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Second Self
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Second Life Traditions
In the Shamanic cultures that recognized the reality of the second life, the flesh and blood guide would serve as an interpreter of this seemingly strange experience. They would even use it to diagnose mental and physical health issues, but they didn’t make that split conceptually. And they didn’t consider the events of the second…
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Species Consciousness
In all of the oldest traditions, the imagery of the second life was externalized. This is why woodwork in houses often had such elaborate human and animal imagery. This happened well into written history, but has prehistoric roots. It ended around about the industrial revolution. But the reason the dreaming was so readily included in…
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Your Inner Life Is Your Outer Life
I expect being more in touch with our dream world will make us healthier people in general? Yes, it will. Also managing impulse rather than sublimating it. Resisting impulse sends a cascading message of “don’t do that” to every part of your body. The various parts not having the ability to distinguish between artefacts of…
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Unifying First And Second Life
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Fantasy And Wish Fulfillment
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The World As Human Thinking
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Public Domain
Category: Second Life
Many cultures across the world had views that spoke of not one world, but two, which we live in equally. The subconscious self in most of these second life cultures was the seat of personal power. They believed that it primarily was the recipient of the wisdom of the Gods and spirits.
The range of inner experience is huge. Humanity hasn’t begun to touch the range of its perceptions or the strength of its will. Your inner life is your outer life. Your second life is your first life. Your fantasies are your reality.
“Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.” Gerard de Nerval
“Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” Edgar Cayce (American psychic 1877-1945)