QUOTE(Seisoku Nai @ Jan 5 2007, 08:28 PM)
So if I'm getting this straight....if you dream about casting spells, typically on a regular basis...that's a good indication you were a mage of some sort in a past life? I've had quite a large number of dreams where I'm casting spells, or a disembodied being of great power etc...but never know what it means in the real world =/ People with the sight, or who have claimed they do, have made the claim that I'm 'powerful'...but meh. Could it be more likely my dreams are more my WISHING I had such abilities rather than an expression of what may lay dormant?
In my opinion, the abilities themselves, in these dreams, do not represent actual magickal powers that lay dormant within us. What is being shown is that we are able to wield energy in some particular way - either for the purpose of dealing with a particular problem in our life at the time of the dream, or simply in some way that we are growing, some subtle skill we are picking up, for instance the 'knack' for reading body language, which develops often very naturally with experience communicating with people. In a dream, that energetic, instinctive, skill, can be represented by the ability to divine, or sometimes as telepathy, for instance.
I'm of the mind that subtle abilities, including psychic abilities, occur more often in people with more evolved consciousness, whether that means that their individual higher self is old, or they are simple manifested from a more evolved dimension of the Divine Consciousness in comparison to other manifestations, either way these dreams represent those abilities. If in your dream you simply have them, and can use them, then I believe this represents an ability you have developed recently in this lifetime, or that you recovered it long ago instinctually. If you dream that you are learning that ability, then in my opinion your unconscious mind is showing you the process of reclaiming that ability from an internal, i.e., spiritual source. Learning a new subtle skill from scratch happens without your conscious awareness of it, usually, unless you are fairly advanced in magickal practice and are developing them on purpose - and even then I don't think you'd know how to develop them unless you had already started instinctively.
Also, it's really, really really hard to gauge someone's 'power' or 'capability' with energy just by looking at their aura, unless you're like, some kind of magickal monk, or energetic adept who just happens to maintain a perfectly aligned and harmonized aura at all times. Even then mostly you'd just know that person had a great deal of disciplined energetic control. While I wouldn't cast any doubt on your own 'power' I generally would try not to think in terms of power at all, because it is a dangerous ego trap. People who suggest that you are 'powerful' because they can see your power around you, are most likely faking it, no offense to those who regularly see 'power' in individuals all over the place. Power is relative, and the average person has very little compared to even the intermediate occultist of most any path, and no one has any in comparison to the big picture. EDIT: Let me qualify that a bit to say that most people who say 'power' are interpreting an abundance of energy usually, which is not the same thing, having a lot of it doesn't imply the ability to control it on any level.
Also, remember what you're made of - you're wishing for abilities means that you are instinctively evolving towards them, even if it may take more than one lifetime. So, either way, not so far off.
that's my two cents.
peace
This post has been edited by Vagrant Dreamer: Jan 5 2007, 10:35 PM