Book Outline

Chapter Seven -- LELA's Dream

Opening paragraph explains that LELA's Dream is a narrative used to explain the Third Option

Defining DX Terms

First place the term, The Disunification of Energy and Awareness (DX) is presented as the technical name of the Third Option. Distinguishes "DX" as a process from "The DX" as that process which applies to our Universe. LELA's Dream is the mystical name of the DX process.

What I Teach

What I teach is that God dreams a special class of dreams which summate to universes. Therefore the DX is a study of how these special dreams of God become universes. The Dream is represented as a mysterious orb:

Anthropomorphisms

Discusses and defends my use of anthropomorphic language by citing the practice as an ancient religious precedent.

The Names of LELA

The God of the Old Testament has many names to describe various aspects of his nature. LELA has two names. LELA the Awakened One (LTAO) One name describes that part of her which remains awake in Infinity; the other describes her as the LELA the Dreamer (LTD) who dreams the Dream that will become our Universe.

Dreams and "I"

This section describes how a sense of "I" arises in God's Dream. The "I" of the Dreamer does not know that it is God dreaming.  The section foreshadows the introduction of maya as an operative force in DX. This sections speaks to the ways in which the Unity of Infinity is threatened by Dreams and this sense of another "I" who has no apparent self-control but is rather subject to the larger Dream. Compares the state of human dreaming and shows why humans also undergo a disrutptive change in the sense of "I" when we dream.

Mystery Land

Mystery Land is the subconscious, unknowable aspect of LTAO. This challenges the conventional notion of God as omniscient, yet, everything exists within Infinity and so Mystery and omniscience must also co-exist within Infinity. Mystery Land is characterized as that part of God necessary to create sub-Infinite universes. Mystery Land again foreshadows maya. The Moon is the symbol of Mystery Land:

The DXsphere

Explains how LTAO preserves the Unity of Infinity by embodying the Dream in a sphere that contains nothing. Nothingness speaks to Zen and the Ain Soph of the Qabalah.  A DXsphere is represented as a circle, and Infinity is depicted as being shot through with these empty spheres. The knowledgeable reader will recognize this depiction as matching the description and theory of bubble universes. 

Maya

Introduces the ancient concept of maya by quoting a paragraph from Alan Watts' work ,The Book, in which Watts argues that the universe is God pretending to be everyone and everything except himself. This section defines maya as an involuntary act of identification that LELA the Dreamer experienced in which she wholly identified with Dream. Maya effectively reduced the nature of the Divine "I" from Omniscience to that of a  Dreamer in a Dream.  Maya is represented as a series of question marks:

"Maya-embodiment" or "Me" speaks to Maya's power to mysteriously embody others.

The Dreamer

This section expands on the personality of LELA the Dreamer (LTD) by presenting a logical sequence of symbols.  LTD is depicted by the All-Seeing Eye:

Next, the Dream is depicted as being embodied in a DXsphere:

Mystery is always at the heart of one of God's DX Dreams:

The Dreamer then awakens within the Dream:

This section concludes by stating that the Dreamer is the One who will give ontological status to our Universe by serving as the Witness, or Watcher, for all things need to be observed if they are to exist.