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The Secret of Dreams by Yacki Raizizun eugeneyiga under Reviews
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“The highly developed, spiritual man, as he retires into the interior world during sleep, realises a state of spiritual bliss that is far beyond the stage of ordinary mortals.”
The Dreamer
Everyone dreams. Considering we spend a third of our lives asleep, that probably isn’t surprising. But while it’s understood that sleep rests our bodies (enabling us to “undergo the strenuous daily toil of physical life”) and recharges our minds (enabling us to subconsciously solve problems from our waking life), dreaming is more complex. What exactly are dreams for?
Before we can understand how or why we dream, we must first explore our spiritual side. “The external or physical man is no more the man than the coat he wears,” writes Yacki Raizizun in The Secret of Dreams. “The physical man is only an instrument [with] which the real inner man or soul expresses itself in the physical universe.”
Dreams can be thought of as a “temporary death” where the soul and body separate. This leaves man in the astral world, expressing consciousness through the astral body, “just as the physical body is an instrument for expressing consciousness in the waking state”.
Varieties of Dreams
Dreams can be classified into four groups:
1. Physical Stimulus – The sounds and sensations in our physical environment can affect our dreams, which is why sleeping in a cold room might make us dream of snow and ice.
2. Subconscious Memory – Thoughts from our daily life, even those we didn’t notice, may filter into our dreams.
3. Telepathy – This usually involves living people (e.g. dreaming about someone you haven’t seen or heard from in ages and then seeing or hearing from them the next day) but is also possible with “discarnate beings”.
4. The Actual Astral experience of the ego or soul in the astral region – Dreams that involve “communicating with the dead” or “having premonitions of a certain thing which actually happens” are
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“The highly developed, spiritual man, as he retires into the interior world during sleep, realises a state of spiritual bliss that is far beyond the stage of ordinary mortals.”
The Dreamer
Everyone dreams. Considering we spend a third of our lives asleep, that probably isn’t surprising. But while it’s understood that sleep rests our bodies (enabling us to “undergo the strenuous daily toil of physical life”) and recharges our minds (enabling us to subconsciously solve problems from our waking life), dreaming is more complex. What exactly are dreams for?
Before we can understand how or why we dream, we must first explore our spiritual side. “The external or physical man is no more the man than the coat he wears,” writes Yacki Raizizun in The Secret of Dreams. “The physical man is only an instrument [with] which the real inner man or soul expresses itself in the physical universe.”
Dreams can be thought of as a “temporary death” where the soul and body separate. This leaves man in the astral world, expressing consciousness through the astral body, “just as the physical body is an instrument for expressing consciousness in the waking state”.
Varieties of Dreams
Dreams can be classified into four groups:
1. Physical Stimulus – The sounds and sensations in our physical environment can affect our dreams, which is why sleeping in a cold room might make us dream of snow and ice.
2. Subconscious Memory – Thoughts from our daily life, even those we didn’t notice, may filter into our dreams.
3. Telepathy – This usually involves living people (e.g. dreaming about someone you haven’t seen or heard from in ages and then seeing or hearing from them the next day) but is also possible with “discarnate beings”.
4. The Actual Astral experience of the ego or soul in the astral region – Dreams that involve “communicating with the dead” or “having premonitions of a certain thing which actually happens” are