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[allspirit] the Self, which is love

CATCHING THE THREADSufism, Dreamwork, & Jungian Psychologyby

Llewellyn Vaughan-LeeAs the Wayfarer travels along the path, the

energies of the heart gradually subvert the thinking processes of the

mind. Because the energy of love is more powerful than the mind, it

secretly slows down the mind, until the mind becomes empty and thus

able to experience the inner reality of the Self, which is love. The

following dream illustrates this dynamic. It left the dreamer with an

experience of love such as he had never known before: I was in

a hall full of men on soapboxes, who were giving political

speeches to groups of people around them. However, in the

hall there was a small number of men who were subverting all

this activity by giving out little slips of paper to people

around them. Slowly the hall emptied of people and the men on

soap boxes left. When the hall was empty, the five men who had

been secretly subverting the whole process came together and

there was such a feeling of love between them. I awoke filled

with this feeling of love.Our minds are so often like this dreamer's

hall, full of men on soapboxes bombarding us with different opinions

and ideas. To consciously confront this dynamic would only feed more

energy into the mind, fill the hall with more people. The Sufi path

is subversive rather than confrontational. It works from within, from

the Self which lives in the very depths of the unconscious, in the

secret recesses of the heart. The changes begin far away from the

conscious mind, where they cannot be interfered with. Then slowly the

energy of the Self filters into consciousness, where it begins the

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