What Dreams Are
Dreams present a larger perspective on a person than the person can see in waking-life. Dreams’ perspectives are therefore invaluable when a person needs help working through difficult waking-life situations. To the person who listens closely enough, dreams advise on every aspect of waking-life, from the most mundane (what food to eat) to the most sublime (how to relate to God). Following the path dreams present is not always easy, but it is always meaningful and fulfilling. The more one listens to dreams, the more they have to say.
Dreams originate from the soul for the sake of its self-propagation. The soul propagates itself by becoming conscious, doing so most directly through dreams.
The soul is indivisible from God. To cultivate consciousness of the soul is to cultivate consciousness of God as well. The ultimate goal of bringing the soul’s/God’s consciousness to waking-life is everlasting life in the body. Everlasting life in the body required all of history to become a reality.
The universe is whole and has a purpose, just like each person. Each person is microcosm of God. To the extent people are unaware of their microcosmic divinity, dreams promote awareness of it. Dreams do this by putting forth perspectives on perspectives on perspectives that lead past the horizon of the imagination, and on to Heaven.
People are a blend of the personal, collective, global and cosmic; of the great religions; of being, doing, feeling, knowing and belonging; and of masculine & feminine, spirit & matter, power & balance, time & eternity, ignorance & knowledge and of experience.
From the simplest to the most complex, the basic components of reality are existence. time, space, motion, perspective, awareness, balance/power, creation, purpose, story, and Life with a capital “L,” meaning God’s everlasting life.
Rarely are dreams concerned with empowerment. Power is useless if a person is not balanced enough to make use of it. Dreams primary concern is balance.
In waking-life, when people feel powerless and then prop themselves up with a substitute for power, they actually become more powerless. The resulting imbalance will inevitably be dramatized in a dream. The only path to unlimited power is by accepting the balance expressed in dreams.
Dreams encourage and discourage. Sometimes they demand attention by mocking and intimidating the dreamer, and sometimes they do by revealing higher realities, showing what could be should the dreamer answer the call of their dreams. Dreams are lessons.
Dreams and waking-life exist on the same continuum. They merge as the unconscious becomes conscious.
Dreams are panoramas of people's most subtle, vital and delicate parts. Therefore I approach each dream I interpret with the utmost care and respect for the dreamer, appreciative that I am responsible for illuminating a fragment of the dreamer’s soul.
In all the dreams I interpret I see the dreamer’s innermost self expressing itself for the sake of finding balance. Only through balance can the dreamer’s innermost self express its power.
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