Sheep in Sleep

Because the machine – although fully functional in the ordinary sense – lives its whole life in the sleeping state, our work begins in sleep. We must learn to use the elements of sleep to overcome the machine’s defense mechanism against the waking state.

To begin our work of awakening, and to enhance our understanding and efforts at creating a transformational life, we must learn where we are. We are living in a sleeping machine. But, that is a generality. You are not living in my sleeping machine nor I in yours.

We each come to the process with our own set history. There are reasons we developed the particular mannerisms, egos, vanities, emotional signatures and physical habits. We did so to survive as well as we knew how at the time. Those efforts and solutions may or may not serve us at the moment. We must understand our specific machine our specific lot in life. That is our work.

But, how then do we discover the nature of our sleeping machine? Is there a source of help? What tools do we bring to the process?