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Life Could be a Dream…

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I have always loved dreaming.  Sometimes, I go to sleep just so I can dream – and often, to finish a dream.  Yes, finish my dreams.  I have always had very vivid dreams and lucid recollections of them. At the risk of sounded cliché or crazy, I will say that my dreams are so real that it seems like they transport me.  Arguably, they feel as real when I am in them as my perceived reality feels when I am in it.

When I was kid, I pictured a TV in my head as I was falling asleep (no wonder my parents took our TV away for a few years).  As I fell asleep, I would ‘flip through the channels’ and choose what I wanted to dream about.  I would skip through the scary ones and settle on the the ones that made me feel good.  It wasn’t until much later in life that I realized that this was uncommon. It served me well.  Though, I don’t have to do it anymore, I sometimes will for fun and nostalgia.

Now, I can fall asleep to finish a dream from the night (or nap) earlier.  Usually, I see where the dreams take me and go along for the ride, but when I know I am dreaming, I can dictate what happens next, when it ends, or who will appear in it.

As a result of my connections to my dreams, sometimes the distinctions between my perceived reality and my dreams blur.  I often do things in my dreams that I need to do in my reality and then I think they have actually been done.

Recently, I read the following passage in Mysticism and the New Physics by Michael Talbot (page 6 in my copy)

“I may dream that I am sitting at a table having breakfast and talking with my friends, but when I wake, I know that both I and my friends are part of the continuum of the dream. To say that there are many ‘consciousnesses’ in the dream is merely a semantic distinction. All the people in the dream are illusions. They …are constructions of consciousness”

Interesting and provocative.

What does that say about reality and consciousness?  Could it be. . . that saying there are many consciousnesses in reality is also a semantic distinction and that people in reality are constructions of one consciousness?  Illusions. . .?

A Lesson in interactions

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Dear Q,

This is a hard lesson to learn, but it is important to remember.  How you interact with other people reflects a lot about your self.  Make every interaction count.  Make it nice.  Make it kind.  Make it meaningful.  It may seem easier to be mean, sarcastic, insulting, and petty – especially if others interact with you in that way.  What do you gain from those – meanness, sarcasm, insults?  Ego-stroking.  People pull others down in order to try to build themselves up, make themselves look cool, or to gain power.  Ultimately, that doesn’t work.  It may appear to, but it will catch up with you.

Every other human is a reflection of your self.  We are all manifestations of the same essence.  How you treat others is how you treat your self.  I am not saying to ‘treat others how you wish to be treated.’  I am saying, ‘how you treat others is how you are treating your self.’  We are different embodiments of the same.  We are all the same essence in different bodies and physical forms.

Think of a soap bubbles.  Inside each bubble is air. The air has always existed, but the soap gives each bubble its shape and makes it visible. When a bubble bursts, the air still exists.   We are like bubbles.  We are all the same essence made temporarily visible by our physical form.

When you interact with other human physical forms, remember that they are just different manifestations of you; they are bubbles of the same air.

Love always,
Mom

defining god, or God

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The other day, someone accused me of being an atheist. And, I say accused not because I feel that being an Atheist is undesirable, but because the comment felt like an accusation.

My curious nature, and reluctance to accept an unfitting label (or any label, for that matter), encouraged me to research the word further. After exploring its etymology and definitions, I discovered that the literal meaning of the word atheist is godless. It seems like a fair assessment.

Still, I am reluctant to accept it without fully exploring the term god.

After reviewing the definitions of god, not only did I lose all faith in my source, I discovered that the overriding themes were an omnipotent supreme being, or one who is worshiped. Undoubtedly, by definition, I am an atheist.

But if I am an atheist, how do I define what I believe? Surely, being godless does not mean I am void of any belief system. I believe in something, but it’s not a being, and it’s not omnipotent, and I don’t worship it; so, can it not be a god?

Despite what dictionary.com says, I believe that there are as many definitions of god as there are people. Maybe god is simply whatever we want it to be.

To me, God is not a supreme being; god is being, supremely.