[Big guy? Tries not to think of "ass"]But overall I agree, there’s probably always some degree of subconscious forces at work, but trying to empty the subconscious is like trying to drain the Atlantic Ocean with a $50 water pump from Canadian Tire, it’s kinda futile if you ask me, big guy ; )
I agree, I think Leyla is in heat or something. Here is a helpful link for you Leyla, I hope it will be of assistance.Maybe we need to write a "Deconstructing the Masculine" thread for her. Females get horny too.
I don't see why the content of the sub-conscious should be an 'infinite sea'. It's more like a trapped resevoir of stagnant salt water, cut off from the infinite ocean of consciousness.Ryan wrote: You can manage these forces by diffusing their power, but I suspect that is the best one can do. As you say there is always an infinite sea of subconscious lingering below the surface.
Perhaps it's the contrary. Maybe what's necessary is a removal of the mental blocks which are damming up the subconscious and limiting it to a repetitive stream. Perhaps repeated dreams are like small trickling streams leaking out of a dam. Maybe if we begin to lower the dam, then the dreams will begin to become much more diverse, deep and disturbing – a torrent – that empties to produce a vast clear mirror-like surface of sage consciousness.Awareness is management of this subconscious, so is it possible to bring an indefinite end to that stream? What do you propose? A dam?
Even if the subconscious has a limit, I think my main point is that no single action or actions is going to change the activity of those dreams. Devoting myself to something new isn’t going to end the dreams. There is nothing I can do about it, I’ve analyzed, I’ve contemplated, I’ve mediated, I’ve devoted myself, and the activity remains. It will end on its own if it’s going to, and if it doesn’t, it’s not a big issue anyway, it doesn’t cause very much suffering, it’s like a mosquito, an annoyance.It's more like a trapped resevoir of stagnant salt water, cut off from the infinite ocean of consciousness.
–Maybe if we begin to lower the dam, then the dreams will begin to become much more diverse, deep and disturbing – a torrent
Lol, I’ll see Bryan Adams in a whole new light now, if women are seen as a metaphor for the infinite, then it gives new meaning to a lot of bad music, lately I have been listening to sorrowful melodies sung by women, I find them rather beautiful, even if the lyrics are incredibly shallow.pay heed, and acknowledge and liberate your self through the power of this video and song.
If you're still having the dream after all that, it sounds like you failed to resolve the conflict that is causing the dream. Quite clearly, if contemplation hasn't resolved the crisis, action is called for.There is nothing I can do about it, I’ve analyzed, I’ve contemplated, I’ve mediated, I’ve devoted myself, and the activity remains. It will end on its own if it’s going to, and if it doesn’t, it’s not a big issue anyway, it doesn’t cause very much suffering, it’s like a mosquito, an annoyance.
Yeah, I had Strawberry wine on the same VHS tape as Patty Loveless, I also remember Nirvana on there near the beginning too. What a combination, I could listen to the Nirvana song first, making me depressed, and then by the end I viewed Carter and Loveless, making me yearn to be subsumed into the female. It’s quite cosmic if you think about it. Oh the teenage years!Ryan, that Patty Loveless song.....yes I do remember being 14, lying underneath my covers watching that that video, having my newly emerged pubescent brain chemistry titilated.....that along with Deana Carter's Strawberry wine
lol, yeah, well at least we’ve not protecting anything, many posters are incredibly self-protective on here, always thinking of image, always anxious of how they will be perceived, I have no emotional concern in that, one can gain a lot insight from the past, if one is strong enough to see it as it was. It makes you stronger because there is the tendency for some to aggrandize their pasts by withholding information, and blocking information to make it seem as though they always possessed courage and wisdom from a young age. But of course this is a distortion of the imagination.Anyhow, I think this is the lowest you and I ever sunk in terms of quality of expression on genius forum.
I look foward to giving it a read - been wanting to for some time.I also just finished “Infinite Potential: The life and times of David Bohm†I’ll have to let you borrow it because it is quite good, it’s up there with Shadows, I was surprised of the detail Peat went into explaining some of Bohm’s psychological shortcomings, but it also highlights many of Bohm’s strengths as well. Overall, I enjoyed it, and I usually dislike biographies.
