Claudia Dawson

The grids of perception that compose your world give you the world picture as you (underlined) experience it because your physical senses put you in a certain position within the entire grid. Animals, for example, while part of your experience, are also “tuned into” that grid at another level.

“Later in the dream Rob is reminded of this incident by something someone says, either on TV or in the room — signifying a different mobility of consciousness, almost a dream within a dream, and also establishing the fact that physical and magical events are related.

Lower World (Underworld) Below the Middle World is an inner earth, an underworld that truly has nothing to do with the Christian concept of hell, but is a place of the ancestors and primal beings. This Lower World is a place of testing and facing fear. Beings of…

In contrast, Tibetan Buddhism enlists the imaginal mind of its followers. It accepts the forest of images that we live in and teaches its adepts to plunge in, travel through, and eventually come out on the other side of the forest. The ultimate goal of both great paths is enlightenment by detachment from all forms, verbal or imaginal.

One of the curious things about human consciousness is that it is enamored of stability. You bought the concept that stability is something desirable hook, line, and sinker. So you strive for it; you think that if you do not have stability and security then who are you? You might not exist, you might be annihilated.