| Untagged | 22 Oct 2008 |
| Transcendental Meditation, Vedic language, and consciousness by david | |
I have a kind of a two-part question. One: I have heard how much dreams influence and inspire your work, but I heard somewhere that it’s not the dreams that occur while sleeping as it is, say, daydreaming—dreams while conscious. Okay: so that’s true enough, I suppose—that was the first part, whether that was true or not. And the second part is, how much that can be related to your practice of Transcendental Meditation—does that come out of your practice of Transcendental Meditation—linking your daydreams to your work?
Yes and no. I love dream logic, nighttime dream logic; I love that. And once in a while, a dream will help you. But daydreaming: I see it as catching ideas. And the thing that I like to think about is: you know, this thing of consciousness—we hear it, but it just sounds abstract, and we don’t really think it’s so important. But I promise you, the word and what it really means—consciousness—is the number one ingredient. Consciousness: that ability to know, to understand—that bliss—it’s intelligence, harmony, coherence.
In the Vedic language, consciousness—this field of pure consciousness—is called Atma, the Self. It’s the Self of us. And as Dr. John Hagelin says, from that field—it’s also called the Unified Field at the base of all matter. It’s oneness; it’s us; it’s the source. It’s there; it’s always been there.
Consciousness-raising groups: we’ve heard about those. They’re not raising consciousness; they’re raising information. You get together, you share information: it’s not consciousness. Consciousness is a thing that lets you understand and know. It’s a different thing. So if you could expand it, when you daydream, you can go deeper. You can catch ideas at a deeper level. You can see deeper into things. You can intuit things better.
So—I love daydreaming, and ideas, to me, are the most important things. But how do you catch them? And daydreaming is one way. Another way is just be on guard; they’ll come up and smack you when you least expect it. It’s a beautiful thing to catch an idea, and especially one that you’ve fallen in love with.
