Dream
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Date: Posted 7 years before Aug 10, 2018
Marcia Beloved 7 years ago
I had the following dream:
Someone asked me if I knew about spider veins. I said yes. I have some of those and so did my mother.
I looked down at my leg, and saw extensive spider veins. Then all I saw was the veins branching out which then transformed into 2 elongated representations, sort of like tattoos, of:
1) St. Michael, with his crown and royal floor length robe.
2) A pairing of consorts from Hindu mythology, who looked as if
they were Radha and Krishna or Laksmi and Narayana.
I was raised Christian but never worshiped any of the saints, nor took Christianity very seriously.
I have much exposure to Deity worship through living at a Hare Krishna temple and doing home Deity worship but was always a little skeptical.
How would one figure out the significance of such a dream?
MiBeloved 7 years ago
It is not a good idea to think that all dreams must have significance. For one thing this presumption about dreams causes the mind to become tense and thus not be able to really make use of the dream.
Dreams should be seen as occurrences which are either astral happenings in a real astral world, or just imaginative mock-ups in the mind.
Since the mind is involved in imagination, people have a distrust about dreams and try to relegate all dreams to being just imagination.
One has to try to sort honestly between what is an imagination in the mind and what is an actual dream in the life of astral existence.
Many things which appear in dreams have absolutely no significance, no more than the rising of the sun carries significance. In other worlds, thing just happen in the astral world and most of it has no content of impact on anything in a significant way.
If you take a plane to Baltimore, and then as soon as you get there it is raining, you never ask anyone at the airport what is the significance of the rain. So when you find yourself in an astral experience, it is just like that. You enter an environment in which things are happening or in which things are about to take place.
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As regards the spider veins, that dream experience should be understood by the content energy of it and not by the actual play-out of the actions and statements made during the dream. The content energy seems to me to be women’s concern with spider veins.
This has to do with modern society, in which women wear clothing which expose their legs and thighs. Previously when women used to wear long dresses either voluntarily or involuntarily, there was no concern with that because in public no one saw a woman’s legs and thighs. Now that these parts of the female physique are exposed, women have become obsessed with the appearance of those parts of the body.
Once a woman spoke to me and she casually mentioned that she had to get a wax job, which meant that she had to have the hair removed from her legs. She mentioned that she had to go to a swimming pool party and had to have her pubic hairs removed
Formerly these procedures were not even thought of.
But that dream seems to be part of the content of that activity of women, just as in the case of men there is now an obsession with shaving the face and even recently shaving the head. By the grace of stainless steel, men had become obsessed with that and in some circles you cannot even be in attendance if you do not pay your dues to the stainless steel razor.
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The part with the Catholic and Hindu deities, may have been an appearance of the said deities or appearance of the illustration of such deities on the basis of some desire. To investigate that you have to pry into your stockpile of desires.
The other thing is: Where did the images appear? Location is important in these types of experiences. Was it in the mind itself? Was it outside the mind? Was it created by the imagination? Was it in an astral dimension which your mind was able to peer into? Where in the mind did it appear, if it did appear in the mind chamber itself? One can see within the mind and one can also see things outside the mind. There is a difference. In addition when seeing in the mind, the location is important since that can tell us which perceiving organ one was using and that would identify the type of world or phenomena perceived.
