Dreaming

Our first ring of Power is engaged very early in our lives and we live under the impression that that is all there is to us. Our second ring of Power, the attention of the Nagual, remains hidden for the immense majority of us and only at the moment of our deaths is it revealed to us. There is a pathway to reach it, however, which is available to every one of us, but which only the sorcerers take and that pathway is through dreaming.

Dreaming is in essence the transformation of ordinary dreams into affairs involving volitation. Dreamers, by engaging their attention of the Nagual, their second awareness, and focusing it on the items and events of their ordinary dreams, change those dreams into dreaming.

Dreaming is intrinsically not allowing oneself to sleep. Every warrior has his own way of dreaming. Each way is different. The only thing that we all have in common is that we do tricks to force us to abandon the pursuit. The antidote is to insist, despite all obstacles and disappointments.

Dreaming can only be experimented. Dreaming is not just to have dreams, nor daydreams or desires or imagination. In dreaming we can perceive other worlds, which we can certainly describe, but we cannot describe what makes us perceive them. Therefore, we can feel the way that dreaming opens these other realms. Dreaming is like a sensation; a process in our bodies, a perception in our minds.

The art of dreaming is the capacity to utilize a person’s ordinary dreams and transform them into controlled awareness, due to a specialized form of attention, the second attention.

One of the most important goals of sorcery is to achieve the luminous egg; a goal that is achieved through the controlled use of dreaming and by a rigorous and systematic endeavor of not doing – a very unfamiliar act, that involves our entire being and forces it to be aware of its luminous segment.