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CAPSTONE
imperishable stars,”
It is not very hard to see that chunks of meteoritic
iron, which generally has a lustrous
black appearance, were classified by the ancient
Egyptians along with other hard black or dark
stones, such as diorite, basalt, and granite. To a
people unfamiliar with iron and its chemical
properties, the resemblance of basalt to a rough
iron meteorite can
be uncanny. Not
surprisingly then,
black basalt was
called ‘black iron’
(bja kam), suggesting
that basalt,
and possibly black
granite, were associated
with meteoritic
iron, and consequently
the ‘bones’
of star-gods. Most
pyramidions that
were once placed on
the top of pyramids
were made of dark
granite, such as the
fine example of Amenemhet
III. Also
the hieroglyphic
sign for ‘pyramid’
was a pyramid,
often with a yellow
pyramidion, suggesting
that the
latter may have
been covered with
gold leaf. An in-
Obelisk at Karnak
scription on the pyramid
of queen Ud-
jebten (sixth dynasty) speaks of the golden
capstone on her pyramid. In the Pyramid Texts
we read,
“O King, raise yourself upon your iron
bones and golden members, for this body of
yours belongs to a god… may your flesh be
born to life and may your life be more than the
life of the stars in their season of life…”
“I [the king] row Ra when traversing the
sky, even I a star of gold…”
“…be a soul like a living star.”
Could the idea of the pyramidal shape of a
“living star” made from golden flesh and black
iron bones and shining high up in the sky, have
been the reason for the pyramidion made of
black granite covered in gold leaf and raised
high up the pyramid? Was this how the lost pyramidion
of Khufu looked? And what could
have happened to it? Could it have been removed
by the priests (when the pyramid was violated)
and hidden somewhere? Where? In a ‘secret
chamber’ inside the Great Pyramid?
No one knows.
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from the body, and the states beyond death.
Similarly, indigenous cultures, such as the
Senoi of Malaysia, have used lucid dreaming
states for healing, information gathering, and
accessing spirit realms. Brandt Secunda, a
healer/shaman with the Huichol tribe, once described
to me his practice of visiting other
healers and having interactions with them while
in the dream state.
Lucid dreaming can be a powerfully transformative
tool that doesn’t require any outside
stimulants, physical suffering, or near-death experiences—other
ways people
do have visionary or lucid experiences.
When interviewed
by Stanley Krippner, contemporary
Native American healer
Rolling Thunder suggested
that lucid dreaming is a more
reliable source of visions than
using mind altering plants.
Those who practice lucid
dreaming tend to concur with
this sentiment. Not only are
their natural experiences felt to
be powerful and rich enough
without needing external stimulation,
the practice of having
self-driven, intentionally
created transformative experiences
has a positive effect on
one’s waking life. Lucid
dreamers often feel more conscious of how
they create their waking lives as a result of their
dreamtime experiences.
Many people have lucid dreams spontaneously.
My friend Sam Taylor has had them
since he was around five or six years old. Initially
he thought his lucid dreams put him in a
fun, dream playground, different from this
world, where he could play however he wanted.
In his dreams as a child he would vent his
anger, destroy things and kill people, venting
all his energies. After 60 years of conscious
dreaming, he now tries to operate with the
same level of integrity and caring that he does
when he is awake. He doesn’t see the dream
world as different from the physical world.
Rather, they are on the same continuum.
Lucid dreams are related to other states of
consciousness and certainly to Out of Body Experiences
(OBEs), which I’ve written about in a
previous issue of AR. I asked Sam his sense of
the differences. “In the beginning, they seemed
very different. The lucid dream has a very
dream-like quality,” he said. “The characters are
often manifestations of my own personal creation,
not a collective consciousness. Whereas in
the OBE, I would rise up out of my body, walk
around the room, or fly up through the ceiling.
The OBE would appear to me as if I was in an
area of collective consciousness.”
“As I’ve had more experience,” Sam continued,
“I’ve come to see that there are many
more similarities than there are differences.
Lucid dreaming is a separate way of viewing the
energies, or being with the energies, of the
mind and the ego. Sometimes my experience is
very far away from the ego. It’s not of this
world, me looking at my body and looking at
the bed. It’s being someplace very different, and
not just a personal fantasy.”
Like Sam, many people have had lucid
dreams their entire lives. Others report having
them spontaneously, at different points in their
lives. More famous lucid dreamers include Carl
Jung, Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Nicolai
Tesla, Salvador Dali and modern personal-
From the
movie
Inception
ities like James Cameron and Stephen King.
Many people who want to learn how to lucid
dream are tapping into the numerous books,
online courses, and online discussions groups
that are available. Then they start having them.
For people who are interested, there are
some basic recommendations for having a lucid
dream. You can practice remembering your
dreams and keeping a journal. You may already
be having lucid dreams and not remembering
them. Writing dreams down helps you retain
their memories. This practice also sends a message
to your unconscious that you are serious.
Do reality checks. Some practitioners call
this lucid living. Look around you and see if
anything is strange. Can you read the clock?
Does the time stay the same when you look at
the clock a second time? Do the light switches
work correctly? Make a habit of asking yourself
if you are dreaming. Are you dreaming now?
How would you know? The psychologist Susan
Blackmore suggests that it helps to get in the
practice of answering, “Yes,” to this question.
Then, when you are dreaming, you’ll be in the
habit of answering, “Yes.”
Then there’s meditation. Any practice of
mindfulness that cultivates greater mental awareness
seems to help the process. The more you
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