Awaken Within The Dream

Man is asleep within a dream and cannot wake up. The dream is so real, so alluring, so captivating, that man does not realize that he is asleep. He dreams on, trapped in a seemingly endless nightmare. Instead of trying to wake up, he fights within the dream to overcome the evil therein.

Everyone has had a dream that seemed to be "real". Perhaps within the dream you were chased by a monster, or shot at, or fell off a high place. Just before you were to meet your end, you said to yourself: "Please be a dream, please be a dream". With those words, you willed yourself to awaken. Eyes wide open, you orientated yourself to your surroundings and breathed a sigh of relief. You are awake! The dream has passed. You give silent thanks.

Cruelly, man does not realize that each morning he awakens from sleep into a far more insidious and long-running dream. It is the dream of Separateness, the illusion that one is disconnected and different from the person next to him. It is a dream where one believes that God is "up there" while we are "down here", separate and apart from God's Love. In frustration and agony, man believes himself to be abandoned. Like a blind man in a dark room, he clumsily fights to modify his tragic "reality" into something more palatable. Unable to understand that Heaven lies within, he struggles to create a physical heaven on earth and instead creates a living hell. Man lives in a mirage, mistaking sand for water.

Those who come to awaken Sleeping Mankind are brutally punished for their efforts. For man, in his blind ignorance, lashes out to destroy those who are sent to save him. Man is not evil, he is insane. Even so, a Helping Hand will always be extended to offer a way out and a remedy for his psychosis.

There are those who are ready to awaken from this dream, this endless daylight nightmare. These are the ones whom the Sent Ones endeavor to reach. These dreamers will grasp the Rope that is being let down into The Pit. They will hold on with all the strength they can muster, and not let go. Slowly, with sure hands pulling at the other end of the Rope, the dreamers will be lifted from the depths of despair and into the bright new morning of the Original Divine Reality. For these ones, the long nightmare will finally end.

Awaken.

~ g
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