NOTE:  Presuming, I provide the public with an opportunity to travel with me on an Astral World Tour (for those of sound mind, strong fortitude, adventurous spirit, and have read all of the Institute’s blogs), such journeys will be done as a united group joined together safely by esoteric reverie.  Such travels will be done in real time, orally.

II. The Preliminaries (2)

The second complication, we must face upon approaching the empyreal world (as described in religious and occult writings) is the extravagant richness (cultural variety) of the descriptions of the geographies and resident beings composing these virtual dream worlds. Many descriptions and entities alien to our physical and mental world views. For the collective empyreal world(s) manifest not only images generated by your personal imago operators, but also those of other cognitively-advanced physically-based creatures (perhaps not even in our own physical universe).

Such richness presenting a cognitive-affective problem for new travelers, as we evolutionarily constrained so to experience the unknown and strange with anxiety, distaste, and fear. I am sure many of you have awoken from a nightmare in a cold sweat, heart racing, breathing rapid, and a feeling of great apprehension. If such feelings arise from a dream reconstructed by your personal unconsciousness, imagine the intensity of fears aroused when you deal with cognitively functional elementals, djinn, angels, demons, and monsters?

Fortunately, most visitors entering inadvertently into one of the surrounding paradream worlds are so disturbed by the experience that they never wander far from the central region of their personal unconsciousness.

So to minimize reactive anxiety and fear in their students, legitimate occult schools provide didactic instruction as to the most commonly encountered inhabitants of the paradream worlds. Moreover, new students are mentored by more experienced practitioners, including, graduated introduction to paradream world inhabitants during guided rituals, meditations, or simple assignments. The immediate goal being to demonstrate to the student, “how to expand his or her personal dream world so to comfortably move into the paradream worlds.” All magick is but a dream.

The purpose of such exercises is to focus the student on the task at hand, while forcing him or her to focus upon remaining consciously awake during the contact. In other words, “Though, I am speaking to this paradream world entity, I am not asleep within this dream world, and so can accept or reject words and actions.”

The state of wakefulness necessary is no more than occurs during daily activity when you are paying attention to what you are doing (Gurdjieff calls such ‘self-remembering’ which Ouspensky defined as ‘divided awareness of both subject and object together’). I am sure some of my readers have found themselves ‘awake in a dream’ or have practiced ‘lucid dreaming’ or ‘conscious sleep paralysis (all discussed previously).

For those of you who followed the serialization of our book, Creation and It’s Energies: Material, Vital, and Cosmic, normal human mental activity corresponds to what we characterized as ‘Sensitive Energy.’ Being present in the here and now, that is fully awake, requires an infusion of the ‘Conscious Energy’ into our mindbrain so to mix with the ‘Sensitive Energy.’

Whenever a person of normal mental facilities is asked, “Are you present now?”; he or she answers in the positive, because his or her ‘Sensitive Energy’ is touched by the ‘Conscious Energy.’ Such feeling will only last a few seconds as the person is not normally functioning on the higher plane. During such moments, a person gains the feeling of existing in time and space and more than the physical body.

If a threat is perceived, all that is required is for you to remember that you are in a dream world and your psychoempyreal self will return safely to the place your physical body resides.

So the Prime Rule is: Remember who and what you are and do not fall asleep!