 Originally Posted by IndigoGhost
Why is it always something cool like a Wolf or a Fox? Why not a slug or the lowly toad? Does a toes not deserve your love and imagination too?
I think that spirit guides have connections with actual animals, which have internal connections with us. It's like our souls are individual human souls, but also collections of animal souls. The animals aren't doing the guiding exactly, but there's a kind of symmetric relation with something that is.
I think that dogs/wolves are appropriate as guides, because they have close relationships with people. That's one reason we keep them as pets. But I agree that if we branched out to other things like toads, we'd probably learn something new.
I had a lucid dream once where I was a 'turtle'. The animal was unlike anything I've seen, maybe more like an early mammal, but 'turtle' was the closest word for how it felt. I was very happy being this animal.
Last night I dreamed that someone was trying to raise some puppies, and that I should post about puppies. I'm not sure where to go with that, if I know anything relevant. I've encountered my childhood pet wolf/mutt vividly in dream before, not as a visual image, but as a feeling. I loved that dog, and feel that I didn't repay its devotion adequately. (I would like to get some dogs some day, but it's hard to even afford a house with a yard here, and those kinds of dogs need a lot of space to be happy.)
My 'muse' represented itself to me as puppies once, after I had read an image of a paranormal monster chewing its way into our reality like a puppy chewing through a blanket. But after invoking the 'puppies' image to signal what the topic was (I was trying to understand the nature of the muse better), it represented itself as the moon, smaller and nearer, and tuned to the natures of men.
Once I dreamed of being a minor demon. I was able to kill or at least stun dogs, and fry simple electronics, but I could not overpower a healthy human. I wasn't malevolent, I was just trying to get by. To me a dog is akin to desire, more like simple 'lower' desire like lust, though if course a dog has tremendous virtue also. There seems to me to be more to a human than to a dog, sort of. It's like everything's fragmented, with humans in the middle, and dogs only coming up to the knee, a 'lower' part of nature, but with the 'higher' supernatural reflection that's like a guide, or the demon I dreamed of being. Now I recall that the reason I had power against a dog was it was more of my own nature, whereas a human was something that I could at best hope to manipulate a little bit.
Desire to me is the active side of feeling, and feeling is where all these dream impressions come from. When I identify as feeling I get oracle-like impressions, like in dreams. If I identify as my 'muse' I become it's voice, sort of. And I guess I can identify as other things too. This is a primary way I learn from other people, I become something that's akin to them, and I become more in he process. Keeping track of what's me and what's not me, or what that even means, can be confusing though. I don't think it means quite as much as is often assumed.
In another thread Sageous said something about becoming more aware of identity, enabling one to recognize DC's as part of oneself. This seems right to me - the DC's are projected from one's own astral body, it just doesn't seem that way because of the dream setting that's being projected with it. Most 'ghosts' are like this too, but projected against the waking life background. That's not all the DC's are though, even though it's what they are most immediately. They're also other people's thoughts, they're sort of where other people's thoughts agree with yours. Can't have one without the other. It's a kind of consensus reality, just not in the rigid way that the waking world is, and one's own immediate mind tends to dominate.
Although this is pretty subjective, the desire stuff, such as is represented in the form of dogs or bears, is deeper. The forms aren't deeper, but the desire is deeper than the form. Something like the angel of death is deeper than that even, and when I think in that context I get no forms at all, just vague impressions of principles, for lack of a better word, that seem to be everywhere at once. But there is tremendous intelligence there, even though it seems to be distributed, not the intelligence of individual beings. And I don't even think its a kind of animal/human group intelligence, it's more abstract than that. My 'muse' is more at the edge of that realm, though my sense of what it is changes as I shift my focus. There don't seem to be definite lines where these things start and stop, it's sort of like the blind men with the elephant.
I'm sure that was long, rambling, and mostly unintelligible to most people. And I'm on my phone again so I can only see the last 3 lines of what I wrote. I'll stop there. As always, ask questions if I touched on anything you want to hear more about.
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