Iacchus,

I have read more in your book, and here is my questions:

1. Was it any reason why you was named Dennis, as is from the name Dionysus? Did your mother mention why you was given that name?

2. Wich year did you start meditating?

3. Did you meditate before you heard about Roy Masters?

4. Do you remember if there was clear reasons why you started meditating?

5. Have you been a lucid dreamer in your whole life, or did you learn the lucid ability yourself? If so, when did you learn it? And wich year?

6. Have you always had very vivid dreams, or have you had periods with more vivid dreams than you are used to?

7. Have you always been writing a diary and a dream journal?

8. Do you see many similarities with you and Emanuel Swedenborg?

9. Have you done more writings, i.e. wrote more books?

10. Do you think you have a very masculine mind, or that you are thinking with feminine aspects as well as masculine?

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Will give it a try ...

My mother chose the name Dennis (in all her naiveness), because it was the name of the boy next door and it was a Christian name.

I believe it was in 1975, but it was a rocky road, wrought with all kinds of pitfalls.

No, I learned how to meditate in accord with the technique he teaches. While it's funny because I don't even think I mentioned that in the link referred to above. I should probably try and correct that.

Well being only nineteen, I didn't really have any clear reasons for doing anything, albeit I was a very unhappy person and that was my main motivation for doing a lot of things.

Basically the whole thing started back in 1985, when my whole world fell apart, and I tried to get in touch with these forces (as I perceived them) and effect some sort of reconciliation. In other words I had essentially gone crazy (akin to the shamanistic type of experience) and, in the process of putting my mind back together again -- all the while I had been having lucid dreams, both good and (really) bad ones -- had established a means by which to work with lucid dreams.

No, it pretty much coincides with what happened above. Although I dream almost constantly anymore, and much of that time in a lucid state.

No, at one point I had a daily work book, in which I cataloged all my spiritual ideas and experiences, including dreams, but I essentially dropped that some point after I began working on my book.

In some ways perhaps. But I tend to think of myself as a little more wild and unrestrained, although many of my ideas are based upon certain disciplines I have learned. I used to think these differences were significant, but anymore I don't think it's that big of a deal. Swedenborg would probably be more like Apollo, and I Dionysus.

No, albeit it was my intent to do so. Heck, I haven't even got the first book finished, at least officially published anyway.

No, I think I'm pretty well balanced in terms of my masculine and feminine sides. Albeit I spent much of my early adult life trying to reconcile myself to my masculine side (due to problems experienced with my mother as a youth), and it wasn't until my early thirties that I began to establish a balanced relationship with my feminine side.

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So when the body dies, and consciousness departs, where do "we" go? ... Off to define another "reality" perhaps?

I have more questions for you now.

1. Did you feel much energy during your Visions?

2. Have you had any changes in your personality after your Visions?

3. Have you always been interested in metaphysics?

4. Do you plan to write more books?

5. In the JREF forums you have a avatar with dolphins. Is that a metaphore of your personality? Or, is it any specific resons you have that avatar?

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Excerpt from Robert A. Johnson's, Ecstasy, Understanding the Psychology of Joy.




Dionysus aboard his ship. Exekias 540 B.C.

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So when the body dies, and consciousness departs, where do "we" go? ... Off to define another "reality" perhaps?