored in our
DNA. Theorists derived a theory called the blank slate theory, which says we
are only a product of all our sensory intake, but the mysteries of Divine
Intervention and memory of past lives was totally ignored. So, what these two
significant variables create is left to our interpretation and intuition, and
for some of us, Divine Vision.
We can still take from the scientists the simple concept that dreaming is
meant to help us sort things out without the input of our discriminating,
biased and fear conditioned conscious self, removing most of our subjective
analysis, and replacing it with the observer with less attachment. This is
all fine and great, but some associations still stick, and the rudimentary
memory of our ancestors, animal instinct is still deeply imbedded in the stem
of the brain and the hypothalimus. That is why some dreams can stir up a lot
of fear response. Keep in mind, this is exactly one of the features we refer
to as the memory imprint in our DNA. So, in order to dream and sort things
out effectively without the bias of fear, one has to cognitively override
this, and bring your conscious self into your dream, saying to oneself, "I
dont have to be afraid of this dream, I am safe in my bed sleeping,
afterall..." This is how to override your imprinted fear response, and it is
the beginning of training yourself in lucid dreaming. It helps to imagine you
are just the observer watching a movie and you are the star.
Once you can override the emotional state, you should still know it is there,
as they are truly messages about what you need to work on. Spiritually,
dreaming is the workhorse in your achieving higher levels. Most of the
mentoring from the divine can take place there. But the first step is to
remove yourself from the fear. At this point, you can begin to realize the
dream is a message about things you need to work through, or about future
events you are being told about, or a gift of elevated perception. You can
actually ask questions in your dream, and decide to look harder at something,
zoom in, zoom out, getting the closer view or the panoramic view, ask "What
does this mean" and see more details, or even hear a narrative voice (spirit
guides, the higher self of other people that know you, your heartvoice,
angels..) telling you what you need to know. But if you cannot separate
yourself from the fear, you will not get the message or the enlightenment. I
have even observed my own death, and said, "Okay, that is the end of the
script, now I want to see a happier ending" and my dream has replayed with
other outcomes. Once I said to myself, "It's okay that I am being cut up in
little pieces and mutilated, since I am just dreaming." I would not have
understood the essence of the dream if I had been overridden with fear. The
dream was about a job that was compromising me too much, and I was ignoring
the fact.
Visions of future events, telling me what I need to say and do to change the
outcome of something important, is usually the message for me in the replay
another ending kind of dreams. Understanding more about who I am dealing with
in my daytime life, usually is about their higher self, or forewarning of
their intentions or events, or how my issues, biases, and fears create the
outcome of an event. These are the important dreams, and the ones that
process karma... but lucid dreaming is for a purpose, and that is to take it
all with you to process in your waking state... but when I learned to ask
what something meant, or started looking around or closer while I was
dreaming, it made all the difference.
Cat
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