OUR LIVING DREAM

Dream interpretation is a powerful doorway into the otherwise hidden reaches of the psyche. At some point, before discovering nondualism, I started perceiving life as a dream, realizing that interpretation of life circumstances is in fact, as powerful as sleeping dream interpretation.  It only makes sense, for I have come to feel that we are in fact living a dream, or rather Divine Consciousness is dreaming a life. Also, as I said in my previous article physicality is energy made manifest. When I work with people not only do we talk about their dreams, but I listen to their current life experience as if I am listening to a dream. Everything is up for interpretation.

I have come to believe our need to heal is helping create the very dream symbolism needed to point out the ‘wound’. When I say ‘helping’ create, I mean just that because there are many in the collective walking around with similar wounds. Collective wounding is big energy and it creates big mirrors. Now I am not saying this to kick anyone’s guilt into action, far from it. We are headed in the other direction. Each one of us is only one contributor to the collective energy field. However, having said that, let me add what a minister of a church I attended long ago, would often say “you only have one person’s consciousness that you are responsible for and that is your own, and that is a big job!”

In my experience this is an interactive universe. In fact I lead my life receptive to the conversation that is taking place with what I see as Omniscience . The conversation is taking place in the intuitions and metaphors of what we call our life. I deeply honor the conversation so I get the message when it is very subtle and I live in a certain grace. However, sometimes the message gets big and I know I had better pay attention.

The Universe is very generous. The Universe, being Love wants a return to Love. We are all expressions of Divine Love. Most of us have forgotten. When Love is lacking in some area of one’s being the Universe gives us opportunities to heal, to make this return to Love. This is one of the beauties of this dream life; it is so filled with mirrors that are begging for us to pay attention to them. They are gifts. But until we pay attention in the correct way, the gifts manifest as problems, sometimes big, seemingly insurmountable problems. They are calls to awaken, to heal.

How many of you have had a major event of hardship that has brought you to your knees and changed everything? If not I imagine you have known someone who has. These events have been spiritual awakenings for some, others have realized how unloving they have been with themselves and others have seen they have been ignoring their soul callings in the name of security. For some it has been a close call with death that causes them to see what is really important for them, that life is short and none of us are getting out of here alive. It is as if the Universe has come along, taken them by the shoulders and shaken them to their core. Now is the time to wake up to what the Universe is saying.  I have definitely had this experience, a couple of times with varying intensity. They were seriously not pleasant, but the end result was a major healing, cleansing and spiritual awakening. I have had enough of the shakings that I now bow to the small stuff. The Universe starts out gently but if we don’t listen it brings on the ‘soul-quakes’, and I mean seismic, so I listen. 

With so much going on that appears wrong we are all witnessing displays of anger, indignation, despair, fear, righteousness, etc. This is understandable but all of these feelings are at their best motivators, and at their worst contributors. Let these feelings motivate us to heal our relation to loving ourselves, as well as heal the situations.  We cannot heal the situation with unhealed wounding or negative feelings. Not going to happen. The gift must be discovered before the mirror can dissolve. The mirror is most often ignored so globally it is getting very loud.  I, therefore, suggest addressing this. The time is now. It is not going to take everybody to create a shift, but it will take a critical mass.  We are all meant to be heading toward the Truth of that which we are, Love. That which is not Love is luggage we cannot carry on our journey.  What I am talking about is a whole new way of looking at life. Life isn’t just happening to us.

Look at what is going on in your life, especially what disturbs you the most and try writing it down as if it were a dream. This process can be very helpful. Take words or phrases or objects that stand out and say I am the tree, my mother, whatever it is that stood out, then describe the part of the tree or your mother or whatever that is glitching for you and say ‘I am’ at the beginning of every sentence. Sometimes it will resonate, sometimes not. Be gentle with this process and don’t make it a mental exercise. Let the words come out organically. The mind is not the point. It cannot figure out what it has worked so hard to hide. If nothing emerges I suggest asking for guidance and healing in meditation. I surrender this quest to Divine Awareness. Surrender and listen. Rest in the knowing that the freeing power of Love is present and wants to show us the way to Love. The mirroring is often not a direct equation.  Sometimes the path to the wound is a bit circuitous but when you arrive there it is a beautiful ‘aha’ moment that can be extremely freeing/healing in itself.  Once you have that moment, the grip on the negative feelings can loosen up and there is more space for forgiveness and sending positivity and love in a direction that needs it desperately. You may come to a clarity as to what needs to be done and it can be addressed from a clean place. Or, you may realize the resolution is God’s job not yours.  By paying attention to our living dream we can heal and stop adding to the pollution of the field.

Consciously/spiritually living this dream life is a paradox. We embrace and experience that which is given us, while following the call to awaken to our True nature. The apparent world is at a critical juncture. I hear the alarm ringing. Don’t you? Time to wake up.  The time is Now. The window is small but it is open. Let’s lay down all that keeps us from fitting through that window. Move toward Love, move toward True Home, step into Awareness.

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Painting by Cindy Bilotti and Katherine Treffinger in collaboration. ‘Ugly Duckling II’

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