"Horace" <hor...@nightmares.scary> skrev i meddelandet
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This is a rather common theme, and it often points at a spiritual
directionality in the personality. The dreamers enters a condition of
"darkness of consciousness", as he is in the dark about the content of
the course. People who have such dreams are often intelligent, and are
seldom "in the dark". However, they tend to be in the dark about one
thing, namely the implication of the spiritual path in life, and that
it means entering the darkness of consciousness, when most of one's
attachments in life are abandoned. This gives rise to an anxiety, not
unlike what is experienced in the dream. After all, one goes back to
being a fledgling again. This motif surfaces in the dreams of many
people, but few people actually allow it to manifest in their lives,
sometimes for understandable reasons. They are very busy.
So, generally speaking, the unconscious points out the direction: to
become a spiritual fledgling. People who have acquired a strong
consciousness and a stable basis in life, have therefore often become
too stable, to the extent that their consciousness subdues something
that wants to surface, something that they don't know yet, something
important which exists in the unconscious, a teaching and a path which
is essentially the meaning of life. Of course, one could argue that
such dreams could signify anything important that the dreamer is in
the dark about. Yes, but in that case he would have known it already
and wouldn't have to dream about it all the time. So this is "The
Course", with a capital C. It's the teaching of all ages, a path which
implies becoming a fledgling again, to become simple, to enter the
Cloud of Unknowing, thus to endure the Dark Night of the Soul.
Mats Winther