We began mentioning dreams. I have two series of dreams which have been accompanying me for years. The first series began around 1972 at my first cottage in Holt, near Wimborne, and had reached a significant point of development by 1990. This was interrupted by the EG debacle, and has only recently resumed. The second series of dreams began in the 1980s and has continued unabated. Last night was the latest in that particular series.
With cappuccino & book, I sat on the terrace to begin that vector of the day. And a wonderful beginning as well. From this morning's reading: "a man's life and its conditions correspond to what he is". Alternatively put:
Who we are is where we are.
So, if we don't like where we are, we don't like what we are.
If we don't like what we are, it's up to us to make the move.
We begin where we are.
So, where are we?
If we see that we live in the basement: no shame.
When we see that we live in the basement, we are not in the basement: this perception is from a higher floor.
Then we fall back again.
To make the "move" is to change what we are;
That is, to make a change in our "being".
The quality, quantity & intensity of our "being" determines the world we may enter;
That is, the world which may enter us.
We have the right to choose which world we wish to live in.
This is a genuine freedom.
The right to do "what I want when I want wherever I want" is a kind of freedom, but a freedom which belongs to the basement.
The "freedom" of the basement is a form of imprisonment.
"Moving on" involves paying a price for the "transport".
Part of this price is sacrifice.
"Freedom" is inverted as it moves "down" through the worlds.
If we are prepared to give up all that we have ever wanted for ourselves, we taste what freedom offers.
"If we don't have the freedom to listen to something anywhere we like, especially if we've paid for it, then what is the good of it?"
This freedom is, from another perspective, a restraint.
And what good is it?
And what price have we paid?
"Payment" is of different kinds & qualities, depending upon the world we live in.
The freedom to listen requires payment, and the currency is subtle.
The most subtle perception is the most "real".
The most "material" perception is the least substantial.
Well, that was a surprise. Continuing my report of the day: good practising, a light salad, now back to Hotel Unassuming And Rightly So for a shower & a pre-packing of the Gigster's travel bags.
"An artist acts with the assumption of innocence within a field of experience."
