Guidelines

[Lori Anne]

Dreamers have no use for rules.  Rules are for stalkers who need a certain fascist element to their road.

Dreaming is all about breaking rules.  Still there are some guidelines I want to posit.  Just remember that if you are a dreamer, you have to follow your intuition - what works for you is what you use.  Having been a dreamer myself, and I’d say still I side that way by nature, I have found that there are some arrangements that work better than others.  So here I lay out the preferred course.

Dreamers are sensitive to their environment.  Your choice of living space is extremely critical.

The best is to find a house out of town.  Preferably amongst natural settings.

The reason is important.  There is a peculiar energetic substance that clings to vegetation - in natural unstructured environments, this substance grows thick around the bushes, trees and plants.  Walking through such vegetation, letting the leaves brush against you, allows for the intake of this substance.  When you get closer into human habitation, this substance grows thinner and thinner.

Dreamers need to break the beam of social life.  To assist this, living away from intense human habitation is best.

Houses are individuals.  As a dreamer you should be very careful in choosing the right being to live in.  Here as always go with the prompting of Spirit.  But in general old houses are far far more conducive than new ones.  Anything new and excessively functional is anathema to the freedom sought by dreamers.

And take note of the positioning of the house.  Best is against a hill, at the cusp of cleared and natural bush land.  Not too near the bottom of the valley, and not too far up the hill.  2/3rds, the Buddhists say, down the hill.  Still this depends on the tasks you intend for your time in the house.

If you have to live in a city, seek out the same quality there.  Even in cities there are exposed and reclusive environments.  Avoid straight lines - go for curves and a sense of beauty.  Dreamers need beauty - they should direct their energy towards beauty.

Consider carefully the rooms of a house.  Some rooms are better for dreaming than others - there are water lines and wind lines etc - just experiment.  Also constantly move your room around - shift the bed in different directions.

Wherever possible, try to live in the most natural environment possible.  In such places you will be able to more easily contact spirits.

Spirits - a very significant part of the journey of dreamers.  But always remember - they are NOT the main game.  Still friendship with them is wonderful, and they can help in all manner of ways.

[Lori Anne]

This is the doing of not doing.  What it is is what its not.

This is the guts of it.  Here is the secret, right here in chapter 2!
We are asleep in the dream of our ‘world’.  We have to wake up, and to do that in the immediate, we follow two steps, focused intention and sleep practices, and not doing.  Not doing breaks and loosens the bonds of our soul to the world we inhabit day time. 

Be careful with this information.  With this knowledge you can build a bomb - a bomb that will explode your mind.  You have been warned, this is an ultimately powerful technique as I will explain.

But in an ongoing way, all forms of not doing can be practised.  Living alone.  Silence, stillness, the ultimate not doing - sitting for hours in silence, meditation is a trippy practice.  The important not doing of a dreamer is to break the bond with family.  Sorry ‘bout that, I didn’t make the road up.  There is a clinging substance that reaches between and binds the members of a family.  It can be experienced as unpleasant or pleasant, but it is familiar, that is the problem. 

One way for family dreamers, is to take a holiday on their own, not to night clubs and beaches, but to quiet places, mountains especially. 

Not all dreamers need such absolute methods.  But it is important to know the strategy.  We dismantle our world, pull it apart, then build a new one upon our dreams.

The dreamer seeks awareness in dreams, meaning and knowledge in dreams, and flexibility of the dreaming body.  Dreaming can be dangerous, as it puts us out of click with the world.  In a proper society, a place should be allowed for spending periods in ‘retreat’.

But breaking down the world, can mean self destruction.  So do it in a controlled way - take your time.  It is extremely easy to shatter a person’s shell, a far more difficult task to help them rebuild from nothing.  Remember that, as practitioners, it is one of the most common mistakes made by those who know how to do this thing.


Now, if you some day want to ‘do it’, then here are the means.
Take yourself to a forest, bush, whatever, somewhere where no people go.  May not be easy, but this is the full monty, so there.
Take no reading material, listening material, time spending entertainment’s or study.  Best to take a tent.  But an old house would be fine.  Turn your day upside down, sleep and wake at odd hours, just when you want.  Lie there awake, just watching, even just an empty room - one of the most beautiful things, how a room is when no one is there. 

Eat little, with periods of day fasts for an extra burst.  Do headstands (get ropes if you can’t do it unaided).  Practice small not doings like digging a hole for no reason, then filling it in.  Building anything, then pulling it down.  But always keep your health trim, or you won’t be able to withstand the energy you are calling.

Do a lot of gazing and walking

Drift in an out of sleep, practicing the steps for watching for your hands as falling asleep.  Also practice waking in the middle of the night many times, and writing down any dream whatsoever you remember, then refocusing your intention as you drift back to sleep looking for your hands.

Once lucid dreaming happens, seek depth.  That means two things.  Interactions with spirit beings, be they family spirits, gods, the human mould, all things that wake you with a powerful sensation of having contacted something extraordinary, and dynamic.  These beings bring us knowledge, especially those like the eagle, the large cats, higher self’s, shamans.

The other thing means techniques to shift levels.  Things like meditating in dream, gazing in dreams, going to sleep in dream etc.

Taken to its extreme, nothing can hold out against a dedicated not doing attack.  Just remember, it is putting humpty together that takes real skill.

[Lori Anne]

I am talking here of awareness.

One particular type - awaking.  It is obvious, the reason we cannot wake within a dream is because we are asleep both day and night.  The dream is a replica of our day life.  We are caught in the drama, in many ways.

The task is to awaken during the day time.  This requires several levels. 

The first is as Paul-Eric stated, a muscle.  Reminds me of my current difficulty in doing the head stand - some neck muscles are simple not strong enough for me to sustain the position for any length of time.  But as the muscles strengthen, one can hold the first level of awareness for longer and longer periods of time.

Once this has been accomplished it becomes a constant ‘shelf’ upon which many different qualities can be positioned, for immediate referral through out the day.

The first level.  This means pure remembrance.  There is no point talking qualities of awareness when the power of remembrance is absent.

How to build it?  As a dreamer, best use the dreamer’s purpose.  Say to yourself, throughout the day, “I am awake. This is a dream.”  If the theory bothers you, just remember that the substance of both day and night is indeed sleeping in dream.  Of course there is a difference between day sleep and night sleep-sleep.  But that difference is irrelevant to the underlying commonality - we are asleep, be it day and night, and the world is dream, be it day or night, and if you had sufficient command of awareness, there would be no difference whatsoever. 

Day consciousness is simply the gift of life -  the power to wake in the morning in the same place we go to sleep in the evening, and the power to sustain the continuity of this one dream for almost the whole day (we have a tendency to loose it when we get tired).

There is much more that can be said about each aspect of awakening, but this isn’t the place.  (get my book when it comes out)  Sufficient to say you need a mechanism.  There are components - first is remembering, second is sustaining, third is intensifying, forth is marking or claiming and fifth is aiding factors.

The second level.  This is where we deepen the significance of the concept.  At first we are saying just words, which is hard enough to remember, but then we try to get into the feeling of waking up.  Try this, as you read this, what guarantee do you have that you are not dreaming - your physical body lying back somewhere in a room and bed?  What makes you think you are in awake mode?  Keep asking your self.  What does it really mean to awaken, be awake?

Again there are sub categories of this level.  Again too much to say here.  In short awaking to the awareness of immediate physical surroundings, then awareness of moods, emotions, feelings that are present around us or inside us. Then awareness of direction, consequences stored in the present that will inevitably unfold.  Then awareness of death.  Awareness of spirit.  This is waking up, and noticing the fullest of your situation.

But, for dreamers, the emphasis is always on the jolt of awaking itself.  That is when training for lucid dreaming.

The third level.  Archetypes.  The spirit world.  Frequenting the abodes of such, to feel their energy.

Fourth level - trance.  Bringing the dream into the day world.

Fifth level - silence.  This remains the quintessential awakening.  Absolute inner silence.  Absolute absence of the individual.