{"id":679,"date":"2007-08-22T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2007\/08\/your-knowledge-will-not-save-you\/"},"modified":"2010-05-08T15:19:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T15:19:39","slug":"your-knowledge-will-not-save-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2007\/08\/your-knowledge-will-not-save-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Knowledge Will Not Save You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/Colander.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/>After a break of years, I&#8217;ve returned to the practice of meditation, and it&#8217;s having some direct results on my sense of myself, my well being, and my dreams.<\/p>\n<p>In the days, I am calmer. My body and mind feel definitely more aligned. Small aches and pains, both psychological and physical, are diminished, and I am able to address difficulties with greater application. However my dreams are full of holes, like a fucking cosmic colander, and I am suddenly cast in a series of short, scary films starring various aspects of myself, in scenarios including: murder, threat, hiding, being starved of oxygen, and sophisticated theft using explosives as part of a team.<\/p>\n<p>Each dream presents me with conundrums which survive into waking life; it is as though my morals were being paraded before me, my self-knowledge ruthlessly exposed via convincing but trite narratives, each casting a subtly different light on the chaos within me, hidden under several layers of carefully organised intellect, which which the honest inventory I am wont to make is now revealing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/sherlock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/>Sometimes, after meditation, as after wakening, I am left with a key phrase or vision which follows me into the day, and today&#8217;s post-meditation phrase is the title of this post. My knowledge of myself will not save me from having to experience these dream scenarios; indeed I believe that there are reasons, probably related to my deeper health, which are causing this current spate of night dramas. Superficially, it&#8217;s the move. Moving is third in stress terms, so they say, after berievement and divorce.<\/p>\n<p>Beneath that, it&#8217;s the fact that I have noticed unavoidable truths about myself, my life, my direction, my position, and the meditation process is a magnifying glass. Since I hate sleeping pills, and my gorgeous girlfriend doesn&#8217;t mind me waking her up if I need to relate something in order to externalise it, then I&#8217;ll bear with it for now, and presume that this, too, will pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a break of years, I&#8217;ve returned to the practice of meditation, and it&#8217;s having some direct results on my sense of myself, my well being, and my dreams. In the days, I am calmer. My body and mind feel definitely more aligned. Small aches and pains, both psychological and physical, are diminished, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330,1],"tags":[59,58,60,61,780],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","category-funky-original","tag-colander","tag-dreams","tag-magnifying-glass","tag-meditation","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2300,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/2300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}