We all have a determined quantity of basic energy. That quantity is all the energy we have, and we use all of it for perceiving and dealing with our engulfing world. There is no more energy for us anywhere and, since our available energy is already engaged, there is not a single bit left in us for any extraordinary perception, such as dreaming.
That leaves us to scrounge energy for ourselves, wherever we can find it. Sorcerers have a scrounging method. The sorcerers have a method for getting it. They intelligently redeploy their energy by cutting down anything they consider superfluous in their lives. They call this method the sorcerers’ way. In essence, the sorcerers’ way is a chain of behavioral choices for dealing with the world, choices much more intelligent than those our progenitors taught us. These sorcerers’ choices are designed to revamp our lives by altering our basic reactions about being alive.
There are two ways of facing our being alive. One is to surrender to it, either by acquiescing to its demands or by fighting those demands. The other is by molding our particular life situation to fit our own configurations.
One’s particular life situation can be molded to fit one’s specifications. Dreamers do that. When sorcerers talk about molding one’s life situation they mean molding the awareness of being alive. Through molding this awareness, we can get enough energy to reach and sustain the energy body, and with it we can certainly mold the total direction and consequences of our lives.
The Mind Barriers
Don’t merely think about what I have told you. Turn my concepts into a viable way of life by a process of repetition. Everything new in our lives, such as the sorcerers’ concepts I am teaching you, must be repeated to us to the point of exhaustion before we open ourselves to it. Repetition is the way our progenitors socialized us to function in the daily world.
Exercising the dreaming attention is the essential point in dreaming. To the mind, however, it seems impossible that one can train oneself to be aware at the level of dreams. The active element of such training is persistence. The mind and all its rational defenses cannot cope with persistence. Sooner or later, the mind’s barriers fall, under its impact, and the dreaming attention blooms.
As we tighten the control over our dreams, we tighten the mastery over our dreaming attention. The dreaming attention comes into play when it is called, when it is given a purpose. Its coming into play is not really a process, as one would normally understand a process, that is as an ongoing system of operations or a series of actions or functions that bring about an end result. It is rather an awakening. Something dormant becomes suddenly functional.
It is the fact that you are entering the second attention that gives you feel self-confident. This calls for even more sobriety on your part. Go slowly, but don’t stop, and about all, don’t talk about it. Just do it!
The most difficult part is to break the initial barrier that prevents us from bringing dreams to our conscious attention. This barrier is in part a psychological one created by our socialization, which puts a premium on disregarding dreams. But the barrier is more than socialization. It’s the first gate of dreaming.
The first gate of dreaming has to do with the flow of energy in the universe. It’s a natural obstacle. We are not alone in this world. There are other worlds available to dreamers, total worlds. From those other total worlds, energetic entities sometimes come to us. The next time that are grumbling to yourself even in your dreams, get angry and shout out an order. Say: Stop that!
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