More Signpost Series and Diving Dreams

After yoga I was invited to join Deana, who I spent a great deal of time with in Mysore, and the New England Contingent for breakfast at this brilliant French restaurant. It was great to see Deana again and the rest of the group were very amiable. Good people, these yogis.

I returned to my place and decided to take a little savasana prior to madly running round. It's my last full day in the city and there are quite a few things I'd like to squeeze in.

So I fell into a deep sleep and then strangely woke from a dream. I cannot remember the details, but I was swimming in light blue waters. I took a deep breath and then dove deep underwater. I kept going down until I couldn't hold my breath any longer and began my return to the surface. I just couldn't hold on to my breath any longer but was still not up to the surface and I began to panic. Just when I was unable to hold it any more my head thrusted out of the water and I woke from the dream with a huge gasp for air. I had been holding my breath while I was asleep and it must have been for a while because to took me a good minute to recover after the gasping. It was certainly an odd way to wake. I've not experienced anything like that before.

With that documented I'll share a few fragments of writing from the New Moon Ceremony at COSM.

Beyond the fire and beyond the stars there is the vast luminous nothingness. Non-oppressive, expansive and unknowable, the infinite is. It is between light and darkness, it is beyond the scope mind yet within each thought, each breath, and each pause. Overarching, interwoven, and foundational, the implied distance between the subject and object is simply a tool to prevent immediate reintegration.

The particulates desire to be gazed upon and in the process, rendered.

The subject when gazed upon is immediately connected to the web of life and woven into the reality. When the subject in turn gazes upon the web of life the gaze pulls the veil closed. Hence the process of incarnation brings the infinite to the finite.