Hill Side Ranch Seminars During this Seminar, we will explore why dreams, images and symbols are one of your greatest resources for self-discovery, personal transformation and transcendence. The unconscious is paradoxical, in that it can hold two diametrically opposite processes going on at the same time. This is impossible for us to perceive or act out at the normal level of awareness, because it is a third and fourth dimensional process. Consciousness is unlimited, so it is not bound or caught up in any way. It doesn't get into a conflict. There is no binding judgment at that level. That type of self censoring and self judgment happens only at the normal waking levels of consciousness. Every image and symbol we encounter, both in the waking and dream states, represents an energy or a projection of an energy pattern. The images aren't what it's all about, it's the forces behind the images. We're nothing but energy configurations. We layer it out onto what we seemingly perceive as objects. Fundamentally, basically, we are transducers, vortices or fields of energy. That's what allows change to take place. We live in a hyper-dimensional space. Our thoughts manage energy, in this dimension of time and space and all others, past, present, and future, simultaneously. Any change we make in this dimension immediately affects all others. There is a constant dance, interplay and adjusting of energies across space and time. A shift in consciousness in this dimension is immediately affected in all other dimensions and life times. Trying to gain psychological understanding of your process, can only help to bind you more tightly into limited and repetitive patterns. You must break the psychological set that stops the behavior of saying, in your mind, that everything that I see around me is something solid and immutable and so on and so forth. What you see around you, out side of you, is nothing but a gigantic energy vortex, the solid nature, an illusion, created by the ego and the mind. And, that is the level you must move to, if you ever hope to experience your true nature and to be free. You are greater than an ego that references itself to material form and the limits of space and time, you are more than this, more than your thoughts. You are infinite consciousness bound up for a short time in a physical body. The sun does not rise in the morning, in reality the earth rotates to meet the sun. An incredibly staggering experience, is to get involved with this huge sphere that we are on top of, of which we are just a minute part, that is actually rotating to meet the sun. You get a sense of the spin, the spiral, something much greater than the limited perception, or usual awareness and sense that we get involved with, when our perception is-that the sun rises. It is important if we hope to ever be free that we break these sets, these limited ways of thinking. Even if you only have an intellectual idea that that is happening, before you come into the direct experience. These are the things that start to move and open you to the discovery of multi-dimensional forces. They are nothing but energy forces. The minute you can neutralize them from the standpoint of releasing the affective association, you have a much greater possibility of somehow resolving and bringing these forces together. It is the change of your perception of what you think you're dealing with that is key, if you ever hope to expand your awareness of yourself, your reality, and energy in a multi-dimensional context. Our ability to advance, is related accordingly to our ability to understand our past perceptions of reality and adjust those perceptions, to see the truth about ourselves and about life. We must withdraw our consciousness from outer concerns to awaken the inner visions of ourselves and of life. But a vision of the underlying nature of things is meaningless if it does not produce an active response in the world. We must always act on the wisdom gained from the inner self. There is a balance that must be struck between understanding and action. Wisdom is like a sword piercing through the illusion of events to find the inner meaning. The image of a sword represents a male active energy. Two-edged, the sword signifies choice. Life requires us to make decisions. At the same time each decision, once made, like the piercing of a sword, cannot be revoked. It becomes part of us. We are formed by the actions we have taken in the past; we form our future selves by the actions we take now. Your true power is in the present moment. Real action, as opposed to pointless movement, always brings meaning and value to our lives; such action comes out of understanding, and understanding comes from the experience of life. Otherwise, we remain passive, machines being pushed from one event to the next with no understanding of what causes us to do the things we do. True action arises from self knowledge; wisdom arises out of action. Wisdom does not arise spontaneously. We must view our lives from an objective perspective, if we are to understand them. But all of our thinking goes nowhere unless it develops out of a clear vision of the truth. The way to understanding lies in responsibility. As long as we believe that our past lives just happen, that we do not bring ourselves into existence through every thing we do, then the past remains a mystery. And the future, an endlessly turning wheel, empty of meaning. But when we accept that every event in our lives has helped to form our characters and that in the future we will continue to create ourselves through our actions, then the sword of wisdom cuts through the mystery. By accepting responsibility for ourselves we paradoxically free ourselves from the past. Like Buddha remembering all his lives, we can only get lose from the past by becoming conscious of it. Otherwise we constantly repeat past behavior. The ego may be only a mask, a kind of persona, but that mask can control us as long as we will not admit having formed it ourselves. The idea of responsibility for your own life does not imply any sort of invisible control over the outer world. It does mean, for instance, that if an earthquake destroys your house you have somehow willed this to happen, for whatever hidden reasons of you own. Understanding includes accepting the limitations of your physical existence. The universe is vast and strange, and no individual can control what happens in it. Nor does understanding imply anything moral. It simply means that, like it or not, whatever you experience contributes to the development of your personality. Life demands that you respond to every event. Not a moral requirement, just a fact of existence. And yet all our instincts, psychology, and religion, as well as the testimony of mystics, tells us that life contains something more, an inner core independent of the outer self thrown from one experience to another. At some point in ones development the outer personality must die and the inner core the authentic self must be allowed to emerge. Before such a release can happen we must accept the “justice” of our lives; what we are we have made ourselves. Our age sees the process of awareness as primarily psychological, best exemplified by the challenging process of psychoanalysis. Other ages have externalized the process of transformation in the dramatic rituals of initiation. During this week of initation, I will ask you to take responsibility for your own process. Intuitivley interpreting your own symbols and images. One must move beyond passivity in one's life, waiting for someone to do it for them. I will ask you what is the meaning of these things or how does the image or symbol serve you in your life. Your response is an acknowledgment of your recognition of being part of the process, responsible for its proper outcome.
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