Finally
in conclusion
So
in the special dreams cited above we find that a common code is used, a
knowledge of which transforms the dream content from being childish nonsense to
a special teaching story,
Who
does this? How does the dreamer know the code? This must be the working of
Higher Mind. It is a universal code simply because it is the total life
experience of organic life. it disseminates through its many projections which
form the individual Higher Minds associated with individuals.
The
Work entails stifling the outer individual so-called conscious mind so that it
is able to first form a union, a symbiotic relationship, with the individual
so-called unconscious mind, the individual Higher Mind. The resulting union of
the outer and the inner individual minds then enables a bridge to be formed with
Universal Mind. Or, better expressed, for us to become more aware of the
existence of such a bridge. The individual Higher Minds of us all are already
connected to the Universal Mind existing out of time and space. This is the
Collective Unconscious of Jung. So perhaps we begin to see that Higher Mind
including our connection to it through our individual mind is already fully
functioning, but not in our conscious awareness. As Anne Gage puts it when she
recalls a special conversation she had with an unnamed Indian on a special
mountain in India:
"Has
it ever occurred to you that you might have twin natures, a human and a Divine,
a dwarf self and a God Self? Have you not considered that what you call
"myself' is the lesser of these, and that you have totally ignored the
Presence in you of the Greater?"
"Isn't
that the teaching of the Buddha?"
"Yes,
it is, and of Hinduism and Christianity also."
"I
have never really thought of myself in that way."
"Then
how could you realise that the whole destiny of man is to learn how to bring
these parts of himself into union, and that the experiences of life teach him
infinitely slowly and painfully, to make himself whole. Was it not Jesus who
said 'Blessed is the man who knoweth the Word and hath brought down the Heaven
and borne up the earth and raised it Heavenswards'? "
"I
never realised that this was the meaning of earth and heaven?"7
