"I Was Working in the Lab...Late One Night" ( Early Morning Lucid Dreaming )

Knock knock knock, I heard resonating from my front door. But wait, why is the guy who helps with the yardwork knocking? I had gotten up an hour earlier, helped my son get off to school, noticed the yardwork being done, and had gone back to sleep for an hour before hitting the pavement to work for the umpteenth time. So I rose and strode into the living room, finding the front door ajar, and after opening it further, I saw that a 1960's Volkswagen van was pulled up on the porch parallel to the door just inches away. That is when the most pleasant surprise hit me. I hadn't had one of these in months: I was conscious in an early-morning dream. I was lucid, as they say. The world outside the door was my oyster. I had experienced this type of dream many times before and had always enjoyed them thoroughly, but this time, I was determined to put it to good use.

Since I am constantly "working" during my waking hours on understanding the key concept of A Course in Miracles which plainly promotes that "Your sleeping and your waking dreams merely have different forms, and that is all." Additionally, "All your time is spent in dreaming."

"Level confusion" is what makes us forget we are lying safely in our beds when we become immersed in our nocturnal dreamworlds, after all it seems so REAL! The Course promotes the theory that our waking lives are also fictional, and the "level" above us here, or, the "bed that we are sleeping in," is actually a state outside of space and time, where everything is one and perfect, the Course calls it "heaven" where we actually dwell, one level up.

So here I am, stepping out my front door, around the front of that beige Volkswagen van, and out into the "world" which I am now the master of, as I know I am lying in bed, but I am on a cool mind-trip this morning. It is difficult to keep the lucidity going, one tends to fall back into the dream and lose the lucid character of it. But since I have been working so hard on my Course work, I will use this special dream as an experiment to prove to myself the possibility that "all my time is spent in dreaming."

One thing I consciously did was fly. I always do that in lucid dreams! But this time I paid very close attention to the feeling of the wind on my feet. I was leaning back, I had my flip-flops on, and I was just cruising down the road about three feet (one yard, that is) above the road. "Yes," I said to myself, "that is exactly how the wind feels against my skin in 'real life.'" I realized that my mind was completely capable of making this feeling exactly like it feels in the "waking" time, or the "waking dream."

My next concentrated experiment was when I found myself in an Ace Hardware store. I devised this plan.....I have found the Law of Attraction falling short in practice in real life, in other words, I desire to change the outside world, the screen, if you will, but it never quite gets "remodeled" the way I would like it, other people don't always cooperate. So I experimented....I will steal this alarm clock, and I will test this "dreamworld" and see if in a real lucid dream, there is no "opposition" to my wish, maybe I can just leave with the clock. Well lo and behold, very similar to the observed waking opposition to my goals and desires I just mentioned, when I took one step outside the door of the store, there was an Ace employee there in uniform, saying "Hey you can't just take that!" I was disappointed that the path had not been 100% clear, but, I realized upon waking and reflecting on this that this demonstrated that in the dream, I am NOT 100% certainly able to craft exactly down to the last person, place or thing exactly what I may THINK I desire, but there is, like in our Constitiution, checks and balances to complete freedom and control of every last little detailed thing.

This opportune dream I was able to experience helps me toward my goal of working with the process of ho'oponopono and The Power of Now and A Course in Miracles. Two helpful features of the Course are 1) the time taken for the coursework is optional, there is no required timeframe for completion, and 2) you do not have to BELIEVE the exercises, you just need to do them.

Lucid dreaming, according to Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now, "can be interesting and fascinating, but is not liberating." I agree with him on all three points, and would add that it can also be "educational."

EXTRA EXTRA Physicist Confirms Course in Miracles Theory!

In today's London Telegraph, famed physicist Stephen Hawking is quoted thusly:

"God was not needed to create the universe." In other words, according to the famous scientist, the Big Bang was the result of the inevitable laws of physics and did not need God to spark the creation of the universe.

I found this very appropos to everything I have been studying. Gary Renard in The Disappearance of the Universe says the very same thing. His book, which is a transcript of his conversations with "Ascended Masters" who visited him 17 times over nine years and explained to him in detail what the real meaning of A Course in Miracles is all about, is a must-read for any student of quantum physics, ho-oponopono, and the Course.



The basis of the Course can be summed up in what Hawking is saying: God has nothing whatsoever to do with the idle dream we are experiencing. Some might say this fact is unsettling or shocking, but after letting it sink in for a long time, I have found it quite the opposite. I experience it as very liberating. It is like a weight has been removed from my shoulders, I hope some of that feeling has reached you too.



The article mentioned above can be found at telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news

It can also be linked to by visiting the news-site rense.com

Time Waits for No One? Thoughts on Time and Mind

Part of my quest for truth began when I noticed the similarities running through all of the brilliant works I was reading. I had noticed that Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now" had a lot of similarities to "A Course in Miracles." Time, in the course, as in Tolle, is merely an illusion. The course goes even further, and states that the ONLY purposeful use for time is for healing. In other words, time used for any other purpose (read: money, travel, work, play, NFL games, skateboarding, fill in the blank) is actually doing nothing, accomplishing nothing, and "chasing after wind."

The course goes on further than this, though. It posits that time is such an illusion that it is no more, and was actually over and done long ago. Everything we observe is merely the recollection of a tiny tick of time when the "original sin," the "fall of man," the banishment from Eden, or whatever you want to call it occurred and was immediately then corrected, never to be experienced again in reality but only in the mind dreaming of illusion (read: you and me.)

My mind has a hard time grasping this. I am sure yours does too. After all, everything you believed for all these years never really happened, if one is to believe the course. Luckily, the course does not ask us to believe this. It merely asks us to read about this and consider this. It knows how used to the world we are, and how much resistance our egos have to these "crazy thoughts."

The good thing I notice when I think about this is that when I do spend part of my day fully in the now and telling myself this whole place is an illusion, that part of the day goes very well indeed. Better than lots of other parts of the day, like when I am caught up unconscious in "work," thought, or anything of the world. So, my feeling about time is this: I will tell my mind that it is over and gone, I will feel peace while thinking this way, and at the other times I will be caught up in the "world" so I won't really be thinking at all in any important sense of the word "think," until the next time I can get myself to that quiet peaceful place outside of time and mind.

Copernicus wasn't afraid to think outside the box!

I am reading an interesting book called The G.O.D. Experiments by Gary Schwartz PhD, subtitled How Science is Finding God in Everything, Including Us. A chapter discussing the Copernican Revolution really grabbed my attention.

His point is this: Before science even thought up the idea that the Earth revolved around the Sun, the basic belief that the Sun rose, revolved and set around the Earth was a "correct" conclusion based on observation of what was available to the five senses; every morning the sun "rose" over the horizon from the east and "set" over the horizon to the west.

Today we find ourselves collectively at the same place as our ancestors. We observe our bodies going through our daily routines, separate from all the other bodies we see and interact with. Based on the observations of the world we see, smell, hear, taste and touch we conclude that we ARE separate bodies separated from each other and from our source, wherever it is we came from.

Suppose that we learn new ideas about what we really are. Suppose that we are skeptical enough to entertain the thought that we are in reality only dreaming of this world, while we are actually safe with the Source, and in reality we never left.

We would be just like Copernicus. If we tell everyone we meet that we have found the way to peace, we would be possibly laughed at, or at least typecast into a group of "crazies" who believe there is a way out of everyone else's daily fear-based system. Churches might even take offense to the idea that we might espouse: that God or The Divine has nothing whatsoever to do with the physical world of form that we observe on the screen.

Copernicus and his ilk were jailed, tortured, and even executed for their "wacky" beliefs. Luckily so far anyway we run no risk of persecution, but is it a bad thing to challenge the world's everyday thinking? Look around, is a lot of this really anything to write home about? The more I experience the inner, the less attraction the outer offers. I prefer to believe the earth revolves around the sun! Even though both the earth and the sun are merely ideas in our collective mind that sleeps!

"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to deal with it." - Patrick Henry

A Ship is Safe in Port, but that is not what Ships are For!

What are your goals? No, not how much money you want to make. Or how big of a house you want to buy. Why are you here reading this? I ask rhetorically because I believe you have a spiritual goal or else you would not be reading this post.

I also believe that if you have been practicing the exercises we learned together, you are feeling less magnetic attraction pulling you toward the pile of money or the big house, though you may be piling up money as a result of your practicing! But I bet it is not the tantalizing goal dangling in front of your nose that it used to be.

This little essay is about a side effect of the practices we have worked on. Tell me if you notice that when you do the exercises, you have less fear. Fear of that daily background buzz of uncomfortableness the world delivers a steady diet of every day.

A student/teacher (we are all both all the time!) told me recently that the fear in her daily life is going by the wayside. She is slowly materializing into a fearless woman after years of not being very fearless, and she credits these simple exercises.

Think about the many side benefits we may be getting when we practice. Now is the time to re-double the work and the I Love You's and the forgiveness thoughts. Now is all there is, for we will NOT be content with FUTURE happiness!