Dreaming into Knowing

In dreams, the house is a representative of the whole of us, the multiple levels (floors), and the different rooms. And, just as with a real house, we want it well-sealed from external effects. Our energetic home is the aura that surrounds our body, and when we are run-down or too stressed, our aura doesn’t have enough energetic support to protect us from coarse energies (lower emotions), or even illnesses. It is our daily spiritual processes and intentions that can strengthen the energy of our aura, and can keep us well-protected from stress of the everyday things that we have to deal with. (At the end of this post there are instructions and a link to download this recording to your computer.)

John: So the theme of the dreaming last night… I should probably just cover the levels of the themes of the dreaming first, before one goes through it, because it was a lot of things. First of all the theme of the dreaming has to do with being able to recognize and acknowledge how there is a correspondence between something that is coming in, and the way we are in the outer.

This is like the second night on this subject matter, as a quality of a theme, but this time one’s looking at the variables that are making it more difficult than it is meant to be, because it’s actually supposed to be an innocuous, simple way of being, but it is not because we have mired ourselves in such a way so that that isn’t so.

And so this idea of how something can kind of come across, and you could see the correspondence between the inner and the way you’re acting and conducting yourself in the outer, and how that is intertwined and linked.

I’m seeing it now from the perspective of what is holding and keeping that from coming to be. Now what I’m seeing is that there is a subtle agitation in my nature, and I can’t seem to shake it, and everywhere I go I carry this subtle agitation. It’s like as if something is constantly bugging me. And the fact that it is constantly bugging me, it stands in the way, it stands on the edge of things, so that the recognition of how a flow needs to be isn’t possible.

And so the first image that I have, in terms of what this looks like in terms of fixing, is it’s like if you have a house and you have a roof-line, you know, that slants, coming down from a top eave and then it slants and then you have an overhang, and there’s a shingle that’s missing in this eave.

Now, I suppose you could ignore that, because it’s on the eave, and the shingle has come loose or is missing. It’s not like when it rains the water is going to go in the house because it’s on the eave, it’s the overhang, and so my tendency is to try to leave it a little out of sight and a little out of mind, you know, to kind of maybe ignore it, because one can get around to it but in their own good time.

Well, it turns out that it becomes important to fix. So the way that one fixes it is I have to have this other person and I, and we have to get up on the roof, and we lay from the top down on this slanted roof. And so our feet are pointed up towards the top, and our head is down over the top looking down over the edge even, and at the shingle area where something has to be fixed. And we’re both like this, looking at it, and that way we’re able to directly look at this and face it for what it is. And down below there are a bunch of teenagers and they’re all cheering that we got it, that we’re doing this.

Now what that is an image of is it’s an image of addressing something that is on the edge, and when it’s on the edge it prevents something from flowing, from coming through in terms of inner into outer, in terms of a natural transmission. And so, to fix this, the proper and appropriate approach is to look at it front and center, look at it straight on, take it straight in. Quit ignoring it. And, in order to deal with it directly, you can’t be sitting on the ground looking up and saying it’s out of sight and out of mind.

You could see, you know, maybe from the ground that something is wrong, but you’re not going to know how to fix it unless you get right up over the top of it, and look right straight down upon it, so that you know how to put another shingle in or whatever that will do the job because these shingles overlap and everything when they’re put into place.  And you have to do this just right, in order for it to hold, because each shingle supports the other shingle. And you can’t let this condition remain because you’re going to suffer a blowback effect. You know, wind will hit it. It’s a weak spot and it’ll rip off a whole bunch of other shingles at one time, and then it will leak in the house.

Well then I am shown the reason why it is like this, and the reason why it is like this is now that overhang is on a north side. It happens to be the front of the house, but it’s on the north side, and so it doesn’t get the direct sun. Now the direct sun is on the part of the house that’s on the right of the overhang, and it’s then on the backside. So I’m kind of on a north slope, and so the direct sunlight is probably hitting on the east and on the south, and so the north slope and the west slope are kind of okay, but the side of the house that’s incomplete, the siding now of the house that’s incomplete, is this east side and north side.

And so to protect it from the elements, and the direct light, there is a black tarp that comes down that shields it until one gets around to it. And so, in my defense, you know, of ignoring that, it’s this direct light that’s affecting me that is causing me to not pay attention with the subtle nuance that is keeping me from being able to recognize the importance of contending with something subtle, as an edginess, that is affecting the in-betweenness of a flow between an inner and an outer. And from contending and dealing with that straightaway because on a higher, or my concept of a higher-self level, my hands are full dealing with this direct sunlight issue that has yet to be dealt with in terms of the elements and such, in terms of putting the siding, or getting the siding on the house, that is more important, that needs to come first.

Isn’t that an interesting way of dreaming? I dreamt all of those in images. Now the thing about the images is I was awake, in this hypnagogic state, so to speak, when I had the image of my feet pointing up to the top, my head directly over with this other person, to address the shingle that’s missing – with everybody down below cheering that, okay, you’re getting it right now.

And the dream with the edginess, and the tension, was in more of the other dreams. And then I also, almost as a type of self-defense to all of that, was then still laying there, suddenly seeing the sides of the house. Now, it was going to be a little hard to work on and put the siding up because the property line ran right next to that side, but yet it needed to have the siding put in place.

And then, of course, there would be the back side, but the side that stood out the most was the side that got the most direct sunlight, which was the east side. Now the east side is where something rises in one’s nature; rises into one’s nature. The north side is the spiritual direction you go in. The south side is your ability to be in life, you know, to take something into life. The west side is where something that rises from the east is able to set. Amazing how that is.

So this has to do with taking on light that I can see and sense, or a quality inside of myself that can feel something coming on, and it’s easy to kind of sit in this cradling effect, and be a little obtuse, and have kind of a collateral damage nature because that’s pretty overwhelming, in and of itself, and hasn’t yet gotten to a point where something is reconciled in that regard.

And, of course, can it ever become reconciled in that regard? It’s kind of like, which came first the chicken, or the egg? It does require a recognition of a flow that pulls the inner into the outer, that causes the recognition of how the inner and the outer come together.

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