Genesis 28:11 Meaning He Came to a Certain Place

A mind that has been running from its brother finally stops in the dark, lays its head on stone, and sleeps, and this is the whole condition of the separated self, at rest on hardness in a world where the light has gone out. Sleep is the dream of separation itself, entered where fear has driven the self to the end of the day.

Yet even here, in the hardest place a mind has found, it is only sleeping, and what sleeps can wake. The comfort is exact and quiet, that the darkness and the stone are features of a dream, and the self laid down in them was never truly harmed and has only to open its eyes.

Stones: the hardness the self rests upon in its exile, the unyielding beliefs it has made into a place to lie down. Sun: the awareness of love, whose setting leaves the mind in the darkness where the dream of separation takes hold.

The stone Jacob lays his head upon is his own skull, and the whole scene happens whenever a person turns inward to sleep with a wish. When the sun sets and the outer light of the senses goes dark, the reasoning that measures what is possible finally rests. The deeper power in a person is then free to act. He does not build with the stone. He lies down on it, gives up the world of fact, and sleeps.

The skull is the resting place where the higher meets the lower, and sleep is the door. The person who quiets the senses and drops into the feeling of the thing already done has laid his head on the one stone that matters. What he assumes there, in the dark, with the outer light gone, is what he wakes to live from.

The stone set beneath the head is the pineal gland, the stone the builders rejected, and laying the head upon it draws awareness down to that light-receptor at the center of the brain. The sun setting is the solar-plexus energy sinking as the outward day of the senses closes, and in that dark the inner scene can open.

With the head resting on the pineal stone, the ground is laid for the ladder that follows: the spine and the spinal fluid, the pineal-DNA pathway up which energy rises to consciousness. What happens in a person is that the outer light lowers, the head comes to rest on the inner stone, and the climb of the spine toward higher awareness becomes possible.

Stone: the pineal gland, the stone the builders rejected, the body's light-receptor Sun set: the solar-plexus energy sinking as the day of the outer senses closes Pillow of stone: the head brought to rest upon the pineal, opening the ladder of the spine