The Identity of Creator

Created on 07/13/2008

Hello,

 

A couple of questions came up recently and I believe they point to an important direction.

But before I move there, thank you again, everybody, for your input, it makes a lot of difference.

Roger Southhall wrote a comment to the “Being Magical” post, saying “However, how much of this is just imagination???  & just my mind, which is the very thing the gm techniques seek to still??”, asking a fundamental question that anyone involved in internal work one way or another has to eventually face.

I think it also corresponds with a question about the difference between being magical (or mystical, if you wish) and being superstitious.

When I talk about breaking internal walls, I picture those walls as multiple mirrors (and that’s a whole separate theme on how we “mirror” each other and the reality around us…). And because of these multiple reflections of experiences we have inside, it can get tremendously confusing to have a clear understanding of our subjective (internal) reality and of who we really are.

Still, let's try to work through some of the confusion.

I believe, the space of our feelings is concrete and limited. As concrete and limited as the space of the house we live in. Our emotions, internal processes, and our transformations happen inside a spatial reality of which most of us are completely unaware of. Yet, without realizing the shape and form of the room a particular experience occupies inside our internal house, it is difficult to complete the transformation of traumatic experiences and to enhance the presence of happy ones. There are dark corners in the basements with locked doors and no light inside and it is less a metaphor than actual reality of the internal space describing some of the feelings we have. Strange guests live inside some of those rooms. And even though we made ourselves forget about them long ago, they haven’t forgotten us.

Remember the last time you visited one of the home improvement stores? How impressive is their space, their attention to the slightest details that can be improved in each corner of our physical home? Compare to that the unknown, omitted and abandoned rooms of our internal houses. 

Finding the tools for internal improvement is very important. I believe different techniques, meditative and others, intended to “still our minds” are such tools. And when things calm down in our internal space, and our attention stops jumping from one experience to another, and there is stillness in the house, the question that arises then is “Who is the Master of the House?”

When we are able to find the answer and experience ourselves as our own Master, then everything else becomes clear. From the Identity of the Master, all other experiences happen outside, externally, and they are different manifestations of reality created by the Master. I believe all those manifestations are real, as “just imagination” is real, with different degrees of density and independence.

When we participate in experiencing reality from the position of the Master, we have the Identity of a Creator; mystical, magical, and beyond. When we are aware of only a little corner of one of the many rooms in our “house”, then we give authority to some other presences (Gods, Spirits, Deities and so on) and we feel dependent on their mercy and become superstitious out of the powerlessness that we experience. It’s almost like trying to please a landlord instead of owning your own home.

Saying that, I don’t deny the presence of all Gods, Spirits, and Deities at all. I am just saying that our perception of them most of the time is veiled and clouded and distorted by the limitations of our self-knowledge.  In that sense, most of the time, they are “just our imagination”. To experience true communication with those entities, in the way shamans do for example, we have to experience identification with our authentic self in the most complete way, because that self is the Identity of Creator.

Is it possible for everybody?

I believe it is. I know that at times we all can catch a moment of clarity when everything falls into place in the most harmonious and complete way. And we see and know life and ourselves with the purity of a child again. And that’s what I am talking about.

 

Thank you for reading,

 

P.S. Please visit our new “Gallery” soon, where I hope to present some of my friends' work. There are more things to come.

 

Love,

 

Olga

Comments

Thanks for giving us these pieces and this “Identity Of Creator” which is the latest.  One thing that strikes me is how often “just imagination” personal experiences can become valuable to others and so then to oneself in the process of putting them into language.  So what I imagine is a private aberration of my imagination, for instance why do I experience my inner space as a castle-tower, Does this mean I am too defensive?  Perhaps it can mean that I am wanting to build high? 
When I look at it hard enough to put into it words, it becomes a symbol of some value for others.  It can relate to what other people may be going through too.  Also I like the “consensus” reality and “non-consensus” reality descriptions, so “objective” out-there reality becomes “consensus” reality and descriptions of private, “subjective” “imaginary” and personal experience would be “non-consensus” reality.

By Jed Pemberton on 07/15/2008

olga, thank you for your kind and considered reply.  i am still unsure whether i should stop practicing the guru maharaji techniques - light, word, nectar & music?  but all i can say is that in over 30 years of trying these meditation techniques i have never experienced much.  maybe i have not been devoted or tried hard enough?  in the past few months of trying a shamanic & earth based approach, particularly in the lower world i seem to experience so much, imagination or not.  again, thank yo so much for taking the time to reply to my original question.  i believe we are open or closed spiritually, best to be open.

By Roger Southall on 07/15/2008

Very interesting to read our feelings occupy a
space like a house. I have recorded my dreams
for about 14 years and in some of them Im in
my childhood house which is almost in darkness and has two haunted rooms that really scare me.
Try as I will I cannot enter and face that
unknown without waking up in a sweat.

Also I have many dreams of driving a vehicle
along a road full of obstacles,accidents,etc
I wonder what that movement is ? Well at least
I seem to be the driver most of the time !

Jed Pembertons tower imagery certainly worked
on me.I have been thinking about it all day,
remembering when I encountered a tower in the
clouds during a meditation.My tower I noticed
was empty of people and that for my personal
interpretation pointed to a time when to
survive I had to be in a place where I was
seperate from other people.Thats long ago
and it needs to change and this is what I hope
to do right here.

Thanks

By Graham Leick on 07/16/2008

Olga

Thank you for this week’s entry. What has attracted my attention are your comments about the space of our feelings being as concrete and limited as the space of the house we live in, and about the rooms of the house where we never go and where there are strange guests which we have forgotten about but which have not forgotten us.

The comments have vividly brought back to mind a series of dreams over the years which all have the same general pattern. I am in a house where the lower rooms are comfortable and lived in but there are a series of upper floors, furnished in different ways but otherwise empty of all life except for a sense of some alien fear or horror in that emptiness. I have not understood these dreams at all and have pushed them out of my mind. After reading your comments I have had another such dream again but can now see that I need to accept the dreams and resolve them in some way.

I trust that the resolution will bring clarity and healing. “To experience reality as the Master of the House” is an intriguing phrase; I very much look forward to your future posts.

With All Best Wishes

David

By David Stevens on 07/17/2008

Hello Olga,

I have a question. Many of the themes in these posts relate to themes in the previous two books “Entering the Circle”, and “Master of Lucid Dream”. However, to describe those themes, you are not using the same vocabulary that you did in the books. I wonder why that is?

I do not have much knowledge about dreams, and I haven’t been able to realize (consciously?) “Who is the Master of the House,” so my understanding of this post is only conceptual.
I am not sure what dreaming about a house represents, but, whereas dreams are ephemeral and unlimited (I can dream of a house, a dog or an ant,...), you relate to the space of our feelings as “concrete” and “limited” (therefore not in the realm of dreams?) Because we live within that space, this space can be called a “house”.

What can we do “to experience identification with our authentic self”?

By Magali on 07/19/2008

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