The Path of Iapetos

[COLOR="royalblue"]Non-Aware (Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="blue"]Partially Aware (Lucid Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="navy"]Fully Aware and Vivid (Astral Projection(OOBE)[/COLOR]

I have read Carlos Castaneda's book "The Art of Dreaming" for the fifth time (not exaggerating!), it such a good book because it describe how dreaming works, well more how the advanced dreaming works. Some people would call it astral projection, but I am going to call it dreaming because that is what is is, it's just that the moderns western minded man have reduced the true meaning of dreaming, at least that's what the sorcer and nagual Don Juan Matus say in the book.

Don Juan's apprentice is very skeptical to the spiritual meaning of dreams and I have the same character. Although since I started dreaming my view of reality have changed drastically. But I still have some trouble in believing that it's the truth.

Therefore I am going to start my own journey in dreaming.

I was actually hesitating in seeking out these entities described in the book, because they are very dangerous, but I've been told by my guide Iapetos that he will protect me, but I will still be careful.

It might be silly to read this if your not spiritual, but I am not a believer nor skeptical I am open for any possibility and therefore I also have to be careful, before it's too late.

If my experience verify Don Juan's theories I will make my own summary of how I reached and crossed all the gates of dreaming, although that is a very high goal. But I hope I and you will learn from his teachings and my experiences to come.

If you have read the book and believe in his theory you can use these techniques in order to be prepared for what is waiting in the world of dreaming. If you don't believe it you can still use the techniques for your benefit.

The first obstacle or "gate" we have to reach and cross is the First Gate of dreaming. (The stabilization of the dreaming body). It's reached when one perceive his hands in a dream, solved when one is able to shift the focus of one's hands to another dream object and return it to the hands, all repeated a few times.

Thursday - 2012-07-27

[COLOR="royalblue"]I dreamt that I were in some politic gathering and listening to a man talking. It was boring and he didn't say anything interesting. But then the chairman was giving the word to another politician and the man says "How dare you interrupt me, I am the autocratic ruler." All people started to laugh and say "Haha not yet your not haha!".
I got a feeling that he had more tricks up his sleeve and something was not right here...
In this dream I had supernatural powers so I flew up into the sky and examined the building I had been in, and I see a giant bomb on the roof. Then I woke up 02:16

In the next dream I was at some theater and some girl approached me and said that she liked the new me. I looked on her surprised. The another girl also approached me and said the same thing, and I thought "What the h*ll is happening?". Then my memory went blank and the next second I was falling down a building and landed on a red buss with no pain. [/COLOR]
[COLOR="blue"]I was more aware and I remember my plan of action, to glance at items of my dreams, although I forgot to look at my hands. I gazed and touched a green street lamp, some leaves on the ground and some grass.
The thought of seeing Iapetos in order to help me crossed my mind, but I changed my mind and wanted to meet the dangerous entity "dreaming emessary". According to Don Juan it can not lie although it try to bribe you in order to follow it to it's world and then trick you to stay there forever... But it is the guide that will help you cross the second gate.

I woke up and fell back to sleep.[/COLOR]

[COLOR="royalblue"]I saw a huge vortex and I dreamt that I had powers in the water like a water god. I remember seeing huge blue wires with matrix coded symbols on it attaching my back.

Then I had a really long dream of me being Batman haha, I fought hundreds of Chinese men with guns and I barely survived. So it was an epic battle and a cool dream. [/COLOR]

If Don Juan had commented on my experience he would say: "I think you went a bit too far, all that was required was your awareness of your hands. What you have done is equivalent to bringing a wall down just to squash a mosquito sitting on it."

So now my goal is to just look at my hands :roll: