As opposed to what we believe, the more dense and physical the world, the more removed it is from reality. True reality is pure oneness with Source or God, with no separation, no physical boundaries, just pure bliss of being. But between that state of oneness and the concrete world of the physical, there are many levels or states of mind, including the dream state, the in-between life states, the angelan state, the grand Soul, and so on. The paradox is that the truth is simple, there are truly only two states – oneness and separation. And in revelation, you instantly realize that you are Source, you are One, and there is only Oneness and the illusionary separation from Oneness. But the mind, particularly the ego mind is surrounded by illusions of complexity, so it cannot immediately jump from where it is to the pure Oneness of Source, and it needs to progress through seemingly many stages of enlightenment, at each stage removing layers of ego identification and separation, becoming less physical and moving towards pure non-physical oneness.
When I woke up this morning and reflected on my dreams, my thought was that dreams are so bizarre and whimsical, jumping from one location to another. One person will morph into another, one minute you could be dreaming about school, and the next you could be on the moon. What happens in our dreams are like an untethered free flowing expression of our thoughts. Imagine if we lived in a world that behaves like our dreams? Where whatever we thought or whatever was predominant in our minds would manifest or be interpreted in a myriad of forms? If you were stressed out about work, you would have a dream about a total disaster at work, unable to finish your paperwork, chaos and piles of papers on your desk, falling hours behind schedule. If you had feelings of insecurity, you would have a dream about being at school and realize you somehow forgot to wear pants today.
Our dreams are so crazy and schizophrenic because our thoughts are that way, and our minds are untrained, wildly jumping from one thought to another, worrying about one person or another. If our thoughts are more real than what is physical, then we should appreciate our thoughts, be aware of them, consciously directing or choosing our thoughts, rather than letting our thoughts run wild and lose ourselves in them. I realized this morning that the very reason we live in a physical dense world like this is for the very reason that our minds are untrained and our thoughts are out of control. If we lived in a world governed by the loose rules of dreams, we’d be in really big trouble.
So our physical world can be thought of as a state where we have training wheels for the mind, where things change very slowly by virtue of the dense form of energy known as physical matter. We are here in the physical dimension because we need training. If we think negative thoughts or thoughts of separation, they don’t become manifested instantly. The person in front of us doesn’t get struck with lightening because we’re angry. We don’t get hit by a bus because we’re having self-defeating thoughts. But what we do get is constant feedback through our emotions and law of attraction. When we have negative thoughts, we feel bad inside, and that is our emotional compass warning us that we are moving away from Source. If we ignore or suppress our emotions, and continue to believe and act on negative thoughts, then eventually we will manifest negative events, people, and things by law of attraction. And when bad things happen, the lesson becomes more direct, until we get to the point of intolerable pain and suffering, and realize we need to change our thoughts.
When I realized this, my feelings about being here in this physical world softened. Instead of feeling trapped in this prison, I felt gratitude to be in this gentle classroom for the time being. Rather than being stuck here, I realize that I am here out of necessity, only because my mind is not ready to live in a world where my reality is based purely on my unfiltered thoughts. And I don’t have to feel bad or guilty about being here because the purpose of being here is to gently learn how to reach a state of peace and bliss by being still, allowing my thoughts to be a tool, that I may observe without judgment, then use or gently release, rather than mindlessly being lost in my thoughts. And when I mistakenly identify with negative or separation thoughts, I will know because I will be warned by my emotions or taught by attracting things that I do not like. The universe is not trying to punish me, but like a caring teacher who sees that a student is unwittingly confused and hurting himself, wants to show the student that he’s hurting himself in a form that he can understand.
Because our minds are so untrained with a tendency to identify with any wild or negative thoughts that pop up, when you think about it, this physical world we live in is the most gentle reality that we could live in until we train our minds. I imagine that if we transcended the physical plane into the ethereal plane before we were ready – where there are no private thoughts, where there is no physical anchor, so that your thoughts are your reality – that in the absence of any buffer the negative thoughts of separation and guilt would be so unbearably acute and painful to our minds, that we would feel such mortal fear, we would do anything to escape from it. Such was the creation of this physical world, and the reason we keep coming back to this physical world, until we release all the guilt of separation from God in our minds. Until then we need to escape to where our thoughts are seemingly protected as private thoughts hidden in flesh walls of separate bodies, in a physical world where we get second chances over and over, a gentler world where if we think negative thoughts that would attract negative outcomes, the universe asks us “are you sure? are you really sure? are you really really sure?” …before anything actually happens. So although we get frustrated that we don’t instantly manifest what we want in this dense slow reality, we should be thankful for the protection. We are like little naive kids that want the keys to the Porsche, and the loving universe says no, puts a helmet on us, and gives us a tricycle with training wheels for the mind.
