The Big Dream...

Recently, I've been re-reading Don Miguel Ruiz's "The Four Agreements," as part of my decision to start from the very beginning with regards to my work in the realm of magickal manifestation. I chose the Pagan path back around the Summer Solstice about eight years ago, and sadly, my studies have been rather hodge-podge and scattered here and there as it's taken me a while to really home in on what I feel to be the Truth of Reality.

Of course, one of my chief focal points of study is Druidry, a deep nod to my Celtic ancestry. It feels right to study and practice this, so this is one of my main branches of my personal "World Tree." So why the Toltec wisdom book, when I'm the Druidic sort?

Because I deeply feel that wisdom is wisdom, no matter what faith path you travel.

The Source of that Wisdom informs the myriad beautiful spiritual ideas that exist. Any path you travel that contains the highest expressions and ideals of Love, Truth, Beauty and Ultimate Wisdom, is the sort of path that will feed your soul and never tell you that any other path is supposedly wrong and that you must convert all to your ideas. 

The paths that tell you that any other path is wrong and that it is somehow the "one true religion" are trying to sell you a bill of goods that turn more and more sour the longer you stick with them. They are simply products of this Big Dream we all share. 

If you are happy with Christianity, Judaism or Islam, that is fine. They each have their merits if you look beyond the thick veneers of dogma that humanity has placed over each of these religions, and really begin to see the core, the seed of the best ideas of those paths. The root of all of these is honoring the Force within...and the Force is Love.

It is simply a pity and a shame that people have wasted millenia trying to claim each is somehow the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything, when all you have to do is look at your neighbor without that mask of fear, without the mask of the Big Dream, the illusion of separateness, and see the core of the Love of the Great Spirit within. 

When you learn to look at your neighbors this way, the Big Dream reveals itself as a dream, and you can't help but laugh at the silliness of it all: the fear, the dogma, the made-up rules and attachments to false ideas we create because we don't understand how this or that could happen, let alone why.

So how *do* we learn to look at our fellow human beings as the sparks that we all are? 

How do we begin to see in each man and woman BOTH the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine? 

By learning to dig down deep and rid ourselves of all the self-hatred based on the lies we got told about ourselves. Not an easy task, to be sure. But it is something we must learn to do for ourselves, to begin to heal, to begin to see ourselves as we really are: Divine sparks of Heaven come to explore and play around with being the creature called a Human Being.

And once we have healed ourselves, then we can begin to help heal others, for once we see ourselves as Divine Sparks, we see others this way and we can help them see how beautiful they truly are...that the veneers of depression, anger, fear and trained reactions are just that...veneers, illusions...part of the Big Dream.

And we can help others realize that we are brothers and sisters in this Dream, that we are meant to understand that it is a Dream and we can create anything we want to within this Dream, thus laughing at, and thereby throwing out the raggedy old conceptual towels called powerlessness, victimhood and fatalism.

Speaking of dreams...time for me to go visit the Dreamtime...

Blessings and Namaste,
Rev. Kat ^.^