Re: Not Sure- Church Dreams/Experiences
I've had projections to churches, I built one in projection once (prob. in my OBE journal) dealt with one the last time I saw my grandmother, and now had a dream reminiscent of other 'church' dreams/projections I've had.
So I decided to put any church dreams in this thread to try to keep some type of coherence.
This morning:
I was rebuilding this church, and was painting some corners in a series of seats/thrones in gold. (With spray paint). By accident I sprayed the skirt of a lady that was sitting in one of them. I apologized and she gave me her card (she was not gracious about it) her name started with M or N. I put her card in my pocket and started to walk away. As we were walking outside a man approached me and asked me how many churches (and where) I had restored. I replied with around three or four. The places were Quebec or Montreal (I knew it was someplace in Canada)- Georgia and possibly Louisiana. Then he showed me this small room that looked like a box or a stage, and showed me how it was being demolished and rebuilt (as I saw the simulation/hologram/movie I could see the work being done in it.) I could see them taking out rotten wood and brand new insulation (the pink stuff) and dry-walling put in, and they were working on the floor. He asked me to go take a look and see what I could do.
I told him I would, and as we walked out I started to fly (I think it was rough terrain, and other people were traversing it the hard way) I mentioned to him that I didn't understand why no one else would fly, and that every time I started to people would pretend not to notice. This annoyed me, it was so much easier than walking but people preferred to do it the hard way.
As I woke I kept trying to remember the places I told the guy, and fell asleep again, back to the fly/walk convo. Then I woke again and got up.
Re: Not Sure- Church Dreams/Experiences
Restoring churches and the dichotomy between the "church of the undead" and the shiny happy one remind me of stuff I was just reading, about the "true church" being something apart from physical religion, as well as musings on the Death archetype.
The undead church may reflect the fact that, like most everything else on earth, religion is a closed system, and thus subject to entropy, decay and death. I'm in the minority though in that I think "undead" things can be salvaged -- IF we can find a way to make them into open systems that can flow with the reality of change without losing their integrity, and "plug them in" to that which they're a symbol of. A lot of times the original meaning behind the symbols and rituals in religion go from "do this in rememberance of me," to "do this in rememberance of what now?" to "do this just because it's what we do." But, you may be, in a sense, breathing new life into old structures, likely by manifesting the core of truth through yourself; making the below like the above and whatnot.
That's what I get from it, anyway. :)