The text below is a translation from http://www.taraka.pl/karty_swiadomosci_01 by Jaroslaw Bzoma who keeps his own webpage at https://snienieprogresywne.pl
I take the liberty of omitting certain details where cultural references might prove too difficult to explain.
Before I present it, I would like to explain what is meant by terms I use in English in regards to Progressive Dreaming. The description I give here is based on my understanding of Jaroslaw Bzoma`s rediscovery of the Consciousness access technology and his lectures on it.
Manifestation (przejawienie) and Non-manifestation (nieprzejawienie) are terms pertaining to the state of reality which is divided into numerical levels. Non-manifestation describes the highest states of Consciousness where physical reality that we know from every-day life does not exist; all that is there is just at the level of just being without having a physical form – it might be seen as pure energy. Manifestation is everything that emanates from non-manifestation and is possible to `exist` at the level we as humans see as normal physical reality.
The process in which Manifestation becomes possible requires the Non-manifestation to negate itself. In this process a part of Non-manifestation denounces itself and decides to separate from it. At this point it descends to a level below and begins life of its own. But because it is now separate it requires energy to support itself. In order to obtain the energy it must repeat the first process again and thus another level below is created and so it continues in the same manner. Following these steps we get to the point of creating humans whose role is to support the Soul. Humans have a very strong feeling of being separate from one another and from the Source. Humans also have a huge difficulty in recognising that the true Source is a few levels above the Soul that they were created to serve.
Delusion/Deludedness (urojenie) is another term that needs defining but I am still in process of understanding it 🙂
I will use colour coding to indicate my own interpretations and translation of the articles.
Part 1
I start the presentation of the Consciousness Structure from its ‘top’ or rather ‘depth’ describing something that can be described as the Manifestation `lining’; this is something which exists objectively and in the `form` of… Non-manifestation!
The structure presented here is a layered structure that is experienced by those who practice Progressive Dreaming.
Possibly the most fundamental thing in looking for the Reason of Everything is the awareness that this Great Question must be raised at every level of Consciousness. The Reason of Everything will be different at the level of physical, emotional or thinking being. It will still be something entirely different to beings not having the bodies of small karma 1-5 (for example the Devas from the Consciousness level of 8/3). Worth noting is the fact that not all beings have access to the full complement of Consciousness levels that we as humans do have. Consciousness structure is very fluid and not linear at all. (That is also why J. Bzoma refuses to draw diagrams and schematics of its structure) It is also possible to meet spiritual bots controlled from higher levels. We can also assume that the truly full complement includes many more structures; the dreams inform that at the level of Nothingness 8/2 where the initial forms of our manifestation are created, aside from forms that are being used we can meet ‘empty’ forms! A human being is not equipped with all the possible levels that the Consciousness possesses. We operate on levels 1-5. Level 6 is described in dreams as ‘not ours’. In a linear understanding after ‘non ours’ level six we proceed to level 7 – the individual soul (Atman) which is ‘ours’ but everything above level 7 is ‘not ours’ again.
It cannot be overstated that seeing the levels of Manifestation in a Transcending/linear fashion (as in a tall building) is a very defective (!!!) way of seeing the immanence of God and its defect lies in the limited ability of human senses.
Non-manifestation:
By saying Non-manifestation or Nothingness I mean what Nishida Kitaro called absolute and relative Nothingness. Not to confuse them both I call Non-manifestation the 8-12 Slot and Nothingness level 8/2. In my understanding Nothingness is a threshold of Non-manifestation. In Nothingness (Greek Chaos) manifested beings get created or dissolved. I understand Non-manifestation as what exists (!) objectively. What we see as manifested, including ourselves, is in fact an illusory tapestry woven by The Source Point and The First Manifesting One. In dreams Weaving looks as though The Source Point becomes polarised by 90 degrees and at the same time returns to its original state. It is hard to express but this original state it the state of the Source`s Self-Consciousness. For this to occur we must have the process of polarisation into the Seer and the Seen. This state permutes so rapidly that it would be non-distinguishable for our sight. The permutation is faster that the light that is known to our eyes and the time that is known to our mind, but the distance is shorter than any space perceivable by the senses made by matter. That is why I see The Source Point as having no time and no dimension references, and at the same time it is not light. It can be understood as the Dark Light of the mystics, the infra and ultra light imperceptible even for the spirit eye; the dreams describe it as transparent yet ‘black’ at the same time. It might be seen as the black matter and energy of the Physicists. It might be seen as the Black time that we have not been able to trace yet. Time, space and light as we know them don’t exist until their Black counterparts leave the innards of 8-12 Slot and appear in the 8/3 level. The features of the 8-12 Slot can be described as ultralight/infralight, ultratime/infratime, ultramatter/inframatter, ultraenergy/infraenergy. Why do I present them as ultra and infra variants? Because it is only from our perspective that Manifestation has a beginning and an end; objectively it should be seen as hermetic Ouroboros who eats its own tail. Any attempts of venturing beyond our physical universe during dreaming (whilst keeping the awareness of separateness) must with no exception end up in us falling into ourselves (turning ourselves inside out) as a manifested being, and I don’t mean at all waking up in the physical reality. The same fate, even though inversed, awaits anyone trying to enter through Ishvara`s mouth (The Final Androgyn) into his depth (the Depth of Nondimensional Beyond Time Source Point); as a separate self-aware ‘I’ we are spat out back into Manifestation. Analogy (although mush less dramatic) can be experienced when we try to ascend beyond 5/6 Border when our awareness is too low; that’s when we wake up in a dream where we wake up in a dream…
Blackness might bring negative connotations so we could also call it Shadowness. This term might even be closer to what is seen in long distance dreams when approaching the Source; it might be experienced as Glassiness, Limpidity, or Almost-Translucency of this structure. That is why I called it The Crystal Vortex that converges in the Source Point. Manifestation then starts at the 8-12 Slot, but in its Crystal Vortex stage it is still in its manifested-nonmanifested form; it is still glassyshadowy. At this point it can evoke the association with the Big Bang or Singularity giving birth to the universe. But this Source Singularity gives birth to all the universes that manifest (permanently). The Source Singularity emerges and disappears at the same time in its Shadowycrystal Time. From my journeys I understand that all that is manifested is ‘woven’ (!!!) through the play of the Source Point and its Mirror ‘reflection’/the First Separating one. That is why all that manifests disintegrates through entropy. Manifestation is nothing more than an illusory tapestry of the Source Point and the First Separating One (permanently). It`s likened to the weaving loom: the base and the thread quivering in opposite polarity so rapidly, that it is beyond our perception of time and movement. It creates the space of Manifestation and its contents illusion at the same time. That which can be described as Glassyshadowy matter (energy) is the basis/innards of the Manifested matter/energy and not just the filler of the gaps that is needed to arrive at the 100% of the universe mass.
8-12 Slot (Parabrahman/Ishvara).
In other mystic systems it is called the Rigpah, Shechinah (Field of Sacred Apples Trees), the space at the depth of which the Non-manifested God resides. It consists of The Ultimate Androgyn 12 levels. His Robe is the Veil of Paroketh 8/9 = the Crystal Vortex = The Crystal Wall. The Androgyn`s Mouth is the “central” location of the Dimensionless Point (Kunshi, The Impatient One) in the non-manifested space. The dimensionless and timeless Point “lies” in the Mouth depth; one cannot go beyond this point in the dreams. However, the smallest motion within our discursive consciousness will cause our fall through the delusion channel into our physical body.
In The Androgynous Ishvara`s Mouth (His looks are incredible resembling a clown J ) everything that exists and doesn’t exist gets everted including not only level 11 Fathermothers who are only manifested and the visible level 10 Motherfathers (as there are many Manifested Worlds like ours they are insulated from one another even though their Crystal Vortices originate at the same Source Point!) but also The Red One < 10 (these there are the Highest Trinity).
Another narration includes Level 11 Fathermother who is only manifested (their presence is felt but Father/Mother not visible) as a malefemale androgyn and Level 10 Motherfather visible is a femalemale androgyn. When we approach the Crystal Vortex/Wall looking through the gate we see the Bride running towards the Groom on the right handside of the Abyss. This is the origins of the Source Manifestation, the Submanifestation.
The Abyss is the Manifestation space, the inner “space” of the mirror, the space of delusion over which there is a bridge as thin as a hair leading to the Temple on its other side. This is the bridge off which you fall into the Abyss as soon as you start having any inkling of being separate or if you make any other motions in the mind of the mystic traveller. When you succeed in reaching the Temple steps you will be confronted with the four Flamey Cones of Light which sometimes take shape of a six-winged appearance. Sometimes they allow the traveller to defeat the lack (!!!) of imagined narration behind the Temple door and having passed the door we can see two non-equal Androgyns. Straight across from you there is a Male-featured Female and to the left, behind an incomplete curtain (!) there is a Female-featured Male. Both these incomplete Androgyns are polarised to each other at the angle of 90 degrees. If you reach this place a mystic union with the Malefemale Androgyn is highly probable; it does not look like swallowing the traveller but resembles an orgasmic connection. At short distance there is such a strong attraction that in spite of the indifferent Androgyn gender it is hard to overcome it; luckily the process of creating this narration throws you out of it and you are kicked into the deluded Manifestation. Nonetheless, one must remember not to visit the Temple too often and you will be reminded of it by your guiding Seraphim as soon as your third or fourth attempt to return there. J Because we are innately prone to creating deluded visions of this stage we get degraded to the level of Chorononzoic Heavenly City at 8.1 level and we run the risk of falling into the loop of this habit.
It is in this Slot (or cave/manger) that quite a popular myth of Man/God birth takes place. It is in this 8-12 manger we see a child<10, Mother10, and StepFather11. The witnesses “were” three still wise men 8/1, 8/2 and 8/3 and the Source Point. A Star, but completely devoid of reason!
Border 8/9 whose outer (for us) layer 9 is at the same time Level 13 looking at the Border from the “inside” of the 8-12 Slot. Its feature is turning images and meanings upside-down. This is the Mirror at which the Source Point looks at itself and “sees” its own deluded reflection: Manifestation.
The Consciousness Layers of which I speak in dreams sometimes are called Caesars. Hence we have 13 Caesars of which the last one – according to the dreams – has been in exile and remains in isolation. This is the tale of the mirrorness of the level 13(9)and the mirror illusion of Manifestation that it contains.
In fact, whatever we “observe” beyond this border is not outside but inside the Manifestation, it is its lining.
The threshold Brahmanic layer 8. The border between Non-manifestation and Manifestation, on “our” side.
Level 8 (Brahmanic). Three-layered.
Gold Crown 8.3, robe, other royal/priest attributes. It transforms into the curtain of being/Mirror, 8/9 Paroketh, generates the impulse to create the manifestation of the Non-manifestation 8-12 Slot and to search forms of its own expression. In dreams it appears as a conical gold robe full of ornamental forms empty (!) inside. The fact that it resembles a liturgy piece of garment of an orthodox priest or any priest in general cannot be a coincidence.
Nothingness 8.2: space where (empty?) forms are stored or those forms that arrive full of contents from Manifestation are dissolved. Self-aware subjects during exploration of this area experience increased temperature and the feeling of being covered in a light viscous substance able to create form. Sometimes one can see multiple stored forms that take their origin in one, motherly to all form. There are also empty forms of unknown purpose.
It was during crossing this level that one of the Seraphims, Flamey six-winged (!) guardians of the Temple (Vortex/Robe/Curtain-Paroketh), “told” me:
-“You discovered what you wished for but in a way different to what you had expected.”
It is on the 8.2 Nothingness level that we experience scenes whose main feature is high temperature. It is not that hard to imagine, that because of this instead of moving towards Non-manifestation from here the followers of a well-known religion return to lower levels, or struggle with their own Nigredo/Shadow “Satan” or stick to the Albedo illusion of “Jesus”. This level is also the one featuring the Field of Dying Horses/Ree-Field (this is what it was called in my dream, Ree is 18 or in other terms 9th level of Consciousness, the transgression by 1 is possibly due to the omission of the physical level “there”. That is because 1=5) This field disintegrates the Soul Vehicles otherwise seen as its manifested form. This is a level of extremely slowly transforming symbols; in my estimation car junkyards full of rusty sedans will not start appearing here until a couple hundred years from now.
Nigredo/Albedo 8.1
This is the source of delusion and at the same time the area of delusion highest concentration; this is where the Consciousness descends to but its forms are still empty and able to undergo countless permutations; this is where the Consciousness ascends to filled to the brim with all the deluded illusions that the empty forms acquired while in its separate from the Source state of Manifestation. The visions of “Demonic” beings that the traveller experiences are nothing more than illusions (shadows) collected by the subject of the Manifestation treating them as real. […] This is the level where we have the silver delusion Border appear. It is the border of human comprehension, the ultimate border of human knowledge acquisition. Something like the intransgressible Planc`s constant. Before we get to see The Black One (for obvious reasons The White One is a much rarer occurrence) we encounter a one-headed dog of corresponding colour. Some might see this remark as illogical as what might be unusual in a single/one headed dog, but you would think no such thing if you knew that a level below, at 5/6 Border, we encounter another dog, only a three-headed one. The 8/1 Black One appears as a tall, sometimes even a three metre tall, swarthy man – you could take him as of Gypsy, Spanish or Italian origin, generally a southern type, sometimes he might be completely black. For obvious reasons 8/1 Nigredo just like any shadow from lower levels of Consciousness is the same gender as the traveller. It is in opposition to the 1-5 levels where the “guides” to the traveller are of the opposite gender.
Manifestation:
(Here I describe a stream of human and other similar self-aware beings.)
UltraSoul 7+ (transluscent blue/Paramatman) Direct contact with this level might be an unforgettable experience. Quite often it appears as a light skyblue coloured hand appearing out of the Brahmanic 8 mist which strokes the traveller on their cheek.
We discover this level when travelling upwards, as we ascend our dream consciousness for it to match level 7, individual Soul (Atman). That is why dreams inform the traveller that the ascending direction has fewer levels than the descending direction. This level might appear in dreams as a male form – a Gardener (reminder that Shechinah 8-12 is described as the Field of Sacred Apple Trees) or a female which is His Field of Manifestation. In my case this female form was called Maestrosa. Every dream traveller sees her as a mature (!) hieratic beauty who allows them to admire her poly-creations.
Individual Soul 7 (light to translucent violet/Atman)
Vedic scriptures tell us that Atman is identical to Brahman and it is true in a sense. When the traveller arrives here he meets himself, his translucent version and is surprised to learn that they both share one head. The experience is so strong and full of emotion that it often makes one wake up crying. Mystics call this experience The Gift of Tears.
With a bit of luck the Atman will show us how he creates the sparks of life of beings/aspects parallel to us who take root of their small karmas in the House of Souls at level 6. That`s right, we have many brothers or sisters that we share our Soul 7 with; they might be alive at the same time as us or in what we call future or past. Small karma relates to a single aspect and is merely an entanglement of one`s own projections of 1-5 levels. Whatever is above 5/6 Border is the large karma which is created intentionally by Soul 7/Ultrasoul 7+/Brahman 8 (all these are essentially one). Not only is it intentionally created by this level but also controlled by it almost fully. Whatever is above 5/6 Border is subject to only one illusion: the illusion of being separate from the Source. This however, is only up to the moment of trumpeting off (!?) of the great return. Trumpeting off is used as the term here as it is believed on the other side that if one has heard the screeching fanfare vibrating sound of the Crystal Vortex one begins their return to the Source. This feeling fills the dreamers inside out and is an unforgettable experience. This vibration is not always felt by “hearing”, sometimes it is felt by “seeing” of the mistiness of level 8 or being flooded by ultraskyblue light.
Buddhic level 6 (white/lemon yellow/light orange)
This is a multi-vector “not ours” (!) space, similarly to the levels above 7. It consists of three layers: House of Souls, Hospital of Souls and the Sacred Island. The House of Souls includes our Family of Souls and all other aspects of our Soul 7 plus all other self-aware beings at this level; they live all their lives at the same time (typical for this level multi-vector feature) and manifest in “small life”/small karma below 5/6 Border.
5/6 Border
This is the border that turns images and meanings by 180 degrees. This is where small karma/short life starts (Large Karma/Long Life is located between The Red One<10 and level 1). Above this border a perceptive traveller will be surprised to see himself from outside of his body taking part in the narration that develops in the dream. He knows what the other one is thinking even though there is space between them! At negative (delusory) levels below the 5/6 Border (hell levels with low temperature!!!) one will encounter an amusing situation of being diminished in size if one`s consciousness resides in delusion or of being magnified in relation to the other self which in turn becomes illusorily diminished. Each of Consciousness levels contains a (-) delusory level. Even level 8 does that (Chorozon – Nigredo/Albedo), and whoever does not understand that dreaming/meditation/visions use this path of delusion and identifies themselves with literal narration of the dream or meditative vision becomes devoured by delusion. That is why one needs to constantly be aware of the fact that depending on which gate we use to exit the small karma we will witness visions, colours and symbols characteristic to this particular gate. There are four gates: etheric (2), astral (3), mental (4) and causal (5). These represent exits from each of the Consciousness levels 2-5. Level 1 also can be left by dreaming, meditating or… dying J The gates have their guards and as mentioned before the most difficult gate is the red one, the causal gate 5 as it is guarded by a triple being trying to kick us back into small karma. Gates three and four are guarded by bots who do the same at the level of hypnagogues but these are easy to overcome: it is enough to ascend a little in the level of our consciousness during dreams at their corresponding levels (OBE (3) and LD (4). After this happens they will be mere barometres informing us of the “weather” outside. At level 3 the guards may be nothing more than Hungry Ghosts J
These Gates lead from the four levels of small karma to the space above 5/6 Border, most often to Soul 7/Ultra Soul 7+ and are a kind of a karmic delusion device which nonetheless corresponds with the real character of the Consciousness levels above this border. This is what helps build long distance travel narrations. The symbols are rather stable and with a little practice very clear. As mentioned before if it wasn’t for the delusion whose spell we are under we could not witness anything more than the Pure Base of Ultralightinfralighness of the Consciousness in the 8-12 Slot.
Those of you who have encountered the yoga of sleep and dreaming or dzogchen will immediately think of the four colourful side tigles, the central one and the fifth blue tigle (Soul 7/Ultrasoul 7+) Similarly, the kabbalah and other mystic systems are compatible with this structure.
Level 5 (red) cause-effect level.
All events of our life are interconnected with imperceptible streams of Consciousness which we observe as phenomena occurring in our surroundings. This is not a correct observation though, as the effect is the cause and the cause is the effect, like I mentioned in De venatione sapientiae https://snienieprogresywne.pl. Attempts of leaving this level to move to 5/6 Border are supressed by karma Guards (impersonated by three beings whose appearance is linked to either our birth zodiac sign or to a universal symbol – the triple dog – the Cerberus. On the way back “from above” there are the three Parkas, the fate spinners who are always happy to see us returning to the small karma). To Middle Europeans the guards of the small karma causal level 4 often appear as the Russians J analogically at 8/2 level it is the Germans (Niemcy = niemowy/mute) and at level 3 (the most left-sided, further than our perceived negative levels) Americans – the same ones planning to depopulate us!
Level 4 (blue) is a mental level, one of intellectual speculations. The Source cannot be rational until it reaches this level, although we erroneously ascribe to it some sort of omniscience. Before it reaches this level it exists `only` as: I am that I am. Omnipotence and All-efficiency does not equal Omniscience as omniscience is implemented by all beings who are self-aware of a particular Manifestation and who have managed to develop an organ through which to process data and function within a mental level (in our case it is the biological brain). All-wisdom is hence mindless!
Level 3 (green) astral or emotionally-imaginative. This is where all the junk forming our small karma is created. It is here that we confuse emotional delusion called love with the experience of Unity>7 which is the true Love/God and that has nothing to do with feelings. The Love of high levels (7 and higher) is not different to Ruthlessness!!! Whether we feel ascension or depression in this state depends only on our deluded perceptions that we have regarding ourselves and God. In truth, the deepest abandonment is no different to the highest ascension of our Self; the two are features that imprison us in or liberate us from small karma which is the embodiment of individual and collective delusions of these levels (3 and 4).
On the negative wing of this level live those who draw the surplus (lush) of our energy emitted in moments of creating perceptions and succumbing to emotions, not only negative ones but also positive ones. They are parasitic beings using the channel that is used to transport the energy to Soul 7 and “above”. The energy itself that is generated at level 3 has no connotation of happiness or suffering and so we will be surprised to find out that at the level of 8-12 Slot “Nobody” knows about our suffering! There is no organ to find out about it and to process this information with. With deep bitterness we learn that these are merely states of excitation that our brain generates and then uses when synchronising with the mental level 4 and astral level 3 of the small karma space. In effect these are the states that allow for the higher, separating from the Source, descending levels of the Manifesting Consciousness to anchor themselves as heavy matter. It is a huge spiritual mechanism devoid of emotions and reason, except for our feelings and thoughts of course.
Level 2 (yellow) energy/etheric
At the negative side of this level there are Hungry Ghosts and we find the entrance to the hell at level of (-)2. It is here that we meet the negative, delusion copy of ourselves or even of God. Experiencing this level gives one understanding of what such concepts as micropsy/diminishing, macropsy/magnifying, losing the connection to the soul and cold hell really mean. We will come to understand that the lack of a spiritual guide(even in a form of a religion egregore) showing us the right direction may lead to the loss of orientation in the negative delusion space and the incapability of finding the way back to the positive delusion space – our reality. This way after our death, having lost our base physical body, we are the prisoner of delusion (-)2 level of small karma and become a Hungry Ghost roaming the astromental spaces fighting for survival and for access to the energy from beings still connected with their Consciousness streams. Hungry Ghosts are parasites not only to the biological, alive beings at levels 2, 3 and 4 but also to the astral fields of the deceased ones awaiting another small karma incarnation. Hungry Ghosts are not able to cross the 5/6 Border. They are just a bunch of self-delusions, even though not totally devoid of the Self they are deprived of the access to the stream of Consciousness that a while back created them in the small karma space. In Codex Gigas I describe this area and my adventures in it, including renewal of the vows with my Soul when I finally succeeded in leaving this space.
Level 1 physical body/in humans biological body and the nervous system with its brain. On its negative side, not without level 5 input, sometimes in a very physically looking gate there is someone lurking, someone waiting for us, someone who is in a sense us J
Turning our body by 90 degrees at each of the Consciousness levels sends a signal that we enter the level stationary orbit and that we stop moving up or down. Turning by 180 degrees and upside down is discussed in sections about 5/6 and8/9 Borders. (Here it is worthwhile noticing the analogy of the turns of the subtle body in dreams and during ritual dances in reality!)
Changing the perception angle the 5/6 and the 8/9 Borders cause the layers of Consciousness contained within them to overlay causing the colours recurring in dreams at different levels to change their translucency and not the hue itself, quite unlike a folded fabric. Let`s not forget this is a seamless Robe!
Level 1 is in fact an element of level 5 (possibly that is why it is ridiculed by the less-experienced mystic travellers; Castaneda called it the point of connection: one of 600 – obviously not a number but a reference to 6/00/ level. Dzogchen calls it the red tigle, located between our shoulder blades). In hermetic mysticism the identity of hues/levels of Redness is described as a shell of a red egg. This is the hermetic egg and also known in Hindu philosophy hiranjagarbha. The difference is that these ones are golden outside and red inside. Why? Because they describe the state of everting, the structure from the 8-12 Slot point of view.
All the above levels are structured like onion layers. Of course this is our transcending point of view. Often in the olden mysticism they compared the three basic areas of the structure: body (1-5), soul (6-8) and the spirit (8-12) to the structure of an egg.
Similarly, the Swedenborg model of the Cosmic Man consists of: legs, torso and head. The waistline is the 5/6 Border and the neck is the 8/9 Border. Mouth is obvious.
It`s important to emphasise that in dreams left side is the direction towards our negative delusion and the right side towards positive delusion or what we typically see as reality.