Dreams bring ancient teachings to the modern world.
The term Avatar comes from the Indian language of Sanskrit. The word Avatāra, means "descent"; its roots are ava, "down," and tri, "to pass." In the Hindu scriptures, avatara signifies the descent of Divinity into flesh. One who attains union with Spirit and then returns to earth to help humanity is called an avatar.
Our dreams can be avatars, messages inspired by the higher consciousness within Self. This site exists to record these dreams for future generations, and as a means for present-day humanity to come to know itself. When a dream takes us beyond physical time, out of the linear flow of consciousness, it is said to be transensory. Noted expert in Native American and Eastern Shamanism traditions, Lee Irwin, PhD, calls dreams that carry a sense of mysticism APEX DREAMS.
Irwin sees these big dreams as "a source of metaphysical intuition" and a "medium of spiritual transformation. The subjective impact of the dream takes you out of time and you experience Self as a timeless being."
Have you experienced supra-natural dreams that hold spiritual or religious meaning for you? When your dreams ascend to the level of mysticism, share them here, so others might read and realize a greater truth.
First, share the record of the dream. Then, your thoughts, insights, or comments about that dream.
"The purpose of communication is to arrive at a greater Truth." – Dr. Daniel R. Condron in The Purpose of Life
DREAM LOG Date: 05.16.2010 Gender: Female Country: USA
*Note: Background to this dream follows the dream record.
DREAM RECORD of Sunday, May 16, 2010
I awoke in the middle of the night with this image:
DREAM 1: I am transcribing texts in Sanskrit. One is for His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
One for me that I will give to the School of Metaphysics. They are being etched into a manuscript with a fine bamboo stick onto paper woven of fibers. They reveal Truth and Light on the subjects of autonomy and self-government.
DREAM 2: The second dream comes later in the early morning hours and is the AVATAR dream I have been awaiting since the end of April.
It appears like watching a movie, a science fiction movie.
A large airship, primarily metallic, a silver/grey diamond, is downed on a planet.
The people are Firefly-like characters in attitude. Meaning they are independent, quick in thought and action, balancing head and heart, unified by common need.
The indigenous people see the ship land and are afraid. Then fear gives way to curiosity and they start coming toward the ship.
One alien has found a baby. The aliens are part metal in construction and the baby is a ball of energy, electricity solidifying into a kind of pup, although it is not a dog. Nor is it a child. It is indigenous. The alien takes the pup-child to the ship.
I now am on board. Now all the characters are SOM people, I know this, rather than address them directly by name. I do not engage them. I ask the captain, who is my husband Daniel appearing in temperament and affectation like Capt. Kirk from the television series Star Trek, about the rate of repairs and possibility of mobility.
I realize the time that has passed without any seeming progress.
I also know the indigenous people are coming for the pup-child.
I tell the captain he needs to lift off. The locals intend to break the seal in the middle of the ship. Then come in with fire weapons. They would not break the ship from top to bottom but that doesn't matter because they will attack for access. They want their baby back. It is a treasure for them, either their next ruler or the means for rulership.
The only hope is to get the ship airborne, otherwise we will perish.
All aliens are mobilized in this effort.
While awakening, I realize this dream is like "Pandora", like the recent movie AVATAR's dream world. I also realize it is coming following the Dalai Lama's teaching.
Becoming lucid, I return into the dream with awareness of choice for the work ahead of us.
This is the work that is done.
The first choice is to let go of layers determined "inevitable" and open to "possibilities".
First layer is fire. I see it coming from the indigenous people. It comes as a wave across the space between land and sky.
The second layer is water that comes in a tidal wave, cleansing the fire.
The third layer is wind that moves across the waters, evaporating them.
When this clears, the earth becomes like light, transparent.
The people on the ship have also become moving light forms.
When the indigenous people arrive, they cannot see us. Only their pup-child is visible to them and it is now dual. It is physical to the planet and spiritual to those not of this world.
Since he is too young to choose which way he will go, his mother chooses.
She has become like us so she keeps the child.
Transforming as she is, we become like vapor, rays of light into vapor.
All the indigenous people can see is a system of rainbows in the shape of a ship that was or had been. We are becoming flickers like fireflies, moving around the lines that are now the ship.
…..Until we are gone….
The indigenous people below now worship the area. They have never seen such a sight. Their attention feeds it once we are no longer there.
This becomes a sacred space for these people. No weapons can enter the space. They are absorbed in the energy of the field.
No separate thought can be withstood in the field. It is as if there is no entry point.
Should such a one (with separate thoughts) step over, the field seems to be gone, to disappear as if it was never there. That "one" retreats to find the space-ship appearing again.
This experience happens only with the separatists.
All others continue to "see" the sacred form because their attention feeds it, sustains it.
One by one, those who came cast their weapons into the form. They go through the same process described here, quickly. The indigenous people come to cleanse themselves like a new Ganges. The people are made anew.
As we ascend from the planet, all this can be seen.
Powers of Ten measurements of distance and time become apparent as we move into space.
The firefly ship pattern is Shiva's drum. The Sri Yantra transitions into the pattern of life eternal, the evolution of consciousness that is the Cosmic Seed, the consciousness of the atom.
My thoughts on this dream's significance to my waking life:
I awake fully comprehending what I have experienced in the inner levels. These are symbols reflecting the movement of consciousness in the Kundalini Experience. First is the still awakening that comes from neutrality. This is followed by repentance, the response to the awakened conscience. Repentance brings a resurrection of consciousness that reveals the whole Self. Thus does the vibration of the I AM reverberate through every thought, word and deed leaving Self to experience the ecstasy that is neither-either, yet both.
In biofeedback, it is called the Resonant Frequency Pattern. A resonant frequency is the key frequency of vibration of an object or animal. Like E strings on a guitar or Ella Fitzgerald's voice shattering glass, resonant frequency reveals the true reality. In this reality, we are each tuning forks.
Every human being has an energetic and informational constitution, particular to him or her. For each physical manifestation in the body, there is an energetic and informational correspondence on the appropriate levels. In the past, this correspondence between physical,
energetic and informational levels, has been described in mystical traditions and alchemical healing methods for centuries. It has only recently been addressed using the methods of modern science.
In Vedic teachings, avatars descend from spirit in the time of humanity's need. Vishnu is the preserver of the universe, ever peaceful. Though there are ten incarnations that are widely seen as his major appearance, the Bhagavata Purana describes Vishnu's avatars as innumerable. Krishna is the eighth of these; Buddha, the ninth. In the Dhammapada, Guatama, the one most refer to when speaking of "the Buddha" in today's world, said, "We are all Buddhas". Jesus, who became the Christ, said, "the one who believes in me will also do what I am doing. He will do even greater things than these." Every great master of consciousness knew our common destiny. Their lives were their testaments to it.
We are all Avatars descended from Spirit in the time of humanity's need.
Once this is honored, we can ascend to heights from which we have fallen and the revelation of God in man will be ours to receive.
BACKGROUND NOTE: *This dream followed my presence with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama when he taught The Heart Sutra in Bloomington, Indiana May 19-20, 2010 at Indiana University. I consciously incubated this dream as an assimilation of what I had assimilated from those teachings before retiring Saturday night. This entry will be included in a future book on Teaching Teachers. It is also the best example of an APEX DREAM in my experience thus far.
Dream Date: 6/27/10 Gender: Male Country: USA
The Dream
I was indoors somewhere and Dr. D, one of my metaphysics teachers, was hugging someone, and then I hugged Dr. D, and I said, “I am getting better at receiving your love.” Or words very close to that. He also kissed me on the cheek, and it seemed normal and not weird.
Dream Interpretation
At this time, I was (and still am) studying the heart chakra. Receiving love has been a challenge, especially when I misinterpret what’s given and don’t understand that it is love. I am still learning what it means to receive love from my higher self. Receiving love from the Creator has been the focus of my meditations while studying my heart chakra.
Dream Date: August 3 or 4, 2010
Dreamer: female, age 53, USA
I am with a group of people. We are standing in a circle, around a large table. We are all singing the Gayatri Mantra. To my left is Dr. B (a teacher). To the right is a man I don’t know. Someone reaches out to hold hands. Dr. B and I hold hands, and I need to move to my right to reach the hand of the man on my right. The dream ends as I hold his hand and all the people are holding hands. I awaken with the music in my mind.
The meaning of the dream in my life:
I had this dream when I was teaching my students how to contact the media for interviews about dreams when the movie Inception was a hot topic. I was scheduled for a lecture on dreams. Although my students interpreted this as a “frenzy” of activity, in my mind it was an exercise in concentration, will, and focused desire for the purpose of aiding humanity.
The Gayatri Mantra is an ancient Sanskrit hymn with strong resonance with people around the world. In my conscious mind, I did not know the meaning of the words so I looked them up after having this dream. Three simple interpretations I found are these:
“We meditate on the glory of that Being who has produced this universe; may He enlighten our minds.”
“We meditate on the effulgent glory of the divine Light; may he inspire our understanding.”
“May thou inspire, guide, and enlighten our intellect in the right direction.”
I related this to my consciousness which was reflected in the dream. I had meditated on the question, “What do the people need?” before contacting the media, and before doing an interview on ABC TV about dreams (which resulted from the directed thought and activity to contact the media.)
In the Universal Language of Mind, hands symbolize purpose. I interpreted the people in the dream to be many aspects of myself, and the joining of hands symbolizes me being united in purpose in myself, with my high self or divine self (the teacher in the dream) and my inner self or subconscious self (the man). Since I didn’t know the man in the dream, it tells me there is more to myself than meets the eye, in other words, more of myself to know.
The dream was inspiring to me, not only because it indicated that I am on the right track, but because awakening with the music and words of the mantra started my day with a great sense of peace and all being right in the world.
4/5/11
Dream: I was interpreting the Bible to a cute girl who was at a table sitting patiently, it was a coffee shop. She asked me to explain what I am learning from the Bible.
Commentary:
I had just got back from an all student weekend at the College of Metaphysics. At this time I was planning and preparing to move to the College of Metaphysics in July of 2011. It was an inspirational weekend for me; I gained much motivation for the final stretch of my goal. I had a lot of learning in that weekend; it was like dots were connecting in my mind.