Stereoscopic Dreaming

* Photo Reading

* The Teacher Appears
By Charles Burke

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Higher Self Improvement Pursuits

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Article: Stereoscopic Dreaming

That which we do at night -- How much is an activation or an intimation of insight into situation we are going through (hidden in symbols, archetypes, allegories and emblems)?

Our aspirations too are dreams, sending tentacles into the future.

Actively dream. No more will you consider dreaming as mere "pipe dream".

Be a force of nature

Coming from an occult background, I recognize the "enchanting" elements of the latest self improvement endeavors.

The Photo Reading phase of the whole mind system by the same name is preceded and followed by induction "devices" (not to mention the physiological alteration [suggestion] of the "photo focus" state), thus each session is conducted under a "spell".

This isn't to single out Photo Reading... it's just my most immediate example (a full review is forthcoming in a future issue).

The Think Right Now program, based on the Lozanov work with Suggestopedia is corroded with enchanting elements.

Rhythmic breathing coordinated with rhythmic reciting of material, over precise music in an altered state of relaxed alertness... element upon element sending info directly to our other-than-conscious processors.

The core transformation process of Connirae and Tamara Andreas, a take off of the NLP timeline work, endeavors to embrace our "shadow" as once beloved parts who's mission was to protect our fragile little selves.

And though we are no longer little (physically), these "protectors" still work over-time erecting stop signs all around us.

To love these parts of ourselves works better than trying to force them into submission.

Remember, all is purposeful. Purpose puts your spell casting and conscious evolving squarely in your own hands... on your own terms.

Purpose propels your pursuits farther and deeper... faster.

Dream on purpose

Dreaming on purpose does more than project a glorious target at which to shoot. It brightens and lends context to your "present".

The higher wisdom manifests more physiologically than cognitively. But its a higher cognition that thus manifests.

Ever hear of the Golden Mean?

We live and move and have our being within a mathematic

Space-time curves. The whole universe intersects with every instant of your life, from your nocturnal activity to your highest aspirations.

Surfaces merely reflect.

You are the feeling, re-cognizing capacity (experience) of the universe.

Accessing those levels of "mind" which process information for us is a dream come true.

Learn to add some lucidity to the night (often encountered during naps through the day).

Consciously "cast spells" while awake. Heaven knows we are under the influence of numerous incantations already.

Take the reigns and create conscious "illusions" for your benefit.

Value your curiosity. Wonder how your dreams will manifest!

Not proceeding until every detail is ironed out will leave you stuck in place.

Over analyzing shuts the door on the pre-conscious processes of the mind.

Wonder, curiosity and eager anticipation lead to levels of motivation and creativity which will leave you awestruck.

Intentionally "charm" yourself in relation to your chosen path and in pursuit of your dreams

So many paths to our dream life require repetition of action. Consider these as the "refrain" of your own "dream song". "Chant" joyfully through action.

Thus leading an enchanted life.

Photo Reading

"Evelyn Wood wouldn't do it this way"
wrote Boston Globe

"A breakthrough method using your subconscious"
wrote Success Mag.

"A shovel for the mountain of paper"
wrote The Business Journal

"Right-brain reading lifts info overload"
wrote Calgary Herald

"I'm loving the experience"
Joseph Porter - Publisher of Higher Self Improvement Pursuits

These comments are about Photo Reading.

* Improve your memory and sharpen concentration

* Invent whole new perspectives and approaches in life

* Enhance your intuition and develop your true potential

* Catapult yourself into a bright future

The Teacher Appears

When the student is ready...

You've heard it hundreds of times - when the student is finally ready, the teacher is going to show up and set things right... maybe lead you triumphantly into the promised land.

But have you ever had a teacher come tapping on your shoulder, ready and eager to reveal to you all the secrets of the ages?

Most people will laugh and tell you that, no, their teacher is really, really late for their appointment.

Don't be too hasty, however, to answer this question. If you're like me - like most people - you may have unwittingly turned away more teachers than you'll ever realize.

In the first place, have you ever wondered why a teacher would even appear and take you on as a student?

Anybody can understand why you'd welcome a teacher to guide you forward. But how do you know when one appears?

And what does a teacher look like, anyway?

Well, it's probably not like you were expecting.

If you've been thinking of a wise looking personage draped in a bedsheet and carrying a little wad of flowers, you're almost certainly going to be disappointed.

In real life, most teachers aren't even people. When was the last time you over-ate and got indigestion? Or drank too much and felt hung over the next morning?

I'll bet you never thought of those feelings of discomfort as your teachers.

There they were, tapping on your shoulder, offering you their wisdom, but you may have ignored the lesson they wanted to give you. Instead, you may have downed a quick stomach-soothing potion or popped a headache pill - some kind of "quick-disconnect" to keep from suffering the results of your own actions.

As long as we use quick-disconnects between our actions and their results, we're refusing to learn from the most common form of teacher.

So do you really welcome lessons?

We all say we're trying to learn, to improve and master life's lessons. Yes, that's what we say...

But not all of life's lessons involve noble-sounding eternal truths. Life has lots of things to teach us, and so it scatters lessons everywhere amidst our day-to-day affairs.

Often the most important lesson we can learn today awaits us in the humble, nitty-gritty details of life, down in the dirt.

And we never have the opportunity to meet that lesson till the day we stumble and fall, and we're lying face-down in that dirt where the lesson is waiting.

For a lesson like that, you won't ever learn it until you're reduced to that level. Only then are you in a position to receive that particular wisdom from life.

Even then, you may not be ready. You may actually meet that problem again and again, each time treating it as an annoyance brought to you by the perversity of life. But that problem can teach you important lessons.

However, something has to change before you're ready to learn from that teacher.

Only when something changes - something within you - only then can this "problem" become a teacher.

We all have lots of teachers waiting patiently to teach us their lessons. In fact, there's a whole faculty standing in line to share their lessons with us.

These teachers are all dressed in the rags of problems, but their lessons involve wisdom about:
* Money,
* Love,
* Honesty & honor,
* Confidence,
* Persistence,
* Self worth,
* Health,
* Habits,
* Appetites, and
* Trust.

Although this list is not complete, these ten areas cover most of the problems we all wrestle with on a daily basis.

For years you may have been trying to avoid, figure out or eliminate problems like these. For years you may have been treating those problems as unwelcome, unfriendly inconveniences. Something to be gotten away from as quickly and painlessly as possible.

But I'll bet you never looked at your money problems as a teacher. Nor ever seen your marriage agonies as a kindly instructor in spiritual growth.

Well, life's teachers may not always be gentle, but they ARE endlessly resourceful. And the only reason they ever seem harsh is because they are simply bringing to us what we unwittingly ask them for.

That upset stomach, or that hangover - admit it now, you know before you start that this sometimes happens, don't you? But you go forward anyway, gambling that this time you may not have to pay the price. Or thinking that there's always a "cure" that will cancel the results of your own actions.

We do this everywhere, whether it's in matters of money, love, or personal relations. We deliberately ignore the results of our own actions, refusing to take responsibility for what we bring on ourselves.

So if you want a real, live human teacher to appear and teach you to master life's mysteries, you're going to have to meet them halfway.

Because they're the advanced teachers. You've got to graduate from the simple stuff before you get to them.

So they stand back and wait for you to be ready. What does it take to be ready?

First, are you still ignoring the teachers you already have? If so, start paying more attention to your problems, listen to the lessons they're offering to teach you.

Just listen. Stop the constant, desparate struggle, and just be still. It's amazing what you can learn when you're not fighting, not resisting, not denying.

Every problem you have is a product of your own thinking, your own feelings, your own actions and habits. And that problem is there to do you a service. It's intent on one thing only.

No, not to torture you, but to teach you.

The teaching, however, will seem like torture for just as long as you continue to fight against the lesson embedded in the situation.

Fortunately, there are a couple of shortcuts to recognizing the face of these teachers. There truly are simple ways to find the lessons, learn them and leave the struggle behind.

MASTERY METHOD #1

I've already mentioned the first way. That's simply to stop fighting and listen.

You already know about any number of spiritual or mental practices. You've read about meditation. You may be doing it on a daily basis.

But how are you using it?

For the longest time, I was trying to use meditation as a tool for solving my problems. That approach did not work consistently.

Then one day I discovered that meditation is not for solving problems. In fact, as long as you're focused on solving, you're not learning.

Try this approach instead and see how much more effective it can be.

Go into your meditative state in your favorite way. That may be chanting, centering, self hypnosis, or repeating a mantra silently. However you like to do it, spend a couple of minutes becoming still.

Now, instead of imagining the solution to your problem, imagine yourself PAST the problem. The difficulty no longer even exists in your life. Feel the peace and the simplicity of your life without the struggle. Let this feeling of being past the problem wash over you and fill you. Feel how you would be living your life when the problem doesn't even exist.

Then give thanks for this feeling, open your eyes and go about your business. Every time that problem confronts you, just remind yourself that it's possible to live without being bothered by it.

What happens to the problem? Sometimes, believe it or not, it'll just dissolve and disappear from your life - never even requiring you to solve it.

This most often happens when you find you've lost interest in the behavior that causes the problem. Somehow, you no longer are attracted to overeating or drinking too much. Whatever behavior is connected with your particular problem, it may simply fade from your life.

Other times, the solution will come to you during the daily routine of your life, and it will always be far simpler and easier than you ever imagined.

In any case, the best approach to learning from problems is to recognize that you are the one who supplies their energy, and you can withdraw the life from them. You are the source of their power. When you begin starving them, they go away.

This approach is simple and elegant.

And vastly disappointing to anyone who loves to talk about all the drama and difficulties in their life.

MASTERY METHOD #2

One of the basic truths of psychology is that each person is nearly blind to her/his own weaknesses, even though others can see them clearly.

You can see others' peculiarities, and they can see yours.

Most people, therefore, try to avoid being unmasked by others.

However, there's a better way to use this principle.

Why not form a group dedicated to helping each other see themselves through the eyes of the rest of the group?

This type of group is, in fact, extremely common among highly successful people.

It's called a MasterMind Group, and virtually every successful man and woman who ever lived has formed or joined such a group.

Let's say you're struggling with the marketing aspects of your business. You know your product or service extremely well, but you don't know the best way to reach the public.

Members of a MasterMind Group freely share their skills and insights with each other. So when you belong to one of these groups, it's a simple matter to ask the other members for advice.

The strong marketers, on the other hand, may have a blind spot in the area of product development, so you freely help them.

Everybody gains because everybody is there to help the entire group to grow.

Thus, you have access to a whole group of teachers. And your only obligation is to serve as one of THEIR teachers.

Hah! I'll bet you never expected to discover that you could be somebody's long-awaited teacher, did you?

Life's funny that way. Everything you think you know sooner or later turns out to be backwards: your problems are your teachers... you're someone else's teacher... what else is waiting to be turned upside down?

Why, next somebody may be telling us that life can even be beautiful.

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