Notes from the Dream (circa 1982-1986) - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

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You might even hear a clap of lightning, aclap of thunder. You might even smell as wellas a vision or a feeling as you experience thislightning-like energy moving up the base of thespine to the crown of the head., She persisted:“BE the experience of a lightning-like energy,the sound, the smell, the feeling of a lightninglikeenergy lighting up all of the chakras on thebase of the spine to the crown of the head.”NEXT:Visualize a lightning-like energy moving fromthe base of the spine, piercing all the chakrasall the way up to the crown of the head. Like abolt of lightning*.Then,Visualize the “energy” moving back downfrom the crown to the root chakra. And thenback up again from the root to the crown.Visualize this many times**Next“BE the lightning-like energy, the rainbow orthe spiraling spindle moving from the base ofthe spine, piercing all the chakras all the wayup to the crown of the head.”Then99
BE THE “ENERGY” AS YOURSELFALL MADE OF THE SAMECONSCIOUSNESSMove back down from the crown to the rootchakra. And then back up again from the rootto the crown. Be this many times**“It made my skin all tingly.” a student in theback of the room explained.The Teacher replied,“Experience the skin boundary like a wall.Then contemplate: “There is nothingsubstantial inside it.”*Visualize the inside of the body as vacuous, likea vacuum.**She went on,“Experience the skin boundary as a rainbow,or experience the skin boundary as crystal”.**The teacher started yet another meditation.“Meditate: On the energy moving up from theroot chakra to the crown of your head as if they100
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NotesFromThe DreamCirca 1982-1986Or
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DedicationTo NityanandaTo Sri Nisar
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“We are such stuff that dreams ar
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A Historical StoryAbout the TextIn
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as well as the extreme difficulty i
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The Dream YogaPart IFrom the Six Yo
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I felt like what Martin Heidegger h
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I had spent my life-time trying to
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An “I” which believed wholehear
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Deep downI could not believe in the
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accepted, and be loved.The problem
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The dreamWithinTheDreamIIIThey are
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enabling me to feel nothing at all
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say what I was feeling without inte
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The dreamWithinTheDreamVJacque Derr
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self-actualization contained within
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I felt like I was in a place over h
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The dreamWithinTheDreamVII“Every
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uised images that had been created,
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Lying there facing what I perceived
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of time and motion. I truly could n
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The dreamWithinTheDreamIXThe Not-I-
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ubble enquiring “Who am I?” was
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Page 53 and 54: knew exactly what it was supposed t
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Page 96 and 97: Next:appreciate that “your heart
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Page 106 and 107: She continued, “Feel your body ag
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Page 130 and 131: The dreamWithinTheDreamXXVIThe I am
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Surround the cremated body with “
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this Bohm called the explicate orde
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The “perceived” concept called
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The Eight Negations of NagarjunaThe
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The Emptiness Bubble:The emptiness
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It was a “light” that lie betwe
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“Everything has Buddha nature.”
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nucleus then there was between the
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Waking DreamsIIIShiva Sutras: “Th
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Waking DreamsIVThe Vijnana Bhairava
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Waking DreamsVThe Shiva SutrasConte
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Once again the “I” label vanish
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There is no witness and there is no
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Waking DreamsVIIIWithout eyesWithou
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Emptiness means withoutNirvana is w
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the voidness of voidthe nonexistent
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This accounts for the germination o
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Waking DreamsXThe “I” label dis
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(nature), which too was nonexistent
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The “I” was an illusion!Even if
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What’s left is not even the aware
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Waking DreamsXIIThe Not-I-I state a
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Waking DreamsXIIIThe enfolding and
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Waking DreamsXIV“Nothing is.” N
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See the dream as consciousnessSee t
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The perceiver or knower of the void
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