It is a curious thing. Sometimes there isn’t a word in my head. Nothing. Other times, I see and know what is happening in many places, and am a part of the unfolding—and there are no time divisions.
The body feels it no longer belongs to the old way of being.
It is capable of widening, of becoming vast.
It is a consciousness free of any mental element.
It is so clear, and minutely precise—like a direct contact with the thing as it is.
It isn’t something you see or understand or know. It is something you are.
It’s another way of living.
And knowledge seems replaced by something that has nothing to do with thought, and less and less with vision. Something of a new order, which is a new type of perception. You simply know. And have a feeling of indescribable connectedness. It is far greater than thought, and wider than vision. It is a sort of global perception from a global body. There is no longer a reality centric to a self. One has a global heart. There is no more differentiation.
Perhaps it is evolutionary. Surely it is revolutionary.
This way of being is not easy on the body. It has an intensity, and as such, leaves one feeling that there is no boundary to the body. There is a reverberation or an undulation in the stasis, the stillness, that has great breadth. It disturbs nothing. It moves nothing. It clashes with nothing. And it carries the universe in its undulatory movements smoothly. One simply needs to go down into every cell of the body, deep enough inside, remain quiet there and it will be.
You cannot understand it. There is only to be it.
If it can happen in one body, it can happen in all bodies. I am not made from something different than another human being. Until you have tasted the degree of this inner fulfillment, you hardly dare dream that it is possible. This fulfillment gets deeper and deeper, more and more complete. And you know with the certainty that is born of experience.
The inward cost of realizing union with a greater reality is always one’s self.
Sometimes I think that we are so easily identified only with our own effort and our own will, that we have forgotten the primal truth of the Absolute. And it’s need for us. This eternity stamped in the very core of our being.
After writing “Transcendent Dreaming: Stepping into our Human Potential”, which depicts a blueprint of this way of living in the world in a set of 10 dreams, the most common question asked by readers worldwide has been: “If one is not a dreamer, how does one live in these expanded states of awareness?” Although this question has been the most common, and continues to be asked, I do wonder why the question has not been how one unites with this force that moves the sun, and the moon and the stars. This undulation that is the movement of life, that exists in every cell of the body, and unites us with all of life.
Sometimes I wonder if this space is the home and mother language of what is traditionally called soul. The soul, fully recessed in matter, may indeed slide along a different thread than that of thought alone. And regardless of any of the questions that have been asked over the many years since writing Transcendent Dreaming, it is this art of union that seems important to me.
The gift of this union has taught me what living can be. How the seen can course like blood through the body until the unseen behind it rises, opens its eyes and unveils a deeper reality.
Transcendent Dreaming: Stepping into our Human Potential.
Transcendent Dreaming provides both a riveting account of discoveries and a viable means for realizing them. Through example, it invites readers to access their infinite nature by delving deeply into their own dream experiences. It then helps bridge the chasm between identifying with one’s individual self and with the underlying intelligence pervading the universe. In offering this blueprint for a transcendent humanity, Transcendent Dreaming gives us back our heritage and guides us toward a future of inner peace, joy, and wonderment independent of external circumstances.
“Christina Donnell's Transcendent Dreaming is one of the most profound accounts of dreaming ever written by a westerner—destined, I believe, to take its place in the canon of dream literature.
Has the universe birthed Christina Donnell and this book because of an urgent need in a desperate time? One is tempted to think so. Amidst today's destruction of natural habitats and species, epidemics of old and new diseases, grinding poverty and widespread starvation, persistent genocides, religious fanaticism, and global ter-rorism, fear of "the other" is rampant, prompting nations to arm themselves to the teeth in preparation for God knows what. Donnell's vision reveals that this madness can be overcome. In the Dreaming, she has seen and participated in a oneness with all of creation. If we are to flourish as a species, the realization of this connectivity, this web of life, is crucial.
Donnell's testament leaves readers with questions:
Might I have these experiences? Can I go where she has gone? The answer is yes. You are already there. You have only to realize it.
I bow deeply to Christina Donnell for showing the way.”
From the book’s foreword by Larry Dossey, M.D., author of The Power of Premonitions, One Mind and Healing Words.
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