CONSCIOUSNESS
Waking State as a Dream
Neville posits that the waking state is analogous to a dream, suggesting a deeper "dreamer" within us who perceives this physical world as a dream, much like…
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A Movement Of Mind
I know that I have traveled in my dreams and yet I know I have not physically left my room, for when I awoke in the morning I was still on the bed upon which I fell asleep. So I ask you: is this waking state no more than a dream? Is there a dreamer in the depths of my being who looks upon this world as a dream, just as I who -having gone to a little lower of the dream at night -awake to find I haven�t left my bed at dawn?
Neville posits that the waking state is analogous to a dream, suggesting a deeper "dreamer" within us who perceives this physical world as a dream, much like we perceive our nightly dreams. This implies a multi-layered reality where physical movement is an illusion within a larger dream.
A Movement Of Mind
Today I watched the exciting touchdown of the astronauts who had traveled to the moon and back. Then I reread what I had written back in 1954: "You do not move in waking any more than you do on your bed in sleep." Now, reason could not accept that statement. I saw the astronauts return. We have a record of their journey of a half-million miles, yet they did not move? ... Could there be a dreamer far deeper than the one who is dreaming this seeming waking state? And when he awakes from the dream of life, would he not look upon it as you look upon the dream of the night?
Despite apparent physical travel (like astronauts to the moon), the underlying reality is that all movement is a "movement of mind." The waking state is a dream, and a deeper "dreamer" within us perceives this world as such. Awakening from the "dream of life" will reveal the illusory nature of physical movement and the true, non-physical reality.