There are usually many emotions that go along with hearing that the world is not real, that it’s a dream.
The first emotion is complete absolute disbelief. This usually results in attack of some kind towards the messenger. Most people stay in disbelief mode for a long time, offering all the scientific “facts” why the world is real and solid. But once the idea that you are dreaming has entered your mind, you cannot go back. A light has entered the darkness and that is enough. You will begin to catch glimpses that everything really is you. You will begin to see that as you stand as an OBSERVER, conflict disappears.
The world stops.
Have you ever seen the world stop? It’s something else entirely. You’ll want to see this for yourself. Have you ever seen the world disappear? The reason I don’t have to be concerned about giving you “proof” that the world is a dream is because you will see it for yourself.
Like Truman, in the movie The Truman Show, once he has seen the stage light fall from the sky, he sees clues everywhere. After that, his eyes begin to open and he sees the cracks everywhere. He thinks he’s going crazy. He’s still not sure what is going on, but he’s an OBSERVER now. He’s looking, waiting, watching.
All the characters rush in to tell him he’s nuts. They tell him to go back to the way he was before. To have a beer. To take a vacation. To relax. He realizes he stands alone, very lost in a foreign place. He doesn’t know who he can trust. He doesn’t know who his friends are. He doesn’t know if his wife is his wife. He stands in a place of uncertainty about everything.
What if you knew you were dreaming?
What if you knew that everything that happens to you first begins as a thought in your mind, and then projects outward appearing as something real and solid.
WHAT IF?
First you’d say to me “you’re nuts”, then you’d say “I’m worried about you”, then you’d say “this is crazy”, then you’d say “stop with all the foolishness” … but in the wee hours of the morning or night, while you are lying in bed, you’d think to yourself …. what if this is true?
What if everything that is happening in my life happens because I’m thinking it?
What if everything is just a mirror reflection of my own state of mind?
You will lie in bed pondering the WHAT IF question.
You might lie in bed thinking – THIS IS THE STUPIDEST THING I EVER HEARD. I’M NEVER GONNA READ LISA’S BLOG EVER AGAIN – but you will be thinking about it. The thought has entered your mind.
Wouldn’t you be curious – even if only secretly – to experiment to see if what I am saying is actually true? to stop all your doings, if only for a moment, and become an observer. To experiment. To look at your thoughts – to look at your life – and ask yourself the question: in all honesty, am I getting the result of my thinking?
The second emotion is absolute utter fear. You think “What does this mean for me? What’s the purpose of living then, if this is a dream?”
Exactly. What is the purpose?
Good question.
Following fear is the worst possible anger you will probably ever experience. The mind starts to loosen, and suddenly there is seemingly no comfort and no place to stand on solid ground. Life seems meaningless. Things usually get broken at this stage in the game, accompanied by a lot of shouting and swearing.
Some people automatically think this gives them the liberty to do whatever they want – drink, kill, be irresponsible, do whatever they want – forgetting that I said: THIS IS YOUR DREAM. You will get the results of your thinking. You cannot escape your own thoughts. There is no exception. Cause = Effects. If you hate, you will see hate in your life. Plain and simple. If you harbor attack thoughts, you will see attack. If you manipulate or have ideas of manipulation, you will have characters in your dream manipulating you.
The world is a big mirror reflection for you to see where you are in your own mind.
If you love, and give only love, all the characters “magically” transform to reflect back to you only love. Try it. You’ll be amazed. You’ll realize it’s not magic or miracles at all. Just a natural process of cause and effect.
Once you calm down, you realize the next stage is TOTAL EXCITEMENT.
At this level, there is a new stirring in you. Like butterflies in your stomach, where you start to feel different. This means you’re coming alive.
Realizing that everything that happens to you is by own choice and decision, you’ll be more careful with your thoughts. You will step back before responding. You will observe instead of charging ahead. You will become more reflective.
You will give only that which you want to receive. Love, gratitude, joy.
Instead of projecting a world, you will extend the love you feel.
See? Big difference in the way you now conduct yourself.
You have found the cause of all your problems along with the solution: in your own mind.
This is the area of MASS CLEAN-UP. Like Boston’s Big Dig. You just keep digging and excavating what should not be there. You have a master plan, and that is to get the crap out of your mind. To get rid of attack thoughts. To get rid of guilt thoughts. To stop manipulating. To stop reacting.
Basically, to just stop.
Bring in the big trucks.
My favorite line in A Course in Miracles is “only appreciation is an appropriate response to a brother.”
It’s totally uncompromising.
If you want to be happy, stop correcting other people. Stop judging them. Stop attacking them.
If you want love – AND ONLY THAT – it should be the ONLY thing you give. It should be your one & only reaction to everyone and everything.
Love, and your world will transform into Heaven.
“Only appreciation is an appropriate response to your brother.”
So on a practical level when someone is screaming at you, or telling you to do something you don’t want to do … you stop. Realize it’s a dream. Realizing the guy standing in front of you is you. Stop. Don’t react. Take a moment to remember the truth. Remember that ‘only appreciation is an appropriate response to a brother.”
If you can remember this sentence, you will have remembered everything.
Or maybe you need to just choose one word, and stop before you react, and remember that one word. That will be enough for you to choose a different reaction.
You will remember there is nothing outside your most holy creative mind. You will remember how much love you have to give. You will remember that you are here as a blessing.
Jesus said “This world is not my home” and “my Kingdom is not of this world.”
He was a complete alien and stranger here. He said “the Son of God has no where to lay his head.” What do you think this means?
To me it means I don’t belong here, and yet, I have much to give and there is work to do.
My heart is filled with love. My cup runneth over, literally. I cannot contain the love I feel. I must express it. I must extend it. It’s not for me alone.
So what do you do, on a practical level, once you know you are dreaming? How the hell do I know? This is your dream. What do you want to do?
You can do anything you want. You can be anything you want. Nothing is stopping you.
Every time it seems like some external factor or person is stopping you, remember those are simply ideas of your own limitation. And since you can’t stand the guilt of your own attack against yourself, you create other figures in your dream to blame that for your own limited.
That game gets really tiring and boring after a while. Suddenly comes a moment when you realize there is no one to blame except yourself.
You can spend all your time telling me I’m crazy OR you can begin taking responsibility realizing the awesome adventure you are being placed on.
Most people spend most of the energy correcting other people, wanting to be right. You can do that … OR … you can spend your energy having the most awesome life ever.
Think of the possibilities for yourself.
Think about all that energy you’ve spent trying to hold your life together. Think about the energy you spent trying to make people love you and like you. Think about how tiring that is. Think about what you really want.
This is where it gets fun.
Think about your ultimate fantasy goal. The thing you really want, but have never achieved because people, places, events and things are stopping you.
“I’d be happy if …”
“I’d feel alive if ….”
I can’t answer the question for you. But go deep into your own thought system and dig out your most awesome idea, the thing you really want for Christmas and your birthday. Think about it. Nothing is stopping you anymore. You’re dreaming. You can’t stop reacting to things as if they affect you. It’s all just you. Nothing is stopping you anymore from going through the ceiling of this very limited place.
Now, one step further. What is the EXPERIENCE behind the fantasy you are going after. it’s never about the physical thing. it’s always about an experience. Perhaps you are searching for
FREEDOM
COMFORT
LOVE
ADORATION
PEACE
JOY
SAFETY
A FEELING OF HOME
There is an experience you want. Something you crave.
Now every day – starting today, starting now – find ONE ACTION STEP to bring you that experience. Start today. If you want a relationship so that you feel loved, do something today that makes you feel loved. Call a friend. Be nice to yourself.
If you want to lose 50 pounds, what is the experience you want that you think losing 50 pounds will bring you? perhaps you are more active. More confident. Maybe you eat healthier. Maybe you feel secure. So find one action step today that brings you that experience.
If you want to make more money, so you can live a life you love and do cool things, what’s the experience you want? Find one action step to be living a life you love and doing cool things today. One action step a day. Every day.
It’s all about experience.
It’s all about being totally present, in this day.
Most people keep waiting for something to happen to them. For unexpected love to walk through the door. Or to receive an inheritance, or win the lottery, or get a job promotion. Waiting, waiting, waiting.
Today signifies the end of waiting. Today you begin being fully present.
You stop the blame game. You stop being a victim.
You look at what you really want, and realize it’s possible for you.
Forget future goals. There is no future. There is only today. What do you want? What is your goal? What is the experience you are looking for?
Begin it.
Why waste time making other people wrong when you could be creating something brand new for yourself?
This is the adventure.
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Facebook comments:
This was brilliant- thanks, Lisa…
I do believe that people are more ready for ‘the world is illusion’ if only because of the success of the first Matrix and how many reacted to “there is no spoon”. I remember leaving that movie with my friends and how blown away we all felt.
So have you thought about contacting Unity or the Science of Mind Churches to put your workbook in??
I do know that Unity, at least, is very big on “A Course in Miracles”.
Very good. Give out love and love is reflected back to you. I like that thought. You write alot like C.S. Lewis at times.
Happy New Year!
Keep writing, my friend.
Blessings,
Lance
http://www.lancessoulsearching.com
jgargus2@comcast.net
Dear,dear Lisa, This is one of the clearest and most beautiful expressions I have ever read and I read a lot……….thank you, thank you,thank you.
in appreciation
gx