The third gate of dreaming is reached when you find yourself in a dream, staring at someone else who is asleep. And that someone else turns out to be you.
There are two phases to each of the gates of dreaming. The first is to arrive at the gate; the second is to cross it. By dreaming that you see yourself asleep, you arrive at the third gate.
The second phase is to move around once you’ve seen yourself asleep. At the third gate of dreaming you begin to deliberately merge your dreaming reality with the reality of the daily world.
This is the drill, and sorcerers call it completing the energy body. The merge between the two realities has to be so thorough that you need to be more fluid than ever. Examine everything at the third gate with great care and curiosity.
Our tendency at the third gate is to get lost in detail. To view things with great care and curiosity means to resist the nearly irresistible temptation to plunge into detail.
The given drill, at the third gate, is to consolidate the energy body. Dreamers begin forging the energy body by fulfilling the drills of the first and second gates.
When they reach the third gate, the energy body is ready to come out, or perhaps it would be better to say that it is ready to act. Unfortunately, this also means that it’s ready to be mesmerized by detail.
The energy body is like a child who’s been imprisoned all its life and is just now learning how to crawl. The moment it is free, it soaks up everything it can find, and I mean everything. Every irrelevant, minute detail totally absorbs the energy body.
The most asinine detail becomes a world for the energy body. The effort that dreamers have to make to direct the energy body is staggering. I know that it sounds awkward to tell you to view things with care and curiosity, but that is the best way to describe what you should do.
At the third gate, dreamers have to avoid a nearly irresistible impulse to plunge into everything, and they avoid it by being so curious, so desperate to get into everything that they don’t let any particular thing imprison them.
My recommendations, which I know may sound absurd to the mind, are directly aimed at your energy body which has to unite all its resources in order to act. Part of the energy body is not acting all the time, while the other part is. You would not make it to the world of the inorganic beings any other way. Your entire energy body has to be engaged to perform the drill of the third gate. Therefore, to make things easier for your energy body, you must hold back your rationality.
Dreamers must be imaginative in order to engage the energy body. At the third gate, rationality is responsible for the insistence of our energy bodies on being obsessed with superfluous detail. At the third gate, then, we need irrational fluidity, irrational abandon to counteract that insistence.
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