had an amazing dream this morning where i reached enlightenment.
starting out as a visit to my childhood home in ohio, i remarked to myself how it looked different than what i remembered. further investigation revealed portions of it had been taken over as a dormitory by wright state university (apparently it was also much larger than i remember.)
randomly wandering into the downstairs family room, "i" split into multiple individuals representing not only the different parts of myself, but avatars of friends, family and mentors responsible for shaping my personality with Charles Baker playing the role of the friendly trickster and Peg AtKisson carrying a sword, representing my intellect.
my task was to complete (within a fixed amount of time) an introductory multiple choice test and then query 5 (sometimes 6) guardians of the experience of humanity (librarians of the akashic record?) to discover the secret to enlightenment. agriculture, mechanics (tool building), programming, and music/literature were the guardians i remember.
after being confused by a few questions, the part of me that was memory whispered a strategy in my ear. treating it like a logic puzzle, i asked each guardian what i had to ask the others to achieve enlightenment. apparently this was a good strategy, and in retrospect makes me wonder if half of the guardians always told the truth and the others always told lies.
the last couple of answers were unintelligible jibberish, but memory helped me out here and i just repeated the lines fed to me (thanks, mnemeosyne!)
when you reach enlightenment, there's apparently a very nice cocktail party where all the pieces of your psyche mingle, catch up on gossip and generally have a good time. i commented to one of the guardians that i didn't feel especially more enlightened and was told that i'm not the one who was enlightened.
it turns out that the i that i perceive myself to be is not the i that is enlightened. upon attaining enlightenment, every bit of you is enlightened and it's an experience that the conscious ego can't comprehend (maybe that's why it looks like a cocktail party where the rest of my society of mind is having a good time.)
Tom Deplonty will be happy to hear one of his compositions was being performed at the party. So Tom... you're apparently going to pen the soundtrack for enlightenment (no pressure.)
starting out as a visit to my childhood home in ohio, i remarked to myself how it looked different than what i remembered. further investigation revealed portions of it had been taken over as a dormitory by wright state university (apparently it was also much larger than i remember.)
randomly wandering into the downstairs family room, "i" split into multiple individuals representing not only the different parts of myself, but avatars of friends, family and mentors responsible for shaping my personality with Charles Baker playing the role of the friendly trickster and Peg AtKisson carrying a sword, representing my intellect.
my task was to complete (within a fixed amount of time) an introductory multiple choice test and then query 5 (sometimes 6) guardians of the experience of humanity (librarians of the akashic record?) to discover the secret to enlightenment. agriculture, mechanics (tool building), programming, and music/literature were the guardians i remember.
after being confused by a few questions, the part of me that was memory whispered a strategy in my ear. treating it like a logic puzzle, i asked each guardian what i had to ask the others to achieve enlightenment. apparently this was a good strategy, and in retrospect makes me wonder if half of the guardians always told the truth and the others always told lies.
the last couple of answers were unintelligible jibberish, but memory helped me out here and i just repeated the lines fed to me (thanks, mnemeosyne!)
when you reach enlightenment, there's apparently a very nice cocktail party where all the pieces of your psyche mingle, catch up on gossip and generally have a good time. i commented to one of the guardians that i didn't feel especially more enlightened and was told that i'm not the one who was enlightened.
it turns out that the i that i perceive myself to be is not the i that is enlightened. upon attaining enlightenment, every bit of you is enlightened and it's an experience that the conscious ego can't comprehend (maybe that's why it looks like a cocktail party where the rest of my society of mind is having a good time.)
Tom Deplonty will be happy to hear one of his compositions was being performed at the party. So Tom... you're apparently going to pen the soundtrack for enlightenment (no pressure.)
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