The premise of this is not that the dream is wrong or that it shouldn't be happening.
It is part of it.
It's unavoidable.
It's going to happen.
It's part of it.
It serves a fundamental purpose.
Just like our dreams at night,
You know,
And from what I understand,
And not that I understand much,
Scientifically,
We don't understand dreams,
Right?
We have all these theories about why it happens or why it's required,
But we really don't know.
I think to the best of what is understood is it's some sort of unconscious part of ourselves trying to organize itself or play itself out or whatever for whatever purpose,
Right?
You go to sleep and then something within takes over.
You get to see that,
Right?
You get to see it and people,
You know,
Have their own revelations of what their dreams mean or whatever value can be found there.
But I find the same is happening in a spiritual sense where you go into a dream state and you get to see what you see.
And upon reflection,
You start seeing that you're imagining things that aren't real and aren't true and are creating suffering.
And as I said many times,
Right,
This journey is a journey of healing perception.
It's seeing things more clearly.
And in order to see things more clearly,
You have to see where you don't see things clearly.
And so you enter the dream state to see how you see.
And then you create a little distance and you examine that and you're like,
Oh wow,
I assume this and it doesn't really mean that.
And it created all this drama.
And the fascinating thing is,
You know,
Fundamentally our humanness,
It craves harmony,
It craves wellness,
Which is to crave the truth.
And so if we're not having that experience,
Then we're not seeing the truth.
And so you get to see how you see so that you can heal your perception and see more of what is true.
And the natural byproduct of that is more harmony.
Which is why it's so important that we dream.
Again,
Which is why it's so important that every human being is having the dreams that they're having,
Right?
That's a deep compassionate angle.
Every journey that a human being is on is like a specific journey to explore some aspect of consciousness trying to heal its perception.
So it wants to go in this dark place and it wants to go in that dark place.
Which is an interesting perspective,
Right?
When you look at people who go in dark places,
It's from one lens,
It's like,
Thank you for going there.
That's really brave.
Rather than,
Oh my God,
You're such a terrible person.
That's a really interesting lens.
Because you know,
As human beings,
We are so not operating independently of everything else.
The classic illustration of this is lightning.
Lightning strikes a tree and you can say,
Oh,
It's the lightning's fault.
Is it?
Did the lightning do the lightning?
Or did the whole thing do the lightning?
Blame the clouds,
Blame the wind,
Blame the rotation of the earth.
It's the whole thing.
And I see that as us as human beings,
Right?
When we're being expressed,
It's the whole thing expressing what we are.
It's not just this separate little self that operates completely independently from everything else.
Which is such a burden.
And we blame people in that way too,
Right?
When people do things,
We say,
Oh,
You did it independently of everything else.
It's all your fault.
That's fascinating to me.
Because when I look,
It's just so impossibly true.
Which destroys all my avenues for blame.
Because anything I blame,
I'm ultimately blaming God.
It's like a checkmate.
Same with blaming myself.
Which is,
If it's all one,
If it's all God,
There's simply no room for blame.
Blame really helps me separate myself as my own thing.
Do you guys notice that?
Like blaming other people,
Like says there's something other than me.
So,
I am my own thing.
And you see the sort of violent energy in that,
Right?
Like to maintain a separate self,
It takes a degree of violence.
To protect who I think I am takes a degree of violence.
And so often that violence is directed inwardly at myself.
For not doing a better job at maintaining my self-importance.
And so you see this,
Right?
Like the waking up is,
You know,
In a way I'm pointing to what we're waking up to in some way that it's just all God.
And there's no separation.
There's nothing to blame.
And then we just slip into that dream of a life where there's all these other people,
Where there's this past and then there's this future,
There's all these things that I want.
And that's fine.
It's just a dream.
And there's a part in me that wants to fight for that dream.
Wants it to be real.
I don't want this to be about God.
I remember that as a kid,
Right,
Hearing stories about God,
Which,
You know,
It's like God gets all the credit.
And I'm like,
That's rude.
I want credit,
Right?
I want to be important.
I want to be the big deal.
And we know that aspect of ourselves,
Right?
That we all have that.
We want it to be about me.
And we create hell in the process.
It's such a beautiful representation of the hell that I've created in my life,
Right?
I remember really young,
Wanting to go out into the world and be right.
Everybody else was the problem.
And I just created hell for myself.
And then the recognition of,
Let's say,
The reality of God,
It's amazing how all of those people were forgiven.
And then I could finally forgive myself.
Which is like seeing,
Oh,
There's just no one to blame.
And it's fascinating how that message is unheard in the world,
So to speak,
Right?
The message of there's no one to blame,
Good luck.
The world is not ready for that one.
The world,
You know,
In a comical way,
Survives on blame.
Always searching for whose fault is it?
Who can we punish?
Isn't that an interesting thing to carry in your heart?
Looking for someone to punish?
It's like you're punishing yourself looking for someone to punish.
You're secretly blaming yourself as you're looking for someone to blame.
And I got to hurry up and put this blame on someone else before I see that it's really about me.
