No Time For Fear

 [First posted 11/9/21]

There is no power (or Source) outside myself. 

There is no room for fearful thoughts, I turn away from them and they do not exist.

I am an immortal being so therefore there is no time. 

And so there is no time for fear, anxiety, worry and doubt, now and forever now. 

There is only the experience of my being forever here and now.

Klex of the I Ching – L’Été 2025

 

(Above are just 5 of over 100 "I Ching Klex" as manifested and painted by August Goforth & Hermann Rorschach [See Note: 1 below].  His original "10 Blots" can be seen in the Footnotes at the end of this posting.)

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This posting is an extension of the current and ongoing art project between Hermann Rorschach and myself – the link to the gallery of our images at the Risen Gallery of Dreams can be found HERE.

This gallery presentation is the first of what may be a 4-part series, as guided by the 4 Seasons. Thus, this first one is called “Klex of the I Ching – L’Été 2025”.

Other previous painting projects manifested with certain individuals, including Boris Pasternak and William Hurt, can be found HERE. (Once there, scroll down a bit to locate their works called "Spirit Artifacts").

Originally I was only working alone, exploring the possibility of expressing the Rune Stones in some kind of painterly manner. Somehow, in the ways of mediumship and art that are and most likely will always be inexplicable, Hermann was drawn to the energies I was projecting whilst handling the Runes and various art materials to see what might be done. Of course I was quite excited and opened up the gateway for his continued contact, which has since become a more established and steady portal between us.

However, it soon became clear that in spite of having transitioned 103 years ago, he was still essentially confused and scattered about his actual transition. Later this lack of expected clarity was explained by the basic lack in his earthly beliefs, understanding and experience of The Afterlife. It was also eventually revealed that his sudden appearance in my art studio was not random, but part of a sophisticated, ongoing campaign to awaken him to the spiritual clarity that is the birthright of us all into the Realms of Spirit. Such campaigns are usually known as “spirit rescues” and by my acknowledgement and willingness to engage with him and his unfolding transmutation, was onboarded to the ”rescue team.”

After I did a lot of research on his life, greatly aided by Damion Searls’ book “The Inkblots”,  "Hermann Rorschach's Psychodiagnostics - Newly Translated & Annotated 100th Anniversary Edition: (Hogrefe Publishing Corp) and also several hard-to-find writings by his wife, began to reach my own clarity as to his current state of mind and how to assist his continued spiritual enlightenment. It took more than an earthly month of time for him to finally come to an understanding that he was not in a dream state, nor drugged in some way, nor in a medical coma of some kind. This same month also gave me time to establish the fact that while on earth, he gave very little thought or exploration into the possibility of life after death — not that he wouldn’t have been able to do so with the well-known brilliance and energy he was known to have brought to his psychiatric practice and for the immense love for his wife and two children — but he was far too focused on and satisfied with life in the present. Also, he was just at the beginning of the career he chose over instead becoming an artist, and so was not prepared for his sudden transition at the age of 37 from a burst appendix — the symptoms of which he had purposely ignored, choosing instead to focus on the needs of his patients, until it was too late.

[“Synchronistically” I was also able to locate and acquire an original set of the 10 inkblots, which are supposedly not ever allowed to be obtained by anyone other than certified specialists. I myself am certified and licensed in the US as a trained psychotherapist of many years, but even that doesn’t qualify me to own and use them. However, as it so often happens in the mediumistic, spiritual matters that manifest in my life, and as part of the orchestration that brought Hermann and I together, also brought an unexpected resource of a particular collector/hoarder’s basement. And lo, they found their way into my hands for study and a deepening understanding of our artistic collaboration. At the time of my online searching, I wasn’t able to even find viable reproductions of them, so at some possible blurry risk, I am including the images of the 10 original blots here in  this blog posting (see below). The Reader is encouraged to study these and compare them with those Hermann and I have manifested.]

At first I assumed that our work with the Runes would be part of his development, but as he achieved more and more clarity and his brilliant mind was able to grasp and accept the complex reality of what was happening between us, he began to resist the Runes, as they didn’t interest him. He had been aware of them while on earth, and had even explored them briefly when developing his “blots”. But he had actually and secretly been drawn to the I Ching system, which was hardly known or recognized in the West/Europe, and most certainly would not have been acceptable on a professional level of a doctor of Western Medicine. [See Note: 1 below] The translated text did not achieve broader cultural influence until after Richard Wilhelm’s German translation in 1923, (a year after Hermann transitioned) which coincided with increased Western interest through figures such as Carl Jung, who wrote the very excellent forward to Wilhelm’s translation — highly recommended!).

And so after I finally understood what he was trying to convey to me, and ceased trying to force him to concentrate on the Runes, he was able to break through my resistance and the project which would become “Klex of the I Ching – L’Été 2025” began!

It took us about 2 months of exploring various materials — paper, paint, ink, specialized pencils, and wax — as well as techniques in folding the many and various kinds of paper — as well as producing hundreds of failures — that we turned away from all other already-established processes for making basic ink-blots (and there are many) and finally developed our own successful and reliable protocol. The Klex on view at the Risen Gallery of Dreams are all on only one or two particular kinds of watercolour paper, applying water-based inks (over 120 different kinds and colours so far) and manipulating those inks in certain ways onto paper that has been folded in certain ways. Many of the inks are complex formulae, instilled with all kind of metallic shimmering and sheening, as well as shading substances. The original “Rorschach Blots” are 9 9/16ths X 6 5/8ths inches in size – a size that took Hermann and the publishers ages to arrive at for some unknown reason. Our images are mainly 7 X 10 inches, with a few at 6 X 9 inches.

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NOTES:

(1) Hermann Rorschach (1884–1922) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst best known for creating the Rorschach inkblot test, a projective psychological test designed to analyze personality and unconscious thoughts. Originally interested in art, influenced by his painter father, Rorschach combined his artistic background with medical science, graduating in medicine from the University of Zurich in 1909. He began experimenting with inkblots as a diagnostic tool while still a student, fascinated by how different people interpreted ambiguous shapes. After working in Swiss psychiatric hospitals, he published his foundational book, Psychodiagnostik, in 1921, detailing the use of 10 inkblots to assess mental health. He died prematurely at 37, but his inkblot test has remained widely used in psychology, psychiatry, and related fields to understand personality and diagnose mental illness.

Hermann Rorschach created his inkblots by combining his interest in art and psychology. Some scholars assume he was inspired by a childhood game called Klecksography, where inkblots were made and stories created about them, and that he refined this playful technique into a scientific tool. Jung and even Thoreau, among many others had played with inkblots in those days.

However, Damion Searls, in his book “The Inkblots”, a very good biography of Rorschach, feels that “Klex” (the German name for “inkblot” was the nickname given to Hermann when he was at the elite, 6-year Gymnasium, an academic high school, by his fellow students. It was standard for the young men to give each other a nickname, and in his case, “Klex” did not mean “inkblot” but that he was known to be very good with pen and ink, and who drew quickly and well. (There are archived examples of the charming but very sophisticated drawings and paintings, as well as highly-sophisticated puppets he made for his children.)

Later, on, in his psychiatric practice, rather than simple random inkblots, Rorschach carefully crafted each blot with symmetrical contours meant to evoke specific yet ambiguous images. Between 1917 and 1920, he experimented with over forty inkblots on psychiatric patients and observed how those with different mental disorders, especially schizophrenia, responded variably.

Rorschach selected fifteen blots for their diagnostic potential and later reduced them to ten for publication due to practical constraints. These ten cards include both black-and-white and colored symmetrical inkblots designed to provoke a wide range of perceptions around animals, humans, objects, or abstract shapes. The test works by encouraging individuals to project their unconscious thoughts onto these ambiguous images, revealing insights into their personality and cognitive functioning. The process involves showing each blot to a subject and recording their spontaneous interpretations, which are later analyzed to detect patterns associated with different psychological conditions.

(2) The I Ching, also known as the "Book of Changes," is an ancient Chinese divination text dating back over 3,000 years. It functions both as a philosophical system and a tool for guidance, describing the fundamental principles of reality and the dynamics of change through the interaction of complementary forces called yin and yang. The core of the I Ching consists of 64 hexagrams—figures made of six stacked lines that are either broken (yin) or solid (yang)—each representing different states or processes of change. Traditionally, divination is performed by casting yarrow stalks or coins to generate a hexagram, which is then interpreted through the text's verses and commentaries to provide insight and advice on various life situations. The I Ching has had a profound influence on Chinese philosophy, including Taoism and Confucianism, serving as both an oracle and a deep ethical guide.

The Original "Rorschach Blots":

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The Lightening of Internal Gravity

"Vast emptiness, nothing holy!" ~ Bodhidharma (1)

       Unaware of the ego-mind’s back-door technique, we may assume that the only way to deal with it is to attack and destroy it, as well as the simulate selves and their thoughts, as if rooting out unwanted, persistent weeds from the garden of the mind. But the ego-mind, an integral part of our materialized existence, is here to stay, and there are gentle, creative, aware responses that bring the situation to the infinite openness of compassion. Because we are essentially spirit, all matters of the heart and mind are first addressed in some spiritual way, beginning with directing the will. For most individuals, free will does not yet exist, and much effort will have to be made to gain psychological freedom while seeking the spiritual clarity for which they yearn. (2)   One cannot regain free will on one’s own; assistance must be requested. Communing with one’s Authentic Self while requesting spiritual assistance can be done in solitude or with The Risen, through formal or informal prayers and meditation.
       Although seemingly counterintuitive, sensing spiritual being as an embodied human actually begins with first bringing the attention to the body. The body has its own inherent wisdom to direct us, if we can get to an internal place of quiet so we can hear and listen. Non-competitive exercise, journaling, psychotherapy, chanting, listening to music, guided imagery recordings, singing, dancing, drumming, painting—all may lift the focus from that which is dark and heavy toward a finer vibration that lightens internal gravity. As inner gravity is lightened, muscles and tendons release and relax and begin to smile. Done on a regular basis, these things will maintain a healthy mind-body system.
       We each must find our own ways—which often cycle and change—to get quiet within. After connecting with the body, talking and listening to it, a course of inner direction will make itself known. There are usually no direct instructions, only feelings that emerge and flow with the spontaneity of a new mountain stream. We aim our conscious awareness inwardly by directing our attention away from the world assumed to be outside our body. We declare to the Universe/Higher Power/God/Deepest Loved One that we honestly don’t know what we’re doing or what to do next, but that we are willing to receive help. Asking for help needs no special skills, no holiness or advanced spirituality—we come just as we are. If we don’t know how to ask for help then we can say so and ask for guidance on how to ask, and then be at least willing to trust that some kind of answer will come.
       Be willing to be willing without ceasing, especially whenever feeling the slightest hesitation of doubt, and ignore the ego-mind’s insistence that you don’t need help. You may have to find this inner quiet literally thousands of times a day. The ego-mind will be just as persistent in interrupting the silence with the voice of a negative simulate self, because it knows what’s at stake.


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(1)  When one "empties one's self", there are those who believe that Higher Self or, perhaps, God, can then fill the emptiness. This idea mistakenly approaches the situation from a viewpoint of limitation. Subjectively, from the level of ego-mind, negativity can be removed, and replaced with its polar opposite of positivity. However, the absolute realization, when ego-mind is stilled, is that what was perceived as empty is actually fullness of Self.
(2) Here, “psychological freedom” means freedom from psychological time—that is, freedom from memories. – AG

[Excerpted from the chapter "Ego-mind and The Simulate Selves.] 

The Challenges of the Skeptic Materialist

[First published 5/15/13]

"As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish
the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth."
— Boris Pasternak

(Special thanks to Dr. Julia Assante who also published the following at her blog, The Last Frontier.)

      As physical mediumship continues to re-emerge into the 21^st century and becomes increasingly more familiar to worldwide spiritual communities, materialist skeptics are also rising to what their ego-minds perceive as a challenge of some kind.

      Who are these resistant and avoidant skeptics, anyway? Do they need any more attention? I recently happened to re-read Soul Force, written by a friend and colleague, Paul Olsen, (1933-2001) a brilliant clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and successfully published novelist. I found what he had to say about skeptics quite stimulating and share it here:

“Skepticism is one of the most prevalent and damaging counterforces to recognizing the power of the soul, a short-circuit par excellence of inner energy. It prevents a living connection, and so it keeps us deadened, inert, checks our every movement.

“The problem with skepticism is that it has become an accepted position. It is even supposed to label a person ‘smart.’ But skepticism is total passivity: you don’t have to do, feel, or think anything at all to be a skeptic. All you have to do is say No. You just have to be negative. It’s an uncharged position, like a dead battery; it has no life to it. It’s a wall trying to dam up a flow.

“The ‘position’ is accepted because it comes from the misuse and misunderstanding of the scientific viewpoint which for decades has had us by the throats. It’s a show-me position that takes the place of imagination with as deadly an effect as a surgical brain transplant.

“Skepticism is a position of arrogance—and it is utterly devoid of imagination and creativity. No spontaneity at all. Yet how can such total passivity be so arrogant? Precisely because anything so passive, so inert, so without curiosity and a sense of wonder, finds itself cut off from its own energy—and so it lives in a world of being acted upon by forces outside itself, and in its helplessness it becomes arrogant. Helplessness—then it feels fear and becomes a dictator that persecutes anything new and different. In psychology this is called ‘overcompensation.’ But kids peg it in a different way: inside every bully is a coward. The skeptic hurts himself far more than he can ever hurt you.

“Maybe at this point you might be asking: what about the ‘healthy’ skeptic? The person who isn’t in the habit of buying the Brooklyn Bridge or getting set up by con men? The ‘healthy’ skeptic hangs loose. The healthy skeptic doesn’t believe everything he hears—but what he does is investigate. Not with the idea of disproving something, but with the idea of finding something that may enrich him. Implicit in the healthy skeptic is that he might find something, and so he sets off actively. He seeks experience. Openly. And so he is not really a skeptic at all. He just wants to do it himself.

“The true skeptic will ... avoid exploration, the main reason being that someone has suggested it to him. He will call it all nonsense. But how can he know it is anything at all unless he tries? Obviously he won’t try, so therefore he knows nothing. Or he will try only to defeat the purpose.

“It is important for the skeptic that nothing ever happens.

“So we can say, with pretty good assurance, that the skeptic keeps himself deliberately in ignorance, in his dark trap. This idea is crucial for almost all that follows. Skepticism is a position of inert, self-willed ignorance. It is soulless.

“The ‘healthy’ skeptic, if you want to use that term, will try—with the idea of experiencing something. And that is a position of self-willed knowledge.” ⁽¹⁾

      The Italian mystic, Massimo Scaligero (1906-1980) reveals many hidden ideas in his exploratory offerings about materialism:

“Materialism is our faith in matter. We do not know how to experience matter by means of the concrete forces of thinking. Materialism is the most obscure mysticism, for it purports to be the opposite of mysticism simply because it is nourished by mathematical calculation and dialectical abstractions. It feeds our inner weaknesses with the dead products of thinking. By failing to penetrate matter, such thinking elevates it to a mystical reality without any awareness that it does so. No bigot devotes him or herself more faithfully to the object of this or her opiated faith than does the materialist.

“Materialism ... signifies the actual situation of present-day humanity. Materialism is the uncognized and, therefore, the unelaborated basis of all the doctrines and spiritualisms, traditional or not, which ignore the underlying process that gives rise to material appearances. It shuns the task of confronting the problem of the physical objectivity of nature: sensory perceptions and its coming into being as representation. This is a problem that cannot be solved theoretically, but only through the active penetration of reality.

“ A corresponding ... error, which leaves the authority of matter over us unchanged, is to accept the physical world as it is, and matter as it appears. With this error, we engage in abstracted experiments or calculations with the physical world and material appearances, or we seek to transcend them theoretically or mystically.” ⁽²⁾

      Some people are Skeptics with a capital S. These Professional Skeptics feel it’s their job to remain closed in their minds and hearts while retaining the right to question anything. Many of them include scientists, who represent a very small minority of humanity on earth, but have been placed on pedestals that raise them above the majority. This misapprehension disempowers the majority, disabling them from assessing their own valid experiences of personal reality. Science has given us brilliant advances in many aspects of human living, but not without a lot of trials and errors. The facets of truth that science presents as dogma are often successful in creating distractions from those with alternate viewpoints. Yet scientific history consistently reveals the inevitable result of radical exchanges of such dogma. Former universally accepted and supposedly proven axioms are continually replaced by new discoveries, which are then made formal by a collective agreement of this minority. Such has been the course of mainly Western science as it has evolved on earth. This is finally changing as science rediscovers the idea of the energy we call spirit. Science is wonderful, amazing, and necessary, and can provide a certain amount of insight into our existence, but not all. Given the amazing changes in our scientific world-views over the past one hundred years, can we truly think we can now put a cap on what is to come in the next hundred?

      Earthly, western scientific methods are not derived from Nature, but from human minds that see themselves as separate from it. But it’s not the only way of thinking about things. If something can be seen, held, heard, smelled and felt, then scientific measurement can be applied. If they’re too subtle to be detected beyond the senses, then they’re beyond known scientific methods.

      The materialistic reductionist models of Western science have attempted to govern humankind’s world-mind for the past two centuries. This is particularly exemplified in the dominant Darwinian life-models. These reified theories have been less concerned with subjective value issues, focusing primarily on objective experiences manifested by those human senses that can be used to physically see, hear, touch, smell, taste, and measure. Traditionally, materialistic science has sought to gather, weigh, measure, compare, and ultimately predict and control aspects of our existence, even if no under-standing of the phenomenon is ever gained. Value is seen in terms of who can predict with the greatest accuracy, and thus who will have the most control. The Global Madison Avenue, or the world of advertising, uses materialistic science to assign value to whatever market they wish to control, including their primary target, the mental market of the masses—the collective ego-mind. One does not have to look too deeply to reach the conclusion that most of our modern societal beliefs—and worldly ones as well—are created, maintained, and controlled by the collaborative efforts of the media and the Global Madison Avenue. Imagine what might happen if the same energy from the efforts placed into creating and selling fossil fuel-burning cars was channeled into communication with the Risen.

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(1) From the chapter “Freeing Your Emotion” in Soul Force: A Step-by-Step Guide to Inner Strength, by Paul Olsen, Ph.D, 1978, New York: M. Evans & Company. Quoted with kind permission by the author's family. This book is freely accessible at an online archive at: http://archive.org/details/soulforcereleasi00olse

(2) From the chapter “Forces of Opposition: Mediumship” in The Light: An Introduction to Creative Imagination by Massimo Scaligero, 2001 (translated by Eric L. Bisbocci, Lindisfarne Books,) SteinerBooks/Anthroposophic Press/Lindisfarne Books, 610 Main Street, Gt. Barrington, MA 01230. Quoted with kind permission by the publisher.

Notes of August: Alignment is All (I)

Oceanus-Tethys

 Alignment is All.

I must be very very caring and consciously,deliberately selective and picky about my moment to moment thinking. My Now signal. The universe always says yes. I say yes.

Power is in my thought and not my reaction to life.

Pay less attention to what is and more attention to who I really am, which is really What Is.

I am a center in God’s Being. It is the pulse of Life in all there is to me.

I am the child of God and heir to all the Father hath. As I let my inner self see things in their entirety and in their right relation, I know that the Spirit of Life and Power is back of all that is visible in this world.

Everything I need today will come to me.

I declare: Life. Abundance. Clarity. Tranquility. Brilliance. Illumination. Immortality. Prosperity. Abundance. Health. Wealth. Opulence. Quietude. Alignment. Peace. Ease. Tranquil peace. Peaceful tranquility. Perfect health. Perfect peace. Perfect tranquility. Perfect Abundance. Perfect ease. Easy peace. Eezy Peezy.

My word shall accomplish that which I please because it is not I, but the Father within me who doeth the work. Today I lose myself in the One Mind of God. Today I center my thought in His mind and my word flows directly from it. Everything I say today shall be spoken from that “ Secret place of the Most High.”

Thought or Imagination of the Spirit is the great reality of Being, and all material facts are only correspondences.

I am a center in God’s Being. It is the pulse of Life in all there is to me.

I am the child of God and heir to all the Father hath. As I let my inner self see things in their entirety and in their right relation, I know that the Spirit of Life and Power is back of all that is visible in this world.

God is Omnipotent Power in me. I am now in a totally fearless state of mind. Neither change nor problem rob my peace. This is simply so because I have ceased looking for help and solution outside of myself. I turn within and let God’s Mind reveal what is already known to It beforehand.

My Now signal

An interval, which is preparation for the good to come, and which sometimes is negatively thought of as a delay.

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Painting by AGoforth; to view other paintings: Gallery of Dreams.

Notes of August: The Quiet Whispering

   
     "The subjective mind is the builder of the body. Then, on the same principle, if we realize that the subjective mind is the builder of the body, and that the body is subject to no influences except those which reach it through the subjective mind, then what we have to do is to impress this upon the subjective mind and habitually think of it as a fountain of perpetual Life, which is continually renovating the body by building in strong and healthy material, in the most complete independence of any influences of any sort, save those of our own desire impressed upon our own subjective mind by our own thought.
    "When once we fully grasp these considerations we shall see that it is just as easy to externalize healthy conditions of body as the contrary. Practically the process amounts to a belief in our own power of life; and since this belief, if it be thoroughly domiciled within us, will necessarily produce a correspondingly healthy body, we should spare no pains to convince ourselves that there are sound and reasonable grounds for holding it. To afford a solid basis for this conviction is the purpose of Mental Science."

~ Thomas Troward

I am free to be.

"I AM the heir of eternal expansion and clothed in my right to partake of it. Oh, do not ever again let me be poor-spirited or faded or gnarled in form! I want the richly patterned life. I want to be gorgeously spirited, I want the ceremonial beauty and fragrance of the spirit. I want the freedom of its force. I want the quiet whispering of its wisdom. I want the simplicity of its love. Oh help me to the fullness of life! I pray for the fullness of life with an undivided heart, so that I may rest absorbing strength, not emptying myself of life!"

~ Betty (SEWhite, Across The Unknown)

"Stars on a Pond" painting by AGoforth; to view other paintings: Gallery of Dreams.

Notes of August: The Nowness of New ~ The Newness of Now

 . . . more copies of my private notes that have slowly emerged over the many years . . . 

"Poppies 1" from the series,
"101 Poppies"

Power is in my thought and not my reaction to what’s going on around me. 

Rather than first taking action, I first allow my vibration to adjust itself. 

All thoughts of fear, doubt, worry, and anxiety are removed from my mind, now and forever now. 

Now I rise and rest in relaxation as an easy, cooperative component of universal harmony — now. 

My life is constantly renewing itself; therefore now is new and I am able to let my life continually evolve forward as it also continues to fade into the past. 

The forward manifesting and its receding could be conceptualized and mentally experienced as happening simultaneously, therefore merging in such a way that any anxious experience of time is rendered equalized and balanced, and so therefore I can only rest in the  nowness of new, and the newness of now.

I rest in the  nowness of new, 

and the newness of now.

Notes of August: I let God be God in me.

I no longer try to change outer things. They are simply a reflection. I change my inner perception, and the outer reveals the beauty so long obscured by my own attitude. I concentrate on my vision and find my outer view transformed. I find myself attuned to the grandeur of life and in unison with the perfect order of the universe.

I’m putting the boat in the water wherever I am, and my knowledge that the stream is ever flowing toward all that I have become and am becoming is enough for me to feel satisfaction with where I am.

 I let God be God in me.

"Horizon VI"
(click on image to see a larger version)

Painting by AGoforth; to view other paintings: Gallery of Dreams.

Freedom is feeling presence, not an absence.

 Freedom is not merely the absence of restraint but a state of belonging and love, rooted in correspondence.

 True spiritual freedom, then, is realized not in isolation but in empathic communion and communing with Source, which is also one’s very own Spirit.

Freedom is feeling presence, not an absence.

Notes of August: Meditation

 [More notes from my private writings]

Meditation is the art of letting go of the tensions of the world so that I can once again be conscious that: “I am in the center of the divine flow.”

I let my mind and heart release all that disturbs me. I let my body be still and all the frettings of my body and all that surrounds it. I let the earth and sea and air be still and heaven itself; and I think of spirit as streaming, pouring, rushing, shining into me, through me and out from me in all directions while I sit quietly. The whole infinite process is in support of me, will never let me go, and I can never get out of it. The truth is that I am always in this relationship with the infinite even though I am not always conscious of it.

Notes of August: I Don't Know

 [Continued notes from my private writings]

"Sunset, Sunrise"

When I completely accept this moment, when I no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. I am fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way. This state of inner nonresistance opens me to the unconditioned consciousness that is infinitely greater than the human mind.

When I fully accept that I don't know, I give up struggling to find answers with the limited thinking mind, and that is when a greater intelligence can operate through me. And even thought can then benefit from that, since the greater intelligence can flow into it and inspire it. Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

Mystery

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Painting by AGoforth; to view other paintings: Gallery of Dreams.

Notes of August" Dreaming Reality

[More notes from my private writings]

"Marsh Mallow Dreams of Fiona"

Thought or Imagination of the Spirit is the Great Reality of Being, and all material facts are only correspondences. In other words, the Great Reality of Being arises into many diverse kinds of forms, dream-like, or dreamily, from our awakening from dwelling in what may be called “underconsciousness”. 

We interpret this dream dwellingness as “the world” or “our world”. This Dreaming Reality increasingly and continuously emerges and expands from our gradually awakening consciousness into an evolving, consciously alive experience of Living Reality that continues to unfold unceasingly — forever awakening. 

   For most embryonic awakening beings, at first their personal and unique experience of Reality will be indistinguishable from sleeping and from sleepy dreaming. We continue to sleepily, and still mostly indistinguishably, experience the rising and falling, the in-and-out contrasting rhythms of the universal tides of the Great Ocean that is one’s Resting Source. These “tides” are the “breathing” of Resting Source. Gradually we will begin to more consciously distinguish this contrasting rhythm of dreaming realities. We will then begin to increasingly align in union with the Universal Rhythms when we relax and resist not — resting and drowsing, so to speak — to go along, always without worry, floating and drifting with the ebb and flow of ever-arising Reality manifesting from the Infinite. 

    Our dreaming is an ever-emerging awakening into further personal and personalizing reality — reality is an ever-emerging experience into further dreaming. We can continue to distinguish this rhythm of dreaming realities, increasingly relaxing with decreasing resistance, without worry, floating and drifting with the ebb and flow of ever-arising Reality manifesting from the Infinite. 

     And then, at last, with awakened and yet never-ending awakening awe at the un-articulatable Glory of Never-Ending, Unending Mystery, we will continue our Journey, Forever Onward — consciously. One awakens in the dream, while the dream continues on . . . .

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Painting by AGoforth; to view other paintings: Gallery of Dreams.