(Global transformation and the call to service)
For those of us who “do the homework” and prepare ourselves for this fascinating global transformation, our everyday lives will become indistinguishable from a lucid dream.
These angelic beings also reveal that the only way to prepare ourselves for this mass awakening is to be genuinely dedicated to following a path of service to others—practicing forgiveness, compassion, patience, love, and understanding in our daily lives as our primary motivation. This is the core message of all great spiritual traditions. If we apply these principles as a regular practice, we have the potential to experience a quantum leap in human evolution that is almost unthinkable in its scope and power.
The main books that helped me achieve this fascinating state over the years are Lucid Dreaming and Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Dr. Stephen LaBerge,1,2 Conscious Dreaming by Robert Moss, and Adventures Out of the Body by William Buhlman,
For example, Dr. LaBerge invented the NovaDreamer, a sleep mask that can help signal when you are having a dream.
Millions of people have been influenced by my work. It is not uncommon for someone to come up to me and tell me that my work helped them through very dark places in their life. However, up until now, I have been too afraid of public ridicule to tell the full story—but now is the time. I want you to know the truth. You may start finding a lot of personal connections in this story, and begin asking fascinating new questions. The reality you once took for granted may be a dream that you can awaken within.
(Daily dream journaling and synchronistic number patterns)
I have been writing down my dreams now for twenty-seven years, and I do my very best to never miss a single day.
The two most common patterns were 11:11 and 3:33, but I also saw every other repeating combination—like 1:11, 2:22, 4:44, 5:55, and 12:12—as well as patterns of numbers counting up, like 1:23 and 12:34. In fact, I could actually measure how well I was doing by how often these number patterns appeared.
It is also very important to note that in almost every case, I would feel influenced to look at a particular spot before I had any conscious idea of what I would see there.
Then I’d drive home, and at the exact moment that I parked the car in the driveway and turned off the ignition, the odometer might have a pattern of three, four, or even five repeating digits in it.
It took quite a while to be able to decipher the language that the dreams were using, but with the help of various books and the repetition of a daily practice, their meanings started to become clear.
(Living with karmic precision and the consequences of poor boundaries)
As I ventured into full-time work as a UFO researcher, author, and radio personality in 1998, I lived my adult life with military precision. I was constantly strategizing each minute of time during the day to try to optimize my effectiveness for the greatest good of humanity. If someone started talking to me for very long, it was easy to feel this was not the best use of my time, though I was invariably polite and respectful. The main friendships I developed after college were usually with insiders who were conveying highly classified and fascinating information. I rarely ever watched television or movies. I never wanted to leave the house for any reason except to buy groceries and run necessary errands. I experienced karma—the negative and painful side of synchronicity—as almost instantaneous and utterly inevitable. I would marvel at people who would crash through life thinking they could “get away” with anger, jealousy, control, dominance, manipulation, lying, stealing, and other negative behaviors.
was always doing my very best to run a clean karmic game, with the precision and focus of an Olympic athlete. For many years, I was afraid to set effective boundaries, as I knew it would upset the other person, and I was afraid this might cause me additional damaging karma. This proved to be a gross error in judgment that I have since had to work very hard to process and integrate.
(Dreams, REM, and what conventional science misses)
Dreams and Rapid Eye Movement The first book I read on dream analysis was Lucid Dreaming by Dr. Stephen LaBerge. This was later followed by his sequel, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. In addition to discussing lucid-dreaming exercises, Dr. LaBerge’s books also gave a very valuable overview perspective on what dreams really are, as seen by conventional and Jungian psychotherapists alike.
First of all, a surprising number of people think they never dream. It is now fairly common knowledge that everyone dreams an average of two to three times per night. Scientists can detect this in the lab by looking at your eyes. While you are dreaming, your eyes dart around with the lids shut, in the phenomenon called REM, or rapid eye movement.
I often found myself waking up right before my alarm went off and turning it off ahead of time anyway, so it was easy to adopt this practice.
They believe that our dreams are taking our thoughts and experiences from the previous day and transferring them from short-term into long-term memory. Other than that, the strange symbolic nature of the things that would happen in dreams was basically overlooked. Dreams are still often dismissed as the mostly useless chatter of a brain doing its best to stretch out and take a hot shower before the new day begins, filing away certain events and understandings for their long-term survival value.
be to order a sausage and mushroom pizza. As soon as Dad awoke, he clapped his hands together and said, “Hey, boys, what do you say we go get a sausage and mushroom pizza?” This was the last time I ever hypnotized someone, as I feel it is an unethical practice that interferes with free will. A person given posthypnotic suggestions can be awakened, have no memory of what they were told to do, but then carry out the instructions they were given by some invisible but irresistible compulsion. Once put under hypnosis again, a person will remember everything they had been told before, and their instructions can be further modified. The best hypnotic subjects are “somnambulists,” literally translated as “sleepwalkers.”
(Jung’s superconscious, archetypes, and the divine couple)
Are we hardwired by some universal spiritual principle to trust this “higher self” that guides us through life? Apparently yes. Carl Jung theorized that there is a “superconscious” mind that we all ultimately have access to, but usually only through dreams and synchronicities.
which often presents itself to people as a superintelligent, marvelously loving source of white light. Experiencers also report that this light is Home, in a way that seems to greatly transcend any other sense of home that they may have had before. There is a highly expanded awareness within this light, and you realize that it is you, and you are it—in the greatest sense.
This dream phenomenon is also the source of déjà vu. You may visit a certain location or meet a certain person in vivid dreams that you do not consciously remember afterward. However, once these events manifest in your physical reality, your subconscious gets excited because it remembers what you saw.
Jung also felt that the superconscious mind had certain blueprints in it that everyone has to go through in our own ways.
Most of us have only brief and fleeting access to the anima and animus within us. When we see someone who embodies these sacred male and female archetypes in physical form, such as a great leader, artist, or musician, it is very common for us to feel a sense of awe and reverence for that person. In other cases, we may project our shadow onto them, as many often do, and view them with great disgust, looking for any possible way to remove their apparent righteousness. Jung believed that the anima and animus archetypes appeared as superheroes and gods in mythology.
Men have a far more dominant animus, and their anima is typically shaped by the female members of their family. Jung believed that women have a dominant anima, but that their animus is more complex than that of men and can be shaped by a variety of characters and influences throughout their lives. If you are lucky enough to find a romantic life partner who has an anima or animus that is compatible with your own, you have what Jung called syzygy, the “Divine Couple.”
The word syzygy also refers to a planetary alignment, indicating the power that Jung felt such a union could have. The more you can tap into the power of your dreams and the guidance they provide, the more likely you are to be successfully steered into a blissful, meaningful, and productive coupling of this nature.
The infinite awareness that most of us would call God or the Creator is the Self in Jungian terms. The term Higher Self is an easier way to avoid confusion when discussing this concept.
Jung believed that mystics and yogis who had achieved bliss, enlightenment, and the “nirvana” state had reunified the various archetypes within their beings to become embodiments of the true Self. The Law of One series and other philosophies suggest that this work takes multiple lifetimes, and goes through a variety of stages.
In the simplest terms, we want to identify and heal our own shadow so we are not obsessed with looking for it in others, while also making sure that we do not allow others’ shadows to overtake us. We want to identify and heal our own anima and animus so we do not project them onto others and worship them inappropriately, and instead develop our own creative talents. We also want to make conscious contact with our Higher Self so we can gain guidance and knowledge about what our soul has in mind for us, and begin following that path. If we begin practicing regular dream analysis, we will be receiving direct messages from our Higher Self that will greatly assist us in each of these categories. Other archetypes Jung identified included the following list, again according to psychologist David Straker. Bear in mind that Jung saw these characters as appearing in everyone’s dreams and having the same basic symbolic meanings, regardless of where they might be in time and space. This list of definitions may help shed some light on various symbols that will appear in your dreams: FAMILY ARCHETYPES The father: Stern, powerful, controlling The mother: Feeding, nurturing, soothing The child: Birth, beginnings, salvation STORY ARCHETYPES The hero: Rescuer, champion The maiden: Purity, desire The wise old man: Knowledge, guidance The magician: Mysterious, powerful The Earth mother: Nature The witch or sorceress: Dangerous The trickster: Deceiving, hidden ANIMAL ARCHETYPES The faithful dog: Unquestioning loyalty The enduring horse: Never giving up The devious cat: Self-serving
Jung also studied the meanings of the twelve signs of the Zodiac, and believed they represented a highly advanced and all-encompassing summary of the different personality archetypes that we all move through from lifetime to lifetime. Most of us will identify with just a few of them, but ideally, we will experience and master each of these various archetypes.
Insomnia is almost always caused by our failure to process our emotions in an adequate fashion. All the great classic meditation teachings instruct us to avoid distraction as much as possible. Ideally, we focus on one thought at a time. We don’t have music or video running in the background. If we have music on, we listen to the music. If we have a video on, we watch the video. If we are having a conversation, we stay present in the conversation, maintaining eye contact, and not getting distracted by push notifications on our phones. If we are driving, we are actually paying attention to the road and not just lost in the jumble of our own thoughts and the volume of the car stereo. If we keep ourselves distracted throughout the day, we may very well be avoiding painful issues. Then when we lie down at night, our minds are flooded with these upsetting problems.
in your spiritual vibration even more. The single best thing that can happen to you in a dream like this is flying through the air like a superhero. If you have a flying dream of this sort, congratulations—you have just earned your way into a quantum leap in the speed of your spiritual evolution.
Having read Dr. LaBerge’s books, I knew that the ogre-like villain must have represented some aspect of my personality from my marijuana-using years. As they said in the Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, it is all too easy to become a “dry drunk,” where you still have all the same bad habits you had when you were an addict, only you are not actually using your former substance of choice.
(Law of One, chakras, and color symbolism in dreams)
Color Symbolism Once I read the Law of One series, I gained what I felt to be a much deeper insight into the true meanings of colors in dreams. In the Law of One system, it is revealed the universe ultimately has seven main dimensions, or “densities.” The proper technical explanation of how this works is outside the scope of this chapter, but suffice it to say that in the Law of One system, there are seven “rays” of light that radiate throughout the universe and permeate all of space, time, matter, and energy. These rays create and uphold what we would think of as seven main dimensions. They also correspond to the seven colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. The Law of One series reveals that we have bodies that actively exist within each of these densities, completely outside linear time. This is much more complex than most people’s basic idea of having a mind, body, and spirit. Each of the seven densities are anchored in our bodies with an energy center. This is what Hindu mystics called the chakras. In Law of One terms, the energy centers could be visualized as roughly spherical balls of light that appear in regular intervals as well as move up the spine. Red is at the base of the spine. Orange is in the navel. Yellow is in the solar plexus. Green is in the heart. Light blue is in the throat. Indigo is between the eyebrows, in the “third eye” area. Violet is above the head, and is also called the crown chakra. Another interesting detail is that in the Law of One series, the higher chakras appear to extraterrestrial beings as if they were crystals. The more advanced we become, the more “crystallized” these energy centers will appear from the spiritual perspective.
Whenever I am analyzing a dream, this is how I interpret each of the colors: RED: Safety, sexuality, and security. Primal forces in the body and mind. The desire to protect oneself, to survive, to have food and shelter, and to procreate. ORANGE: The self. How you see yourself. Depending upon the placement of this color in your symbols, this could indicate a positive, such as healthy self-esteem, or a negative, with a self-esteem being greatly challenged. Sexual issues can also easily appear in the orange color, since sex is extremely personal. YELLOW: The other. How you see others. Positive instances of yellow can indicate that you are being loving, supportive, patient, and friendly to others. Negative instances of yellow may reveal that you are being manipulative and controlling toward others. Sexuality can also appear in this color, such as if you are being dominated by others or have your own desire to manipulate people. Any type of social problems you are going through in life are apt to appear in your dreams with some sort of yellow color symbolism attached to them. GREEN: Love. This can represent love for yourself or the struggle you are going through to reach self-acceptance. This also can represent the love you have for others, as well as the love you are receiving from others. Generally speaking, green and the “higher” colors that follow are a good sign. Any dream where you are outdoors will typically feature green grass, trees, and the like. This indicates that you are working through the lessons of love. LIGHT BLUE: Light. In this case, light refers to a variety of concepts, including wisdom, communication, honor, responsibility, and duty. The throat is obviously the part of us that speaks, and the Law of One indicates that the throat chakra is light blue in its spiritual “true color.” When you see light blue in a dream, it can indicate that you are building knowledge and wisdom through dedicated study. It can represent a call to action, telling you there is something you need to communicate and have not yet done so. Light blue may also indicate that there is something you have elected to do, and once you make that choice, you have a duty to fulfill that promise. You also ideally see this responsibility as an honor that you are happy to carry out. Hence, the Law of One series typically merges those two words together as “honor/duty.” This level is where many of the ancient sacred warrior codes have originated in various lineages. INDIGO: Love/light. At this level, the spiritual feminine path of love and the spiritual masculine path of light are merged into a greater whole. Self and other are seen as one. This is a very good color to see in your dreams and is almost always a positive. It means that you are activating your ESP, experiencing synchronicities, starting to remember your dreams, and gaining true intuitive insights. To embody this level in your conscious, everyday awareness, the Law of One series says you have to make a…