Our Individual & Collective Dreams of the World
Life and the Universe is a beautiful symphony on an epic cosmic scale. An infinite number of pieces of energy working in harmony to power and create the Universe. The light of beauty and love is what drives destruction and creation; it is what makes life worth living. In ancient Toltec wisdom, it speaks of the individual dreams of people and the larger dreams of the world. We are all bits of energy from the same source creating our individual dreams and feeding the dreams of a larger collective.
A symphonic orchestra can be a symbolic example of the Universe. Composed of individual yet connected energies of every player and instrument, to produce one magical, moving piece of music that communicates as a larger consciousness. And the listener becomes a part of that consciousness, and the dream of its story and intent. Everyone is connected, together, in one unfolding musical experience.
The dream of our world, our symphony, is one of illusion. Reality is what we dream of, it’s what we make it to be. But it doesn’t mean that reality is the Truth. That is up to us to decide for ourselves, if we choose to create our dream founded on our True nature, or the denial of our True nature. There are also many dreams, many symphonies, each creating its own musical experience. If we don’t like the experience of it, we can go and participate in another.
There is a prescribed dream that is typically given to us at birth, by our parents and by society. The status quo dream built on the philosophy of capitalism is focused on creating a very particular experience that drives material production and consumption. It is a dream that reinforces the values of scarcity, competition, and depletion. The dream requires its participants to work themselves to death. To give away the majority of their time and energy to the other—other companies, other people, other experiences, and other material objects. To separate themselves from nature and live in artificial, concrete environments devoid of trees. To contain themselves in climate controlled, concrete and metal boxes, devoid of fresh air and sunlight, hooked up all day to computers like robots. To eat artificial, processed, packaged foods, devoid of nature’s nutrients and nourishment. To find enjoyment and relaxation in consumption—TV, media, alcohol, drugs, nutrient-less foods, shopping—and needing vacation from their everyday lives to escape the dream.
This experience creates a culture and belief-system of neediness and ‘never having enough.’ Such manufactured hunger further propels and feeds the dream of production and consumption. The participants of this dream program itself to believe that happiness is the end goal, and an attainable one that can be achieved through external consumption. Ways of external achievement are believed to be through more money, more validation, more prestige, more stuff. People fixate on happiness, attempt to control outcomes to achieve it, and attempt to sell and consume it. People believe that happiness is something to obtain and maintain, as if it can be a constant state of being. And believing that happiness is something outside of themselves. If only they obtained the perfect spouse, the perfect friends, the perfect community, the perfect home, the perfect car, the perfect lifestyle and belongings, the perfect job, the perfect physical image…they would be eternally happy!
This dream has its consequences and its outcomes. It has unknowingly created a physical world that is in imbalance and disease. It has generated a 6th mass extinction event, the destruction of half of our world’s biodiversity, global warming, the thinning of our planet’s atmosphere, the over-acidification of our oceans, the deforestation of our planet, the generation of extreme weather patterns and hurricanes, the creation of cancers and diseases, and a global mental health pandemic. The dream creates a weak and fragile ecosystem, where all of its participants suffer.
Admist so much natural beauty and abundance on our planet, it seems as if people are asleep in a dream that does not benefit them, blinded to the Truth that we already have all that we need and we live in a natural paradise filled with beauty and love. Abundance and resources are there for the taking, if we can open up to perceive it. It is all in our ability to perceive, that determines the kind of experience we live. What we choose for ourselves—what we choose to believe, value, think, say, do, focus on, engage with, exchange, and create—determines our reality. We can decide, individually and collectively, if we want to create heaven or hell here on Earth.
In every life, we have the power to create our own dreams. The dream of how we want our lives to be. The symphony we choose to participate in. The experience we choose to be a part of. If we don’t like it, we can change it. Our dreams are meant to change and evolve. We can claim our dream, claim our life as our own. Accept responsibility for our self, our life, and for the energy we have inside. We are all gifted with the ability to create dreams. We can all ask ourselves, what kind of dream do I want to create? I hope you use those gifts to create dreams of beauty and love.