 Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 8:05 PM
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If you search S&H at www.spirituality.com, you will find 58 entries including:
"Mortal existence is a dream of pain and pleasure in matter, a dream of sin, sickness, and death; and it is like the dream we have in sleep, in which every one recognizes his condition to be wholly a state of mind. In both the waking and the sleeping dream, the dreamer thinks that his body is material and the suffering is in that body." (S&H S&H 188:11-17)
"Mortal body and mind are one, and that one is called man; but a mortal is not man, for man is immortal. A mortal may be weary or pained, enjoy or suffer, according to the dream he entertains in sleep. When that dream vanishes, the mortal finds himself experiencing none of these dream-sensations. To the observer, the body lies listless, undisturbed, and sensationless, and the mind seems to be absent.
"Now I ask, Is there any more reality in the waking dream of mortal existence than in the sleeping dream? There cannot be, since whatever appears to be a mortal man is a mortal dream. Take away the mortal mind, and matter has no more sense as a man than it has as a tree. But the spiritual, real man is immortal." (S&H 250:14-27)
"The parent of all human discord was the Adam-dream, the deep sleep, in which originated the delusion that life and intelligence proceeded from and passed into matter. This pantheistic error, or so-called serpent, insists still upon the opposite of Truth, saying, "Ye shall be as gods;" that is, I will make error as real and eternal as Truth." (S&H 306:32-307:6)
MBE considered mortal existence as a dream. With the exception of references to the Adam-dream, however, she left us guessing about whose dream we believe ourselves to be. She also left us in the dark regarding how we interact with one another and, for that matter, how we could study material media such as S&H.
So, whose dream are you? Who must be awakened for you to be free of your illusion of mortal existence? Are we a collective or individual dream?
Do Go Be Man
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Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:25 PM
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| Very good question. I'd genuinely love to have some input from a CSist.
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Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 6:59 AM
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| Not only "Whose dream are you?" but, WHERE did the dream originate anyway? Something had to go wrong somewhere!!! How do the CS explain THAT? They don't because they can't.
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Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 2:48 PM
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| Do Go Be Man, I think I am the dreamer and I believe in what I dream , yet God is the only One who Knows and will Reveal the Truth.
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Posted Sunday, May 11, 2008 8:45 PM
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I've used this conundrum quite a few times. It comes down to these three logical (illogical?) possibilities:
1) You do not exist. You are a part/creation of my "Adam dream." Therefore, I have created you.
2) I do not exist. I am a part of your "Adam dream." I am a figment of your mortal mind.
3) Neither of us exist. We are both players in somebody else's "Adam Dream."
Whatever the answer, it implies a very extravagent and insidiously narcissistic theology. The "dreamer"* has, by virtue of his thought alone, created, ex nihilo, the ENTIRE universe! Everything that is in the space/time/energy continuum, from quarks to molecules to bacteria to Mankind to galaxies and black holes, does not exist, except in the confines of the dreamer's "dream," i.e. mind! Creation is the primary Divine activity, isn't it?
Thus, the dreamer is the (C)reator.
Therefore, the dreamer is (a) god!
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