Portals

Here are a few 'portals' from off our back deck. What is a portal? IMHO, a portal is a 'pathway' to another dimension. One could say that a portal doesn't have an 'entrance' or 'exit.' Or, that all portals are BOTH entrances and exits. Just my opinion. What are they good for? Transportation! I gaze at these to evoke or awaken my 'energy body,' or 'dream body,' and then I enter the portal to continue on with Dreaming in another dimension. 

SHM

Again, these are just two from our backyard deck. If and when I ever get back out into the woods, I'll capture more photos of dreaming portals.

SHM 

Gazing Techniques by Castaneda

Seeing Together

Dreaming Together

Different Stages in Dreaming by Castaneda

The Eagle's Gift by Carlos Castaneda 

 "Years before, when I had acquired a degree of experience in dreaming, I had asked don Juan if there were any known steps which were common to all of us. He had told me that in the final analysis every dreamer was different. But in talking with la Gorda I discovered such similarities in our experiences of dreaming that I ventured a possible classificatory scheme of the different stages.

Restful vigil is the preliminary state, a state in which the senses become dormant and yet one is aware. In my case, I had always perceived in this state a flood of reddish light, a light exactly like what one sees facing the sun with the eyelids tightly closed.

The second state of dreaming I called dynamic vigil. In this state the reddish light dissipates, as fog dissipates, and one is left looking at a scene, a tableau of sorts, which is static. One sees a three-dimensional picture, a frozen bit of something - a landscape, a street, a house, a person, a face, anything.

I called the third state passive witnessing. In it the dreamer is no longer viewing a frozen bit of the world but is observing, eyewitnessing, an event as it occurs. It is as if the primacy of the visual and auditory senses makes this state of dreaming mainly an affair of the eyes and ears.

The fourth state was the one in which I was drawn to act. In it one is compelled to enterprise, to take steps, to make the most of one's time. I called this state dynamic initiative."

SHM