“You have infinite free will in choosing your assumptions, but no power to determine conditions and events…You can create nothing, but your assumption, which determines what portion of creation you will experience.”
– Neville Goddard
I was re-reading The Power of Awareness by Neville Goddard and came across the quote above.
It got me thinking about how things come to be in life.
The process of changing a thought, an idea or an assumption into a tangible reality.
The path taken is rarely the one we believe it will be.
We usually run into twists and turns that were unanticipated.
The whole thing reminds me of a strange phenomenon that happens during lucid dreams.
Lucid Dreaming
We all have dreams despite what we might think.
The problem is that due to a low state of awareness, many of us forget our dreams immediately upon awakening.
This is to be expected because the mainstream view of dreams is that they are nonsense or subconscious garbage.
If that’s your assumption, then that’s all they will ever be.
Some of us remember our dreams; that’s the next level.
The level above that is ‘waking up’ in your dream or becoming lucid.
This happens when you realise, during a dream, that you are dreaming.
For most people, this causes them to suddenly wake up from excitement or fear.
But if you practice and keep your centre of awareness, something strange happens.
You stay in the dream with heightened perception.
For many, this seems wild or unbelievable, but do a little research, and you will see that this phenomenon is well-documented.
Scientists have studied it for years.
Tibetan Yogi’s have created a whole esoteric science called ‘dream yoga’ which has been practicies for thousands of years.
Even before that, traditional shamanic cultures around the world understood the science of dreams.
It’s only the mainstream that ignores this aspect of reality.
The same mainstream that needs you to be derped out in the allures of physical manifestation.
If you are stuck in the physical, you can never escape their traps.
I spontaneously started having lucid dreams around the age of 18, and things have never been the same since.
Robert Waggoner: The bricoleur
One of the interesting things about lucid dreaming is the absence of physical laws.
If you want to fly, you simply use your intention, and you fly.
If you want to be in Paris, you think of the Eiffel Tower, and you’re there.
The time period between intention and realisation is almost immediate.
But what’s odd is that you don’t have full control over how things play out.
There seems to be some hidden force that is engineering what you experience in the background.
In his Book, Lucid Dreaming expert Robert Waggnor calls this ‘The bricoleur’, the hidden architect behind dreams.
Perhaps this is the subconscious mind or collective consciousness.
Who knows.
You set the intention, but something outside of you fulfils it.
Perhaps this is the origin of the quote,
Let go and let God.
Correspondence
I often talk about the Hermetic law of correspondence, which is often alluded to by the axiom ‘as above so below’.
It suggests that there is a relationship between different planes of existence.
The dream plane resides on a different level from the physical one you’re in now.
Many consider it to be on a higher plane (Mental or even Spiritual).
But some rules/principles are mirrored on all planes.
In the case of dreams, I mentioned how having an intention is enough to experience a rapid change in what you see.
In the physical world, the same principle abides but at a slower pace.
Much slower.
Let’s say you want to increase your wealth.
It starts with an intention and then ideas and opportunities will come your way.
Perhaps you start a business.
The whole ordeal might take several years.
But you will get to your destination if you keep your assumption of success.
Things will start to re-arrange themselves in odd ways beyond your control, for you to achieve the goal.
This happens because The bricoleur also works in waking reality.
Farewell,
Isaac
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