{"id":4299,"date":"2012-02-21T11:56:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T16:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/?p=4299"},"modified":"2012-02-21T11:56:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T16:56:43","slug":"the-three-only-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2012\/02\/the-three-only-things.html","title":{"rendered":"The Three “Only” Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There are three things we routinely say are \u201conly\u201d this or that, but may be of incalculable importance in our lives. We say:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s only a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a coincidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s only my imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n

When we claim the power of these three \u201conly\u201d things, we connect with extraordinary sources of direction, healing and energy.\u00a0We also become citizens of two worlds.<\/p>\n

In everyday circumstances, caught up in hurry and stress and other\u2019s people\u2019s schedules and expectations, we often lose touch with the deeper meaning of life.\u00a0 We become entangled in problems that cannot be solved on the level of thinking and being we are on. We are unable to recognize the hidden order of events. We become strangers to magic, which is the art of reaching into a deeper reality and bringing gifts from it into the ordinary world. Worst of all, we forget who we are. We do not know where we come from or where we are going, beyond lists and resumes. We do not remember that our lives may have a deeper purpose and be part of a larger story.<\/p>\n

Through dreams, coincidence, and the workings of imagination, we begin to remember that there is a world beyond the obvious one, and that it is here we will reawaken to who we are and what we are meant to become. Reawakening to that world is like discovering colors after living in black-and-white. That other world is actually the multidimensional universe within which our 3D reality bobs like a rubber duck in a bathtub. Science knows it is there, and may be the secret source of all the events that will manifest in the world of the senses.<\/p>\n

Through the Three “Only” Things, we wake up to the secrets of creative living:<\/p>\n