Peacedog wrote:Trick,
The key step is writing down everything the second you wake up. This appears to short circuit some kind of auto-delete function in the human memory system.
Best of luck.
northern_mantis wrote:Cool stuff, nice to think that training doesn't stop with sleep. If I do energy work before bed I always get snake dreams and I fucking hate snakes! Weird because there is no cultural influence for this so who knows where it comes from. So no qigong before bed for me!
Bill wrote:Sigmund Freud saw a snake as a phallic symbol and so it may represent a male figure that you find sexually attractive or threatening, depending upon how you feel in the dream.
Trick wrote:northern_mantis wrote:Cool stuff, nice to think that training doesn't stop with sleep. If I do energy work before bed I always get snake dreams and I fucking hate snakes! Weird because there is no cultural influence for this so who knows where it comes from. So no qigong before bed for me!
I usually do some simple Qigong’ish exercises and a short “quiet sitting” before bedtime. Haven’t seen any snakes yet but it might explain why I sometimes come to dream about my martial arts practice.
Peacedog wrote:Funny you mention Castenada. I once studied for a time with a cult leader in the American South West who claimed to have studied with Castenada's teacher.
He was an interesting guy. He kept trying to create a modern tribe that was always collapsing. Typical sex cult stuff on his end, but my only exposure to the Native American version of chi gung. The sweat lodge rituals were nice though.
Peacedog wrote:Franklin,
Parts of it look vaguely familiar. Even the demo video looks culty. Weird. Creepy.
Roger,
As for the individual in particular and Castanada's teacher, it's really hard to say. Cult leaders are not known for their reliability and I didn't get that far into it before I decided my attention was best focused elsewhere. I went to a few of their weekend retreats and one multi-day training camp. Once I started to hear all of the stories about "sexual healing" involving the cult's wives, I hit the road and didn't look back.
That said, the guy had something and that has typically been my experience with cult leaders over the years. I'm not saying there was any high level of ability there, just that the guy had cultivated to a degree. Now the nature of his relationship with Castenada's lineage, etc. I'll never know.
What I can say was that the system he espoused worked pretty exclusively with solar/heavenly energy and viewed earth energy as "evil." This led to some pretty weird energetics and behavior on the part of many of the group's members over time. I always viewed that as an imbalanced approach. Now how much of that was from actual Native American practice, I can't say.
wiesiek wrote:As I recall my dreamin` experience, there is few of them so intensive , that I remember them sharp.
In one , I was renegade from the secret sect chasing by 9 former 'brothers".
They got me on the end, and slashed on pieces during heavy swords fight .
What`s really interesting - I woke up with severe pain in the areas where I was cut,
+ why they come in number of the 9?
`cause I was 8 direction sword Disciple, they needed 9th sword to get me from "unguarded" side...,
kind of the funny thing, but I get this info directly in the dream.
Speakin` about learning thru dreamin` or better "conscious dreaming" - as Peacedog noted - Tibetans has the best "how to" books .
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