What if this is the dream?

Have you ever had one of those dreams so vivid that you wake up and have no idea where you are, even in your own bed?

I certainly have.

Its an odd feeling to have gone somewhere so fully that your “reality” seems like a dream.

But is it odd?

In the last month, in between resting (hence no newsletters) and celebrating, I have been listening to many near death experience accounts on youtube. I also recently listened to the Telepathy Tapes podcast on the non speaking Autistic community. There is a consensus in both these groups of there being a more “real” reality beyond this world. Now as a medium, I am often aware of this but I suppose I have been thinking even deeper about this idea, and what it means to our human experience.

So what if our waking reality, is the dream?

And by this, I mean that our truth is in the spiritual realm, and only an aspect of us is here. Like in a sleeping dream, our mind is there but not our full body.

Maybe our consciousness is present here but not fully expressed, like how our body is still existing and actually experiencing our sleeping dreams but not necessarily an active component and we often arent even aware of it, until it wakes us up.

What if this life is a dream of our consciousness that allows us to have a unique experience, to grow, expand and create?

I certainly believe this.

All of our art, and ideas, inventions and expansions, seem to come to us from out of nowhere. But maybe they are coming from somewhere that we recognize deeply. I think many believe that creative insight is a spiritual manifestation, but I’m becoming more aware that we are in fact bringing things here that mimic or reflect truths of our spiritual world.

Because we don’t have the linear memory of this place or awareness (part of the dream) we form glimpses of it in our creations. Now much art is about human experience but what makes something moving or compelling seems to be a certain way life is expierenced and that could only be described as spiritual or numinous and perhaps that feeling is the recollection of our sprititual world beyond this world.

The numinous is a feeling of recognition of our familiar spiritual state.

But if our home is not fully here, what of this life?

Well the earth, your body, your identity are a part of this reality, they too are your home but they are a temporary form of it. And in this body we can feel separate from our truth, but that is an illusion, we aren’t separate, we are thinking ourselves separate. And if we realize that this life, and its dramas are a mere illusory fraction of truth we can hold them much more lightly.

Your worries for the world, the dramas unfolding, the fights you have with others, they are minuscule to your spiritual self. This is not to say that you and your concerns don’t matter to spirit, they do, but its’ to say that the weight of your life is much lighter than you think.

Think of it this way; if every death results in returning to a whole, free and creative part of you bringing all of life’s love, goodness and learning with it, then death is hardly a tragedy. If the earth is an expression of a divine conversation but not limited to its current expression, then the fears we have for it, are just experiential and not permanent; meaning landscapes may change and animals die but in the spiritual world all of the energy still exists, taking other forms.

Now we are not dreaming alone, we are in fact sharing this space with souls we recognize, energies that are familiar to us. This is why we feel recognition with certain people, or deja vu and things of a similar nature. We recognize the glimpse of energy from our spiritual life before and after this.

If life is hard, think about the feeling of waking up from a nightmare, think of how relieved you are to find, it was only a dream. But instead of needing to leave the dream, think about waking up within it, to see that your mind has created its own monsters. You become aware that they aren’t absolute truth and can’t truly hurt you except in the dream and you create the solution.

The funny thing about waking up in a dream is that you suddenly have the power of creative say over it.

You can direct it the way you mentally influence it to go, you just have to know you have that power and be unafraid of the narrative that is playing out. So this could be true with our dream of life.

Perhaps non attachment really only comes from the awareness that this life is the temporary and that the internal is a constant stream running to you and through all things.

When you begin to ponder the idea of a place (its not a physical place like a planet is but a place in our consciousness) that holds the desires of your heart to belong, to feel depth, to love fully, to free yourself from toil and strain, you begin to connect with it. Now remember this is not some place for after life only, its very much now, and our job is to connect with it more and more.

Our role here is to shine heavens light here. “The kingdom of heaven is in the here and now” “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all things shall be added unto you”. These bible passages illustrate this inherent message. And they exist across religion, across time and space.

In our current reality we have both more people embodying an awareness than ever and a reality that seems even farther from it than ever. But that too is how humans experience, to know something we must know the absence of something.

We all feel the absence of spiritual home within us, but now it is time to feel presence of our spiritual home within us.

Will you choose to wake up in the dream and hold your spiritual home within you as you create life?

If you will and you’re wondering how, then just start by spending time, imagining a heaven (not a religious reward for good life but a place filled with connection and love) and ask to be shown more of it. Hold the idea in your mind and attempt to feel the idea. Begin there and see what happens.

In loving awareness,

Avery