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July 2008 
The Descent into Matter
Posted on Jun 14th, 2008
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wanderer7
wanderer7
so what are we doing here? we wake up each morning, look around, and here we are, in the flesh, the same old body as yesterday, when we went to sleep. So what's going on? what is this matter plane, the physical existence?
the fact the we drop off the earth for 8 hours a day, in sleep, effectively dead to everyone (and even yourself!) should give you a clue. We go 'missing', AWOL, are absent from earth. We sleep, and while we do, we no longer interact, have no consciousness, have nothing (except, perhaps, for a few dreams). Sleep is a mini-death. And this is a third of our lives!
what is going on here? We sleep, and while we do, matter ceases to have meaning to us. There is a body, but we are no longer there.
you see, this is a descent into the physical form, from the more ethereal planes. When we sleep, we effectively 're-ascend', and leave physicality behind, just for a while. This is a spiritual re-charge; we can only handle so much of the physical world (in fact, only usually 16 hours at a time) before we find it too taxing and strenuous; we need a break from harsh matter reality. So, for 8 hours we dis-appear, go back to spirit; reunite with the Godhead, get refilled with emotions, inspirations, fantasies, and wonders; things we can bring back down to earth the next time we wake up. We learn from the spirit world, and manifest it here; in real 3d physical reality.
think about it, what REALLY HAPPENS when you sleep? and think about it, people go PSYCHOTIC when they are sleep-deprived (personal experience here :-), too too much caffeine in my time). Sleep is one of the great mysteries; one third of your life, my friends; truly think about what happens in that time.
love and light,
wanderer7
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interesting way to look at sleep. astral traveling…
Hi Nicole. yes, astral travelling is EXACTLY where it's at …
W7 - I love this blog….
Why do you think people wake up groggy and grumpy sometimes on days they sleep 12 hours? Is there too much of a disconnect from the physical world, do you think?
Hi Eric,
“Why do you think people wake up groggy and grumpy sometimes on days they sleep 12 hours? Is there too much of a disconnect from the physical world, do you think?”
when I used to work night shift, I would sleep deprive myself the whole week, and then gorge on the weekends. Very upsetting to the body (like someone continually feasting / fasting) but I kept this up for about 12 months. I understood the extremes of human emotions in this time; going from the zombie state to ecstactic euphoria with a cup of coffee. One of the many 'eventful' periods in my life :-)
but to address your question (which I have a habit of turning into dissertations of my own liking :-) yes, I well remember after passing out from a long, long week of nightshifts that everything seemed confused, unfamilar. How did I get here? what's going on? And yeah, it would take food and walking around a bit to reaccustom myself to the physical environment … relearning almost.
Sleep is a fascinating topic; I have yet to come across a definitive non-fiction work that really breaks it down well. You know, like for most categories or subjects out there, there is usually a “bestseller / classic” that you can always go too; for sleep, this thing that we engage a third of our lives in, I haven't yet seen that book. There are the usual “dream abalysts”, there are the “astral travel” books that Nicole referenced; but nothing really in the general domain on the mechanics of sleep; it's history, it's defects, it's possible functions. After all, animals sleep too! (and do they return to the spirit world?) and when sharks sleep, they just float aimlessly in the ocean …. and people push cows over because they sleep standing up :-) *** grin * but I truly digress now. My 'wandering' mind, you know …
cheers Eric, and hope things are well with you.
w7
psst…what about dream walkers?? :P
Hi Elisa! (whispering) who are he Dream Walkers? are they ghosts? phantoms? (will they hear us talking about them? :-)
w7
W7 - all of a sudden I am reminded of a book called Insomnia by Stephen King.
We used to have a cat and I swore it dreamed. She would often be asleep on her side and her legs and tail would be moving, as if she was in the middle of doing something. She was a strange little cat, but I am wandering along with you, it seems. I've often wondered how cats and other animals dream…and what it means to them…
I've had times where I've slept too much - I actually slept through an entire day once - the disconnect I feel from the world at those times is very interesting to say the least.
my friend who is a lucid dreamer sometimes sleeps very long in attempts to dream lucidly… but this grogginess is an interesting phenomenon
After many years of meditatiuon, some people stay aware during deep sleep. They pretend deep sleep is not different from the causal planes.
Without any meditation i have remained lucid during some dreams, capable of changing 'the plot' or ending the experience. I have no clue wheter this dream world and the subtle planes have anything in common.
Hi Bert. The blur between lucid dreaming and astral projection is quite contentious. Some claim they are the same phenomena, being interpreted in different ways; others say they are separate and distinct, with no overlap at all; and a third line says that lucid dreaming is a prelude or training period before the full “projection”. Myself, not being proficient in either skill, can offer no real opinion. It is a field that I have been interested in for about 6-9 months; especially the astral projection part. Alas, with all my earnest efforts, I have not yet succeeded (or succeeded, and remembered it). Again, another component of the Mystery of Sleep.
w7
This is a fascinating subject. I'm a fan of the view that waking life is a dream. I don't think we go anywhere when we sleep because we are already always in the Dreaming of God.
fascinating thoughts… hey, this would make a great new thread in the God Pod! do you mind, w7?