OK, this will be a bit long, so bear with me.
A couple weeks ago, I posted this in the Happy Birthday to us thread:
?I had a very important job interview yesterday lasting half a day with 8 interviewers (it's a great company too). In light of that, I had decided not to drink at all the two previous days. The night before the interview, I had an incredibly vivid dream. In it, there was a great ball of bright light. Two outstretched arms emerged, clenching light in their hands and a voice said to me, "Take this light and put it inside you." And from that point I was filled with this indescribable warmth. I don't remember having a better dream in recent years. ?
Actually, I do not think I have ever had a more powerfully spiritual dream ever in my life.
Now on to synchronicity.
A week later a good friend of my wife, who is very loving and spiritual, gave her a book saying, I know you are going through tough times at work, and I feel you are going through a lot of change in your life, and I just finished reading this and it helped me, maybe you would like it.?
My wife read it and told me I had to read it. The name of the book is, ?The Four Agreements, A Toltec Wisdom Book? by Don Miguel Ruiz.
Bear with me, it gets a little heavy and hard to follow here, but it?s the best part. The introduction to the book is called, ?The Smokey Mirror?
In summary, 3000 years ago there is a man living in a cave, studying to be a medicine man. He felt there must be more to know than he was being taught. One day sleeping in the cave, he dreamed of his own transformation from the moon and stars, and declared, ?I am made of light, I am made of stars.?
And then he realizes that everything that exists is one living being, the one we call God.
Then he concludes that human perception is light perceiving light. He also saw that matter is a mirror?everything is a mirror that reflects light and creates images of that light?and the world of illusion, the Dream is just like smoke which does not allow us to see who we really are.
This realization changed his life. His heart was filled with peace. The common people notice a beauty radiating from his eyes, and he no longer had judgment for anyone. They call him ?God.?
?It is true. I am God. But you are also God. We are the same you and I. We are images of Light.?
Wow. The first night I tried to read this intro and I got to the sentence about the dream ?I am made of light, I am made of stars.?
I practically threw the book down and could read no more until days later, as I found it so weird, it being so close to the feeling I felt in my own dream just one week earlier, yet it is an ancient spiritual myth some 3000 years old, handed to my wife from a friend because that friend felt she needed the book. This is synchronicity, Carl Jung?s (I?m well aware many call him a quack) idea of a meaningful coincidence that has a low probability of being a random or chance event. I have experienced synchronicity many, many times.
I have not finished the book, but thus far, it seems to be about the universal human condition, how we are taught in our youth have our own internal Judge and Victim, eternally battling one another. How we try to live our live pleasing others, but never truly can. That Hell is a condition of the mind. That we live in a fog of dreams (or brainwashed minds) that is not even real. And that unlike any other animal on planet earth, though we may make a mistake only once, we will punish ourselves a thousand times for it. The rest of the book is on how to be in the light, rather than in the darkness. Highly recommended.
A couple weeks ago, I posted this in the Happy Birthday to us thread:
?I had a very important job interview yesterday lasting half a day with 8 interviewers (it's a great company too). In light of that, I had decided not to drink at all the two previous days. The night before the interview, I had an incredibly vivid dream. In it, there was a great ball of bright light. Two outstretched arms emerged, clenching light in their hands and a voice said to me, "Take this light and put it inside you." And from that point I was filled with this indescribable warmth. I don't remember having a better dream in recent years. ?
Actually, I do not think I have ever had a more powerfully spiritual dream ever in my life.
Now on to synchronicity.
A week later a good friend of my wife, who is very loving and spiritual, gave her a book saying, I know you are going through tough times at work, and I feel you are going through a lot of change in your life, and I just finished reading this and it helped me, maybe you would like it.?
My wife read it and told me I had to read it. The name of the book is, ?The Four Agreements, A Toltec Wisdom Book? by Don Miguel Ruiz.
Bear with me, it gets a little heavy and hard to follow here, but it?s the best part. The introduction to the book is called, ?The Smokey Mirror?
In summary, 3000 years ago there is a man living in a cave, studying to be a medicine man. He felt there must be more to know than he was being taught. One day sleeping in the cave, he dreamed of his own transformation from the moon and stars, and declared, ?I am made of light, I am made of stars.?
And then he realizes that everything that exists is one living being, the one we call God.
Then he concludes that human perception is light perceiving light. He also saw that matter is a mirror?everything is a mirror that reflects light and creates images of that light?and the world of illusion, the Dream is just like smoke which does not allow us to see who we really are.
This realization changed his life. His heart was filled with peace. The common people notice a beauty radiating from his eyes, and he no longer had judgment for anyone. They call him ?God.?
?It is true. I am God. But you are also God. We are the same you and I. We are images of Light.?
Wow. The first night I tried to read this intro and I got to the sentence about the dream ?I am made of light, I am made of stars.?
I practically threw the book down and could read no more until days later, as I found it so weird, it being so close to the feeling I felt in my own dream just one week earlier, yet it is an ancient spiritual myth some 3000 years old, handed to my wife from a friend because that friend felt she needed the book. This is synchronicity, Carl Jung?s (I?m well aware many call him a quack) idea of a meaningful coincidence that has a low probability of being a random or chance event. I have experienced synchronicity many, many times.
I have not finished the book, but thus far, it seems to be about the universal human condition, how we are taught in our youth have our own internal Judge and Victim, eternally battling one another. How we try to live our live pleasing others, but never truly can. That Hell is a condition of the mind. That we live in a fog of dreams (or brainwashed minds) that is not even real. And that unlike any other animal on planet earth, though we may make a mistake only once, we will punish ourselves a thousand times for it. The rest of the book is on how to be in the light, rather than in the darkness. Highly recommended.
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