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Subject: Timely Basement

Liam

16:40 09/07/2000 

I was in the basement of the house I grew up in combined a little with the basement at work. Everything had been cleared away. I mean everything, to allow for the most thorough sweeping and mopping the place had ever seen.

A colleague from work was there and said, "Just leave it for the morning crew," but even though a chalkboard listing our hours noted that our last shift had been 20 hours, I said we wanted to finish it. I was being helped by an East Indian woman I had never seen in waking life.(Was that you Angela?)

Once the basement was clean a huge black man came downstairs to chat. I had never met him but knew he was married to someone else I worked with. He had been at my house as a union rep, I think, meeting with a management negotiator. He told me of this negotiator, "I think there is something he is just not telling us!"

Then his wife comes down and says of the negotiator, even though her own husband is like, 180 kilos, "That guy is big, it's like he never stopped drinking from his mothers breast!" (This, of course, stands out to me as very significant.)

Note:

Tonight I became very depressed very quickly. When I came home I actually felt angry about my progress with my dream work so far, wondering how it is all going to help my "real" life? I went straight to sleep with clothes and socks still on and had this dream.

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Angela

06:01 10/07/2000 

Hi Liam,

These bitter thoughts, the anger and the depression unfortunately are all part of the process. I'm floating in and out of them myself these days.

And I join you in your insomnia as well. Down in the basement doing laundry at 3:00 a.m. last night. Down in the basement!! And noting that it really could use a cleaning.

You know, you are the fourth person I know this week who has mentioned dreaming of India in some form or other. India/Indians have been nagging away at me for a while now too. The 'East' is interesting, perhaps pointing you towards that Eastern philosophy of seeking a middle path.

Oh, and I love your 'union rep'! The union of this darkness to the light of all you have been working on. That darkness being so large because it never stopped suckling at the breast. I wonder now, have you been nurturing your suffering too long?

Look for the things that you have not told yourself -- those things that you have hidden...

I am so happy thinking of you cleaning that basement, working it straight through yourself, not leaving it for the morning crew.

Midnight dreams are the sweepers of the soul.

Angela xxx

Jane Anderson

08:47 10/07/2000 

Hi Liam and Angela,

Just wanted to expand on Angela's message about the anger and depression:

When we are going through a transition, and particularly deep unconscious changes, repressed emotions or old inappropriate emotions tend to come to the surface.

This may last only a few days - you can speed it up by acknowledging and really examining the emotions rather than trying to shut them out.

It's exactly the metaphor of your dream Liam: we do the deep basement (of our unconscious) cleaning, or we do the washing (of our souls, our repressed emotions, our inappropriate conditioned thoughts) and we wash the 'dirt' away. The 'dirt' has to go somewhere as we flush it out .. and guess where it goes: into the conscious mind to be felt, recognised, affirmed and then released. Release .. letting go of 'old stuff' .. the final part of the process afterwhich light shoulders fly you forward.

Liam you mentioned that you felt the anger was your anger at not making fast enough progress, and so perhaps you might like to look at being kinder to yourself during this time. Unconscious changes DO take TIME to bubble through (think in terms of up to a week after a realisation/exercise from a dream).

Following any change we then have to adapt. We are no longer exactly the same. Even the smallest of changes results in adjustment: your personal interactions become of a different quality. There can be conflict stemming from handling being slightly different in the world ... challenges from people who 'know' you and wonder why you are interacting slightly differently.

Much to think about. But if you look through the forums you will notice this pattern appearing for others. (Not everyone experiences the emotions you have felt. Grief is common. So is a sense of everyday loss. So is rejection. Many of these appear slightly masked as frustration: frustration in hindsight with the self and past actions and ways of being.)

You will notice, through the forums, that some of the most successful breakthroughs show the dreamer going through this pain (the pain of breaking through the invisible glass barrier of old limitations) and then emerging with insight and action combined, released of the flushed out emotions and ready to fly.

You are simply going through the pain and release of change, the dissolving of your blocks...and your expression of this is a wonderful help to others reading these forums and learning about the dream transformation process.

Jane Anderson

Favonius (Liam)

08:55 10/07/2000 

"Midnight Dreams are the Sweepers of the soul" - Beautiful Angela

I knew afterwards that the bitterness and anger are part of the process but it still sucks.

As for Eastern philosopy - of that I know so little. I keep reading reference to various spiritual icons here but embarassedly acknowledge my ignorance. Perhaps someone could offe some points of reference for me to pursue (Rick, are you around?)

As for nurturing my suffering? I guess the answer is yes but only that it has been long lived. I certainly do not wish it well or conciously suckle it - but there it is, persisting. One can be upbeat, busy, productive, creative and loving and yet bang, with a drop of the dishes or such, back it comes, unwelcome but thriving nonetheless. What to do? one asks.

And what do I have hidden. I will ask myself awake and before sleep. Maybe my friends will know.Perhaps it will be in a fortune cookie or my horoscope.I am indeed cleaning that basement myself Angela. Thank you so much for your help, support and comraderie.

Liam xxx's

Favonuis (Liam)

09:10 10/07/2000 

Hello Jane,

I must have been posting at the same time as you. Your words and explanations are well taken, apreciated and understood. I do have a tendancy to block these emotions out through rather frenetically active life. I will try to feel contrary to this habit and embrace and study how I feel.

Your description of how the "dirt" has to go somewhere is well felt as I recently enjoyed a 10 day complete fast. This, as you may know, literally happens with long held toxins. I was inspired to this fast as much for spiritual reason as for physical.As a side note of interest jane, I have another little physical sync in that I broke some bones in my left had a few days ago and must wear a cast to heal. Lighter arms/shoulders/wings will hopefully manifest themselves on different planec concurrently.

Thank you so much for your guidance and support.

Liam

Angela

12:41 10/07/2000 

Any break is a breakthrough...

Gunter

21:25 11/07/2000 

Hi Liam

I look at all lifes hardships slipups and down right stuff ups as lessons. I have no more mistakes in my life only lessons. I use to have heaps now with a changed prospective they are lessons, I just wish I would not have to learn the same ones over and over till I learn them. Anyway there are lots of good books in book shops about self help. Maybe you need to go in and hold each book till you feel the right one for you. Remember there are no mistakes in life, only lessons and lessons are repeated until learned. I got that out of one of my books, (I'M not that good yet). I hope this helps

Regards

Gunter

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