Dreams

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                                                            Dreams

------By Anish O Cornel------

For the world is twain wherein we live; everything, by physics termed, having a spirit which in metaphysics dwell (not one, but all that is nomenclatured of feeling, sight and touch), so that by night (the earliest hour of morn or the blackness of the earliest dawn) one's spirit visits the spirit of the Earth wherein is the body of his spirit, for the Earth's metaphysics is the Earth in its spirit form where everything in the physical world be the same as in the spirit form that are the spirit-versions of their physical forms.

And so it is called dream, which doth open by the extension of sleep (the mode of the body's spirit's resurgence; a means to the earth's twin (which be spirit) by which it be perceived.

This is where all spirits arise to adventure basically at night and scarcely in the afternoon. Only the Dark (i.e., humans in principalities and powers) become conscious of their beginning moves, right from the very moment of their spirit's protuberance from the body, as translated into some passages leading to this world (i.e., the Earth's spirit). But the Ordinary is unaware of his preliminary moves to this world wards, for as his spirit protuberates, he (his spirit) is extemporaneously encircled by some forces, energies or impacts, so that he becomes unconscious of his preliminary moves. And getting therein, with his consciousness unveiled, he uncovers himself only to see himself to have arrived-JUST LIKE THAT- not even knowing how, like one narrating would say, 'When I arose at that hour, a mighty strong wind came and threw me thro' the ceiling/walls into flight and as I flew, I saw some others, together with whom we both entered the spiral bounds and dissolved into the Nine rings'. This-assuming the descriptions were real-would be inspired to be the chronicle of one, who has been conscious of his nocturnal-protuberantism (which one may term to be similar to astral-projection).

In this place (i.e., the Earth’s spirit), so many things happen that man’s psycho-genic-calculi can hardly or never comprehend, especially when such a one falls out of the rank of Powers. For example, one wonders how the Ordinary sometimes get guillotined or merely attacked without any physical concerns, especially at this (unreasoned) hour of the night. This, however, occurs, when the Dark one (human/or principality) leaves his body, at the most careful watch of that watch, and moves there to, that be the Earth's spirit, to find the Ordinary; and as his subterfuge and slates be evil, the ordinary-unequipped or unrobed of guard-is quickly attacked or destroyed, the effect of which is impacted immediately on the body in the physical Earth or concealed within the body so that others (as ordinary as he is) cannot comprehend what has happened to him (whether his body be found dead or paralysed or affected in some way that he cannot relate), for it becomes a riddle meant only to guess out.

So at his attack-assuming he is killed- he (i.e., his spirit) goes to the borders, that bifurcate, and that (thus) cone off the Earth's spirit from the new World (beyond) which is of/by spirit made. In this place, there lies a gate opened for the dead to amble thro'. Often times, the newly dead roam about this gate or tarry there   till it is opened. It is, however, at this delay that some of them be manipulated. For instance, being a part of the ordinary, one might have just met somebody at the Earth's spirit, and may not occur to one that, that person has just been newly dead. And so when one comes back to the physical Earth and hears that the same person seen thereof is dead, it becomes starkly impossible for one to go back, to call or drag such a person to the physical Earth. One could only have done otherwise, given that, when one saw the person-assuming he/she was being attacked- one was swift to help such a person from the attack. It is when this occurs that it becomes easy for such a person to ride back to the physical Earth safely, in which case, he/she would not have died, nor would one have come back to hear that the person has died. Unless this be, the former is not possible, tho’ it is true the dead can be manipulated.  

In so many countries of the world, especially in Africa, the spirit of the dead can be summoned, by some powerful enchantments that tend to stir the chronometry of the Earth’s spirit. Scarcely at times, it might include appealing to some strong forces, energies or impacts to help bring the spirit of the dead back to the physical Earth, in which case, forces guarding the gate are interacted with. When this happens, one (of these forces) is assigned to take the spirit to the conjurers, for their exercises, after which such a one takes the spirit back. The force is not seen, yet the spirit is seen. Samuel himself, a servant of God in the bible, too was summoned from his infinite sleep (i.e., death) by a sorceress bided by King Saul (1samel 28 VS 7-21). These conjurers themselves-of whatever cult or tribe- cannot go to drag the person there from, as the time allotted to this gate is unpredictable and unknown; and the gate could open anytime as long as it wants in order to consume whatever treads its path. In some cases, when the spirit of the dead is conjured, it is a demon, disguised in the figure of the dead that appear to the conjurers. All these happen in and thro’ the umpteenth acts surrounding what you call 'dream'.

You call it dream or dreaming, but I call it transposition, a move, a journey, by a stirred protuberance in which the protuberant (i.e., the spirit of the person) leaves his body and adventures, into a world that is exactly the one he leaves (or where his body lies). This is a world that his spirit can contain. That is why the world itself is a spirit, being the spirit (a deific macrocosm: an imperceptible copy) of one (which is the physical macrocosm/ the Earth). This, by transpositionism, is possible, not dream. For to me, it is not just a dream which one deems 'roused by some mental manipulations or by whatever, aside what I have here writ. It is but transpositionism processed in protuberantism. This is no myth, dear reader, since the descriptions I have been making are truly experienced almost by all, including me. In fact, some of the exempla shared here, especially of the one that tells of a protuberant’s encounter with a newly dead person in this world, whom he later discovers to be dead in the physical Earth, are excogitated from the transpositonal experiences of people.

The Time Phrasing of the Earth’s Spirit

As for time and season, both the physical Earth as well as the Earth’s spirit maintains some dissimilarity, for since the Earth's spirit is influenced much by diverse spirits, it defiles the rules and logic of time. It is-let me say- the perfect place for time travel, in that, many a time, one travels only to find one's self ahead of the time one left the physical Earth. For example, one leaves in the night and, having arrived, finds that it is morning or afternoon or evening there. Even some of the activities that occur there tend to influence-on rare occasions-one's time in the physical Earth. For example, one might experience being beaten (or ravished, cheated, jilted, wounded if not helped, defended, pampered, comforted, fed, saved, courted, wedded etc.) by a friend there. This experience is transferred into the physical Earth, maybe aft’ a day, two or more of the experience, whereby the experience is re-experienced as it was. This, I call proto-experientialism or proximate receptivism, in which an experience in the Earth's spirit is duplicated; one primarily serving as the source experience, the second of which is now transferred-by the influence of time and purpose-on the physical Earth and then on the person. In some situations, the experience may not occur (or be transferred) on the Physical Earth as it was exactly experienced at the Earth’s spirit; instead, the experience occurs in another form as distinct from the original. This, I call disguised receptivism. In whichever form (whether disguised or not), the Physical Earth receives the experience from the source experience and then impacts it on the person who has experienced it. This process becomes simple, since the spirit of the person together with the spirit of the Earth are both relating their actions on the spirit's body, thro' the Earth's body, with both tugged in themselves.

And so, it is a world where powers and principalities visit; where the longings of the heart are met (for with the super-nature of such a world) anything is possible. Here, the spirit of a person is easily flexed and persuaded by its super-nature, such that, such a spirit finds itself doing some extra-ordinary things, like flying, shooting fire-balls, walking on the air. Hence, it is incalculable, logically unreliable and intractable, capricious, unfixed, unpredictable and untameable. Sometimes, one might have an experience here which may not tend to occur in the physical world, instead such events-having occurred and gotten one's reason flummoxed-are then related to some specific persons, at the Physical Earth, unto whom this event appears as a symbol, a phenomenon, a parable, a proverb or a sign that is provided with meanings. Hence it is a mysterious phantasmagoria (of/by spirit made). It changes its form to whatever it feels just, the way its body does. But as the change of the Earth’s body is sometimes predictable- for example one can tell when it would rain or not-that of the Earth’s spirit is not predictable. And so, it sometimes creates confusions and even disappoints one's expectation. For instance, you may plan to visit your friend there and say something to him/her so that you might ask him/her by the time you are back to the Physical Earth, if he/she saw you and should also tell you what you told him/her. By this, you may be/will be disappointed. So times out of mind, your imaginations (I mean, the expressions of your mind which are mostly your wishes) may be manipulated, fulfilled and sometimes discarded.

How does this become possible?

Your mind is a factor of your spirit and as long as it is a spirit thing, which is more or less your brain's spirit, serving as the brain of your body, its functioning is easily emboldened (or say, embossed); because spirit-forms are translucent and/or transparent such that spirit influences spirit, just like one's body influences another. Hence, the Earth's spirit is very broad like a canopy, such that it easily partakes in every spiritual contact.

This is the Earth's spirit, which is multiply indescribable. It is where you see familiar and strange people either in their real forms or disguised. It is a place where evil spirits sometimes reveal their real selves or just get them disguised so as to scare you or even battle you. More so, it is a place very close to Eternity: the name for another planet entirely.

As part of the Ordinary, I know I travel (not dream) because I really do travel, scarcely in the afternoon, and mostly at Night, to this place, whose position and location I don't know. And whenever I travel, I'm usually guarded by Jesus Christ or by any of God's angel that I may not be attacked. Sometimes, in the Earth’s spirit, whenever I am being chased, I am thrust up high by Him or any of Him, so that I see myself flying without wings towards the rims of Eternity. But once they are repressed that chased, I am sent back to the Physical Earth, for I shall not enter Eternity at that time. So call it not 'dream', the spelling and pronunciation of which I can only permit if it be allowed an exact synonymy of transpositionism be.

WHAT ABOUT THE SOUL?

The soul is a property of the spirit. It is a form of spirit or, say, it is also spirit in itself. As the body moves, with the soul and spirit concealed inside of it, so does the spirit travel, with or without the soul. However, in the case of the body, the body can't do anything active (I mean life-centred) with the soul and spirit excluded or removed, for once both are excluded, the body be dead. This is not slightly so for the spirit, for the spirit acts in both forms, that is, with and without the soul. But once the spirit moves with the soul, the body is dead. Hence, in transposition, the spirit leaves the soul behind, so that, as spirit influences spirit, the soul maintains life by being resourced from the spirit in the Earth's spirit.  For example, whenever the body is called or interacted (by whatever means), the soul-being inside the body tho' unseen- influences the spirit. When this happens, the spirit of the person rushes, at full tilt, (possibly more than speed), back to the body, given that the person's spirit is in the Earth's spirit and that all the process had been triggered by an 'extension of sleep', in which case, protuberantism has taken place.

It must be an extension of sleep: because a set of eyes shut with the soul and spirit minding the body and their surrounding is not yet sleep, talk not of an extension of sleep. So with the-spirit- influences-spirit principle, it is quite much consequential to note that, whatever message is received by the body (whether orally, manually, or by whatever means), the soul picks it and, at instant, the spirit knows about it. Scarcely at times, the Earth’s spirit is also influenced by the soul’s message. And so, when this happens it may do some manipulations by creating the messages via some animated representations. For example, assuming your mother calls on you to awake, what you may/will see, at the moment, may/will be a figure like a lady, not necessarily her spirit-tho' her spirit is still networked. In some other cases, you may here the call JUST LIKE that, or thro' the mouth of a stranger, a non-living object or a substance.  Also, because of the spirit-influences-spirit principle, the Earth’s Spirit might also decide to represent the spirit-form of somebody who has not been transposed or even gone to bed (probably he/she is working in the field or engaged in some things), yet one who has been transposed-probably in an afternoon sleep-claims to have seen the spirit of this un-transposed person there.  It is not, in the real sense the person’s spirit that is seen, but a mere imitation effected thro’ a xerox. In other words, this process of representation, by means of the spirit-influences-spirit principle, should be called auto-xeroxism or mimetic transfiguratism.

Conclusion

We cannot do without spirit-things, because they are the essence of our being. Today, a great deal of enigmas swarm around us simply because our world is very much controlled by them. Inexplicable attacks, temptations, situational conundrums, quagmires, para-psychological pressures, theological paradoxes etc. are brooks of spiritual wonders that attend to our spirit-forms every so often. And because one is much abstracted from one’s spirit-form, pursuant to the physical elements that surround one, it is much easier for such spiritual things (both being and non-being) to attend to one’s spirit-forms. For example, one can be influenced of a demon either by possession or by a subtle canvass. Hence, our spirit is as naked as our body is and can be easily approached to be wooed just as the body can approach another to woo it. This is the mystery of the life-forms around us, which, as delivered unto me, shall be a portal to so many other mysteries.

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