My niece Valerie and her seven year old daughter visited me yesterday and we went to Sausalito for a stroll along the water. As we listened to the water sloshing against the rocks, we began talking about Corn Woman Sings, and Val said, “You know, I’ve been meaning to ask you about ‘dreams being the seat of reality, and waking life, the dream.” I had to think about that.
I remembered my epic dream “Going to Tlalocan” that places me at the top of a pyramid and shows me the Wisdom of the Four Directions. Dreams have a way of offering a virtual trip through reality that goes by unnoticed or unseen in our waking time, and this dream invites me into a multi-level reality where I viscerally feel the essence of the South as a place to be birthed and transformed. At it’s opposite, the North, I see those segments of my life where I die and am restored over and over in my waking time. At the end of the dream a voice admonishes me to wake up to life and let each moment show me the wide array of choices available in defining reality. “Know which God you are serving, and which world you are in.”
So, when I think of the God of Duality deciding our Destiny at the moment of conception and the being we are to become, I turn to the Sacred Gifts we receive for the journey. These gifts may be obvious from the time we are infants, or they may develop slowly across a lifetime. I’ve seen some people manifest their gifts well into their elder years. The tradition of “Death Showing Compassion” became obvious to me when I was in my 40’s, though I didn’t recognize it as a gift at the time.
What I find interesting, is that the path becomes apparent as we follow through in the directives handed us in our dreams–and that takes faith or trust.
Living by faith, or living from the heart as some people may think of it, is an example of taking the spiritual realm seriously enough to then bring forth the gift that lies hidden within the directive. Destiny’s call comes from within the spiritual realm, and we take whatever steps to manifest what’s been given. It’s the call from the Spirit Realm that sets the stage for our lives. Obstacles in the path toward manifestation are illusions, and we must overcome them and forge ahead to manifest what’s been given By Spirit.
So, returning to the fact of Dreams as the Seat of Reality, the Dream “Going to Tlalocan,” illustrates it perfectly. I hear the call to become conscious or awake, and I make a conscious decision to pay close attention to the inner voice. This voice tells me something my soul already knows and the dream helps me see and understand the value in being attentive.
When we take into consideration that the Old Dream Sages traveled into other dimensions and communicated with spirits beyond our understanding, we begin to see a complexity to reality that baffles our Western mind. But, it’s precisely because they vibrant and active universe that they had to believe life in the waking time was not the whole truth. It gets murky and circular. For now, I will just say that following the heart (voices from the Spiritual Realms) empowers us to manifest what Destiny has chosen for us; limiting ourselves to the waking self reduces our chance to a magnificent life as designed in the Spiritual Realm. Ignoring the dream and the directive, “know which world we are in and which God we are serving,” bypasses our connection to the wisdom coming from the Spirit Realm, from which True value comes. And this is why The sages believed that the Seat of Reality was in the Dream Time. They saw that life was a vale of tears and deceit, and Dream Time was full of wonder and magic that could be utilized in the waking time. Does that make sense?
Part 2 will delve into multidimensionality and why it’s important to having a rich and authentic life today.
Sweet Dreams,
EBD
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