Dec '00 / Jan 2001
A
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&
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Book Review: The Cultural Creatives
Paul H. Ray & Sherry Ruth
Anderson Reviewed by
Peter Montague
Remembrance: Robert Theobald
By Bob Stilger
Transforming Our Dreaming
By José Stevens
Democracy and the Airwaves
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Transforming Our Dreaming
By José Stevens
Now let us introduce an-other influence and strong motivator for the current
collective dream that people like to call reality. Earth at this time is heavily
influenced by a young soul mentality that is in many ways akin to the desires
and wishes of a ten- year-old, the mentality that has dominated the world
for the last several millenniums. That mentality is a "me first, he who
dies with the most toys wins" value system. Remember also that this is
not a bad thing but simply a developmental stage of humanity that has outlived
its useful life at this time. This ten-year-old maturity level represents
the third stage of development after having completed the infant and toddler
stages. This child stage has now virtually run its course and the planet is
ready to enter the fourth stage, the mature or adolescent stage of development.
It is worth noting that the third stage now being completed corresponds with
the warrior role and the fourth stage now being entered corresponds with the
scholar role.
When you combine the production, development, and organization of the warrior
role with the fantasies of ten-year-olds you can see what has happened to
the collective dream. The dominant dream has become about voraciously consuming
what is produced so that more can be produced and consumed. Through the additional
ten-year-old's fantasy, one can achieve the grand prize of being the absolute
winner, king of the mountain, top of the heap, controller of the game. This
then becomes a dream about competition for power to control and win. Production
of material things, selling them, and their consumption is what life has become
about. These goals have become the gods and everyone is harnessed to serve
this mass end. The fallout of that dream is that only a very few can win and
most will be in various stages of losing all the time. The winners fear that
they will be pushed off the top of the heap at any time and thus they can
only guardedly enjoy the spoils. This state of affairs is called suffering
since winning in this fashion can never satisfy the needs of essence with
its awareness that all is one. According to essence if one person suffers
then everybody suffers the pain of that.
Thus the time has come to transform the dream in order to enter the fourth
stage of development, the scholarly dynamic of understanding and the exchange
of ideas and philosophies. The old dream then must be starved so that everyone
can wake up to a new transformed one. The warrior productive orientation will
not go away so it will have to be incorporated into the new dream. Warriors
will still want to produce, organize, and build so the dream will have to
find ways for these things to be done in a more mature Earth-friendly way.
Perhaps goods can be produced that use fewer resources and are more invisible
so that they serve without being intrusive. This is already manifesting technologically
with advances in the speed and size of computers, electronics, and communication
devices. There is no limit to the possibilities in the evolution of warrior
ways.
Individual Dreaming
Now let us discuss some more of the dynamics of individual dreaming that contributes
to the large dream. We are distinguishing here between the dreams that occur
while asleep and the dreams creating your everyday waking reality. Here we
are focusing on the latter. Let's distinguish further among the various types
of mental activity that contribute to dream material. There can be a difference
between desires, wishes, fears, hopes, fantasies, and dreams. In undisciplined
and immature people these things tend to all run together, one contaminating
the other without any knowledge of how to separate them out. In younger souls,
there is no awareness that their dreams are actually what they are manifesting
into physical reality. They tend to believe that life is happening to them
as if by magic or by delivery from gods and demons. Older souls are more likely
to be aware that they are creating their reality through a dreaming process
but they do not always understand how to dream without fears and fantasies
tainting their dreams. The process of separating fears from dreams takes lifetimes
of training and discipline and is eventually learned by everyone until mastery
is achieved.
Everyone has
little wishes and desires that crop up based on the pursuit of pleasure and
the avoidance of pain. For example: an employee might wish their employer
would just get sick for a week so the employee can be less stressed; a minister
may lust after a parishioner, perhaps a married woman; an athlete may fantasize
death or injury for an antagonistic rival; a driver may hope another driver
who cut them off on the road will crash and so on. Normally these fantasies
are fleeting and amount to nothing but when they are prolonged and intensely
wished for they can turn into destructive dreams karmic in nature. These hopes
and wishes can become dreams and unless the other person is well protected,
they will manifest creating harmful effects in the environment and severe
consequences for everyone involved.
Most people have heard the expression "be careful what you wish for,
you might just get it." This piece of wisdom tries to warn people about
the necessity of examining wishes and hopes to see if they are in the best
overall interest of essence or merely feeding a private wish for gratification
that will create huge costs in the long run. Older souls become cognizant
that not all wishes and hopes should be brought about in reality because they
would go against what essence has in mind. Older souls learn to discipline
themselves not to indulge in fantasies that do not serve essence because they
have learned by experience that there can be horrible consequences to getting
everything they want in the moment.
Fantasizing about having an affair is usually much more fun than having the
consequences of a real affair, something that can come with enormous stress
and suffering. The minister who fantasizes the affair with the parishioner
does not realize at the time that a real affair may cause them to lose their
entire career and marriage in one fell swoop.
A dream differs from a wish, fantasy, hope, or fear in that it is the product
of repetitive thoughts and feelings concentrated over a longer period of time
with intent to be realized. The others mentioned are fleeting and often lack
the intent that propels them into full-fledged dreams. They may lack the intensity
to grow into a dream. Fears and worries can become dreams when they are chronic,
repeated, and intensely visualized even if they are not strongly intended.
A good guideline for older souls then is to concentrate on and to dream about
that which brings what is needed by essence when it is needed. Mature souls
and early level old souls with life tasks to take care of can dream of that
which helps them fulfill their missions and agreements. Very old souls, wanting
nothing, usually don't dream about anything but just being blissful and bringing
balance and harmony into the world all around.
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