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I was just reading this post - http://zentransformation.blogspot.com/2008/03/zen-nimbus-fusion.html

Ciaran’s explanation of Dark Nimbus sounds alot like bi-polar disorder. They appear linked in that a person is damaged in such a way as to being unable to find or hold onto a sense of purpose.

According to modern psychology, the mind is seperated into the concious and the subconscious. The conscious is said to deal primarily with thought, and the subconcious with emotions. I don’t rate psychology at all, but it is functional as a way of talking about the way I see things - so I’ll use it.

The short circuiting that he describes is the process of distraction that allows a person to see beyond conscious thought and access the subconscious. I have been studying hypnosis lately, and this short circuiting is similar to what a hypnotherapist does when he works on a patient. This is why a hypnotherapist begins his session by asking the patient to imagine themself in a specific location. It is a distraction of all the senses, so that everyday thought processes don’t interfere with the work he is about to do.

The subconscious of the modern man is a whole smorgasbord of conflicting emotions. The key in all this lies in using Zen, hypnotherapy, dreams or any other way of accessing the subconscious mind and seeing the emotional knots that exist there.

In my opinion, purpose isn’t something that you have. It is something that you are. Once a sufficient amount of emotional knots have become untied, then purpose begins to seep into the conscious.

This is the process that I have undertaken:

1. Break through the negative thought patterns.
See that something other than the ego exists.
Dismantle the ego to a sufficient (and more permanent) level.

2. Distract the concious mind.
Access the subconscious and allow the emotion to bubble to the surface.
Discover the traumatic experience associated with that emotion.
Using the concious mind as a tool, rewrite the memory so that the pain is allowed to disappate.

Coelho, Paulo
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I read a book that describes a dream as the unconscious minds way of surfacing suppressed thoughts. It is rare that I remember a dream at all, but I have noticed that of late I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with feelings of revelation. Almost as if I had found some formula for the workings of the universe.So I decided that it was time to log my dreams. I got myself a little notebook and pen and laid them down by the side of my bed.

In the morning I woke and immediately thought of the dreambook. I remember writing in it, but I don’t remember what I wrote. I opened it and looked at the page:

“A fireman is good to know better.”

“The colour red signifies change to you like blood moving around a system.”

How puzzling!

”A fireman is good to know better.”

This to me means one of three things.

1. I have a friend who’s dad is a fireman

2. My friend is called Sam - Fireman Sam.

3. The word fireman is symbolic of some part of myself.

“The colour red signifies change to you like blood moving around a system.”

1. Lately I have been meaning to give blood. I have been putting it off.

2. There is a job vacancy at the blood donor building. I thought about applying but then I didn’t.

3. It may be nothing to do with blood at all and rather the colour red, and how it can somehow cleanse my system. Perhaps from blue to red?

I shall be logging my dreams from now on.