The Faculty of True Discernment
Year ago I had a Big Dream in which at first I was in a field and I came across this extremely fat and ugly woman with a guitar. But she began to play and sing and I was absolutely dazzled with the beauty of her string interpretation and the rich and round vocal beauty of her tone and voice. It was mesmerizing and enrapturing. Then these guys came upon the scene and they began to laugh at her ugliness and to tease her. Although there was four of them, and each twice my size, they ticked me off to such an extent that I offered to kick their asses for them unless they shut up immediately, and said, "What's wrong with you guys? Can't you hear that?" Then, it was like she took over control of the dream and stopped everything and turned to me and looked me straight in the eyes and said "The Faculty most to be cultivated is the Faculty of True Discernment". I think from that moment on, I had been given the Divine Gift of True Discernment.
The Dream then flashed to an arbor, but it was now Night instead of Day. The Full Moon cast a silver glow upon everything. And there came the Virgin Goddess Diana. I was but a point of perception up in the canopy of the tree-tops . A hunter came along and attempted to brag to the Goddess, saying that he was so good a shot that it hardly was giving the animals a 'chance'. The Goddess without replying a word took the most crooked arrow out of Her quiver, strung it on Her bow, and turning Her head to the side to obviate any suspicion that She might actually be aiming at anything, fired the arrow which landed into a bush, with its feathers, sticking out, revealing its location. She walked up to it and pulled the arrow back out of the bush and on the end of it was impaled a dead game bird. She looked in my direction, meeting my Eye of Perception, and said "Chance. Nothing happens by Chance".
So what had happened in this Dream. First, by showing Appreciation for the Goddess Spirituality, even when it was veiled to a certain degree behind ordinary appearances, and then by defending it against the Ignorance of the World, I was given the Key to the Faculty of True Discernment. Next, in the Goddess Diana Dream Scene, I was shown that there would be Discernable Meaning in all things. Perfection would consist in apparent randominity, and every action, and event could be examined for direction and intention. There would be a Bird on the end of every Arrow. I would see the meaning of Things.
Of course, not everybody would agree. One is reminded of the Curse of Cassandra. Cassandra was given the Gift of Prophecy, and everything she would predict of the Future would indeed come to pass. But the proviso was that nobody would ever believe her. And such must always be the case of special perceptions and realizations, or even just matters susceptible only to a degree of intelligence beyond the IQ of most people.
Oh, this reminds me of a true story. A friend of mine had been drafted into the Military. He was no slouch and soon became a Sergeant... a 'Buck' Sergeant, that is, the lowest Sergeant a Sergeant can be and still be a Sergeant. Well, within a week of his promotion, his Company Sergeant, the "Top", thought that my friend should be given a lesson in Leadership, and after a five mile hike away from Camp, this Buck Sergeant friend of mine was taken aside with his platoon and told by the Top Sergeant that they had hiked in a big circle and that they were only a few hundred yards away from Camp and that Lunch would only be held for them for another 15 minutes. The Top Sergeant pointed off toward the hills and said that Camp was in that direction. Then he got into his Jeep and drove away with a big smirk on his face. Well, my friend the Buck Sergeant told his Platoon that the Top Sergeant was lying and that they were miles away from Camp... that the Top Sergeant was just screwing with them. But nobody believed him – Top was 'Top' and the new Sergeant was just a new Sergeant – what did he know? So the troops ran off in the direction that the Top had pointed. They did not want to miss their Lunch. Well, my friend had a map, had a compass, and had a string of knots for counting distance. He followed the men into the Woods and kept up with them until they tired and finally figured out that they had indeed been "screwed with". My friend walked up to his dejected men, sitting down on their fallen log, and told them "You guys had a map. You guys had a compass. You should have been counting the distance. You should have known where we were and that Top was lying to you. But it was just too much like school for you guys and none of you guys ever believed any of the school books, did you? You still think everything is 'bovine excrement'. But its not. This stuff is REAL. This Map is REAL. This Compass is real. North is that way (and he pointed). We came into this woods from that direction (and showed everybody the point on the Map). We walked 4 kilometers which means we are right here (again points to a point on the Map). Now, that means that if we walk just a few hundred meters in that direction, we will come out to a huge open Field of grass. We will see a patch of trees off about a mile away. In the distance, there will be a hill, and there will be an Observation Tower on top of that hill. We will walk across that field, toward the tower, and before we reach the Trees we will find a Tank Trail. That is the same Tank Trail that runs to our Camp. It is four miles away. Let's go!"
Well, my friend said it was like watching a Group Satori Experience, as these idiot soldiers came out of that dark Forest and saw for themselves a sun-lit Field of everything EXACTLY the way my friend had described it. They suddenly realized, perhaps for the first time in their lives that KNOWLEDGE could be trusted... that one could believe the Books... that one could believe their Sergeant.
But too often, unlike for these Soldiers, the opportunity never arrives for people to see that Truth is verified and so they remain lost their entire lives.
QuoteFirst, by showing Appreciation for the Goddess Spirituality, even when it was veiled to a certain degree behind ordinary appearances, and then by defending it against the Ignorance of the World, I was given the Key to the Faculty of True Discernment.
CONGRATULATION! You got it!
I could summarize your first dream with this statement "I can appreciate someone despite their ugliness".
Your having this dream says something about your own superficiality and you struggling with it. In your dreams (as told here), all players are "you", aspects of yourself -- there is a lot of "me against them" talk in your posts generally, which for me reflects a heathy strugle within you which ultimate aim will be to reconcile different aspects of yourself.