I had some digging in to do: I decided it was their problem, situation, though understanding it a bit more too. The imagery associated with that process: it was like I was down deep in the bowels of the dark, and there was a stone wall broken through. I could feel myself withdrawing from that area, flying backwards. Wow!

Later, I had the thought it wasn’t always so tough. I had the image of two ladies; and as I did so, there was the appearance of a framed picture on the wall, with an emerging pattern, transforming.

In another, I had the image of clasping, at the bottom, with my thumb and fingertip, of a framed picture, the size of a big TV, like a representation of professional status kind of thing. A feeling of satisfaction. There was a bit of a gold pattern, winged?

And who are you going to call? Ghostbusters!

“The art of the dreamer is to hold the image of his dream. Our art as ordinary people is that we know how to hold the image of what we are looking at. We just do it; that is, our bodies do it. In dreaming we have to do the same thing, except that in dreaming we have to learn how to do it. We have to struggle not to look but merely to glance and yet hold the image.

The art of a sorcerer is to be inconspicuous even in the midst of people. Concentrate totally on trying not to be obvious. To learn to become unnoticeable in the middle of all this is to know the art of stalking.

What is the art of stalking? A hunter just hunts, a stalker stalks anything, including himself. An impeccable stalker can turn anything into prey. We can even stalk our own weaknesses. You do it in the same way you stalk prey. You figure out your routines until you know all the doing of your weaknesses and then you come upon them and pick them up like rabbits inside a cage.

Any habit is, in essence, a doing, and a doing needs all its parts in order to function. If some parts are missing, a doing is disassembled.”

Don Juan

The Shape of Light – Hayakal al-Nur by Hazrat Shihabuddin Yahya al-Suhrawardi :

“Man possesses the faculty of observing the cause, the reason, the essence, the finer reality of the coarse reality which the senses observe, as well as celestial realities which do not have their corresponding coarse worldly realities.”  (Page 21, 22)

Relative World, Ultimate Mind:By the Twelfth Tai Situpa: Shambhala, Boston and London, 1992.

“- it requires an understanding of the nature of reality profound enough to see beyond appearances, a full awareness of cause and effect, and total responsibility for one’s actions, without delusions.” p. X

So, I seem to have my own perspective, language, my rule of thumb, intent and figure/ground; but I’m also beginning to be able to draw in the others, and see them for what they are. It boils down to that intentionality is our psychology, and it has been worked on in a variety of ways.