06.02.06
0203 - The Dreamer of the Dream
Posted in the Branch at 10:09 pm by Kathleen 
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from Issue 002 — Nov 2000
The secret of salvation is…
you are doing this unto yourself. (from T-27.VIII.10:1)
We are sovereign creative beings.
Our medium is light.
Our nature is love.
Imagination is innate in us.
We love to imagine, to dream, to make up stories, to play.
If we didn’t do this, nothing would ever happen.
Little children do this instinctively. We relegate playing and play-acting to child-hood. But do we really?
Look at our works of art, our literature, and our films, books, and plays. All stories. But we separate all of these into fiction and define fact as the seeming reality of our lives. There is truly no difference. We love to tell stories. Our whole world is one big dream. For what is a story but a dream.
And who is the dreamer? We are.
Only the dreamer is real in any lasting and eternal manner.
This is what the Course in Miracles is reminding us of.
We are real. The dream is not. It is illusion.
We confused the two and seemed to forget our identity.
In waking up we remember that we are the dreamer. And the dream then becomes what it always was. A game. Innocent. Illusive and fading away.
“Before enlightenment, chopping wood.
After enlightenment, chopping wood.”
Only present moment awareness is real.
When we become as little children again we know that life is fun and we are playing a game.
How quickly the images flash before our eyes, then change and flash by. They don’t stand still because as stories they have beginnings, endings and climaxes. We infiltrate them with all kinds of meanings, but they are only stories.
In this clear and present moment only we are real.
GOD IS,
To paraphrase Shakespeare;
All the world is a stage and we are but the actors.
Or our story is;
“A tale told by an idiot full of froth and fury.”
This becomes the story of the forgotten self who doesn’t recognise himself or his brothers any more.
© KP 2000
1. from T-27.VIII.10:1