Think it may have been a month or a few weeks ago? I had this dream that felt odd and highly specific. And I just kind of thought about astral projection and how, if all of that AP stuff is real, then it could certainly be happening while we slept. Being pulled to other locations, planets, etc., Or even to other locales on this planet. Was interesting to think about.
As children, we naively project our sense of primacy and normalcy onto events. The “alien” is someone else. The confused, benevolent, or malevolent spirit is a mysterious force from ‘some other plane’.
At some point, it hits you, 'Wait a minute. I can be the alien." In a sense, that’s what James Cameron’s Avatar movies are about. “Alien attacks from outer space.” But the aliens are Earthlings.
hahha. and think about this, @Joa23…
In the Windward dimension, on the Angular plane, there are 17 planets fluctuating in synchrony with a counter-pulse stellar formation. 6 of those planets support sentient life. And on the 5th of those planets, societies have developed in which there are constant clashes and tensions between Hierarchy-based social organization and societies based on Sexual/Affiliative bonds. In the past 45 stellar cycles, one cultural strand has been emerging that has begun to integrate the two orientations. A blend of hierarchy and empathy that was never before seen on that world.
On that planet there live, 3 earnest young atavites (a kind of ethnic/species name. They look a bit like mangrove trees but they can move about similar to slugs by sliding on a layer of excreted lubricant). They are utterly inspired by the notion of compassionate social connection. Others around them are convinced that this is impossible, but the 3 youths are passionately devoted to the possibility. Their minds and hearts are focused on proving that it is possible.
On one particularly intense opening (a time-quantifying term based on when the stellar alternations move from a contractive to an expansive phase), the three bond-mates have absorbed a little too much nitrogen-graphate compound and are basically a bit intoxicated. In a state of temporarily expanded consciousness, they continue with their intense debates. “Compassionate connection is possible!! Care is possible!!” Things are getting quite intense.
Their particular wave of thought and intention happens to coincide with another being far away on another plane of existence. That being’s consciousness responds to their consciousness, and he is drawn into their midst. They are amazed by the inexplicable manifestation of this ‘spirit being’ of consciousness. Very quickly, however, they realize that this being, who calls himself @Joa23, has profound wisdom and life-experiences to share with them. He comes from a world in which, not only are compassion-based social bonds possible, but, moreover, he has dedicated himself for years to be what he calls a ‘teacher’ and a ‘healer’. Through his memories and imagination, he shares with them visions of what is possible.
And after only a few minor revolutions, the visitaiton is complete. The mysterious @Joa23 disappears back to whatever strange world he came from. Apparently, the beings there look like mold-covered calcium-carbon deposits. They move about by wiggling their lower halves in an action that they call ‘walking’. (It was very scary at first, until the young atavites realized that @Joa23 was actually quite friendly.)
And based on that spiritual visitation, the three beings begin a kind of social revolution known as NETWORK. They do succeed in integrating compassion into the hierarchical substrate. And they always speak in reverent tones of the @Joa23 being who confirmed that their vision was possible. Most others assume this is some clever form of allegory.
Meanwhile, back on Earth, @Joa23 wakes up from a particularly deep sleep and says, ‘Wow, what a weird dream. Those slug-trees were talking to me. I must have eaten something strange for dinner.’
