The Angus Mindset

Life as a Lucid Dream

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Lately I have been playing with the mindset that life is a lucid dream. I think this identity and mindset is liberating and makes life more magical.

I have gone in and out of lucidity in the last 15 or so years.

The average person operates from a materialist paradigm.

I find this very disempowering.

Life is not physical, it’s a mental projection.

Seeing myself as the consciousness that invented everything in the universe makes more sense. This is because I’m using my direct experience as the standard for knowing.

It’s hard to learn a second language, but the first language was learned rather easily by me when I was younger. I happen to think from a dreamers perspective that the things I learned as a kid were imagined and invented. Life isn’t objective, it’s a dream that my imagination made up as it went along.

As a kid life felt magical.

Getting older makes reality seem more objective.

We assume that people are conscious and that we share an objective reality.

What if this assumption is wrong?

I decided long ago to question reality.

In my late teens I discovered the law of attraction.

This is a law that your dominant thoughts and fundamental beliefs program your reality.

With objective reality, there’s an idea of other and this limits your ability to create your own reality. Reality doesn’t belong to you in the materialistic paradigm.

In subjective reality, your true identity is the dreamer experiencing the dream. This means that brains and bodies are not conscious. Only consciousness is conscious.

Soon after discovering the law of attraction, I decided to intend outcomes that I wanted. I took this seriously. As an Ottawa Senators fan, I experimented by intending to go into the reality where they had won instead of lost. That 2012 season, they made the playoffs and exceeded expectations. My pregame meditations seemed to help them win from a subjective perspective.

In subjective reality, you are the primary creator. All other creators are in your creation. One consciousness is all there is. Thinking you share this reality with other consciousnesses is a delusion that most people act on. In a dream world, the other dream characters are in on the cover-up. They make it so you believe in others. In fact, there are no others.

You have the whole universe to yourself.

As a God playing the role of one human being, you have fooled yourself into thinking you are a person with a brain that was born and that will die someday. When death of the body occurs, the dream continues, you will still be you. Possibly you will exist on a higher plane of reality. Objective reality is still convincing no matter what dimension you are in. In a lucid dream the characters will still act like the dream is real. It takes a lot of concentration and affirmation to actually see this reality as the same lucid dream.

If other people aren’t real, then why not just be a jerk?

This would be assuming solipsism. I’m not advocating for solipsism. This belief is the idea that only your ego is real. I’m not saying your ego is the only thing that’s real. I’m saying your consciousness is the only thing that is real. Taking subjective reality the wrong way would be denying unity.

Everyone is equally you.

Even though your perspective is seen through an avatar, you would see all the projections as part of you. This includes your avatar or any other avatar. When you harm another, you harm yourself. Everyone is actually you. The whole universe is your body, a part of you. All aspects of the universe are equally you.

The dream gets better the more you treat everyone as a part of you. Being good brings more good back to you. This dream can turn into hell if you act like a devil. Being able to step back and embody a dream mindset is a true test of your character. If you can be loving to others and yourself which are both projections, then you truly have good character. Caring for other people’s suffering even though there’s only one consciousness is truly remarkable. Immaturity would be giving yourself permission to be a devil just because everything is a projection.

What you do to or for others is also towards yourself.

I like the mindset of being in a lucid dream because it’s more fun to enjoy an illusion. Objective reality is too serious and it makes you think of limitation rather than being in God mode.

To embody this mindset it takes time to affirm that your real identity is consciousness. You are so used to thinking objectively that it will take a long time to break that conditioning. Your beliefs create your reality and seeing it as any other way will bring about a lack of power. Your power is only limited by what you can believe.

Subjective reality can mesh with objectivity. You would just be putting objective reality on a relative level of truth that would help you function in the world. You still need to play the illusion according to the rules of the illusion. The illusion is still physical with laws, and you would want those laws in place.

One perspective is like seeing and another like hearing. You need both to be able to function. If you just live from subjectivity without being grounded in objectivity, you would experience some chaos and delusion. The dream perspective is very fun and magical, but you also need to be in line with day to day life.

That dream bus can still run over your dream body if you aren’t careful.

The empowering thing about subjectivity is that you discover more creative power than you had before. You see others who don’t know anything about subjective reality just following an unconscious script. But now you have the ability to see through the matrix. You are the one consciousness, and nothing exists outside of the present moment. The whole universe is imagined. This means 100% responsibility is needed. You are the whole universe, and no part of it is apart from you.

To your success,

Angus

Identity

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I have had a great last few days.

Over the last few years, I have noticed that my spiritual self has regressed instead of progressed.

I have done more meditation and contemplation over the last week.

The good news is I’m regaining my identity that I once had.

Subjective reality is a perspective that I’m beginning to re-embody.

This means that I’m not focused on my egoic self, or my body as much.

Things like how much money I have or the past and future are mattering less.

When I’m at my best I’m very much connected to the present moment. My identity is with the present moment. I’m identifying with my conscious experience. I’m releasing my identity with the body and seeing myself as the consciousness that experiences my body and the rest of the universe.

In meditation I reminded myself to be with the moment. I wasn’t thinking about getting into a better state in the near future. Thinking that you will be in a better state after the meditation is still striving.

The goal is not to strive.

It’s about being in the present moment free of past or future.

The feeling of presence in the now gave me a feeling of a dreamlike state. I realized that I’m the dreamer having the dream.

The egoic consciousness would have you identifying as the dream character.

Now I see each person as a part of myself. Not apart from.

To embody a subjective identity, you are essentially practicing oneness.

Oneness is connection with the present moment.

I feel connected with everything in my experience. I become curious and less serious about everything during my day.

Thinking about past and future is less important.

Less judgment and more allowing is also a part of this change.

Subjective reality demands 100% responsibility.

You are the universe in this state of mind. The universe is the totality of the present moment.

Nothing exists outside of this moment.

Life is a dream. It’s no different than a nighttime dream. You will live infinitely and have an infinite number of lifetimes.

There’s no need to accomplish anything, no need to do anything or have anything.

Pure being is the sweet spot.

Takes work to get there, but mindfulness is one way to get here.

Realistically there’s nowhere to go, it’s just a matter of no longer striving to get anywhere.

When in a dream state life becomes fun, you no longer need to take life so seriously. There are still actions and reactions, rewards and setbacks. But you don’t actually need to feel suffering from what happens in the dream. No rushing to get somewhere. You are already where you need to be.

Circumstances change for the better with presence.

The feeling of alignment is a flow state.

Being in the flow state allows manifestations to improve.

Using more general language with manifestation allows the universe to fill in the blanks with how’s.

Instead of wishing for external gratification, you simply focus on being. Money and things no longer matter as much. These are things that exist within the dream.

Being the dreamer makes every day seem more magical.

And the feeling of a magical life makes life more fun and is far better than any thing or object in the dream world could give you.

Everything changes when you shift from the ego of the character to the conscious container where it all takes place.

Everything is imagined.

You are living in your imagination.

Nothing is real except for the extent where you make it real.

Opening the mind up to subjectivity is what makes you empowered to influence the dream.

You are everything and everyone equally.

To do good for someone else is to do good to yourself.

The golden rule works because everyone is you.

It’s all within consciousness.

To your success,

Angus

The Letting Go Technique

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The letting go technique is about non-resistance to bad emotions. Emotions in and of themselves are neither good or bad. We use the word bad to describe emotions that are discomforting. Non-resistance comes from the idea that nothing about hurt can actually hurt you. Releasing old traumas is the way to increase your frequency so you can attract the things you want in life.

Years of repressing and resistance toward emotions are going to cause your body to be consistently tight and eventually pain points will appear. The way to process emotions is to allow them to show up and non-judgementally be with the emotion. Set an intention in a meditative state to feel your pain points, allow them to show up.

When they do show up the goal is to be with them and feel them fully. The first instinct we have is to repress and resist. You may begin to feel tightness, or other pains that show up. When you have those feelings, non-resistance is the way to allow yourself to conduct the emotion. This is similar to a wire that conducts electricity without any resistance. It will take months of getting in the habit before you will be free of the repressed emotions. Addiction is nothing more than pain that hasn’t been released. To release the negative emotion, feel it fully without trying to make it go somewhere else.

When feeling it you don’t need to analyze it to know where it came from. Sometimes memories show up in this work, but you don’t need to do anything other that feel the entire feeling. Letting go is an automatic process when you get to this point. The emotional payoff of doing this for a few months is feeling lighter, less tight, your mind will be in a better place.

When traumas have been healed, your beliefs will shift to the point where it will be easier to attract what you want. The law of attraction doesn’t work from a conscious place, it works based on subconscious clarity. When you know what you want and also believe it’s already there, you’ll have an easier time manifesting it. All because you felt your pain points and let them go.

Without repressed pain, you also make it likely your addictions will be less compelling. Feeling whatever pain shows up knowing that by itself it can’t hurt you is what will allow you to let it go. Most people don’t even know about these types of pains because they are subconscious. The cleaning out of subconscious pain will allow you to have more mental bandwidth. The past exists in your body, and for all intents and purposes, the subconscious mind is your body. So by starting in a meditation and releasing all the years of pent up pain, you’ll feel more relaxed. The pain body is going to dissolve. You don’t have to change your life on the outside. The outside is a projection. Don’t intend for a projection, intend for a feeling. You can’t manifest things with the mind, but you can manifest being in high sprits. The result of being in high spirits is going to change every interaction you have with life.

Imagine a life where all your traumas have been healed. You feel whole, you feel complete. You don’t need anything to be happy. The natural state is happy, and the intentions that come from this aligned place will allow you to enjoy greater moments in life. By being a superconductor to pain by using non-resistance you will release all pains that may have been there for years. Yesterday I did a long meditation feeling my pain points, letting go of them one by one. I want to do this every day until my pain body is clear of pain. Being in the present moment and feeling good wherever you go is the result of this state of mind. You will also be able to best be your authentic self and you’ll attract your genuine desires.

To your success,

Angus

Changing the Past

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The future always follows the past.

In the present moment the past is constantly being created by the imagination.

The reality of time is that time is a construct.

There’s no future or past in the absolute sense. All that exists is the present moment. The illusion of time is part of life in the physical plane.

The illusion still has to be worked with, for all intent and purpose time is real and needs to be treated as real.

This is true even though in the most fundamental sense time is not real.

We move through our life in a continuous line from the past to the future.

It’s you who creates the past and the future with each present moment thought that occurs.

The way manifestation works is that the future by default will repeat the past.

Your present moment is your only point of power because there’s truly nothing outside the present.

This means that if you use the power of your imagination to create your ideal past, and not just your ideal future, the momentum in your timeline will change.

Changing the past can happen when a transgression is forgiven, and lessons are learned. Upon learning a lesson, a similar painful experience will no longer be necessary.

Hopefully you only need to make a mistake once. Sometimes people have to repeat the same mistakes over and over again till change occurs.

One way to change the past could be imagining yourself relating to a past event differently than you related to it back then.

Let’s say you had a breakup and your confidence and mood is shaken, and you feel a sense of unfinished business from the past.

You have the ability in your mind to imagine an alternate past where business was finished and the relationship went how it was supposed to go. This changes your present moment because the momentum of the past has been changed.

You are creating the past by recalling it.

Therefore consciously choosing to recall the past where your preferred outcome happened is going to impact the future for the better.

Your future comes from the past, and the past comes from the present.

The future can’t be manifested when you imagine a goal in the future tense.

This is because the future never actually arrives.

When manifesting, you want to imagine the goal in the present tense.

The past and future events involved are taken care of by the universe at this point.

The entire timeline can be shifted when you hold your intention. Making peace with the past allows you to have more inner peace in the present and the future.

Your work is to either remember the past differently or find the hidden gift in the prior event.

Trauma is something that can affect the future. This is because traumas seek to create similar events.

We repeat the emotions we have learned to memorize.

By default we will live the life we have memorized.

If the life you have memorized is not the life you actually want, you need to recontextualize the memories that are holding you back.

I have traumas in my life, but I always ask myself, “how did this event work for me?”

Seeing everything in your past as something that was meant to help you is not a delusion if you can truly embody that mindset.

Delusion is the act of lying to yourself, but if you can take a lie and make it true, you aren’t a liar. You are actually a metaphysical alchemist.

When you change your present moment frequency by altering your relationship with the past, you are also gaining access to your best memories.

Emotion dictates what the thinking mind actually has access to.

Memory is tied to emotion. Since memory and emotion go hand in hand, and we repeat the emotions we have learned to memorize, changing the emotional meaning of a memory is in essence changing the past.

Once the past is changed, the present will change in subtle ways.

You will notice that as you move forward in time, your present situation (and state of being) is changing for the better.

Now you have psychological momentum.

The emotions you are memorizing are actually getting better, and now the future repeating the new past is repeating something closer to what you want.

Getting to a better emotional state is a form of shifting your timeline.

When one part changes, the whole timeline changes.

Because I have an emotional connection with my best memories, I’m also remembering my difficult memories in a joyful way.

I see the lessons and the blessings. Everything in my life has worked for me so far, therefore I anticipate the future will be no different.

Changing the past is the key to changing beliefs.

When beliefs change, emotion and action changes.

So less thinking in the future tense, and more attention to the present is the key.

When you truly gain alignment and hold onto a positive state, you’ll realize your best life is here and was meant to be all along!

To your success,

Angus

The Power of Polarity

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I have considered the power of polarity for a number of years now.

The concept was shown to me when I read Steve Pavlina’s blog many years ago. The concept talks about using energetic flow in a polarized direction by deciding to become 100% dedicated to service to self or service to others. But not both at the same time.

There are two polarities, light-working or dark-working.

Light-working is the idea that you dedicate your life to serving the greater good.

Dark-working is the idea that you dedicate your life to serving yourself.

Most people are somewhere in the middle, and this is why they have mixed results.

The common person hasn’t made a decision to be a light-worker or a dark-worker.

When you choose one polarity, your motivation will skyrocket.

You’ll become a more congruent person. Your intentions may be the same either way, but your energy will flow better because a polarized person has one direction of energetic flow. The flow is either love energy (giving) or fear energy (taking).

Choosing the light-worker path means that your life now becomes about service to others.

Your mission is to make the greater good better off.

I have leaned more towards the light-worker polarity. The goal of serving all helped me become a better Army Cadet because my efforts were about making my unit better off.

I still wanted individual success, but this was for the purpose of being able to make a larger contribution.

Light-working doesn’t mean you neglect yourself, in fact you have to take care of yourself more so you have more to give.

Consider that you have to be more selfish to make a larger contribution to humanity.

More money allows you to be more generous. It also allows you to reward yourself for the contributions you make to humanity.

Dark-workers will also eventually know that the best way to serve self-interest is to be service oriented.

To have money and success it takes contribution to the market.

A dark-worker may have an easier time using marketing to manipulate potential customers. The light-worker may feel like it eats away at their conscience to practice marketing.

The work here in business is about integration, if you truly create a great product that helps others, you’ll want to do marketing.

The thing that held me back with marketing was the idea that I didn’t want to be too intrusive.

As someone who’s beginning to embrace light-working I have to consider that my efforts to market are still benefitting others. So I would actually be screwing people over if I didn’t make efforts to market.

Being a dark-worker would be all about personal gain. A dark-worker would actually try to extract as much profit as possible from a business. The light-worker would be focused on service.

The real work is to polarize, but to use the opposite polarity when it makes sense to do so.

The work of integration between service to self and service to others is a part of this process.

The dark-worker learns to think about the greater good to get more success. The light-worker thinks about how to get fair value for their contributions.

If I want to make more money so I can ultimately be more generous, this is a good reason to be selfish and selfless at the same time.

Using polarity to think about the good of all means that you yourself are part of the greater good. Also worth noting that a dark-worker can make a greater contribution to mankind because they are fulfilling a greater role in the game of life.

Choosing a polarity is something that will occur gradually.

You might be drawn to being a Jedi or a Sith.

When you take the light-working polarity to the extreme, it will seem like you are self-sacrificing.

Only at lower levels of consciousness will it feel like a difficult decision.

At lower levels of consciousness you are wrestling between your self-interest, and your conscience. At higher levels of consciousness you will be able to see that each polarity is actually two sides of the same coin.

As you have a higher level of consciousness, you’ll find your actions would be similar regardless of what polarity you picked.

Contribution requires selfishness, and meeting your self-interest requires contribution.

So being a highly conscious dark-worker won’t make you evil. It will allow you more freedom from your conscience to execute positive decisions for yourself. A light-worker will be able to focus on themselves so they have more to give.

The reasons for your actions will have a great difference if you choose to pick a polarity of service to self or service to others.

You will find your actions may be the exact same regardless of why they motivate you.

Motivation will be endless if you decide to pick one polarity.

I’m not polarized yet but I’m leaning more into the polarity of contribution and I’m also able to now practice the more selfish aspect of light-work which is allowing yourself to get value for the value I’m giving.

To your success,

Angus