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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br><div><div dir="ltr"><br> </div></div><div dir="ltr">In a world in which it turns out that we are essentially just killing time in between Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan cinematic offerings and don't even realize it, it is time to dip our toes in the murky waters known as DREAMS along our south beach shore. Dreams might be a 2-day topic, it might be a 5-day topic, and those days will not be sequential. So we might as well call this the prequel:<br> <br>There is no "big secret" (IMO) to the movie <em>Inception</em>, by <em>The Dark </em><i>Knight'</i>s own Nolan. We will not be discussing the movie at all today, other than to mention that the film is largely about dreams, which is clear by minute 5 of 148 and absolutely not spoiling anything. If you show me <em>Kill Bill</em>, I am going to look into purchasing a samaurai sword. If you show me <em>Inception</em>, I am going to be itching to begin our discussion of dreams. For quacks like me, the topic of dreams is best broached by touching on the craziest possibilities first, and then working our way back to what you currently consider "reality." If you feel compelled to read about dreams on this level of reality, here is a long summary which boils down to the fact that we don't really know WTF is up with dreams <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream</a><br> <br>So without further Freddy Adu, it is time to debut the heaviest hitter in my paranormal wrecking crew. May I formally introduce you to Seth via Jane Roberts...<br> <br><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">(A Compilation of Seth Material on the subject of <a name="Dreams" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Dreams</span></a>)</p><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“Pretend that you are in the dream state and concerned with the problem of waking consciousness and existence. From that viewpoint, the picture is entirely different, for you are indeed conscious while you sleep."</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“The locations that you visit while dreaming are as real to you then as physical locations are to you now. Let us speak no more of a conscious or unconscious self. There is one self and it focuses its attention in various dimensions. In the waking state it focuses in physical reality. In the dream state it is focused within a different dimension."</span></p></em></span></span><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><em></em></span> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>“You think that you are conscious only when you are awake. You assume yourselves to be unconscious when you sleep. The dice are indeed loaded on the side of the waking mind. But pretend for a moment that you are looking at this situation from another side."</em></span></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Stay with me for a minute. What if there is a whole other "life"/conciousness/deeper understanding that we are experiencing when we are dreaming? One where we are aware of our time awake just as we are aware of the fact that we dream in our normal reality.</strong></span></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">“The personality is composed of energy gestalts. As the personality is changed by any experience, it is changed by its dreams; and as an individual is molded by his physical environment to some extent, so is he molded by the dreams which he himself creates… The self is limitless. When your perceptions fail, it seems to you that boundaries appear. For example, it seems to you that dreams cease when you are no longer aware of them. This is not so."</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Continuing with the same concept, what if this dream world is ongoing...like a never ending movie in one shared theater that we all pop in on each night for a couple of hours...an additional reality that makes so much sense that we laugh at how little our south beach reality actually makes sense...and every night when the REM kicks in during deep sleep, you experience this other reality?</strong></span></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><strong></strong></span> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Give me four more, and then I will come back to our south beach reality to wrap up:</strong></span></span></p><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>“So when you consider the dream world, you have the same sort of universe, only one constructed within a field that you cannot physically perceive. But it has more continuity than the world you know and there are similarities within it that are amazing to behold…</em></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><em> </em></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>“For one thing… those who know existence on the physical level now, have, because of certain cycles, lived before approximately the same historical periods. They possess an inner familiarity, a cohesiveness that belonged to a more or less specific period and to periods before, where they inhabited the same sort of reality. Their dream experiences, then, are not so diverse as you might suppose. Certain symbols are constructed into realities in the dream system, then, in much the same manner that ideas are constructed into matter in the physical system.</em></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><em> </em></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>“The same sort of psychic agreement holds the dream system together as holds the physical system together. If a man could actually focus upon those unrecognized elements in the physical universe upon which no agreements can be reached, if he could focus upon the dissimilarities rather than the similarities, then he would wonder what gave anyone the idea that there was even one physical object upon which man could agree.</em></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><em> </em></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>“He would wonder what collective madness permitted man to select from a virtual infinity of chaos a mere handful of similarities and make of it a universe. So do you, viewing the seeming chaos of dream reality, wonder how I can say that it contains cohesiveness, actually, and comparative permanence.”</em></span></p></span></span><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>BACK TO REALITY WITHOUT AN OOPS</strong></span></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><strong></strong></span> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">You don't have to believe this stuff as Gospel, or believe all of it to believe some of it. We all have dreams and we only remember 5% of them. The parts that we do remember are detached further from the AWARENESS that Seth is trying to get across. </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></span> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">It is proven that we all dream about the same types of things and experience the same types of weirdness...(stupid example, but you should get the point): "yeah, my dream was so weird because we were at school and all of the teachers were wearing clown hats for some reason and, <em>strangely</em>, nobody thought anything of it."</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></span> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">You don't bring your "ego" to dreams. There are a lot fewer rules. Dare I say that they are a lot closer to "the full reality." You overcome anxieties about being late, forgetting an assignment, getting a girl. If a blast from the past re-enters your life after not being in it for a long time, it is a lock that you will dream about that person, most likely on a few day delay. If you have a seemingly innocent encounter with a friend, you may revisit that in a warped way while dreaming shortly thereafter. If you visit family, you will dream about them after. On and on....</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><strong></strong></span> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">So what if I dream about one of you and the you in the "dream world" knows it and the me in the dream world knows it and we both are aware of this email string? What if that is utterly false but something else that is very special along those lines happens when we dream? What if this explains Edgar Cayce and ghosts and lots more?</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></span> </p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Bottom line, we basically all do this same strange thing for about 2 hours every night and just accept that we don't understand nearly the whole story when it comes to dreams. Yeah Freud this, Jung that, whatever - we give up trying to understand because no one can anyway. Doesn't mean it's not worth thinking about for 2-5 days in August, 2010. If you join me in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">beating the south beach bushes and shaking down unsuspecting palm trees, we might even get somewhere on this topic by month's end. </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">---------------------------------------------</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Bonus Material for non-quack-haters (lots more on dreams already sorted and available via individual request):</span></p><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(separate narrator) According to Seth, we do have shared dreams or mass dreams. These actually act as a stabilizing force in our daily lives. Are our dreams private? Apparently not nearly as private as we suppose. In the 254<sup>th</sup> session Seth had this to say: </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">“In certain areas of mass, shared dreams, collective mankind deals with problems of his political and social structure. The solutions he reaches within dream reality are not always the same as those he accepts in the physical world.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>“The dream solutions are held as ideals, however. Without mass dreams, for example, your United Nations would not exist… If you were aware of the constant barrage of telepathic communications that do impinge upon you, it would be most difficult for you now to retain a sense of identity. Shared dreams, then, are also usually well beneth awareness… As identity is strengthened through experience, it automatically expands itself to add further realities within which it can manipulate.</em></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>“When you dream of others, they know it. When they dream of you, you know it. There would be nothing to be gained, however, in conscious awareness of these conditions at this time.”</em></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em>“As you may know, many people dreamed of Jack Kennedy’s death in advance. On one level the knowledge was available to the man himself. This does not mean that the death had to occur. It was a vivid possibility. It was also one of many solutions to several problems. While it was not the most suitable solution, it was the closest man could come at that particular time in physical reality…”</em></span></p></span></span><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br>South Beach Peace-</p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> </p></div><style><!--
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