“recognize your very existence as a story”. I had a long transcendent experience once that corresponds with your essay, and this particular line is perfect! It is indeed the message I was given/said (both within and outside of “me” as everything/no-thing/one thing at once): “It’s all just stories.” ✨
Great post, Matt. Thank you. This part really resonates with me:
But when we wake up later, we see that it was all a mental fabrication, just “appearances taken as real.” Moreover, “awareness stands beyond, free and untouched. It is not even in the dream. The dream is in it.” And then the transformative point: “It is the same with our present awareness in this apparent waking state.”
More and more lately I feel like I’m in a dream when I’m awake. And I’ve long wondered which is more real, the dreaming or waking state. At the moment I’m of the mind they’re both as real, or not, as each other.
I think your pitch is engaging and has a powerful message. I’d like to read this book. I especially like the idea of collaboration with our inner force. In writing my novels and short stories I definitely feel like I’m channeling something. That these characters are out there, or in there, coming from somewhere to tell their truth through me.
You and I definitely resonate on similar wavelengths, Amanda.
To the question of dreaming and waking, and which (if either) is more real, I'd say the only absolute reality is the Absolute itself, pure being-awareness, which is the theater within which and the screen upon which both dreaming and what we conventionally call consciousness (the waking state) play out.
Thank you for the positive feedback on my book pitch! The thing is still taking shape as I work through articulating it for submission.
Beautiful and meaningful, Matt, thank you. My first two novels took 20 painstaking years to write. Too much handwringing (but also teaching and raising children). This third one I've drafted in 9 months. My mornings start by writing down dreams, and my latest novel, MOMMY DEAD, came from one (and was inspired in part by your writings and teaching on the daemon!) And as I tap into that "pure being awareness," I see my own narrative more clearly; and those other "subplots" appear almost fully formed. Now if there were only more hours in the day!
I love everything that you describe, Melanie. What a rich creative process and ferment. And I’m delighted that what I’ve said and written about the daemon muse and nonduality has been useful to you!
“recognize your very existence as a story”. I had a long transcendent experience once that corresponds with your essay, and this particular line is perfect! It is indeed the message I was given/said (both within and outside of “me” as everything/no-thing/one thing at once): “It’s all just stories.” ✨
It sounds like Big Self was delivering a message straight to Keena self. Very cool.
Great post, Matt. Thank you. This part really resonates with me:
But when we wake up later, we see that it was all a mental fabrication, just “appearances taken as real.” Moreover, “awareness stands beyond, free and untouched. It is not even in the dream. The dream is in it.” And then the transformative point: “It is the same with our present awareness in this apparent waking state.”
More and more lately I feel like I’m in a dream when I’m awake. And I’ve long wondered which is more real, the dreaming or waking state. At the moment I’m of the mind they’re both as real, or not, as each other.
I think your pitch is engaging and has a powerful message. I’d like to read this book. I especially like the idea of collaboration with our inner force. In writing my novels and short stories I definitely feel like I’m channeling something. That these characters are out there, or in there, coming from somewhere to tell their truth through me.
You and I definitely resonate on similar wavelengths, Amanda.
To the question of dreaming and waking, and which (if either) is more real, I'd say the only absolute reality is the Absolute itself, pure being-awareness, which is the theater within which and the screen upon which both dreaming and what we conventionally call consciousness (the waking state) play out.
Thank you for the positive feedback on my book pitch! The thing is still taking shape as I work through articulating it for submission.
Beautiful and meaningful, Matt, thank you. My first two novels took 20 painstaking years to write. Too much handwringing (but also teaching and raising children). This third one I've drafted in 9 months. My mornings start by writing down dreams, and my latest novel, MOMMY DEAD, came from one (and was inspired in part by your writings and teaching on the daemon!) And as I tap into that "pure being awareness," I see my own narrative more clearly; and those other "subplots" appear almost fully formed. Now if there were only more hours in the day!
I love everything that you describe, Melanie. What a rich creative process and ferment. And I’m delighted that what I’ve said and written about the daemon muse and nonduality has been useful to you!