Everything You Need To Know About Two Dreams
The Purpose of Two Dreams
Two Dreams is about being in relationship with what’s greater than you, while pursuing what’s greater for you.
The way those two dreams manifested in my life helped me understand that our experiences can be greater than our capacity to explain them away, while also helping me realize what was greater for me: finding my own way to use “magic” to obtain health in my life (and hopefully transfer that to others).
My definition of magic is: the process of changing experience through indirect, or sly/clever means.
When I say magic, I'm including practical magic, divination (primarily the I Ching), spirituality (primarily the Thai Forest Tradition of Theravada Buddhism), and the power of language. I’m also talking about the magic present in self-help technologies and rules of thumb earned through struggle that can make future struggle a lot more manageable.
And when I say health, that includes mental, physical, financial, and social.
Two Dreams is my attempt to give others my systems for working with these forms of magic in a practical, heedful, and hopefully wise way.
Practical Magic
The Most Important Posts
- My 'Prescription Magic' has much of what I know about getting practical results from magic, in as safe a way as possible.
- The ‘Being A Sigil’ post offers a way to ‘be’ different, instead of trying to force a bunch of magical intentions the traditional way.
The Rest
- The 118 Sigil Intentions To Improve Your Life With Magic post offers a practical extension of the above-mentioned ‘Prescription Magic’ piece.
- My Emergency Magic: Potential Solutions For When Your Back Is Against The Wall piece details all of the suggestions I’d give to someone that needed immediate magical results.
Divination
The Most Important Posts
- If you're an absolute beginner with the I Ching, my 'Simplest Explanation' post will hopefully explain the oracle in a way that makes sense. And here’s the simplest guide to actually doing I Ching readings.
- My post 'Strategic Divination' has A LOT of what i know about consulting the I Ching to find the answers you're looking for. And here’s the addendum.
- My simplified version of James Legge's translation of the I Ching is a free, hopefully easy way to understand your I Ching reading if you're consulting it yourself.
The Rest
- The meanings of the most searched for I Ching readings on the site.
- The benefits of hourly I Ching readings for anxiety.
- ‘The Tarot According To The I Ching’ provides the readings I received when I asked the latter about every card in the former.
- ‘Divinatory Digestion’ describes some of the benefits I’ve found in not getting every prediction right.
- ‘Dream Crusher’ talks about how you should try to crush your dreams in divination, because it leaves you closer to the truth.
- ‘A Life Less From All 64 Hexagrams of The I Ching’ offers some insight into all 64 of the hexagrams in the Book of Changes.
- 100 Lessons From The I Ching, For The First 100 Years of Your Life gives you a reading/advice for each year of your life.
- How To Do I Ching Readings With A Deck of Cards (And How To Make That Card Deck) gives you the way that I do most of my I Ching readings, to hopefully make your life easier.
- The How To Create Your Own Oracle Deck (For Mental Health, And Pleasure) post shows you how to be creative and birth your own personal oracle deck to make your divination relevant to you.
- The How To Make Your Own Astrological Card Decks (And Why You Might Want To) gives you instructions for creating an astrological card deck, to incorporate it into your divination practice.
- My ‘Their Purpose’ series uses the lives of celebrities to showcase what can be achieved with my ‘Find Your Purpose’ service.
Spirituality
The Most Important Posts
- 'The Web of Practice' is a system I put together for practicing the Dhamma as taught by the teachers in the Thai Forest Tradition of Theravadin Buddhism. You *do not* need to be Buddhist (or even an aspiring Buddhist) to benefit from it.
The Rest
- ‘Five Things I Learned About Spirituality (And Life) From Five Years of Sobriety’ is exactly that.
- ‘Angels, Aliens, Ancestors: Who Gives A Fuck’ is my stance on unexplainable phenomena.
- Everything You Need To Know About The Meaning of Life (That Might Also Make You Angry) gives you all of the truth that I know about what life is all about.
- How To Avoid Becoming A Cult Member (And How To Benefit From A "Cult") gives you my best advice on how to avoid being wooed by those that drown their speech in supposed certainties
Self-Improvement
The Most Important Posts
- ‘How To Brainwash Yourself: A Self-Stabber's Self-Help System’
- ‘The PRPS Process: How To Respond To Anything Life Throws At You’
- Everything I Know About How To Manage And Eliminate Anxiety (That Might Also Work For You) is full of the tools that I’ve actually found success with in reducing my anxiety in life.
Everything Else
- The way of approaching life I call “Not-Sure-Ism.”
- Why choosing your current problem can potentially empower you more than anything else.
- My post about 'What To Do When You're At A Crossroads In Life' is a process that once helped me find direction, and will hopefully help you if you're in need of it.
- ‘How To Find The Essence of Your Life, Art, And Work’ provides a process that you can use to accomplish what the title promises.
- ‘How To Be At Peace With Uncertainty’ offers some ideas on how to be OK with not knowing it all.
- ‘Digesting Emotions’ describes the process I learned, and use to deal with my strongest feelings.
- What you should do when you don’t know what to do.
- ‘The I Ching DSM’ is the result of me asking the I Ching how to manage each of the most prominent mental health issues people in the world face.
- ‘How To Avoid Suffering (And Why Trying To Avoid It Will Make You Suffer)’ offers the ways I know to avoid feeling terrible. Mileage may vary.
- How disillusionment can get you closer to wisdom.
- How reminding yourself that it will never be enough can get you closer to peace.
- How to change the content of your life by changing the context.
- Why accepting the conditions of your game can empower you.
- Why hope is making your life hopeless, and what to do instead.
- ‘How Flash Cards And Mnemonics Can Help You Change Your Life Without Trying’ tells you how you can improve your learning, and life, with those two tools.
- ‘Patient Endurance’ tells you how not trying to solve every problem can solve your problems
- How To Use And Avoid Being Used By The Stories We Tell gives you my best advice on how to avoid being manipulated by stories, while still deriving some benefit from them.
- The Why You Should Choose Experiencing Over Insight (And Which Insights Are Actually Valuable) piece tells you why I believe having an experience will always be more transformative than a piece of content.
- My How To Be Response-Able For Your Entire Life Without Blaming Yourself post tells you how to turn responsibility into a better way to find empowerment in your life.
- Mental Self-Defense: How To Stabilize Yourself In A World of Delusion, Illusion And Deception is a post about how to guard yourself in a world increasingly prone to providing you with reasons to doubt it.
- My What To Do If You Want To Change The World (In A World Changed By Everyone) post is my reminder that you change the world simply by breathing in and out each day.
Divination Services/Free Readings
- My On-Call Oracle service offers you (near) unlimited readings for a year
- My 'Find Your Purpose' reading answers three questions for clients: Your life's purpose, your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness These answers *significantly* helped me find direction when I needed it.
- My ‘Two Oracle Reading’ service gives you some divinatory options to answer the question of your choice.
- My ‘Free Reading Review’ series offers you the chance to get a free I Ching reading, in exchange for me writing about it publicly.
Newsletter
- My newsletter lets you know when my free, monthly I Ching-Astrology Horoscopes are released.
- Everything else you need to know about the free divination I offer can be found on my I Ching-Astrology Horoscopes page.
- You can also support the site here.
