“Not until a person dissolves, can he or she know what union is.” -Rumi
Nothing seems more obvious than that every human being is a distinct and separate entity. America champions the rights of the individual and self-determination. Our point of view, our awareness and our identity are centered inside our personal bag of skin; selfishness is justly lamented as humanity’s greatest problem. However… reality is a dance of paradoxical opposites.
Separate as we seem, experienced mystics describe a web of absolute Unity behind all diversity. The “ten thousand things” of the world are paradoxically One. The Plural is really just the Singular in drag. Hence the “California secret of the Universe” would be: there’s just One Dude!
At night, when dreaming, we all play by the mystics’ rules. We leave our bodies, but do not die. We transgress rules of time and space. We speak telepathically to characters within our dreams and we speak telepathically to other humans while we are dreaming. We intuit truth without awaiting facts, or see a stranger and “simply know” all about them. In dreams we travel, merge, visit and borrow far more than we realize.
Dr Marjorie Miles (who co-leads a telephone dream group with me) has submitted dreams for years that predict the future. In one, Marjorie encountered a dream version of me having a serious mobility problem with something rather like MS.
How absurd it seemed… until I eventually developed just such a mobility problem. I take great encouragement during my rehab that this same dream also predicted I would someday, completely overcome the challenge. Which seems to be happening, partly due to the inspiration of that image!
That same prophetic dream showed me being happily in love with a partner… when there had been no such person in my life for 20 years. By careful calendar matching, we found that dream occurred just before I was to meet the person who later became my partner. I didn’t then know about Marjorie’s dream, but it knew a great deal about my future.
Recently Marjorie submitted a dream to the group in which she traveled to meet my partner, Debbie, who she has never seen (in waking life). In the dream Marjorie remarks that Debbie’s hair is both darker and longer than she had (in waking reality) imagined. Both were true. That dream pictured me eating pumpkin pie; which just happens to be my favorite. Marjorie’s dream even predicted that our friend Hollis would soon be deeply upset about her job, which is precisely what Hollis told us the next time we saw her!
Next, Debbie had a dream in which she met Dr Marjorie! In her dream, Debbie comments on Marjorie’s petite size, an accurate detail that she had not known before. (Marjorie had recently lost weight and was happy to have it appreciated in the dream-space). There seems to be a “conference call” in the cyberspace of the dream world where kindred spirits commune, exchanging real information–much of which can be verified when waking.
When Debbie used a vacation to fill her home-office with poster art, Dr Marjorie’s next dream read: “I am at my office… (and my office mate) is placing more artwork in her area: it looks good.” Here, Marjorie is complimenting Debbie’s office improvements from a thousand miles away! And they are sharing actual life lessons: Important feng shui actions that Debbie is performing physically are being perceived as inspiring dream events furthering Dr. Marjorie’s growth.
Q: How can you get a doctor to make house calls? A: In your dreams. A psychic support system evolves among dream group participants that mirrors and furthers the growth of all members. Dream teams can become psychic allies across time and space.
Like a teenager on a cell phone, our mind is always communing with someone; waking or sleeping we are on the psychic telephone. Whenever we focus our attention on anyone, we establish subtle contact with them. When all is said and done, we are just one dude. The best reason to love my enemy is because ultimately: “he” is “me.”