{"id":373,"date":"2012-03-04T11:22:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T19:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2012-03-04T11:22:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T19:22:56","slug":"low-grade-mysticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Low-Grade Mysticism?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I\u2019ve been contemplating the nature of some more vivid dream images, it occurred to me that I\u2019m experiencing in dream-imagery some aspects of the lower levels of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life<\/a>. Semi-mythically speaking, \u201cmy\u201d angels\u2014the super-conscious forces, personified, of whatever is \u201cgrowing\u201d me\u2014have been reminding me increasingly of the seemingly infinite horizons in every direction: dream forms of lights, circus stages with floating aerial acts, story-lines and episodes with all variations. \"30312bday\"<\/a> (The picture on the right suggests the colors and tones, though it wasn\u2019t a birthday card—it was a very large stage with floating lovely-colored creatures and sparkles. (And then in the dream I went backstage into the \u201cprop\u201d room and discovered innumerable types of lamps and lights!)<\/p>\n

On later reflection, it\u2019s awesome that this incredible variety draws only from those forms that are part of my broadest of cultural heritages\u2014but apart from that, others in different cultures populate their dreamscapes with animals and plants that I don\u2019t even know exist, others whose behavior or significance I don\u2019t recognize, and spirit forms that fit only that culture\u2014yet it\u2019s equally diverse. And even within my own culture, as I think about it, there are a near-infinity of sub-cultures, hobby-interests, sub-ethnicities, and forms, tastes, images, sub-plots, and nuances that I couldn\u2019t even imagine. We deeply live in different \u201cworlds,\u201d if we recognize that the world where we overlap and interact is only one level and beyond that there are many other levels of increasing differentiation. <\/p>\n

As a picture, we all live in one planet (or three-dimensional material matrix), which is like the sea-bed. But above it are multiple ecological realms where different creatures thrive on different mixtures of light and air\u2014and these beyond-the-sea-bed dimensions also become sea-bed when they transist (die) and their skeletons and body parts sink down and become part of our world. We on the sea bed hardly know where-from these sources of new food and minerals come. The fish will be the last to realize that it lives in water\u2014and that water is different from dry land or air, and that beyond those, there are the depths of the planet and the vastness of space. <\/p>\n

But my angels, bless their over-souls, are clue-ing me in, so I can transmit the message to you: There are realms beyond, above, within, more essential in some ways. (On the other hand, our particularities, our ordinary world, is as essential to them as the chessboard is to chess players\u2014we are the playing field. Without us, there\u2019s no game\u2014at least at this level. God needs us to dance with\u2014we are God\u2019s fingers and toes\u2014as much as we need God to be the source of energy and form from which we dance.  Enough and back to other tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I\u2019ve been contemplating the nature of some more vivid dream images, it occurred to me that I\u2019m experiencing in dream-imagery some aspects of the lower levels of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. Semi-mythically speaking, \u201cmy\u201d angels\u2014the super-conscious forces, personified, of whatever is \u201cgrowing\u201d me\u2014have been reminding me increasingly of the seemingly infinite horizons in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-play-and-spontaneity","category-spirituality-and-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}