[ENCOUNTER SERIES] [STAGE VI | ULTIMATE REALITY] The One-Eyed Alien: A Dance of Sophia and Primary Awakening

In this dream, I see a one-eyed alien, sharing my body, dancing in a nightclub. Carl Jung associates the alien symbol with the unconscious.

Since the unconscious gives us the feeling that it is something alien, a non-ego, it is quite natural that is should be symbolized by an alien figure. (Jung, 2014).

The presence of the one-eyed alien head atop my body is significant. It represents the integration of the unconscious (Self or true nature) with the individual self. In this experience, Essence knows itself through an individual consciousness—through me. Padmasambhava, a teacher of Dzogchen, says:

Being without any distraction, it is the luminous clarity of the Essence itself (Reynolds, 1989, p.18).

Essence, knowing itself, can be experienced as a glimpse or peak insight and as a permanent realisation. Almaas calls this knowing primary awakening. In his Alchemy of Freedom Spirit Rock Book Talk (2017, 1:04:16), Almaas playfully describes primary awakening as an alien encounter of the fourth kind.

Necessary awakening is a close encounter of the third kind. Primary awakening is a close encounter of the fourth kind. You are not just meeting the alien and shaking hand with them – it’s knowing how they’re feeling inside, how they’re experiencing things inside, you know how true nature experiences itself. I’m using the alien as a metaphor for true nature. It’s an alien because it’s different […]. You discover what you are, what your nature is and it turns out to be the nature of everybody, the nature of the universe, and which is part of what we discover when we have that kind of access.

Gaining this kind of access requires what the Shaikh calls an “eye of the world beyond” (Corbin, 1977, p. 81). This organ of perception makes such realisation possible, symbolised in the dream by the enormous, unmistakable single eye.

The act of dancing unifies Sophia’s dynamic, world-creative force (Soul of the World) with her individual manifestation—me.

Her [Sophia] essence, may be said to be something like the dancing sparkle of life-she is the principle of life itself. She is joyful, creative manifestation of all possible expressions of living forms, and she is the knowledge of them all. As the principle of life, she is the center of all souls and all souls belong to her.’ (Raff, 2003, p. 96).

…the dance of Sophia linking divinity, humanity and the Earth.’ (Habel & Balabanski, 2002, p. 85).

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