DreamTime
by
Helen Fatir
Astrologer and Dream Analyst
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Why Dream

The most important place or reservoir where we can access all the information that we need, is our subconscious, and the subconscious is the gateway to all other levels of awareness and existence, and therefore knowledge. There are ways of accessing our reservoir, meditation is one and is very effective. However, another extremely beneficial route, is through dreams.

Various cultures past and present, recognise the role that dreams play in our physical plane existence. For example, the Australian native people know that in the dream state there is no time, that past present and future are one. This is a belief or a knowledge, that I share, hence the title of this book.

Some people, and you may feel you are one, claim that they do not dream, yet that can change, especially if you allow yourself to open up by asking for dreams. Ask your inner self, your Guardian Angel, your Higher Self, God the Source, whomever you feel most comfortable in asking.

The results can be very interesting.

Dreams come in various shapes and sizes, all tell you something about yourself in relation to your life. Some dreams are prophetic in that they are telling you about a coming event or situation and some are of past lives. Some are developmental. Some are of wish fulfillment, yet at the same time may enable you to understand something about yourself.

I am lying in bed, and I hear heavy, deliberate footsteps of a spaceman on the roof below my window. As he comes into view I can see he is in a silver suit, luminous almost glowing, very big, carrying something over his left shoulder. I am terrified that he will see me. He walks up the window onto the roof, I hear him cross the roof and then see him as he comes into view over the skylight, he is carrying a man, dead or unconscious, over his shoulder. I keep still so that he won't see me. He is heading for his spaceship with the man.

The setting is the bedroom in which I grew up, symbolising the basis of my development work. He is me, as is the man over his shoulder, the old me. The spaceman is a traveller of galaxies (I am an Astrologer and psychic), deliberately moving forward, with steady progress. The space travel is fearless, spiritual, searching and expanding through knowledge and experience, unconfined and free. The me over his shoulder is the part of me that dies for the rebirth as the spaceman. The suit is the outer me, that is controlled and directed by the inner spiritual me, so completion. The suit protects and covers up the inner me, but is not me and of itself has no consciousness, it glows from the energy of the spirit within. It is about the promise of things to come.

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The Egyptian Tree of Life
by
Amir Fatir
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The Paut Neteru
(Tree of Life)

The Tree of Life is a cosmogram which graphically depicts the order of the universe. It is a graphic complement of the cosmology of the universe.

The Tree is also a guide for creating any event and a guide for thinking and understanding the myriad things in the universe which illustrates the manner in which they all interrelate.

The Tree highlights the steps a prospective initiate must take and the experiences she must undergo in order to achieve the apex of enlightenment.

The oldest version of the Tree of Life is the Paut Neteru (Substance of the Gods) of ancient Egypt. That Tree was transported to the Syrians and Babylonians and received by the Hebrews from them.

The Egyptian Tree of Life provides the framework for spiritual initiation and intellectual development. The Egyptians considered each sphere (sephirot) of the Tree to be a faculty that, through ritual and meditation, was capable of awakening. Once awakened, the psychic powers (siddhis) belonging to that sphere were bestowed upon the initiate.

Once the faculties of the Tree were awakened, the initiate could utilize the hekau (words of power) of the spheres thus far awakened to perform spiritual technology (magic).

The Tree of Life guided every facet of Egyptian life including education, domestic affairs, warfare, politics, government, religion, magic and medicine.

To fully access the power of the Tree, the Egyptian mystics mastered the ability to enter altered states of consciousness (trance) at will.

The goal of each spiritual endeavor was not only to achieve the mundane goal of the initiate, but more importantly, to realize or awaken the indwelling divinity or divine presence which the Egyptians called Ausar (Osiris).

The proper methodology employed to realize Ausar was called Maat.

The Egyptians personified each major faculty and principle into metaphoric deity or "neter." The "worship" of the deity was intended to inculcate the virtues (powers) of the deity and to transform into a living manifestation of the deity.

To obtain romance, for example, an Egyptian would transform him or herself into the goddess Het-Heru and happiness in romance would become his/hers as a natural consequence of being the goddess of love.

Various myths, spells, prayers, formulas and hekau were learned to help propel the initiate’s transformation.

As Osiris was resurrected from the dead, the Egyptian Tree of Life and spiritual cultivation system is being reborn such that the ancient artifacts and papyri take on new meaning and find a place in the living activities of the spiritual initiate.

Amen (Nu, Atem)

Ain Soph Ur

Sphere 0

What we know as the creation is the differentiation of the one base energy/matter into the illusion of separate things. At the atomic level it is known that all matter is comprised of neutrons, protons and electrons. Atomic particles are themselves comprised of smaller substances called mesons, epsilons and gluons. Yogis have indicated that beneath even this level are the life particles called prana (Chi or Ra).

The further "down" one peers into creation one sees that differentiation is decreased. The Egyptians, therefore, postulated that there is an energy level at which the differentiation entirely disappears and at which all is one.

For thousands of years the Egyptians worked to refine their understanding and experience of that fundamental basis of reality in much the same manner that modern scientists have incessantly experimented with the nature of objective reality from speculations regarding the number of angels who could dance on the head of a pin to Newtonian physics to Einsteinian relativity to quantum physics. Each generation of physicists builds upon the findings of the previous generation. The Egyptians were no different, however, their inquiry was more into the subjective realm, the realm beneath or outside of creation, not the more easily understood objective realm or realm at the levels of the differentiation of energy/matter.

In their tireless effort to grasp the virtually ungraspable concept of pre-existence, the Egyptians developed several theories which actually complemented or supplemented the earlier theories.

The Egyptians metaphorized their concepts into various gods and goddesses. The best known example of such a metaphor is the "deity" Amen. Amen means "Hidden One." As energy/matter at the most basic level is undifferentiated, no contrasts are made and therefore the being at that level (Amen) is imperceptible. The god Atem was the metaphoric idea of "No Thing." As things are differentiations in the one subsisting energy/matter, no thing could exist in that state in which no differentiations occurred.

We hope that you enjoy our books The Egyptian Tree of Life and DreamTime, which you can order from

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