[ENCOUNTER SERIES] [STAGE V | STATION 7 (SYNTHESIS)] Necessary Awakening: The birth of non-human consciousness within the Void

In this dream, I see a baby in a pram—a baby with three eyes. Surprisingly, I reassure myself that it’s okay; after all, some babies might have three eyes. When the baby grabs my hand, its grip is unexpectedly strong, and it takes considerable effort to free myself from its hold.

The alien baby represents the purity of true nature—innocence embodied in something utterly unfamiliar. Another important aspect of the dream is the direct encounter with the alien baby, which Almaas refers to as an ‘alien encounter of the third kind’ and a ‘necessary awakening’.

In the first kind of encounter, you hear or read about something; In the second kind of encounter, you know it more directly but still from a distance. In an encounter of the third kind, you are immediately in touch with the thing itself as it is. You see it, shake hands with it, look into its eyes, touch it, feel it, know it, and talk to it. This is a direct encounter-as close an encounter as you can have with an other, with something you haven’t met before. For essential activation to happen, we need to have a clear encounter of the third kind with true nature, and it needs to be as complete as possible and happen as many times as possible.

This means not only experiencing it, but experiencing it in its purity, experiencing it as it is. (Almaas, 2017, p. 21)

In the dream, my acceptance of a three-eyed baby reflects an openness to the unique and radically different other.

Necessary awakening is the direct experience and recognition of true nature as the unique, radically different, and miraculous truth that it is.

There is a further realisation, which Almaas calls ‘primary awakening’ or the fourth kind of alien encounter, that occurs in the Living Stone.

And primary awakening is more than this kind of close encounter of the third kind with true nature; it is realizing true nature by experiencing and knowing that it is what we are. (Almaas, 2017, p. 46)

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