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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (12622)	6/17/2002 11:55:31 PM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"It is also similar to a tribal dream technique of confronting your most feared monster in your dream and accepting a meaningful gift from it" Yes. A propos of your suggestion, I like the practice of the Senoi in Indonesia (a tribe without Mental illness) whose custom it is, either daily or weekly, to recount their dreams to others in the tribe and then DANCE their dream, in its fullest. In a way that's similar to Gestalt Therapy dreamwork (you are every part of the dream) and Transactional Analysis (telling your dream and then COMPLETING it). The basic lesson of all of these approaches is that a vast amount of your "conception" of others and "projection" of how others are, is just YOU (the egoic you). Here's a paragraph of Adi Da about DREAMING: Our experience of the dreaming process is an expression of the relaxation of outer or extroverted attention (or relaxation of the verbal-analytical mental process in the left hemisphere of the brain and the outgoing motor process in the sympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system) followed by the inversion of attention, primarily toward the visually oriented mental centers of the right hemisphere of the brain (via the sensory circuit of the parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system). The process by which mystical consciousness is developed is precisely the same process by which everyone enters into dreams-except that the mystic engages in a conscious exercise of this mechanism and exploits its potential to the highest degree. Namaste! Jim