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Post by LorrB on Feb 6, 2013 8:29:50 GMT 9.5
Foxfires, the 'the Way is straight and narrow' - that might mean that each of us must make our own way along the path. Might get lonely along the way, until you start seeing things that others miss, as has been your experience. Its a trade off.
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Post by paul on Mar 17, 2013 11:55:25 GMT 9.5
The other day a friend had yet another dream about having various kittens from very young to half grown. The kittens seemed reasonably fed.
The usual test I use with this sort of dream is to ask the person to bring the creatures out of the dream and let them stand next to the person. Often the creatures will make themselves at home inside the person's body. This seems to indicate that the creatures are internal - in this case new aspects of consciousness.
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Post by paul on Apr 14, 2013 14:48:50 GMT 9.5
Last night I had the 3rd in a series of flood dreams - that started in May 2008. I have interpreted them as relating to the world global financial crisis.
The first dream as an energy matched the US. This current dream energy most clearly matches Australia where the GFC has hardly impacted so far - but also matches reasonably well quite a lot of other countries.
In the dream I was at a coastal town and a fisherman brought his boat inland as he saw great waves at sea. I saw them too and went some little distance inland and after a while waves of black water came up to near where I was. (In Australia after a few years drought, the first water down a dry river bed is black and contains no oxygen)
After the water receded I went down the shore and apartment buildings up to 6 floors had been completely gutted - with no walls remaining only the concrete shell.
In financial parlance, a property that is worth less than its mortgage is referred to as being under water. In Australia most of the residential mortgages are based on banks funded with short term international money. Perhaps that money will go home soon. It is not a good time to be underwater or even to have a mortgage.
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Post by LorrB on Apr 14, 2013 16:13:20 GMT 9.5
I benefited greatly by following your instincts with the first dream. Thank you Might this one be a warning of physical event? How can you tell the difference?
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Post by paul on Apr 14, 2013 16:37:28 GMT 9.5
>Might this one be a warning of physical event? How can you tell the difference?
An easy test is to put the energy of the dream in front of you - like a cloud of energy - then visualise two pieces of paper. Write on one "literal" and on the other "symbolic" and put them either side of the dream energy cloud and observe what happens.
Just to add to the black water aspect. The black flow as the drought breaks kills the fish in any pools still remaining in the downstream river bed as there is almost no oxygen in the water. It is strong symbolism.
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Post by stewartedwards on Apr 14, 2013 18:29:20 GMT 9.5
Ok my perspective on this.
1. You must be able to differentiate between your head and your heart.
2. Dreams tend to make most sense when you consider the bigger picture of life, way beyond daily individual activity.
3. When those dreams start to interact with your heart then there might be crossover into the physical world.
4. Understanding the above has enabled me enormously in helping me make a lot of sense with regard to the masonic world and my own interaction with it in the period from the Millenium to the end of 2009 when I pretty much walked away from the physical structures.
Now if it was just a dream, like the adventure paul has commented on before where he suggested that the knights might have been grail knights, that is clearly just an the dreamworld/parallel time lines/lodge above whatever.
And if something is totally in the heart then it can easily be real in the physical world - like how life kept me knocking on masonic doors knowing (but equally not knowing) that the step that I need to take was there. This has happened countless times in the masonic world where many things have happened to me, that quite frankly many masons ismply disbelieve. Yet they happened by masons in masonic surroundings.
Now the trickier bit, when you dream but you also have an itchy heart. I am much less experienced with this, but this is where the masonic stuff that ultimately proved to be accurate started.
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Post by paul on Apr 29, 2013 18:48:43 GMT 9.5
Dreams from a couple of friends:
One had repeatedly dreamed of a cave in her front yard with a lid on it. So I had her step into the cave. After some prompting she could see a bunch of small friendly beings that looked like baby monkeys. (She has perhaps 10 pictures of baby monkeys in front of her desk at work)
So with a bit more prompting she recognised them as parts of herself that she had kept down with a lid on them. So now she is putting more attention to them - and asking them what they like to do.
So today I asked her to look at the cave again and with a bit of prompting she could see that it is diminishing. She was not too pleased at that so I pointed her to a local mountain (volcanic plug) and she can see that she has a cave in it. She will be a bit surprised when she finds out what else is sharing it with her.
The other friend had a dream about a lion outside a house that she hid in. This of course is pretty easy symbolism and it did not take long to prompt her to give the lion some love. It got smaller and turned into a very friendly cat. The lion of course is her emotional beingness that has been carrying some trauma that makes it rather quick in response. Now perhaps my friend can stop growling at me.
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Post by LorrB on Apr 30, 2013 8:51:46 GMT 9.5
How does one distinguish between the lion of emotional beingness and the lion of power and strength (of character)?
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Post by paul on Apr 30, 2013 9:27:14 GMT 9.5
>How does one distinguish between the lion of emotional beingness and the lion of power and strength (of character)?
In this case it was easy. The aggressiveness of the lion disappeared when it was properly loved.
More generally, if it is strength of character then the person doing the dreaming will not need to hide from his/her own characteristic
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Post by paul on Dec 3, 2013 7:39:39 GMT 9.5
Last night I had the 3rd in a series of flood dreams - that started in May 2008. I have interpreted them as relating to the world global financial crisis. The first dream as an energy matched the US. This current dream energy most clearly matches Australia where the GFC has hardly impacted so far - but also matches reasonably well quite a lot of other countries. In the dream I was at a coastal town and a fisherman brought his boat inland as he saw great waves at sea. I saw them too and went some little distance inland and after a while waves of black water came up to near where I was. (In Australia after a few years drought, the first water down a dry river bed is black and contains no oxygen) After the water receded I went down the shore and apartment buildings up to 6 floors had been completely gutted - with no walls remaining only the concrete shell. In financial parlance, a property that is worth less than its mortgage is referred to as being under water. In Australia most of the residential mortgages are based on banks funded with short term international money. Perhaps that money will go home soon. It is not a good time to be underwater or even to have a mortgage. I have just had the latest in this series of dreams. I was back in the New Zealand house I grew up in and over the back hedge (in those days) were fields and a creek. In 20 years there, and much rain, I never saw the creek break its banks. Anyway in the dream there were two great flows of water: the creek and a little gully that sometimes used to have a small flow. These two flows were producing 1000 times more water than I had ever seen there and the water had advanced up much of our backyard and I thought it was time to build a sandbag wall around the house. I did some testing on the energies of the scene and the scene easily sucks in phrases such as global financial crisis. I conclude that phase 2 of the GFC is close at hand.
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Post by LorrB on Dec 3, 2013 14:25:22 GMT 9.5
That is a cheer up with me retiring next year. Same as last time or lesser?
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Post by paul on Dec 3, 2013 14:43:55 GMT 9.5
I expect that it will be deeper than last time. The down run started in 2000 with the dot com crash and there have been various bubbles since then: commodities, bonds, shares, property. We have almost run out of areas to bubble.
So we are 13 years in with problems not going away and perhaps getting worse. "It’s congratulations all around to global central banks today as the seer of the GFC, Nouriel Roubini, returns to declare the obvious, that the global housing bubble that brought the global economy to its knees is back, and it’s bad!"
By some accounts this process is at a greater scale than the Great Depression - at least in years and size of bubbles. It may take 30 years to work through.
Meanwhile the move from confidence in the public interest to confidence in the private interests that started about 1981 is set to peak in 2032 - if it follows previous cycles. Thus we have another 20 years of decreasing public support of individuals and community.
I am not retiring for a while if I can avoid it, while I see how deep the depression gets and how secure my bank deposits are.
Long service leave at half speed is a good way to play for time - for me at least.
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Post by stewartedwards on Dec 3, 2013 16:30:51 GMT 9.5
Meanwhile the move from confidence in the public interest to confidence in the private interests that started about 1981 is set to peak in 2032 - if it follows previous cycles. Thus we have another 20 years of decreasing public support of individuals and community. Yet it was so easily avoidable. Over in Europe politicians have made the choice to cut so far that riots and protests end up on the streets (depending on nation), where food bank queues lengthen (even a problem in the UK just now) and where, if one report is accurate, if a jobcentre finds you a job where the commuting costs are greater than the minimum wage you have to take it or get no welfare. Yet it is impossible to take it. You are penniless either way. Our politicians are now talking about greed being good. Its going to be a difficult generation for many. The really sad part is that a different set of policy priorities could well have had a much better outcome. But egos, national interests, ideology etc..
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Post by paul on Dec 3, 2013 17:58:05 GMT 9.5
The really sad part is that a different set of policy priorities could well have had a much better outcome. But egos, national interests, ideology etc.. We have a new government Australia and in the space of 3 months have managed to get half the population offside taking away benefits for the poor to fund benefits for the rich. I do not know which is less intelligent - the voters or the government.
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Post by stewartedwards on Dec 3, 2013 18:40:39 GMT 9.5
There does seem to be a global policy at play - to upset the people. Look at Ukraine at the moment.
I have a lot of sympathy for our national leaders for it must be difficult for them, and I realise that different nations have different influences, but in the West and from what you say your neck of the world Paul, it really does seem to be a return to the bad old days of "I'm alright Jack, sod you."
Its a shame as I had hoped that the human race would find the will to evolve up a level. Which to be fair the people, globally have been doing for decades. But the "powers that be" ideology at the moment is firmly rooted in comfort zones of days gone by. the end result is likely to be shedloads of misery, distress, and catastrophe. History repeats itself as the lessons have not been learnt.
If I can ever find a route into global politics, while they will eat me alive, hopefully I can add a measure of balance to enable a more secure long term future for everyone on this planet. But I am beginning to ask myself if is it worth the effort? I have lived most of my life with little money, including some very poor times as a child, and now that I am heading back there, there is a strong argument just to mind my own business, plod through my remaining few decades, and simply watch with sadness as our world backtracks on prior evolutionary progress. At least I have substantial personal experience of being broke so it isn't a shock for me. That is the downside of God confirming to me when I was dying that I have already "done enough". For while I could do heaps more [and if you believe in such things - with Gods personal blessing given I was asked to return when I wanted to cross over and the door was wide open to me], including rebalancing this world in a manner that everyone benefits, including the "greed is good crowd" it really needs the current crop of "powers that be" to recognise that my input is in their personal interests for long term security, but I am not holding my breath.
Had they invited me to the last Bilderberg, they would have been beginning to stride much more positively forwards now. Arrogant statement I know. Pity though.
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Post by bernie ( lone ranger ) on Dec 4, 2013 6:37:09 GMT 9.5
well said stewart ,a change of direction is definitely needed in the way we think and care for each other and our wonderful world ,if the politicians stood back and replaced the dungpile in front of them with logic they might just make headway and instead of the slippery slope we could look forward to climbing the fabled stairway to heaven ..
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Post by LorrB on Dec 4, 2013 7:55:42 GMT 9.5
Welcome to our forum Bernie the lone ranger.
Your name did make be grin. I met Clayton Moore, the original Lone Ranger, in Sydney in the early 70's. A tall imposing man who wore a neckerchief, made him look like he was moving even when he was standing still. I remember approaching him (I didn't know who he was) and saying cheekily "you look like someone famous". He threw his head back and replied "why ma'am, I'm the L-o-o-o-o-ne Ranger!"
Took me quite aback for a second or so. LOL. I said something really silly, like, Hi-Ho Tonto. He said 'Silver, ma'am, Silver. Tonto was the Indian".
Oh dear, it is quite amazing that 40 year old conversations can come back instantly to mind.
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Post by LorrB on Dec 4, 2013 8:06:57 GMT 9.5
well said stewart ,a change of direction is definitely needed in the way we think and care for each other and our wonderful world ,if the politicians stood back and replaced the dungpile in front of them with logic they might just make headway and instead of the slippery slope we could look forward to climbing the fabled stairway to heaven .. Jesus and other world leaders taught by example, one person at a time was influenced, then eventually crowds etc... Freemasonry teaches us to use a similar technique.. making our mark on the world. Sometimes I think it a mistake to take the world as a whole, it is too easy to become discouraged with thoughts of - if they can't fix it, what can little old me do. Apathy sets in. Might it be better to just look at what is at hand and then take one little step towards doing what one can to improve things in that particular area? It might be a step up.
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Post by LorrB on Dec 4, 2013 8:08:24 GMT 9.5
Talking about fabled stairways to heaven... you might like to check out the threads on Jacob's Ladder, and the 21 Steps to Enlightenment.
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Post by stewartedwards on Dec 4, 2013 16:09:55 GMT 9.5
Bernie
Good to see you here
LorrB
Wise as always.
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