OUR SPIRIT GUIDES & SCRIPTED DREAMS  #7

(As usual, unless otherwise indicated, the teaching quotes are from the Ancestors)

 

Although rarely encountered in dreams there are also non-human spirits. These include terrestrial, water and cosmic spirits as well as our power animals, both domestic and wild. Others spirits include mythical entities such as; Indian deities, Greek gods, gnomes, elves, goblins, leprechauns, fairies et al. Occasionally they can be intrusive. Light and dark exist within everything in the cosmos. Fairies can be mischievous and cause trouble too. I occasionally see mystical animals and plants in my dreams that I have never seen before.

We are watching from endless space
We are waiting in timeless order
Chant your way across the Veil 
Spiral into existence those spirits that are needed

 

Nurturing Connection with One’s Spirit Guides with the Help of an Altar. 

An altar is a “container” and sacred space to connect with our guides where we can ask to receive - as well as give thanks when we do receive - whether it's a helpful dream or something else. Lay down a white cloth that is new, or special and attractive. Embellish the altar with their photos or mementos which hold their energy such as a walking stick, their favorite book, a ring, a cup etc. If you do not have a photo for the altar write down the name. If you have no name allocate an object such as a crystal. If you have an image from a dream, draw or paint it. Do not put any "skeletons from the family closet" on your altar unless resolution with them has been perfectly made. Regardless, you may not want them and their energy there. Dedicate a dream journal or a recording device and take it to bed with you. Your smart phone can be used as well. Make offerings, light a candle or incense, bring gifts from time to time – a feather, an attractive pebble picked up on a hike. Always have them in mind.

To connect with our spirit guides it helps to create sacred space. Open it formally by drumming, rattling, or lighting a candle or incense. If we wish to make requests it is best done in some form of ritual. It need not be complicated. It will be more easily received and acted upon if the request is for the greater good rather than ourselves. If it is for ourselves, it should be in order to help the greater good. 

For those who are healers or who are doing spiritual work, it's wise to use sacred space to invoke ones guides. Also formally close the space and give thanks when the work is complete. If possible, dedicate a space purely for that purpose.

 

The ancients would ask of you to perform good deeds, speak good words and think good thoughts in their memory.
They would want you to be a repository of their instructions, or other wisdom teachers, and their righteous and loving ways.

Gratitude and love are also how we help them.

Celebrate their birthdays and honor the days of their death by making a meal and placing a token plate of food and drink out for them while you eat. Your imagination knows no bounds and even though you may not get feedback you can be sure they are around. We empower them when we allow them to do service on our behalf through our free will - - now that they have none of their own. 

Free will is the cosmic law. Our guides live in a timeless reality bound by free will. Free will is always in the present moment and so it is wise to affirm requests from time to time. The altar itself is a “Container” for these requests and to give gratitude.

   

 Your guides will value your creativity especially if it comes out of love.  The dead are not dead. A connection with them can be nurtured. If all this is new to you, have a party for your guides, "prepare a table for them," lay out a plate of food. Welcome them into your life and to their altar. Introduce them to your dream journal or recorder.

 

The dead and the living can best meet in the Astral in dreams when the veil is most permeable. Mostly these guides are reconciling with their karma.

Save your evening prayer for the morning.

Our guides appear most easily after the first phase of deep, delta, dreamless sleep and in the early hours of the morning during R.E.M. sleep. Have gratitude when they appear or script a dream. 

Beware the state of mind before bedtime; avoid alcohol or medications (if you can,) violent movies and toxic TV which can effect your dreams. 

Be careful of what you taste and where you immerse.

How do we open the veil between the worlds ?

Spiritual practice is essential to open the Third Eye and 

 "Awaken the Snake," 

 the feminine, serpent, shakti, power residing dormant at the base of the spine coiled around the central energy channel that we all have. Love is the catalyst that allows our guides to cross the veil and instruct us. We also need to open our heart chakras to love, forgiveness and gratitude. 

The fact that they are non-local in space and time means they have knowledge we cannot readily access without them. 

They also know our divine given destiny and are there to help us be in touch with it. 

Because of free will they cannot tell us what to do but they can warn us about what not to do if we ask. We must ask to receive and ask very specifically because of free will!

We also help them by allowing them to help us so that they can do karmic work from the other side through our free will. 

It helps to subordinate ego to the higher Self - its not about us but about helping the planet.

Miscellaneous Causes of Non Intrusive and Intrusive Dreams or Visitations

Shortly after death spirits visit to:

Announce their death (for those who do not know yet.)

Complain they have not been properly put to rest or request attention with regard to the will, unfinished business etc.

Have closure - reassure, give or ask for forgiveness.

 

We may also be opposed by dysfunctional spirits - tricksters - from lesser vibrations. They are envious of those who have a high vibration and their "light" is a reproach to them. 

 

Lesser vibrations which emanate, from narrow mind are often viewed as needing to sort out and work through their own calling. Beware of those on either side of the veil who would make you their resolution, much less their absolution.

Very rarely these can also be lost souls that reside in the lower, more demonic realms. 

 

In South Africa someone who is "called" to become a sangoma, may experience the "Calling" or the Thwasa illness and have disturbing, instructional dreams in that regard. Until one relents and initiates or reconciles with the spirits as to why it is not possible at the moment, these may persist. Thwasa is a calling to one's destiny and if not responded to appropriately, there will be a serious missed opportunity and a later karmic burden. This is a favor and a blessing from spirit and not a dysfunction even if it feels like dysfunction at first. Once the person commits to initiation, the dreams disappear. 

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OUR SPIRIT GUIDES & 

SCRIPTED DREAMS #5 

Spirit guides are not subject to time or space as are we. 
They are always around but not always to be known,
always within call but not always to be heard,
always present but not always to be sensed,
always holding us but not always to be felt.

 

The terms ancestors and spirit guides can be used interchangeably. The two main realms, where they reside, that we need to consider, are the Causal and the Astral or Imaginal.

The Causal 

The Pure Land of the Buddhists or the metaphoric Garden of Eden of Kabbalah.

Some of us have guides in the enlightenment or Causal realms. A few communicate with angels.

 

“When a word is spoken in the name of its speaker his lips move in the grave. And the lips of him/her who utters the word move like those of the sage who is dead. A sage cannot speak words of teaching unless s/he first links his soul to the soul of his dead teacher or to that of his teacher’s teacher.” The Talmud

Similarly, Yogis, Buddhists and other spiritual masters connect with their Causal guides in dreams or awake time, each in their own particular way.

If we do invoke God, Jesus or angels we may be answered but it requires dedication, impeccability and a high inner vibration nurtured by a dedicated spiritual practice. Kabbalah teaches that the Creator wants a personal relationship with each of us so that we can co-create together to help the planet. The standards for connecting with the Ultimate, Infinite Power, are simple but difficult and demanding.

There is no room for God in him who is full of herself. The sages tell us concerning the proud person; God says; “I and s/he cannot dwell together in the world.” Talmud

Love nurtures you, gives you safe haven but you decide, you choose, you are responsible. The consequences are yours. 
There is wisdom; there is folly; there is love; there is lust; there is surrender; there is willfulness.

It will be given to you according to; 

the measure of your humility,

the measure of your love, and

the measure of your faith.

 

Artists musicians and others have their muses. Some call this “narrator” their alter ego when in actual fact "s/he" might be a guide. These muses are usually from the Astral realms. 

There are multiple differing vibrations - high and lower - in each of these two main categories as well as in the Lower realms which we will discuss later. The latter are usually intrusive.

Most of us would like to have a spirit force that is there to help us. We all can ! 

 

We all have ancestors or and guides mostly in the Astral who love  and would like to help us. When they are assigned to do so we must ask to receive. Free will is the cosmic law and they are bound by it.  These spirit guides in either realm may have been our loved ones or ancestors in past lives. According to sangoma wisdom we also have “foreign” guides who have been delegated to assist us with a particular mission. Love is the catalyst that allows them to cross the veil between the worlds. The African guide who helps me in my divination practice was a sangoma in her past life. She is a “foreign” guide not from my past lives.

 

“In every person there is something precious which is in no-one else. And so we should honor each for what is hidden within them for what only they have.” Talmud

 

Our spirit guides are there to help and guide us to our God give destiny and unique purpose with the spiritual laws that differ from those on the earth plane and to which we will be accountable when we leave the planet.

Spiritual laws are operative whether or not we understand them or can explain them or whether or not we even know about them or believe in them.

Our guides have been educated and "purified" after their reconciliation process. They are there to help us with our karma and require our honesty. If we are constantly not in integrity they will move away. They also move away if there is no ongoing connection to them made in one way or another. This essentially is about designing a "Container" in which to make requests and show gratitude. Using an altar as a container will be described in a future blog.

They now know full well the consequences of spiritual unskillfulness.

The choices are yours and there are consequences to your choices. 
Consequences are neither reward nor punishment; they simply are consequences, often not immediate but always inescapable…

Kabbalah teaches that everyone will ultimately achieve the spiritual perfection for which we are created. This may take many lifetimes because of free will.

 More than likely our guides - except for those in the Causal, after doing service on our behalf - will reincarnate to further perfect their souls' journeys.

 

You should wish for yourself not what you want but that what you want is for your good. 

The Ancestors cannot help you neutralize anything you have not freely, willingly and deliberately given up.  

The ancestors (or guides) cannot save but simply alert, advise and warn and only according to your openness and willingness. They cannot change or deter you from your own insistency no matter to what it's due. Only you can choose to change. Such is the design of free will.

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 SCRIPTED DREAMS #4 

                          

Other dream forms that should and must get our immediate attention.

 

The Nightmare. A fear inducing nightmare is often a warning of what is to come unless action is taken. A nightmare may not feel like it - but it is a good dream. The message is over stated to get our attention. For instance, you may be flying somewhere and the night before you dream your are at the airport and you have forgotten your passport This may not be literal. For instance when you check the flight, you find it was cancelled due to technical issues and the next flight is in two days. The dream saved you a two-hour drive to the airport and a lot of frustration. In other words dot you I's and cross your T's. On the other hand if you dream that the plane goes down in flames it might be best to cancel the flight. The intensity of the dream will usually tell you what to do. 

The recurring dream. If one is getting a recurring dream  it means there is still something really important that you have not attended. One may need expert help in finding out what it is if one is not sure.

The visitation. Visitations occur outside of the dream state. They usually come when there is an urgent need to convey information or on special occasions such as a birthday or a death date. They are rare, take a huge effort on behalf of the spirit, as well as needing the dreamer to be an open, permeable conduit. They are occasions for tremendous gratitude. The spirit appears to be present as if in real time.  

Using other channels or "getting your mail" or you getting someone else's mail.

  Sometimes we get a dream for someone else or vice versa.   It is critical that "we pass the mail or the message on" in a skillful way. If you dream that a friend has cancer phrase it carefully. The dream could be wrong or even scripted by a trickster to ruin your friendship. You are obligated to give them the mail so maybe say; "I had this weird dream about you – it may be nothing but maybe you need to see your physician – it seemed there could be something wrong in your abdomen...etc." 

Messages in “tongues.” These behoove our trying as best we can to translate it. Google can help here. Occasionally it can be a song, the words of which are telling you to beware or proceed.

 

Intrusive dreams, personas and imposters

 

The dark forces can intrude in dreams but keep in mind 

that distortions 

may also be projections of your own fears, doubts, insecurities and questions about yourselves as well. 

Furthermore, they relish using such to your disadvantage, confusion and alienation.

 

 

Summary of  dreams

 

A cleansing of the psyche and releasing subconscious clutter and apprehension that may reveal our subconscious worries and fears. Negative dreams can also be a reaction to bodily discomfort. Beware the state of mind prior to sleep.

The replaying of a scene for clarification, for problem solving or receiving information. Dreams can also be for fun or a dress rehearsal for life and to reveal unfinished business. They can be a source of inspirational ideas.                                             

 

Spirits use the easiest channels and preset symbols.

 

Dreams cannot easily be called but it is possible to ask to receive.

 

Beware the interpretation which sets intention and action.

 

Dreams reveal truths but also untruths. Dreams hold the possibility of pollution. This is why your guides may use complex metaphors to bypass the dream hackers.

 

Visitations are not dreams but visits and require tremendous energy.

 

Free will rules but dreams tell us what to see - not what to be.

 

The veil opens closer to death. 

 

The dead and living can best meet in the intermediate stage (Astral) when the veil between worlds is the most permeable. Mostly the dead that we encounter are reconciling with their karma in the Astral or are earth bound.

 

Dreams help us understand our past lives and work out our karma by being able to check into other local or parallel universes in the astral. 

The Tibetan Buddhists believe that the three stages of death;

Dying and crossing over, the intermediate stage (or Bardot) and rebirth are the same as dreamless sleep, dream or REM Sleep and awakening to a new day. Mystics seek to pierce the veil of Maya to glimpse transcendent truth and awaken out of the illusion of life’s dream which is no different to the dream of sleep. They look at dream sleep as a rehearsal for the Bardot state (astral intermediate stage of death.) 

 

In Causal dream travel more enlightened dreamers can; 

access teachings, doctrines and the music of the spheres, be in contact with their teacher, other gurus and enlightened beings, shape-shift, fly and visit other locas.

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 Scripted Dreams # 3

“The soul is connected to this 99 percent realm and to nourish itself it visits there, when we sleep. It communicates about these visits, information, experiences and awarenesses in what we call dreams. 
The sages taught that even if we did not have sacred texts we could be guided to the 99 percent hidden world by our dreams”. 

 The Zohar

  

Dream Interpretation

This can be relatively easy. One should not have to have a PhD in psychology to be able interpret scripted dreams. Your guides will want to find the clearest and easiest way to inform in a way that you can receive with your own unique receptivity. They also know what that is. One has to ask from the dream and those who sent it: “What are you trying to tell me?” I frequently get my messages in metaphor, symbols, words or a song. On rare occasions - the “Big” dreams as nightmares, an apparition or like acts in a play. Yours’ will be different.

There are three ways to look at the dream; The form of the dream, the message they are trying to convey and the sensory aspects of the dream.

 

 

Your own particular form may not fit any of these. 

“Big” dreams can be like acts in a play showing you exactly how things are going to “play” out. These are usually prophetic.

I used to think that anything that I had experienced in the last 72 hours on T.V. or in conversation did not count but it may. Your guides are just as likely to use a recent, appropriate image to help you. If you have just been watching scenes from a tsunami on T.V. and dream that night that you are in one fighting for your life it may mean the current business proposition you are about to sign is going to “drown" you. Or if you are thinking of making an offer on a house and you dream that the house is flooding or is being covered by a mud slide – it may mean this purchase is going to drown or bury you. 

The way you drive a car in your dream is the way they perceive you are driving your life at that moment. If you are in the passenger seat or worse still at the back, the car is out of control, there are no brakes they are telling you something. Maybe you are driving a model that you had many years ago which may signify you are stuck in the past. If the car feels too small for you then maybe it's time to move on to higher aspirations.

Sometimes we just wake up with a sense of clarity or the answer to a question that was perplexing us. Your guides may have copied and pasted the answer into your dream psyche for you that night. 

Some folks do not dream but they get intuitive hits while awake especially in a relaxed alfa state. Guides can just as easily copy and paste in awake time too. All of these are occasions to display gratitude in word or in ritual using your altar as a "container" for your thanks.

Sometimes we dream our power animals (domestic or wild) that come to “empower” us especially when we are in need. The "wild"ones may come as a metaphor to suite your particular need in that moment.

Aboriginal peoples dream land and seascapes that tell them about the earth changes that are escalating around them and their dwindling habitats.                                                             Tricksters can shape shift and be imposters in our dreams and pretend to be a loved one or a friend but they are coming with an unhelpful and polluted message. Usually there is something “off” about their imitated persona. 

We may get a song in the dream where the words are exactly what we need to know. Words in tongues require a Google search for the meaning or the looking up of a biblical quote e.g. Matthew chapter x verse y.

We also dream travel in the Astral and visit alternative vibrations, parallel universes and even past lives. We meet people we know in the dream but not in real time. Tibetan Buddhists teach that our dreams are good practice for when we die and move to the Astral plane. The dream, death and awake time are all real, they are only manifesting different forms of reality. When we die we navigate the Astral with intention, will, passion and imagination. Lucid dreamers are expert in changing the dream reality to whatever they choose in their imagination. Lucid dreaming is a good way to practice navigating the Astral as we will have to do when we pass on.

An apparition in a dream is usually a warning of something drastic that may come soon. 

"Getting someone else's mail" will be described in the next blog.

Guides come to warn, nudge, instruct, teach and empower - even “visit” on special occasions.

There are dreams that are important but we do not know what they mean and that still need to be attended. They should be recorded so that one can retrieve them when the right time arises. There is no time on the other side of the veil and a recent dream may turn out to have significant meaning years later. There is the huge benefit in keeping a dream journal which is probably easier to access rather than your smart phone.                                                                                             Be careful of saying "only a dream." Until your dream practice is solid its best to record everything in detail and then decide later if it has merit or not.

                                      

We can be psychic in our dreams in different ways We can see (the apparition dream,) hear and feel things we normally would not be able to realize. Dreams can be precognitive and even life saving.     Sensory aspects magnify the power and importance of the dream no matter what its interpretation. If the dream is luminous, numinous or has tremendous intensity it is likely to be a “Big” dream. Sometimes there may be vibratory energy moving in the body especially up the spine indicating that you are awakening the “snake” or kundalini that opens the Third Eye and brings the dream.                                                   

There may be no actual dream but just a sense of something light or dark, good or bad relating to the kind of spiritual energy presiding and whether it is supportive or intrusive. If the latter and it is repetitive you might want to get spiritual help. 

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