An Occult Account of Dream Manipulation.
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WRITTEN BY 109: The emphasis of this essay is going to be on the field of dreams: how someone employ ‘shared’ or ‘telepathic’ dreams to achieve their ends. I say based on personal experience that shared dreaming techniques are still extensively used by the secret societies.
Kurt Seligmann says in his writings that it was a belief in the early past that magicians could be paid to give one any dream. The dream world is operationally malleable to the magician in the same way as one’s mind is. In fact, the world of dreams and the world of the mind are one and the same. Seligmann only mentions an amusing utility of a dream magician’s techniques. What is really disturbing to our notion of ‘free-will’ is that the ability to construct dreams can allow the magician to test, condition and manipulate anyone in his dream environment. Think of it as hypnosis, but an involuntary one unrestricted by geography. Imagine seeing recurring dreams where one is a wonderful relationship with a specific individual; it should be obvious to see how these dreams can condition one’s attitude towards the ‘waking world version’ of the specific individual. If the dreams are forgotten, as most dreams usually are, the change in attitude becomes subconscious and hence more potent.
Another example of a malicious form of dream manipulation, one still employed by secret societies, is installing false memories. A series of dreams is presented to the magician’s target where altered or fake events related to the target’s past are interspersed. Imagine a scenario where one has a synthetic dream of abuse by one’s loved ones in the distant past. Together by blending this scenario subliminally in the target’s waking world, the target can be convinced into thinking that repressed aspects of a painful past memory are resurfacing. The magician successfully drains the target’s will, and the target unaware of the mechanics of dream telepathy suspects little. It doesn’t require much creativity to permute the things that could be done by a dream magician.
If the account of telepathic dreams is ‘too much’ for your reality model, consider the technological analogy presented in the thought-provoking episode ‘The Entire History of You’ from the Black Mirror Series.
The 1907 book Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics by James Hastings covers several know ideas of dreams:
“The dream played an important part in the life and religion of the Babylonians. In the dream the deity was believed to reveal himself in a special way to the individual, declaring the will of heaven and predicting the future. One of the titles of the Sun-God was ‘baru teretu’, the seer of the revealed law
The Narrang-ga think that the human spirit can leave the body in sleep and communicate with the spirit of others or of the dead” — Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics.
This is a theme seen across several cultures. Metaphysically it makes sense for dreams to be the platform where worlds beyond our perception would channel their input onto because we are materially bound in the waking world by our senses; dreams become the platform where the extra-sensory domain reaches us through metaphors. James Hastings also talks about interesting dream magic performed by magicians:
The dreams thus sent [by Magicians] belong to two categories: (a) dreams which torment or devour by witchcraft (b) dreams sent to inspire someone with ardent love, to encourage a loved one’s fidelity or to bring hostility to a rival or make him physically impotent. In all such cases, the sending of dream is usually complicated by casting of the spells through the medium of a figure to the person whom the dream is sent [seee Maspero, Histoire, Paris 1895 i-213] and the cases of ‘love figurines’ given to Budge in Egyptian Magic [p.94ff]. The whole combine later on, with magic to form the involved processes of devotions where dream incantation are all confused, the dream-sending, however, remained the chief element.
A papyrus in the British Museum commends the sending of love dreams by the method of tracing words with a nail ‘taken from a wretched ship.
Bad dreams are used as a means to contaminate the chitta (or Feeling-Consciousness as labeled by Arthur Avalon) of the target. For instance, if the target is a practitioner of celibacy or brahmacharya, sexual dreams resulting in wet dreams could be sent. Succubi and Incubi are entities employed by the magician, or in some cases the magician himself/herself. There are rituals to transfer them back to the dream sender or other entities. HYMN is about directing evil dreams to ‘one’s foes’:
“Sleep, guard us from the evil dream. As men discharge a debt, as they pay up an eighth and half-an-eighth, So the whole evil dream do we pay and assign unto our foe.” —Atharva Veda transalation by Ralph T.H. Griffith
Buddhist sources also contain several instances of dream manipulation:
One of the Sanchin Hsing’s renowned Vajramukti techniques was called in India the Iksana Vidya. This term described the mystical art of being able to determine and direct another person’s thoughts or intentions.
Tales of Sage Mahakatyana in Kumaralita’s treatise titled the Kalapananmamalatika contains a striking example of dream manipulation at work: Mahakatyana influences his disciple Sarana, who was the Prince of Uddiyana, to give up his plans for renouncing monk-hood vows and waging war against the King Pradyota. Mahakatyana advises Sarana not to engage in a planned battle but Sarana states his intention to ignore his advice. Through his mental powers, Mahakatyana causes a vision to arise in Sarana’s mind while he is asleep. In this vision he[Sarana] is defeated in battle and taken prisoner under miserable and pitiful conditions. Then he is led away to be executed. On the way Sarana encounters Mahakatyana and begs his forgiveness. The vision eventually persuades Sarana not to seek revenge.
In another account found in Theravada Samyutta Nikaya, King Vemacitra is psychically assaulted by a group of forest hermits to the point of insanity. The King’s sleep was troubled and paranoia consumed him.
— The Bodhisattva Warriors (Page 235)
It should be evident how connected we all are beyond geography in dreamspace, and how vulnerable our idea of isolation is. It may be hard to accept that the inner sacred space that we hold so dear too isn’t free from the filth of the corrupt. This may be the case why real magicians, and real power, prefer to remain anonymous. Since it is possible to redirect evil dreams to the sender, preventing such ‘crimes’ is a matter of magical protection.