Hi everyone ! My name is Michael, and I have been living in Dubai since I came out here from the UK for a 2 week rest and recuperation holiday in 1981 !
I was born on the Isle of Wight off the South coast of England.
As a small child I simply had the inner knowing that the nature of death is transitional and not final. I badly scared my mother once, declaring happily at the age of 5 “I don’t mind if I die tomorrow!” With the shocked and worried response, I naturally thought I had said something wrong, and so of course the gradual conditioning started.
My outlook really opened up during an LSD experience over 50 years ago, and I have spent many years pondering the nature of reality exposed and explored there.
About 10 years ago I felt the call to go to the Peruvian Amazon to work with the shamans there with Ayahuasca, which over 2 years turned out to be a series of profoundly rewarding experiences, widening my perception of time, space and our relationship with the living planet.
I use the nickname Daedalus, who you could say was the handyman of the Gods on Olympus. He was the one who designed the Labyrinth, made wings, and was smart enough not to fly too close to the sun, unlike his impetuous son Icarus! I love tinkering with various materials, and love putting seemingly unrelated elements together for solutions to problems.
I have made my career as a glass artist/engineer out here.
I’m a musician & love to sing. I have a sailboat here and love to be on the ocean.
Regarding Lucid dreaming, I first came upon Robert Waggoner whose interview I watched on www.conscious.tv a few years ago - I bought his book 'Lucid Dreaming - Gateway to the Inner Self ’ and was hooked.
A few months into keeping my dream diary, I saw my hands in the dream, as per Don Juan’s advice to Carlos Castaneda, and bam ! I was lucid. I won’t bore you with the details, but ultimately I flew too close to the sun metaphorically, and woke up again!
I have to admit that I let things slip for a while during a marriage breakup and a new relationship, however I have started again following Andrew’s recent interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump, which was inspiring enough to kickstart the dream journal again.
This past couple of years have been pretty challenging for most of us, with some pretty convincing evidence of power hungry dark forces at work, and it is time for us all to wake up - not only to what is happening to us in the daytime dream, but even more importantly spiritually, for it is that level that so obviously underlies and informs our ‘reality’.
A paradigm shift in attitude typically starts with the coalescent influence of a small number of committed individuals, and the materialist reductionist scientific model of the last 300 years or so is starting to shift its weight to the back foot, and lose ground to the realisation that it is consciousness which is fundamental to matter.
Nightclub is an inspiring collection of folks, who seem to share this realisation, and I am delighted to join ranks.
I look forward to communicating with some of you, and to reference Andrew - in the meditation sessions, joining others in a concerted effort to do nothing !
Bless you all.
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