Just moved to the Berkshires from Philadelphia this week and have joined the staff of the Kushi Institute in the kitchen.
The hillsides up here are a speckle of reds, greens and golds as the leaves are already changing. The view of the stars is really nifty, to put it mildly.
Ever hear "Mr. Sandman" by The Chordettes?
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream (bung, bung, bung, bung)
Make him the cutest that I've ever seen (bung, bung, bung, bung)
Give him two lips like roses and clover (bung, bung, bung, bung)
Then tell him that his lonesome nights are over.
Sandman, I'm so alone
Don't have nobody to call my own
Please turn on your magic beam
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream
What's his "magic beam?" And how does he use it to deliver dreams?
This morning while doing some dishes I got to thinking about how I am dreaming my reality and what I experience is a product of a dream which I have dreamt in another point in space and time. A cook behind me started humming the tune while making dessert.
"Mr. Sandman
Bring me a dream..."
I usually stop there though this song often pops up in my consciousness and I enjoy singing these first lines.
I got to wondering what the lyrics are and was enjoying wondering and thought I'd enjoy finding out and so I investigated further.
Magic beam....
From SOTU: (the library section at www.ejamagic.com, from the article with the date of 9/2001)
"We would like you to give you a metaphor. We would like you to understand that you are a reality projector, each and every one of you. You project the pure energy of creation through a lens, perhaps positioned in front of your Solar Plexus Chakra. This lens holds all of your beliefs and judgments. For each of you, this lens holds both a personal and a consensus belief that there is not enough. You know, in our perspective this supposedly physical reality is really an illusion. From our perspective this reality is so malleable, so changeable, so moveable. As you change this lens of belief, as you start to create through a lens that says there is enough, everything that you create comes through that lens of enough."
They've called this projection of the pure energy of creation a "beam." So perhaps human beings, if not other species, project this energy through this solar plexus chakra and in doing so experience their dream - which derives it structure and content from the beliefs one holds.
For awhile I've derided pop music and a couple of years ago it occurred to me that one could discover and express the deepest truths of life and death, nonbeing and all that other good stuff by singing at least some of them in the right frame of consciousness.
We all live in a yellow submarine
A yellow submarine, [...]
I've heard that color yellow has some association with the solar plexus chakra*, which one might find several inches in front of the "physical" body in the area of the solar plexus.
So we sailed on to the sun,
Till we found the sea green,
And we lived beneath the waves,
In our yellow submarine,[ ...]
And green has a similar association with the heart chakra, which one might find around the area of the chest.
As we live a life of ease(life of ease)
Every one of us(every one of us) has all we need,(has all we need)
Sky of blue,(sky of blue) and sea green,(sea of green)
In our yellow(In our yellow) submarine.(submarine) ( Haha! )
And blue has an association with the throat chakra, which also has a function as a gate to the heavenly realms, the realms beyond the passive experience of a reality which seems independent of our interaction with and interpretations of it.
Why are we in a yellow submarine and not a blue airplane? Why the waves and why beneath the waves?
I have had an experience of being situated or "plugged-in" at the middle of body, as if I were a ball of energy which contracted such that my center of gravity were in my waist. I had a sense of well being at the level of being who I am in the most casual and also balanced way - of being myself as an individual in a visceral sense. (I wasn't listing my favorite bands or flavors of ice cream or anything; just being with a subtle sense of physical solidity and self-awarenese.) I wasn't necessarily aware of being a human being so much as of being who I perceive and feel myself to be as a "person" and that that sense or person was okay as it was. I strongly associate the color yellow with this exprience.
My guess based on hypotheses and study is that when one creates a viable ego-structure, a sense of oneself as an individual which allows one to function in consensus reality, one can also take ownership of and embody the consciousness of a being who can consciousness rise to this level of vibration, that of the third or solar plexus chakra. (Some beings say there are more though I don't recall ever having heard it having an association with a number other than 3.) So one can now donn the suit of the ego, the personae which one, as a spirit-soul, has created and within it explore the infinte realms of possibilities of states and content of consciousness - and realities.
So I would think yellow submarine and not blue airplane as, from this state of consciousness, we explore the depths of ourselves and integrate the previous levels of consciousness so as to "transcend and inclue" them, as Ken Wilber says in describing the process of integration. Ultimately we may fly in a blue airplane, though perhaps not with this physical body in tow (unless one were to elevate the energy constituting that physical body to higher vibrations, as I've heard Jesus and Prophet Muhammed [Sal.] and perhaps Jesus' mother Mary did, at least Jesus elevating Himself to pure white light, the color of the crown chakra and outer atmospheric levels and stars - or pehaps the clear of space).
The waves seem to me to have to do with our emotions. SOTU refers to the "sea of emotion," diving to the depths of which one can reclaim one's power so as to use it to create one's reality consciously. One must go far beyond the surface of this ocean so as reach the depths of oneself, the levels of consciousness which were precedent to emotional experience and from which we create our realities. The heart chakra, the one with the association with green, also has, I've heard, an association with emotion.
Perhaps the human being finds oneself located somewhere between the throat and the chest in a world of apparent superficiality which urges an understanding of one's origins and purpose? (Some people say they're up in their heads; I'm wondering why the Beatles started their journey on solid ground next to a green sea before getting in a yellow submarine? Where were they?)
I've never heard the entirety of this album by the Beatles. I imagine that one who remains on the shores of this green sea and choose not to plunge the depths of their emotions and beyond (to language, to being, to manifesting, and beyond even manifesting), never see the real blue sky, never see even the sea of green beyond the littlest glimpse through the eyes of a guide who has, and that there are immense treasures in store for one who does make that journey in that self-made boat.
It's obviouly worth mentioning that if one can observe this "belief that there is not enough," that resources are scarce and that scarcity is a given fact of life, then one can also change this belief to "there is plenty" and enjoy the reality which one experiences when one's little beam projects through a lens with "there is plenty" etched into it. SOTU has stated that there will be no more war when we provide for the basic needs of our species' members. I'm inclined to agree, on my way to enjoy a nourishing dinner of natural ingredients which suggests that making such provision would be pretty easy.
(*"Chakras," the word itself being the plural for "chakra," is a part of the more subtle aspects of the human anatomy, the focal points of which one would find in various areas of what one might call the "physical body." Since as SOTU put it this "supposedly physical reality is an illusion," or everything which appears to be unchanging is always constantly changing and interacting with us according to our interpretation through the machine through which we are learning in this reality, the distinction of the chakras from the more "gross" or "dense" so-called "physical" body is arbitrary.)
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