Justin noted, “Now this is what I call a very ‘spacey’ talk!” All the students laughed as to the play on words. Merlin and Morgana did not get it at all and Tristan had to explain it to them.
Gabriel continued, “Curiously, none of us can experience more than four dimensions as the fifth, and any higher ones, are always collapsed to Planck’s Length. This means that creatures centered in the third dimension are entangled by the collapsed fourth–allowing for quantum mechanical nonlocality. But, such are unimportant for the moment.”
“It is difficult to discuss such matters without getting tangential. The bottom line is this: each of our individual brains is connected, or entangled, with the brains of everyone else via the collapsed fourth dimension of space; each of our minds is merged, or entangled, with the minds or everyone else via the collapsed fifth dimension of space. A modern analogy would be to imagine our brains as laptops or notepads connected to each other via the hardware of the internet. Moreover, if I am conducting an information dense calculation, I can distribute my calculations onto your computers so to do my work more efficiently. Whenever, Tristan and I need to communicate with each other, we simply adjust the vibratory frequency of ‘our beings’ so to bring them into resonance and our conscious minds are present no differently than if we were physically together. If you read Emanuel Swedenborg writings, you will appreciate what I am saying more thoroughly. Even more so, after you experience the Group Mind Exercise; then, you can say to me, I know!”
“So, my friends, though, your dream world is independently created by your brain, in practice, each dream is no more than a local production played upon one stage nested within a vast theater possessing an endless number of stages, orchestras, and audiences (your personas not active in the dream). Moreover, the themes, characters, stage props, and dialog of our nocturnal dramas share a universal commonality as discussed by Jung using his epigenetic model of the collective unconscious. I do hope all of you are beginning to grasp the significance of what I am saying?”
“Moreover, as we create scenarios involving the collective’s common archetypes: mother, father, hero, sibling, demons, angels and so on, each dream adds or subtracts, let us say, a ‘psychoistic vitality’ to or from our personalized archetypes. In the event, our dream activities cause one archetype to be sufficiently activated, this archetype will resonate with archetypes of similar type and valence within the dreaming mind-brains of others and be strengthened, as the enhanced archetype is a shared experience. For convenience, imagine that each one of you represents a single neuron in a vast, cosmic brain. Over time, you notice that you have become specialized so to react more efficiently to activation by one or two common archetypes. Moreover, you find you share many synaptic connections with similarly specialized neurons, such connections allowing all to fire in synchrony when properly stimulated. In other words, beings resonating together, experience together. This may sound familiar to those who have studied neuronal connectivity and memory–it is a restatement of Hebb’s Law, ‘neurons that fire together, wire together,’ for psychoism.”
“Depending upon the depth and frequency of exposure to the various archetypes in other minds, the additional material introjected into our personal unconsciousness may manifest as actual personas within. If a person introjects the archetype of a hungry ghost, he or she will tend toward greediness. If a person introjects the archetype of Satan, he or she will tend toward sociopathy, presuming his or her central nervous system is susceptible.”
“On first consideration, such resonances, in and of themselves, would not be expected to be troublesome to anyone other than the dreamer experiencing such and his or her local social surroundings. However, the process of resonance of archetypes of similar type and valence between multiple individuals is not restricted to the shared psychic connection established. Just, as these dreamers activate and share their archetypes with each other so to create a much richer and more powerful shared archetype, their activities generate a pattern in the conjoint mind. And remember, just as personal minds emerge from brains, the conjoint mind emerges from the aggregate of all brains. And here, lies the sleeping dragons!”
“For the more powerful the composite dream archetype shared between the personal unconscious sources, the more such archetypes begin to ‘live’ independently within the conjoint mind by occupying surreptitiously the mind-brains of its creators. If strong enough, such composite archetypes can become independent agents and intrude into the minds of susceptible dreamers, in the process becoming very powerful agents.”
Henry asked, “Gabriel, are you telling us that demons and angels are real? That they can enter into our minds without our permission and maybe even possess us?”