Lloyd wrote:The subconscious is infinite. That's why it can answer questions so well.
Allright. I ll agree that subconscious is huge with a tendency to be infinit. There is no 100% proove that it is infinit, but its definetely huge.
So we have a brighter volume within a very large volume of unknown. I guess thats why we call intelligent people bright people. Some sort of light allows us to recognize "stuff" within the unknown. Consciousness then is nothing else then an enlightened part of the subconsciousness.
I d like to move it away from western psychology. Why not use Nagual for the probably endless subconsciousness and Tonal for the consciousness. We could use The Known and The Unknown as well...
However, The Known seems to be an elightened part of The Unknown. For the sake of demonstration we could imagine our selfes in a bright sphere that is hovering in a much larger dark sphere. All inside the bright sphere is recognizable and understandable. Looks pretty much like a sun in space btw.
In reality it isnt a perfect sphere. Actually, if we try to recognize it, consciousness can have infinite different shapes.
It could look like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... nebula.jpg
When i was a child the christian priests still taught about the dark spots on the soul. So called sins created dark spots on our bright soul. Today i understand that its no neccessarily a sin against god, but against my consciousness.
Regarding the topic it seems that the first step is to recreate consciousness so it is a coherent illuminated volume without any dark spots. The recreated coherence also removes the wierd visuals from dreams. Once coherent the dreamvisions are not "encoded" in symbols. They are clear, directly understandable pictures, messages.
The second step seem to be to understand that we probably will never grow large enough to expand infinit. Buddhist enligthenment is about "total illumination", but i want to neglegt this for now. I want to point at the old mages biggest problem. Once you understand that your energy enlightens an area you may choose the wrong path and become a greedy energy collector. Human sacrifies anyone ? The witch who stays young forever because she is bathing in the blood of virgins. Godkings and slaves...
I think history taught us that this is the wrong way. Personally i do not care about politics and ethics. Its about being smart or stupid. Period. There are better options. We are able to control the shape of the consciousness. By changing the shape we are able to enlighten parts of the unknown. Every shape is reaching a different part in the dark unknown and allows us to collect informations and gain knowledge. And this of course supports our evolution and growth.
One example of changing shape
http://www.agnihotra.ch/wp-content/2008/11/yogi.jpg
Here is another
http://www.arts.ri.gov/images/full%20body%20eagle.JPG
Applied to your 1st dream the question is what you could have done to look beyond the field of crops. What is out there ? Actually you began to move your "torch" but your self got scared abit. Thats why it reinstalled the reality it is used to, the house got its walls back. However, the greeting cards seem to represent itchy feet
I wouldnt overrate parents. They may be there for a reason, but in general we cant escape our ancestors. We do not pop out of nowhere, we are all the result of many, many generations of females and males giving birth to children. At least our body is bound to this forever.