≡ The Face of Power
The first two chapters, “The Crystal Clear Reflection” and “The Space Between Thoughts,” focus on the ways that the dreaming body makes its presence known and felt from childhood through early adulthood. This is demonstrated through flying dreams, out-of-body experiences, lucid dreaming, Dissociation (fragmented consciousness), teenage anger, violence and depression, the hearing of ‘voices,’ and the richness of early sexual experiences. These chapters specifically delve into the nature of fear and belief structures, and how they can eject the dreaming body out of the physical body thereby creating a dual or split awareness and a desensitized state. Going beyond fear and rational logic, however, allow us to unite the dreaming body and physical body, and find our true path with heart.
The third and fourth chapters, “Lela’s Shadow” and “Sex, Power and Affection,” concentrate on our preoccupation with love, sex and power. It is precisely our belief that we can be saved or fulfilled by others (or by our love for others) that leads to our desire to posses others and the power that we do not find within ourselves – attachment. If this focus is altered so that the Unknown becomes the focus of our lives instead of others, then we become filled from the inside and do not seek to fill ourselves from without. Only then are we truly capable of experiencing joy and lasting affection for others. Only then are we capable of manifesting a power based on joy instead of a power based on dominance or possession.
The heart of chapter five, “The Longing” is the never-ending desire of the dreaming body to find its way home and back to those whom it longs for. We unconsciously give ‘flyers’ or ghosts – other types of energies that exist alongside our own – the ability to help us co-create a fear of joy and various self-fulfilling prophecies that restrict our ability to realize lasting joy and happiness in our lives. We actually destroy ourselves and choose to live in lack.
Chapters six and seven, “The Predilection to Dream” and “The Many Faces of Power,” demonstrate how lucid dreaming, energy work, psychic abilities, out-of-body experiences and self-healing are the natural by-products of a dreaming body that is not impeded by thoughts, beliefs, expectations and fears. All of these ‘supernatural’ abilities are actually natural and normal functions of the dreaming body when it is allowed to guide and blend with the awareness of the physical body. In this state, linear time ceases to exist and we discover parallel worlds and our ability to venture into them at will. In this state, we can see and manipulate energy.
In the last chapter, “New Units of Awareness,” the long-forgotten abilities of the dreaming body are brought to light. As our scientists continue to explore the historical and archaeological evidence of ancient cultures, they are discovering more questions than answers: Why are there mass graves in ancient Nubia filled with people who were all found to be in perfect health when they died? Why have bones or mummies never been found in Egyptian, Mayan or Incan pyramids? Why are there mummies in the middle of the Xinjiang desert in ancient China that died in pits lined with bricks and covered with thatched wooden roofs? All of the answers involve the mysterious abilities of the dreaming body. The ancients simply devoted their energies and resources to the world of the dreaming body rather than to the world of the physical body – the exact opposite of what we do today.
