Self Esteem B
Whether it is a physical assault upon your person or a legal assault on your individual rights there is a line that must be drawn. There must be a point where a person says “I will take no more abuse. This type of abuse must stop and it must stop here and now.”
We must refuse to be victims. When we are victims we suffer, our loved ones suffer, our community suffers, our nation suffers and the entire human race suffers. When we stand up to defend ourselves and our loved ones we are no longer victims regardless of the outcome of the situation. We have at least done something, taken what action we could to make the situation right.
Someone must be the first to stand up and fight back. Why must it always be the other person that fights for the injustice in our world? Why can’t it once in a while be us?
These are the three important lifetime goals I believe will do the most to develop self-esteem within a person. There are other smaller goals that will assist this process.
We have at least one skill, one thing we are good at, one thing others will come to us to learn about. There must be at least one thing we are known and respected for. We must be good at this one personal skill to have a healthy self-esteem.
Find that one thing and hone it to perfection. Become highly competent at this one physical skill whatever it is. Each individual is unique. Some things appeal to one person and not to another. We each have certain things we find easy to do and other things we find difficult to do.
In the beginning it is vital we become highly skilled at what we find easy to do even if we are not that interested in doing it. Each small success is accumulative and will lead us through the clumsy, awkward stage into proficiency and finally into professional level competency. We must become familiar with both the awkwardness of the beginner and the competence of the professional.
When we understand the cycle we no longer fear the awkward stage of being a beginner because we know that as we gain experience it will become easier. Too many people refuse to do new things in life because they are afraid of looking foolish and awkward in front of others. These same people have probably never reached true competence in a skill and don’t understand how the learning cycle really works.
By achieving professional level competence in those areas that are easy for us, we become able to recognize those same stages of competency as we try gaining skills that are not so easy. When we have succeeded in one area we know success is possible and we know what it feels like. We are able to recognize it in other areas. We have physical knowledge of what it is like.
Each person should eventually acquire many skills at the professional level. They should acquire not only easily developed skills but at least one extremely difficult skill.
It will require hard grueling effort against terrible resistance to prepare us for self-mastery of our physical lives and our physical world. In fact, the only way to achieve mastery of our physical lives is by mastering one physical skill at a time.
Mastery comes when one looks back at a wide range of hard won efforts and skills and realizes that compared to many other people his or her life is relatively problem free. This person is able to realize that he or she is free.
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Self Esteem A
Good self-esteem is vital in life. Without it we remain victims and unable to achieve the things we really want. When we feel good about ourselves it is easier to feel good about others too.
In my personal opinion there are three supreme goals we should strive for in life. If we can reach a competency level in each area we will have a healthy self-esteem.
Competency in these three areas will do more toward spiritual, emotional, mental and physical health than any other goals we may pursue. That does not mean these goals are easily achieved.
The first goal is completion of a basic first aid or paramedic course. Some type of course that trains a person in dealing with medical emergencies. There is no feeling worse than standing by helpless when someone else is dying or in desperate need of emergency medical attention.
One of my children once choked on an ice cube. She was turning blue and couldn’t breathe. I remember mechanically picking her up, slapping her on the back to dislodge the object and reaching down her throat to scoop out the ice cube. What can I say? What if I had been unable to do anything and remained frozen with fear?
I drove into my parents yard one day and my father was giving CPR to my uncle on the steps leading into our house. He had been doing CPR for fifteen minutes until the paramedics arrived. My uncle died that day on our doorstep.
What if my father had not tried to keep him alive with CPR? In times of emergencies if something can be done it must be done. Many places offer basic first aid courses throughout the year. EMT training is also available but takes a little longer. As a goal in life EMT training should be attainable by almost anyone.
The reward may be much more than self esteem. You may use that knowledge to save the life of someone you love.
The second lifetime goal should be to acquire survival skills. This means the ability to stay alive in survival conditions. Having the ability to swim is an example. The ability to find or create shelter from the elements and start a campfire is another.
Other obvious examples would be knowing what to do when you are lost or when you need to go someplace for help.
These are all skills that are easily attainable through local courses almost anywhere. They aid tremendously in developing confidence and self-esteem.
Those that wish to master these skills could learn how to live off the land for days at a time. Courses are also taught on how to find food in nature and how to create emergency shelters. Sure this type of training is difficult. But remember we are talking about lifetime goals here.
Many things can be learned and experienced a little at a time and not all at once.
Survival skills are learned by physically going through the actions required and not by intellectual knowledge. The physical body needs to be taught step by step by actually going through the motions and experiences.
Hiking, camping, rock climbing, and any outdoor sport can be valuable in providing this survival type experience. The more experience we have the better our survival ability becomes and the better we feel about ourselves.
In acquiring these skills we know with conviction that we can take care of ourselves and those we love in emergencies. This knowledge is very empowering and helps us to believe in ourselves. It helps us to reach out with confidence for those things we want in life for both ourselves and for those we love.
The third life time goal is the ability for self-defense. The ability to defend ourselves or our loved ones is vital to our well being. This does not mean picking a fight with someone. It means that you don’t have to back down or run just because someone threatens you or a loved one with physical violence.
The sad truth is that we may have our hard-earned goal within our hands and through threat of force or violence someone can take it away from us. There are people that prey upon weaker people and take advantage of the weakness of their victims.
The ability for self-defense is a mind set as well as a physical skill. We have been brain washed into thinking it is better to offer no resistance when confronted by force or threat of force. This applies equally to the rules, regulations and laws that strangle our personal freedoms at an ever-increasing rate. We are told it is the law, we must not resist.
Increasingly there are frivolous laws being passed that infringe on our personal freedoms. Some of these laws are blatantly unconstitutional and revoked by the Supreme Court. Others have not yet been ruled upon by the Supreme Court.
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Creative Power
Crippling depression comes when we can’t find any way out of a bad situation. We feel trapped and helpless. Each of us is doing the best we can in life. We each act in accordance to what we have learned through past experiences and in accordance with our current beliefs.
No matter how successful we are things will occasionally erupt in our faces and attempt to smash us. There is always a creative solution to even the worst situation. In the very worst situation it may cost us our life. Still, it is always possible to find a way to die with honor and self-esteem intact.
I recently read a novel that dealt with the horrors of Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s disease. I was deeply moved as I read about these diseases. I know some people that suffer from Alzheimer’s but I did not know how badly they and those they loved suffered. In the novel, one person in a lucid moment beat the disease through suicide.
He was able to die with dignity at the moment of his choice and under his terms. The novel still haunts me. Why should our world be this way? True genius and creativity come from developing the ability to discover and use solutions previously unknown or unrecognized. Every situation has a solution, it is up to us to find that solution and discard those that are not acceptable.
We must train ourselves in the ability to find these solutions. This training helps us to be resourceful and adept at dealing with recurring crisis situations. In time crisis situations are no longer emotionally crippling to us. We gain the ability to deal with them rationally and competently. The key to finding creative solutions is to take ourselves out of the situation and perceive it differently.
We must change our way of looking at the situation because our normal way offers no solution. We do this naturally when we ask ourselves, “What would Dad do in this situation, what would Mom do? What would John Wayne or Clint Eastwood do?” We try to see the situation from the eyes and viewpoint of someone we respect.
A draw back of this approach is that it involves admitting our own inability to deal with the situation. It reinforces the weakness of our own chosen belief system.
As strange as it sounds, the use of divinatory devices such as horoscopes, fortune cookies, Tarot cards and daily prayer books are more effective.
These devices are more effective because they give information that is so vague and general we must generate creative energy to make the information even apply to us.
“How in the world can that ever apply to me?”
After a few minutes of thought we arrive at possible interpretations that could apply to our own situation.
Do you see what is happening? At the last level we approached the problem not as ourselves but as someone else. In this stage we use divinatory devices to get our own creative juices flowing. These devices are crutches or aids and have no power in themselves. At this stage we are able to expand our options in creative ways with the help of these aids.
One of the great enjoyments in life is finding the correct solution to a problem or situation. Eureka! A light bulb goes off in our brain and we are overjoyed.
Most people enjoy horoscopes and other divinatory aids because of the joy of discovering possible interpretations to what would otherwise be nonsense. We enjoy creating meaning out of chaos and discord. At least we do when chaos and discord do not overwhelm us.
It is important we try for solutions that are within our ability to resolve. The key is to start at lower levels and not attempt the highest levels until we are familiar with the lower ones.
The next stage is much more rigid and demanding. A writing instructor may tell a student to take a list of 25 words and create a poem or a story containing those words. Likewise a person may spend days, months or years making his or her thoughts conform to a specific pattern.
The art and discipline of pen and ink drawing is an example. The artist is restricted to work in a specific medium and still expected to produce brilliant creative and original work.
This is also the level of active problem solving. Thousands of people enjoy crossword puzzles and other mental challenges simply because of the joy in finding the correct solutions. In addition to added creative power this also develops the analytical and reasoning skills.
As always, the more experience you have in problem solving the greater your ability to find solutions becomes. The more you do, the better you get.
The next level is illustrated by the concept of a Zen koan. A Zen master may ask a pupil, “What do an ice cube, a stop sign and your mother-in-law all have in common?” There is only one correct answer and it is highly personal and individual. You will feel the correctness of the solution deep in your soul when you find it.
The student or disciple may spend days, months or even years pondering this question. Whenever he approaches the master with a possible solution the master merely says, “That is not the correct solution, try harder.” After perhaps two years the student runs up to the master laughing and with tears in his eyes. He is overcome with emotion and radiates intense excitement. “I know the answer,” he shouts. “Whenever I see my mother-in-law she stops me cold!”
The master congratulates the student and then gives him another more difficult koan. With each success the student is able to find the correct answer more easily and swiftly. Of course the correct answer is always individual and personal but the master and student both can tell when the answer is the correct one by the emotional rightness it has.
This is a very high degree of problem solving where only a few simple words are used as a key to unlock the creative power within us. As before each effort builds upon the successes of previous efforts. With experience the difficulty goes away and the solution readily appears.
The highest level of creative problem solving is when a person blanks their mind and deliberately tries to be open to all possibilities. They reject “possible” solutions because they are familiar with the euphoria and inner joy that comes from the truly “correct” solution.
The exciting news is that this level of creative ability can be developed by anyone with practice and hard work. But they must first master the lower levels of creative problem solving.
Mastery of each of the lower levels is an important and easy way to get a great number of personal successes under one’s belt. This assists in strengthening personal confidence and self-esteem.
The creative ability is like a muscle that must be flexed many times for it to grow strong. It is like dissolving salt in a glass of water. You can add more and more salt and nothing happens. At a critical point the water can contain no more salt and the salt crystallizes out of the water.
In the same manner when we focus our attention fully on our problem and give it our energy and effort a point will eventually be reached where the proper solution crystallizes into our awareness. With experience we become familiar with the process and it becomes easier and swifter to accomplish. Each success makes the next one easier and we learn to trust ourselves more.
In time our ability to focus and generate this creative energy can become spontaneous and happen without effort on our part. It is at this point we are competent and resilient in life. Our ability to deal with life becomes an enjoyable challenge and not a burden. We actually look forward to the next challenge from the unknown.
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Our Public Image
Self mastery and mastery of our physical lives means to constantly act in an appropriate manner for any given situation. By acting in an appropriate manner we can achieve much more with less effort.
It is difficult enough to achieve our personal goals without deliberately alienating people that could become our allies and supporters. There will always be enemies. We should not drive away those that could become our friends.
Friends, family and society expect us to act and perform in certain ways. When we act in ways that are expected of us we receive support and approval. Without the support and approval of friends, family and society we can not physically achieve the goals we desire. It is vital to realize the importance of the support other people give us or can give us. Without support even if we achieve our physical goal we will not enjoy it.
Our joy comes from sharing with others things we have truly earned. If we have no one to share with our victory in life becomes meaningless. We become as a child that refuses to share its toys with anyone else.
When we act in a manner that is unconventional or surprising our friends, family and society withdraw their support. If our actions are too extreme we are rejected or punished in subtle ways meant to bring us back in line. We have all experienced peer pressure to some degree in our lives. It is a very powerful force.
Self mastery means having the adaptability and self esteem to do what is expected and by putting our own creative slant on things go in the direction we wish to go. There is a way to creatively unite what others demand of us and those things we want in life. It is up to us to find that win-win situation. Our friends, family and society will only support us after they understand our personal goals are in harmony with what they expect of us.
When we are successful they will understand how the achieving of our personal goal has helped everyone. Until that time we will stand alone against terrible opposition with very little support. If we can gain any kind of support from others we should try to do it.
No one understands us like we understand ourselves. Even our families and closest friends don’t really understand us at times. They can only go by our actions, what they see and what we tell them about ourselves.
Everyone takes the limited information they receive about us and create an image or impression of us. This image or impression is their own understanding of who we are. This image is a label or stereotype. They use this image or stereotype in all future dealings with us unless we for some reason force them to re-evaluate who we are.
We do the same thing. We look at our best friend and think we understand him or her. We believe we can predict how our friend will act in certain situations. When our friend doesn’t act the way we expect we suspect something is wrong.
We try to get them to act in a way we have grown accustomed to. We want them to act in a stereotyped way. When they act in the accustomed way we know how to deal with them. When they act in unfamiliar ways we no longer know what is appropriate and that makes us uncomfortable.
We want to be comfortable. Others want to be comfortable around us too. They want us to act in predictable ways. One of the most powerful ways to achieve our physical goals is to act, dress and live in a manner that will create the image or stereotype appropriate for achieving our goals.
We must deliberately choose the image we wish and be consistent in projecting that image. We must look and act as if we are already the type of person we wish to be. We must act as if we have already achieved the goal we want to achieve.
Through repeated exposure to the image we are projecting others will stereotype us in a manner consistent with the goal we want. People will begin to support our efforts because it seems right we have those goals. They come to believe we have the right to the goals we are seeking.
The support of others validates us and helps us get through difficult times. We get feedback that others would like us to succeed. We feel good about ourselves and our goals.
This is especially true when our loved ones are supportive of us. The powerful thing about deliberately creating stereotypes is we can customize our image in a way that is one of a kind and unforgettable. People will fit us within a certain category and then create a special sub-category especially for us.
The key is to first create a general stereotype recognizable to others. Then we can create a sub-category that is unique and individual. When people don’t recognize the image we project they will create one of their own that is not one we would like to have.
They will treat you and interact with you in a manner that will perpetuate their image of you. If you are labeled as a loser or a flake you will be treated like a loser or a flake.
These negative stereotypes are some of the hardest obstacles we must overcome in physically achieving our goals in life. It is much better to project the image of your choice than to allow others to choose for you.
The way to earn this special sub-category in to act, dress and live according to stereotype but also add so much open honesty and integrity that you as an individual become more important and interesting than the stereotype itself.
Be true to the stereotype we project while also being true to ourselves. Give others clues as to the best ways to interact with us. Let people know how we want to be treated so they can treat us in the way we ask.
If the image we project is too complex others will not understand us and be uncomfortable around us. We want people to feel comfortable around us. We want to act in predictable ways and make it easy for others to be comfortable with us.
The most important stereotype we project is a sexual one. What kind of man or woman am I? Do I take care of myself? Am I attractive and physically fit? What is my attitude and my outlook on life?
Think of yourself. Look in a mirror. What do you see? What do others see? Do others see what we want them to see? How can we improve the image we project? Is the sexual stereotype you project going to help you achieve your personal goals in life?
Is your sexual stereotype supportive of who you really want to be in life?
Once accepted a stereotype tends toward self-fulfillment because both you and those you interact with constantly reinforce it. You are rewarded for acting in a manner consistent with the stereotype and punished for deviating from it.
We have a duty to ourselves to look and act in a manner consistent with the achievement of the goals we want. If we want to be a farmer we should look and act like a farmer. If we want to be a doctor we should look and act like a doctor.
Are we to remain passive victims in life or are we going to do whatever must be done to achieve our goals? Are we going to take risks and project ourselves as winners?
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The Will to Live B
Life and awareness require both. The vital life force and awareness that flows through us are the result of a resonant circuit formed from equal parts of physical and spiritual material. Each side is equal in importance for life. Each world is valid and has its own laws. We do not need just one. We NEED BOTH!
The concept of reincarnation is valuable because it helps us realize the importance of a life of growth and learning from one life to the next. It helps us realize the situations we find ourselves in are the result of things we have done in the past. It tells us the things we run and hide from will still be waiting for us in a future lifetime. It tells us there is no escape from the consequences of our actions.
Our life situations are lessons we need in order to grow. We chose to experience these major lessons before we were born. The concept of reincarnation helps us become responsible for our physical actions on a day to day basis. If we do not treat others fairly we will someday be treated unfairly by others. In this way we realize what it is like to be treated unfairly. There are consequences to everything we do, both good consequences and bad consequences. These consequences are called karma. What goes around, comes around.
It is a tragedy that this concept of reincarnation is misused in a way that destroys the WILL TO LIVE within each of us. Many that believe in reincarnation also believe a point is reached when it is no longer needed to be born in a physical body. They believe we can learn all the lessons a physical body can give and earthly life can be outgrown with no more to offer.
They believe someday we will live in a spiritual world and have a spiritual body. THEY NO LONGER IDENTIFY WITH THE PHYSICAL WORLD. IT IS NO LONGER IMPORTANT!
Traditional Christianity has led the human race to the bring of death and extinction. traditional Christianity teaches if we believe in the teachings of Jesus and accept him as the Christ spirit within our heart we will be saved. We will have a spiritual body and reign with him in heaven, a non-physical place. THEY NO LONGER IDENTIFY WITH THE PHYSICAL WORLD. IT IS NO LONGER IMPORTANT TO THEM.
By over valuing the spiritual body and awareness we lose contact with our own WILL TO LIVE and are less effective in our physical lives. In my opinion there is only one way for us to regain our WILL TO LIVE .
Believe with conviction that physical life and a physical body are as much a requirement as spiritual life and a spiritual body. Believe they are equal in value, that awareness and life itself demands both a physical body and a spiritual body. Believe with conviction that a billion years from now we will still require both a physical body and a spiritual body. Our immortal soul will be living in a physical human body.
Believe that if we want a world of peace, love and beauty we must somehow fashion it out of the one we physically live in. If we want to live in heaven and reign with Jesus we must create heaven right here in the physical world. Accept the Christ spirit into our physical hearts every day of the week and by our actions show what type of spiritual being we are. See the Christ that is within each one of us. “We are all the sons and daughters of the Gods”.
Work with the materials in front of us and use them to form the materials that will achieve our goals. Find a way to bring our visions of a spiritual life into practical and livable physical reality.
Develop strong emotions about the beauty of the world we live in. God/dess created the world and it was good! God/dess looked at his creation and it was good! God/dess created man and woman in his image and it was good! The Kingdom of Heaven is here and now. It is right before us and it is good.
Physically act and do those things needed to bring the Kingdom of God/dess into physical reality. Physically and emotionally struggle and master our own lives. By example we can inspire others to take responsibility for their own lives. We can turn our physical world into the heaven God/dess intended it to be.
Only this belief will give us the will power to roll up our sleeves and do the physical WORK needed to achieve mastery of our physical lives and world. To make our world a heaven and not a hell we need THE WILL TO LIVE.
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The Will to Live A
Acquiring the will to live is an important step toward self-empowerment and mastery of our physical lives. Not everyone has it. How can we achieve this strength of will? There is an instinct or primal will to live deep within each of us. It is the collective will of the human species to survive into the future, to grow and expand.
We are a part of the human race and there is within us something that wishes the human race to physically survive. There is something that wants the human race to be alive billions of years into the future when our sun goes nova and dies out.
There is within us something that wants the human race to expand beyond planet earth, to explore the stars and other galaxies. Something that wants humanity to build miraculous cities beneath the oceans and on top of the highest mountains. Something that wants us to go ever onward in the face of overwhelming opposition.
There is something within us that delights in healthy bodies with fine athletic ability. Something that delights in competence, problem solving and new challenges. Something that wants the human race to take the next evolutionary step toward physical perfection.
That something is the WILL TO LIVE. Why is this will to live so strong in some people and weak in others? When confronted with obstacles and strong adversities why do so many people give up? More important why do those few not give up?
Most of us have learned we are more than physical bodies, we have a soul or astral body and awareness. We have learned to value our “spiritual” selves over our “physical” selves and been taught that physical life is not spiritual life.
Spiritual and mental pursuits are what have become important in our society. Even watching football or basketball on television is a passive pursuit! It isn’t a physical one. Has anyone ever thought it strange that people become more emotional about watching sports than actually playing sports? Perhaps the only way some people can become emotional in today’s world is by watching someone else do something.
We have become a society of “watchers” and not “doers”. Our sense of personal responsibility has been lost. We allow the few “doers” to dominate and control our lives. Because we have no “self discipline” we submit to “external discipline”. Rules and regulations are constantly eroding our personal freedoms while we say and do nothing. Each new law places a restriction on our lives that was not there before.
Our society encourages reliance on “outside” help and discourages self-reliance. We are encouraged to remain passive and let others do our thinking and our living for us. Everywhere someone is trying to entertain us and direct our thoughts. We are told there is no need for a will to live. We are told we no longer have instincts, we have outgrown the need for them.
Yet when we try to entertain others, when we feel we have something of importance to share, no one listens or is interested. When we try to “do” something we are blocked. Our society wants us to remain right where we are in life.
Give us noble spiritual goals and ideals. Tell us how important the next political election is going to be. Saturate our minds with words and ideas until our heads spin. Seduce us into living fantasy lives that have little to do with physical reality. Encourage us to give our personal power away to external authorities.
But at any cost, do not let us actively and physically take steps toward making our world a better place. Don’t tell people they must take baby steps before they can run. Don’t tell people a goal must be small and attainable at first.
Show people great heroes and tell them, “Look, you can do that too!” But forget to tell them hard work is involved. Sell everyone the easy route to success that never works.
Our society does these things and our society is seriously flawed. Our society is falling apart and all we are doing is watching! We are watching because we have been taught to. Our society is trying to die!
This over valuing of the spiritual and mental life prevents us from acquiring mastery of our physical lives.
Yes, our soul is immortal. Yes, the Christ spirit is within us if we will reach out to it and listen to the still small voice of our conscience. No, the spiritual life and mental life are not more important than the physical and emotional life.
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Dream Vehicles and Weapons B
A knife in a dream indicates a surplus of energy. If we have a weapon we will also have clothing.
A weapon like a knife indicates the ability to manipulate the outcome of the dream in some manner. This means using our energy reserve and attempting to make the energy flow in a manner favorable to us. Put in other terms we might find ourselves in some type of astral battle or duel and using our knife or weapon to defend ourselves. We need to defend ourselves to keep the energy flowing in the same direction. There is a threat the energy flow will be reversed.
In dreams we do not fight inanimate objects. Inanimate objects reflect physical obstacles that we must somehow get around. Anything we end up fighting is animate and indicates the opposing force of another individual, often someone close to us or perhaps even ourselves. The monster we fight in dreams is either someone else functioning in a very distorted manner and affecting our physical lives or it is a part of our own inner self that we are in denial about, a part that is also affecting our physical life.
Is the dream empowering and expansive or is it restrictive and making us helpless victims. In any case it is an accurate reflection of a certain energy and situation in our physical life. Are we being healed or victimized in the dream experience?
Weapons such as guns, grenades and bombs represent very large energy reserves that can be tapped to influence the direction of energy flow within the dream. These dream weapons are so powerful they can even be projected and used at a distance. In the dream we can shoot someone or something without being close to it. A knife battle involves hand to hand combat that is more desperate.
While it is a sign of empowerment to have a weapon in a dream the natural consequence is to find ourselves in situations where we need to use it. In life there is a competition for things. By using our energy reserves to make the current flow in a favorable direction someone else is suffering an energy reversal and they will astrally come to discover what the problem is and try to correct it. They desire what we desire. This causes an astral duel or confrontation. As a person’s power increases these duels can become more frightening because of the intensity of the forces involved.
In a recent dream someone shot me in the chest and blew my chest wide open. Whoever this person was they had a tremendous energy reserve available. My own reserves were even greater because I merely healed myself and didn’t even bother to attack the other person. There was no need to. With that shot he had expended his energy reserves and was no threat to me. My ability to heal proved the energy would continue to flow as I intended it.
There was a time for about two years when I was constantly being challenged in some type of astral duel and having to fight. In later years as my reserve of power has grown such encounters have become very rare. In one dream I took someone’s knife away from them, broke the blade and handed the knife back.
What this tells me is my ability to act and influence astral events is not really challenged by many people and is in fact supported by many that do believe in me and what I am trying to do in my life. This empowerment is reflected in physical life as a growing sense of accomplishment and recognition from others. Each day brings me a little closer to my goals in life and that progress makes me happy.
Vehicles indicate another type of power, the power to influence the environment. With a weapon we confront the opposition of individuals in our lives. With vehicles we gain mobility within the environment itself. A dream vehicle indicates personal power over the physical obstacles that confront us. It symbolizes that we are in control and moving toward our goals. Loss or damage to our dream vehicle indicates a threat or loss of control in a situation we were previously strong in. The physical realities of the situation have somehow changed and the dream reflects the new dynamics of the situation. We are no longer moving toward our goal.
I’ve noticed some of my dream vehicles were from past periods of my life as I worked through repressed issues and gained control over them. Each vehicle reflected an issue of my past that I had repressed.
It seemed that once I had developed such a vehicle it was quite easy to modernize it. I had overcome the obstacles of the past and was now ready to confront the obstacles of the present.
I am a truck driver and current dreams of vehicles tend to be of my own truck. This indicates the issues in my dreams reflect current issues and not issues from the past returning to haunt me.
Occasionally I am riding in someone else’s vehicle as a passenger or perhaps even driving. I believe this type of dream represents a joining of forces and a cooperative effort with someone else to achieve some mutual goal we both wish for. These are often of an empowering nature and reflect personal growth and empowerment. The joining of forces in the most empowering type of dream there is. Some sexual types of dreams are variations of cooperative efforts at the astral level.
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Dream Vehicles and Weapons A
In the physical world it is difficult to accurately judge all of the important factors in a situation. Some things never go as planned and a few things defy rational explanation. This is because of the hidden factors that are hard to determine as well as the human factors of strength of will, character and determination.
We can be as objective and materialistic as possible and entirely misjudge a person or a situation. In the end it matters just as much what is in the heart of a person. How much resolve, determination, and will to live the person has.
These factors do not express themselves within the physical world but they do express themselves in the dream world or the astral world. In our dreams we find ourselves in situations that relate to significant areas in our physical life.
Each dream involves a particular type of energy and weakens us or strengthens us in that type of energy. By monitoring our dreams we can determine if we are gaining power or loosing power. Each dream is an accurate reflection of the situation as it exists exactly at the time of the dream.
At waking hours the situation may have altered in some fashion but probably not significantly. Positive outcomes are liberating and expansive in nature. They indicate the flow of energy is favorable to us and we are gaining in personal power over that energy or situation. It may take twenty dreams over the space of one year to resolve a contested astral situation and determine a final outcome.
Continued conflict leads to recurring dreams. Negative outcomes are restrictive and confining in nature. They indicate the flow of energy is against us and the final outcome will be less than we hope it to be. We are loosing power in this type of dream. There is an area in life where we are not as effective as we were before.
At the time of the dream a new astral connection is made or an old one is severed. This alters the circuitry within the astral and a current will flow through the dream until a new point of equilibrium is established. Dammed up energy will be released as an energy exchange within the dream. When the energy flow stops the dream ends. This energy will either flow for us or against us depending upon our own level of energy.
Our dream bodies or astral bodies indicate in a general way the level of power we have at the time. Dreams are very symbolic and individual but certain things are fairly standard in the way they appear in dreams.
If we appear grotesque, wounded or distorted within the dream it indicates a serious loss of energy and lack of control within a particular situation in life. We have no control in these dreams and in the areas of life that they represent. We are acted upon or reactive instead of acting on others. This includes dreams in which people appear as animals like cows, horses, wolves…etc.
When we appear naked in a dream we have enough energy reserves to function and survive but not enough to alter events within the dream or in the life situations they represent. We are able to barely hold on to our humanity. The actions in these dreams are compulsive, instinctual and generally beyond our conscious awareness. We are merely participants or machines. Our nakedness indicates we are weak and vulnerable. It does not mean anything sexually in the generally understood manner.
To have clothing indicates we have risen above the purely instinctual level of energy and that a certain amount of awareness is available. To have clothing is a sign of empowerment and of energy reserves. We can exist and modify our environment to a degree.
The type of clothing is symbolic of the energy within the dream and of the situation in life it reflects. In a general way the closer the clothing matches what we currently wear the more power and influence we have in the situation it reflects.
If the clothing is out of place, being inappropriate for our current lifestyle it indicates we are working on unresolved issues from out of the past that were repressed long ago. In this type of dream it is important we are getting empowered within the dream and not being weakened. To become weakened in this type of dream is to withdraw even more in physical life. It means a going backwards. To become empowered means a form of healing is taking place.
The next empowerment step beyond clothing is to have a weapon or tool of some sort. A knife seems to be quite common in my own experience.
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Dream Work B
In the astral world events gravitate together. These events form possible and later even probable future physical events as they gather a mass and momentum of their own. Our dreaming of these events indicate they will somehow have an effect in our lives when they become physical reality. Issues are worked out in the astral prior to becoming physical events. In this respect there are no coincidences in life. What physically happens to us is worked out in the astral before it becomes real to us.
I routinely dream about significant events before they happen during the day. This has held true for several years now but was not always the case.
The astral always works out two possible futures, one that is favorable to us and one that works against us. The situation is set up and the current will flow from the highest voltage to the lowest voltage. Only at the final stages is it determined if the outcome will be for us or against us. Much depends on our own inner strength and how anchored we are in physical reality. Also much depends on how important one type of outcome is to the collective of humanity. Many times one person must suffer so that many others do not have to suffer.
This is not a matter of fairness but a matter of energy dynamics. One outcome will have more energy than the other and the energy will flow from the greatest power to the lesser. If the energy flow is one way we will benefit and if it flows the other way we will suffer. It is very important we have as much energy in reserve as possible to influence these critical events when we can.
An example of a dream in which the energy flow went against me is when I was driving in a car down a road. Suddenly the car started going backwards and the brakes would not work. I was pulled of the road and into the ditch.
This is an interesting type of example because the fact that I had a car and was driving it indicated that I was very powerful in energy. If I was naked without any clothes it would have indicated I had very little energy in reserve. That my car was pulled backward and into the ditch indicated that the forces against me were even stronger. They were able to stop me and temporarily block my progress.
If my car had been wrecked or my astral body injured it would have meant a serious loss of energy to me. As it was my car remained intact and the setback was only temporary. In a few weeks I was driving down the road without any problem.
This is what dreams are about, the direction that the energy will flow. Sometimes it will flow one way and sometimes it will flow the other. Each dream is a subtle alteration of the circuitry and changes the direction of the flow in some manner large or small.
Also of prime importance is how quickly one can recharge themselves after their reserves have been depleted by an energy flow the wrong way.
Suppose my energy reserve was at 500 volts and the opposing force was at 600 volts. In the dream a connection was made and created a short circuit between us. My 500 volts was lost and destroyed. 500 volts of the opposition was also destroyed and lost. As a result only 100 volts worth of damage could be done to me, enough to pull my car into the ditch. When my car was pulled into the ditch the opposition was at 100 volts and the dream ended. 100 Volts could not do much damage and I was able to recharge more quickly.
When my car was pulled backwards I lost energy but so did the opposition. The opposing force could only pull me back so far. Then we were both equal; it was a stalemate situation. I could do nothing but they could not do any further harm to me either.
In this case I was able regain my energy reserves more quickly than the opposing force and I was able continue forward within weeks. The opposition had to accept some future physical event that would be in my favor, one that would somehow effect the lives of others.
The collective always resists change. It does not matter if the collective will benefit from something good happening to me, it simply does not want to change the status quo and the change in astral circuitry forced a change that must affect some future physical event.
This type of dream work is exhausting because one’s energy reserves are destroyed time after time in some type of confrontation until a suitable compromise is worked out and all conflicts neutralized. It becomes a matter of who has the most energy available over a long period of time.
I have used my own dreams as examples but everyone’s dreams work in the same fashion and determine how future events will affect us and our lives.
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Dream Work A
The dream world or astral world is physically real and created from the earth’s magnetic field energy. It is created from the inductive portion of a huge resonant circuit with the physical earth itself forming the capacitive portion of the circuit.
The dream world or astral world is a counterpart to the physical and functions in an inverse manner. Dewey Larson’s reciprocal theory is a general field theory that explains these two interconnected universes. He calls them the space/time universe and the time/space universe. In the physical world we have individual physical bodies. In the astral world we are all a part of each other and a part of all that exists.
An astral body of mine can be in someone else’s dreams without my being aware of it. Someone else may be in my dream and not be aware of it. In dreams bits of our awareness leave our sleeping bodies and travel the magnetic ley lines or astral worlds surrounding the earth.
In our dreams an energy cord is connected or severed. That is the purpose of the dream, to alter the circuit that exists in the astral world in a subtle way. Dreams alter a circuit and then allow energy to pass through the dream. When the energy ceases to flow the dream ends. A dream is a discharge of energy between two physical things that are connected through astral cords.
Physical bodies generate and store energy like batteries. This energy is discharged through astral cords or magnetic flux lines. If I appear in someone else’s dream I will retain a connection with my physical body even if I am not aware of being in the dream.
My physical body stores the energy charge that has been built up throughout the day. My physical body acts as a battery that stores energy. Because of the energy transfer that occurs in dreams my physical body will either have more energy in the morning or it will have less energy. What I am saying is that dreams are real and reflect an actual energy transfer and alteration of the circuitry that exists within the astral world.
Nightmare dreams reflect situations in which the energy flow is going against us and where it is stronger than our own reserves. It reflects a serious physical situation that is not
in our control and an area that we are trying to repress or avoid dealing with.
In these situations our energy is destroyed as it contacts the opposing energy and we have a dream that is out of control and frightening. We experience weakness loss of energy and a draining of vitality.
I will give two examples from my own experience. In one dream my feet would not move. They were stuck to the floor. In this dream I grabbed a doorway structure with my hands and virtually pulled myself across the threshold to safety. That was the end of the dream. In pulling myself across the threshold my feet acted as if a magnet held them as they dragged across the floor.
The fact that my feet would not move indicated a serious obstacle at near physical levels within the astral. One that held me powerless and unable to move. Pulling myself to safety was an example of using spiritual or higher power to affect the lower levels in a positive way. I am certain that some physical crisis was averted by my actions within that dream. In some way I was empowered and gained energy.
In another dream my feet would not move. I fell to the ground and in an act of will grabbed handfuls of grass and pulled myself forward. In the act of pulling myself forward a new connection was made. The severity of my physical situation was somehow lessened and I was empowered. Again I was able to use higher energies to affect change at lower levels where I was powerless. The power of will overcame physical obstacles.
Both of these dreams were accurate reflections of my physical position in life and the legal obstacles that confronted me in relation to my divorce and its legal settlement. At the time of those dreams I was in a bad situation that almost miraculously turned out fair instead of overwhelmingly against me. My ex-wife was using all the legal maneuvers she could against me and I left myself totally to the mercy of the cosmic without defense.
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