Dark Forces – Page 3 – Ruben Bailey

July 2, 2008

Batman and the Matrix of Illusion

Last night I had a dream where I am a superhero similar to Batman. My Batcave is a Penthouse atop a great tall building. The Penthouse I occupy is comprised of several of the top floors. There is no direct access to these floors because they are hidden from the general public. The secret Penthouse is the launch pad from which I initiate all my superhero crusades. Feeling alone in the world, I want to intermix with the population at large so I create a DaySpa where people can come and enjoy power drinks, exercise and be rejuvenated. The decision to open part of my Penthouse to a DaySpa and grant access to the outside world does pose a significant risk to my true identity as a superhero but I am willing to take that risk because the payoff is potentially very high in that I will be able to influence and enlighten millions who will come through the DaySpa and become members. As soon as I open the doors of the DaySpa many come through. The DaySpa also gives the illusion that you are actually in the Penthouse. Yet those who come are unaware that there are other floors of the Penthouse hidden from view. The fact that the true Penthouse is hidden helps take the focus off the building because there are those enemies who would want to limit my superhuman influence.

There is a secret chamber much like a space capsule the catapults me into the hidden and secured areas of the Penthouse. On this day, I have several men come through who are looking to put an end to my mission. I have to choose an opportune moment to secretly enter the chamber. When the moment is right, I enter the chamber and quickly press the button to close the door behind me. At first the door jams because there is an emergency mechanism to keep the door from closing. I bypass the safety mechanism using the red button and the door quickly closes and rotates the chamber. Inside the self contained chamber are provisions which have been neatly arranged. These are all the things I need for my mission, including insulin to safeguard me against death from low blood sugar. My only weakness, my Kryptonite against my superpowers is my diabetes. Good nutrition is required to maintain a high level of super human powers. This is another reason for the creation of the DaySpa and the powerful drinks offered by the DaySpa to have these things readily available to me in the case of an emergency.

Rejuvenated now with superhuman powers, I set out on my first crusade. I can see that my adversaries have created a rotunda as an optical illusion to entrap me. There are two aspects to my Self. One aspect always remains in the normal world while the super human side of me can venture into other realms. I am now clued into the illusion that entraps me in the normal world. My first crusade is to free my other Self. My first instinct is to follow through the illusion set up by the adversaries. As I travel down the spiral staircase of the rotunda I find that it leads nowhere it is a closed loop that only gives the illusion of going somewhere. Knowing this truth now I jump over the side rails of the rotunda using my super human flying and jumping abilities arriving at the first level of the rotunda which is under ground. This is where the illusion is being mastermind. I can see my other Self entrapped by the illusion matrix above me. The adversaries are using an invisible force field to contain the imprisoned me.

Seeing the source of their power of dominance I unplug their master power cord that supplies power to their force field. This completely cripples my opposition. At the moment I unplug the power I issue the command “RUN”. My imprisoned Self runs free toward the door closest to where he is at. I want to join him through the door where he exits the illusion but I know the distance I would need to travel to join him places me at greater risk should they manage to reenable power. My safest route is a nearby fire exit. I rush through the fire exit door to find on the other side a series of other doors. I pause for a moment not knowing which door to choose. In this moment of reflective thought I become lucid and a thought comes to my mind, “I have been here before.” In this moment of clarity, a ripple runs through the matrix of illusion. I can see the firedoors in front of me sway as the ripple goes through them confirming the illusion. I have been here before and these doors have all served to entrap me in the past. Instead of choosing one of the doors in front of me, I decide to create a portal using my super human psychic abilities. Meditating I create a stargate that appears in the matrix of illusion in front of me. As the stargate opens on the other side I see a small alien creature. I am drawn to him. He is somehow familiar to me. My heart wants to reunite with him. I cross over and embrace him. In the embrace I somehow know I have reunited with my Self.

The Batman theme in the dream was very strong so I decided to look up Batman on Wikipedia to see if I could glean some insight off the story. Here is what I found.

Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a fictional comic book superhero co-created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger (although only Kane receives official credit) and published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939). Batman’s secret identity is Bruce Wayne, a wealthy industrialist, playboy, and philanthropist. Witnessing the murder of his parents as a child leads him to train himself to physical and intellectual perfection and don a bat-themed costume in order to fight crime. Batman operates in the fictional Gotham City, assisted by various supporting characters including his sidekick Robin and his butler Alfred Pennyworth, and fights an assortment of villains influenced by the characters’ roots in film and pulp magazines. Unlike most superheroes, he does not possess any superpowers; he makes use of intellect, detective skills, science and technology, wealth, physical prowess, and intimidation in his war on crime.

In his secret identity, Batman is Bruce Wayne, a billionaire businessman who lives in Gotham City. To the world at large, Bruce Wayne is often seen as an irresponsible, superficial playboy who lives off his family’s personal fortune (amassed when Bruce’s family invested in Gotham real estate before the city was a bustling metropolis) and the profits of Wayne Enterprises, a major private technology firm that he inherits. However, Wayne is also known for his contributions to charity, notably through his Wayne Foundation charity. Bruce creates the playboy public persona to aid in throwing off suspicion of his secret identity, often acting dim-witted and self-absorbed to further the act.

Unlike many superheroes, Batman has no superpowers and instead relies on “his own scientific knowledge, detective skills, and athletic prowess.” Batman is physically at the peak of human ability in dozens of areas, notably martial arts, acrobatics, strength, and escape artistry. Intellectually, he is just as peerless; Batman is one of the world’s greatest scientists, engineers, criminologists, and tacticians, as well as a master of disguise, often gathering information under the identity of Matches Malone. He is regarded as one of the DC Universe’s greatest detectives. Rather than simply outfighting his opponents, Batman often uses cunning and planning to outwit them. In Grant Morrison’s first storyline in JLA, Superman describes Batman as “the most dangerous man on Earth,” able to defeat a team of superpowered aliens all by himself in order to rescue his imprisoned teammates.

Batman faces a variety of foes ranging from common criminals to outlandish supervillains. Many Batman villains mirror aspects of the hero’s character and development, often having tragic origin stories that lead them to a life of crime. Batman’s “most implacable foe” is the Joker, a clown like criminal who as a “personification of the irrational” represents “everything Batman [opposes].” Other recurring antagonists include Catwoman, the Penguin, Two-Face, the Riddler, Scarecrow, Mister Freeze, Poison Ivy, Ra’s Al Ghul, and Bane, among many others.

June 18, 2008

Lemur's Pet Shop

I have a dream where I am deployed to serve in the military. My main concern is who is going to care for my parents while I’m gone. It is an undercover assignment which will require me to lose my identity. Even I won’t know who I am. With a blink of an eye I slip into another dimension within the playing field. We are in a submarine in a room with many beds. There is a cleaning lady in the room on a break lying on one of the beds. She looks at me and recognizes who I am. With her recognition, I realize I don’t know who I am. The only thing I know is that she knows who I am. There is no turning back now.

The location we are in is under occupation. There are many men walking around who I did not invite here. I had allowed only one person in who in turn allowed the others in. Visiting hours are 2 12 and 5. Everyone here has a blood disease. They throw up on you. One guy has had an outbreak 3 times already. Doorknobs have yellow tags to indicate active infection. Knowing I just arrived on stage here, I instinctively know I’m not infected yet. I go into a restroom where I can be alone to plan out some form of strategy. There is a guy in one of the stalls who is throwing up. I have a sense that he is able to detect that I am not infected. Knowing I must flee, I realize I can fly but I unable to descend. He throws up on me like a bird regurgitating a meal for his young. Outside the restroom door, there is a procession of inmates walking by. In a vision I see a dove crossing a street.  Midway the dove begins to transform into a man and continuing his walk across the street.

The scene now changes. The war is over and my mission is ended. We are now at peace. It is inauguration day to welcome in the newly appointed High Commissioner. We are at the Council of Nations. There are television cameras capturing everything about this historic moment which marks the end of the war and the appointment of the new commissioner. Two singers are invited to sing for the new High Commissioner. The cameras pan the League of Nations where many sit. Over the loud speaker I hear them ask one of the angelic voices to stand and be known. “Angel #1 please stand and be known.” The excitement rolls like thunder through though the crowd. A beautiful blond woman stands in the distance and all begin to cheer. Unable to contain her excitement she runs a great distance to arrive at the podium to greet the new commissioner. Her hair is very long and very beautiful and her skin is milky white. She is glowing with admiration. She apparently deeply loves what she is doing to serve the commissioner. They pan the audience a second time and over the loud speaker I hear, “Angel #2 please stand and be known.”   Without even thinking she immediately stands and rushs down toward the podium to join with Angel #1. She is a vibrant red head with a milky grey colored skin that is strikingly distinct and beautiful. The two angels stand together at the podium. They hug and kiss as the crowds cheer in a thunderous moment of sheer bliss. Never before have two united as one in this way. As they hug and kiss the blond angel’s hand accidentally cups the breast of the red haired angel. It is an act so natural and befitting of an angel’s innocense and love.

The crowd now becomes completely silent. I am expecting to hear them sing but instead they drop into absolute silence as they look each other in the eyes. In their silence I become lucid and immediately drop into a vision within the dream. I am standing in front of a mirror. In the mirror I can see nothing except my third eye. It is not as I’d expect my third eye to look. My third eye is a radiant crystal suspended before me. Within the crystal I can see the many geometric facets and all the many dimensions contained within it. I can see the matrix a grid that separates the many dimensions. In the one I can see all. Wanting to touch it, I reach out my hand and with my index finger I gently lay my finger tip upon it. It seems to be nowhere yet in many places at once. My sense of touch is in all places where it exists. In response to my touch, my third eye crystal changes color to a brilliant passion red.

I hear a voice asking me to describe it. “What does it look like? Does it look like….?” No I answer…. immediately a wormhole appears with white and yellow light pulsating through it. It is so incredibly beautiful. I ask them if they can see what I am describing. In the wormhole I can see the city of Los Angeles. The buildings are melting away leaving behind the natural beauty of the land.

In recognition of my service to the mission I am granted an inheritance. Since I love animals they give me a pet shop full of many exotic animals. As I walk through the pet shop amazed that this could all be mine I am taken by group of lemurs sitting in an open cage. They are so cute I wonder if they can be held. I invite one to come upon me. He jumps into my arms and begins nibbling on my finger. He is toothless and completely harmless. I am so happy. This is something I will enjoy doing for the rest of my life; finding good homes for these more exotic creatures.

When my alarm sounded I simply opened my eyes for I was already awake. There was no need to snooze my alarm to meditate for I had been meditating all night long. I got up out of bed and marched into the bathroom to pee. Feeling so overwhelmed by my dreams I had to sit down to do my business and ponder over the nights events. As I sat there relieving my bladder I had a vision. Three women approached me. They were exquisitely beautiful. Their ethereal gowns glistened with pink and magenta sequins. Telepathically I heard a single word. “Shambala”.

This night was all over the place. How was I going to make sense of it all, yet I knew it held a profound message for me. Here are some things I discovered while researching.

The term “lemur” is derived from the Latin word lemures, meaning “spirits of the night” or “ghosts“. This likely refers to their large, reflective eyes and the wailing cries of some species (the Indri in particular). Female dominance is a very rare social structure in mammals only observed consistently in hyenas and lemurs.

In the Commonwealth of Nations, a High Commissioner is the senior diplomat (ranking as an ambassador) in charge of the diplomatic mission of one Commonwealth government to another.

Shambhala is a Sanskrit term meaning “place of peace tranquility and happiness”. Shakyamuni Buddha is said to have taught the Kalachakra tantra on request of King Suchandra of Shambhala; the teachings are also said to be preserved there. Shambhala is believed to be a society where all the inhabitants are enlightened, actually a Buddhist “Pure Land”, centered by a capital city called Kalapa. An alternative view associates Shambhala with the real empire of Sriwijaya where Buddhist master Atisha studied under Dharmakirti from whom he received the Kalachakra initiation.

The image is from the Kalachakra thangka from Sera Monastery. A “Thangka,” also known as “Tangka”, “Thanka” or “Tanka” is a painted or embroidered Buddhist banner which was hung in a monastery or a family altar and occasionally carried by monks in ceremonial processions. In Tibetan the word thang means flat, and thus the Thangka is a kind of painting done on flat surface but which can be rolled up when not required for display, sometimes called a scroll-painting. The most common shape of a Thangka is the upright rectangular form.

JUNE 20, 2008 — I’m reading Carlos Castaneda’s, “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge” and came across this quote which rings true with where I am along my spiritual path and has resonance with the dream. Here he talks about the 4 things we must overcome. The first is Fear, the second is Clarity, the third is Power and the fouth is …..<haven’t read that far yet>.

“He must do what he did with fear: he must defy his clarity and use it only to see, and wait patiently and measure carefully before taking new steps; he must think, above all, that his clarity is almost a mistake. And a moment will come when he will understand that his clarity was only a point before his eyes. And thus he will have overcome his second enemy, and will arrive at a position where nothing can harm him anymore. This will not be a mistake. It will not be only a point before his eyes. It will be true power.

He will know at this point that the power he has been pursuing for so long is finally his. He can do with it whatever he pleases. His ally is at his command. His wish is the rule. He sees all that is around him. But he has also come across his third enemy: Power!”

June 12, 2008

Endangered sea dragon at Ga. aquarium pregnant

Now here is an amazing “lie in wait” coincidence. Just yesterday I posted my dream titled, “Lie in Wait.” In that post my dream touched on predation and camaflauge. I felt the dream was answering a fundamental question I have had for a long time that being, “Are we the dragon’s prey?” and if so, “How does the relationship work?” and finally, “Is the dragon misunderstood?” This is a metaphysical topic I’m looking to explore in my next book on the darkness within humanity. I believe there is a symbiotic relationship between the dark side within the spirit and humanity. The dark side seems to feed off our emotions and specifically fear based emotions as if we secrete some chemical that they are instantly attracted to. In my journey to the dark side, I’ve experienced these creatures call them nature’s dragons who have a leafy and very intricate design to them. In my documentary I mentioned that I found even within the darkness a divine perfection. By looking at the pictures of the Leafy Sea Dragon you will understand the perfection to which I speak of. Though it is a dragon, it is a very beautiful one. I said this specifically with regard to nature’s dragons those I experienced while I walked the dark of night. Since I stumbled across the pictures of the Leafy Sea Dragon in my research, I knew I had hit the nail on the head. My research as usual had played into the dreams hidden answer perfectly. You could say it did so with divine precision. I wasn’t ready to discuss this yet so i made no mention of it in yesterday’s post other than to include the picture of the Leafy Sea Dragon. Which was my queue to myself for later referrence. My theories will be expounded on in my next book. I’m begining to believe this will be the topic of my Ph.D dissertation.

So today one day later (lie in wait) I sat at my computer to work on my book and came across an Associated Press article specifically on the Weedy Sea Dragon a very close relative of the Leafy Sea Dragon. Now what makes this a coincidence? Yesterday I read on Wikipedia that the Leafy Sea Dragon is endangered and all attempts to breed them in captivity have failed. According to Wikipeida, “To date, no successful, closed cycle, captive-breeding program has occurred (ie getting a generation of captive-raised sea dragons to breed).” That is up until today lay in wait the captive and very pregnant Sea Dragon. Yes the little Mrs Sea Dragon did lay her eggs and now Mr. Sea Dragon lay in wait. The good thing is that much like me…he will only have to wait 24 to 48 hrs before they hatch. Is that a miracle or what? Oh my God I am so ticlked. It is an event that has never happened before. This synchronicity proves to me that I am on the right track. Here now is the AP article. Aren’t these creatures beautiful?

A weedy sea dragon at the Georgia Aquarium has something to celebrate this Father’s Day. One of the rare creatures is pregnant for only the third time ever at a U.S. aquarium, aquarium officials said. But don’t look for the expectant mom — dads carry the eggs in this family.

The aquarium’s sea dragon has about 70 fertilized eggs — which look like small red grapes — attached to his tail. He is expected to give birth in early to mid-July, said Kerry Gladish, a biologist at the aquarium.

Sea dragons, sea horses and pipe fish are the only species where the male carries the eggs, Gladish said. Sea dragon pregnancies are rare because researchers don’t know what gets them in the mood to mate.

“We know there’s something biologically or environmentally that triggers them to want to reproduce, but in the aquarium world, we’re not sure what that is,” Gladish said.

The aquarium recently changed the lighting and thinned out the plants in the sea dragons’ tank to give them room to court each other.

The aquarium has seven of the 18-inch sea dragons, which resemble Dr. Seuss characters with long aardvark-like snouts, colorful sea horse bodies and multiple paddle-like fins.

During mating, the female lays dozens of eggs and then transfers them to the male’s tail.

In the wild, the survival rate for sea dragon babies is low, but in captivity it’s about 60 percent, Gladish said. The fish is on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s list of threatened species, mostly because of pollution and population growth in its native Australia.

Only about 50 aquariums worldwide have sea dragons.

A male weedy sea dragon carries eggs on his tail at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Thursday, June 11, 2008. For only the third time ever in a U.S. aquarium, one of the endangered creatures is pregnant. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

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June 11, 2008

Lie in Wait

Last night I lie in bed to meditate. Since I was a bit tired, my intention was to be extremely brief with my meditation so I placed both hands behind my head. All the lights were turned off. Within a minute or two I dropped into a trance and lost myself. When I realized where I was I noticed a man standing in front of me positioning a screen directly in front of my face as if to prepare the stage for this night’s dreams. Curious as to the purpose of the screen, I quietly watched giving no indication that I had regained my conscious awareness. At this point the screen was down a few inches from my face to the height of my nose so I was able to see above the screen in addition to being able to see down through it.

The man was directly in front of me no more than a foot away from me which made it difficult for me to see his face. I held myself motionless, observing everything around me. Directly in front of me was his upper torso and midsection. He seemed to me working on something above my head as a camera man would position his lighting equipment before a shoot. He was now ready to reposition the screen. This was my chance to see his face. Still unaware that I had regained full awareness, he ducked down and looked directly into my eyes. He was a humanoid type I had never seen before. Unable to process his image entirely, he remained an indescribable blob of pixels. He raised the screen positioning it directly between us. I was immediately able to see his image very clearly. The screen somehow translated the never before seen collection of pixels into a definable image known to my mind. Thinking it’s now or never, I reached out like a preying mantis to grab him. I immediately opened my physical eyes.

Unfortunately the screen prevented me from getting a good grip on him. With stealth quickness and knowing he was present in the room, I reached in front of me with my physical arms like a blind man stumbling to grab at anything before me. I wasn’t able to grab hold of him but I definitely felt his physical presence as he brushed up against the underside of my forearms. As I moved my arms around there were defined areas in front of me where I could actually feel something solid yet I could see anything and there were areas where I could feel nothing at all.

Obviously he got away, but I came away with an experience, knowing there is subtle energy that can’t be seen but can definitely be felt with the physical hands and seen with the inner eye. It seems the veil of separation between the two realms is thinning.

I then rolled on my side and fell asleep. I then had a dream. In the dream I am with my best friend Daniel who passed away many years ago. We are with his family working on improvements to the house in which they live. There is a night watch where each of us takes turns watching the night sky and guarding the house. Tonight it is my friend Daniel’s turn to watch the night sky. I am sitting inside the house looking through the screened in porch. He sits just outside with a blanket rapped around him to temper the chill of night.

At this point I became semi-lucid thinking to myself that there is something strange happening here. I’m aware of the significance of the screen but unaware as to its role in the setting of the dream. I am also aware that my best friend who is sitting outside just beyond the screen has passed away in real life. The desire of the heart to go outside and visit with him is very strong but I resist the urge believing that this might be the predatory response wished by my earlier visitor. I make a conscious decision not to change the effects of the dream and to simply remain still to allow the dream to tell its story. His father comes by to explain the improvements they have made on the house and why they are needed. The tone of his voice has a hypnotic droning effect on me pushing me into a deeper state of consciousness making it difficult to stay coherent. Slipping into another dimension or perspective, I now understand the improvements on the house and I can see their effect. There are a bunch of yellow butterflies that are now attracted to the house because of the improvements made. It reminds me of a Zen garden. There is a sense of comfort in knowing that everything is going forward according to a divine plan. All I have to do it lie in wait.

One adaptation helping both predators and prey avoid detection is camouflage, a form of crypsis where species have an appearance which helps them blend into the background. Camouflage consists of not only color, but also shape and pattern. The background upon which the organism is seen can be both its environment (e.g. the praying mantis resembling dead leaves) other organisms (e.g. zebras‘ stripes blend in with each other in a herd, making it difficult for lions to focus on a single target). The more convincing camouflage is, the more likely it is that the organism will go unseen.

Mimicry is a related phenomenon where an organism has a similar appearance to another species. One such example is the drone fly, which looks a lot like a bee, yet is completely harmless as it cannot sting at all. Another example of batesian mimicry is the io moth, (Automeris io), which has markings on its wings which resemble an owl’s eyes. When an insectivorous predator disturbs the moth, it reveals its hind wings, temporarily startling the predator and giving it time to escape.

June 4, 2008

The Rod of Asclepius

Rod of Asclepius Last night I had an interesting experience when I laid in bed to meditate. I quickly lost myself and later allowed myself to slip into a deep trance like state. I was just at the point of dropping into a deep sleep when I began to feel sick. Quivering, I pulled my arms in tightly around my body as I held my comforter to my chin. My teeth were chattering. I felt as if I was about to pass out. Telepathically, I sent out a distress signal as a cry for help. I felt I was dropping into a state of delirium.

Lying to the right of me was roommate. Noting my non verbal cry for help, he reached over and placed his hand on my forehead. I could clearly see his arm across my face as I felt the pressure of his hand as it rested on my forehead gauging my temperature. A part of me wondered how he had responded so quickly.

To my left immediately appeared an EMS attendant from some emergency medical team. She wore a black cap with a silver symbol on the front of it that glistened with the dim light that filtered into the room from the street light below my bedroom windows. She reached out and grabbed my right arm. I slowly became more aware realizing that whoever was next to me couldn’t possibly be my roommate namely because we don’t sleep together and secondly because he had not been home tonight.

My mouth was definitely quivering. Where were these ill feelings coming from? Why was I feeling sick? The person’s arm was still resting on my forehead. I decided to reach for my voice recorder. As I reached for it, a jackal appeared in front of me and sniffed me. I ignored it and quickly proceeded to grab my recorder from my nightstand. I quickly recorded the details.

I could still feel the EMS attendant touching my arm feeling my pulse. I thought the physical sensations might be my cat sleeping next to me. I moved slightly to see if I could feel the cat. Nothing Sable was not beside me, yet the touch against my skin was very real such that even my comforter was moving. They were examining me with their medical equipment. I then looked for my dog but could not see or feel him anywhere next to me. Was I really in my bedroom? I held my voice recorder while they continued their examination. It was out of this world. Once they were done and I was feeling better they disappeared as quickly as they had appeared. Before leaving the attendant to my left held out she had to me. I saw her face. She had a human face. Her vibration seemed higher than those previously around me. I knew she had been there all along protecting me. I quickly reached out my hand to touch hers. She was the last and only one to say goodbye. I was now alone in my bedroom. My dog was sleeping quietly at the foot of the bed. My cat was nowhere in sight. Who were my visitors? It was comforting to know help is merely a heart beat away.

In the morning my roommate came home at 7am before my alarm had sounded. I heard him disarm the security alarm system. My dog started barking and ran downstairs to greet him. After settling down I called the dog back up onto my bed. Mystified by my experience this night I decided to take advantage of my early wake up and meditate to see if I could go back to the scene where I was when all this happened. I quickly had a remote viewing session where everything I was seeing had a deep forest green tint to it. The beings around me were definitely alien humanoid creatures. I could see them moving about. The video within my mind was shaking which caused the image to distort slightly making it difficult to focus. The shaking made it difficult to clearly see their faces or read any of the writing that was present on the tables and monitors. I still wondered if I was in my bedroom or not when it happened. I definitely had access to my voice recorder but does this mean I was in my bedroom? There were approximately 12 attendants around me in a very dimly lit green operating room. Their skin appeared to be shiny with leather like quality. They had large almond shaped eyes. I have seen these aliens before many times. It suddenly made sense as information from my subconscious came streaming in. I had made the connection. There are many dimensions occurring at the same time. Not all dimensions are aware of each other and some are only able to look down in frequency or tone or vibration hence the color of the setting. Depending on my vibration I too am only aware of certain frequencies. Frequency is a term I am using for lack of a better word with which to describe what is happening. There are two sides to the same coin.

I looked up EMS on Wikipedia and was led to the rod of Asclepius which is what I received from the attendant who said goodbye.

The rod of Asclepius (also known as the rod of Asklepios, rod of Aesculapius or asklepian[1]) is an ancient Greek symbol associated with astrology and with healing the sick through medicine. It consists of a serpent entwined around a staff. Asclepius, the son of Apollo, was a practitioner of medicine in ancient Greek mythology.

The rod of Asclepius symbolizes the healing arts by combining the serpent, which in shedding its skin is a symbol of rebirth and fertility, with the staff, a symbol of authority befitting the god of Medicine. The snake wrapped around the staff is widely claimed to be a species of rat snake, Elaphe longissima, also known as the Aesculapian or Asclepian snake. It is native to southeastern Europe, Asia Minor, and some central European spa regions, apparently brought there by Romans for their healing properties.

Asclepius (Greek) is the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek mythology. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts, while his daughters Hygieia, Meditrina, Iaso, Aceso, Aglæa/Ægle and Panacea (literally, “all-healing”) symbolize the forces of cleanliness, medicine and healing, respectively.

June 1, 2008

Crabby Justice

I had a dream where my ex is involved in a shipping and receiving business that is less than reputable. I want nothing to do with him but we are still tied to the same sleeping quarters. He has taken the sheets and covers off the bed that we share and is having me sleep with paper towels as a cover. I am tired and simply want my own space back in which to comfortably lay my head down. He tries to convince me of the legitimacy of his new business but what he does not realize is that I can see through the false front. I can hear the fire alarms sounding incessantly, and the conversations detailing their shady transactions. I can also see their operations in progress. What he does simply does not interest me anymore. I know him for who he really is. I just want to be removed from him. It is very much a battle to see who is left standing in the end. Seeing my lack of interest and my determination to stand my ground, he makes a comment to me telling me that I’m already dead. We are spirits, he says to me.

I pause to reflect and in looking at myself. I become lucid in the dream. Now with a sense of empowerment, I go after him and grab him by his coattails as he tries to run from me. I held on and held on until I woke up with something scratching my face like tiny claws. I opened my eyes and there in front of me was a female police officer with a venomous look on her face and very bad teeth. In her right hand she held a crab by the legs which she shook at me in an effort to frighten and intimidate me. She was obviously very upset with what I had done. I was not afraid. In a sudden move I leaped forward to grab the crab away from her in an effort to prove to her that her crab could not harm me. I noticed her forearm was bloody from where the crab had clawed her hand. She pulled back exposing her teeth at me like a mad dog. I knew she was a lie. Although she wore a police cap she did not stand for justice. I let her know telepathically that I was not afraid of her and I knew who she was. She remained there at a distance unwilling to withdraw completely from my presence. I grabbed my voice recorder and began recording the details of what I had just experienced emphasizing verbally as a way of reinforcing my lack of intimidation and fear. She then disappeared.

May 28, 2008

The Griffin's Magic Mirror

In this dream I am with a being from another solar system aboard his space craft. He is looking through a magic mirror. I become lucid and realize this mirror is the instrument he uses to see the truth and all that lies within the hidden realms. Knowing this is my chance to look through the mirror for myself, I walk up to him getting close enough to grab the mirror away from him. In a moment when he is unsuspecting, I quickly reach for it snatching it out of his hand.

My question for the mirror is, “Do extraterrestrial intelligences walk the Earth?” I look through the mirror at my present surroundings. I can see the many aliens hidden within the spacecraft. Seeing beyond what is in front of me, I can now see the surface of the earth and all those aliens currently present who are invisible to the human eye. These aliens vibrate at a higher frequency and therefore go undetected. They are 8 to 9 feet tall, walk upright and wear green hooded cloaks to further hide their image. They are powerful creatures with hammerheads not unlike the griffin.

The griffin,[1] is a legendary creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. As the lion was traditionally considered the king of the beasts and the eagle the king of the birds, the griffin was thought to be an especially powerful and majestic creature. Griffins are normally known for guarding treasure.[2] In antiquity it was a symbol of divine power and a guardian of the divine.[3]

Most contemporary illustrations give the griffin the forelegs of an eagle, with an eagle’s legs and talons, although in some older illustrations it has a lion’s forelimbs; it generally has a lion’s hindquarters. Its eagle’s head is conventionally given prominent ears; these are sometimes described as the lion’s ears, but are often elongated (more like a horse’s), and are sometimes feathered.

Infrequently, a griffin is portrayed without wings (or a wingless eagle-headed lion is identified as a griffin); in 15th-century and later heraldry such a beast may be called a male griffin, an alce or a keythong. In heraldry, a griffin always has aquiline forelimbs; the beast with leonine forelimbs is distinguished as the opinicus.

Oddly enough I just realized this dream ties into yesterday’s dream / vision “The Spider’s Probe” where I awoke to find the man on my bed with long bony fingers and big knuckles not unlike the talons on the griffin.

May 27, 2008

The Spider's Probe

I laid down to begin my meditation. Mystified by the beautiful colored lights within my mind’s eye I completely forgot where I was. Feeling the presence of someone beside me, I came back to reality. Realizing where I was I opened my eyes. There beside me kneeling on my bed was a transparent man. He was not human. He had long fingers with large bony knuckles and thick claw like fingernails that reminded me of the feet of a large bird like that of an ostrich. He did not frighten me nor intimidate me. He simply sat there observing me.

Above my face was swirling some form of robotic arm as if my meditation was being monitored by his kind. To let him know I wasn’t afraid I held out my right hand and wiggled my fingers at him in a scary gesture. I assumed the sight of my fingers would be just as foreign and frightening to him as his fingers once were to me. There wasn’t any reason for me to fear him. He simply sat there observing me as his probe spun a few inches in front of my face. I closed my eyes again and returned to my meditation. After about 15 or 20 minutes I allowed myself to drift off to sleep.

During the night, I had a dream. In the dream there is a man who wants me to carry out his business; his agenda. I however do not want to participate in his plot because by doing so I feel it places myself in legal jeopardy. Since I refuse to cooperate, he devises a strategy that will pull me into reacting and into the conflict at hand. It would force me to take action; to become involved thereby initiating his sequence of events.

I became lucid just as he is setting into motion the events that would naturally cause the desired reaction in me. Now lucid, I am consciously aware of his motives. What he set in motion violates my sovereignty and therefore I am forced to confront him. Now fully lucid, I walk over to him knowing he is concealing his true identity. I grab at his face to pull his mask off.

In that moment I awoke from the dream. I now had a transparent yellow spider about 3 feet long and 2 ½ feet wide crawling over me. I could also see my aura around me which seemed to have been invigorated by my renewed awareness. My aura was acting as a force field to shield me from the foreign invasion thereby protecting my sovereignty. Feeling protected, I starred the spider in the eyes as it backed off knowing I was fully aware of its presence. Afraid of me now it circled around and retreated until it disappeared.

May 6, 2008

Idealism: I Think therefore I Am

Last night I had a dream where I am visiting my nephew who is a student in college. He has most of his days free able to enjoy the campus. He shows me around campus. The campus is on the edge of the sea. The water is tropical, shallow and crystal clear such that I can clearly see the sand at my feet. There are many boulders and rock formations in the shallow sea that protrude above the surface of the water.

We are standing in the shallow waters where we have a clear line of sight down a water way that leads to where I come from; my point of origin 3000 miles away. I know this to be the path I need to take in order to return home. As I stand there with him, we marvel at the majestic beauty that is this place.  As I am standing there I realize I am standing atop of an old ruin. I am standing on a pillar; the leg of a man; a stone statue that once stood here.  All that remains is the stone from his ankle down to his shoe of both his right and left leg which now form two pillars. I stand upon the stone that is his left leg to admire his shoes. In looking closely at his shoes I notice he wore tennis shoes.

In a moment of clarity, I become lucid. I suddenly know where I stand. With a new awareness, I realize they had idealized his tennis shoes.  Looking out upon the horizon, I realize the magnitude of where I stand.

As I stand upon the pillar of his left leg, the ruin around me now begins to rematerialize as it once was before the day of its destruction. From the sea arose an arch to my right that is covered in seaweed. I know that by standing on the ruin of his leg I bring the life force back to this man because these were my tennis shoes. Now awestruck with this revelation, I know I must return home with the news. In the strait, a staircase appears. I run up the stairs to the top but when I reach the top there is no place else to go. I turn back, knowing I will have to return home the hard way and travel through the campus to the other side. Running back toward the campus of the university, I arrive at a wooden gate that is secured with a pad lock. The moment I stand in front of the gate the pad lock releases and the gate swings open.

I pass though the gate and enter the campus courtyard. Standing in the center of the courtyard I look back and see a demon standing on the inside of the now open gate. This demon had allowed me in. The demon then run toward me. My initial reaction is to flee but a part of me knows I must confront this demon head on once and for all. I circle the courtyard and turn myself around to take up my stand. Like a bull in a ring, I lower my eyebrows in a determined frown. I charge the demon head on. Surprised by my action the demon turns to retreat to a corner.    Head to head I corner him and open my eyes to awake from the dream.

At the foot of my bed was standing a sea faring man who wore a sailor’s hat. In his left hand he held a shoe; heel facing me. He was shaking like a wet dog. He was offering me the shoe as he repeatedly ran his index finger along the ankle of the shoe.

I immediately grabbed my voice recorder to record the details of the dream. I knew the dream had great importance to me. When I got to the part about the tennis shoes I became stuck unable to place a word to the feeling I had felt surrounding the shoes. As if to help me, the sailor placed the words so clearly in my mind. They came like a refreshing sea breeze that I could literally feel. “They idealized his shoes.”

I thought that’s an odd way to describe it. It wouldn’t have been my choice of words but I knew those words were true to the dream. He then held out the shoe. I reached over to receive the shoe and held it in my hand. Sitting in my bed, my alarm clock sounded as the sailor disappeared leaving behind the etheric blue shoe in my hand. I reached over to snooze the alarm. I put the shoe under my covers and laid there in amazement.

On the way to work someone traveling on the Metro with a suitcase bumped my ankle removing my shoe. I stopped to fix my shoe thinking, “that’s a strange coincidence.” At work I searched Wikipedia for a suitable image to convey the imagery of the dream. The water way reminded me of the Straits of Gibraltar. I knew nothing of Gibraltar other than the fact that there was a water way so I looked it up. This led me to the Rock of Gibralter. Come to find out the Rock of Gibraltar is also known as the Pillars of Hercules. I was beside myself. Here this dream turned out to be a continuation of yesterdays dream. .

I knew there was definitely something very profound here. The synchronicity gave me the assurance that what I experienced is in fact real. I then decided to look up the meaning of idealize which was an oddly placed word conveyed by the dream. I felt it had some significance that I need to investigate. As I followed this clue, I was lead to the term idealism. I was surprised to find the word has a lot to do with metaphysics and God.

Idealism is the doctrine that ideas, or thought, make up either the whole or an indispensable aspect of any full reality, so that a world of material objects containing no thought either could not exist as it is experienced, or would not be fully “real.” Idealism is often contrasted with materialism, both belonging to the class of monist as opposed to dualist or pluralist ontologies.

In Eastern thought, as reflected in Hindu idealism, the concept of idealism takes on the meaning of higher consciousness, essentially the living consciousness of an all-pervading God, as the basis of all phenomena. A type of Asian idealism is Buddhist idealism.

Plato
Main article: Platonic idealism
In common discussion, Plato is often referred to as an “idealist”, because of his doctrine of the “Forms,” which are certainly “ideals,” in a broad sense. But Plato doesn’t describe the Forms as being in any mind. Instead, he regularly describes them as having their own, independent existence.[1] So it seems clear that Plato is not, at any rate, a “subjective” idealist, like Berkeley.

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave is sometimes interpreted as drawing attention to the problem of knowing “external objects”–the problem that concerned Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, and other modern philosophers. But the Forms that the Cave-dwellers are ignorant of aren’t “external” to them in the way that material objects are for these modern thinkers. The Forms are the true realities, but they aren’t spatially outside us, as material objects are. So the issue that Plato’s allegory addresses–which is, roughly, how can we know what is truly real (and truly good)?–is quite different from the modern issue of our knowledge of the “external world.”

However, even if Plato doesn’t share the specific concerns of modern philosophy, and of George Berkeley, in particular, Plato could still be a non-subjective idealist. He could believe that matter has no independent existence, or that full “reality” (as distinct from mere existence) is achieved only through thought. Bernard Williams and Myles Burnyeat have maintained that Greek philosophers never conceived of idealism as an option, because they lacked Descartes’s conception of an independently existing mind.[2] But Williams and Burnyeat didn’t consider the possibility that Plato could have held an idealism like Kant’s, which argues from the nature of knowledge to the nature of the objects of knowledge, or like Hegel’s, which denies that matter is fully “real”–without (in either case) reducing material objects to ideas in a mind or minds. Moreover, Plato’s theory of the separation of soul and body could be seen as an earlier, rougher form of Cartesian dualism.

The German Neo-Kantian scholar, Paul Natorp, argued in his Plato’s Theory of Ideas. An Introduction to Idealism (first published in 1903)[3] that Plato was a non-subjective, “transcendental” idealist, somewhat like Kant, and Natorp’s thesis has received support from some recent scholars.[4]

Descartes
Writing about Descartes, Schopenhauer claimed, “… he was the first to bring to our consciousness the problem whereon all philosophy has since mainly turned, namely that of the ideal and the real. This is the question concerning what in our knowledge is objective and what subjective, and hence what eventually is to be ascribed by us to things different from us and what is to be attributed to ourselves.” (Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. I, “Sketch of a History of the Doctrine of the Ideal and the Real”) According to Descartes, we really know only what is in our own consciousnesses. We are immediately and directly aware of only our own states of mind. The whole external world is merely an idea or picture in our minds. Therefore, it is possible to doubt the reality of the external world as consisting of real objects. “I think, therefore I am” is the only assertion that can’t be doubted. This is because self-consciousness and thinking are the only things that are unconditionally experienced for certain as being real. In this way, Descartes posed the issue of epistemological idealism, which is awareness of the difference between the world as an ideational mental picture and the world as a system of external objects.

Does this mean I’m Hercules…or possibly a divine hero? I think…therefore I Am. In keeping humble, I interpret it as my potential is herculean and if I exercize it, I can be a hero in my own right. There is something so compelling in all this that makes me feel I’m onto something. I get the feeling that if I stay on course I will do or discover something in the course of my life that can have the potential to change human history.

April 30, 2008

Hypnagogia: The Tong of Tongs

Last night I turned off the lights in my bedroom and laid in bed to meditate. It was such a wonderful meditation that I completely lost myself in the experience. As I began to come back to awareness of where I was I was hearing a voice gently guiding me back through what seemed to be a hypnotic session; “…and when you open your eyes you will remember everything.” I opened my eyes to see a man kneeling on my bed looking at me. He was transparent, etheric and blue in color. As I adjusted my perception to see him better, I noticed he wasn’t exactly a man. He was an ape man like the ones in “Planet of the Apes.” In his hand he held out a tong of some sort with a gripper at the end. I knew he had to be trying to communicate something to me. By this time I couldn’t remember whatever it was he had hypnotized me to remember. I looked at him with a puzzled and confused look. He then produced a pad and writing utensil and made as if he was writing. I then understood. To acknowledge my understanding, I in turn made as if I was writing while nodding my head. I understood, I was to write about it and the memories or revelations would come to me. Maybe he was preparing to give me a dream. I quickly grabbed my voice recorder and recorded this initial experience so I would not forget.

Early in the morning hours I woke up with the urge to go to the bathroom. I got up and paused for a moment trying to think back if I had had any dreams. I couldn’t remember anything. I proceeded to go to the bathroom. I then returned to bed, thinking, “Those tongs had to have been gibberish.” When I laid back down, I immediately began having a dream while fully awake. I was in Miami at the condo Joe and I had when we were together. There were people looking in through a veiled window in the door. I recognized the scene. After my near death experience and on those using days during my last relapse, my struggle to get clean, I was haunted by other worldly entities and earthly beings who I believed were earth bound spirits or 4th dimensional spirits in the astral worlds who were attracted to the energy vibrations I gave off while using. I basically could no longer use and be alone because I would instantly drop into altered states of consciousness triggered by the drugs. While in these states I would encounter both love based and fear based entities. I know now they were not hallucinations because I have these same experiences while clean except they now only come while meditating or in the twilight hours as I’m going in and out of the dream states ie. the hypnagogia states. I am simply much more receptive now after the near death to these experiences. This part of my life I could fill a whole book, which will come later. For now, it will suffice to say that I understood the vision.

Those I perceived to be good people (the police) from this other dimension were coming to hold me accountable for my drug use. I willingly surrendered. They placed black tie wraps around my wrists. They then proceeded to arrest me and my parents who are in their 80’s and very fragile. “Wait,” I told them, “what do you want with my family. They should not be subject to an arrest. They are too frail, it would kill them.” This angered me. Compelled to save my mom and dad from a power hungry group of police, I suddenly had a flash of insight, “OPEN YOUR EYES”. But first, I reached over and removed the tie wraps that imprisoned my parents. As I did, I told the police officer that I would not allow him to misuse his power. I then opened my eyes. I was now safely back in my bed.

Feeling unsatisfied with the way I had left the situation, I felt the need to return to somehow change the course of events for the better. I closed my eyes and reappeared in the scene. The cops were gone now. I and my family were now free. I looked around for a way out of this mess I had created. I somehow knew I needed to leave Miami and head home. I prepared for our exit. I looked out on the Bay of Biscayne where ships were beginning to line the perimeter monitoring my every move. We took flight and flew North West in between two ships banking right when we cleared the perimeter; again I opened my eyes.

I still didn’t know what the tongs had to do with any of this so when I got to work I looked up the word in Wikipedia. To my incredible surprise, I found quite curiously the proof of God’s existence. This next part is beyond words. According to Wikipedia:

Tongs also have a special place in matters of theology. An opinion cited in Pirke Avot (Ethics of the Fathers), a Talmudic tractate, states that God created “the original tongs, for tongs must be made with tongs.” Jewish thinkers therefore have used tongs as proof to God’s existence.

I was beside myself. I still didn’t know what was meant by it but simply that Tongs could be used to prove God’s existence was a miracle for me. It was a tool I could use. Was my visitor saying, I am on the road to proving God’s existence? This is my passion to do. So what’s the story with the Tongs? I needed to know more so here is what I found.

The Tong of Tongs

The rabbis of the Mishnah compiled various lists of items that they claimed were created “at twilight on the eve of the first Sabbath.” Most of those items are associated with spectacular biblical miracles, such as the mannah, Balaam’s talking donkey, and the fissure that opened to swallow up Korach and his rebellious congregation.

Maimonides argued plausibly that the lesson underlying this tradition is that God’s true greatness is manifested in the unchanging laws of nature, and not in the ability to arbitrarily suspend or abrogate those laws. Accordingly, even wondrous events that appear to us as contraventions of the natural order were in reality programmed into the structure of the universe at the time of its creation.

The Maharal of Prague explained that the concept of “twilight” is to be grasped as a metaphor for the subtle metaphysical dimension in which miracles originate. Just as the visible twilight is no more than an indefinable moment in the subtle transition from day to night, so are we to understand that the creation of miracles occurred in a realm that is outside of time, in the infinitesimal present moment that is forever sandwiched between the past and the future. Within this moment lies a dynamic potentiality for change and improvement in response to constantly changing circumstances.

At any rate, not all the phenomena that the rabbis portrayed as having been created on that first Friday evening relate to high-profile miracles. According to Rabbi Judah bar Ilai, the list should also include… the first pair of blacksmith’s tongs.

Among the ancients, the ability to fashion metal into tools and weapons was often enveloped in an aura of mystery, or even fear. In primitive cultures, blacksmiths were perceived as masters of occult lore, and pagan mythologies sang of divine smiths who forged weapons for the gods.

However, as the Talmud explains it, Rabbi Judah’s reasoning was based on much more prosaic and rational considerations. When a blacksmith fashions a pair of tongs in the forge, the only way he can handle the red-hot metal is with tongs. Since we are speaking of the manufacture of the first pair of tongs, this possibility did not exist. Ergo, the first pair must have been provided directly by the Creator himself.

Indeed, the argument sounds irrefutable.

In its modest and whimsical way, Rabbi Judah was employing the same method of proof that was adopted by the great philosophers in order to speculate about such weighty questions as the origins of the universe or the existence of God. For each observable phenomenon, these thinkers would persist in asking what was its cause or what set it into motion. Eventually, as it was no longer possible to keep posing such questions ad infinitum, they were forced to posit the existence of an Unmoved Mover, an Uncaused Cause, or a similar hypothesis, in order to account for the existence of the world.

Nevertheless, there were sages in the Talmud who challenged the cogency Rabbi Judah’s reasoning. It was possible, they argued, that the person who made the first tongs did so simply by first making a tong-shaped mold, and then filling it with molten iron.

For the Maharal, the significance of placing the tongs at the end of the Mishnah’s catlogue of prefabricated miracles lies precisely in the fact that they are the least supernatural item in the list The mention of the creation of the first tongs alongside the more dazzling wonders of the biblical past serves to underscore the lesson that God’s concern for human needs does not always manifest itself in the spectacular pyrotechnics of split seas or burning bushes.

A similar approach was advocated by the 17th-18th century author Rabbi Jacob Culi whose Judeo-Spanish compendium Me’am Lo’ez is one of the most beloved commentaries among Sepharadic Jews.

From the rabbinic discussion about the origins of the tongs, Rabbi Culi derives a profound moral insight into the divine plan for creation.

He argues that people should not be disheartened by the fact that they were created with imperfections and moral shortcomings. On the contrary, the example of the tongs teaches us that the Almighty will always furnish us with any articles that are truly necessary to correct the deficiencies of the human situation.

If this is true with respect to the material advantages inherent in a simple blacksmith’s tongs, how much more does it apply to the religious realm; so that we can be confident that the Almighty will always equip us with powerful spiritual resources that will allow us to overcome our temptations and limitations.

First Publication:
Jewish Free PressJune 20 2002, p. 6.
Taken From: Eliezer Segal’s articles

I was also curious why my hypnotist appeared as an ape man; maybe to imply the beginning of time? Here too I went to Wikipedia and found out something I didn’t know concerning “Planet of the Apes.”

The main events of the book are placed in a frame story, in which Jinn and Phillys, a couple out on a pleasure cruise in a spaceship, find a message in a bottle floating in space. The message inside the bottle is the log of a man, Ulysse Mérou, who has written down his story in hopes that someone else, somewhere, will find it.

.. a message in a bottle floating in space which was the log of a man… That sounds just like my blog. I blog my dreams and experience hoping someone out there will hear me and respond. Is it possible someone out in the universe heard my song? Am I the ape man?

I told you this stuff is out of this world!!! The rest I’m saving for my next book.