If you the day through are yourself and the surrounding world present, then you will not at all dream in the night

“The May Queen”, by Virginia Lee

How can you as a Life Artist understand the meaning of a dream?

If you are the dream present in passive listening it will uncover its meaning. Dreams are an indication, an exposure of the deeper motives and intentions; the anxiety, which has to do with the separation of the observer and the observed, or differently said: with your self-image and world-image, the discrepancy between idea and conduct of life.

If you as an Idler are aware, you will see, that the body has its own intelligence

Let us observe the dullness, for instance in the morning, when you get up and feel terrible indolent, without feeling like doing rather much.

Why has the body become dull? Probably you have eaten too much. The last day and night you have probably – subconscious - done all kinds of stuff in order to make the body worried and lazy. And the body says: ”For god´s sake, let me be in peace for a while!” But then you will swing the whip over it, force it to be active.

But you don´t change your way of living, you will rather take a pill in order to become active.

However, if you as an Idler are aware, you will see, that the body has its own intelligence.

It requires more than a little reason to be the body´s intelligence present. You force it, you push around with it. You are used to too much meat, you drink, smoke and all the other things you very well know, but which you do nothing for in order to change.

And therefore the body loses its own original organic intelligence.

In order to, that the body can act in an intelligent way, the mind must become rational, and it must not intervene and disturb the body.

If you are the body present in passive listening, you will see how the dullness altogether changes.

The physical and the non-physical are altogether a whole

Is there a difference between the brain and the mind?

The physical brain which is a result of the past, which is a product of evolution, of many thousand yesterdays, with all its memories, knowledge and experiences - this brain is a part of the total mind – the mind, which contains a conscious and an unconscious plane.

The physical and the non-physical are altogether a whole.

It is through thinking, evaluation, that you divide it in the conscious and the subconscious, the brain and the non-brain.

As a Life Artist you must observe the entire thing as a whole, instead of fragmented.

You are beside yourself, away from the subconscious, by being away in the conscious

Why does this division arise, between - on the one hand the conscious mind, which is wrapped up in its daily activities, worries, problems, superficial pleasures, earning one's living etc. - and, on the other hand, the deeper lying layers of the same mind, with all its hidden motives, its initiatives, its enforcing demands, its anxiety-conceptions? Why is there this division?

This division exists because we are so occupied, on the surface, by continual talking, the continual demand, on the surface, about amusement, entertainment, both of religious and of other kind.

This means that you become yourself absent, you are the deeper layers of your own mind absent.

And absence is unreality. Unreality is absence of something for the individual hidden. It is a specific condition, an emptiness, a being outside.

There is a displacement, or distortion, between the conscious and the subconscious; emptiness and loss slide in between, create reflections, displacement and darkness.

You are decentralized, beside yourself, away from the subconscious, by being away in the conscious. You are locked off from the subconscious, by being locked inside the conscious.

And this superficial mind can impossible go into depth, enter yourself, as long as this division is going on.

You must disentangle from your problems, and after having done this you achieve larger clarity

Let us presume that you have a problem.

There is something, which is called ”to sleep on it”. What happens is, that your conscious mind, which doesn't understand the problem, in order altogether to be able to fall asleep, must disentangle from the problem, and after having released itself therefrom, it achieves larger clarity.

Now the subconscious, or deeper layer, begins to project itself to the conscious mind, and when you awake the problem is quite simple solved.

So, the conscious mind, the upper layers of the consciousness, must be clarified, in order to, that the mind can be silent, so that it can receive hints or suggestions from the hidden.

The problem is that we aren´t calm.

The subconscious is just as insignificant and absurd as the conscious

You don´t need to go through any process of dream interpretation in order to reach to the subconscious.

If you the day through are yourself and the surrounding world present, yes, then you will not at all dream. Then there will be a presence of something, which not is hidden, because the mind is empty and creative.

Meditation is to empty out the mind; not just the conscious mind, but also the hidden layers of the mind, the disproportion, which is called the subconscious. And then there flows energy and life back to presence and reality.

The subconscious is in other words just as insignificant and absurd as the conscious.

And during the sleep there is a multiplicity of superficial dreams, which hardly are worth granting a thought – dreams entirely without meaning.

But then there is the dream which has a meaning, and this meaning can be understood at the very moment it is dreamt, without that there are any displacements or distortions between the interpreter and the interpreted.

But as mentioned, this is only possible when you in the day-time are all movements of your thoughts, motives, feelings and ambitions present.

It is not only on the conscious plane you shall listen, but also on the hidden plane

To be present in passive listening without that there is any inner calculator, will say, that you look at your partner, your children, without having any conceptions about them.

A conception is perhaps of superficial kind, or it is lying dwelling, deep down in the subconscious. And in the Life Artist it is not enough to listen to the conception you have pieced together outwards. Also the conceptions you have innermost you must be aware of – your conceptions about the race, about the culture, the historical perspective in the conception you have about yourself.

So, it is not only on the conscious plane you shall listen, but also on the hidden plane, deep in yourself. In all the most distant corners of the mind, there must be created a listening presence.

The subconscious is as insignificant as the conscious

Why do we attribute the subconscious so great importance and meaning?

In the end it is as insignificant as the conscious.

If the conscious mind - on the background of a passion, which doesn't seek to achieve anything - observes neutral as in a mirror, without saying yes and no, then the conscious mind becomes much more important than the subconscious.

In this state all what the subconscious contains, are being brought into daylight; the displacements between the many layers disappear.

If you the day through are yourself and the surrounding world present you will not dream at night

There are superficial dreams, and dreams that really have a meaning.

The superficial dreams are those, which are created by bodily reactions, indigestion, overfedness etc. These you don´t need to take into consideration.

The other dreams are signals from deeper layers of consciousness. Such signals have with the separation of the observer and the observed to do, the disproportion in relationship with the surrounding world, and the Now.

You don´t need to go through any process of dream interpretation in order to reach to the subconscious. If you the day through are yourself and the surrounding world present in passive listening, yes, then you will not at all dream.

Then there will be a presence of something, which not is hidden, because the mind is empty and creative.