Where Do We Dream?

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This is the fourth lecture in our course on the study of dreams. We spoke previously about what dreams are and the fact that humanity, psychologically speaking, is asleep. We are dreaming all the time, not only when we physically go to bed, but even in our supposedly waking life.
 
We also explained that there are different types of beings who exist within a spectrum of consciousness, from more elevated, enlightened, spiritual, divine states like compassion, altruism, love, and then states of selfishness, unconsciousness, barbarity, perversity. We fall along this spectrum of being, and part of this course is to examine where we fit within the possibilities of consciousness, where we are psychologically speaking.

​Our Focus

Part of what we are going to talk about today as well is the fact that dreams themselves are multidimensional. Our consciousness is multidimensional, existing within different planes of experience, and that there are not only states of being, but also places that we gravitate to based on the quality of our mind, again, whether it is pure (divine), or negative.
 
Our reality has many dimensions, not only just the physical. We are going to talk about different levels of being, specifically the different types of dimensions that exist, but also where we fit within the whole scheme.
 
Importantly too, we examine our psychological relationship with where we dream, where we go when we go to sleep. People have called this astral projection, traveling within the fifth dimension, the dream state. There are places that we can go to that depend upon the quality of our being, our psychological states.
 
In this discussion we will look at the Tree of Life. It is a map of consciousness. It is a diagram symbolized in the Bible about the multiplicity of potential, of divine expression, of who we are, but also the different places we subsist.
 
Lastly, we will explore the fact that every universe has a purpose. The universe comes to be because of a very specific plan, and it is the study of the science of dreams in which we seek to know that truth and to perfect it within ourselves.

​Where Do We Dream?

​So, the question becomes, “Where do we dream?” The easy answer is “In bed,” but the truth cannot be far from that banal statement.
 
People attribute dreams to the brain, that our physical brain originates the experiences we perceive when our physical senses shut down, but the truth cannot be more radical and distinct.
 
We dream within the fifth dimension, what is known as the astral plane. It is a plane of materiality, of energy, of perception, and the truth is that we all know this from experience. When you have a dream in which you are being chased or you are chasing someone, or you are drinking a cup of coffee, a dream in which you are vividly interacting with your surroundings, with a type of matter and energy, that is real. It is present. This demonstrates to us the fact that our dreams take place somewhere very specific.
 
We may wake up and think that such a dream was false. It was an illusion, and yet, why is it that in the moment we were so convinced of its reality? We did not suspect that we were asleep, that we were unaware.
 
The point of all this is to become conscious of this place, to no longer enter dreams without awareness, without knowing where we are at or where we are dreaming or who we are, because oftentimes in a dream, we do not even know who we are. We have no identity, driven by instinct, by fear, by desire.
 
The question becomes, “How conscious are we of our dreams, of where we are at even physically?” because this type of awakening within the dream state occurs physically, training the consciousness, as we stated in the previous three lectures, in order to be present, to be alert and cognizant of our surroundings, especially.
 
We often go through life without any awareness of where we are at or what we are doing. We have given many examples of this, and so it is incumbent upon us to train the consciousness, to exercise our perception, so that this state of slumber ceases, and when that dream ends, we in reality see what is there―the astral plane or the mental plane, the fifth dimension―whatever name we want to give to that heaven or state. We see what it is there and therefore it no longer is ambiguous or unclear.
 
A lot of people do not perceive dreams at all. Eight hours pass and then nothing. Oftentimes people may have dreams, but then because of the degeneration of the brain, those memories do not transfer clearly. It is one thing to perceive something within that dimension, but to recollect the memory and to transmit it into our body when we come back is another thing.
 
We have different practices that we fulfill so that we can strengthen the brain in order to become a useful vehicle of internal investigation [see How to Remember Dreams later on in this course]. By working on our mind, our consciousness, by training it, by learning to see its faults, and learning to perfect it, we discover more and more that we are multidimensional.
 
There are many facets and aspects of our consciousness. If you do not believe me, we can examine a particular example. Many people had the experience of walking down the street and sensing somebody looking at us. We turn and look. We see a person, perhaps a family member or friend or a stranger. Those are not physical senses. Those are psychological ones, which in most people have atrophied. Some people have called it telepathy, clairvoyance, sensing other people’s thoughts. That is a clear example of how mind is a type of matter and energy. It travels. 

Thoughts travel through space like a beacon, like a radio, and our psychology is like an antenna which receives those impressions.
 
We all might have the example too where we are thinking of a friend, a loved one, a family member, and when we pick up the phone to call them, they are dialing us already, because thought travels. Mind travels. Our consciousness occupies not only physical space, but a type of matter and energy that is beyond physicality, beyond the limits of our five physical senses. 

Our Multidimensional Nature 

​We find that beautifully represented by the Tree of Life.
 
This is an image very well known within Jewish mysticism, the קבלה kabbalah. The word קבלה kabbalah in Hebrew comes from קבל kabbel, which means “to receive.” Some scholars like Gershom Scholem have emphasized that קבלה kabbalah means “tradition,” knowledge passed from one rabbi to a disciple and onward. But the truth is that, mystically speaking, this knowledge that we are talking about is from experience. It is what we directly experience with our consciousness when the physical body rests and we, as a soul, go out.
 
When we awaken within the dream state, we can personally converse with the great masters of the white lodge, those beings like Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Krishna, prophets who have perfected themselves. In those dimensions, mapped out by these ten spheres, we experience reality, the different levels of nature. These are places within the cosmos, but more importantly, they are states of being, because we resonate and travel to the places by which we are attracted and affected.
 
So, this consciousness travels when the physical body sleeps. We travel within the dream state, the astral plane, which is known as הוד Hod in Hebrew. This Hebrew term means “splendor.” It is the bliss and splendor of the soul that is outside of the physical body, that feels the joy of eternity, liberated from material laws, limitations like gravity and the flesh.
 
In that dimension, one can levitate. One can fly, pass through walls. One is ductile. Matter in that level of dimensionality is plastic, elastic. You can think of a place, imagine it, and you appear there, because there is no limitation of time or place.
 
The astral plane is a world of eternity, the eternal now in which we experience the full bliss of our soul, recognizing that we are an immortal being and that we are not destined for the grave. It is a place in nature, but more importantly, if we wish to explore it competently, we need to develop our consciousness. We need to awaken it.

​Do We See Everything There is to See?

​In order to do that, it is important to understand where we are. Where are we dreaming, here and now? What is our level of being? What is our current level of perception? Do we see everything there is to see?
 
For materialists, the physical senses are all there is, and yet mathematics and quantum physics has demonstrated the existence of multiple dimensions.
 
We can perform an analysis on other types of beings (within our physical world) that demonstrate for us that we do not see everything, and that there is a potential to know more. We can even look at the first few dimensions and the types of beings that populate them.

​We have the first dimension, which is simply a point that moves through space. When a point moves through space it becomes a line. Beings who are one dimensional are like the snail. They only experience sensations. They live a very linear life. Simple. They only perceive at that level, and yet we know as humanoids, as people, that there is more, because we see it. We know it. We experience it. 

​There are likewise two-dimensional beings like the cat and the dog. Like a horse. In that second dimension the line moves through space and becomes a plane. With this type of experience, one sees representations along with sensations, images, moving things. So, when a cat sees you pulling out a treat, they see the representation and they anticipate the reward. They see the image and they react to the sensations of what they are eating. But this is two dimensional. It is the second most complex type of being that we know.

​Then we have three dimensional beings, which is us. When a plane moves through space, it becomes a solid―length, width, height. As individuals, we experience sensations, representations, and more importantly, reasoning. We can conceive. We have concepts. We can articulate ideas. This is what distinguishes us from the animal kingdom.
 
But unfortunately, we do carry many tendencies from the animal kingdom, psychologically speaking, like anger, pride, resentment, lust, fear. Anyone who approaches this type of studies has a yearning to know more, to become something more than what is limited to us at our current level.

Beyond us there are beings who have a type of perception that is quite elevated, quite miraculous. Such beings can see the fourth dimension. When a solid moves through space, it becomes a hypersolid. Beings at this level who see the fourth dimension perceive sensations, representations, cognizance, and the spatiality of all things, the aura of beings.
 
Notice the difference between a three-dimensional being and a fourth-dimensional being. With three dimensions we reason. We analyze. We deliberate, but the intellect is not everything. There is a type of perception and understanding, a cognizant wisdom that is beyond mind. It does not need to think. It merely apprehends the nature of any phenomenon, and it knows.

​This image here of the aura of an inanimate object is from the Kirlian camera. It is a Russian photographical device that captures the fourth dimensional aspect of any physical thing. So even with plants, stones, animals, people, you see light, because that is the energy or the vital depth of any physical thing. This vital depth gives us life. The more vitality we have, we sense it when we get up in the morning after resting, or its depletion through the activities of the day. 

​Where Do Superior Beings Live?

Really beyond us are beings that see far beyond the fourth dimension, and because they are conscious, they do not dream. They do not sleep as we do psychologically.
 
We have here Jacob’s ladder illustrated by William Blake, who is a great master of dream yoga. He depicted a staircase leading to heaven, divine states, more profound and elevated realizations that these beings manifest because of their psychological caliber, their internal work.
 
This ladder is the Tree of Life, the ladder of being with many rungs, from the physical body, which is מלכות Malkuth in Hebrew (meaning “Kingdom”), up towards more rarified states of perception until reaching the heights.
 
Below you have states of density, materiality, coarseness, organisms in life, matter at this physical plane. Above that we have even more rarified states and forms of matter and perception.
 
Some people think of these higher worlds as something ephemeral, vague, like they lack a type of stability or concreteness. The truth is that they are material, but not in accordance with the laws that govern our physical world. We find that evident in the vital body, the vital world. יסוד Yesod in Hebrew means the “Foundation.” The foundation of spiritual life is by working with energy to awaken consciousness, conserving it, employing it for a spiritual purpose.
 
There are many beings who populate the world of יסוד Yesod, the vital, etheric spiritual realm, and there are many beings who populate even above that: הוד Hod in Hebrew, meaning “Splendor,” the astral plane, likewise נצח Netzach, “Victory,” in Hebrew, referring to the mind, the mental world, and up and onward.
 
The higher you go, the more selfless your state. No egotism. No hatred. No pride. That gets stripped away, in the same way that when you physically go to sleep, it is like you lose your identity, but unfortunately for us, that process is mechanical. We do not enter it with willingness. To consciously ascend to higher levels of being means one has fewer conditions, a diminished sense of egotism, but a more profound state of reality, which is selfless.
 
The type of selflessness I am referring to has to do with our level of consciousness in its total sense. These are the dimensions that we seek to explore, but for that we have to work on ourselves, understand our own conditions: pride, anger, vanity, laziness, lust, defects. These trap the consciousness that knows how to astral project, to investigate these higher worlds with great skill, with efficiency, with knowledge. Such abilities require clarity of being, fewer defects, so that we can capitalize and magnify the abilities of the soul. 

​Where Do We Experience Other Dimensions?

​The important thing is that when we talk about multiple dimensions, we are not talking about merely something that is outside, and that is a grave misconception that people have when they explore what it means to dream or where are we dreaming.
 
Where are we psychologically?
 
The truth is that this Tree of Life, while it represents external nature, more importantly it represents internal nature. You access the astral dimension every night you go to sleep. We are just not aware of it. We do it mechanically, like a robot. This dimension is inside. It is not external. You access it when you go within yourself within meditation. When you put the mind aside, when you abandon thought and learn to direct with your liberated cognizance, alert, luminous, clear, we can access these realms with intentionality, with purpose. But again, this dimension is not something foreign to us. We access it every night, which is why Samael Aun Weor, the founder of the modern Gnostic tradition, wrote in Igneous Rose:

Most students are already so separated from nature that when they talk about astral experiences, they fall into the horrible aberration of wanting to establish an abyss between astral experiences and their dreams. These students despise their dream experiences without realizing that their dreams are indeed the very astral experiences that they are looking for. ―Samael Aun Weor, Igneous Rose

​The Basic Dimensions

​Let us talk about the actual dimensions themselves.
 
We have the physical world at the very center, between nine spheres above and nine spheres below. In Hebrew we call these spheres ספירות Sephiroth. It means “emanations” or “jewels.”
 
Above the physical world, in terms of psychological density, we have more rarified and elevated spiritual states―nine heavens. These are not heavens in the vertical sense of our terrestrial space. These are psychological ways of being. They are elevated or vertical in the sense that they are superior. They are less materialistic, more energetic, more spiritual.
 
 
Below this physical world we have nine inverted spheres, which all religions have called hell, the hell realms, inferno. It means inferior. These are state of consciousness that are driven by hatred, by extortion, by rage. These are not only our own psychology, but there is a place within nature, within the inverted dimensions beneath this physical world, within a subtle astral state, that we find inferior ways of being. In Sanskrit it is अवीचि Avitchi. In Hebrew it is קליפות Klipoth, the world of “shells.”
 
If you physically go into the earth, you will not find the nine inverted dimensions. It is because it is internal. We access this realm when we have nightmares. We are interacting literally with matter and energy within an inferior state, driven by pain. The thing to remember is that this infernal world is not some place of eternal damnation. It is a purifying ground. Whatever one does not psychologically eliminate is done by nature, progressively through different states, more mechanical, entering through what we call devolution into inferior qualities of mind.
 
Fortunately, there is a path that is beyond that, that is above, that is superior.
 
Above this third dimension, this physical world, we have the vital world known as time, the vital plane.
 
We also have above that the fifth dimension, eternity.
 
יסוד Yesod is here above מלכות Malkuth, the physical world, and הוד Hod and נצח Netzach constitute the world of the heart and the world of the mind. These are our paradise in the superior sense. They are elevated and pure.
 
What most people commonly call astral experiences are really not above in the Tree of Life. They tend to be down here (the first lunar sphere of Klipoth, Limbo) primarily because our consciousness is saturated with a lot of problems, if we are honest, a lot of defects, errors, vices, egotism.
 
Where we dream depends on our quality of being. Where we go in nature when we physically sleep depends upon our mind. Are we selfless? Are we kind even to enemies? Are we patient to those who may criticize our self-esteem? Do we serve others without expecting a reward, especially when it is a betrayal? Is our mind pure?
 
We have to reflect on this if what we want to know is these higher dimensions, what people have called heaven, because we can not go to heaven if we carry baggage that weighs us down. Emotions like hatred and pride and violence weigh us down. These levels of nature are denser, and if we are heavy, psychologically speaking, that is where we go to dream. That is where we are at. That is a very disconcerting realization to make. To have a conscious experience of you being in the hell realms is very unpleasant, but it is more unpleasant to ignore the problem.
 
Beyond the superior astral world or the superior mental world, which is a place where angels dwell, buddhas, gods, divine beings, prophets, we have the electronic world, the sixth dimension, Nirvana. This is a state of being where no desire, no imperfection, can go, no defect, no vice. The consciousness―divested of any type of impurity, escaping the bottle, the genie from Aladdin’s lamp through meditation―experiences its own reality, which is this dimension, the world of causes.
 
In the physical world, we have our body.
 
In the world of יסוד Yesod, we have vital energy.
 
In the molecular world, the world of הוד Hod, we experience emotional sentiment, the heart. It is an emotional dimension operated by feeling.
 
Likewise, from the mental world we can enter the world of willpower. It is more subtle. Beyond our emotions and thoughts is the desire, or better said, the will to be, to do.
 
All of us who are attending this lecture have a type of will to be here. It is a subtle thing that drives our actions, that for most of us is not very conscious.
 
Thought and feeling is much more accessible for us. When we have a negative emotion or a negative thought, we can point it out to ourselves, but willpower, the will to do, and better said, the will of divinity, is much more rare, subtle, and very difficult to put our finger on. This often comes in the form of a longing or inquietude in the heart, to want to explore, to examine what spirituality is, what religion is.
 
Above this electronic world we have spheres that relate to the spirit, the seventh dimension. We call this the world of the quanta, of light. These spheres, especially the top, have been given different names in different traditions. Above we have the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in Christianity. In Buddhism we have Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, Nirmanakaya. Or in Egypt, Osiris, Horus, Isis. In the Nordic mythology we have Wotan, Baldur, Thor.
 
While this is an image often associated with Judaism, we find that regardless of the language or the culture, this teaching is present. Different cultures give different names to these phenomena, this reality.
 
A simple way to examine what the zero dimension is like, is like light. With this top sphere, which in Hebrew is known as כתר Kether, the “Crown” of the divine being, our inner glory, we find it is like the spaciousness, an emptiness of light. With the top sphere, חכמה Chokmah, “Wisdom” of the divine is like the radiance and brilliance of light. Third, בינה Binah, the “Intelligence” of divinity in Hebrew, is how that light acts. Light is conscious. The same principle applies to our own inner divinity who is within us, which manifests and unfolds in different layers and strata, in the same way that life comes to be in different levels of nature.
 
The physical world is the cellular world. It is what we are all familiar with.
 
It is important to recognize and understand from experience that when we study these dimensions, they are not something outside of us. They apply to our own psychology. They apply to who we are here and now.
 
These dimensions correlate with different magnitudes or perspectives of our own body. What it takes is a matter of perspective of the different magnitudes of nature. Within the cell (physical world), we find how the body is processed, which is time, and then as molecules, or better said, as cells begin to change, it is because the molecule is a deeper dimensionality than our physical organs. Molecules are related to the molecular world, the fifth dimension, because the molecule is much more subtle and profound than the cell.
 
Even deeper into our own experience is the electron, which operates in a much more rapid pace, energetic vibration (correlative with Nirvana, the electronic world).
 
Above that we have the quanta, which is the intelligence of the divine who is within us (the top trinity of the Tree of Life). 

​Vehicles and Densities of Being

​This Tree of Life has many layers and there are many ways to approach it. I was showing you in relation to dimensionality. I am also going to break this down briefly in terms of types of cosmoses.
 
(Κόσμος) Cosmos means “unit” or “order.” The reason why the different dimensions of nature exist is for a divine purpose, and why we study dream yoga is because we want to understand our place in the universe, but also what we must do to understand where we fit within this beautiful, multidimensional space.
 
We explain that with dream yoga we seek to understand our divine origins. Above we have what are in Hebrew terms known as the אין Ain, the אין סוף Ain Soph, and the אין סוף אור Ain Soph Aur, which means “Nothing,” “Limitless,” “Limitless Light.” This is a type of cosmic potentiality of an abstract nature, which is the basis for all creation, of all being. It is like a space, an emptiness, a void, which in the Bible is allegorized by the darkness upon the face of the deep, upon which the spirit of divinity hovered in order to make light, to create the worlds (Genesis 1:2-3), to create the different dimensions in the beginning of any universe, any type of manifestation from an inert, inactive potentiality.
 
From that nothingness or from that limitless space emerges light. That light in itself is our inner Glorian. The Christians call it Christ. The Buddhists call it Adi-Buddha. There are many names for our own inner divinity, who is a type of perception and light that, in the beginning, does not know itself. It is unconscious, and in order to gain experience, the infinite must become finite. The universal must become manifested.
 
Therefore, that unmanifested potential comes into being. It is a unique law. It is our own law. It is a type of perception and being that is so free, that is so spontaneously happy and wise, that it is really beyond comprehension. One has to experience it to understand.
 
When we experience our true nature, we understand that everything else is really passing. It is ephemeral. There is a reason that this type of light from this אין סוף אור Ain Soph Aur, this limitless light, descends into the universe and becomes more complex, manifesting different laws, so that through that complexity, it can return to its own source, to understand its own simplicity having gained knowledge. It is like a mirror.
 
Many mystics from different traditions, especially even from Sufism or Islam, or the early church fathers, always talk about self-knowledge as the key and the reason for being. The reason why we exist is to know divinity, who is within us, our own true nature. This is very well known within schools of yoga, of Hinduism, of Buddhism, of Sufism. Every religion is about this. 

​That light, when it manifests into the universe, becomes 3 forces. It is important not to make the error of anthropomorphizing these elements. They are energies. They are not 3 people. They are like light―its emptiness, its radiance, its activity―three in one.
 
Therefore, this high world is known as כתר Kether, which some people have called it the Father within Christianity, along with חכמה Chokmah the Son, and בינה Binah the Holy Spirit. These worlds are manifested as 3 because 3 creates. The law of 3 basically creates everything.
 
We know this basically even within a relationship. Man: masculine force. Woman: feminine force. Reconciliation: the sexual act gives birth to a new being. The law of 3 is in everything. Everything that is created, whether on a universal scale or a psychological scale, depends on how we use these energies.
 
When that force descends from this Trinity, this Trimurti or Trikaya, such as within Buddhism, it becomes 6. It passes into a different level of materiality where we find 6 laws, because those laws double as we complicate. They materialize. They become denser. We find what people often call the spirit, חסד Chesed, which in Hebrew means “mercy,” our inner divine being, our God, “Our Father Who Art in Heaven.”
 
The spirit has his counterpart known as the divine soul, which in Hebrew is known as גבורה Geburah, meaning “Justice.” This divine soul, divine consciousness, is like a lamp of alabaster in which the light of the spirit shines.
 
Unfolding from the divine soul is what is known as תפארת Tiphereth, the human soul, which means “Beauty.” This is our will, the will to act, willpower.
 
Beyond will comes the mind, נצח Netzach, which is governed by 12 laws. We can see that even from these 6 laws and even to 12, things get more complicated. We look at our mind and we find that we are restricted in many ways, such as by negative emotion of many kinds. It is because the laws that govern our mentality are very restrictive, conflicted, contradictory, paradoxical.
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We also experience הוד Hod, the emotional world governed by 24 laws. That is again, complicated. Our emotions are very complicated. One moment we could be happy, the next, distraught, in despair.
 
Beyond that we have vitality, which is governed by 48 laws. Likewise with the physical body. We have to think of this vital force, this vital vehicle, like an aura that saturates and permeates our physicality. Our physical body would not have life if it were not for this vital depth. The reason why it is governed by 48 laws is because, while science acknowledges 46 chromosomes within the physical sexual gametes, we find that there are really 48 chromosomes, such as in two that are etheric. They are not physical. We will not find them with the scalpel or microscope. They are internal. 48 chromosomes, and the physical body is governed by 48 laws.
 
The more we descend down this ray of creation, this level and dimensionality of being, we basically enter more complication and more distance from our source, from our origins.
 
It is the purpose of dream yoga to experience these higher levels and also to transcend the different laws that limit us and make us suffer, gradually through a process by which we escape the mechanism of nature, the different laws that govern these different cosmoses, which we are going to elaborate upon each one in detail.
 
In the process by which we enter back up this Tree of Life, reversing this flow or descent from above, inwardly going up, spiritually elevating, we create different vehicles, different types of bodies, we can say. These Sephiroth are dimensions but also, they are vehicles and bodies, because in order to exist in each dimension, we need proper vehicles.
 
We are all very familiar probably with the astral body. People often talk about this in spiritual circles, the astral vehicle. In truth, what we commonly possess or is known as the astral body is really something that is mechanical. It was given to us by nature. We are born with it, and we die with it. We use it every time we travel in the internal worlds.
 
There is a type of body that is not limited to the mechanicity of nature, in which we can use to competently investigate these higher worlds. Some have called them solar bodies. These are vehicles that do not belong to a type of mechanicity or nature. They are created through a very specific spiritual work, which you can study in a book called The Perfect Matrimony, or any of the works of Samael Aun Weor.

​The Protocosmos

​Let us talk about each of these cosmoses.
 
That light when it is in the Absolute: the אין Ain, the אין סוף Ain Soph, and the אין סוף אור Ain Soph Aur, exists in what is known as a (Πρωτόκοσμος) Protocosmos. It is the first cosmos. It is what is known as the spiritual absolute sun. It is governed by 1 law.
 
As depicted in this beautiful painting, we find many celestial beings that are inhabitants of that dimension, of that highest truth, the 1 law of the Glorian, our real root origin, which is like a spark of light in the emptiness of the vast space of the uncreated, and there are many beings who thrive, who exist in that Protocosmos who can be called upon within our dreams.
 
We will talk a lot about how to find a genuine spiritual master within the dream state, but in simple terms, you can awaken in the dream world and invoke or call upon certain angels or masters or prophets who reside within this region, and they can come down to teach you, to help you with whatever you need.
 
It is a spiritual absolute sun because it is like an infinite radiance. It is where there is no mechanicity or suffering. It is pure freedom, and some people may find this ironic, that why would following a law make one free? In truth, the type of law we are talking about has to do with a quality of being, a simple state, a pure state. It is not restricted.
 
By having less laws, we suffer less, because there is less complication, and the purpose and point of dream yoga is to eventually return to this Protocosmos, but with wisdom, with knowledge of all the different aspects of our experience.

​The Ayocosmos

​We also have the (Αγιόκοσμος) Ayocosmos, which in Greek means “holy cosmos.” This Ayocosmos comes from the Greek άγιος “agios,” means “holy, sacred.” These are all the stars and galaxies of the infinite in terms of scale. When that light from the Protocosmos enters the universe, it organizes in different units.
 
We are exploring this descent of the different units of the cosmos of any universe in terms of scale. This is the infinitude governed by 3 laws. All the vast galaxies and stars of the infinite space, of the many infinites, are governed by 3 laws: Father, Son, Holy Spirit―Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, Nirmanakaya―whatever name we want to give to that (the three primary forces). 

​The Macrocosmos

​On a smaller scale we have the (Μακρόκοσμος) Macrocosmos, which is the galaxy. Macrocosmos means “large cosmos,” which is governed by the 3 laws of the infinite plus the 3 laws of a galaxy. This makes 6. Every galaxy is governed by 6 laws.

​The Deuterocosmos

​We also have the (Δευτεροκοσμος) Deuterocosmos, which means “second cosmos.” It is any sun, any solar system, which is governed by 12 laws. We have the infinitude, which is 3 laws, the galaxy, which is 6, plus the solar system which is 3.
 
The thing to remember by this Greek term (Δευτεροκοσμος) Deuterocosmos is that when the light of the Protocosmos, the absolute sun, first manifests into the universe, it becomes a material sun, a physical sun itself. This is why in Greek we call it a “second cosmos” because it is the first unit to emerge from the Absolute.
 
In terms of the scale of things and the magnitude of things, we study from the infinite to the galaxy to the solar system in terms of scale. Here we are talking about a more basic unit of measurement, which is a sun, a star.

​The Mesocosmos

We also have the (Μεσόκοσμος) Mesocosmos, called the “middle cosmos” in Greek. This is the infinitude of 3 laws plus the galaxy which is 6 plus the solar system of 12 laws plus the planet of 3, which makes 24.
 
Why is the Earth a Mesocosmos? Because it receives the light of the divine, the universe, and channels it into the interior of the Earth. The surface is like a middle ground, in which forces are brought in and taken out, transmitted.

​The Microcosmos

​We also have a (Μικρόκοσμο) Microcosmos, which is a “small cosmos.” This is us, the human being. We are governed by 48 laws, this body, this physicality. It is the infinitude of 3 laws plus the galaxy of 6 plus the solar system of 12 laws and the planet of 24 laws, and the physical body, which is an additional 3, which makes 48 laws.
 
Notice that with this descent, we are exploring how every cosmic unit governs itself or is governed, manifested or maintained, in accordance with the wisdom of divinity. 

​The Tritocosmos

Beyond or beneath our physical body, the physical world, we have the (Τριτόκοσμος) Tritocosmos, known as a “third cosmos.” It is a third cosmos. These are the hell realms, the infernal worlds. One simple way to demarcate the descent of the spiritual forces from the Absolute (Protocosmos, “first cosmos”) is to the Deuterocosmos (“second cosmos,” the Sun or solar system”) to finally the Tritocosmos (“third cosmos,” the hell realms). Light emerges from the Absolute (Protocosmos), is transmitted through the Sun (Deuterocosmos), then is sunk within the pit of hell (Tritocosmos) as a kind of sinking of spiritual reality into density.
 
We have the infinitude of 3 laws plus the galaxy of 6 and the solar system of 12 and the planet of 24 and the physical body (3), which is 48. Double that in complexity and you have 96. Therefore, we have the first realm or state of hell, which is Limbo within Catholicism. This is governed by 96 laws.
 
In this image we see The Temptation of St. Anthony, where he is praying to his inner divinity within him, his own mind, while he is surrounded by monstrous figures, which are his own defects, his own vices, his own errors. This nightmarish landscape and appearance painted by Hieronymus Bosch is a perfect representation of our own psychological hells.

​The Laws for the Hell Realms

​The hell realms, even from the world of 96 laws, while we think this is very disastrous itself, pretty horrific, we find that each hell becomes even more complicated the further you go.
 
Beneath מלכות Malkuth, this physical world, again we have these nine spheres, nine inverted ספירות Sephiroth, which are the tree of death, not the Tree of Life. Each of these spheres relates to an astrological sign, or better said, a planetary symbol. Nine planets, nine hells. The first is the lunar sphere. The lunar hell is followed by Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
 
Each of these spheres gets even more complicated the further down you descend in terms of materiality. It goes from 96 laws to 192 to 288 to 384 to 480 to 576 to 672 to 768 to 864, because these numbers double in intensity. The suffering intensifies within these dimensions, but the purpose of why certain souls enter these hell realms is because that light, from the Protocosmos which enters within the human being, has the option of either returning inward and upward, purifying one’s faults willingly, intentionally, in order to return to the source, or if one does not give up their egotism and negativity and violence, they will get recycled by nature. Those laws act like a pressure, in the same way that the earth pushes upon coal, which is impure and blackened and foul until eventually, at the end through many millions of years of suffering, that coals become a diamond. It is the same process.
 
Eventually those souls that are recycled at the lowest levels of nature become virginal and pure again, but then they have to enter again another process of evolution and possibly devolution. You can study the lecture we gave called Transmigration of Souls. Here in synthesis, we are just emphasizing that the light of divinity enters into us, and we have a choice: to work for its liberation or not. That is the crude reality.

​Where Do We Dream?

​The question becomes, where do we dream? Where are we in the Tree of Life in a given moment? Physically we know we are instead here or listening online, but in truth, we often do not know where we dream.
 
We study this glyph because we want to be very competent with astral projection, so that when we have any experience within meditation or in dreams, you know exactly where you are at. You know where you are going. You know who you are. Then dreams do not become something vague or incoherent. It becomes something much more clarified and amplified through the different practices that we are teaching in the course sequentially.
 
While it might seem a lot of information in terms of the Tree of Life, in reality it is very simple:
 
Who are we here and now? What is our state of consciousness? What is our level of being? By practicing mindfulness and awareness throughout the day, by questioning our surroundings, by questioning our mind, we examine and ask the question, “Am I dreaming?”
 
We talked about the Key of SOL previously: Subject, Object, Location. It is a practice that we do when we are physically active. We get into the habit of inquiring into our state, because if you do it physically, you could do it even when you are dreaming. When you do the same type of questioning physically, it manifests in your sleep.
 
You may find yourself walking down some foreign city, maybe in Spain. You do not know how you got there. So, you ask the question, “Where am I? Who am I?” This is the subject. Object: you are looking at your different surroundings, and also, location. “Where am I? Where am I dreaming? What is going on here? How did I end up in Spain? I am from Chicago, right?”
 
This is an experiment you can do. Take your finger. Stretch it. Try to pull it―maybe not too hard but pull it so that you have the intention of watching your finger stretch, because in the astral world, matter is more elastic. It is plastic. It is more ductile. You pull it. If you see your finger stretch as you intended, you realize, “I am dreaming. I am here in the astral world,” or perhaps even in one of these lower spheres, and therefore you can consciously determine where you go, instead of just going through dream life without any awareness of where we have been or where we are at or what we have been doing.
 
In that way, we can investigate these higher dimensions and gain very valuable knowledge that you can not get from a book. You can not get it from a scripture. You can not get it from a lecture. You get it from sitting in meditation, daily, and practicing astral projection, daily, so that you get the results that you want, and then when you know from your dreams, your experiences, these realities, you can get guidance from your own inner Being, your inner God. When you have that knowledge, you feel much more confident about your spiritual life. It is not something theoretical. You know what you are doing. You know what is happening and you know where you will go.

​Exercises

We always conclude these lectures with a practice.
 
Every day, develop your self-observation from moment- to-moment. This has to do with examining your thoughts, feelings, and actions.
 
Also, extend your mindfulness: the length of time that you are aware of yourself, because mindfulness has to do with the continuity of remembrance, not forgetting that you are present in the body, that you are observing yourself, aware of your surroundings.
 
At the end of each day, reflect on how well you did.
 
Before sleep, you can perform this meditation: concentrate on your heart. Pray to your inner divinity to take you out of your physical body to study and experience the Tree of Life.
 
We use in this tradition what are known as mantras. These are called sacred sounds. They are very common within yoga, Hinduism, Buddhism. Even in Islam, they recite the Qur’an as a type of mantra, as a type of prayer, calling upon divinity.
 
Mantra means “mind protection” in Sanskrit. Protecting our mind and by working with mantra is like we are opening up a doorway into the internal worlds, because we are more focused in our interior, our own state of mind, and by using certain sounds with attention and with prayer, we amplify our heart. Our consciousness becomes something much more inflamed, inspired, filled with joy, altruism, faith.
 
There are mantras that you can pronounce physically, but also mentally when you go to sleep. It is Lifaros, Lifaros, Licanto, Ligoria.
 
You prolong each syllable like this: 

​You can do it out loud while you are meditating and then slowly whisper, then silently when in your mind. Eventually as you fall asleep, if you are concentrating on this mantra, you can go out of your body, willingly, and then you can investigate all of the different spheres that you want in the internal worlds.
 
Lastly, continue your spiritual diary. This also has to do with recording our dreams. As part of our practice, we reflect on how well we are doing in our spiritual work. Write down the contents of our day.
 
This link to Glorian Publishing’s website has a beautiful article about how to do a spiritual diary. You can use it to document your physical life but also your dreams. Highly recommended. Recall, review, and record your dreams in it when you wake.
 
At this point in time, I would like to open up the floor to questions.

​Questions and Answers

​Question: I have always known that or thought that the heavens are up there in upper space and the hell realms, I guess, somewhere in hell, in the earth or somewhere in space. But I feel like I might be wrong with that subject because it seems like we just don’t perceive them, but they are actually there, like a form of vibration in nature, like they are up or down there now. So how would you explain where they are?

Instructor: Sure, that is a good question. We often typically from our religious upbringing think of hell as under the earth and heaven up in the sky. It stems from a very innate longing in humanity whenever we look up to the heavens to see the stars, because one in their finite existence captures the magnitude and the breathless beauty of the infinite.
 
But the truth is that heaven and hell are states of being. The Earth, while it does have its own interior reality of a hell dimension in the interior of the Earth, the truth is that our humanity has gotten so bad that we are bringing up the contents of hell to the surface. The Earth, which should be 48 laws in nature, is governed by 96 because of the actions and behaviors of other people, of us.
 
We attract the environment we live in. We also contribute to it. If our mind is really evil or negative, we are going to bring that into our environment. We see that all over the place. Everywhere there is more crime and violence and hatred and suffering than there has ever been that we can record, a lot of problems, because psychologically, the surface of our Earth is really vibrating in hell. But likewise, if we change psychologically, we become a vehicle through which heaven can express and therefore we bring heaven down to Earth.
 
There are other planets and other humanities that are not degenerated like us, and therefore their planet is really a paradise, really saintly and divine, but that depends on the evolution of a particular group, or better said, humanity. Our planet tends to be particularly negative, so we are bringing all of that up in our art, in our media, our television, and our music, and our politics and our religions. We are in hell. We are living it. It is here.
 
That can change. It depends upon what people do, if people are willing to introspect in themselves and try to understand what in us creates and contributes to the problem.
 
It is also interesting to note too that not only is hell in the interior of the Earth, but also there are heavenly worlds in the interior of the Earth. We talked about the inverted fifth dimension, which is inferno, but also in the fifth dimension which is superior. If you go into the interior of the Earth, you will find a divine temple within the internal worlds. It is the Temple of Melchizedek, and every Saturday the 13th, the Gnostics celebrate a holiday, where we meditate and visualize ourselves astral projecting into the interior of the Earth within the superior fifth dimension to receive help from this divinity known as Melchizedek, who is represented in the Bible.
 
You can learn more about Melchizedek and the practice for every Saturday the 13th of any year on our website. We have an article about that specifically (See also Glorian Publishing’s Melchizedec Practice).
 
It is interesting. In that internal superior dimension, you do not see suffering beings. You see the temples of the divine white lodge, the great prophets. Also, in the interior of the Earth, if you vibrate in a negative way with that dimension, you are going to experience the hell worlds. It depends on where we vibrate, where we resonate.
 
Question: In a similar way, it is like how the Tree of Life is represented vertically, but it is more of an internal dimension?
 
Instructor: Yes, exactly. Some people get caught up in thinking, “God is up there.” No. God is in here, in your heart. How we access that depends on our choices, moment by moment.
 
Question: Can you please explain more on the sephirah דעת Da’ath? Can you please touch on that more?
 
Instructor: דעת Da’ath in Hebrew means “knowledge.” It is a type of science in which we work with energy. We talk in many other courses about by working with the energies of our mind, our heart, and our creativity, our physicality, our sexuality. We learn to empower the soul.
 
A big reason why people do not awaken in the astral world is because we waste energy all the time, usually of an emotional type. For very emotional types of people, we often squander the energy of the heart through depression or anger or hatred, self-criticism, doubt, fear, fanaticism, rage. If you do not have energy to, or better said, fuel, to light your lamp, you can not see. It is the same thing with the internal worlds.
 
Likewise in the mind. If we squander our intellectual energy with too much reading or too much intellectualism, debates, argumentation, too much theorizing, then the lamp of our mind is snuffed out. We can not perceive in the mental world when we physically go to sleep.
 
Sometimes we often gravitate between the two, the thoughts in the mind and the emotions in the heart, the fifth dimension. So, the solution is to practice the knowledge of דעת Da’ath in Hebrew, which is the work of creating or conserving your energy in every way. We conserve that energy so that physically, emotionally, vitally, sexually, physically, we have a lot of life. The more energy you have, your practices are going to be empowered. Whether you are meditating or doing mantras or prayers or any type of exercise, you have the fuel there to run your car. If the car does not have any fuel, you cannot drive anywhere. It is the same thing with being conscious in the astral plane. דעת Da’ath is the science in knowing how to work with that.
 
You can study again The Perfect Matrimony for those who are not familiar, where you learn all about the science of דעת Da’ath, which symbolizes the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, because how we use energy for good or for ill determines our trajectory, spiritually speaking.
 
Question: Regarding quantum physics and the seventh dimension, how do we use the Trinity to practice dream yoga?
 
Instructor: In a future lecture I was intending to talk about different obstacles that people face in their experiences. I will relate to what I want to talk about then [Overcoming Obstacles to Astral Projection].
 
You can decorate your home with the three primary colors. The three primary colors attract energy―blue, yellow, red. Those represent the three primary forces. It is good for dream yoga discipline to decorate your home, especially if you have artwork, things of that type, with blue, yellow, red. Decorate your home. Make it a temple. Make it a blissful, beautiful place that you enjoy being.
 
I know some people may feel distraught with their home. Perhaps they have a difficult living situation. Maybe people live with other people. It is not always conducive for dream yoga practice. If you can decorate you home with blue, yellow, and red in your bedroom, specifically, that is one way to attract good energy. Especially, it elevates your mood.
 
The best way to work with the three primary forces is with your three brains that we are going to talk about in a forthcoming lecture [How Do We Dream?].
 
We talked about different dimensional beings in this lecture: the snail, the cat, and the humanoid. The reason why we perceive different dimensions, or these beings perceive certain dimensions, is because of possessing a certain number of brains. A brain is not only just in our cranium. It is a psychosomatic, physiological, and spiritual machine that processes energy. 

We are three-brained beings because we have an intellect, which is an intellectual brain that we all know of. We have an emotional brain, the heart, which registers sentiment and feeling. Likewise, we have motor-instinctive-sexual brain, which is a composite or amalgamation of movement, instincts, and sexuality, desire or will to do.
 
Thought, feeling, will―we have three brains, because each of these aspects in our physiology and psychology processes certain information, data, and energy that is necessary for us to awaken consciousness and become like the angels.
 
But a snail, which has only one brain, senses a sensation, or a cat or a dog have two brains: emotional and motor. It does not think. It does not rationalize. We have the intellectual brain because it is a necessary tool to use in the study of spirituality and the awakening of our consciousness. Only from a three-brained being can one become a perfected, fully illuminated master.
 
Now, the three primary forces work through our three brains all the time. We are just not aware of them. In the intellectual brain, we process the forces of כתר Kether, the Crown, the Father. In the heart we process the energies of the Son, חכמה Chokmah, Wisdom, the Christ. In our sexuality, in our instinct and movements, we process the power of the Holy Spirit, בינה Binah, the Intelligence of God, because God creates intelligently with the creative force.
 
If we use that force to elevate our spirituality, we will rapidly awaken. That is the one energy that is the most important, especially. If you want to balance your heart and your mind and your body, it is important to work with the energies. We will talk about that in detail especially in a lecture on How Do We Dream, especially.
 
Question: You were saying as you develop the solar bodies, it becomes easier to travel in the superior realms? I have had experiences in the superior realms, but it is almost like a shock coming back into the body.
 
Instructor: Sure.
 
Question: So how does one know that one has solar bodies?
 
Instructor: The thing about having a solar astral body is that that is something you will determine over time, in the sense that people who have developed that vehicle, whether in their present life or previous lives, have access to a type of knowledge that is very easy. It comes naturally, but that is something that one confirms with patience, obviously, because it is good not to assume that we are something that we are not. But you can look at your dreams and determine the fact that you know how to travel in that state without even having to think about it. You can identify the frequency of those dreams, the fact that you can travel to other planets of the solar system in the astral plane, talk and invoke angels pretty easily. Usually that signifies a type of previous work, but at what level is something to be cautious about, to really analyze with patience.
 
Your Being will give you the insight and the knowledge about who you were in the past, right? Sometimes getting the answers may not be pleasant, because if we had this knowledge in the past and worked with it and we were traveling in the astral body and created the solar vehicles, but then we are still in the situation we are in, it means we made a mistake, and that could be painful. That is something you will learn with time, with a lot of familiarity with those states, and experimenting a lot and meditating a lot on the results of your experiences, and then with certain experiences that coincide with your daily life, they all add up. You will say, “This is just the reality of who I am.”
 
Question: If we just have a lunar astral body and a lunar mental body from nature, we can still access the superior realms, right?
 
Instructor: Yes.
 
Question: How is that experience going to be different for me if I just have a lunar body versus if I have a solar body that I have developed through the spiritual science?
 
Instructor: Think of it in the sense that if you drive a car versus driving a rocket ship. A car can travel many places. If you train yourself in meditation in comprehending your own defects, working on yourself, you can easily travel in the astral plane at a certain degree, but there are certain capacities that are very difficult for a lot of people to do that is only the luxury of having a solar astral body, because you have more power, more ability to penetrate certain regions with more will and intentionality. In a degree, you can learn with the mechanical bodies we have to enter that state, so there is no deterrent there.
 
What I am referring to is a kind of magnitude of work that one can perform with those vehicles. It is a special gift. It is a grace if you built those vehicles in the past. If your divinity allows you to use those, then you have a lot of control over where you dream, whereas most of us, we just go mechanically into the dream state. We do not know what is going on. You can awaken in that process, which is necessary. It is really good to awaken, even in the hell realms is a good thing and find out, “I just have lunar bodies,” right? It is a good thing to realize.
 
Now the test becomes, how do we continue to develop that awareness all the time, so that you gain more and more skill? But obviously there are levels and degrees by which one can go, even up far beyond to the really higher realms as a result of creating those vehicles.
 
Think of it like a conduit. Where you have more power and energy, you can circulate more force and have more ability to travel to different planes with ease.
 
Question: Do they call nature mechanical? How does nature work mechanically? Can you explain to us the microcosm that we live in? The galaxy is a Macrocosmos, then the solar system, the Sun is the second, I can not remember the name, the second cosmos (Deuterocosmos) and then the Earth is the third cosmos receiving the energy from the Sun, which is the physical body (our Microcosmos). Each galaxy is a Macrocosmos, then we come back to the solar system and the Earth and then we, inside of us, is God in each and every one of us. If we are that, God is within us. We are the one who brings reality or the existence of these universes, microcosmos, third cosmos. Is God mechanical? God is within us. We are the conscience of God observing how each one of us is materializing the will of the creator. If we are a part of nature and nature is part of us, are we God within us? Is nature different from God, or is nature acting mechanically? Is God acting mechanically through the manifestations of this world?
 
Instructor: Sure. It is a good question. Samael Aun Weor says the spirit (God) is not incarnated in us, primarily because the vessels that we have within are impure. They do not channel divinity perfectly within. We have what we call ego, defects, vices, errors.
 
When I say that we have God in our heart, it is because we have the thread, the spark, the impulse to become something divine, but in reality, all of us, the spirit is not incarnated yet. That is why we need to create what are called solar bodies, solar vehicles, so that we are an instrument that can channel the intensity of a galaxy, of a sun, of a planet, of a star, of a God, but for us, most of us, we are not there yet. That is why we have the (secret) path known as initiation, whereby we progressively change. By creating the solar bodies, you have the vessel that the Being can express and act in us, which is not mechanical. Nothing mechanical about it.
 
We, in terms of our mind and emotions and our desires, belong to nature, mechanicity, the lunar forces. By lunar we mean things just happen to us and we react. We do not have control. Someone insults us, we get angry. Someone hurts our pride, we want revenge. It is a lunar thing, lunar mechanical behavior. God does not react to anything. God responds with intelligence, but to know that requires a lot of work. That is a very long process.

You can study a video that Glorian came up with recently called The Map of the Path: The Three Mountains, which talk about, in synthesis, this ever-ascending path, straight, that leads back to the source, where we slowly strip away the mechanicity and adopt the spiritual, the divine. So, God works through nature, works through these laws, primarily because divinity needs those laws to exist. It is the battle ground or the arena in which the soul is developed and tested.
 
Our consciousness emanates from the divine source, but it has to work through those different laws and degrees, sequentially returning to the source with wisdom, because in the original sense, divinity did not know Himself or Herself. The divine was unconscious but needed to create consciousness through precisely the different mechanicity and laws. Divinity works through those laws, manages them, oversees them with intelligence, but they have to exist as a means by which we can return, because there is no glory without struggle. There is no wisdom obtained without comprehending the obstacles. It is a necessary process.
 
Another Instructor: Can I add on to that? So as well, we have been looking at the Tree of Life in the top three Sephiroth, then the third one, בינה Binah, is where divinity separates into masculine and feminine, and that is part of God, when masculine and feminine aspects of God reunite to create, right? The mechanical part of nature is sometimes referred to as the feminine part of divinity. This part of divinity, the clothes of the Divine Mother, in which the masculine aspect of divinity can project the spirit into nature, and then through that union of masculine and feminine, the soul can be born, and that is when we start to try to reascend back up there. Even though we are mechanical because we are coming from nature, nature is still part of divinity, right? The mechanical part of divinity and I think you explained the other part of that one. I just wanted to add in a little more.
 
Instructor: Sure. Thank you.
 
Question: You said that it can be helpful to awaken in the hell realms. If you awaken in the hell realms during a dream and realize you are fornicating or indulging in a defect and you attempt and you are able to interrupt it, what else can you do to learn and control the defects through taking control during our dream time?
 
Instructor: Meditate on those egos. They have clearly manifested in your dream. You have gotten data about them: how they think, feel, and act, how they work. Use whatever information you have found to go deeper, and with meditation you can imagine the scenes and ask for comprehension of this particular aggregate or defect you want to work with. But obviously it is a very painful thing to see oneself in those dimensions committing a lot of harm. This is why saints like Anthony in the Catholic Church were depicted as repentant and remorseful before Christ, the divine, the Being. That is precisely through our prayers and our yearning to change that we change, if we are really meditating seriously on whatever in us is creating problems, so that not only just having a good attitude, but comprehending the problem, is necessary, and with skill in astral projection, you can learn to investigate in the dream state what that particular defect is doing, how it is behaving. You can ask your Divine Mother, “Show me this ego.” Converse with it. See it for what it is. “Let me inquire into it and get the information I need so that You can eliminate it,” and She will do that for you. She is the intelligence of God. She knows every aspect of our psychology and how to change, so rely on Her.
 
Question: You do that when you are dreaming?
 
Instructor: Yes.
 
Question: You can call on her for help?
 
Instructor: When you are dreaming, and you are going through a very tempting moment, perhaps some entity is bothering you. You feel inclined to do something wrong, pray to your Being. The “Our Father” is exceptional:

​“Our Father Who Art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, etc.” (see The Prayer of the Lord).
 
Pray with a lot of intensity. Your divine Father will help you or your Divine Mother. You do not need a formula necessarily. 

​“Hail Mary, full of grace,” is one. Many prayers. The best prayer is one that comes from your heart. Pray to your Being to get you out of the situation to protect you, and She is there. She is always with us. She is here. She will help you.
 
Comment: Also, I have had, you are dreaming, you realize you are dreaming, so I have had experiences where I am like, “OK, I am dreaming definitely right now,” so I would do kind of like a finger-pull test.
 
Instructor: Sure.
 
Question: Or I jump with the intention to levitate, and nothing happens, I fall back down to the Earth, but I am like, “OK, but I know I am dreaming,” so I do it again. I have people look at me like, “What are you doing?“ And I am like, “Do not worry about it. I am just dreaming.” After I meditate on that, I realize a couple of personal techniques that I can replace them with, but is there, if that happens, is there something you can do?
 
Comment: That happens to me too sometimes, and I feel like if you have got some heavy emotions weighing you down when you try to jump and levitate, or you have got a lot of earth element, psychologically, that it can happen. It is not necessarily good or bad.
 
Question: Later on in those dreams I will be carrying a really heavy backpack.
 
Comment: Yes. You are weighed down.
 
Question: Yes.
 
Comment: Even in the astral plane.
 
Instructor: Symbolic.
 
Comment: Right.
 
Question: On the realness of our dreams, I sometimes dream that I am in some place out with my friends, and sometimes I am with an old friend. I used to go back when I was young and everything, so when I wake up and I try to see really, was I talking to my friend that I used to know? Was I really playing with him? So, I would call him, and I would be like, “I had a dream, and this happened, and I passed you the ball and you scored,” this and that, and they are like, “No, I do not remember that. I was dreaming something else. I had a different dream,” and my friend, I would call him and I would be like, “I was talking to you this way here and there,” and they are like, “No.” So if really what we see is real, how come those people that we see are nothing like, I feel like what we see are just projections of us, what we think in our mind.
 
Instructor: Sure.
 
Question: How is that real? It was once said our dreams are real.
 
Instructor: Sure. In one sense the other person may not be awake. They do not remember. Or you said, it is a projection coming from your own mind. In terms of where we dream, oftentimes, we do not see our surroundings because our mind is projecting its desires in that dimension. We do not really see what is there. In the same way that you have a screen and a projector, you do not see what is actually there on the screen, but the contents of your own mind. Only you can really navigate that. Really analyze in meditation: “Is this from my own mind or was this something I actually saw?” The best solution is analyzing your emotional impact, your reaction, your response―the psychological mood that the dream left―you but also if there are any symbols in the dream too, that you can see how it correlates to your physical life. In that way, you get more confidence in the objectivity of your dreams.
 
Comment: It is like I have never seen anything new, just things that I have seen in my past.
 
Instructor: That is a tricky thing, because our past can be used to cloud us from our own desires. But also, divinity can use the past, your own experiences, to teach you something, frame it in such a way that you are seeing something that was first once familiar, but also you are seeing it in a new way―trying to get you to understand something psychological.

We will conclude. Thank you all for coming!