Dream-Elefants- what means? (CC)

[nani]

Linda, can you look for me into your great dream-book. I`ve dreamed the second night of an Elephant, no the night before it was a rhinoceros but with elephant-ears lol, and last night it was a baby-elefant, wow so lovely, I had to care for it, give some free-walking, at least in the house I could let it have its walk. There was some danger (a man who planned something un-nice) in this huge house, but I was the protector of this elefant and another rhino-like animal. Also I had to protect a daughter of a friend who is into drugs unfortunately, she was in the house as well.

Anyways, I think that this elefant means something important to me. Before this night I felt quite sick and couldnt remember my dreams for some time, and after that dream I felt much more power, clarity and health again. Seems like the elefant has given or shown me some more strenght.

Thanks for your help, lovepeace&joy, Nani

[crazycat]

Cool Nani, elephats symbolize the dreamer's magnanimous nature. This is a positive dream fragment that implies that the dreamer is functioning at an optimum level with respect to his or her use of God's laws.
That is from my Earthway book.

My other book says: Elephant represent strength; endurance: with an up turned trunk means good luck. The most well known elephants is the cartoon Dumbo which may symbolize the ability to escape the mundane by flying, and the Hindu god Ganesh, son of Shiva, who symbolizes our ability to overcome obstacles (also symbilized by Dumbo, who turned his enormous ears into an advantage). Honoring Ganesh is said to bring prosperity, in general, and wealth, specifically. In some parts of Asia he is also the patron of artists/academics.

Maybe the elephant is to be another totem animal animal for you.

[nani]

WOWOWOW Linda hey!!!
God thats great, and you know what, I totally forgot that in the middle of these 2 dreamnights my music-mate gave a little Ganesh to me as present from his recent Indiatrip whooohooo, I totally forgot, and all you say sounds so really great and fits, MUCH THANKS and all the very best to You my starfriend !!!! :-)
LOVEJOY, Nani

[osiris]

Ganesh but yes he was already covered. If i was to choose a pantheon of gods the hindu gods would be them. Maybe someday. I try not to tie myself down like that.

On this link is a picture and i little more depth on ganesh and hinuism in general. www.rotten.com/library/religion/hinduism/
Yes if i was told that i had to pick a religon today that would be it. HMMMM a gnostic hindu....? lol

[sxy]

Nani,

I found this interesting web page as an example for you ...

In ancient cultures the elephant was often seen as a holy animal. In India the god Ganesha has the form of an elephant, often seated. It represent good fortune and prosperity, the overcoming or removal of obstacles. Idioms:

White elephant; pink elephants;

or...rogue ~ scoundrel elephants.



EXAMPLE:


During an experience arising from the use of psilocybin, I had a very clear mental image of a baby elephant. It was like a bas-relief made out of clay, but mobile. I could see that the baby elephant had some problem with its trunk, and I wondered why my unconscious had produced this image so clearly and what it meant. Immediately the image disappeared and a series of associations arose unbidden. It was that the elephant actually ate with its mouth, but it had to reach out for everything with its trunk. As a baby the elephant would suckle, but as it matured it would have to learn to get its own needs with its trunk, therefore the problem was about me reaching out for my own needs. .

www.dreamhawk.com/animald.htm


~ S.X.Y.~

[nani]

hey SXy and Osiris, wow I must say that really was very insightful. Thanx to both your inputs!
Osiris thats a kind of special synchronicity to read all that hindu-stuff (more thorough again), cause as Im into buddhism since some weeks Im always comparing the hindu-practise with the buddhism-path, trying to figuere out whats the main difference for me, referring to my own-practice-meditation-path. For the last 3 years I was on a Advaita Vedanta (ancient hinduistic) path, in short meaning: we ARE enlightened already! (just need to identify with the inner enlightened self of us). And now in this diamond-buddhism-path there also is supposed to be an enlightened part within ourselfs of course, but this "diamond" first has to be cleaned free through lots of meditation+work with our thoughts+emotions and so on. So these 2 paths are definitely very different. And it seems that my dream maybe does reflect that distinguish-process Im in.

And SXY,
"As a baby the elephant would suckle, but as it matured it would have to learn to get its own needs with its trunk, therefore the problem was about me reaching out for my own needs."
This did tell me so much! I immediately felt my own present situation mirrored in it. Yesterday some quite basically (emotional/relation) things did change again for me. A certain process -which had started since August when my mom died- did cross a further border yesterday. Again a new chapter has startet and I wonder and wonder and wonder about the Dao/god/our spiritual source, how change, vicissitude does roll over me like blasts of windstorms, telling me over and over one thing: dont stop, dont rest, dont rely on anyone or anything, be flexible, move and "reach out for your own needs".

Hey guys&gals seeya at venusian Mars or martian Venus tonight eh !!! ;-))
lovejoy, Nani