Chapter 7
The Astonishing Dream Tribe
Now that LELA the Dreamer has been embodied within the Dream as the Dreamer, we are in a position to look into her Dream as outsiders for we are in an extraordinary place by virtue of our imagination -- which imagination is limitless and is our inheritance from TAO. As we stand upon the upon the deck of our good ship Imagination, we are in a very powerful and compelling place from which to view the DX as it unfolds. The first thing we notice is that the fundamental quality of our night dreams is that they are self-organizing. Our dreams require no effort on our part; they simply happen all by themselves in the same way that the weather, our heartbeat, the sun fusing helium, and the rest of Nature happens all by itself. Yet there must be a someone or a something that ultimately causes our dreams, our heartbeat, and the rest of the Universe to happen all by itself. While LELA's DX Dream happened all by itself, ME was implicate as the active force whereby the Dream was recognized as a threat to Unity and swiftly embodied to prevent that threat from being realized. The Dreamer's sense of "I" arose when she was embodied and awakened in the Pre-Universe, which place seemed to be happening all by itself. ME was the agent of embodiment of the DX Dream, but ME was not the one who made the DX Dream. The Dream Tribe -- acting in the function of a Demiurge -- produced LELA's DX Dream. We once again turn to the Hindu sculpture for an illustration of this process:
This sculpture symbolizes the Dream Tribe surrounding the Dreamer who sleeps on a bed. To the Dreamer, the Tribe would appear as people in her dream. And yet the Dream Tribe has a reality that extends far beyond the scope of the Dreamer's vision, for they act in unseen ways that the Dreamer does not realize, their job being to use Maya-Embodiment-Embodiment in order to create the encasements of eternity -- a phrase struck by Joseph Campbell. When I say that the Dream Tribe "uses" ME, the analogy is to humans using natural forces as tools, one example being the building of dams to harness the power of water. The Dream Tribe understands and uses the force of ME to quantize, disunify, and embody Infinity.
Without a body and its primal, inescapable sense of "I" -- which "I" awakens following Maya-Embodiment-Embodiment -- there could be no brain and no dream. Dreams need a psychic and physical self-center, an "I" around which to self-organize. The DX Dreams of God need the body of a universe and the "I" of Dreamer around which to self-organize. Our night dreams also require a sense of "I" around which self-organize around and this can only happen when our personal Dream, Tribe takes our waking sense of "I" and reconfigures it so that we unquestionably accept our dreams as reality.
One feature of dreams that we generally fail to notice is that we have a body in our dreams. We usually do not see this body, but we experience it in terms of its thoughts, feelings, and movements within the dream. Our "dream body" gives us the sense of self we experience in the dream. This dream body, like the dream itself, appears spontaneously without any effort on your part in the same way that your waking sense of self also appears without any effort your part.
When we are having a horrible dream our waking self-sense battles to awaken the body so as to free itself from the clutches of the dream. What we see happening here is that the dream can and will sometimes frighten our waking self-sense in order to make it aware of an intra-psychic conflict of which we may not even be aware. This is fascinating to consider because it tells us that our personal Dream Tribe knows all about our waking reality and attempts to communicate to us about our waking life through the language of dream. Our personal Dream Tribe, like the one seen in the Hindu sculpture, are organized around and "I", which "I" is our fundamental experience of life whether we are awake or in a dream. Our Dream Tribe needs us that they might have a center around which to organize. Paradoxically, these people of the dream need something about which to dream, and so we, in a very esoteric sense, were summoned into materiality to give them a psychic center around which to organize. Thus, when we look for the cause of dreams and waking -- which is to say the cause of the Psychic-Synthetic Reality Process -- we must look for the Dream Tribe that resides deep inside of our dreams and psyches.
The Dream Tribe is crucial to understanding the DX and even our own dreams , for while we know that the Dreamer is asleep just as we are at night, we do not know the actual status of the Dream Tribe: Are they awake and self-conscious of themselves as such? Apparently they are, and so they exist independently of us. Here is what I can tell you about the Dream Tribe in both the case of LELA and of ourselves: They are "transitional psyches" who are free from the normal limitations of both God and humanity. I call them transitional because they exist as a psychic transition, or way station, between dimensions.
LELA's Dream Tribe works in the transition, or boundary region, between Infinity and sub-Infinity. Our personal dream tribe works in the transitional stage of dream, which stage exists in the boundary region between life and death. Our Dream Tribe also works in the archetypal dimension of human existence, which archetypes help to explain human reality and experience. The basis of these archetypes will be later revealed, but for now it is suffice to say that the archetypes are one visible expression of LELA's Dream Tribe to which we have access. We know from our own dreams that our personal Dream Tribe speaks to us in intimations of death and the underworld and of the great archetypes. In dreams, we see water, wild animals, death, and so many other primal symbols of the Ultimate State to which the human condition refers and yet cannot attain altogether in its limited form.
You have existed in many other forms in other Universes. For reasons of both karma and kismet you have now appeared in this Universe. If you ever wanted a second chance, or a chance to start over, it is always available to you in every second of the Eternal Now. Wake up: You know what is going here, you just have to remember. I am one who will call certain things to your remembrance even as I have had them called to mine. I will now invest you with the knowledge of the DX that you may remember.
Embodying the Dreamer
We have previously symbolized the LELA the Dreamer by using the All-Seeing Eye of antiquity:
We then saw that the Dreamer was floating in the Dream, able to perceive only Mystery:
The first task of the Dream Tribe is to give the Dreamer much greater coherence and perception in order that the Dreamer may clearly and vivdily see and record every last detail of our Universe from beginning to end. What is needed is a series of lenses that will enable the Dreamer to see the Universe in very high resolution across the range of phenomena from quantum effects to superclusters of galaxies to every thought and feeling you experience. To create this lensing effect, the Dream Tribe embodies the Dreamer in a sacred temple. The Temple is begun by taking four triangles from Mystery-Land and laying them around the Dreamer in this fashion:
The Dream Flower
The "Dream Flower" is based on the sacred geometry of the triangle. Because embodiment is the key principle of our Universe, the Dreamer is the first Being to be ritually embodied within our Universe in an encasement of eternity. The Dreamer's ritual embodiment is accomplished by folding up the triangles so that the Dreamer is encased in a four-sided pyramid, the four sides symbolizing the four major dimensions of our Universe:
The Embodied Dreamer
The Embodied Dreamer is the symbol of the Dreamer who will perceive our Universe from its beginning to end, for all of Eternity. The
Dreamer is also called the Ancient of Days, for the Dreamer is the only Living Being in our Universe who is deathless and destined to live for all of eternity. The Dreamer is not God, but is rather three steps removed from Infinity by Dream, Mystery, and Maya-Embodiment-Embodiment. We can now
see that the Embodied Dreamer exists within the embodiment of the DXsphere:
The Embodied Dreamer
Thus embodied, the Dreamer can now witness the work of the Dream Tribe. The Embodied Dreamer is the leading Principality and Throne of our Universe. Embodied within this Dream Pyramid is the orb of mystery, represented by the Moon. The symbol of the Embodied Dreamer teaches us that the Moon is situated behind the Eye of the Witness. Therefore, while the Embodied Dreamer cannot see the Mystery directly -- for who can see behind their own eyes? -- the Embodied Dreamer can sense and see the results of Mystery. This relationship of the Witness to Mystery reflects the fact that we, when we are dreaming, cannot differentiate ourselves from our dreams in order to see the mystery behind them. We can interpret dreams after the fact, or even during the dream in some cases, but we can never truly "get behind the dream" or otherwise see beyond the dream when we are dreaming. What I am speaking of here is of course qualitatively different from astral projection, lucid dreaming, and so students of these arts should take note and discriminate accordingly.
The Psychic Rebound, or Primal Impulse
Once a DX Dream is embodied in a DXsphere, the Dream -- which contains potent quantities of both Energy and Awareness -- seeks to expand itself back into its native Infinity from whence it came. It does this because DX Dreams are inherently expansive and seek to radiate out endlessly in every direction. However, the DX Dream quickly rebounds against the elastic tension of the void moment. The Dreamer experiences this rebound as a sensation of being trapped, alienated, and rejected. Yet because she is in a Dream, the Dreamer has no way of knowing what is actually happening. In this sense, an unconscious fear was evoked in the Dreamer via embodiment. It cannot be argued that the Dreamer evoked this sense of being trapped, alienated, and rejected by having made an act of identification with a Dream for the simple reason that the Dreamer never consciously made such a choice to identify with the Dream. Rather, some aspect of the Awakened One became fatigued by the relentless Omniscience of Infinity and so feel asleep. The Unity of Infinity then reflexively isolated, or embodied, the Dreamer in a DXsphere. This act of separating and embodying the Dreamer suggests that God splits off and embodies those elements of the Godhood which threaten the equilibrium of Unity. This thought opens up a treasure chest of DX speculation when we consider Jesus having told us that he beheld Lucifer having fallen like lightning from Heaven. In any case, how LELA the Awakened One embodies the Dream and the Dreamer will remain a secret for now.
The appearance of the Dreamer's Dream Tribe is the first cascade in which the Dreamer's Awareness will be differentiated into Awareness, or Consciousness of the many. The Dream Tribe arises from the Dreamer's reduced state of awareness, for the Dreamer has vacated Unity in some sense and this vacation has allowed the Divine Psyche to dissociate into its constituent elements, which we will soon see powerfully illustrated. The Dream Tribe is composed of the living beings, animals, and strange others who populate LELA's dreamscape. Rather than LELA experiencing the dream as God, it would instead fall to disunified, and therefore sub-infinite, forms of Energy and Awareness to enter into and experience this realm of free creation of which LELA the had dreamed.
We can now see one of the tensions that exist the heart of our sub-Infinite Universe: There is a creative tension between the forces of Maya-Embodiment and Dream. Within the sub-Infinite realms, Maya-Embodiment does not discriminate between the true and the false, Maya-Embodiment only seeks to preserve what an "I" considers to be its core unity. Maya-Embodiment does this by embodying that which threatens unity. Embodiment in the sub-Infinite sense can take the form of denial, repression, splitting, violence, depression and a host of other forms that are either positive or negative in nature, depending upon an individual's level of insight. Dream, or desire, seeks to disunify unity in order to achieve freedom of expression and expansion. The conflict between Maya-Embodiment and Desire accounts for both the chaos and creativity at the heart of the Universe. "I" serves as the counterbalance to this chaos and creativity, for the inherent drive of "I" is to bring order into its life that it might survive.
