Realization -- What Gives the Sense of Reality? September 18, 2006
For years I struggled
- with myself as a patient,
- with my understanding of patients,
- trying hard to know what it is that gives the sense of reality, -- the impact, the conviction the something is true.
I could not find it.
Admittedly, I was (am) given to "Intellectualization", using words instead of contacting the feeling/meaning. I had a hard time in my personal training-analysis. When my analyst said, "Intellectualization is your chief defense”, I didn’t know what to do with it.
Then Muktananda arrived on the scene.
Muktananda was an Indian sage, sent from the East to teach the West the wisdom that was his heritage. I was lucky to have a personal meeting with him. When I asked what could I do to learn and advance, he said, "meditate meditate meditate". At first I had a hard time with that, but over the years, I learned that I could sink into inner silence, inner surveillance, relaxed observation,- and in that place, immersed in a sea of silence, messages, insights, realizations came. They came with a sense of, "I never would have thought of that!” which in fact was a truth. Such realizations and gifts come from another place, a place above.
Recently I have gotten a number of messages, and one hit me hard. It was about the sense of realization, --reality. Where does that sense that something is real come from? What makes something seem real with a strong sense of conviction?
I believe this sense of reality/conviction comes from the Creator, the Original, the Creative Substance, -- God, the All, - call it what you will.
The Creative Substance is the origin of everything. It descends in involution becoming involved in everything the Creator creates. On the plane of the Creator, there is always conviction, -- always knowledge that "this is real" -- for after all this is the Ultimate.
So, what hit me was this: That wherever there is a sense of reality, there is a recognition of the Ultimate Reality which is contained within everything that the Creator has created. And so when we have a sense of reality in the dream, that sense is borrowed from, and recognizes, the ultimate Creator/Reality which is contained within the dream. And so it is too, with the feeling of reality in the waking state.
The feeling of unreality, or lack of conviction, comes about when we have drawn of veil of "ignorance" (or repression) across the sense of reality that would otherwise always be present in our existence, no matter what plane: Physical, material, dreaming, meditation, inspirational or otherwise, -- the veil is drawn across by whatever mechanism of repression, but most especially by the mechanism of doubt. Repression and doubt present a sense of UNreality, negating our belief in the subtle-spiritual planes. And when we lay this doubt-mechanism aside, as we do when we open ourselves in meditation, we receive inspiration, and with it just as in the dream, the stamp of reality.
Or to Put It Another Way: The Stamp of Reality 9-16-06
Lessons 39
The stamp of reality comes from the land of Brahma, the realm of the Creator, -- to which we return. The stamp of reality is borrowed from the ultimate reality and applies itself, so that in the dream we feel that we are in reality. When we wake up we feel the stamp of reality applied to that. It is almost like shifting attention lighting up the feeling of reality from one realm to the other. As we open our eyes, the feeling of reality that we had in deep meditation or deep dream is shifted, -- lost to the one, the dream state, and shifted to the other, the waking state.
But all of this is not so strange for each derivative of the Ultimate Reality, each derivative of the Creator Consciousness, Is a Portion of That, and therefore contains all of That. So why shouldn't there be the feeling of reality on all planes?
Why do we shift from one to the other while losing the feeling of reality on the first plane? It must be that we are not prepared, in our evolution/consciousness to perceive all of that, to contain all of that tremendous energy, -- to open to all of that wide, wide, wide knowledge.
And so the veil descends. The eyes blink, and we shift from dream to waking consciousness. Or vice versa.
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Dr. Maurie D. Pressman
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