I have not had a dream since the “whopper” of the 4th of January. In that I dreamed my own death {My Death – pārasaṃgate – Phowa – Dream 04-01-2025} and what seems like a phowa death practice according to what I have read.
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That dream might have been scary for some but it seemed entirely natural to me. Likewise dreaming about Naropa etc. does not seem odd. Dream yoga is one of his super six…The death in the dream was from an earlier life.
What is strange is that I do not currently have any direct mundane physical plane linkage to Tibetan Buddhism.
There is an internal consistency to the logic, if I know how to do advanced death practice, it is likely that I might be more able to recall past life snippets than your normal common or garden person. But given my physical science background I would be more likely to be very sceptical. There has been a convergence in the dreaming towards a more recent putative incarnation of the magenta robed kind.
The weight of dreaming “evidence” for me outweighs any scepticism I personally have. I am confident that I have partial recall of a number of lives several of which have been Buddhist. I cannot six-sigma prove this, but I am happy with a strong working hypothesis.
In terms of Vajrayana empowerments I have only “had” very public White Tara and Guru Rinpoche. I recognise a shamanic ritual when I see one. In terms of tantra you probably only need Padmasambhava, a tantric key. This was via Akong Rinpoche in London en passant.
I have had numerous dreams with various scripts and calligraphy in them.
There is a weird feeling that the 4th of January dream was “cumulative” if I may use that word. I have as a raja yoga been visualizing “outside” the crown chakra over quite a number of years. In a sense I have without tuition been doing this as if I already knew.
The wife has recently dreamed about the involvement of a journalist…
It will be interesting to see if the dreaming hiatus is more permanent…
Dreamyoga 