By Cosmic Dust on Saturday, 02 August 2014
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1. Samael Aun Weor explains that humanity is primarily asleep due to fascination.
Is there a lecture on explaining what fascination is and how to overcome it?
I don't know how to experience the physical senses/world disinterestedly or really without admiration/fascination.
I say to myself, "I know this feeling/sensation will pass, it is illusion" but I still enjoy music, sunsets, rain, food, playing soccer...
On a deeper level I know that advancing in meditation will help, but during practical life, how do we live without fascination?
What is the mind of non-fascination?

2. I also ask this becuase lately my dreams have been many and more detailed each night.
I wake up 3-4 different times each night with different dreams.
I see places and people and things that aren't in my physical world life, and when I wake up in my bed I always think, "I haven't seen that person in years.....I've never been to that place.....who are these people......why was I doing/saying this/that...I'm not a professional athlete.....etc.....etc....that was absurd...."
I think it is due to fascination that I am just an observer of my dreams and not a conscious participant.
My dreams are more active than my physical world life and I'm wondering why only when I wake in my bed I realise that all of those experiences are in the dream world/mind.
I will work on more discernment but I'm wondering why I wake up 3-4 times each night and I feel discouraged that I did not know in the dream that these people/places are not in my physical world life and I should wake up in the dream and live. More fascination? Lack of discernment?

Thank you for your thoughts and time
This question is best understood in the context of the four states of consciousness, which is explained here: http://gnosticteachings.org/download/beginning-here-and-now-introductory-lectures/379-beginning-here-and-now-four-states-of-consciousness.html

Fascination is a quality of the two lower states. In the third state, one establishes a watchful state that resists fascination.

The following articles also have information on this: http://gnosticteachings.org/component/search/?searchword=Four%20States&ordering=newest&searchphrase=exact&limit=10

Awakening internally is gradual, and is a reflection of our state of consciousness during the day. Discovering that one is asleep is a sure sign that one is awakening. So, during daily activities, discover how and when you lose consciousness, and what causes you to fall into such states. Constantly provoke a state of active watchfulness, questioning what you are experiencing, and you will start to do so at night.
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