[Vilturj] Rant number 341068.

[moonvoice]

Someone on a forum stated that the 'catch-all' rule for the Otherworlds, is to realise that everything has a meaning - from the colours to the rocks on the ground to you know, everything.

If it was a dream. Sure. A visualisation? Totally. But the Otherworlds? I dunno.

If I walk down the street and see a magpie, I don't think 'oooo, it has meaning, oh and it's a MALE, it has more meaning! Look at the colours that woman chose to wear today, that has total impact on my life! She chose blue to teach me communication! Clearly!' Right? Do people do this? Because I don't.

Things exist in and of themselves, separately to me. We are all connected in one sense, but that doesn't mean that everything else around me has a specific meaning intended for me. So if I see a green tree in the otherworlds, it is not green for me, usually it is green because that's just the way it's been for centuries and that's what'll keep on happening once I'm dead and gone. A bird is not put on this earth for me, though it may come into my life to teach me something in a moment. Likewise my spirit helpers will not die when I die, they will continue on. Likewise the colour of the bench in front of me doesn't have some over-arching meaning unless I project and choose for it to have a meaning.

I wouldn't say that the Otherworlds is that concerned with us that everything we saw while there had a great meaning for us; I wouldn't say it about the real world either, and to me both feel as genuine. (The Otherworlds moreso in some cases). So I wouldn't say that finding meaning in everything is a 'catch-all' rule of the otherworlds, far more important than say...respecting yourself and the spirits around you.

But hey, who knows? Maybe I'm missing a whole world of meaning by choosing not to interpret the colours of the grain of sand on my feet. Or maybe I'm not. Why is it that people think that visualisation and the Otherworlds are the same thing?! Blah.

Anyway, I'm going to bed.

Comments

[end-of-the-mind.livejournal.com]

I'm still stuck on the "catch-all" for the Otherworlds. Can...can you even say that? ;P

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Oh they did, and in a snide way too, like:

'I'm sure I probably missed the catch-all to your post'

(and then put his idea in as the 'catch-all' which I somehow forgot.)

Heh.

[end-of-the-mind.livejournal.com]

*heavy, head-shaking sigh*

Some people are such bastards. Really.

*goes to play with the furkids*

[ayellowbirds.livejournal.com]

yeah, the whole idea strikes me as a bit egotistical. Things in the otherworlds have their own business to take care of, not to mention there may be things that have meaning, but are for someone other than the person viewing them at the moment. I pass lots of classrooms at school where there are lessons being given, but I'm not registered for that class... just because you're there at the time, doesn't mean the lesson is for you.

[lupabitch.livejournal.com]

I don't think the world exists for me to interpret, any moire than I exist for it to interpret. This is why I don't put much stock in animal sightings as omens.

[rainsingingwolf.livejournal.com]

Sometimes a stone is red to bring us anger, and other times it is just red because it is red. *shrugs* I agree with you that not everything has a meaning. The trees are green in my journeys. The grass is green in my journeys. Does it like to be green? I assume it does, since it appears green. Or maybe it's green because I just view it that way. That was a bit of a tangent. But, yes, not everything means something.

[sidheblessed.livejournal.com]

*imagines examining the meaning of each thing I see while waking down the street* That induced a giggle. ;)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it though? *grin*

[darakat-ewr.livejournal.com]

its one of the things that pisses me off most about "dream dictionaries" that say that every color has a meaning, and every animal has a meaning, etc. What matters are the events, keywords and the order that they occur in and the frequency (sometimes). Color may have a role, but if and only if that color is attached to YOUR personal meaning of something in said dream/vision.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I completely agree. :D

[mirrorred-star.livejournal.com]

I think its a fluffy-ism that they grow out of eventually.

At least I hope they do....

So what does it mean if you're walking in a park and everything's green? o_0

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

And what does it mean when you're walking through a city, and everything's concrete?

Boggles the mind really.

The guy still hasn't replied yet.