Hi Kindling. I’m here this morning like you instructed. I’ve meditated, gone on a walk, sat in nature, and even done my laundry and written my morning pages. And now I’m here.
We’re glad you’re here.
So, what’s next?
In the space between thought and dream there exists a space of mind that allows for unusual amounts of transmission between us and human brains. You engaged with that part of consciousness this morning when you had the short dream about floating on the lazy river. How did you feel during that dream?
I felt confident. I felt totally relaxed. It felt really, really fun. It also felt very real. I felt very free in a way I can’t explain. At first I was being dragged along behind another family, and then something happened and I was let go to float another direction. I remember near the end being in a large pool surrounded by people, mostly men. I remember starting to want to feel some kind of performative anxiety—and I also realized I was fully dressed (what were you wearing?) I was wearing white pants? Temple clothes maybe? But I remember feeling this urge to not look dumb, but then I remembered this sense of security and self knowledge—that first, I still felt really good and comfortable as I floated, and second that even if I did fall off my flotation device (whatever it was—some blow-up thing) I knew how to swim and would be okay. But I didn’t end up falling in.
You just realized where we were taking your mind—we saw the realization hit you as you wrote your last sentence there. Put it into words.
I just had a thought, given to me by you from what I can gather—it was an analogy about life, about the way it is to be living life connected to you, connected to source, feeling good feelings in the binary of “good or bad,” or feeling and knowing abundance in the binary of “abundance or scarcity.” And you’re fucking right. It was an insight that came to me about being in water, and struggling for breath—fighting so hard for breath and doggy paddling and losing energy when not linked to higher vibrations or higher self, versus just floating, and being carried, above the water, atop the water, by the water when acting under your influence or the influence of source.
I am really surprised I didn’t make the connection between that thought/insight and the dream before. It seems like I would.
Being in that altered state between awake and sleep is a completely different mind pattern that is in many ways unrelated to the mind pattern of awakeness. Thus insights received here (for it is closer to where we are than to where you exist in space and time) aren’t as readily connected to events and insights that occur in daily living. What you have done here this morning is allowed us the chance to gently take your mind into a place where that connection could be made. This served two purposes or functions: it helped you understand with more visceral clarity the point we were helping you understand in the analogy we “floated” (see how clever we are?) to you as you watered your plants about someone who is struggling through life unconnected to higher consciousness feeling like they have to fight, to paddle, to do the effort necessary to continue breathing and aliving, versus relaxing, lowering their resistance, movement, and self-generated effort, and thus being able to be lifted above the waterline—being able to float and be taken by us into the stream of life of consciousness of now. It really is a much better ride! And second, it helped you understand the subtle way so much of what we give you is interconnected and synchronistic. What feels random and arbitrary, when you are floating on the lazy river, is more often than you realize going to be a beautiful extension of other teachings, insights, experiences, just as this insight, even without you being aware, was an extension of what we were showing you in your dream. To a certain part of you, each of those discrete events felt distinct and arbitrary—not only disconnected, but so disconnected as to never finding a way to be thought of in a simultaneous fashion. But to the whole of you, when you are linked in to higher consciousness/intelligence, it is plain to see that not only were they linked, they were versions of the exact same message, on the exact same morning, literally an hour or so apart from each other.
That was unexpected and very amazing. Thank you, Kindling. I’m glad I came back.
Of course. We are always here. We are always wanting to help.
I have to shower and get to work. Do I publish this as is?
It’s one of your Driftless Letters isn’t it?
I suppose so.
You may always do as you wish, but yes, publishing it is very much aligned with your own intentions, and there is no reason not to allow that expression of your intentional self to continue. Your intentions are a beautiful manifestation of self into thought, and as guided by the river, expression of those intentions into actual objects in space and time is a flowering, not unlike the orange bulbs you loved on the tree you saw yesterday as well as this morning. We love when you are fruitful, and you love when you are fruitful!
You may go no and shower.
Thanks Kindling. I love you.
We love you too. Endlessly. Limitlessly you might say.
Oh, you. You just made me chuckle.
Until tomorrow,
Josh
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