The Pipe
While I slept it was all over,
Everything. My eyes, squashed white,
Flowed off toward dawn.
There was a noise,
Which like all else, spread and disappeared:
There's nothing worth seeing, listening for.
When I woke up, everything seemed cut off.
I was a pipe, still smoking,
Which daylight would knock empty once again.
Shinkichi Takahashi the great 20th century Japanese poet has an interesting way of expressing what we all experience. He uses words and images that teeter on the border of the unreal and that's what makes his work so real. He crosses the line and draws another one, which is deeper and more pronounced and less rational, but very real. Each night I draw a line and leave one reality and visit others without a body. I create my own form and dabble in psychological time in a space filled with clusters of consciousness. I experience without beliefs and choose without judgment. Each night I become something more than a physical human; I become a smoking pipe filled with the tobacco of my own awareness and taste the essence of my own mind.
Dreaming is an amazing act of transformation where the complexities of being human are shaped into a blueprint of physical life in order to expand one aspect of my multi-dimensional existence. The word sleep poorly describes the transformation from human to spirit. Sleep denotes a tranquil state where I energize my self in order to function physically, which is just one aspect of what I create as I leave my body consciousness. Dreams are a mixture of remnants of body consciousness experiences, which act out in other realities and I get a glimpse of that action. I dream for a short period as I return from my diverse realities, where I feel the energy of the consciousness that is responsible for the acts that keep me in a physical state. Physical memories are stored in body consciousness; the simultaneous action of dreams are never stored; they are always in motion expanding within to reveal other clusters of awareness that create vitality and life force. Mental enzymes build physical matter from the vital energy of consciousness, which describes me in the state known as sleeping.
When I wake up everything seems to be cut off; my focus is back in one reality where I can rationalize my existence in the form of dualistic separation. Unnecessary separation creates more awareness as the mental enzymes reveal other forms of matter which were actually created while I was sleeping. When daylight comes I am empty once again, but I am filled with thoughts for a linear day, which create the beliefs that generate the awareness I need to keep the action of my consciousness in a continual stream of vitality which I call physical life. I do it to sleep again and find the light that knocks me empty with the force of nothing.
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The force of nothing
21 September, 2009 - 17:01 — Trinity BourneHi Hal,
Thank you for the sharing.
Why do you think you only experience multi-dimensional states at night when you are sleeping?
In my experience pure presence offers an expansion of consciousness through multiple dimensions in every waking moment. In fact I noticed that when I slept I tended to lose this state of pure presence.
My experience differs to yours in that the 'force of nothing' is that which permeates all things - ALL THE TIME (not just when I switch off from the physical world). Infact if I fall asleep and lose a state of pure presence then I seem totally unaware of this force of nothing.
Warm regards
Trinity
Awake even when we're asleep
22 September, 2009 - 00:11 — Chris BourneYes Hal thanks so much for the beautiful sharing.
And as Trin quite rightly points out, let's be sure not to lead people astray.
To be fully conscious, fully awake is to be awake ALL THE TIME. There is a pure presence in the background of all activity. It is the everything/nothing and this is what we are.
It is present even when we are asleep. To me, that is the unspoken, unrequired, natural aspiration of the soul. If we keep dissolving all the inner barriers to everything/nothing, we find it arises more and more so that there is eventually no sleeping at all.
Oh sure, we may rest, and the body might become still, and the soul withdraw closer to the source, yet we know ourselves AS the source. So even in our dreams there is a background wakefulness that we are.
Have you ever tried going to sleep next to a ticking clock? Have you noticed the moment the ticking stops but you're still present? At this point, the universe has contracted for you like the disappearing spot on a switched off TV screen, but you're still awake!
To me, that is the unspoken goal. Why would anyone want to be asleep? Why would we ever want to switch off the magic of life itself?
Love to all
Chris
Thank you Trinity and Chris.
22 September, 2009 - 15:43 — VoidFirst, I do believe that I experience multidimensional states all the time in all focuses. I am not one self experiencing one particular focus, although I have been educated to believe that way. I am actually a group of selves that blink in and out different dimensions and realities during my waking hours. My waking hours are one focus and I use my physical senses as well as my inner senses to perceive and create choices to experience the expansion of my essence. My beliefs about myself and the reality in focus create those experiences, and I usually create elements of contrast to experience, so I widen my awareness both physically and non-physically. Your thoughts about experiencing the force of nothing are different from mine for we all experience consciousness using different densities, as well as different intensities of action. All are valid and all are rooted in each personal believe system, which do overlap but are unique nonetheless.
Chris your point of being fully awake is an important one. We are always fully awake even in the state we call sleeping. The dream world has its own reality, its own time and its own inner organisation. Reality is a result of focus of energy and attention. The dream world has a molecular construction, but this construction takes up no space as we know it. The dream world consists of dimensions and depths, expansions and contractions that are more clearly related to ideals that have no need for a particular kind of structure which we consider real in our waking world. Mental and psychic structures do exist within the dream world, but these structures are not dependant on matter and the motion of molecules is more spontaneous. An almost unbelievable depth of experience is possible within what would seem to be a fraction of a moment.
Within the reality of the dream world, fulfillment and dependence are not dependant upon permanence in physical terms. Bursts of developments are possible that have matured in perspectives that are bound up in time. In the dream reality you usually find yourself in some sort of body form. This form is necessary because we don't think of identity without some kind of body, so we project one in our dreaming dimension. This body form is not important, but it can tell us something about the dimension within the dream reality in which we are having the experience. The dream body, which is the most familiar, has been called the astral body. When we're in it we can do things which we can't do in our physical waking reality. When we move to another dimension in the dream world the abilities of the body form change and a different body form appears which we call mind form. This is the form where levitation and traveling within the solar system is achieved. In the first form it's possible to perceive the past, present and future of other dimensions on a limited basis. In the second form perceptions are increased and the scope of consciousness is widened. The third is called the true projection form where we can perceive the past, present and future of other systems, as well as our own. These forms are actually stages in consciousness.
Our beliefs about sleep create our perceptions of it. The state of consciousness that we enter through the process known as sleep is as real as our waking state. We are forever connected to the force of nothing in whatever focus we choose to focus on. My essay was pointing out that the connection is as strong and even stronger in our dream reality. It certainly is a fascinating topic and I have just touch on a few thoughts about it here. I have been studying consciousness for the last fourteen years and each day another reality opens and I find my self experiencing another taste of the force of nothing.
I appreciate our connection.
Hal
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