Dream Interpretation Coffin

Seeing a coffin might be a signal that you need to say goodbye to something that has died. If you dream of an empty coffin, it is a good omen which means that you will reach a ripe old age and shouldn't worry in vain. Seeing a dead body in the coffin: you are going to suffer some financial setbacks and losses. Seeing yourself in a coffin denotes that you will have a long, wonderful and healthy life.

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Coffin

This dream symbol most likely evokes fear, but before making quick interpretations, carefully consider all of the details in this dream. The coffin could symbolize a lack of energy or vitality in the dreamer. It could represent the death of one stage of life and movement into another. (Not necessarily physical death! In fact, some cultures believe that if you see a person dead and in a coffin, he will most likely live a long and healthy life!) When dreaming about coffins, we may be contemplating the nature of the death experience and may access the state of consciousness that is attuned to the spiritual world. Most simply, and most likely, the coffin in your dreams may represent feelings of confinement and lack of freedom.

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Coffin

• This dream is unlucky. You will, if you are a farmer, see your crops blasted and your cattle lean and unhealthy. To business men it means debts whose accumulation they are powerless to avoid. To the young it denotes unhappy unions and death of loved ones.
• To see your own coffin in a dream, business defeat and domestic sorrow may be expected.
• To dream of a coffin moving of itself, denotes sickness and marriage in close conjunction. Sorrow and pleasure intermingled. Death may follow this dream, but there will also be good.
• To see your corpse in a coffin, signifies brave efforts will be crushed in defeat and ignominy,
• To dream that you find yourself sitting on a coffin in a moving hearse, denotes desperate if not fatal illness for you or some person closely allied to you.
• Quarrels with the opposite sex is also indicated. You will remorsefully consider your conduct toward a friend.

Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller

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Coffin Dream Symbols:

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Coffin, Ending of a situation, Boxed in

Coffin Dream Symbols:

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Coffin, Lack of energy, Vitality, Death, Dead, Funeral, Burial, Dead person, Coffins, Confinement, Lack of freedom, Boxed in

Grave Dream Symbols:

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Grave, Personal growth, Buried, Burying, Funeral, Funerals, Coffin, Burial

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cab, cabbage, cabin, cable, cackle, cactus, caf, cafe, cafe, cafeteria, cage, cake, cakes, calculator, calendar, calf, calf, call, called, calling, calm, calomel, calumny, calves, camel, camels, cameo brooch, camera, camp, campaign, camping, canal, canary birds, cancer, candle, candles, candlestick, candy, cane, canker, cannibalism, cannon, cannon-ball, canoe, canoe paddle, canopy, canyon, cap, captain, captive, car, cardinal, cards, carnival, carpenter, carpet, carrot, cars, cars, cart, cartoon character, cartoons, cartridge, carving, cash, cash box, cashier, cask, castle, castor oil, castoria, castration, cat, catechism, caterpillar, cathedral, cats, cats, cattle, cauliflower, cavalry, cave, cavern or cave, cedars, celebrity, celery, celestial signs, cellar, cemetery, chaff, chain, chains, chair, chair maker, chairman, chalice, chalk, challenge, chamber, chambermaid, chameleon, chamomile, champagne, champion, chandelier, chapel, charcoal, chariot, chariots, charity, chase, chased, chased by animals, chased by people, chasing, chasing another person, chastise, cheated, cheating, checkers, checks, cheese, chemise, cherries, cherry, cherry, cherubs, chess, chest, chestnuts, chewing gum, chicken, chickens, chief, chiffonier, chilblain, child, child, childbed, children, chimes, chimney, china, china store, chocolate, choir, choking, cholera, christ, christmas tree, chrysanthemum, church, churchyard, churning, cider, cigarettes, cipher, circle, circus, cistern, city, city council, city hall, clairvoyance, clams, claret, claret cup and punch, clarionet, clay, cleaning, cleansing, clergyman, cliff, climbing, clock, cloister, closet, clothes, clothing, clouds, cloven foot, clover, clown, club, coach, coal-hod, coals, coat, coat-of-arms, coca-cola, cockade, cock-crowing, cockroaches, cocktail, cocoa, cocoanut, coffee, coffee house, coffee mill, coffin, coins, coke, coke oven, cold, collar, colleague, college, colliery or coal-mine, collision, colonel, color, color, colors, colour, comb, combat, combing, combing, comedy, comet, comic songs, command, commandment, commerce, committee, companion, compass, completion, complexion, composing, concert, concubine, condoms, confectionary, confetti, conflagration, conjurer, conjuring, conscience, conspiracy, consumption, container, contempt, contract, convent, convention, convicted, convicts, cooking, cooking stove, cooling board, copper, copper plate, copperas, coppersmith, copying, coral, cords, cork, corkscrew, corn, corner, cornet, cornmeal, corns, coronation, corpse, corpulence, corridors, corset, cossack, costume, cot, cotton, cotton cap, cotton cloth, cotton gin, couch, cough, counselor, countenance, counter, counterfeit money, counterpane, counting, country, court, courtship, cousin, cow, cowboy, coworker, cows, cowslip, coxcomb, crab, crabs, cradle, crane, crape, crash, crawfish, crawl, cream, credit, creek, cremate, crew, cricket, cries, criminal, cripple, crippled, crochet work, crockery, crocodile, cronos, cross, cross, cross-bones, crossroads, croup, crowd, crowds, crown, crucifix, crucifix, crucifixion, cruelty, crust, crutches, cry, crying, crystal, cuckoo, cucumber, cunning, cupboard, curbstone, currycomb, currying a horse, curtains, cushion, cuspidor, custard, custom-house, cut, cymbal,

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Funeral

Dreaming about funerals does not necessarily symbolize physical death for you or anyone else. It could instead symbolize an ending of a different kind. You may be burying relationships, conditions or even emotions that you no longer need and that are no longer conducive to your personal growth. On the other hand, this dream may symbolize the burying of sensitivities and emotions that are too difficult to cope with. It may reflect numbness or a feeling that is the opposite of aliveness, such as depression and emptiness. Either way, burying a person that is alive suggests some emotional turmoil. Please consider all of the details in this dream to find the appropriate message. Old dream interpretation books say that dreaming about funerals is a dream of the contrary. Instead of sadness, the dreamer will experience happiness and go to celebrations, such as weddings.

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Death

Dreaming about death is very common and it can be interpreted in many different ways. Death is usually a symbol of some type of closure or end. It implies an end to one thing and a beginning of another. Death dreams usually have positive symbolism. If you are the dead person in your dream, it could imply that you would like to leave all of your worries and struggles behind and begin anew. Dreaming about someone that you care about may express your fear about losing them. Dreaming that one of your parents died may express fear of loss, but it also may be an unconscious valve through which you release anger and other negative feelings. In some cultures dreaming about death and dying is a very good omen that represents longevity and prosperity.

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Burial

Dreaming about funerals or burying a dead person does not necessarily symbolize physical death for you or anyone else. It could instead symbolize an ending of a different kind. You may be burying relationships, conditions or even emotions that you no longer need and which are no longer conducive to your personal growth. On the other hand, this dream may symbolize the burying of sensitivities and emotions that are too difficult to cope with. It may reflect a numbness or a feeling which is the opposite of vivacity, such as depression and emptiness. Either way, burying a living person suggests some emotional turmoil. Please consider all of the details in this dream to find the appropriate message. Old dream interpretation books say that dreaming about burials is a dream of the contrary. Instead of sadness the dreamer will experience happiness and go to celebrations, such as weddings.

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Paralyzed : Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Paralyzed, Stuck, Trapped, Unable to move

Paralyzed or Stuck or Trapped

Definition: You dream you are unable to move, perhaps unable to scream or breathe. The circumstances vary. You may dream that you are buried alive, or that you are caught or trapped in some other way. You may feel terror.

Examples:

• I am buried alive. I bang on the lid of the coffin, but no one can hear me. (man who felt stuck in a marriage)
• I'm lying in a hospital with dead people on stretchers all around me. I'm alive but I can't move or scream. I'm horrified. (sexually abused teenaged girl)

Source: Patricia Garfield, Ph.D., President of ASD

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Coffin-Rite, or Pastos. This was the final rite of Initiation in the Mysteries in Egypt, Greece and elsewhere. The last and supreme secrets of Occultism could not be revealed to the Disciple until he had passed through this allegorical ceremony of Death and Resurrection into new light. "The Greek verb teleutaó," says Vronsky, "signifies in the active voice ‘I die’, and in the middle voice ‘I am initiated". Stobeus quotes an ancient author, who says, "The mind is affected in death, just as it is in the initiation into the Mysteries ; and word answers to word, as well as thing to thing ; for teleutan is ‘ to die ‘, and teleisthai ‘to be initiated’". And thus, as Mackenzie corroborates, when the Aspirant was placed in the Pastos, Bed, or Coffin (in India on the lathe, as explained in the Secret Doctrine), "he was symbolically said to die."

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Society of Friends

Better known as Quakers, an Anglo-American pacifist sectarian movement originating in the religious confusion of the English Civil War and Commonwealth era (1640-60). George Fox (1624-91), a "seeker" discontented with both the Church of England and the Puritan and other sectarian alternatives that flourished during the period, attracted a radical group of followers through his prophetic words and deeds.

According to one tradition, Fox and his followers became known as Quakers when, refusing to swear oaths or otherwise respect the status of the law courts, they urged magistrates to tremble before God rather than the law.

More correctly known as the "Society of Friends (of Truth)," they distinguished themselves theologically from other Christians through their doctrine of the "Inward" or "Inner Light," the manifestation of the divine within each individual that, when recognized and nurtured, inevitably led to religious truth. Friends in Britain flourished despite adversity. Many were jailed for their pacifist and other nonconforming ways, while others organized their resources to alleviate these sufferings until relief came in the form of the Toleration Act of 1689. Barred from the universities and professions, they benefited from their reputation for honesty and hard work and often were successful in business.

Friends rejected hierarchy and churchly authority, organizing instead according to local weekly meetings for worship and progressively less frequent and geographically more encompassing regional meetings for governance. Weekly meetings were not led by ministers, but a clerk was present to record their proceedings. Worship was conducted in silence in a bare meeting house, with individuals speaking only when prompted by the Inner Light. The "friendly persuasion" was transplanted to the New World in 1682 by William Penn, an aristocratic convert who secured a royal land grant in payment of debts owed his family.

The Pennsylvania colony was based on Quaker principles of consensus and fair dealing in its governance; its capital, Philadelphia-"the city of brotherly love"-reflected in its name and spacious layout Penn's hopes for a peaceable society. English demands for support in the French and Indian Wars, however, led to a series of compromises and finally, in 1756, the renunciation of governmental power by the Quakers, who nevertheless continued to constitute a commercial elite in the region. Quakers in the new American nation continued to cope with the problems engendered by their pacifism, which led to suffering but also proved instrumental in securing governmental recognition of the rights of conscientious objectors.

Quakers pursued a peacemaking role by opposing both violence and the injustices that provoked it. Their Inner Light doctrine was incompatible with social inequality, so that women enjoyed equal status to men. Quakers such as John Woolman, Anthony Benezet, and, later, Levi Coffin, were active in the lateeighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century campaign against slavery. Many contemporary British Quakers also became active in reform causes. Their plain speech and dress, modified over time, were also manifestations of this egalitarianism.

Internal divisions manifested themselves early in the nineteenth century in the United States, when social and geographical divisions expressed themselves in theological forms. From 1826 to 1827 followers of Elias Hicks (1748-1830) near Philadelphia rejected the local elite's embracing of evangelical Protestant tenets and symbols, and called for a return to early Quaker practice.

Joseph John Gurney (1788-1847), an English Friend, pressed the evangelical cause further, while John Wilbur's (1774-1856) followers tried to combine the two emphases. Richmond, Indiana, emerged, in the first half of the nineteenth century, as a focus of Gurneyite settlement that was later influenced by the Holiness movement. In the twentieth century, the Philadelphia Meeting-part of the larger General Conference-became the center for Friends concerned with philanthropic and peacemaking activity, while the Friends United Meeting (Richmond, Indiana) and Evangelical Friends Alliance (Cleveland, Ohio) represented more evangelical strains. In the 1990s, Friends in the United States of various affiliations numbered in excess of one hundred thousand; this was somewhat over half of the worldwide membership, with roughly 20 percent of the remainder in Britain.

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Reincarnation. The doctrine of rebirth, believed in by Jesus and the Apostles, as by all men in those days, but denied now by the Christians. All the Egyptian converts to Christianity, Church Fathers and others, believed in this doctrine, as shown by the writings of several.

In the still existing symbols, the human-headed bird flying towards a mummy, a body, or "the soul uniting itself with its sahou (glorified body of the Ego, and also the kamalokic shell) proves this belief. "The song of the Resurrection" chanted by Isis to recall her dead husband to life, might be translated "Song of Rebirth", as Osiris is collective Humanity. "Oh! Osiris [here follows the name of the Osirified mummy, or the departed], rise again in holy earth (matter), august mummy in the coffin, under thy corporeal substances", was the funeral prayer of the priest over the deceased.

"Resurrection" with the Egyptians never meant the resurrection of the mutilated mummy, but of the Soul that informed it, the Ego in a new body. The putting on of flesh periodically by the Soul or the Ego, was a universal belief; nor can anything be more consonant with justice and Karmic law. (See "Pre-existence".)

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Excommunication

A religious sanction that removes an individual from the ritual and social community of the church when that member has transgressed some law or regulation of the church. In some churches, upon repentance, the person is welcomed back into fellowship within the church.

Because Judaism has no central authority, excommunication, forced isolation from the Jewish community to punish improper behavior or belief, is usually decreed by a local rabbinical court and applies primarily within that community. There is no formal court procedure or presentation of evidence for excommunication, and any rabbinical court can lift a decree.

Under the ordinary form of excommunication, called nidduy (Heb. ), the excommunicant behaves like a mourner (except for the ritual tearing of clothes), lives only with family, is shunned by others, and is not counted for the quorum required for worship. The excommunicant's coffin is stoned at burial.

Nidduy is announced by the head of the court. A more severe form, called herem ("devoted thing," something forbidden for common use) requires, in addition, that the excommunicant study alone and make a living only from a small shop.

The procedure for decreeing a herem entails a proclamation in the synagogue either before the open ark or with Torah scroll in hand, the sounding of the shofar (ram's horn), the congregational extinguishing of candles, and the recitation of biblical curses against and warnings about associating with the excommunicant. In medieval times, the excommunicant was treated as a non-Jew. That status often was extended to the excommunicant's spouse and children, who might also be ostracized.

Talmudic and medieval rabbinic literature lists various reasons for excommunication. Among other causes, a person could be ostracized for causing the public profanation of God's name, ignoring prescribed religious behavior or hindering the public performance of it, incorrect business practices, breaking a vow, improper sexual conduct, violating the Torah on the basis of spurious analogies, insulting a scholar, or decreeing excommunication without sufficient reason.

Over time, particularly in Orthodox communities, excommunication was applied so routinely and automatically to any unacceptable behavior that it lost its punitive and coercive effect.

Excommunication in the Christian tradition is an action taken by church authorities by which a person is cut off from participation in the worship life of a congregation because of some serious fault or breach of church discipline. Most commonly, the individual is barred from the sacraments. In certain communities such persons are also socially ostracized in a practice called "shunning. ".

(See also: Excommunication, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Christmas Christmas Day and its festival are a curious blend of Christian, Jewish, Roman, Western pagan, and perhaps other institutions. It arose as a Christian festival as part of the adaptation of the early Christian Church to the world in which it grew up.

The accounts given of the birth of Christ present obvious difficulties against regarding this date as that of his actual birth, and it was looked upon rather as a commemorative festival. Before the 5th century there cannot be said to have been any general consensus as to the date, the choice wavering between that of Epiphany on January 6th, the 25th of March, and the 25th of December. According to Chrysostom, the choice of the first of these dates was due to Western influence; and it is true that the Romans held their Saturnalia at the same time.

The celebration of the winter solstice, often identified with that of the new year, is virtually universal and denotes among Christians the mystic birth of the Christ; the significance has, however, with the Christian Church, been divided between Christmas and Easter. Besides its application to the death and rebirth of the year, and to death and regeneration both cosmic and human, the symbol has special reference to the esoteric rite and exoteric drama performed in the Mysteries at this epoch, where the candidate for initiation was placed in a tomb or coffin, or on a cruciform couch, where his body remained entranced during the experiences of his liberated self, until rebirth or resurrection on the third day.

Christmas customs likewise are derived from various sources: the exchange of gifts or sweets is a common accompaniment of new year celebrations; the tree is a universal symbol of manifested nature, and this appears again as the cross, which however is appropriated to the Friday before Easter. At the winter solstice, the sun enters Capricorn, a house of Saturn -- who appears in such figures as Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, and Old Father Christmas; and the spirit of license and good cheer are more appropriate to the genius of Saturn, especially in the form of Silenus or a satyr, than to the mystic birth of the neophyte.

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cremation: Dahana. Burning of the dead. Cremation is the traditional system of disposing of bodily remains, having the positive effect of releasing the soul most quickly from any lingering attachment to the earth plane. In modern times, cremation facilities are widely available in nearly every country, though gas-fueled chambers generally take the place of the customary wood pyre.

Embalming, commonly practiced even if the body is to be cremated, is ill-advised, as it injures the astral body and can actually be felt by the departed soul, as would an autopsy. Should it be necessary to preserve the body a few days to allow time for relatives to arrive, it is recommended that hot ice surround the body and that the coffin be kept closed. Arrangements for this service should be made well in advance with the mortuary.

Note that the remains of enlightened masters are sometimes buried or sealed in a special tomb called a samadhi. This is done in acknowledgement of the extraordinary attainment of such a soul, whose very body, having become holy, is revered as a sacred presence, sannidhya, and which not infrequently becomes the spiritual seed of a temple or place of pilgrimage.

See: bone-gathering, death, reincarnation, sannidhya.

(See also: Cremation, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

GHOST ROADS: Known also as the Dragon Paths, Serpent Tracks, Coffin Paths etc. these roads overlap with the idea of Ley Lines first promulgated by Alfred Watkins. These roads are used by the newly deceased as they travel and make their way to the Underworld. On more ancient of the these lines can be found markers such as tumuli, barrows, churches and cemeteries.

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