May 15, 2001 • by Sergey Izrigi

Types of Labyrinths. Mountains in the North

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The Dream Hackers divide labyrinths into three types: one type people cultivate themselves. Its development begins with an embryo (usually some problem or phobia in everyday reality). The labyrinth develops as we "activate" this problem. In the Dreaming world, such small labyrinths appear either as a house with many rooms or as a labyrinth of shacks (surrounded by houses, fences, angry dogs).

The second type of labyrinth is the so-called archetypal labyrinths. We consider them universal programs for the zombification of people. Some believe they are the creation of flyers; others consider them "anchor points" through which our luminous ancestors fixed themselves in this world and transformed into humans. In the Dreaming world, this type of labyrinth indeed appears as a series of corridors or underground caves.

The third type of labyrinth consists of attention traps and the worlds of Inorganic Beings. If you are somehow drawn into them during moments of Lucid Dream, you will inevitably be "nibbled at" or they will try to take a portion of your luminosity. Personally, I survived such an incident, and I would not wish anyone else to merge with an Inorganic Being.

I have a friend – Doc. He is the best healer I have met in my many and long journeys. He works with labyrinths – extracting his patients from the nooks and crannies of labyrinths, thereby healing incurable diseases. From time to time, he becomes a victim of energetic attacks, but possessing a technique for gathering energy that I don't understand, he recovers, shaking it off like water off a duck's back. As for me, I was well and truly "stamped" there!

An interesting dream was connected with the mountains in the north. A rocky ridge, a road leading upwards, its edges strewn with heaps of stones. At the end of the road, on the summit of a cliff, stood a half-ruined castle. I wanted to bypass it but couldn't. Within the castle were very strange life forms. I would call this place a former cult center of a most peculiar religion. The castle was built precisely to prevent anyone from leaving the confines of the ridge. The impression was that it had been stormed, but most of the attackers perished right there. And from the remnants of both attackers and defenders, a very strange community had formed.

Daoist treatises describe this path: a mountain ridge; a pass with ancient temples guarded by evil demons; beyond it – the valley of giants; a black desert; further – a fiery river where the goddess of human flesh resides. Then, in a passage between the rocks, the Daoist would find a spring with the drink of immortality and, having drunk it, would pass into another reality.

Doc reached the giants. These are a kind of guardians – personifications of our deepest subconscious fears. For example, a giant gecko tried to assault one female dreamer from Doc's clan. Can you imagine? :)))