Oneness Vs. Duality Part 3 of 3: Level Confusion Dreamtime

Continued from: Kurt Gödel, Camus, and the Never-Ending Proof

The first time Beatle Paul McCartney smoked marijuana, he had a seemingly profound insight. His insight was this: There are seven levels. Well, I don’t know if there are exactly seven levels, or whether it matters, but what I do know is that on the level we live, there are indeed levels. And the models we build about the universe and existence are contingent on the way we stack those levels.

Think about the dreams you have at night. If when you dream you are usually fooled into believing that your dreams are real and that all the things and characters in your dreams are separate from you, then you have inverted the levels of your dreams. And by inverting the levels of your dreams, you have made yourself out to be a product of your dreams instead of the source of your dreams.

Now, what if we fool ourselves into doing the same basic thing in our waking state? Which is to say, what if we invert the levels of physical reality just as we do our dream reality? Obviously, there are some notable difference between dreaming and waking. For instance, the rules of the physical world are more rigid than the rules of our dream worlds—we often aren’t able to do things like float and fly in the physical world like we are in our dream worlds. However, that doesn’t mean dreaming and waking are unrelated–just a little different.

While dreaming, we only have to contend with our own minds. Thus, to formulate a dream, we only have to be in agreement with ourselves. Consequently, if we want to dream of meeting a lover, flying, or acquiring 10 million dollars, we are free to do so if we can just agree with ourselves to entertain that particular dream scenario. However, in physical reality, we are under more restrictions. If we want to meet a lover, we usually need to find someone else who will conspire with us to be that lover. If we want to fly, we usually have to do so within the confines of the laws of physics. If we want to acquire 10 million dollars, we usually have to find people and scenarios able to facilitate that. In other words, multiple minds need to conspire to make things on the physical level happen.

However, those seemingly multiple minds are all still the same mind, albeit on another level. To make things happen in the physical world your mind needs to conspire with the mind behind other people, animals, insect, planets, all the way down to the mind behind subatomic particles. It is all still the same mind. It is just that on the level of the physical world, the one mind is seemingly split up into countless fragments. That split up quality is what keeps the dream seemingly alive and you seemingly a product of the dream instead of the dreamer. Whatever it is that the majority of the split up mind agrees upon dictates what occurs in the dream. Thus, the causality of dreamtime is dictated by the amount of fervor in convictions. And the primary conviction of the dreamer is that of separation.

Separation
The basic syntax of dreaming is the idea of separation (duality); it is the idea of multiple, disassociated things. And separation is a fearful idea to entertain; it is the idea of running away from some kind of imagined monster. Consequently, if you want to wake up from the dream, what you need to do is stop thinking in terms of separation. However, there is a big, insane psychology wrapped around loyalty to the idea of separation. In other words, the dream serves a purpose. The dream is an attempt to make an opposite of reality; it is an attempt to turn Infinity (singular/whole) into infinities (plural/divided), which in reality is impossible but can nonetheless be entertained in crazy dreams.

The dreamer imagines itself separate from reality (Infinity) and then imagines itself separate from itself—turning one mind into many seemingly different minds. This self-separation is a means for the dreamer of dissociating itself (making unconscious) from its own fearful thoughts/beliefs of separation. So, instead of dealing with those fearful thoughts/beliefs of separation, which would cause the dreamer to snap out of it and wake up, the dreamer is able to project those fearful thoughts/beliefs out onto the dream: onto seemingly other things and people. The dream is thus designed as a means to hold onto bad thoughts instead of dealing with them, healing them, and ending the dream.

It must be realized though, that, since the dream is dualistic, it necessarily has an alternate, simultaneous purpose to its crazy purpose. That other purpose is to wake up. In other words, the dream is built so that the dreamer can choose to heal its crazy thoughts of fearful separation or carry on in madness a little longer.

Healing
There is a psychologist in Hawaii, Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, that it is purported to cure his patients using a Hawaiian healing process called ho ‘oponopono. The doctor never actually sees his patients, instead he simply finds out each patient’s supposed psychological problem and then he finds how he made up the patient’s illness in his own mind. Once he sorts it all out in his own mind, the patient’s psychological problem goes away. The doctor takes total responsibility, as if he is were the dreamer of the world, and instead of treating the world as separate, he treats it as part of his own mind and so heals it there at its source.

This sort of healing is precisely the kind of healing one would expect to be possible in a world that is in effect a dream. The doctor isn’t trying to change things on the level of form (effect), instead he’s doing it at the level of mind (cause). He is not engaging in blame (projection of fearful, guilty thoughts) he is engaging in responsibility (dealing with his own fearful, guilty thoughts).

Some people take this kind of mind power idea to an extreme and say that you should be able to end wars, move mountains, or whatever else you want just with your mind. And while theoretically true, in practice it is not so straight forward. It isn’t about changing the world, it is about changing your mind about the world. If the form happens to change after you change your mind, so be it. But often merely the content of the form changes. To move mountains you’d have to think with your whole mind, not just the little sliver you are used to. And anyone able to think with his/her whole mind is most likely someone who is beyond walking around in this dream performing “real” magic tricks.

There is a story of a man who spent forty years learning how to change his mind so that he could walk on water. One day this man found Buddha to show Buddha his accomplishment. Buddha watched as the man walked across a river and then returned. When the man was back on shore Buddha turned to the man and said, “That was great, but the ferry only costs a nickel.”

The moral of the story is, do not get carried away trying to change the form of the world. The form doesn’t really matter. All that matters is what you think about it. What we need to focus on is waking from the dream, not simply tweaking it to our imagined preferences. After all, in our state of mind, identified with our little dream characters, we necessarily don’t see the big picture and so often don’t really know what is in our own best interest and so choose wrongly.

End
Even though I tried to cram a lot of concepts into this article, I’ve still barely scratched the surface in terms of the implications of thinking of the world as a dream. So, whether I’ve convinced you today that the world is a dream or not is inconsequential. What is important is that you keep your mind open enough to simply entertain the concept. This is a subject I plan on returning to a lot on this website. And while this particular article mostly just dealt with “theory”, we will eventually get into practical ways of applying this concept to everyday life.

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