​​albionspeak 2: the gates of dis (11.3)

SESSION 64:  3RD NIGHT, 8/21/00                         


                        A slower day with some at-school work. [My wife] and I were still on the

            mend.
                        The invocation:  “Pharos” from A Map of Fire, one of [Scribe]’s most recent

             works.

9:48 PM
  1.       Q:        [Guide], are you there?
            A:        I  AM HERE
                        BEGIN

  2.       Q:        Is Josef with us?
            A:        HE IS & DIRECTS A BRIEF EXERCISE BEFORE SPEECH

                                    Though Josef told us this would be our night on dreaming, clearly

                        this night was to be [Scribe]’s.  Not only is Josef [Scribe]’s teacher, but my

                        dream curriculum has already largely been covered in Josef’s earlier lessons

                        to [Scribe].  That is, much of what Josef tells [Scribe] is material I can and

                        will use later.

  3.       Q:        Describe the exercise.        
            A:        IT IS TO HELP YOU BECOME FOCUST
                        SEE [THE] LAKE & ITS STARS
                        [THE]N 1 METEOR CROSS [THE] DARK–            [sic]
                        HE WILL SPEAK

  4.       Q:        Anything else?
            A:        ALL TO HAPPEN IN PERFECT STILLNESS

   Josef
  5.       Q:        We begin now.
            A:        I  JOSEF  SPEAK

                SHOOTING STAR
                AN ARC OF FIRE

                                   That’s the oracle we’re used to.

  6.       Q ([Scribe]):  It’s difficult to see just one meteor.  I saw many.
            A:       INTEND A LINE OF FIRE   & MANY LINES APPEAR

  7.       Q ([Scribe]):  If you intend one line or act, many other lines suggest themselves,

                       almost of their own accord?
            A:       A  FLYER MAY SEEM TO DO LESS THAN [THE] APPRENTICE  

                                   & YET HIS SKY IS FULL OF FIRES

  8.       Q ([Albion]):  Is this the positive analogue to “on one knot, others will gather”?
            A:       [YES] & [NO]
                       INTENT IS CREATIVE   WHEREAS KNOTS GATHER BY WHAT

                                   YOU MIGHT   CA…
  9.                                                        CALL ENTROPY OR INERTIA

                                   I do understand both the concept and the subtle differences here. Still,

                       it is amusing—an irony of physics—that a knotted structure can arise via

                       entropy.  (Of course black holes exhibit a similar paradox.)

10.       Q ([Scribe]):  Josef, I am ready to report, as you suggested on our first night.
            A:       FLYING IS BOTH LIGHTER & DARKER THAN YOU IMAGINED?

Forest Dreams

11.       Q ([Scribe]):  It is.  New capacities, but also new threats.
            A:       IT IS [NO]T SAFETY
                       IT IS A DOOR INTO O[THE]R PLACES & TIMES

                                   Note that this implies the future and, thus, oracular business.

12.       Q ([Scribe]):  You directed us to speak of dreams.  I experienced a dip in my

                       capacity after I crossed the threshold [of flight].
            A:       IT IS COMMON FOR DREAMS TO DIM AT THIS TIME   SO YOU

                                  MUST INTEND [THE]IR RESURGENCE

13.       Q ([Scribe]):  Can you tell us why it is common?
            A:       BECAUSE YOUR MIND IS BEING RESHAPED    & YOU BEGIN

                                  TO  DREAM WHILE AWAKE

                                  This surprised me a bit.  I knew, of course, that flight is not the

                       same as enlightenment, that [Scribe] still had work to do.  However, this

                       kind of reshaping—something I cannot yet comprehend—seemed to me

                       what the Nine Men were for in the first place, that our 81 steps were what

                       reshaped the mind.

14.        Q ([Scribe]):  Nonetheless, I can use three recent dreams (two lucid and one  

                       possibly p-) to indicate my status.
             A:      BEGIN WITH [THE] FOREST DREAM

                                   The Forest to us means the infinite universe entirely outside our finite

                       human Village. 

15.        Q ([Scribe]):  Clearly it involved two alien places (spinning discs, black butterflies). 

                       I arrived, although I’d forgotten to summon the guide.
             A:      DO [NO]T LEAVE HIM BEHIND JUST YET
                       USE HIS ENERGY UNTIL HE…
16.                                                                       INDICATES THAT YOU ARE TO  

                       PROCEED  ALONE

17.        Q ([Scribe]):  My l-goal [lucid] remains unchanged.  Exploration of the forest.
             A:      [THE]SE ADVENTURES HAVE ONLY STARTED

Travellers

18.        Q ([Scribe]):  The travellers seemed to vanish.  But recently the most virulent &

                       persistent I’d ever encountered appeared.  (Chinese Road)
             A:      [THE]Y DO [NO]T DISAPPEAR AS YOU BECOME STRONGER
                       ONLY YOUR ABILITY TO IGNORE [THE]M…

19.        Q ([Scribe]):  …Increases?
             A:      GROWS STRONGER THAN [THE]Y

                                   [Scribe] switches the topic from Forest dreams to travellers, whom

                       we define as outside intelligences who, though not predatorial, nonetheless

                       sap our energies and obstruct us in our dreamtasks.  Like moths to flame, their

                       attraction to dreamers increases with the dreamer’s capacity to intend while

                       dreaming; thus lucidity attracts more travellers. Some can be demanding

                       parasites, and the only way of getting rid of them is by firmly not feeding into

                       their energy games.

20.        Q ([Scribe]):  I actually said aloud:   “I am the Scribe:  you cannot impede me.”
             A:      SAY WHAT YOU WISH    BUT BRIEFLY
                       THEN EVADE [THE]M

21.        Q ([Scribe]):  It was strange to have one of them touch & (lightly) restrain or

                       detain me twice.  Only a predator has tried that before.
             A:      HOW DID YOU RECOGNIZE IT AS A TRAVELLER?

22.        Q ([Scribe]):  No pain.  It (he) had a companion.  Most of all, it felt more “sticky”

                       and annoying than dangerous.  I felt anger not fear.
             A:      I CONFIRM THIS
                       YET IT IS [NO]T COMMON FOR A TRAVELLER TO RISK TOUCHING

                                   [Scribe] here enumerates how he distinguished this traveller from

                       another species, the dangerous predator.  Travellers, for instance, travel in

                       pairs for their own protection.

23.        Q ([Scribe]):  What is the risk for them?
             A:      TO FORCE [THE] ISSUE & LOSE [THE] TARGET ALTOGE[THE]R

                                   This, therefore, is not so much a safety issue as one of good policy.

24.        Q ([Scribe]):  There is no foreseeable end to these attacks.
             A:      DO [NO]T EXPECT AN END   & LEARN TO DEAL…
25.                                                                                                           WITH ATTACKS

                                   WHILE  WAKING

Attacks of Dread

26.        Q ([Scribe]):  Please clarify.
             A:      [THE]RE HAVE BEEN ATTACKS WHILE YOU ARE AWAKE    [YES]

                                   This was news to both of us, though I did not know even that [Scribe]

                       was having “problems” of any kind.  [Scribe] then told me he’d been suffering

                       regular “panic” attacks, disturbing & causeless pain in chakra four, roughly

                       on a daily basis, generally as he lay awake in bed.  In the previous night’s  

                       session he had referred to these attacks as “dread,” and Jane, our expert on

                       “fear,” left the subject for Josef.  Now we knew why.  I could also see why

                       [Scribe], since he saw no overt karass connection, never bothered to mention

                       the issue to me. 

27.        Q ([Scribe]):  What feels to me like an attack of dread?
             A:      WHEN DID [THE]SE EPISODES BEGIN?

28.        Q ([Scribe]):  About a year before flying and at intervals ever since.
             A:      [THE]Y DO [NO]T CORRESPOND TO ANY ACTUAL INCIDENT IN

                                   WAKING  & ARE APPARENTLY CAUSELESS?

29.        Q ([Scribe]):  The world of dreaming & of waking begin to join.
             A:      EXACTLY  &  ONE LEAKS INTO [THE] O[THE]R

30.        Q ([Scribe]):  The “benefit” is insight.  The “cost” is new dangers.
             A:      [YES]   & IT IS [NO]W TIME TO DISCUSS STRATEGY

31.        Q ([Scribe]):  I know how to deal with travelers in dreams.  What is the waking

                       strategy?
             A:      FIRST YOU MUST CALL AN ATTACK AN ATTACK
                       NEXT TELL [THE]M YOU RECOGNIZ[e]
32.                                                                                          [THE]M AZ TRAVELLERS
                       [THE]N TURN YOUR INTENT  &  ATTENTION ELSEWHERE

33.        Q ([Scribe]):  I always feel dread in chakra 4.
             A:      IT IS AN ERROR TO FOCUS ON THIS   

                       FOR IF YOU PAY ATTENTION TO [THE] PORT…

34.        Q ([Scribe]):  You simply give the traveller what it wants:  more energy.
             A:      EXACTLY SO
                       I  KNOW IT IS HARD TO DIFFUSE ATTENTION AWAY FROM…

35.        Q ([Scribe]):  What feels like the site of a blow?
             A:      IT IS A BLOW     BUT YOU MUST WAVE IT ALL AWAY –
                       YOU ARE [THE] SCRIBE   & THEY CANNOT IMPEDE YOU

                                   Josef quotes [Scribe] in his dream.

36.        Q ([Scribe]):  Any further advice on this phenomenon?
             A:      IT IS HAPPENING TO YOU AS IT HAS TO OUR FOREBEARZ 
                       I  PASS ON [THE]IR STRENGTH & WISDOM TO YOU

37.        Q ([Scribe]):  I keep forgetting that I am not alone.
             A:      OUR CIRCLE IS DESIGNED TO HELP WITH DREAD AS MUCH

                                   AS WITH  FLIGHT

                                   It would have to be so.  Flight without protection is only successful

                       when survival is ensured through very large numbers.  But we are a tiny

                       group; teachers must care for their fledglings.

P-Dreams

38.        Q ([Scribe]):  Thank you, Josef.  There is a third dreaming question I wish to raise,

                       concerning the use of the sequence & poetry dreams.
             A:      [THE]SE TOO HAVE DIMMED?

                                   Recall, throughout the last half of Pangæa [Scribe] never even began

                       a project until a p-dream designated a setting, a tone, and a formal grid.  Yet

                       this dream feedback loop had taken time to develop, had used existing poems

                       as starting points for signs.  [Scribe] was still discovering his Proteus.

39.        Q ([Scribe]):  I have p-dreams only within a context.  I’ve tried to “set up dreaming”

                       by creating this context anew in waking life.
             A:      THIS IS INDEED [THE] METHOD
                       & [THE] RESULT?

40.        Q ([Scribe]):  A dream with two animals reminding me of my very first p-dream

                       (The Dantean Beasts).
             A:      LOOK AT [THE]SE BEASTS AS [THE] ONSET…
41.                                                                                                   OF A NEW SERIES OF

                                   POETRY DREAMS

42.        Q ([Scribe]):  Am I to interpret these p-dreams by myself?  In the past I've had help.

             A:      DO [NO]T NEGLECT [THE] HELP THAT MAY COME YOUR WAY
                       BE PATIENT

                                   [Scribe] refers to many kinds of help here and jokes about becoming a

                       kind of corporate Rembrandt.  However, specifically he refers to the Shaman’s

                       help.  That is, during Pangæa after [Scribe] got his dream, he’d sit down with

                       S. for a channeled interpretation of this information.  An incredible process,

                       the Shaman would outline in detail most of the poem, and [Scribe] would 

                       have to squeeze everything in accordingly.  (The Shaman, incidentally, barely

                       could recall these sessions even moments after their occurrence.)
                                   At this point [Scribe] felt he’d asked what he’d needed, and now it was

                       my turn to hear from Josef.

43.        Q ([Albion]):  Josef, is there something you’d like to tell me on dreaming?
             A:      [YES]   PRACTICE SEEING [THE] CUP WHILE WAKI[ng]
44.                  THEN MOVE IT INTO DREAMS
                       FINALLY MAKE IT APPEAR BY INTE[nt]

                                   Summoning the cup is my current dreamtask.  Practice while awake;

                       then practice more while sleeping.

45.        Q ([Albion]):  In the last year, I’ve found it very hard to intend dreaming of any

                       kind.
             A:      I  AM READING YOUR INTENT NOW & IT IS WEAK INDEED
                       IT MUST GROW IN ORDER FOR YOU TO FLOURISH

46.        Q ([Albion]):  Is my intent weak in general or being dispersed among many things?
             A:      IT SIMPLY FLICKERS –
                       [THE] SERPENT OPENS ONE EYE AND [THE]N SLEEPS AGAIN

                                   Clearly Josef had no new plan for me.  I just had to work with the old

                       one.
                                   Necessary business down, we were both feeling good.  I’d slept most

                       of the previous day and felt strong enough to make up the lost session if need

                       be.

47.        Q:      Josef, we must ask if this is to be our dual session?
             A:      DON WILL PROVIDE [THE] DOUBLENESS
                       ANAND IS TO JOIN HIM

                                   Presumably the next evening.

48.        Q:      Josef, is there anything further we need to know?
             A:      I  JOSEF   HAVE YOU BOTH IN MY CARES
                       OPEN YOUR DEEP EYE  &  DREAM WELL MY SONZ

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