Dreaming Truth

                        

Have you ever been transported by emotion, where an overflowing sense takes you beyond the skin wrapped around your bones? Where the present moment expands, leading you to a place where there isn’t a map and your mind cannot label it. Like a lucid dream, where the air is no longer what you breath to survive. Where surrendering you find yourself trusting the interior altar of sanctity.

It doesn’t take much for this "feeling" in me to arise, though it isn’t something I can control. This expanse of wonder and awe, this hard to label feeling, arises when I least expect it, and when it does everything makes sense. I am caught in the happiness to be alive, grounded in something beyond me.

Have you ever had an out of body experience?

Photo: A small detail of a painting of three nude women, from the Chateau de Chenonceau. The painting is larger than life, and her ecstasy evident.



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33 responses to “Dreaming Truth”

  1. When I was young I had an out of body experience. It was scary as I didn’t like the feeling of being unanchored to my familiar self.
    I like my feet to be firmly planted.

  2. I had an out-of-body experience last night…when I ate a big square of Pralus dark chocolate. On the other hand when I was shot I had absolutely no spiritual or other worldly experiences. I kept waiting. Go figure ?

  3. P.S. Request. Do we get to see the rest of the painting? I’m curious…

  4. Ah yes, that feeling. Two things “fill me up and make me whole” – music and nature’s beauty. I can hike in the woods and see a glen of green with a canopy of evergreens above it and gasp at the beauty.

  5. There is no *JOY* like that of
    watching the visiting butterflies & birds particularly
    hummers fly down to taste the nectar or seeds or crumbs
    that I provide for them. They fill me up with JOY as I sit and watch chests puffed out and *bright eyes* dancing.Hope spreads their shining wings!

  6. What a dreamy Chateau site!!! Your photo is very evocative, its amazing how some artists can catch an emotion in such a small detail!

  7. Painting and words perfectly matched!! No, don’t think I have, maybe I’ve eaten too much fried food…

  8. ANNAROSINA

    Dear Corey — heartfelt thanks for your exquisite blog. Your lovely words and photos feed and lift my heart and spirit. You bring joy………..I thank you…….

  9. Your food for thought each day is exquisite.
    God bless you my friend.
    Love you Jeanne

  10. You’d think, having known someone your whole life, having shared intimacies, having disagreed, misunderstood, reveled in one another’s company and joy .. you’d think that this person could no longer surprise you with the depths of their talent, spirit, insight. I still have much to discover, apparently.

  11. Having just reached a milestone in my life, I feel that it’s time for renewal and being more in touch with my inner-self. You are lucky to experience this frequently, I should listen more.

  12. Corey, you describe this so well. Moments where the self expands to beyond, to more, to the luminous, the numinous. Exceptional moments. Thanks for reminding me to stay open.

  13. I had an experience while in deep prayer to Christ, where I was removed from the kitchen where I was sitting to Africa where a group of natives were also praying.
    There was absolutely no fear but the joy I felt escapes description.
    It is my belief that I am an indestructable spirit, living in a destructable body.

  14. No out of body experiences, just dreams at night that seem so real sometimes that it is difficult to shake them off upon waking.
    Of all this world has to offer, I think nature is the most captivating to me. Sometimes when the sky is a particular blue and cloudless, I allow myself to be caught up into its hypnotic pull. The peripheral vision falls away and all I can see is blue forever and ever, and the finite “end” of the sky that my eyes seek cannot be found. It is then that I am overcome with this feeling of unreality, of insignificance, a feeling that my body and the trappings of my day-to-day existence are so meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Of course, this leaves me feeling uncomfortable and I immediately seek something else to focus on, to ground myself again.
    I love this small morsel you have given us from the painting and the thoughts you’ve shared.

  15. sometimes, I feel I AM an out of body experience.

  16. Symbolic Holy moments are abundant, They’re swirling all around us. Your Blog is perfect evedence!
    I have had some” out of body” experiences, the last was in the hospital when I stayed with my mom after a major operation. I was distraught! I could feel my friends pray for me, when I was unable to pray for myself. I was lifted up. I got through the moment of dispare. I was able to get back where I needed to be.
    Kindndness always transformes me, also participating in the creative process. Have a nice evening Corey.

  17. Precious moments of recognising I am grounded in God’s grace…that is real joy! Nel

  18. YES!
    Just saying Yes over and over can transport me. (I must be an easy transport!) ;0

  19. Rarely and very briefly – though it’s a wonderful feeling when it comes. But mostly, I’m a practical girl
    Love the painting

  20. sometimes when i am in relaxation pose (yoga), i have an out of body experience…

  21. I believe I have, and on more than one occasion. I did a post on it a while back. I truly felt at one with the universe, and totally in my element, while at the same time being totally outside of my earthly body. In a place where a body was not necessary, nor a voice, I just WAS.

  22. Once I wandered in a field of daisies overlooking the sea below the cliff……it was my home in Italy.
    Sometime you hunger something so much that suddenly you no longer occupy the enclosure but have risen from it and free to roam the earth and universe.
    Annabelle =^..^= xo

  23. I have had lucid dreams, but not recently. I use to meditate on a regular basis and read alot of spiritual books. I think that my mind was open to it more and I had waking out of body experiences and lucid dreams.
    Now with the children my thoughts Day and Night are constantly being interupted. I would like to be more mindful…to find more silence in my day.

  24. Yes! I remember being in that moment when I was 18 and living in my first home away from home. I remember looking out my window onto the grey rooftops of the surrounding buildings and feeling the low rumble of the city below. I’ll never forget the exhilaration I felt at that moment.

  25. Hey Corey! I just saw your collages and photos in an exhibition through Susan’s blog – http://www.artesprit.blogspot.com. They are absolutely beautiful! Congratulations on the show!

  26. On second thought, my lucid dreams always take me to a place I can name, that’s not home. I travel in my dreams and most waking hours too…with map in hand.

  27. Marie-Noëlle

    “Heureux celui…

    Qui plane sur la vie,et comprend sans effort
    Le langage des fleurs et des choses muettes!”
    in “Elévation”, by Charles Baudelaire (19th century).
    (= “Happy the one

    who can fly over life, and understand easily
    the language of flowers and of silent things.”)
    “Elévation” was THE ONE word that came to my mind when I read your words and a little later I felt like reading the whole poem straight away… Quoting the very last verses of it above.
    Then I associated your words and your picture + your question and thought about one picture of Chagall’s … I can’t remember its title : a bride and bridegroom flying in the air with birdies…
    Now I remember my wedding day… I was right up in the air, from dawn to sunset…I think I should say “from dawn to next dawn”… (hm!)
    (PS – I think I can see an Eiffel tower in the back… Being French, there is another symbol)

  28. yes.. I do.. whenever I have time to thnk about something deeply.. I am out of this world.. I can feel the fragrances.. entouring noises of the place and day I am thinking about.. or dreaming about..
    but never comes to a real end or real ‘élevation’..always an interruption occurs.. and it is all so ‘loin’ again..
    unfortunately..

  29. “The present moment expands..” brought back a memory of driving a country road through the hills above Siena, on my own, in no hurry, beautiful views to infinity – everything was present there.

  30. Oh, yes! As much as I have fallen into deep despair, I have also experienced indescribable moments of joy, of expansiveness, otherwordliness. That’s when I know there is so much more to what we can see and taste and feel on this plane….

  31. Yes, my father’s last months of life were full of experiences like that for me. That was when I realized truly in my heart that we are more than this body and this mind.

  32. Yes…often in the presence of extreme beauty.
    What a fabulous chateau. Thank you for the link.

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