This is my translation of one part of a series of lectures that J. Bzoma gave to M. Dabrowski on his YT channel Tagen TV. This is part 14 of the series. As usual I colour code it: blue is what J. Bzoma is saying, black is my additions, in red is M. Dabrowski`s part. Emphasis is all mine where I thought it was meant during the interview. I apologise for any of the names` misspellings; I have yet to research some of the content presented here.
Depending on the consciousness level, we need to know what to do at the moment of death. Unless one doesn’t want to do it. There are those, who don’t, or those who by this action want to find a sweet spot at some higher level or to choose a karma or to skip some levels. It is of course an illusion because as Self they cannot choose any other karma because karma chooses their own creations, and the notion that they could be a part of some karmic reminiscence is nonsense from intermediate esoteric knowledge. People think it is possible to achieve this because they would like to achieve heaven personally. What`s more people would like to experience Nirvana personally, which is totally absurd! How can one personally experience the end of all (ustanie). Can anyone explain to me how this would be possible? It`s like a drop which would like to be the sea and at the same time feel separate from it. This is the kind of nonsense that people believe in. These are concepts sold to people of lower level of consciousness to keep them at some semblance of spirituality and spiritual practice. Phowa is a similar problem. Phowa is known not only to Tibetan Buddhism, it stems from shamanistic practices; it developed in Buddhism, […] , in Yoga, in Daoism, it is also present in Christianity as actus iaculatoriae. In fact actus iaculatoriae`s function is to transfer consciousness at the moment of death but it`s something that needs knowhow and advanced practice during one`s life. Transfer of consciousness depends on one`s level of consciousness; its procedure differs according to it too. There are many terms I could use for the process but I use the attractive term of Phowa. It is believed that the procedure leads to the appearance of a small opening at the top of one`s head, which is large enough to slide a blade of grass through it. A man called Ollennidal was known for coaching Phowa (he might still be alive). Not to offend the ones who have undergone this kind of Phowa training, but it is classified in Tibetan Buddhism as Ordinary Phowa, and not some extraordinary one J .
There are five kinds of Phowa:
The Ultimate Phowa which is for those who don’t really need it as they live in a state of heightened consciousness – those who are advanced in Dzogchen and in Mahamudrah (Dzogchen is the Yoga of Sleep and Dreaming – just the same as what we do in progressive dreaming). One could say this procedure transfers the consciousness to the level of Dharma Kayah (Non-manifestation).
The Medium Phowa, transferring the consciousness to the level of the Soul, Samboga Kayah, the level of Wisdom.
The Lower Phowa, carried out using secret mantras; this is at the borderline of magic, but it still works
The Ordinary Phowa: the Phowa of three concepts (Ollenidal is a Ning Mapa teacher)
The Iron Hook of Compassion; Phowa carried out in the name of the dying person – meditating another person`s transfer of consciousness as if you drag them with a hook. So if one is not able to carry it out themselves, they can be helped by others.
The most mystifying one is the Phowa of Three Concepts with the head opening. It’s a technical thing, one does not need to believe in anything, one must only strive to achieve some sort of higher consciousness. There is no need to be a Buddhist. It is nothing more than opening the central channel. It is the well that I mentioned before. If there are no obstacles then the opening might appear, it might sound frightening but if at night you dream intensively and you keep making transfers from bottom to top, in the morning you wake up with a scab at the top of your head. It happens quite often. (and JB adds jokingly: Good that brain fluid does not seep through it!)
This Phowa requires a two-day session with preparations before the crucial part which is three three-hour sessions when you repeat one hundred thousand times (who could be bothered…!), one hundred thousand times the mantra to Amitabh. Who is Amitabh? The Red One <10, the Red Buddha, the Christ – the actual character does not matter, what matters is for us to know the direction of transfer. The Mantra of Oh Manni Dewa Hri. You repeat this mantra in deep meditation state, visualise the Red One over your head and concentrate constantly to move the consciousness in the upward direction. These are the three elements of the procedure. After the required number of repetitions you achieve a state of bliss. There might be obstacles on the way as karma might be cutting through the onion-like structure of the chakras that create the human. The measure of success of the procedure is the appearance of the opening on your head. It is such a strong and moving experience that even an atheist (if can be bothered to go through the procedure) can truly believe in the spiritual world. It is a very time and effort consuming ritual, just like most of the ancient rituals that filled up people`s time. What other things did they have to spend their lives on? Once you are polarised to spiritual life you are not good for any other things. One has to be hugely flexible to function normally in daily life and to travel at night and analyse it correctly; it is very easy to tip off the balance and fall into the mystical mood where one stops caring for the physical world; one needs to be very careful to control the whole process. Progressive dreamers should not attempt any Phowa procedures as they already carry out their continual exercise in living in the consciousness. The dreamer`s target is not complicating and adding more and more elements (as it is possible to dream into the smallest element of another dream) but simplification. Expanding the narration means delving into deludedness and nourishing the same kind of illusion that the mind practices every day at its physical reality level, just like in OBE and LD. It is cool as an adventure and a form of relaxation but it leads nowhere. It doesn’t lead to spiritual achievements. This was discovered eighteen thousand years ago by Buddha Milo Che, who started the Dzog Chen (self-enlightenment) stream. This seems to be the most powerful technique of self-improvement transferred from the ancient times. Of course over the years it has been adorned with add-ons, extensions and projections which are alien to our contemporary world. But all of it can be treated numerically, just like I did. Only after some time did I realise that I “discovered” something that Dzog Chen knew about for aeons. But that only flattered me, as I realised my journeys and the structure are verified as having solid grounds.
Ok, but what role in the structure of the world, the universe, the consciousness, and the god is that of information?
Information is at its every level. But it also depends what you mean by information. The term must be agreed upon.
Information as building blocks of reality.
You have to treat information like time and space. There has to be the subject and the object. One that is its owner and one that receives it. This in turn proves that information has its roots in the Manifestation. In dreams, information is relayed in the form of spheres. Seeing a ball in a dream, big or small or any kind of colourful or even transparent sphere, you have to be aware that it is information. You can access this information. You can do it consciously in LD or at non-conscious (higher) levels. You can fall asleep (not necessarily on the same night) and ask for access to the information sphere. It is not by accident that we have apples – info spheres – in the Sacred Apple Orchard (Shechinah). That`s the true meaning of this symbol. As you know, right now in this modern world, around half of the global revenue in business revolves around selling information. Information, materially, can be viewed as something that does not exist physically. Undeniably though, it is someTHING important, people share it, trade it, and intercept it, as it allows for creating certain physical behaviours and influence people. It materialises; it is another form of materialisation, manifestation. The DNA code is nothing other than information that materialises body. Everything at a certain level has its own information level which is some sort of a transmitter. But these are only words, just as well you could call this in the Medieval times some sort of a will, god`s will or spiritual message, what we are doing is merely an exercise of finding a term for it. This all boils down to the same thing, it must be explained somehow. I see no issue regarding this issue.
For me information is a crucial building material.
So what is false/fake information then?
The question is, does something like false/fake information exist?
Of course it does. This is what leads to destruction.
Yes, like cancer for instance, in a human body.
Also we can mislead others with it. What information relates to is our mental body. At the energetic level, information takes form of energy or rather its distribution: allocating and formatting it. At the emotional level, information is read as emotion or perceptions/images that you receive. At every level the information manifests itself in a different way. In my simple mind a while back I wanted to find out the reason of everything. I bothered the soul, the god, the Seraphims, and my Ibbour and finally they told me that at different consciousness levels the reason of everything is perceived differently. But overall the reason of everything is just one: it is the Source of Consciousness. But we see it and explain it to ourselves yet differently. You can compare information to my visit at the Crystal Vortex Temple in the Non-manifestation. When I get very high up there (the highest level), on the left side skewed slight towards the (-) side (slight signs of narration verify this) I see groups of pouffes. I feel they are beings, conscious beings. But their form totally confuses me. What is more they are not purely solid; they flicker. One of them says to me (in mind to mind transmission): now we are going to put on the costumes that are by the door and we will go to the right (towards Manifestation). There was a big box there, but I lost countenance when I looked inside as there was only one costume! There were quite a few of us going! It didn’t seem right for me as a guest to grab it first and leave. I was worried for myself as I was sure I was not the one who the costume was for. Our queue proceeded though, each of us put the costume on and left, but the costume still remained there! You can see this as relating to the information and form. All the beings got their costume, including me. We left the room, I looked to the left and instead of these pouffes, I saw six-winged Seraphims. (I didn’t find out until later they were Seraphims, I researched the topic after waking.) However, they were bodyless, equipped with wings only! They were also of glassy constitution, their voice, even though it was mind to mind transmitted, was also glassy. It sounded like it was made of glass shards. The voice said: “You found out what you were looking for, but not in a way that you expected!” This is indeed information! The information exists, and the receiver reflects its character. A radio wave is a sort of information, you can tune in and receive it. But if it is in a form of a numerical transmitter (most often these are intelligence/spy stations) that transmits a numeric code unless you know the code, the information is useless even though you know it is transmitted. Plus you have no way of verifying if it is fake or genuine information. So this issue is subtle… Dreaming is also receiving information; it is anthropomorphised, but it is not human in origin. It comes from realms beyond our senses. Dreams create information is various ways. You can hear it, get it from mind to mind directly, you can smell the scents, or see it as image. Sometimes the travellers would like to find out their Soul`s name; they spend loads of time and energy but they get nowhere as nobody says the name. They don’t realise that a name can be expressed in a different form: image, sound, scent, taste, or feeling. It is only our imagination that expects a name as we are used to them like “Metatrone”. It is worth noting that when we hear names in dreams, they are so misshapen that they cannot be repeated, what we get is a generalised idea of the name that we are able to verbalise. Just like in the case of my Ibbour – Shirin, what must be said here is that in Meyrink`s Goleme the third chapter “I” relates to an Ibbour. That is the first work of art that I encountered about Ibbours.
What more is there about dreams? Coz when you think about it, we are detached from our consciousness the third part of our lives.
But we are immersed in the information field all the time!
So dreaming itself is the evidence for the existence of our life beyond our senses.
Yes, but what must be noted is that this information is intelligent, if it wasn’t you would only have dreams just like all those who have no idea of progressive or programmed dreaming and are unable to deduce anything out of them. They just dream whatever, and they assume these night scenes are reminiscences of the previous day, the emotion they went through recently; this is not true though. The dream is constantly relaying the state of our higher Consciousness using the symbols that are closest and most relevant to us in any given moment. So, whatever the Source is supposed to tell us on any given occasion will be told to us using the previous day`s events. It is not that the dreams influence us like we imagine they do. Our feelings and what we do are often the result of the internal (higher in level) processes. Dreams do not follow a popular misconception that we have a traumatic dream following a traumatic experience we have had in the physical world. The fact that both occur at roughly the same time only means that there is a tendency for this kind of behaviour (coming from the higher Level). So what we see in dreams might bear the superficial resemblance to real events but only because they are still fresh in our mind, easily accessible and thus most relevant as canvas for the Consciousness transmission.
What about pre-cognition dreams?
They follow exactly the same mechanism. You just leap to a higher level, the level of Necessity (Brahmanic level), where there is no time and space, and you are able to get an insight into a tendency that you are immersed in at the lower level. Déjà vu and precognition are two sides of the same coin. There is no difference if you have a dream, a vision as a psychic or you see it while meditating. Now, going back to Phowa,
From death to life…
From life to death, I have mentioned that on the Non-manifestation level you only dream of dead people. Generally speaking, for the advanced progressive dreamers Phowa is unnecessary as transferring their consciousness is their standard state and so they are able to cut straight through the Manifested fields and reach the basic state of the Non-manifested mind and its ultralighness. They live in a state where deluded things do not exist and what exists is just a background. Let`s for instance take a task of me asking you to close your eyes and imagine a cup: you will do it swiftly and describe this cup to me in detail and you will be happy with the outcome. What doesn’t even cross your mind is to think of the background of the cup! And this background is the space from which forms are manifested. It is actually quite easy to reach that level. When I explain how to go about the Phowa based on dream levels […] you will see how levels of Consciousness work. Someone well practiced in Dzogchen informed me of their own method of reaching the base of Consciousness. It is to look to the left whilst having your eyes closed; this elongates slightly the field of vision of the left eye compared to the right one; this has a huge impact as it activates the right hemisphere. […] For the same reason the side on which we see certain objects in dreams is significant too: seeing something on the right side means it manifested through the left hemisphere and vice versa. That’s why all that we visualise we visualise on the left handside, it is to make the right hemisphere prevalent. Using the same premise it is possible to reach the dissociative state (OBE, LD) or even to recall dreams from the past (it is also a more temporary state of dissociation but one that does not pave way for psudo-seizure states which is explained in another article here: OBE and LD pursuits). […] Even holothropic breathing is based on the same physiological mechanism. […]
One more thing from dream experiences; moving across the border of reality into dreams quite often I see a structure of tiny links, a bit like a net…
Oh yes, I was going to talk about these nets! They are linked to the Phowa for the dreamers. I have identified at least three kinds of these nets. There is one at every level. Some call it a matrix. I have encountered three of them but one could stretch it a bit and define another one at the Soul level. They are kind of a sieve that supplies details to the coarser tendencies. The lower matrix at the 5/6 Border appeared to me once and it kept me lying in my bed with my eyes closed after waking watching it for about 10 minutes; it was a white lacey structure. I could approach it from any angle I wished; it showed a 3D structure with a thick depth to it, it seemed like a lacey matrix with human and animal bodies as well as flowers woven together. It was stunningly beautiful; I didn’t want to open my eyes as I knew it would disappear but at the same time I wanted to journal it! I feared that if I happen to fall asleep I would have lost the memory! It happens a lot that u wake up at night with a recollection of a great dream. You marvel at it and want to write it down but somehow out of laziness you change your mind as you feel it is so great that you vow to yourself you will remember it anyway without switching the light on and disturbing your night cycle. But this is a common Mind`s trap: you will remember nothing of it in the morning! The only thing stuck in your mind will be the thought that you were supposed to remember something, but have no idea what. A trick to recall a lost dream is to go to the bathroom before completely waking up and let water run; there is something about the noise of running water that tends to bring back a dream that is slipping away. I have been able to recall a few dreams that way.
Water as an information storage device.
Possibly it is due to the frequency itself. The humming noise must be somehow associated with dreams. But coming back to the matrices; there is also a golden and a silver one. The colours correspond to the Consciousness levels, but all of them come from the misty Brahmanic level (broad level of Soul 6-8). At the level 7 the white matrix formats the Small Karma, this is the Buddhic level associated with the white colour, sometimes it is pearly white or a light citron-yellow colour. Pure yellow colour is the Energy level (2). But these are tendencies only, the colour stretches from level 2 and becomes lighter at the Buddhic level to become gold at the Metatrone level. Analogous situation is with the blue level (Mental) which becomes sky blue at the Soul 7+ until it reaches silver at the Nigredo/Albedo level. In the Kabbalah it corresponds to the non-existent Sephira Daat (the Knowledge).
The one I have seen and the way I saw it, it was matter but of a very fine net structure of silver colour.
It is a teaching matrix, at the Daat level. An interesting one is a green path, starting from the astral level, the green stretches to the mix of gold and sky blue, it becomes translucent green and this is the colour that in Sufism is associated with a being called Al-Khidr (the green one). Al-Khidr is a being I have met in my dreams on several occasions without knowing who he was. Only when I delved into Sufism did I learn who he is. It is a being that is a master of non-institutionalised mystics, he comes to those who follow their individual path of mysticism. He showed me how energy is taken from humans. […] He has his equivalent in Christianity as well, it is mostly forgotten now, they also have a green being in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Let`s get back to the silver (teaching) one; it shows the limit of the human mind knowledge but at the same time there can be found a connection to the divine knowledge, but mostly humans refrain from trespassing. This silver colour oscillates between the black/Nigredo and white/Albedo stream (descending and ascending respectively), it shows signs of deludedness and duality. That’s where the silver matrix appears, often it shows religious symbols or buildings that portray the Heavenly City (heavenly Jerusalem). Once you have been there once, even without realising it, it is super easy to recognise this place. When I get descriptions of it from other travellers after the first three sentences of a whole page I recognise it immediately. The buildings there are huge with huge spaces between them; sometimes stretching up to two miles! Each building is in a different architectural style, as if made by different cultures; this shows the knowledge and culture of all human spirituality. What is interesting though, is that when the Soul does not evoke any emotions in a human, it does not reap any benefits from having it! For a Soul, the only useful/nourishing energy is the emotional one. The mental analysis is completely irrelevant for the Soul as it has nothing to consume/process it with! It has no mind! The mental analysis is a human thing done only for its own sake. If no positive emotions are evoked, coz emotions are the seeds of spiritual creations… The emotional level is something that we perceive at all the spaces that we move through… The Soul; it does not love you! The God doesn’t love you! The Ultrasoul stroking you on the cheek does not show you any sympathy. At any of these levels what is evoked in you is your own reaction. It is your reaction that you perceive! But from these reactions you can understand, like you understand an image, the emotions themselves. You must remember it is done through the emotional and not the visual level. People often get confused and equate a lofty religious experience with god`s love. In a sense one can say it is true, but it is your love and god is just god! You perceive god as love, but god as is, is not wise, in fact in dreams god is shown as an idiot! Quite frankly, in the emotional and mental layers there are no reactions occurring, these are only our imaginations that we attribute to god.
How is it then that our memory is so strongly linked with our emotions? It is as if emotions are memories` carriers. The stronger the emotions…
Yes, it was discovered a good while back that in order to recall anything you must correlate it to an emotion, first you recall the emotion and only after that the mental level kicks in. It is because the mental level is an overgrowth on the emotional level. In primeval organisms there is no mental level at all! Mental level is an addition on top of the Level 3. In the old Tibetan messages at the moment of death the first thing you saw was the light of Dharma Kayah and then you started the descent. Today, the modern man sees his own mental images first. […] in the olden days, when people were simple and had limited knowledge, they reacted in simple ways and the mental level was not an obstacle. Now the mental level is an obstruction and has to be dissolved and while this happens it contributes to the growth of the emotional level. Unfortunately, it will bring negative effects. It will not be a heightening experience because people are egotists and are more willing to nurse negative feelings rather than positive ones. If you want proof for this just switch the tv on and you will see what prevailing emotions we exhibit… in Syria for example…
Do you think this kind of emotions is intentionally forced in people or… ?
I think it is just the way this process is. Some of us descend, and some of us ascend on this planet.
