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4:01 AM - 2/5/16
from Paul Levy's latest article to be found here:
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/my-initiation-into-the-spirit-of-ayahuasca/
see this link for comments/responses/endorsements for Paul's
new AUSPICIOUS and TIMELY book:
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/paul-levy-awakened-by-darkness/
(more information at end of post)
It felt as though I was simply a channel for some energy or spirit to sing itself through me, as if I was discovering a new and powerful voice within myself.
It made me think of what I wrote in my recent book Awakened by Darkness,
“When we have our own words to sing, our voice appears.”
The song was simultaneously creating itself through me
while it was as if in singing the song
I was connecting with and re-membering something I had known long ago.
“This is the secret of dreams—that we do not dream,
but rather we are dreamt.”
I was using the power of the dream—and my own mind--
to create reality so as to wake up to a more healed,
integrated and whole part of myself.
There was something especially important about how my voice
became the channel through which the spirit
enlivened and inspired itself (as well as me),
singing itself into incarnation.
This recalled the Australian aboriginal belief that
we “sing” the world into being.
transforming my seemingly solidified form into one far more fluid.
One thing I remember very vividly is feeling my DNA lighting up,
as if there was a hidden light encoded in my cells
which had been activated by the medicine.
The whole situation was very dreamlike—and healing.
I have already missed the mark.
Thinking I have a problem is a viewpoint that is reinforcing
the seemingly concrete, existing in stone, reality of the problem,
as well as deceiving me to relate to my situation as being problematic in nature.
Sacred medicine such as ayahuasca always gets down to the same thing for me—showing me how in this moment, and in every moment,
I am the very one who is retrieving, calling forth, investing in, and literally creating the apparent problem that I, with the best of intentions,
then go about trying to heal in a diabolically self-reinforcing feedback loop.
To use a theological metaphor, it is as if I am venturing forth
trying to capture the Devil,
not realizing that the whole project(ion) itself
is sponsored by the Devil within me,
whom I imagine sits safely behind the scenes,
“getting off” on the whole production.
to how I am actively participating and unconsciously colluding
in the creation of my own suffering and seeming lack of freedom,
so that I could potentially—if I so choose to— dream it differently.
What good is light if it doesn’t illumine the darkness?
We typically think of illumination as “seeing the light,”
but seeing our own darkness is a form of illumination.
is the most important achievement of modern psychology,
even though most contemporary people are unaware of this profound discovery.
How amazing: the greatest discovery of modern psychology
—that the psyche is “real”--
is not even registered by most people’s psyche!
Many people have been conditioned to devalue the psyche,
thinking of its contents as mere nothings, empty fabrications.
To realize the “reality” of the psyche
is to recognize that, quite to the contrary,
its contents—our thoughts, dreams, visions and imaginations--
have a living existence that greatly affects us
in ways we can only imagine.
has a very profound reality of its own.
From the point of view of reality, what is primary and most real,
if we can speak in such terms, is the creative imagination itself.
I love what Jung shares in a letter,
“I am indeed convinced that creative imagination
is the only primordial phenomenon accessible to us,
the real Ground of the psyche,
the only immediate reality.”
When the alchemists talk about the “imaginative faculty of the soul,” they are giving a clear indication of the secret essence of the alchemical art.
The imaginative faculty of the soul is not merely a human attribute,
but a divine activity of the soul in which the human imagination
participates and bears witness.
The human imagination is enveloped in, suffused with,
and is a reflective iteration of, the unconditioned divine creative imagination,
the imagination that is imagining/dreaming/creating the whole universe
in this and every moment.
Visionary artist and poet William Blake comments,
“The Eternal body of Man is The Imagination, that is, God himself.”
Blake was of the opinion that if we are not
creatively, artistically working—and playing—with our imagination,
we are traitors to our nature.
introduced me to the notion that the living spirit which animates ayahuasca
is ultimately to be found inside each one of us;
the actual drinkable form of ayahuasca
is simply a stand-in for this nonlocal spirit.
Just as in my dream,
I can “imagine” that I’m drinking the nonlocal, holy sacrament right now,
and as its dreamlike substance pulses through my veins
I can’t help but to sing its song.
All quotes above are excerpts from Paul Levy's latest article to be found here:
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/my-initiation-into-the-spirit-of-ayahuasca/
see this link for comments/responses/endorsements for Paul's
new AUSPICIOUS and TIMELY book:
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/paul-levy-awakened-by-darkness/
Video of Paul Speaking about his new book Awakened by Darkness -
Portland, Oregon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYHW7QG_ZcY&feature=youtu.be
This YouTube Published 1 Feb 2016
Author Paul Levy giving a talk about his brand new book, "Awakened by Darkness",
at Powell's City of Books in Portland, Oregon.
Paul Levy is an author and speaker about the dream-like nature of reality,
and he facilitates weekly Jungian based process groups in Portland, Oregon
which are rooted in the idea that our daily lives are a shared waking dream,
which we are all co-creating and co-dreaming together.
His new book,
“Awakened by Darkness: When Evil Becomes Your Father”
is now officially in publication.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYHW7QG_ZcY&feature=youtu.be
See Paul's website for more information and articles......
http://www.awakeninthedream.com