Dream Warrior

"There is no place for a warrior outside of war," my mentor once told me. He wasn't trying to instill despair; he was revealing a fundamental truth. Conflict, predation, and survival—these are the default states of the universe. And for a warrior, that means there is no place where they do not belong. Everything around us is consciousness, but more importantly, it is awareness. Without awareness, you’ve already lost the battle—your personal power is now in the hands of another, claimed by forces you didn’t even see coming. Understanding who or what claims that power is part of the warrior’s journey. A warrior must know their enemy, and a hunter must know their prey. They are one and the same, as all warriors are hunters by nature, driven to stalk, seek, and survive. This isn’t philosophical; it’s primal. All life, at every level—from the subatomic to the vast ecosystems we inhabit—follows the same brutal rule: eat or be eaten. My mentor would have me lay face-first in the...

“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it” -Carlos Castaneda It’s tempting to laugh when someone claims they "choose to be a warrior." The absurdity of such a statement doesn’t fully hit until you've walked the path, when you realize that choosing to be a warrior isn’t a romantic notion, it’s about choosing life over death. This isn’t a casual decision, not like picking from a buffet of options. In reality, it’s a harsh, unforgiving ultimatum. You either live as a warrior, or you languish in mediocrity, lost in the rat-race of ordinary existence, and feed feet first through the meat-grinder. My teacher never presented this choice as a simple fork in the road. It wasn’t as if I could go left and become a receptionist at some veterinary clinic, or right and march into a warrior’s destiny. ...

Awareness is to a firearm as energy is to ammunition. The Dream Warrior must possess and continuously train both. The Dream Warrior's awareness must be of tremendous caliber and capable of holding up in the most rigorous and punishing terrain, whether it is the psychic battleground of the Dream Warrior's inner world or the external hazards of the ever-increasingly dangerous physical world. Likewise, the Dream Warrior's energy must be readily accessible and in large, copious amounts. It is through the pairing of awareness and energy that the Dream Warrior has any hope of being anything less than a slave to his or her unknown and hidden masters. Thereby, it is only through the continual coupling of awareness and energy and employing them in tandem to achieve the same goal that the Dream Warrior can eventually consider themselves a formidable  stalker  of the dream realm, the shadow world, the material plane, and most importantly, themselves. For now, keep that in mind. In a f...

The true battlefront for humanity's freedom has been and always will be Lucid Dreaming. The only war that matters is the war we subconsciously wage. All choices we make, collectively or individually as humans, stem from the influences set upon us by unknown masters and hidden intelligence. The effects of these pervasive intrusions always have real-world consequences and tangible aftermaths. There will always be consequences for winning or losing, and whether you are aware of these pervasive intrusions or not, frankly, matters not. In truth, they would prefer you not know. They have gone to Herculean extremes to dull your senses to their presence in order to puppet you from afar.  Thereby, in the war for awareness and to weaponize lucidity, your most valuable commodities are  energy  and  awareness . Without awareness, there is no consciousness; without this, your participation in the fight for your freedom, individually and collectively (all of mankind), is severely,...