Dream Date January 9, 2009

I've had a lot to say today. That's always a good sign. After I get all situated for the evening I'll come back and respond to comments and hopefully catch-up with my friends. Before I get some things done around the house, though, I wanted to post a short dream I had.
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Last night, in real life, I exchanged a few messages with a friend of mine that lives in the Middle East. Maybe that inspired the dream I had this morning, in which I was looking at a portrait of him and felt lots of love radiating out of the image. It reminded me of the love I sometimes feel when I look at images of Meher Baba. When I awoke, I laid there and enjoyed the remainder of the feelings of spiritual love before it faded away.

New Photos and Videos Uploaded - Cicadas

I posted some photos and videos on my photo blog of the cicadas that were here in 2004. If images of insects creep you out, you may not want to go take a look.

http://surroundingsofexistence.blogspot.com/

Dream Date January 8, 2009 and Other Goings-on

I was going into a bedroom and closed the door to be alone in order to do something personal. As I was laying on the bed, I noticed a leak in the ceiling, and water was dripping onto the wooden dresser beneath - drip, drip, drip - and a small puddle was starting to form there. My sister - who in real life is two years younger but sometimes acts much older - came into the room, stood on top of the dresser and put some kind of putty on the hole in the ceiling to stop the leak.
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The ceiling might represent higher consciousness. But I don't know what the leak might mean.

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Since I can't figure this dream out, I guess I'll just keep trying to figure out why the top ice tray in my freezer had a stalagmite forming on one of the cubes. To the best of my knowledge, there is no water that forms on the ceiling of the freezer.

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There has been an orb that has now shown up in two different photos taken in my house, both in different rooms.

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It is very dangerous for my husband to make cookie dough and leave it unattended as he goes off to do something else before baking it.

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Has anything strange or unusual happened to any of you lately?

Milky Vision

Earlier last night I took a nap. (I maintain an unusual day/night rhythm.) Before falling asleep, I asked God/Universe/Guides/Masters/Angels to give me dreams that I could learn from. I do not recall any dreams that I had while sleeping. However, after awakening from the nap I lay in bed for a little while. I had a vision in which I was sticking my nose to the opening of a half-gallon of milk, smelling it to make sure it was still good.

Contemplating and pondering on what this could mean, the first thing I could think of is that milk, being white, is a symbol of purity. The Divine is pure. On my path I seek to have a lasting union with the Divine. By smelling the milk, could I possibly be checking myself and wondering if my spiritual progress and quality is good or not?

Unfortunately the vision faded before I could determine whether or not the milk was good or spoiled.

To a Good Friend

I have a friend, whose heart I hold dear, who knows we're never too old to make-believe. It is for you that I have created this piece of fractal art, and to everyone who dreams.

To Love the Master as God

Earlier I made a post asking how one can tell a true Master from a false Master. In the writings of Meher Baba there are some mentionings of what a Master is and does.

Now the question is, with so many Masters to choose from, alive or dead, famous or private, how do we choose, and should we give-up hope of working personally with a real Master?

Maybe, hoping to work one-on-one is merely the ego's desire for attention. What do you think?

THE Masters are absolutely impersonal and universal in their state of consciousness; but they can for their spiritual purpose limit the scope of their work and also allow their manifested personality to become the centre of the aspirations of their disciples. They use personal relationships as well-defined channels to pass on their help to those aspirants who get connected with them. The Masters are always on the look out for those who need and deserve their help and the faintest gleams of spiritual yearnings are not overlooked by them.

Establishing an Abiding Reality

The first chapter of Meher Baba's _Discourses_ sums up the journey to Truth quite nicely, I think:

CONSCIOUSLY or unconsciously, every living creature seeks one thing. In the lower forms of life and in less advanced human beings, the quest is unconscious; in advanced human beings, it is conscious. The object of the quest is called by many names—happiness, peace, freedom, truth, love, perfection, Self-realization, God-realization, union with God. Essentially, it is a search for all of these, but in a special way. Everyone has moments of happiness, glimpses of truth, fleeting experiences of union with God; what they want is to make them permanent. They want to establish an abiding reality in the midst of constant change.

Photographs

I bit the bullet and posted some recent photographs.

http://surroundingsofexistence.blogspot.com/2009/01/me-hair-elvis-and-some-fuzz.html

Visions of Half-Sleep

Some visions appeared as I lay in the bed trying to fall asleep. Falling asleep proved futile but at least I had some visuals.

1. A dead bird lay on its back on a napkin in someone's hand. It was wet, and I assume it had drowned.

2. I was trying to open a door but the handle came off in my hand.

3. I was a young unmarried Middle Eastern woman. I was in a room alone with an unmarried young man, and we were unsupervised. My parents caught us and my father said he would beat me.

Just trying to interpret these, I came-up with some ideas, but there are probably multitudes of meanings for them. Here are the ones I came up with shortly after having the visions:

1. As I've been feeling depressed lately, I feel as if I've sunken when before I was flying high as a bird, spiritually.

2. Perhaps I don't have a handle on things.

2b. Another variation on #2 - earlier I had been reading a chapter about Aldous Huxley, and it talked about his book _The Doors of Perception_. Perhaps the door to Reality cannot be opened by conventional means.

3. I do not have any ideas about this one.
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I will write more later, to my friends through email and also in the comments. Just waiting for something interesting to say....

Why I'm Kinda Missing....

In case anyone is wondering why I'm not responding to emails in a timely manner, or that my blog has been kind of dry lately, the short of it is that I'm going through another bout of depression. I don't know how long it will last this time around, so all I can do is wait it out.

I'm not feeling very spiritual right now, as much as I long for that feeling.

So, that's my excuse. I'll be back to normal sometime so just wait for me, please.