Some times when researching the deeper meaning of dreams it's much like a blind person must experience a rose. At first I start off with the thorny part, that doesn't seem too appealing. Then when I continue to feel out out there is one velvety petal, and then another petal, and another each folding in upon the other...separate but eventually I start to envision the whole picture. I can appreciate each petal of information but each petal is incomplete without the next layer.
Sometimes when there is too much emotion attached it's hard to interpret a dream so when I look back a year or two years later I have a moment of amazement. I've been researching dreams for over twenty years. I've been working with them for that same amount of time. I've come across a lot of unexplained superstition when it comes to information people provide when interpreting dreams which I dismiss outright. If you get focused on the symbols too much you sometimes get stuck on interpreting those and don't have the context...you focus on the trees so much to where you don't see the forest. This is one of those dreams that I completely didn't understand when I first had the dream. This one is more real to me than some of the memories I have of the waking world. That said, two years later, and I found another layer that this dream provided. Since a lot of the answers I've had have been provided in dreams and then validated by other sources (a curious process I've noticed) I'm committed to sharing some of my more definitive dreams. Often when I had these dreams I didn't understand them, the symbols were complex and the emotional feeling was what stayed with me the most. Often, I receive information in dreams and it's not until I go back after than I see what they meant. Every morning I sit down and write the three or four dreams that I had during the course of the night. I don't try to interpret them. I just write down everything I can remember. I let the emotional charges wear off, then I go and interpret them. Sometimes when I go back my mind is blown and I see that it was a prediction (I had a dream of my doctors name at Kaiser (Palmer), for example, but my soul saw the trip to the hospital very differently then I saw it when I went through that experience). Hyper Reality For me there are dreams that seem more real than reality and I remember them better than I do some real life events. Some might think that this is some sort of psychological disorder. Yet, Eben Alexander, author of Proof Of Heaven, had a similar experience with his NDE which he calls Hyper Reality and he says that there is ample of research stating the same thing with other NDE's (I've only heard him talk on the Moore Show). In the Kevin Todeschi Book, Dream Interpretation (and more!) Made Easy, he explains much the same thing with dreams. The next post will be a Book Review of Dream Interpretation (and more!) Made Easy. A lot of people remember their dreams in detail more than they do some mundane event they didn't attribute a lot of attention to in their waking life. Dreams, according to Edgar Cacyes A.R.E. are the realm of spirit so it makes sense that like an NDE a strong message from spirit would take this form. The Dream At first Ross and I were at the mouth of a tunnel. The tunnel looked dark and scary. I was a reporter sent out to discover and reach a very difficult community.I was to report back what I found. We had torches that we carried as we entered the tunnel. There was a third person, a male, that started off with us on the journey. There was a river running through the center of the tunnel. There were also thick masses of spiders. Some of the spiders were the size of small dogs. The third person chickened out and went back to the opening. Ross continued on with me and we came to a remote Mountain Top. To the left there were all of the indulgences in unlimited supply that the material world has to offer. There were big factories producing food and slurpees. Every delight you might have when it comes to food was offered on the left. Ross went that way. To the right was a temple grown over with ivy that looked ancient and primarily Hindu. I went into the temple and the people there greeted me. I studied and learned how to levitate in meditation. I became pregnant but I don't remember giving birth. I bathed in a shower of blue cleansing water after the pregnancy. I was then told that I would have to go back and report to everyone else 'out there' what I had experienced- those who were not on this remote Mountain Top. I had to report to the people who couldn't or wouldn't come to this place because of the risks associated with it. I was sad to leave but felt that the wisdom that I had gained was worth the journey. That was the end of the dream. This And That One of the things that I have learned about all messages from spirit and all dreams is that they can have a multi-faceted function. There are clearly applicable meanings in our daily lives, sometimes predictions of the events that will happen the next day, and sometimes a broader deeper spiritual message. When I'm deeper in a dream state I know that it will have many more meanings. There are three levels to any one dream that I have...sometimes I go to a specific level and sometimes I have simultaneous dreams on three levels (I know, that was a big revelation for me!). Events At The Time I had this dream in 2014 when I was very lost and didn't want to live anymore. My husband didn't understand why I was returning to my spiritual search which I had suspended upon meeting him. After all, I had one of my deep searches answered when I met him. Of course, to reach that point I had found wholeness within myself. I had undergone a deep spiritual transformation before meeting Ross and that's what created the room for him to enter into my life. I have written a blog abut why he is so perfect for me that I will post soon (I have about twelve written...when you're stuck on bed rest for a couple of weeks that's what happens). I was searching for meaning in my life and Spirit, as always, sent me the answer when I, "Knocked." I didn't get it at the time. I was too emotional and that's why sometimes it's easier to have your dream interpreted by someone else. You just have to be open to their ideas and not take it personally. Dreams are best interpreted by the dreamer, because some symbols are unique (as opposed to archetypes) but emotions and personal attachment to the outcome/meaning can make it a bit hard to decipher meanings. Often Spirit, through dreams, shines a light on the parts of us we don't want to see..the parts of us who have not been integrated...the disowned aspects of the Victim, the Inner Critic, etc. That's when it's hard to look at a dream with clarity. Meaning #1 The easiest way to interpret a dream per Todeschi's book is to identify the story and boil it down to a couple of lines. Here, it would be a journey (which might represent an event), a parting of paths with Ross regarding what we choose to pursue, valuable knowledge gained by me, a pregnancy, purification, and then a return. The Journey and the tunnel could be a "rite of passage" could be the death of Lilith-Ann, the parting with Ross is obvious as I was pursuing my spiritual ideas and he was not...the valuable knowledge, purification and conception (At that time) remained all events in the future as I felt very lost at the time. So, first and foremost this dream gave me a very valuable answer to a question I asked. Why doesn't Ross have a need to explore the spiritual? Why doesn't he want to share all of the interesting information that I am discovering? The answer is very simple. He chose to study the material world (this could go deeper but I won't). Most people choose that path...to fully experience and study the material experiences of this world. I have no judgement of that at all...it is just what happened. Ross is a skeptic. He has chosen not to disbelieve in God nor believe in God. He finished his spiritual pursuit in College (hiss, hiss, boo). He came to a conclusion that works for him and sees not value in revisiting the subject. You see, that Mountain Top place is Earth. Once here, Ross chose material experiences and I chose to explore the spiritual. A very simple truth. Meaning #2 The dream as a metaphor for life. The remote community is Earth. The Cave could be a birth canal and not everyone is willing to come to Earth (shown by the guy who was scared) or complete the Spiritual Journey. I was sent by Source and the Greater spiritual community to come to Earth as a Reporter so that I might report back to the Source about what is happening here. I can't say that this works for everyone but John Van Auken's books and Edgar Cacye sure seem to support that idea. Also, make note that in Jewish tradition there are visitors sent to report on the state of Israel (Edgar Cacye said in a reading: "This is the meaning, this should be the understanding to all: Those that SEEK are Israel. 'Think not to call thyselves the promise in Abraham. Know ye not that the Lord is able to raise up Children of Abraham from the very stones?' So Abraham means 'Call'; so Israel means those who seek. Spiritual Breakthrough by John Van Auken). At the end of life we must return back to the Source. In this case, in my dream the rest of the Cosmos was far more vast than this remote mountain top sanctuary. Earth is just a remote tip to the ice berg that is live in the 'multiverse.' Meaning #3 A Prediction of my Life Most of the dream was Archetypical in nature...that is what Carl Jung would call Universal Symbols of the Collective Unconscious. By choosing to enter the Temple I experience four events. These four events are things that I will achieve or experience while on this planet as a result of my daughters death (I was searching for meaning in why Spirit had allowed me to experience the death of my daughter). Sometime after experiencing these four events I am told I cannot stay and that I must return home to share my report with the rest of creation. I see this as I will not remain in Samsara- that is in the Cycle of Death and Rebirth that so many who are addicted to material realm are stuck. As all four are abstract I did not have knowledge at the time of the dream to interpret them. 1. Learning to Levitate Through Meditation: This is a personal symbol. To me this suggests that I will attain enlightenment. What is enlightenment? There in itself is an essay I could write and a paradox not easily answered. Let's just say obtaining certain knowledge...so that I do what many believe is impossible on a spiritual level. There is magic in the process, but it is an internal psychological practical process. I can say that I have achieved this one to some degree. I have met my Higher Self (a goal some Buddhist monks never attain). I will explain further in another blog where I revisit that subject (I have covered this in a previous blog much earlier in my spiritual path when I wasn't able to put it into context...I just knew it was exciting and that I had achieved something rare). 2. A Pregnancy: Don't go thinking this is about having kids (I mistakenly thought this at first). This is a spiritual pregnancy and rebirth of myself (hence why I never saw a child). Not the baptism of water that we pass off as the spiritual rebirth but something a lot more complex. This rebirth occurs on the spiritual or soul level- not in the physical material realm at all (although the material realm will be affected by it!). A baptism by the fire of Spirit. Being reborn in Spirit requires that you integrate all of those disowned parts of yourself. This is a long process and often takes many lifetimes. I have achieved this and I will visit this topic in the future but here is a often over looked and not understood quote from the bible: "I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with holy spirit and fire." Matthew 3:11 A Kundalini awakening involves bringing the "fire" from the base of the spine up through the the 7 chakra's and reconnecting with spirit. The inevitable effect of this is a baptism of fire. This is where I am inclusive and I state that Jesus, or Yeshua if you prefer as I do, was aware of and teaching Eastern mystic ideas (after all, at the very least he studied in Egypt). My Kundalini experience was very unintentional...powerful and probably what lead me to go off the deep end. As Joseph Campbell says, "The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims in delight." 3. Purification: The phoenix is the symbol that really represents this stage to me. This is part of the rebirth...the baptism in fire from which we rise up from the ashes of the lives we had in the form of a bird (a powerful archetypal symbol, I might add, that I will explore in a future blog). We hit these stages of death and rebirth several times throughout our life. I've had my identity torn down and had to built it back up...the difference in this latest event with Lilith-Ann is I never built myself up again...I refused to label or define myself in any way in the material world. I stopped narrating my life story or as the Buddhist's call it, "Naming activity." In the dream I was bathing in this blue liquid that was like Windex. What does Windex do when you clean a window or a mirror? It gives you clarity. Hence I gain spiritual clarity through this cleansing experience. Departure: Them I'm told I cannot stay at the Mountain Top. I have to go home. At first I had assumed that this dream was an adventure in spirit. That I had gone "elsewhere" to obtain mystical knowledge in the dream. I knew as soon as I had this dream that it was a powerful message from spirit. But I was so stuck in my earthly material left brain way of thinking that I couldn't conceive what it meant at the time. Plus I didn't have the conscious knowledge to understand the deeper archetypal meaning of this dream. What I have realized since is that the end was Death to the Material Realm. I remember looking out over the vast civilization that started at the base of this mountain. I couldn't see an end to that civilization. This little mountain top community was so small but contained such powerful knowledge. I knew that I would be taking the information that I gained here back to the greater spiritual community...to the souls not brave enough to try their hand at the perils of this world. Conclusion Even at the time, when I didn't understand the dream, I found great comfort in this dream. I knew that it was special. There was just that feeling to it that I couldn't ignore...that there was a deep mystery in it and much meaning I could not decipher. I couldn't understand it at the time. Yet, my research has made it clear this is how it works. The soul journeys here for experiences and then reports back to the Source. Often here, on the material plane of existence we tend to think this is all there is but in that dream it made our little existence here look like a speck of dust that few souls want to experience. Those who choose to come here are very brave because they have to pass through that darkness. What is interesting is that in what I have seen Eben Alexander describes that realm of darkness in between this level of existence and another level of existence. (There seems to be four distinct layers he witness, the earth worm view, the dark layer, the layer where he describes 'angels' and the layer where source seems to exist). Edgar Cacye also reported on a dark layer that he passes through to reach the Akashic record. In Journey of Souls by Michael Netwon it's explained that we often pass through a tunnel to reach 'the other side' and that without help many couldn't do it on their own (in my Past Life session I learned that I knew the way home and did not require a guide to return home). The tunnel might be a way of guiding souls through those different layers that Eben Alexander experienced perhaps through song and harmonics. On an interesting note, only advanced souls are supposed to know the way home without assistance. I am not sure what to think of that. I've been told I am old soul and yet a new soul. I think the way to solve this paradox is that I'm an older soul but new to earth. Some people might call this a Starseed or Wanderer. I don't really care about the label or where I came from but it does make sense. So, right there I have three validations as to the nature of that cave that I had in my dream. Thanks for taking the time to read this analysis and I hope you learned something. To me it was a profound revelation that occurred during the Dark Night of the Soul.
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