Religious institutions like seminaries and monasteries
offer parallels, as do prisons. These two focus
on changing how you deep sleep dream. This is explored more
extensively on Pathway B—Seer.
Consider that you are commonly told
that sleeping is a state of unconsciousness or non-consciousness,
meaning that nothing happens. You can
have bad dreams, wet dreams, and totally idiotic dreams and then
you “Wake!”
When awake, the general advice is to forget about
dreams.
In the globally dominant Western culture, we Warrior's
Questers do not sit down and discuss
our dreams over the breakfast table—analyze
and interpret them. If I want to deal with your my dreams,
normally when troubled by them, I am advised to go to
a "mental health" professional.
The
clear implication is that you cannot deal
with dreams on your own nor will you benefit from talking
with your family or friends about them, rather, you need
to see someone who
is trained to assist you. Among those who can assist you
are
“depth psychologists” who attempt to work with
dreams and to explain the meanings of your nightly stories. But their
task—admirable in so many ways—ultimately fails because
deep sleeping is not—as these professional model their
approach—a singular, individual act, rather it
is a collective and communal act.
Can you accept
the insight that your dreaming is grounded in the
collective and communal dreams of your society
and culture? That, as in Genesis, when you lay down that you
deep sleep and so are present to the
creatively imagining force or presences that form your everyday
world and your own personality?
Continue—Deep
