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Silo’s Message - The Book (VI. Sleep and Awakening)

May 29, 2008 at 12:32 am | In book, meaning in life, humanize, personal work |

I have read Silo’s Message many times, mostly in pieces. After a long time lapse, I continue publishing it here, in it’s entirely. The message is in 3 parts, The Book, The Experience and the Path. Today is chapter six of The Book.

VI. Sleep and Awakening
The fourth day.

1. I cannot take as real what I see in my dreams, nor what I see in semi-sleep, nor what I see when I am awake but in reverie.
2. I can take as real what I see when I am awake and without reveries. Here I am not speaking of what my senses register, since naive and dubious “data” can arrive from my external and internal senses as well as from my memory. Rather, I am speaking of the activities of my mind as they relate to the “data” being thought. What is valid is that when my mind is awake it “knows” and when it is asleep it “believes.” Only rarely do I perceive reality in a new way, and it is then that I realize that what I normally see resembles sleep or semi-sleep.

There is a real way of being awake, and it has led me to meditate profoundly on all that has been said so far. It has, moreover, opened the door for me to discover the meaning of all that exists.

see also: The Book (V. Intimation of Meaning)