To know the Cosmos and ourselves as that, we had to separate ourselves. The weak ineffective spirit is what is uncomfortable in the constricting flesh. Where the spirit is free when not in the body, it gives up this freedom to extend life and organize matter. Whose to say that’s true or not? I don’t understand what this is really outside of experience.
Who else could ask the question, who are we, but ourselves? All of this seems to be to trigger us to ask that question. The question is not who are They, but who are We? We can be citizens of the whole Cosmos instead of its Lords and Masters. Animals must always say yes to nature, but we are permitted to appear to say no in order to seek out and understand our relationship to everything else. Are we the Caretakers of the Cosmos? Primary perception is beyond words, but words are fun to use to reflect on IT through the correspondences to life here and to imagine the worlds that could come to be. Perhaps we are here simply to add color to the canvas through our imaginations, how else do you make a free wheelin Cosmos?
So what is a hypnagogic state?
I’m so glad you asked the Smelly Goat.
This is the state similar to twilight, the time before falling asleep and waking up. I feel we have all corporately entered a hypnagogic state with Trump. I’ve become pretty good at using this state to explore consciousness using active imagination. Any experiencer is trying to understand their own hypnagogic events and states of mind. This is why creativity is so effective in getting one into this state, self-induced active imagination. You can grow this skill like a muscle. Just like someone must interpret words, we can learn to read the world through non-verbal and suprasensible experience.
There is no phenomena not backed by a Suprasensible noumenal reality to one who sees into things. This is what Symbolism in art is all about. Art links us to Barfield’s idea of participation. Rudolf Steiner Swedenborg, Blake, all Hypnagogists taught by a mystagogue I’m sure. My mystagogue is part goat. Steiner called our original conscious experience, Old Moon consciousness. And in the hypnagogic state we can connect again to these ancient states of mind behind the sensible world, creating it. I have found and acknowledge clearly another presence within, “The Stranger” or “The Messenger” who desires to return to their true free world beyond sense and logical thought. Perhaps they are pressed into service or caught by our emotional gravity.
Perhaos we are black holes inside that empty out into a white hole somewhere else now. At the convex surface of the 9th sphere is the celestial city, the sphere of spheres. The Cosmos is felt within us, not us in IT. Then the invisible surges outside of us and takes over our outer world. Beyond this point it seems the world moves inside out. Imagination can unite consciousness and its object of focus.
Appearance and being can become one.
A great mystery, Consciousness and object are inseparable in the imagination. Inner necessity and truth keep us from going off the rails hopefully. Goethe calls this the secret of the Primal Plant that can go on changing forever. Barfield says imagination can free of us from our idols. He says we live in a world of idolatry. Very true. We can breath new life into phenomena. True imagination needs responsibilty to wield and we are learning that now. Lots of people experimenting with this are connected here.
Pretty cool if you asked me.
Some of this is self-revealed and some of it is out there plain as day to find and see if you see beyond or into things. We are capturing the world this way bit by bit, to resurrect later perhaps, who knows...
Not I...straight on not knowing, doing not doing, walking backwards in a dark world.
by NightTripper Tue May 15, 2018 6:20 pm
if your good you i will know straight away. 
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