What's actually happening is the mind is taking on the shape of this visualization, provisionally located up here, but it's actually taking place in cognitive space, which is not located in space and time. It's it substan space and time. And so again, like these other questions, boy to unpack this one takes a little bit of time. But the whole visualization thing is, is is colossally important it's a really big deal topic. Because what you're doing with the process of visualization is you're voluntarily shaping your mind you're voluntarily shaping, formless awareness into a shape that it's like it's like a voluntary reincarnation process. And so you do that with a throat and what you'll notice is when you're starting to do the visualization, there seems to be mind's eye looking down here. That's fine for starters, but eventually what you will notice is the mind will actually drop the sense of perspective, no perceiver perceived that dissolves, because that's an illusion and then eventually, what happens as the mind will actually drop from this location here, into the Lotus itself. So in other words, the lotus stem perceives itself. You're no longer really looking at it. And if you really think about it, just like in a dream, there is no mind's eye to look at this. The mind is just looking at itself from this illusory delusory perspective that you think you're looking at it from here to here, but that's an illusion. What's actually happening is the mind is looking at itself. So again, this is like what what, what is this guy talking about? Well, this is really an intimation of non dual perception. But the more you do this the more you will realize this, you will. This is a really cool part of training yoga, the more the mind will actually start from here, the mind drops, drops drops. And then what happens is you're no longer visualizing the lotus, you become the lotus. You become the lotus, that's the point. So I think I'm not entirely sure, but I think it's intense on one Gil's most recent book, The Tibetan Yogi's of dream and sleep. He also talks about this I know he does for sure I'm not 100% sure it's in that book. I'm pretty sure it's in my book, Dream Yoga, have a look at that in a while. But those are the ways that one works with it. And your question is a really good one. And hopefully this again, brief response to a really great question if there's some benefit. These questions are great. We could just spend the whole time with them. Okay, from Marian and Montana. This is actually more a question for our sleep doctor Dr. Ed, but I can take a brief crack at it. changes on the light come quickly in Montana, I noticed the shift from July to September in particular and asleep more in the morning with the later sunrise. Yes, this is the process of circadian rhythms kind of resonating with our sleep patterns. Super charismatic nucleus I also seem to sleep more deeply less hid the puppet dreaming this last week. Yes, that's quite common. Is this idiosyncratic or simply transitional? Something new that will even out well, this is difficult to say I mean, it sounds like you've just recently moved to Montana. Because otherwise you wouldn't be able to answer this question yourself. If you've lived in Montana and gone through this, then you would know if this is something that's evening out or not. This is a difficult thing to say. Back to you note my dream practices just over a year. Old and doing well. I'm 76. So maybe what I'm seeing is also a function of age. absolutely, positively could be that. Cheers much enjoy all your q&a insights, not to mention books, classes, etc. Thanks for that. summary on this one. This one's difficult without without doing a little bit of a like it. Even a health history, sleep study type thing. These somewhat more great, wonderful kind of clinical questions I can just give rough responses if you are a member of nightclub. This is why we bring our sleep doctor in Dr. Ed second Tuesday of every month. These are the questions that we send to him because he's a professional in this arena. But this could be completely idiosyncratic the fact that you seem to intimate the question that will it even out seems to suggest that you're new to Montana, otherwise you forget and you can answer that question yourself. But these are all these are all pretty classic factors of both aging and also the changes in circadian rhythms based on the changes in light sources. So I wish I could be a little bit more articulate about that but more information would be needed here. In terms of like your general sleep patterns, blah, blah, blah. So if you are a member of a nightclub, I can ping this to Dr. Ed and he can take a crack at it. On Tuesday, the second Tuesday of November. Okay, this is one from a named Hi Andrew. This is a question about empowerments in the Tibetan traditions, yeah, also known as AVI Shaikha, in Sanskrit, Huang and Tibetan. From time to time, I see announcements that a particular teacher Rinpoche will be visiting locally and that they will be offering empowerments for particular practices. In addition to general public teachings. Yep, happens all the time, which is wonderful. Some of these empowerments are restricted to practitioners with certain levels of practice, but also some are open to the general public. Correct. I've met people who attend every empowerment that comes through town and I've met people who tell me I only go to once my teacher tells me to do and nothing else. I haven't found either approach particularly useful as guidance in general, can you explain what empowerments actually are? And while I recognize that each person's situation is individual, I'm still wondering if there are some things you can make about attending these and what considerations one should have or things that one should keep in mind about them. Okay. Yeah, so this is a very wonderful, rich aspect, mostly in Tibetan Buddhism, but not exclusively. I have attended dozens of these in a certain point. It almost got somewhat comical because it was like an immunization sheet. You know, it's like, oh, I got my tetanus shot, or I got my Manjushri IV shaker. Oh, I got my flu shot. Oh, I got my Padmasambhava IV shake. It actually was like, okay, it was just like, clicking him off clicking him off clicking and I was like, I just couldn't get enough. So here's the way to relate to this. When you say you haven't found either approach, particularly useful as guidance, I would then have to ask you where you are. On your path. Are you a student of the Tibetan tradition? What type of guidance are you looking for? Because both of the responses that you share are, they're actually quite appropriate. So the first one is, I only go to the ones my teacher tells me to and nothing else. So if you have a teacher, and you really kind of have subscribed to their curriculum, then that is the way to do it. Then you just check in with them. If they're doing the apartments and they usually do attend those. If you're interested. Just like this person is saying you ask them and if they feel it's appropriate, you can go empowerments are there this is another wonderful big topic there. There are a number of different types of empowerments is called the vase me Shaikha the president Jahnavi shaking up the word IV shaker, there are different levels of Empowerments. But here's the deal. Some of the Empowerments they become restrictive in the sense that what what an AMI shaker does what a wand does for a tantric effort Asada for someone who's doing a relatively lofty. I say that in quotation marks largely on a tantric level practice. These apartments are super important. This is how you enter the mandala of the Deity. This is how you're given the the what's called the transmission to recite the deities mantra to visualize the deity, and in order to do all that the empowerment is absolutely positively critical. And then what comes with that is what are what are called Samaya vows so that again, this gets pretty deep into the whole tantric thing. So if you're not a Tantra Rica, the stuff the best way to approach this, if you're not a ton to Rica, is as a blessing empowerment. That means you just go as a general public person, you're not making commitments, you're not making a semi commitment. Generally, the ones that are listed that way will be available, there'll be public, and you go to those just to receive the blessings of the empowerment. So if you're at that level, then it's a really wonderful thing to do. If you're at the more kind of tantric, Marciana level than the Empowerments, those will usually be guided by your teacher, and then or restricted by the person who's giving it but here's what happens with these things is they're they're actually quite magical. Something is absolutely positively transmitted. During sometimes these also called transmissions, something's actually communicated and a particular there's several ways to talk about it another wonderfully rich, vast topic. Is that that there's a particular kind of potentiality within you latency that is represented by the deity, the mantra, the mandala that's created. And so by receiving the empowerment, something is stimulated within you something is in a kind of a