Because of the contemporary tendency toward cynicism and fundamentalism, we’ve marginalized our religious myths and made them small and flattened. Consequently, we’ve lost our connection with transcendence.

There was no complete ego dissolution,

These are difficult questions, but there is a shimmering silver lining here. After all, if we are dreaming our own stories, we can always dream others. We can tell new stories. We can develop new myths, perhaps even myths that point back to the myth-maker. We do not have to keep living in stories that have long ago spent their shelf lives. We do

In other words, during his dream the deity doesn’t know what is supposed to be impossible and, therefore, nothing is impossible.

Whether this is the case or not depends merely on the particular rules of cognitive association that govern the dream by tying its unfolding experiences together. These rules are a kind of belief system in mind, encoding what mind instinctively believes must be the consequences of any given event or action. What then transpires in the dream is

‘But by accessing them just as I access the Dome right now, I could presumably change the belief system in these layers and thereby change ordinary reality. Yet, this doesn’t seem at all possible.’

Ultimately, we are each responsible for the sincerity, attention and discernment with which we listen to the whispers of our obfuscated mind.

Renowned psychologist James Hillman, in his ‘acorn theory,’ suggested that each person has a call: an often-obfuscated but passionate idea of what her life is meant to be, just like an acorn holds within itself a blueprint of the oak it’s meant to become.

sincerely. ‘But something you said earlier and rather casually peaked my curiosity. Why did you describe the mental contents of mind-at-large as “excitations” or “movements” of mind-at-large?’