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We are caught in a dream. If you believe that dream to be reality your actions will be sheer folly.
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The world as you perceive it is but a dream which has fixated the attention of humanity. Because of that fixation average man looks upon this dream as an inviolable reality, when in fact it is but one particular view of the world. Therefore, to look upon this collective view of the world as being reality, is insane, and can only be termed the madness of the dream.
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We have the power to chose and to change the contents of our dreams, but to do this you must learn how to take control of the dream that is fixating your attention.
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You cannot take control of the dream if you are not awake. To be awake means that you know every facet of your life for what it really is.
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Dreams are not just dreams; dreams are based upon reality – a reality that exists beyond your thoughts.
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Dreaming is a part of life, as is walking, laughing and hunting. To walk or to laugh or to hunt, like any other pursuit within life, is to dream.
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In many ways dreaming is more real than your waking hours, for in dreams you have abilities that you no not have in your everyday life and so you can change things in miraculous ways, you can learn things that are normally way beyond your grasp and, in short, you have power at your command.
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The warrior hunts for power, and one of the finest ways of hunting power is dreaming.
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Once you have eliminated your view of the world you will realise that there are an infinite number of different realities. To access those realities means having to dream them in, in exactly the same way you dreamed into existence your social conditioning. Dreaming is the art of aligning alternative states of perception; an act that gathers personal power.
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A warrior chooses the content of his dreaming by holding an image in his mind, while he stops his internal dialogue. Anyone is capable of doing this, for if you are capable of not talking to yourself, while you hold the image of the desired content in your mind, even if just for a moment, the desired content will come to you.
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Any image held in the mind in a state of inner silence is true commend, since there are no thoughts competing against it.
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The trick in setting up the dreaming does not lie in looking at things, but in sustaining sight of them when they are no longer in sight. Dreaming becomes real once you have succeeded in bringing into sharp focus anything you bring to mind, for then there is no difference between what you do when dreaming and what you do when you are not dreaming.
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Dreaming is real for the warrior, for in dreaming he can act wilfully, he can choose his actions and he can discriminate between something that holds power and something which is a waste of time, whereas in an ordinary dream none of this is possible.
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You are your dreamer. Therefore, to resist your dreamer by holding a fixed view of the world is to resist your own self – an act which makes no sense.
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The dream in which one watches oneself asleep, is the dream of the double.
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You are but the dream of your dreamer.
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The goal of the dreamers of man is to conquer the challenge of materialising their full awareness upon the physical plane. They meet this challenge by dreaming into existence the four dimensions of their beingness – matter, energy, space and time.
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From the perspective of the warrior, the dreamed of the dreamer, the purpose of dreaming is threefold; firstly, to ascertain what his fate encompasses; secondly, to dream in that aspect of fate which marks his next step in achieving the totality of the self; thirdly, to achieve total awareness.
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Dreaming is the most powerful tool devised by the Toltecs. Toltecs learned how to solicit help form the nagal {spirit}, by training their tonals to relinquish control for a while, and then claiming it back again. This is not an explanation which makes sense, but that is actually what is entailed in dreaming; namely learning to let go without losing one’s sanity. Dreaming is the greatest achievement of Toltecs, for it is the ultimate act of cooperating intelligently with the nagal {spirit}.
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To enter the world of dreams you must learn to not-do your normal awareness.
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Excerpted from:
“The Toltec Teachings Volume VI (the Book of Aphorisms)”
Théun Mares
Renascent Legacy Press
Caledon, Western Cape, RSA.
ISBN 0-958-4675-6-0
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