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@MrDmitriiV do you ever wake up in sleep paralysis?

If the higher selves are in religious terminus, where is 'God'? When we dream at night, we tend to think we are going deeper in, but perhaps the dreams take place in a higher density? How does divided light arise/manifest?

@Sussso is there a park nearby? When you start to get restless, just go walk around in nature

Can't be sure, but sounds like you were about to have a body exit, is all... you are supposed to ride the vibrations until they pass and then step out or roll out of bed in the astral plane.

Lift dumbbells for about 3 minutes or until your arms really ache, and then sit and just feel the ache until it passes. Every time your mind wanders, or the ache subsides, pick up the weights and make your arms ache some more. Do it for 5 minutes, but not judging how many times you had to stop and redirect attention to feeling. Then work your way up to 5 minutes without any interruption. Then you can graduate to doing an emotional feeling meditation.

Ok... understood. But how does the divided light arise/manifest? In the divided light, there is gratefulness for This dream. Was the creator (divided light) created intentionally, or spawn out of complete impossibility?

Is it to say that if there is anything, there is nothing, and that this nothing is what has been named 'light'? (although we know that visible light is merely a portion of light and is due to having the right receptors) Light doesn't create, it bends itself. It bends, and 'creates' shadows, colors, hues, and the most important ingredient : memory recording. A conception of dreams.

(If enjoying the listening music, then of course watch the included videos after you finish reading...) This post is dedicated to the symbols which we hold dear, and have been shaping the Human dream for many decades or centuries. First, perhaps one of our most beloved symbols, the heart symbol. Turns out, it has a very surprising and unnasuming beginning, as a symbol for birth control. From history.com: A Heart-Shaped Plant Used as Birth Control Perhaps the most unusual theory concerns silphium, a species of giant fennel that once grew on the North African coastline near the Greek colony of Cyrene. The ancient Greeks and Romans used silphium as both a food flavoring and a medicine—it supposedly worked wonders as a cough syrup—but it was most famous as an early form of birth control. Ancient writers and poets hailed the plant for its contraceptive powers, and it became so popular that it was cultivated into extinction by the first century A.D. (legend has it that the Roman Emperor Nero was presented with the last surviving stalk). Silphium’s seedpod bore a striking resemblance to the modern Valentine’s heart, leading many to speculate that the herb’s associations with love and sex may have been what first helped popularize the symbol. The ancient city of Cyrene, which grew rich from the silphium trade, even put the heart shape on its money. --------------------------------- ? Lol. First off, the fact that we harvested it into extinction is both sad, and hilarious. Sounds like something we'd do. So this is the first usage of the 'heart' shape, which by the way is found throughout the plant kingdom. Next, from Wikipedia, we learn of the firmer connection between the heart shape, and what we call love. ----------------------------------------- The combination of the heart shape and its use within the heart metaphor developed at the end of the Middle Ages, although the shape has been used in many ancient epigraphy monuments and texts... .... the familiar symbol of the heart represented love developed in the 15th century, and became popular in Europe during the 16th... .... One possible early use in the 11th century could be found in the manuscript, Al-Maqamat written by Al Hariri of Basra. The manuscript includes an illustration of a farewell greeting between two men while astride their camels, with the heart shape seen prominently over their heads... .... The first known depiction of a heart as a symbol of romantic love dates to the 1250s. It occurs in a miniature decorating a capital 'S' in a manuscript of the French Roman de la poire (National Library FR MS. 2086, plate 12). In the miniature a kneeling lover (or more precisely, an allegory of the lover's "sweet gaze" or douz regart) offers his heart to a damsel. The heart here resembles a pine cone (held "upside down", the point facing upward), in accord with medieval anatomical descriptions. However, in this miniature what suggests a heart shape is only the result of a lover's finger superimposed on an object; the full shape outline of the object is partly hidden, and therefore unknown..... (( ok, that's hilarious too)) ... Giotto, in his 1305 painting in the Scrovegni Chapel (Padua) shows an allegory of charity (caritas) handing her heart to Jesus Christ. This heart is also depicted in the pine cone shape based on anatomical descriptions of the day (still held "upside down"). Giotto's painting exerted considerable influence on later painters, and the motive of Caritas offering a heart is shown by Taddeo Gaddi in Santa Croce, by Andrea Pisano on the bronze door of the south porch of the Baptisterium in Florence (c. 1337), by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in the Palazzo Publico in Siena (c. 1340) and by Andrea da Firenze in Santa Maria Novella in Florence (c. 1365)... ((so here we are at least seeing a symbol of a heart/love, and it being offered. Interesting that the symbol is a pine cone, because of its affiliation with the pineal gland...)) .... The "scalloped" shape of the now-familiar heart symbol, with a dent in its base, arises in the early 14th century, at first only lightly dented, as in the miniatures in Francesco Barberino's Documenti d'amore (before 1320). A slightly later example with a more pronounced dent is found in a manuscript from the Cistercian monastery in Brussels... ... The convention of showing a dent at the base of the heart thus spread at about the same time as the convention of showing the heart with its point downward.[8] The modern indented red heart has been used on playing cards since the late 15th century.... ... Since the 19th century, the symbol has often been used on Valentine's Day cards, candy boxes, and similar popular culture artifacts as a symbol of romantic love. The use of the heart symbol as a logograph for the English verb "to love" derives from the use in "I ♥ NY," introduced in 1977.[18] Heart symbols were used to symbolize "health" or "lives" in video games; influentially so in The Legend of Zelda (1986) and Minecraft (2009). Super Mario Bros. 2 (1987, 1988) had a "life bar" composed of hexagons, but in 1990s remakes of these games, the hexagons were replaced by heart shapes. Since the 1990s, the heart symbol has also been used as an ideogram indicating health outside of the video gaming context, e.g. its use by restaurants to indicate heart-healthy nutrient content claim (e.g. "low in cholesterol"). A copyrighted "heart-check" symbol to indicate heart-healthy food was introduced by the American Heart Association in 1995.[19]... ------------------------------------------ So there you have it. The history of the symbol which we use for an emotion we call love. ❤️❤️???. In what ways do you think having this symbol for love has helped our growth as a species, and in what ways has it hindered?

Love you Mandy ?❤️ That song was very special to me during one of my first awakenings

@seeking_brillianceoops @V-8 what propels the illusion of the divided, light in motion?

What if I induce a coma, just for the hell of it? ??? Sometimes I would like to watch my favorite TV shows again, like Lost, or Buffy the vampire slayer, with fresh eyes. I can still enjoy my favorite show, but knowing the ending kind of takes alot of the magic away. (Although it also provides a different, loving type of experience). But I do lament never being able to see these shows again with fresh, innocent eyes.

@VeganAwake sounds heavenly ?

???. ?? ??? I loved that story. I don't know if I truly get it, but it's awesome. Just sounds like we're all making THIS up as it goes. Hehe

@VeganAwake True, but if it's pretty enough I might forget

Yes, perhaps.

@VeganAwake well in this case you didn't give it enough time lol... But I experience this feeling too. Sometimes it's like when you try to talk to dream characters about the dream and they stare blankly at you or become angry. Your post had some nice humor throughout, I enjoyed it

No, because it wasn't like that. I remember being frustrated on having huge mood swings at my highly stressful business, and being ashamed for that. And now I can look back and realize I'm in a whole different league now and the mood swings are now balanced. The melancholy has also lifted. But as with anything, it happens so gradually you don't recognize it until you can look back and see where you were. I still hide from reality with TV, video games, and other forms of distraction. I let those courses run, and then continue on, cultivating what will bring me peace and happiness, and then just allowing it to manifest. It's not a bad method.

@Raptorsin7 all I can say is that happiness found me. I'm content. I still struggle, and I still cultivate (seekless seeking) happiness.

((cute little video about attachment)) ---------------------------------- ((some listening music)) 'Today' is shaping up to be a nice dream. After a long and busy month at the grooming salon, and multiple Christmas events, I can finally rest today and do nothing. It's sublime. My husband and I are watching t.v., doing some light cleaning, and just enjoying each other's company. I only wanted to ring his neck three times today, which is not too bad really ????. Not long ago, we went across the street to the 90 acre preserve for a hike. The park has been a precious haven for me for years. There are many trails in the park: red, yellow, green, blue, purple, and white. We don't really follow the trails because I know the place like the back of my hand. (actually, I don't know the back of my hand that well, come to think of it.) We went our usual way, which turns away from the sunny path and into the forest. The path runs downhill, along a deep ravine which is carved from a running stream at the top of the hill. As we descended the path, we crossed a guy who greeted us and walked past. Then he called out after us and asked what the red and blue means, talking about the markings on the trees. Immediately I was reminded of red pill, blue pill. He tells us that he was wandering around on red for a while, and now he's on the blue path. I tell him that there's a sign at the entrance that tells you which path is which. But I couldn't just let it go, I had to test something. "Or maybe it's like red pill, blue pill" I said. He laughed. "yeah, exactly" he said, and continued walking up the hill. My husband and I continued our walk, as I contemplated how dream like this scenario was. Later, we passed a couple guys who were clearly high, talking loud, and having a good time. We ended up passing them again. Then on the way out of the park, back on the sunny path, we end up behind the first man that we crossed. He was a little thuggish looking and so we stayed a bit far back. My husband makes a statement that he's out here selling drugs, and that clearly the other loud guys were proof of this. Almost immediately after, we turn a corner, and the loud high guys pass us again, clearly having passed the thuggish man moments before, in an apparent drug deal. We leave the park and walk down the road back to our house. 'what a nice little dream that was,' I say to myself. 'now what will we do?' So now here we are, once again watching television while I write this post. Now I'm dreaming of writing about that previous dream, lol. Michael is making some new fried bananas recipe. Later, I'll be doing something else. All of these dreams build up into the experience which we call 'today'.

So now's the time to spark the heart. It's important not to hold expectations but to jumpstart the heart and just continue feeling what comes. Do an act of kindness. Find other ways to spark your heart and get a feel of which emotions arise. Don't chase them, just seek them out and feel them when they arise. (yes I did say to stop seeking happiness, but you still put an effort to induce/create moments of happiness. A seekless seeking ?‍♂️) These emotions act like a beacon, and as I said, happiness will find you. Just feel. Live moment to moment. Whatever you just stopped doing was a dream, hopefully a nice dream. What are you doing, and feeling, now?

@Moreira @Raptorsin7 seeking the happiness is part of the journey. It's not to be discounted. But he's displaying that he's tired of seeking, and we are telling him it's OK. It's time.

http://www.spiritofthescripture.com/id4083-highly-recommended-read.html

@V-8 haha either you read the book, wrote the book, or neither lol. I'm loving it so far. It's not a new age approach. I really think you'd like it.

Have you ever read 'A Metaphysical Interpretation of the Bible'? I think you would love it. Personally I think a true master would have one foot in both camps, but... What do I know ?‍♂️?‍♀️

@Raptorsin7 don't seek happiness. The search makes it elusive. Seek what's right now. Feel what you feel right now, and be at peace with it. Seek peace. Then, happiness will find you.