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Index:
- Dreaming awake. Lyrics by Paul Korda
- Music Philip Glass - Dreaming Awake
- Painting and Dreaming - Kathy Taylor
- Seth Art - Various
- D.A.S. Exercise: Stepping out
- D.A.S. Project: Dream Craft
- Are We Awake?
- What is Dreaming
After I saw you last night, I had a dream We were walking along the banks of the River Seine. An artist saw the way we loved and started to paint, a masterpiece of feeling, of angels and saints. And from those deep emotions, to the heavens above, a feeling natural, in the way we love, hold me close And we're dreaming awake, being with you, I never knew it could happen, now I'm dreaming awake..........
........ There's a familiar ring with you I know my instincts are true And it's not just physical, It's chemical and mystical, Hold me close, and we're dreaming awake...
Philip Glass
Dreaming Awake
http://tinyurl.com/4tveq
D.A.S. Notes Personal, Edited
Dreams,' Evolution' and Value Fulfilment?... I look at the title of this book. And eat it. Like tasting music. Does it mean that my evolution and value fulfilment in FW1 will in large part depend on the conscious relationship I have with the dreamplane.
Here. now is an image of the lover who turns around and asks 'What does last night mean?"
I say, "What do you want it to mean?"
He is perplexed, perhaps I am toying with him.
There are pages after page on dreamsin TSM, why not consolidate them all into the one book.Perhaps because to separate it thus is to perpetuate the myth that the two modes of consciousness are separate. And why did seth say it/he was a Dream Art Scientist, was that in itself a clue or a tease as to what dreams and the Dreamer may become .
There is something to the `process' of dreaming that is creationist in nature. And here I wish there was better term for what I intuit than `dreaming'. I wonder if you create your own reality is just another way of saying _you dream your own reality into being_? Dreaming then is activity ( not direction) of Consciousness. Too much emphasis is placed on the _where of_ dreaming and the recall of dreaming. I want to know more about the _What of dreaming_
What is a Dream?
What is Dreaming?
The imagistic nature of the dream plane and of dream memories is a translation of an event .I want to understand the event and be done with the translations! MB
Painting and Dreaming - Kathy Taylor
I started painting after 30 years of writing as my main creative outlet. I had assumed I could not draw or paint because my kindergarten teacher said I couldn't draw - and I believed her for 50 years. When I actually started drawing and painting I realized I loved it more than I'd ever liked writing. I liked the worst thing I painted far more than the best thing I'd ever written.
One workshop experience and I was hooked on this process, a few months later [I set up] a "painting and dreaming" workshop I co-lead with my process painting teacher, Lauren Vanett. The painting is at the end of this description of the painting process.
In the "painting and dreaming" workshop we had two days of painting and then spent the final day discussing dreams we'd had during the workshop. The combination of the two made the connection between the painting and the dreaming process abundantly clear. Both painting and dreaming draw images from the same well. The creative source within us is abundant, renewable, unstoppable and hungry for expression.
In the painting portion of the workshop we painted for hours, gently prodded by the facilitator when our energy dropped because we were stuck (afraid?). And when we passed through the block the hours flew; the dream was again being dreamed in the moment, and brought up and out our fingertips and the brush, and onto the page.
Since that time I've painted in this way alone, at home, nearly everyday. I do more traditional painting too (in acrylics) and find my "painting process mind" translates nicely to the more formal format. The reverie I enter, the sense I have that I am immersed in the river of images coming from the dream center of me, carries over and seems to be linked now to the process of simply picking up a paint brush...[edited]
If you'd like to know more about taking a traditional painting process workshop or want to know more about doing the process on your own, just email me at ktaylor597@aol.com.
Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome.
"Metaphysical Interior with Factory"
1969. Oil on canvas 64.5 x 53.5 cm.
http://tinyurl.com/5kpac
Das Exercise - Stepping Out 1
"These are my instructions. You may consider this your first lesson. We will go by easy stages, for we do not want you betwixt and between. You may induce a medium trance in whatever way you choose. On occasion this will be spontaneous, as you know. For best results in the beginning it is good to make a projection attempt when you already feel physically drowsy, but pleasantly so. When you have induced the trance state, then begin to examine your own subjective feelings until you find recognition of the inner self.
"This involves recognition of yourself as distinct from the fleshy fibres in which you reside. Then begin to imagine this inner self rising upward. You should experience even at this point an internal sense of motion. This motion may be from side to side, as you gently shake yourself loose, so to speak.
"It may be a rushing upward. Whichever motion you experience there will be a moment where you feel yourself, your identity and consciousness, definitely withdrawing from the physical organism. Before you attempt the projection, however, the suggestion should be given that the physical organism will be well protected and comfortable. Now when you feel the consciousness withdrawing, there are two things you may do. I suggest the first step I shall give you in preference to the second. The first step is this. Forget the physical body, or what you are to do with it. Will yourself out in a quick motion. There is no need to experience the voice hallucinations mentioned by the author, Fox. If the projection is a success you'll instantly lose contact consciously with the physical body. You simply will not be in it.
"Now your consciousness will not be in it, but it is hardly lifeless. Its maintenance is being controlled by the consciousness of the individual cells and organs of which we have spoken. I will give you alternate methods of projecting, but I will be concerned now with what you can expect the few moments after You have left the physical body.
The Early Sessions Book 6, Session 265, Page 210
Pam Johnson
"Dream Page: Lovers"
(Mixed media, 16"x16")
http://tinyurl.com/4hh8a
"Ever since 1990, I have used my dreams as the source of my artwork. My aim is to connect with the viewer as the center of being and to share our universal truths. I want to join them in their fears, loneliness, anger, and passion; and the dream is the theater that we share. I am interested in the power of dreams. I explore that power by being among the dark layers and entrusting myself to the truth." ~ P. Johnson
D.A.S. Project: Dream Craft
"You have a dream memory, of course, though you are not aware of it as a rule. There is a craft involved in the formation of events. You perform this craft well when dreaming. Event-making begins before your birth, and the dreams of unborn children and their mothers often merge. The dreams of those about to die often involve dream structures that already prepare them for future existence. In fact, towards death a great dream acceleration is involved as new probabilities are considered - a dream acceleration that provides psychic impetus for new birth.
"Some of this is most difficult to explain, yet it is true to say that no event has a beginning or ending.
"This is true of a life. It is true of a dream. The information is not practical in your terms, because it denies your direct experience. Upon request, however, and with some practice, you can suggest in the middle of a dream that it expand to its larger proportions. You would then experience one dream wrapped in another, or several occurring at one time - all involving aspects of a particular theme or probability, with each connected to the others, although to you the connections might not be apparent.
"Each event of your life is contained within each other event. In the same way, each lifetime is contained in each other lifetime. The feeling of reality is "truer" then in the dream state. You can become consciously aware of your dreams to some extent - that is, consciously aware of your own dreaming. You can also allow your "dream self" greater expression in the waking state. This can be done through techniques that are largely connected with creativity."
The Nature of the Psyche, session 786, page 139
Lisa Yahshar
I Dream the Wind
(Watercolour, 16"x20")
http://tinyurl.com/52pyn
"For the last few years, I have had very intense dreams of flying, and decided to pursue this idea in my drawings and paintings. I have been actively recording my dreams via writing and drawing every day for the last few months. Recently, however, I have begun exploring my dreams on a sculptural level. I plan to continue with this new body of work and I am amazed every day with the new direction that my art has taken." ~ Lisa Yahshar
Dorothy M. Rossi
"A New Perception of the World"
(Oil, 50"x32")
http://tinyurl.com/5omkh
"For me, painting is a portal into the mystery of the creative process. The study of ancient myths and working with dreams is my vehicle to explore and discover dark and wondrous currents within the psyche. I ride these currents to a bridge which spans across the great abyss that exists between the modern world of technology and the spiritual realms of the soul. It is then that images are born from the womb of the dream. I then translate these images into narrative plastic forms, animate, and project them onto the canvas." ~ DM Rossi
Joanne Rochon
"Pregnant Angel"
(Ink drawing, 5"x8")
http://tinyurl.com/4dste
HOW can we prove to ourselves at any given moment that we are not asleep and dreaming? Life circumstances are sometimes as fantastic as dream circumstances; and change with the same rapidity. What if we should wake up and find waking life a dream, and our present sleep and dream merely dreams within a dream?
There is a traditional doctrine, usually associated with religion, but now and then invading great literature, that our present waking state is not really being awake at all. It is not night-sleep certainly, nor is it the ordinary somnambulism or sleepwalking; but it is, the tradition says, a special form of sleep comparable to a hypnotic trance in which, however, there is no hypnotist but only suggestion or autosuggestion. In the first instance, from the moment of birth and before, we are under the suggestion that we are not fully awake; and it is universally suggested to our consciousness that we must dream the dream of this world as our parents and friends dream it.
Young children, it is notorious, find it hard at first to distinguish between this fancy, that is to say, their other daydreams, and the dream their parents live in. Later in childhood, when the original suggestion has taken, autosuggestion keeps us in the state more or less continuously. Our friends and neighbours, and all the objects we perceive, act as soporifics and dream-suggestions. We no longer, as in early childhood, rub our eyes in doubt of the reality of this world. We are fully convinced not only that it is real, but also that there is no other. We dream but we do not doubt that we are awake.
In recent literature Ibsen and H. G. Wells have exploited the idea among other writers. Ibsen's play, When We Dead Awaken, and Wells' novel, The Sleeper Wakes, assume in their very titles that we humans are asleep but can wake.
http://www.cnca.gob.mx/viola/bv.html
P.S.
"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams." ~ Dr. Jonas Salk
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