I will now recount what I wrote down after coming out of my meditative state yesterday morning: "Meditated around 9:30 a.m. this morning. I walked across a small desert plane, following a woman in white, who I thought was my mother. Followed her into a building, chasing her through corridor after corridor. Eventually came face to face with her in a room that looked like a "Jules Verne-like" library. She was not my mother at all. I asked what the room was, she said, "The Hall of Thoughts." I then asked what building this room was contained in, "eternity" she said. "Eternity is a place, not time." I was then drawn out of the meditative state by a sound in my car, which was parked and not running. A few minutes passed and I tried to go back. I then regained my meditative state, and ended up right where I left off before I was drawn out. I continued speaking to the woman in white, but I cannot recall any of that conversation. I only remember her voice changing from soft and feminine with no particular accent, and then to a male voice with a husky British/Irish accent. After this I fell completely unconscious." ANY insight on this would be greatly appreciated!
this is the fruit of your meditation . you gonna eat it ? maybe it's food for thought . seems just a snack . and then you fell completely unconcious !!?? oops . when you hear a spirit sound that rouses you , maybe you respect it more .
If we set the variable time = eternity, then location = everywhere. Therefore where is the Hall of Thoughts?
relational to that Hall of Thoughts : Eternity is a place , not time . The building is called Eternity and a small desert is the place . The Hall of Thoughts is accessed by a corridor and appears to be a library . so there 3 spatial co-ordinates : desert , building , room . considering that books hold a spatial reality , books is also a co-ordinate . the vision might be about 4th dimension , not so much to define it , simply that understanding may proceed . accounts of persons who have at sometime injested salvia report the perceptual experience as exo spatial , beyond normal . your meditation is a one step beyond that . it explores SPACE . there is something to be discovered ? i refer to 4dim casually . really , we exist in dimensional totallity . we can only try to touch more and more of it knowingly . we may wonder at the light , light bound to space , and the life-light .
I'm taking the vision to be a metaphor. Awareness is exo-spatial, but thoughts are not. Thoughts are confined within a room within eternity, and eternity is a building within a desert plane. Eternity is a component of space-time. As a metaphor, it makes sense. Not sure about the mother-turned-to-priestess or whatever, though...
Thank you both for your generous amounts of input. I have heard from several sources that I was not in fact meditating, but lucidly dreaming. Who cares what I was doing, the situation that occurred is what needs the attention. I posted about this whole thing on several forums and some people are so dismissive about it, it's not even funny. I known deep within my heart and soul that this whole experience means something, and it's much bigger than anything I've felt before. Lately, since this occurrence, my dreams have become very prophetic, I won't get into them here, I'm sticking to this subject, no offense. My point is, whether this was seeing the 4th dimension, lucid dreaming, some weird form of mediation, or anything else, the imagery and conversation need the attention here. "Eternity is a place, not time" is definitely something I would never even think up on my own. So, being in a lucid dream, where I could control the outcome, seems null and void, since everything in this experience was so fluid and direct. That's all, I'm sorry, I just wanna know what this could all mean.
yes , you could think of it on your own and the meaning is all yours . most likely your meditation will at some time help you to understand a real experience , that is , there is something so amazing yet to be and you prepare for it now . relax . you got a story-dream to hang on to .
Maybe the women meant to show you that you are in fact a rotating, spinning microcosm of this solar system who is capable of traveling anywhere in the universe/dimensions, but you're physical form seems to make you feel as if you didn't go anywhere, or can't. I myself have journeyed through space and dimensions, and realized that even though distances may seem vast, you never really go anywhere.
InfiniteHalo, I think both tikoo and Guardian have some good thoughts about this. I'm thinking that you probably need to meditate on your meditation vision to open its meaning for yourself. Immerse yourself in the memories of the vision and ask yourself, What does this mean to me? What was the feeling I was experiencing at various times during the vision, and does this feeling tie into any of my other experiences? Who or what did the person in the vision represent to me? I think there is something to Guardian's take on this. What strikes me about the vision is the idea of thoughts being confined to a room within the vast building of eternity - and yet eternity itself is just a building on the vast plane of - what? A desert - what's the meaning of that? My earlier comment about eternity being a part of space-time is a clue, I think. Remember that the physical universe is composed of space-time - so in a sense, eternity IS a place - it's tied inextricably with the spacial dimensions of the universe. Think back in time to the theoretical origin of the universe - the Big Bang. Now go back further in time, to BEFORE the Big Bang - BEFORE the physical universe - BEFORE space-time existed! You see that the phrase "before the Big Bang" is really meaningless, because outside of the existence of the physical universe, time does not exist. And eternity is a measure of time - ALL time - and is therefore confined to the physical universe. What, then, is outside eternity - outside space-time? A desert...I'll give you my personal conjecture to ponder: What if there is some component of you - your being - that is beyond thoughts and beyond space-time? Could not that component of you access any part of eternity? I hope these thoughts are of some help with understanding your vision.
Eternity is a place and a time and it's also neither. It's nothingness that happens to be everywhere and always. Also, your meditations sound like drifting in and out of sleep before just passing out. Strange
It means nothing. "Eternity is a place, not time" might not be something that your waking mind would come up with on it's own, or perhaps it just lacks the proclivity to, but the fact that it occurred in a dream shows that it was floating around in your head somewhere. The mind is like a glacier, we are only immediately aware of what we see above the surface of the water, however, the vast majority is submerged, invisible to the naked eye. This is what reveals itself in dreams. The difference between a dream and a lucid dream is nothing but your active observation and participation. The only reason they feel special or "more real" is because you are making contact with the submerged part of the glacier, and for a brief moment you feel more whole than you are used to.
