Dreaming
And you believe that you are there and that person is there, and you are talking to that person. But when you wake up, you realize, no, it is actually all in one place, in your mind. These people do not exist, not in the sense that we usually think. That is why it is said that most people live a dream life, live the life of illusion. When I say that when you wake up from this dream and you realize that all that you believe is not true, it does not mean that you no longer see people. You continue to perceive people, but you realize that there is only one. It is not that I have Essence inside me and you have Essence inside you and we know we are connected because it is the same kind of Essence. That is the experience of the first dimension, the realization that we are essential. What I am talking about now is that not only what is in you is what is in me, but that what is between us is also the same thing, and our skin is made out of the same thing. It is one block. There is utterly no separateness.
Diamond Heart Book IV, p. 99 • discuss »
Diamond Heart Book IV, p. 99 • discuss »
But if you think further, you realize that there are things that are not explained by thinking of yourself merely as a physical organism. How can this body, this physical thing, have dreams at night? Dreams that look as real as this reality. When you are dreaming at night and you are walking in your dream and talking to people, it seems real. You feel things. You sense things. Everything is as real as it is now. How does that happen? Something in your mind can create a reality out of nothing. You are in bed. You are doing nothing. But in your experience there is a whole universe you've created that is exactly like this universe. But when you wake up you say, “Oh, that was just a dream. This is the real thing.” How do you know? If we have the capacity to create a dream and live in a dream in which everything feels real, then we have the capacity to create what we are doing right now.
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 200 • discuss »
Diamond Heart Book V, p. 200 • discuss »
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- Death
- Death Space
- Defending
- Defense
- Deficient Emptiness
- Depression
- Destiny
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- Developmental Psychology
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- Diamond Dome
- Diamond Guidance
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- Direct Perception
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- Disidentification
- Dissolution
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- Distortion
- Divine Light
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- Dreaming
- Duality
- Dynamic Presence
- Dynamism
- Doubt
- Dual Unity
