Expansion of the mind

hollowsoul256 · Cannabis Sacrament Minister Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 6

Not quite sure where this would fit, I hope here is good enough.

Recently I started one of my regular sabbaticals, mostly when I go through these cleansings my dreams remain unseen. A few nights ago was a change and brought to me a lenghty memorable dream. This dream included a cameo from a calculus exam I had recently taken, looking at it, I noticed I received a 79% in the top right corner circled. The next day came and to my surprise got back my exam to get a 78% in the exact same spot, writing, circled, and all. This psuedo phrophetic dream got me thinking about my recent research into Lucid dreaming (controlling dreams), I have now decided to extend my sebbatical to a length of six months to try and achieve this goal.

If anyone has any advice on my timeframe or ways to lucid dream, I would appreciate it very much.

Peace and harmony to everyone,
Rev. Michael Pizzuti

fire on the wind · regular contributor Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 33

I would suggest trying to get some Mugwort(maybe the best legal high) it helps with lucid dreaming.

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hollowsoul256 · Cannabis Sacrament Minister Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 6

mugwort? I haven't heard of that before, if it helps with lucid dreaming I will definitly give it a try. Thanks for the tip.

fire on the wind · regular contributor Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 33

glad i could help, let me know how you like it

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**aeroplane** · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:17 am Post subject:

I would suggest procurring yourself some sacred cactus and making a crude mescaline citrate extract of appx 500mg. Have a sitter ready after you have first prepared by reading about consciousness expansion and awareness. A good place to start with the lit would be The Psychedelic Experience by Drs. Leary, Metzner, and Alpert.

When you begin to feel the mescaline come on, remember to relax and flow with it. It's a great consciouness expander and nothing beats experience. Shocked

Your déja vu is simply the result of your consciousness being expanded. Try it, but only after you've read the book and follow it's instructions. Then let us know what you think. Twisted Evil

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hollowsoul256 · Cannabis Sacrament Minister Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 6

I just wanted to say thanks for the suggestions, I've been testing the mugwort through smoking which isn't the healthiest. A tea or tincture would be better because it seems I don't have memorable dreams the night I smoke the stuff.

I also plan on looking into the sacred cactus method. The best would be a tribal shaman drink used for inducing dreams, but I'll have to take what I can manage with for now :-).

**aeroplane** · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 12:11 pm Post subject:

Mugwort is about the most awful tasting herb no matter how you use it and the worst part is that it's really not that strong nor effective, imho. I've tried it as a tea, a smoke (highly do not recommend), a topical application (cream). My dream activity with mugwort is about the same as if I used niacinimide, (vitamin B3) about an hour before bed.

Once you are ready to explore the sacred cactus, you might want to consider San Pedro or Peruvian Torch. Both are very effective and less expensive than peyote. You should experience increased dreaming and déja vu for months after just one mescaline consciousness expansion trip.

One more thing, remember it's not about the trip, it's what you learn from it. If you have other questions about herbals and ethneobotanicals you can IM me. Cool

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**Ferre** · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:55 am Post subject:

Reminds me I still have a few bags of phylosopher stones somewhere, they help you on your way too.

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Paramatrix · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:02 pm Post subject: The Dream-time

Ahh, my good old friend lucidity...

First of all, I would suggest anyone feeling interest towards what we call dreams, to find out what native peoples all around the world have to say about the dreaming. Because that in many parts makes more sense than our more recent discoveries of REMs and such altogether. Now, my point on this is that two different, even extreme views not necessarily 'hate each other'. Scientific findings about the function of the brain and ancient knowledge of the dream-time go hand-in-hand to me.

Personally, I have quite some experience of lucid states when dreaming. Even to such an extend, that many times I've been able to consciously enter my dreams. For me, it has little to do with sleep paralysis or whatever they call it. Would be unwise to restrict the experience only because of the lack of vocabulary, none the wiser to only categorize and limit the experience in a small box made with syllables and words.

No, for me, dream-time is more real in a sense than typing these thoughts into words on this forum. Too many times I have dreamt my future, actually we do it every day if pay enough attention. In the dream-time our ego has less grib on our consciousness than awake (depends on the person though). Of course, the good old subconscious is there as well, never gonna get rid of so make friends with it. It means, that connect your self to Earth's magnetic field consciously. Become aware of the possibilities subconscious is creating. But it's not the only part of the mind, mind you.

Many natives hold the view, that a human being consists of three parts. These could be called 'the middle self' (that's us right now), lower self (subconscious self) and the Higher Self (not sure if it's the same as Godself?). Whatever we want to call the parts that make up the whole, we are still essentially all that we are, nothing less. The lower Self is the Earth consciousness. Many who are experiencing their 'awaking', may forget the connection to Earth, but as being human, our prior mission has to deal with Earth and making this a better place to live for us all. In other words: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE LOWER SELF, because it is a thing you soon will learn to notice. Even more so, Mother Earth is soon about to make humanity think twice about our way of living. This brings lots of sadness to hearts of many, but let me cleanse the high spot: no one dies in vain, this is all to light the compassion in the hearts of men.

All these experiences we feel are painful, are to bring us to the state of enlightenment: only love counts, and love is the precence and the force of One Supreme Creator. Which brings us to the two other aspects of the self...

Now our minds are quite something, having many regions. There is the lower intellect, and the higher intellect. Wisdom comes from the heart. In our dream-time many of these are mixed up, since no concrete objects prevent things to melt with each other. I am sure all of you who are reading can remember dreams that made no sense at all, unless you view them from another perspective, using the higher understanding which is within you, and actually is your finer precence, your essence.

Knowing all this, has afforded me visits into realms beyond normal understanding and paradigma. I've been flying in outer space, not such we have learnt to think it is, but somewhere far away within, I could say. Flying in total freedom, as the psychedelic colours flamed far away in the horizon. Unnecessary to say, I felt quite free. But it was a state I had to venture for a time. It all started when I consciously entered my dream-state, feeling as if I had fallen out of my physical body, but knowing what was happening. I found myself spinning slowly in some sort of space, it felt pretty warm and soft. I figured out that each round the axis, I'd be taken little further in the dream world. So it happened, that I found myself waking up in several worlds, and in each one of them I wondered if it was the original place where my journey began. In those worlds, I felt completely different, and I suppose it has to do with their frequency levels, the rate they vibrated. (Note: no matter how you would intepret these 'worlds', telling me they were pure product of brain would proove nothing of I say wrong; how does the mind operate, still many things waiting to be explained though mostly ignored by modern science claiming to be purely objective which it often is not).

One of these worlds appeared to be a glanse to the future. In the room I was I saw that my friend had gained two more turtles than he had back then. I did not spoke of this dream to him, and only met him after several weeks after the dream occurred. However, it took some six months to proove my dream accurate as he had gotten two more turtles.

Other things followed, in one world I concidered seriously had I taken some mushroom, looked at myself in the mirror, and my eyes really got pretty insectoidic! Shocked

That was something really...

I also thought how does it feel to be a woman, and by thought changed my sex to the opposite(!). In the name of science everything goes..?

Then before my space journey, I became quite aware of the nature of the surroundings, namely them being my own creation. So I tore it all in to pieces that didn't exist. I suppose this was what gave me the boost to find myself on that legendary space travel. Don't ask what else happened, it's been a while this all happened, some 18 months or so.

Oh and have I had more of these... I am not going to describe them all here, it would take some time. But a funny thing is, that often times these experiences took place, they happened in the following nights. Even had periods when I saw several lucid dreams during one week.

Let me assure you, dreams have much more to show us than we may expect. Not everything is a divine revelation that we see in our dreams, no, much material is coming from the subconscious. But we are multidimensional beings, and it only depends on the level of our consciousness that we acknowledge what is happening. In what rate it is vibrating. Frequencies, frequencies, take me home.

Mind me, mind you, nevermind.

May we continue the topic? If someone has some native wisdom to share, please. Dreams are fascinating, very much present constantly. We become our dreams.

Alodai!
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fire on the wind · regular contributor Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 33

thank you for the interesting post.

I agree that we have much to learn from shamanic but also pre-writing cultures, as for instance how the Aborigines of Australia refer to there legendary or pre-written history as Dream time. i think that there are deep analasyses to be had, for instance when a culture passes on its mythic/sacred knowledg in legend form thereby making the human brain the carrier and preserver and as we know the Human brain woks in a nonlinear pattern like dreams but unlike "normal" or "standard" writing which is linear. Now i think one of the ways culture's became disconnected from this shamanic view was with the introduction of written language which being new was not understood and was perhaps overemphazised. Semantics are a form of practical magick, and when writing sprung up people became SPELL-bound, now we are remembering how inportant the non linear form of intuitional or inspirational knowledge is.

Writing is one of the best tools we have for passing on information from generation to generation, it's like manmade DNA, but its like Nietzsche said when one reads to many books one can soon befound to be simply reacting to what was said without allowing room for creative thoughts to take form. This is why society is in such a poor state, most people think that they have got to keep up with what's going on or what's happening by collectino more data, this is impossible. Improvement comes when people realize the inherrent fallability of all rational knowledge and start to realise that the best way to stay "up" on things is by going back to the core of our being.
I hope this post has not been to incoherent, these thought were practically on screen as the popped into my head.

"I am the heart; and the Snake is entwined
About the invisible core of the mind.
Rise, O my snake! it is now is the hour
of the hooded and holy ineffable flower.
Rise, O my snake, into brilliance of bloom
On the corpse of Osiris afloat in the tomb!
O heart of my mother, my sister, mine own,
Thou art given to nile, to the terror Typhon!
Ah me! but the glory of ravening storm
Enswathes thee and wraps the in frenzy of form.
Be still o my soul! that the spell may dissolve
As the wands are upraised and the aeons revolve.
Behold! in my beauty how joyous thou art,
O snake that carreses the crown of mine heart!
Behold! we are one, and the tempest of years
Goes down to the dusk, and the beetle appears.
O Beetle! the drone of Thy dolorous note
Be ever the trance of this tremulous throat!
I await the awaking! the summons on high
From the lord Adonai, fom the lord Adonai! " taken from "The Book of the Heart Girt by a Serpent" by Aleister Crowley and reprinted here for the pleasure of typing it.

Cheers to all.
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Love to will, will to love.
The secret was told to Mose through the bush which the lord who is like unto fire did burn but not consume, Moses came nigh unto the bush and the Lord spake: I Am, upon which Moses pondered and replied I am too, thus was the initiation given through the bush which in its blazing was not consumed but revealed.

Paramatrix · Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 1:19 pm Post subject: Word

Indeed written language is always more or less depended on the view of the seer, so to speak. But when we understand things not only symbolically, but also with abstract and spiritual approach, we begin to hear how existence and life speak to us, with an existential language. Very greatly have I begun to understand what is meant by the saying 'in the beginning there was the word and the word was with God...'

In the Beginning, there most certainly was a pure, pristine, absolute thought, 'the only begotten Son', from which the Christ-consiousness was given birth. All-emcompassing spiritual consciousness. Now, there needs to be a 'model' for all that manifests in the dimension and world of matter and form. The pattern, that makes it possible for us in the human form on our level to comprehend these things/matters. How can we then ensure ourselves not to go astray? By listening. Listening to that Voice that tells all things what they are and where do they come from, the very Word of God. When it comes to human beings, who carry the Divine spirit within, the seed of God, the creative attributes waiting their potential to be harnessed for Divine Plan's sacred work, our energetic structure explainsby its essence this work/word of God.

Now, I propose everyone in this forum understands that I use these certain terms only as a way of communication. I understand to what I am refering when using them, they are not some ritualistic patterns by which I enslave my consciousness into belief-systems of any kind. I am free from the outer manifestation of these words, yet all things are connected, and that's only because of the Infnite Great Spirit, the Supreme Personality of Creator of All that Is, within and out you and me, and everything. Just to make it sure Wink

Right, the energetic structure of a human, what do we have then? As instance, our chakric system. We also have the known four elements, earth, water, fire and air, plus ether, the space in which all manifests, the finer essence of matter. This all has to do with our wholeness as living creatures, Sons and Daughters of the Living God. Everything is planned in detailand given the chance to grow and evolve - we make no exception in this.Within we carry many different energy channels of different frequencies, manifesting on different levels or planes of human existence, shaping our personality which is like a jewel in the crown. By recognazing the nature of different vibrations, nature becomes our sacred friend, willing to do anything we ask, as long as it goes hand in hand with the sacred plan of evolutionary Divinity. These elements I mentioned, are also connected to our mind and consciousness, the four winds, always on their way upward spiral back to Godhead.

It appears that the more I try explain all this, it becomes more complex which however is not the case. All it takes is understanding, a receptive heart. I try to put together my knowingess of all man's ideology with the connection to nature, since our mind as well has its own nature. Should we not listen to this original sacred state, our longing to once again achieve it, our formula may gain some twisted forms, qualities some may conceptualize as grotesk. Why to ignore the voice that guides us back to perfection from which we actually have never departured except in our imagination? Causes have given rise to concequences, and right now we are trying to sort out why all this actually happens and what is our relation to it.

Supposedly the sacred herb is putting some of this stuff at my finger tips, it has the wisdom, the geometry, which is why harmony reigns in the peaceful mind. Sacred indeed. May the apparent incoherency of my writing be the key to the understanding, that the information indeed rises from within, as a reaction to the recognisition of the original Word that bounds everywhere. Some call it Aum/Om. Feel its precence, as it emcompasses you with the fullness of Divine sound, making you a part of the whole. Nature is God's disguise. No matter if it's the woods outside the window, or the stillness of your mind. Everything is waiting for to be recognised, mysteries await to be solved, and God to be revealed. It's all so simple in God's mind, but we tend to make it so complex. For there is a mind that is so vast, that it was before time. I can say this as certainly as I know to have a personality. Many religions teach that the ego is illusionary, but is that not a bit improper way to start? If humans don't get what the ego is in the first place, how then to recognise its illusion? We need to forge our ego in the image of God. That happens by constantly focusing on everything we know about Goodness, Divinity, Love, Compassion and such. Quite simple. In addition this brings the state of our mind to our ideals in every day life. When these great attributes are in your attention, you can see and hear God everywhere, all the time. By this, you can completely transmute the lower vibrational elements in the image of God, you claim your power(s) as a co-creator of this universe and reality.

How could I make it all so clear, with only a few words when there is so much to be spoken? Type out your understanding about this, I shall go for now. Next time perhaps I will more focus on the vibration of the Sound. A voice that commands. Humm...

Paramatrix
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**Fyrefly1** · Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 6:17 pm Post subject:

Thank you both for some very enlightening words......
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Stokes · Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 7:34 pm Post subject: Re: Word

Paramatrix · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 1:35 pm Post subject:

Para is a Sanskrit-expression, if not remember incorrect, meaning the state of Sound that has not yet dismembered from the original state. It has the potential and it is becoming actual, but is still in some sort of root-connection with its original state. If we think what words are, they most essentially are vibration of air, the finest of the four elements. They do have their symbolic aspect as well, but in actuality words represent the Sound. Now that shows the Word of God in another light does it?

From the beginning, when the Word was, all things become real. There needs to be space where the directions can actualize themselves. Because of the sacred geometry, the directions play a significant role. Four Winds, the four states of mind. Know them, and you have become one with the Earth.

Now we have the four, and what does that make? A cross, a symbol, on which the Son of God was nailed. The cross symbolises something in which time and place unite. So what the center point of the cross represents? The five, the wisdom, and the heart. Human being is being created in the image of Creator, and sacred geometry is applied in our structure. Such form as the pentagram.

As for the number five, it is said that the fifth dimension is the first dimension (from our perspective) where no duality exists, only as the opposites rest in each other. It is only in the lower fourth dimension or plane where the thought of duality manifests, and it has to do with mental and astral realms. Both of these are very easily accessed by any of us, because we live in these states of consciousness all the time. 'Tis the mirrorland! What seems to be is not and so. The essence of these realms is lighter and less dense than their physical counter part, the well-known and famous 3D. That explains why in our dream-time things can be whatever we can think of. But it is not only in the fifth dimension the spirit reveals more about its nature. You can of course know of it before you actually have accessed the fifth realm.

Talking of them in this sense, as if we go forward in linear understanding until we reach some point may lead us astray. Let us say, that everytime you access a new territory, ie. your consciousness has recognized another aspect of the all-emcompassing and eternal Self, the view changes. You may see the whole thing turn topsy turvy, upside down and inside out. In fact, this in some sense is more than probable. We need to kind of finish a death-process of our belief system so it can born again from ashes so to say...

Knowing all this may shed some light on the path on the moonless nights, but the greatest recognisition of our place and status comes from the understanding that we were sent forth from the First Source and the Supreme Personality of Godhead. We have a mission to do while incarnated on Earth. Personally, it is the same for all of us; to find our way back to Divinity, our original and natural state of being. But this happens by multiple choises we make every moment. When the sum begins to resemble something close to a sacred approach, new knowledge is to be opened, within ourselves. It is our DNA that remembers and has known it all the time. It's getting activated, and that's pretty wild when you think about it. We, the human race, have been living with only two active strands for some 10 000 years, and now this is getting completely changed. Our whole solar system is under a huge change, our DNA just cannot resist, nor does it want to. This is the time we all have been waiting for, and it is here, NOW. Think very closely about what I say, your future in many ways is associated with these themes. They are very real.

Wonders have been revealed to those who have the faith and the discern. To those who dedicate their lives to be servants of the Great Plan. It asks something that we must let go, but what we receive in return is thousandfold! Millions, all the galaxies and the secret of the universes. I would give anything for that, eh? Been there, done that, let's do it again!

Peace reigns,

Paramatrix
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