It is the weave between my dreamed and lived existence that brings me to this point, to a place where the veil is thin, to a place where the shadows linger even in the clarity. Before, in a dream, I know the person I must meet. I know her, because in a dream she tells me what her function is. In her presence, two ribbons of golden light meet for the sake of a deeper journey. Are we sparks of God finding our way?
I am a Dreamer who is led to this place; I am called here through the ethers by dreams--night dreams, day-dreams, and waking dreams. Is there something I have to do here? She asks: "What is a dreamer?" Is that the question I came to answer?
What is a Dreamer? To be a Dreamer means contemplating both one's dreams and one's navel a great deal. Dreamers explore what could be if time and space were suspended in wakened existence. Dreamers also work with consciousness in their dreamed existences. Dreamers are committed to the Spirit-Soul axis and are comfortable with timelessness. They have learned how to stretch and contract time, and they know that doing so has consequences.
Dreamers learn a great deal about the human condition and their responses to it, about who they are as human beings and their function here. The paradox of this is that we are what we imagine. Human beings are always dreaming on this side of the veil, on the horizontal axis of time and space and of being in a body in a world that is shared with others. Human beings measure their worlds and worth according to where the shadows fall, the spaces they inhabit, and their bank balances. Dreamers do not ignore this realm of being and its ordinariness, but they choose to play on the vertical axis, in the realm of Spirit-Soul. They use these experiences to inform their choices on the horizontal axis and to guide their wakened existences.
Being a dreamer involves contemplating the meaning of the relationship between the Time-Space and Spirit-Soul axes, using night dreams to figure out Soul's desires, day dreams to visualise those desires into being, and waking dreams to monitor the process. The product of this dance between dark and Light resides in the shadows, in the perfect stillness of meetings with Spirit and its emissaries. The ego is only a tool. It is the relationship with Spirit-Soul that is at the centre of a Dreamer's world.
Dreamers use day dreams to include the desires of the Higher Self. Dreamers realize how important it is to nourish dreams that offer bliss. They realize how important it is to acknowledge, process, and release their dreams of mayhem and disaster. They learn also that others do not necessarily share the dreams in which a Dreamer includes them, for to insist on that would involve manipulation.
Dreamers know that dreams always offer multiple levels of meaning--even if this is only an image. For instance, in a night dream the tyres of the go-cart I am riding are shredding under the pressure of the speed of my movement. In checking my car, I find that indeed, there is a bubble in one tyre. Thank you God, Goddess, and All That Is for the dream--to the Universe, I say thank you.
Perhaps more intriguing, in the waking dream, while contemplating the meaning of the night dream, I notice the soles of my shoes are wearing thin and splitting. This dream alerts me to concerns about more than just my physical safety. On a deeper level of meaning the speed at which my Soul is moving threatens a blow out on the level of my ego. I have experienced enough psychic crashes now to know how I might avert this one. Being a Dreamer has taught me how to observe myself on all levels of my being, and I attend to the connection between ego and body by grounding it. I have also hugged trees that endured what felt like a hurricane. The message: Rather be vigilant about grounding regularly than crash, the dream says. I am learning to go with the flow rather than crash and burn.
Becoming ungrounded is always a risk for Dreamers. Being ungrounded is a product of investing energy in a world where the centre of consciousness is not located in the body, but in the vertical axis. Some live and think in a box. Some live in the box but think outside it. There are few who live outside the box, consciously. Those are the Dreamers. Dreamers realize during a crisis of one kind or another how powerful their imaginations are and choose to be responsible with this. How careful and Care-full we must be to walk gently with ourselves and others in all of our worlds.
Dreaming is a gentle art, and Dreamers play with the possibilities, tease out the meanings, and honour the gifts that the contemplation of Spirit-Soul processes bring. It is in the realm of shadows that the dark is brought to Light. Most of all, Dreamers dance in the shadows because it is the most personally unique and playful means by which to Ascend upon the ladder of Wisdom.
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