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Dreams and Spiritual Consciousness

Inducing Consciousness

Dreams and spiritual consciousness begin at night. It is very important that at least one hour before we go to sleep, we stop taking in stimuli. Inducing consciousness at night means we don't eat, we shut down the computer, we don't turn on the television, we don't start dialing the phone. We either take a quiet walk, or we sit in a quiet place in our house, or outside, and meditate. Quite independent of all that stimuli in the outside world, we try to become aware of something silently pulsing within us. This is the invisible life force.

It is this invisible life strength we must learn to connect with every day. We can only feel it when we allow ourselves to be silent, when we disconnect ourselves from the outside world. Instead of running away from silence or filling this silence with all our frenzied activities, we surrender to the quiet, bask in the silence, and become aware of one simple fact—we are alive.

Though some people connect with the silent life force every minute of their lives, we will start connecting with it, only in the evening, one hour before we go to bed. We imagine that the quiet is light and we are bathing in light. It comes in from the top of our heads, washes our eyes, our nasal passages, our throats, our hearts. We soften our hearts, and wash out the anger, the bitterness, the irritations and sorrows it seems to be full of. When we feel lighter, we can go to bed and be assured of a good night's sleep.