02

"Turning the light around" is an old Taoist phrase
from around 500 years Before the Common Era.
It means the same thing Jesus said when he said
"Don't look out there for it,
or over there for it,
or up there for it,
or back there for it!
Look within yourself!
The kingdom of God that you seek is in YOU!"

More particularly, it is not merely IN us,
it is our Original Nature.
We are IN it!

When we are most uniquely, 
purely,
transparently,
living from our heart,
as children do when they are playing with dolls, 
or playing in a sandbox,
lost to the world,
yet solidly in the world
of their original nature,
doing the things that just spring to mind
there with the doll house,
or in the sandbox.

Where do you live like that?
Free to do what needs to be done
for no other reason that because
it needs to be done
and needs you to do it?

Artist do it all the time.
And poets.
And fishermen/women.
People who can be lost in the moment
because the moment
calls them to be lost in it,
to belong to it,
with all their heart.

"Turning the light around,"
means going there,
doing that,
living from "in here,"
doing what is meet and right so to do
in light of what is being called for
from within our heart
here and now.

If you were going to turn the light around
in this fashion,
where would you be safe enough to do it?
When can you go there?
How long can you stay?
What would you take with you?
How often can you repeat the excursion?
Will you do it?

If not, why not?
If so,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah...
(If, by some chance, 
you don't know the song,
do an internet search 
for Leonard Cohen,
and be well)

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02

The world is perfect just as it is--
as imperfect as it is,
it is exactly what it is capable of being,
and any endeavor to make it how it ought to be
would make it unfit for life.
Which, of course, is exactly what has happened.

Look around you.
This is what progress has done.

This world, just as it is, 
is someone's idea of better.

We should have stopped with the dinosaurs.
It's been downhill from there.

But "downhill" has given us 
something to do with our time.

Look at the sweep of history.
It is someone's idea of better.

The American Experiment
was the Founder's idea of better.
It was the best idea they could think of,
and they were the greatest thinkers of the age--
of any age, probably.
But they didn't get it right.
Look at all the people trying to destroy it
in the name of making it better!

No one's idea of better is going to suit everyone.

All people are not going to be better off
in any world this world is capable of producing.
We are left with exactly what we have.
It gives all of us something to do,
some good reason to get out of bed
and go to work every day.
Making things better.

This is a perfect world
just as it is.
The sooner we see that,
understand that,
embrace it, love it, relish it
just as it is,
we can get to work 
making it better
with no resentment,
bitterness,
vitriol,
disgust, etc.
about us.

We can just go to work
in the service of what needs to be done,
with the gifts that are ours to serve
and to share.

It is a wonderful, wonderful, life!
Just as it is.

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01

The people who killed Jesus
and the people who did not listen to Jesus
were the same type of people,
separated only by their station in life.
They were out for what they could get
by any means necessary.

Jesus had a better idea for them
than they had for themselves,
and they had nothing to do 
with what he had to say,
and put an end to him saying it.

"Do unto others
as you would have them
do unto you,"
was not original with Jesus.
The idea has been around 
from times long past,
and is recognized for its value
in a wide range of cultures,
yet, it's application is 
radical in every age.

Jesus took it to heart,
and lived to exhibit it
in his way with other people.
He was quite out of place
in a society where money was 
the most important thing.

Money is still the most important thing,
and it takes a significant 
shift in perspective
to want everyone to have
the same opportunity for education
and jobs, and quality of life,
their skills and training allow.

No stigmas, no prejudices, no bigotry,
no bias, no favoritism, no discrimination...
Liberty and justice for all.

The depth of the rage and ruthlessness
against that simple statement is appalling. 
Two thousand two hundred and twenty-two years later
and we are no closer to the realization
of social justice
than they were in Jesus' day.
And the Supreme Court's buy-out on civil rights
is a clear and telling signal 
that money calls the shots and sets the course,
Constitution or not.

Money killed Jesus.
Money owns the game.
And there is no end to the damage
a half-dozen billionaires can do.

Which leaves the rest of us
exactly where we have always been,
working uphill against all odds
in the service of grace and compassion,
justice, equality, truth and freedom,
no matter what
as those who would be who Jesus was,
exhibiting the spirit of the Christ
in all that we do,
as long as life shall last.

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02

The spirit of Christ--
and "Christ" means simply "The anointed one,"
and we are all "anointed,"
or "called,"
to be who we are,
where we are,
when we are,
how we are--
is nothing more than our original nature
shinning through.

What keeps it from shinning through
are fear, hatred, anger, greed, and duty,
with duty being the shoulds/oughts/musts
of family/tribe/society/culture.
Fascists, for example,
cannot be other than they are
because of the company they keep.
They talk of freedom,
but they cannot be free to be themselves.

Most of the population of the world
in any age is that way,
forced to be who they are
because of the company they keep,
or because of fear, hatred, anger and greed.
Or a combination of all of the Enemies of Soul.

"Soul" is another name for our original nature.

We are here to exhibit/express/enjoy/serve our Soul,
our Original Nature,
who we were born (anointed, called) to be
in the time and place,
the context and circumstances,
of our living.

When we are all doing that together,
it is a festive occasion,
and the radiance of the wonder
is an experience of the Numen,
of the ineffable magic
created by our being who we are together
that stuns us into "esthetic arrest,"
"slain by the spirit," so to speak,
by an experience beyond words.

Artists of whatever form
occasionally achieve a similar experience
of the wonder of who they are
through the revelation/sense 
of being connected through their art with another
while being alone.

They are experiencing being connected
with themselves-as-other
because they cannot possibly be the source
of "this," of "that"!

In being so completely ourselves in this way,
we are as the moved in the presence of the mover,
when, in truth, we are One,
and One with Everyone and All Things.

And William Blake could say,
"If the doors of perception were cleansed 
everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."

Which is a level of truth 
that would definitely get in the way
of being able to pay our bills.
So our survival depends on achieving
a healthy sense of distance between
ego consciousness and soul awareness,
so that the two remain two
and do not merge into One.

"I" and "The Other" live together
as "moved" and "mover,"
with the "I" being as much of "who we are"
as we and our circumstances can tolerate
in a dance with Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How
in each situation as it arises.

Getting the ratios right is the aim of life.
Getting close is amazing.

And that is what we are living for.
But the distractions keep getting in the way.
And the dance goes on.

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01

There are only two things to know:
What needs to be done that we can do anything about.
What we need to do it.

We need to know those two things
in each situation as it arises.

That's it.

Why do we waste time 
on so many concerns
that don't amount to anything?

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02

There are ugliness and absurdity
everywhere we look.
We look for peace and unity.
We find upheaval and decay.
Everybody wants what they do not have
and hates what they do have.
Differences are emphasized.
Disenchantment abounds.

That's where we come in.

We are the hope of the world.

We search for hope,
and see no hope,
and declare our situation 
to be hopeless.

We are the hope of the world.

Paul Watzlawick's book comes to mind:
The Situation is Hopeless, But Not Serious.

We are the stabilizing factor
in each situation as it arises.

What is happening is nowhere near
as impactful
as what happens in response
to what is happening.

How we respond to the situation determines,
or, at least, strongly influences,
what becomes of the situation.

How we respond to the situation
depends upon two things:
What is called for,
and what we have to offer
for the good of the situation as a whole.

How the police are responding to the situation
in Ottawa is making it worse, not better.
How the police respond to many situations
make them worse, not better.
The police have an agenda,
and an attitude.

Agendas and attitudes are the worst things
to bring to any situation.
Agendas and attitudes are responsible
for things being as they are worldwide.

Putin has an agenda and an attitude.
If we have an agenda and an attitude,
we are making things worse, not better.

The best things to bring to any situation are
the right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence.
Do not know what needs to be done.
Be empty, still and quiet.
See what is called for.
See what arises unbidden,
spontaneously, naturally
within yourself
in response to what is called for.

Do not discount, dismiss, disregard, ignore
playfulness.

Disarming the situation
brings balance and harmony
to bear on the situation.

Sometimes, what is called for
is letting the fire burn itself out.

The people who don't like anything about 
Critical Race Theory
need to keep their children out of schools
embracing equality and truth.

We do not stop doing what needs to be done
to make people happy who have never been happy
their entire life long.

The Catholic Church committed atrocities 
in forcing its version of truth
upon the discoveries of Copernicus and Galileo,
and upon the Gnostic Christians 
who embraced a different version of truth.

Everybody does not have to see things the same way.
The minority has their right to their opinions,
but do not have the right to force their opinions
on the majority.

Truth has a way of prevailing over time. 

What is taught in schools 
has to stand the tests of examination,
introspection, exploration, investigation,
and validation.

It cannot be what makes someone comfortable.

Everyone grows up against their will.
Everyone grows up by living beyond
their comfort zone.

It is the way.

What we see today in the unfolding of tirades
and tantrums worldwide
is the defiant refusal to grow up.

Refusing to grow up
comes with a price to be paid.
If you won't pay the price,
you won't ride the ride.

If you failed to learn that lesson
as a child,
you have to learn it as an adult.

Or pay the price.

Growing up is so very hard to do.

And we all have to do it on our own.
No one can do it for us.
And it must be done.
Everything depends on it.

And everybody is responsible
for being what the situation 
is calling them to be.

And everybody suffers
when everybody is not living responsibly.

And here we are.

The situation is calling for everyone
to be mutually responsible
for the good of the situation as a whole.

And Donald Trump is saying
"You can't make me!"
And his followers are saying,
"Yeah! You can't make me, either!"

Leaving the rest of us to find ways
of living our lives around them
without allowing them to disrupt
the way life needs to be lived
in service of the good of all.

This means firing the police
who aren't going to enforce the law.
Etc. up and down the line.

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01

There is nothing to it,
to being anchored on the immovable spot
and oriented toward doing what needs to be done
in each situation as it arises
throughout our life.

All it takes is changing our mind about what is important,
being right about what IS important,
and living in ways that serve it
situation by situation
our entire life long.

The ingredients in being able to do this are
the right kind of emptiness,
the right kind of stillness
and the right kind of silence.

Sit still.
Be empty
and quiet.
And wait for something 
that cannot be missed
to stir to life
and call your name.

If you have to get up
and go about your business,
by all means do so,
walking two paths at the same time.
One path called "Taking Care of Business,"
and the other path called
"Being Still, Quiet and Empty
and Waiting On Something That Can't Be Missed
to Call My Name."

When the Boom Is Lowered,
you will know it.
Then it is only a matter
of doing what is called for
all along the way.

What could be easier than that?

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02

Greed, hatred and fear
are easier to inspire/incite
than peace, love, and kindness.

This makes it easier to be a fascist
than a saint.

And why there is so much vitriol
in the world
and so little goodwill and good faith. 

Quirinius and Pilate had incentive,
John the Baptist and Jesus had resolve.

John the Baptist and Jesus could also believe
that help was on the way,
that justice, mercy and truth
would be rewarded,
and that Good would triumph over Evil.

"The arc of the universe is bending toward"
global warming and the bane of capitalism and racism,
and the hope of a savior to rescue the pure in heart
is dashed upon the rocks of reality
in the form of assassinations and Dark Money,
killing off and buying off the voices of those crying,
"In the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord!"

The Coming One is here, now, 
and no one notices
or lives as though it matters,
because the right kind of emptiness,
stillness and silence
are swept away in the noise and calamity 
of the clashing rocks and the crashing waves.

How does the impetus of John the Baptist and Jesus
sustain itself in the face of 
gerrymandering and right-wing rage?
What fuels resolve in the age of ruthless fury?

The right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence
connecting us to the enduring center, source and core
of life and being. 

This is the Other Reality enabling the resolve
of those grounded upon the adamantine foundation
impervious to the forces of evil in all forms,
times and places.

Hatred burns itself out in time.

The soft values are everlasting.

It only takes stepping out of the noise and complexity
of this age
to know that it is so.

The Coming One comes to life
in those who are quiet in the right kind of way.

Who trust themselves to the experience and expression of
grace and compassion--
the grace of compassion--
in each situation as it arises,
seeing there what needs to be done
and doing it the way it needs to be done,
time after time,
no matter what.

This is the message of these times
for those who have eyes to see,
ears to hear,
and a heart that understands what's what
and what needs to be done about it,
even here,
even now,
to the close of the age
and beyond.

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03

If I had been advising Jesus,
he would have had a different outcome.
"Don't push the river!" 
I would have told him.

Jesus thought he could push God to act
in his behalf.
God is like the river in this regard.

Nothing happens before its time.

We cannot hurry the river, or God, along.

We have to read the signs,
know what's what,
and respond accordingly.

Acting appropriately in response
to each situation as it arises
means seeing what's happening
and interpreting it--
understanding its meaning--
appropriately.

Appropriate understanding
flows easily into appropriate action.

We have to be able to read the times
to know what it is time for
and how to respond to what is going on.

"There is a time for every matter under heaven."

Knowing when it is time for what
is the art of being alive.

Jesus should never have gone to Jerusalem.
Bad timing, Jesus.
Teach your disciples to read the times
and to know when to do what.

All that martyrdom was a stupid waste of resources.

Read the times.
Bide your time.
Wait for the right time to act
in the service of what needs to be done.

Instinct and intuition lead the way.

Learn to resonate with the times that are at hand.
Dance with the music of the times.
See, hear, understand what time it is for,
in order to know what to do 
and how to do it.

The right kind of emptiness,
the right kind of stillness,
the right kind of silence
lead the way.

Wait. 
Trusting yourself to know 
when the time is right.
Do not push the time to be right
just because you are ready for it to be right.

A little waiting changes the situation
just enough to create the mood
that makes the time just right.

We have to wait for the dough to rise,
for the tomato to ripen,
for the baby to decide
when it is time to be born.

Just wait, Jesus.
Do not go to Jerusalem.

What a difference that would have made. 

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01

Being the Christ,
possessing Buddha Mind,
trusting ourselves to our original nature
in each situation as it arises,
takes practice, practice, practice.

Believing has nothing to do with it.

It is all doing, doing, doing--
what needs to be done,
when it needs to be done,
where it needs to be done,
the way it needs to be done
time after time after time.

We can believe anything we want
as long as we live to do that.

Doing it until we can do it
without thinking about it.

Spontaneously,
automatically,
instinctively,
naturally,
sincerely,
with integrity and devotion,
all our life long,
no matter what.

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02

It takes the right kind of 
emptiness, stillness and silence
to have a chance.

The world is too noisy to listen.
Too much complexity
keeps us from living the life
that is ours to live.

We cannot get to the truth of the matter
with all that is in the way.

What is the matter?
What is the problem?
What ails us?

We don't know where to start.

Start there.

Sit with that.

In as much of the right kind of emptiness,
stillness
and silence
as you can muster
for a long as you can.

Practice that
until something stirs to life
and calls your name.

When the door opens,
walk through.

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03

What needs to be done
in each situation as it arises
is what it is time for,
is what the times call for.

Knowing what time it is (for),
is the most important thing
there is to know.

And then comes doing it.

Knowing what time it is (for)
is a matter of instinct
and intuition.

Knowing what time it is (for)
is grounded upon mystery,
and flows from mystery.

How do we know what we know?
We can be talked out of it
like that (snaps fingers).
We can talk ourselves out of it.
We can dismiss, discount, disregard
all that we know in our bones.
All of our gut feelings go 
like that (snaps fingers again).

It takes commitment to the cause
and dedication to the task
to know what we know
and trust ourselves with the knowledge,
and support ourselves in the action
that is grounded upon,
and flows from,
the mystery at the heart of life and being.

And that is all it takes
to turn the world around,
one situation at a time.

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01

We plop out of some womb into some time and place,
with no idea of what to do next,
and make it up all the way.

If we are born into some tradition--
and who isn't--
we inherit a lot of it,
which has been made up for us
and passed along to us
as a pretentious way of saying,
"This is how it is."

But it is all made up.

And we invariably--inevitably--
run into somebody who has made it up
in a different way,
and if it is a much different way,
they will try to kill us 
because we don't belong in the world
as they make it up.

It is all so crazy.

Nobody could have thought this up.
It has to be completely random,
things just happening,
and here we are.

Now what?

We have to make it up.

I would like a world that helped people
imagine a life worth living
within the terms and conditions
in place at our birth,
and assisted us throughout the process
by listening us to one realization after another,
shaping our life accordingly 
in light of the realities at play upon us.

What is worth doing with our time
within the context and circumstances,
the limitations and possibilities,
at work during the times of our living?

Somebody ought to be helping us answer this question
from the moment we plop out of the womb.

And the fact that they are not there to help us along the way,
leaves us with doing for ourselves
what needed to be done for us.

What is worth doing with the gifts/daemon/genius/virtues
that came with us into the world?

We need to be pondering this question
through all the days left for living--
and doing the things that come to mind.

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02

There is no purpose being served
and no plan at work
in things being the way they are.

No intention,
no design,
no reason.

Things are the way they are
because they fall into place that way
as a result of changes, shifts
and transformations
in the way things are over time.

Everything is in flux,
searching for equilibrium,
homeostasis, balance and harmony,
"seeking its own level"
through time.

Movement here results in imbalance there,
and rocks tumble down the mountainside,
searching for rest at last.

And nothing knows what it is doing.

Everything is looking for rest at last.

We strive to maintain order,
get things like we like it,
and keep everything unmoving
and in its assigned place forever.

As if that can happen,
or has any business happening.

The natural laws of momentum and inertia
play out on all levels of existence,
and we try to make sense of it,
get ahead of it,
use it to our advantage,
in getting things like we want them,
and keeping them there forever.

Ordering our world requires the ability
to impose our will upon the world at large,
and we live out of the fantasy of power and control,
striving to get this and avoid that,
carving out small enclaves,
sanctuaries,
where things can be like we like them to be,
and we can be at rest at last.

But the world won't leave us alone for long.
And we are carried along by forces
quite beyond us
into situations that disturb and disorient us
all our life,
seeing our own level,
searching for balance and harmony,
longing for "peace like a river,"
wondering if it is something we did.

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01

We are going crazy as a nation
and as a world,
because we cannot think
of anything better to do
with our time.

Living with no end in mind worthy of us
is driving us mad.

We have sex, drugs, alcohol and money.
And that is the best we can do.

How many people do you know
who are living engaged with their life,
glad to be here,
happy to get up each day
and do what is theirs to do,
day after day?

How many people do you know
who are happy to be who they are,
doing what they are doing?

How many people do you know
who are joyful just about being who they are?

How many people do you know
who are filled with joy,
and wonder,
and laughter,
and song?
For no reason?
"Just because"?

Why is that?
Why do we hate our life?
Why do we not know what to do with ourselves?
Why do we not know what to do with time on our hands?
Why are we so lost?
So empty (in the wrong kind of way)?
So devoid of any idea of what we are to do with our life?

Why are we not better prepared to live our life?
It is because no one we know 
was prepared to live their life,
and you can't pass on something you don't have.

Why does no one know what to do with their life?

We've been at this for what? A million years?
Six million years?
And we still don't know what to do with our life???
How can that be?

We have one year of experience
repeated a million times.
Or six million times.

What are we going to do about it?

You know by now what I am going to suggest:
Be empty in the right kind of way.
Sit in the stillness of the silence,
and see what comes to mind.

And play with that.
Toy with that.
Imagine with that.
Walk around with that.
Wonder about that.
See where it leads you.

Why not?

I know you don't have anything better to do.

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02

There is a black that is almost brown,
and another that is almost green,
another is almost blue,
and one that is almost purple...
How can we be sure that it is black?

Ask a white supremacist. 

Fascists know their blacks.

This latest manifestation of fascism
arose in defiant protest
of a black man becoming President of the United States.

This in abject rejection 
of the fact that a Jew became God.
No! WAS God from the start!

What do they do with that,
these Jew-haters who wear crosses
and claim to be Jesus lovers?

The antithesis of this is exactly
the heart of the matter.

Black being almost brown/blue/green/purple...
And fascists hating Jews and loving Jesus.

Our contradictions, dichotomies, opposites, polarities
define us, display us, and demand resolution,
solution, rectification, unification, harmonization, 
accordance from discordance,
function from dysfunction,
life from death.

That's the trick.
Dying to all that prevents/denounces/opposes union,
harmony, accord, oneness...

And, I'm here to tell you this
is what actual death is all about.

We die and become one with all that is not-us,
merging back into the Mind from which we come.

Death is the transition point from the corporeal 
to the spiritual,
from the temporal to the eternal.

Corporeal and spiritual are frequencies 
like AM and FM.
Or VHS and DVD.
And life is like the music
that goes on and on and on...

We can get ahead of the game,
here and now,
by "dying" (and it is like actual death
in a lot of ways) to all that separates us
from one another.

Let it go. Let it go.
Blackness. Whiteness. Gayness. Straightness. Etc.
Us-ness. We-ness. One-ness. Here and now.

It is not really all that difficult.

It is a slight, ever so slight, 
shift in perspective.

It is changing our mind about what is important.
It is seeing things differently.
Like looking at an optical illusion.

That is all that is standing between us
and life,
real life,
abundant life,
pouring out,
spilling over,
connecting us all
with each other,
as a prelude to what is coming
on the other side of the transition point
from this to that.

Or, as the Good Book says,
"Why kick against the goads?"

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01

May we see what we look at
and know what we know,
and do what needs to be done,
oh may it be so,
may it be even yet so,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
oh may it be so!
Hallelujah!

That's the best we have,
its all we can do,
just knowing what's what
and offering the gifts
that were there from the start,
and letting that be,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
and letting that be,
Hallelujah!

We look for rewards,
live for profit and gain,
fear, greed and hatred 
our shame and our bane,
and nothing to blame
but our refusal to be who we are
right here, right now,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah!

The game is straight forward,
do the best that you can,
letting that be that,
and doing the best we can with that,
and with that,
and with that,
and with that...
and letting that be that!
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah!
Always doing the best we can
with that!
Hallelujah!

What is so hard about that?
There is nothing to it is there?
It's just not what we have in mind,
is it?
And if we don't want it,
that's all there is to it,
we will never do it,
will we?
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah!
Picking our way through
the torn and broken Hallelujahs!

Looking out there
for what is in here,
we groan and bemoan 
the burden we hold dear
having our way to spite The Way
in willing what cannot be willed
and rejecting what waits to be,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah!

Live but don't learn,
look but don't see,
strive but don't do
what needs to be done
and needs us to do it
when it needs to be done
how it needs to be done
because it needs to be done
is all there is to it
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah!

Turning the light around
turns everything with it
restores right order
puts all in place,
waiting on our alignment
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah!

The orchestra is tuning up
with no one to conduct.
The dancers are dancing
with none to direct.
The players are playing
but the game isn't set.
And chaos is everywhere
because none will sit
and be still
and know what they know
and do what needs to be done,
oh may it be so
may it even yet be so!
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah!
Oh may it be so!
Hallelujah!

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02

I have talked about things just popping into mind
"out of nowhere,"
as jolts from the psyche
to get our attention
and nudge us into seeing what is happening
in our life
and how we might respond to it better
than we are.

A place the psyche has free rein
and doesn't have to compete
with ego-consciousness for our attention
is in our sleep.
Dreams are things that "pop into our mind,"
inviting us to decipher the messages
and apply our understanding to our life.

You might understand every dream
as saying, "This is how things are 
in your life right now.
What are you going to do about it?"

To get the message,
we have to listen to the dream.
Look at the theme of the dream.
What is it about?
What is the drift?
Is it a recurring dream over time?

What stands out about the dream?
Is it an object?
A person?
A scene?

What associations can you make
between the dream elements
and your lived experience.
How is "this" like "that"?

Dreams of cars that won't stop,
or planes crashing
can be thought of as the dream
over-dramatizing our tendency 
to be too much in control
of what is happening in our life,
suggesting that we need to step back
a bit, ease up.

Dreams of always loosing our pocketbook,
or our wallet,
can be suggesting that our identity
is not firmly established,
and we could do a better job
of being an "I" in relationships with others.

Dreams of flying with the birds
could be saying that our ego is flighty
and not firmly grounded,
that our life is fantasy founded,
and we are resisting growing up.

Dreams of snakes could be making fun
of our tendency to not trust ourselves
to our environment or other people,
always looking for "a snake in the grass."

To get the good out of a dream,
mine it for its symbols
and see what associations they bring to mind.

Pay particular attention to the emotions 
the dream arouses in you--both as a participant
in the dream,
and as the dreamer of the dream.
Explore those emotions to see
what that might reveal.

Our dreams are one way psyche
attempts to commune with us.
The least we can do is pay attention!

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