Kriology II Recording 14
"'Who are you? What are you? What do you want of me? What are you trying to tell me?' Now, all you’re doing is probing a piece of consciousness called a thought or a dream symbol. And this is a good exercise, because when you go over into the higher astral, the symbols, I suppose, have deeper meaning or more time-related relationships. They have symbols that may have meaning two years, five years, ten years down the road." |
Illustration by Swami Mayananda (Rebecca Romanoff)
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In this recording, Kriyananda tells how to communicate with dream symbols. Being able to do this will help us communicate with beings we meet on the astral.
"Talk to the symbol. Just talk to it. And after you talk a while, stop and listen for a while. And you’ll be amazed what your mind says. You say it’s all imagination and the answer is, that’s right. But imagination is a real, real force. As you talk to the symbol you’ll be amazed what you yourself reveal to yourself about your symbol that you dreamt of."
Please listen to the recording once, then listen again using the PDF outline below.
When you are ready, please answer the study questions. They will help you assimilate the teachings. We suggest that you answer them in your own spiritual notebook. Your answers are private and for yourself alone.
We have also provided an answer key that you can access if you wish. The answer key PDF is at the bottom of the page.
"Talk to the symbol. Just talk to it. And after you talk a while, stop and listen for a while. And you’ll be amazed what your mind says. You say it’s all imagination and the answer is, that’s right. But imagination is a real, real force. As you talk to the symbol you’ll be amazed what you yourself reveal to yourself about your symbol that you dreamt of."
Please listen to the recording once, then listen again using the PDF outline below.
When you are ready, please answer the study questions. They will help you assimilate the teachings. We suggest that you answer them in your own spiritual notebook. Your answers are private and for yourself alone.
We have also provided an answer key that you can access if you wish. The answer key PDF is at the bottom of the page.
Recording #14
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1. What should you do when you have a dream that’s important, and you find what you feel to be a key symbol in the dream?
2. What is another method of doing the same thing?
3. Why is it important to learn to talk with dream symbols?
4. Where is the mind of the body found?
5. When you store something in the cells of your body, where is it stored?
6. What does the type of protein one eats determine?
7. What happens if one becomes a vegetarian?
8. If you store too much data in the cells of your body, what does the body do?
9. Which types of memories are stored in the petals of which chakras?
10. Are people normally aware of the memories stored in the Mercury chakra?
11. What would happen to most of us if we tried, without preparation, to move to the causal plane?
12. What do we need to do to prepare to enter the causal plane?
13. Why did Shelly say, “Meditate, meditate, meditate”?
14. What is religion about, and what is mysticism about?
15. Why is it an obstacle to be too attached to who we are?
16. How can we avoid this problem?
17. Why is the bliss of cosmic consciousness the ultimate defense from the Reality?
18. How can we stop the body from just running on its karmic patterning of the past?
19. Is it possible for us to destroy ourselves, by suicide or otherwise?
20. Both mystically and psychologically, what type of person is most healthy?
21. What are the two types of yogis?
22. How do you create an internal good environment so that you can create an external good environment?
23. What do you do when your Ishta Devata has fulfilled itself and is just a concept?
24. What three things are needed to project into the astral world?
25. What is astral preparation meditation?
26. If you know the chakra from which one of these fears originates, what can you do? Give an example.
27. What will happen if, because you are afraid of heights, you cross over into the astral horizontally?
2. What is another method of doing the same thing?
3. Why is it important to learn to talk with dream symbols?
4. Where is the mind of the body found?
5. When you store something in the cells of your body, where is it stored?
6. What does the type of protein one eats determine?
7. What happens if one becomes a vegetarian?
8. If you store too much data in the cells of your body, what does the body do?
9. Which types of memories are stored in the petals of which chakras?
10. Are people normally aware of the memories stored in the Mercury chakra?
11. What would happen to most of us if we tried, without preparation, to move to the causal plane?
12. What do we need to do to prepare to enter the causal plane?
13. Why did Shelly say, “Meditate, meditate, meditate”?
14. What is religion about, and what is mysticism about?
15. Why is it an obstacle to be too attached to who we are?
16. How can we avoid this problem?
17. Why is the bliss of cosmic consciousness the ultimate defense from the Reality?
18. How can we stop the body from just running on its karmic patterning of the past?
19. Is it possible for us to destroy ourselves, by suicide or otherwise?
20. Both mystically and psychologically, what type of person is most healthy?
21. What are the two types of yogis?
22. How do you create an internal good environment so that you can create an external good environment?
23. What do you do when your Ishta Devata has fulfilled itself and is just a concept?
24. What three things are needed to project into the astral world?
25. What is astral preparation meditation?
26. If you know the chakra from which one of these fears originates, what can you do? Give an example.
27. What will happen if, because you are afraid of heights, you cross over into the astral horizontally?
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