{"id":2479,"date":"2011-05-24T08:08:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T12:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2011-05-24T11:29:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:29:08","slug":"dreaming-we-choose-events-that-will-manifest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2011\/05\/dreaming-we-choose-events-that-will-manifest.html","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming, we choose events that will manifest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dreaming, we choose events that will be manifested in our waking lives.<\/p>\n

The fact that we dream things before they happen does not mean everything is predetermined. People who are not active dreamers can get quite confused about what is going on when they wake up to the fact that we are dreaming future events, both large and small, all the time.<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s like this. If you do not remember your dreams, you are condemned to live them; \u00a0if you don\u2019t know where you\u2019re going, you will likely end up where you are headed. If you remember some of your dreams and screen them for messages about the future, you will find yourself able to make wiser choices. You will discover that by taking appropriate action you can often avoid the enactment of a \u201cbad\u201d dream or bring about the fulfillment of a happy one. As you become an active<\/em> dreamer, you will find yourself increasingly able to choose inside the dreaming<\/em> the events that will be manifested in your waking life.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not about predestination. It\u2019s about the spiritual secrets of manifestation \u2014 and your ability to become cocreator of your life.<\/p>\n

Meister Eckhart tells us, with the razor-sharp clarity of the practical mystic who has seen and experienced for himself: \u201cWhen the soul wishes to experience something, she throws an image of the experience out before her and enters her own image.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indigenous peoples tell a recurring story of how the material world is spun from the dream of a deity. For the Guajiro of Ecuador, the physical universe is the product of conscious dreaming. The Guajiro say that the Creator-god made this world after the divine Dreamgiver, Apusanai, made him aware that he was dreaming and he began to experiment with molding and solidifying the fluid forms he perceived endlessly aborning and transforming on another plane of reality.<\/p>\n

It is not merely that we dream things (maybe everything) before they happen; dreams make<\/em> them happen.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

adapted from Dreamgates: Exploring the Worlds of Soul, Imagination and Life Beyond Death<\/a><\/em>. Second edition published by New World Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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