Lucid waking.......Rupert Spira

#1 30-06-2022, 03:12 AM

Or what I refer to as the waking equivalent of a lucid dream. https://youtu.be/zGE1xlMUUhM

Shining with the Light of Pure Knowing. Yup, that's how everything seemed. It was all there just like the normal waking mind state, however there was something else. Something more fundamental. No distance. Intimate.

Miss Hepburn · #2 30-06-2022, 11:38 AM

You had this experience? Was it recently? Just wondering. :)

#3 30-06-2022, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

You had this experience? Was it recently? Just wondering. :)

Yes, in the Fall of 2019. Several weeks intensely and then several more weeks of it fading, however it never quite ceased altogether. There's still a reverberation. It's more obvious now in deep meditation but every now and then it does peek into waking reality, albeit with nowhere near the intensity of that first experience and only for short moments.

It's like an NDE in that there's before and after and I can never go back to before. It can't be unknown and that's unshakable. A paradigm shift of identity.

Miss Hepburn · #4 30-06-2022, 01:40 PM

Wow.

alanantic · #5 30-06-2022, 05:03 PM

"It is kind of like lucid dreaming, once you awaken within the dream, the dream, and your dream ego/character continue, but there is the ever-present realization you are in reality the dreamer/Self.” – “tim”, Avalon member

Miss Hepburn · #6 30-06-2022, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by alanantic

"It is kind of like lucid dreaming, once you awaken within the dream, the dream, and your dream ego/character continue,
but there is the ever-present realization you are in reality the dreamer/Self.” – “tim”, Avalon member

And does this ever make life grand...Merrily merrily down the stream.

#7 30-06-2022, 08:04 PM

I remember my first lucid dream like it was last night. The astonishment that I (the waking I) was actually conscious and knowing I wasn't in the dream, but the dream was in me. It was absolutely surreal as the dream became much more vivid and realistic than a normal dream and there was total liberation from any possible dream consequences.

It's a good model for lucid waking.

#8 30-06-2022, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

And does this ever make life grand...Merrily merrily down the stream.

Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.

LOL!

Ewwerrin · #9 01-07-2022, 04:53 AM

Sounds like you guys are going to be dreaming forever. lol

I wonder why you cannot wake up, even if you tried.

alanantic · #10 02-07-2022, 03:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Ewwerrin

Sounds like you guys are going to be dreaming forever. lol

I wonder why you cannot wake up, even if you tried.

That is the question. We're a bunch of wireless puppets of the soul; dolls they play with. We act out their dramas. The soul is mesmerized; lost in it. In our nightly dreams, we wake up when we think, "Hey, something's wrong with this picture." Seeing through the illusion of life, seeing where the logic falls apart at the deepest level.

"Do not pay undue attention to the passing scenes of life. You are the immortal self (consciousness) living only temporarily in a dream that is sometimes (imagined) to be a nightmare. That is the higher philosophy (and truth) of the mystics." -- Yogananda