Angels, Dreams, Visions: Stairways of the Soul

By G. Allen Grootboom, PhD

Angels, dreams, and visionswe all experience these adventures in mind, body, or soul, in real time, in thought, or in dreams. We dream about strange worlds, have strange encounters where we are told of things to come but not of when.

People operate like magnets, attracting people and events into our lives and pushing people away. This book is about those events, those meetings, those dreams. It is a journey into our knowing of our imaginary worlds. It is also about your journey into your thought life, where the thoughts come from and where they vanish to. It is about our alone life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Jun 21, 2016
• ISBN: 9781514465714

G. Allen Grootboom, PhD

Gregory Allen Grootboom holds a PhD in psychology from the University of the Free State in South Africa. He is also a trained psychologist. His first book, Us Face Off: The Masks That Separate” (2012), is about unmasking the self and finding who you are. He has also published poetry in his native tongue.

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Angels, Dreams, Visions:

Stairways of the Soul

G. Allen Grootboom PhD

Copyright

© 2016 by Allen Grootboom.

ISBN:         Softcover        978-1-5144-6572-1

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Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Preface

PART ONE MIND BODY AND SOUL

CHAPTER ONE

A time set aside: starring death in the eye

Who are we?

Our body in this world

You are not your body

Our Human Spirit

Our Human Soul

Mind over body and soul

CHAPTER TWO

The bodily awareness of time

Our Internal Clock

Ponder on this

Awareness

Consciousness

Collective Consciousness

Collective consciousness: The South African miracle

Collective Unconsciousness

Explore your knowing

CHAPTER THREE

The Magnetic Brain

The Law of Attraction

What is it that you attract?

The law of attraction within you

The Law of attraction on you

The law of attraction around you

The Law of Attraction and your thoughts

Enter the thought?

Changing thoughts

Other (internal) messages

The feelings and ‘sight’ of children

Sight and hallucinations

PART TWO THE DREAM MERCHANT

CHAPTER ONE

Dreams, Visions and Prophesy

Messages, Prophecies or Visions?

When is a dream prophetic? What about a vision?

What are dreams?

The dream maker

Where are dreams created?

Dream Paralysis

When do we dream?

CHAPTER TWO

Catching your Dreams

Dream Incubation and Problem Solving

Taking control of your dreams

Religion and dreams

Dreams and divinity

Dreams in the Bible

Dreams and Creativity

CHAPTER THREE

The World of Dreams

The Art of Dreaming

The Valley of Dreams

Dream Chaser

Dreams of Prophecy

Has a dream changed your life?

We create this world (sometimes)

Creating your dreams

The journey to other worlds

Where is your dream world?

In Another Dimension

Last night I dreamt

Journey with me into my dreams

* My Mercedes Benz in the USA

* Motor Cycle Rides (The real dreams)

* Déjà vu

* Dreams of Snakes and other things

The Time I left my body (An out of Body Experience (OBE)

Travelling beyond the Self

Time returned at daybreak

A final caveat:

PART THREE ANGELS AND WORDS

CHAPTER ONE

A Time with Angels

What are angels?

What do angels look like?

Saved by an Angel

CHAPTER TWO

Words and Thoughts

Thoughts

How do you capture a thought?

The Origin of Thought

Cosmic thoughts

CHAPTER THREE

The Power of the Spoken Word

The power of the tongue

Who is talking to you?

The problem of the mind

Become aware of incidences of chance (Coincidences)

A word spoken

A test to the word spoken

A second test: Another vehicle?

Coincidence?

Stretching Coincidence?

Missing the Coincidence?

What happens when you utter a wish?

Words that killed a dog

Intention Power

2012 CONSCIOUSNESS

Cosmic intelligence

Concluding remarks

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Foreword

You are the foreword to this book: you, your dreams, your visions, your words and your thoughts, your experiences is the foreword to this book.

Before you start reading, reflect quietly of where you are now in your journey through life. Your journey has somehow led you to this book, for you to read it or just simply to page through it. This book forces you to think about what you dreamt about last night, those dreams that worried you in lonely nights and those dreams that have come true, those that never materialized and those that were forgotten by the time you woke up in the morning and those that keep resurfacing.

Think about your aspirations and what happened to them? Your meetings of chance and the coincidences in your life.

Think about that call, that surprise knock coming as if you expected it, that word which came like an angel, right on time! Was it an angel? You heard a voice, but who spoke to you?

Finally, reflect on your words, thoughts, and words spoken to you. What happened to all those words?

Whether you have forgotten and whether you remember, bring them all together as you start reading. This is your personal journey.

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him

William Eldery Channing

I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self,

who does my living, is like a stranger to me. Daniel Kahneman

Introduction

The difference of being different

Every journey has a start, all journeys have a destination, but not all journeys have endings …

This is where my journey started:

I am taking you on this journey of my experiences. I will start at all my new beginnings because I have died many times. I survived because I had to share a part of my spirit life with you.

Have you ever felt that you were somewhat different from all your friends? If you did, than you have a kindred spirit in me. If not, you know of those around you who were different and acted differently.

I always knew that I was different. I was never interested in the same things that my friends got excited about. I never got excited about the thought that there was another world beyond this one. Somehow I always knew.

I wondered why I saw things differently than my friends did. Feeling different did bother me at first. But later I had to adapt to everybody around me. I fitted in, I had to fit in. I mean, how could I be different from everybody else? I ate the same food, drank the same water in the same way as everybody else. I even spoke like everybody else. And when you are in a family of six, your voices even start to sound the same, with little intonation differences.

But somehow I felt different from my family and also from those I used to play with. I did not try to act different. But trying not to be different, accentuated my difference. This reminds me of a drunk person trying to walk upright to show that he is not drunk. The more the person would try to walk upright, the more like a drunken person they walked. The moral of this short diversion: even in trying to act like everybody else, my acting made me stick out like a sore thumb. The bottom line was that I did things my way (you remember the song made famous by Frank Sinatra: I did it my way?).

How different I actually really was struck me when a school mate of mine at our first reunion after thirty five years observed: I see you still do the things your way, never fitting in like everybody else. I regarded that response as the greatest compliment a person could have given me because I was still somewhat different. My wife of course did not agree.

The second problem I had was about my thought life. I always marvelled at my own thoughts, wondering who put those thoughts into my head. What or who was the origin of those thoughts?

The third problem or dilemma I faced, just like the origin of our thoughts, the origin of some dreams will remain a mystery. Dreams, our dreaming, the dreams of all humans is like a mirror that reflects our lives. Sometimes it is like talking into the wind and the wind taking your words out of your mouth. Some words you will not hear. The same with some dreams that you will remember. Some dreams you know where they come from, but others will always wonder where they came from.

When we speak of dreams, one of the first thoughts that come to mind is: Is the world of dreams created in our mind while we sleep or do they come from some unknown place? We know for example that we dream whilst being awake. When you are awake, you can create your own imaginary worlds. But the dreams of your sleep world, is entirely different. You never created that world. It is the creation of the mind without you willing it. And when you awake, some of these dreams will bear fruit (like the dream you had while being awake) and some will remain vivid, far removed from reality, whilst with others, you sigh a sigh of relief: ‘I am glad it was only a dream!’

We always like to chase the mysterious dream. We want to know what is behind our dreams. All of us would like to dream dreams of prophecy. We would love to tell the world that ‘we have seen it coming’.

Fourthly, what do we say about angels? The bible talks about angels, we all talk about angels, all religions talk about angels and some of us profess having had encounters with angels. Those who talk about having encountered angels cannot explain them, nor can they explain or describe what they look like. And when they do, the angel is in the form of a loved one long gone. And there are some who will never talk about those holy meetings or what was said.

One thing is certain: the talk of and about angels will not cease. Their presence will continue to be around us and angels will continue to visit us. The fortunate or unfortunate part of it, is that we will never know for sure whether we have been visited by an angel. When it is all done and dusted, our inner voices will tell us, we have been in the company of an angel. We will always wonder: how did they converse with us? And did we respond to them, in words or through our thoughts?

If you responded to angels in thought, how did these thoughts come to mind? How did you know that you were speaking through your thoughts (telepathy)? Thoughts are sometimes like idle words, floating loosely. We say these words because we uttered a thought that came into our mind.

And sometimes these words were never supposed to have been said, for every word carries meaning and words whether spoken in jest or in serious conversation, always carry meaning. As part of your journey through this book and your life, dreams, angels and thoughts will be explored as I experienced them.

But a different journey will also be taking place: You are now also embarking on a journey, your journey – you are travelling even though you did not intend to take this journey! Because this journey is also about your visitations to unknown worlds, to worlds of thought, the world of dreams and of your encounters with angels whether you recognised them or not!

You might be aware that you are on a journey as all human beings are. You might have seen other worlds in your sleep, worlds never thought of. Sometimes these other worlds may be in the waking. Sometimes you were aware that you were dreaming and sometimes you knew that you were awake. Sometimes you may have found the dream following you into your waking life.

If you can identify with these ‘sometimes’ loose thoughts, it will remind you of your own thoughts scattered in many directions. This book is about those thoughts, your dreams, about your wondering. And when you wonder about these things, then you know that you are not alone.

Preface

How this book nearly did not come to see the light of day …..

After the publishing of my first book, Taking the Face off: the masks that separate us, I worked enthusiastically of my second book, my dream book. For the next nine months was going through the birth pains of my memories. I delved into my own subconscious, I spoke to people and their experiences. At the end of my ninth month, I did the first ‘random’ act of coincidence, I asked the IT specialists to do a backup of everything on my hard drive. I printed a hard copy and work for two months, changing my baby, feeding it, smiling to it, feeding mental and emotional energy into it. The next thing that hit me, at the end of January 2013 my vehicle was broken into: my computer was stolen, my hardcopy that I worked on was stolen and I was devastated. My publishing date set for 2013 was not in reach!

For the next three months I could not put pen to paper. I then remembered that I had a backup. I started working again, painfully so. 2014 was taken up by work commitments.

By late 2015 I was able to give attention to my dream book again. I was ready for publishing. Towards the end of June, a book drew my attention: Adventures of the soul. I just brushed the ‘calling’ of the book from my mind. By coincidence the same book ‘called’ me. I just bought the book and put it in my bag. It took another week or two before paying undivided attention to the book. The first coincidence that struck me was: the book was divided into three parts as was my book; the chapter division was more or less the same; the first part I dealt with was exactly the same as mine!?

As I read, I became more convinced I could not publish for fear of plagiary. At the same time, as I read, I knew that I had to publish this book …

Now decide which of these experiences coincidences were, and which were not?

PART ONE

MIND BODY AND SOUL

Your stairway has on a slippery wind, And as we wind down the road, Our shadows taller than our soul

CHAPTER ONE

"So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God" Romans 14:12

We all have experiences that we will always remember. It may be a near death experience, an unforgettable holiday, an accident averted or any experience that will remain with you. It is that experience that makes you think that there is more to this life than what meets the eye. And when I heard the song for the first time during my first year at university my curiosity was further aroused.

The song that gripped me in my young life was that of Uriah Heep, Stairway to heaven. The song goes on to relate that the piper will lead us to reason and that a new day will dawn. The words of the song captured my thoughts, my journey, your journey and our journeys collectively. The words are also about our souls and our bodies. As the lyrics puts it, it talks to the spirit and it talks to thought. Of our spirits wanting to leave, and a time set aside