Great question, "How did we get here". By our own means or some other influences. Moving outside the dream leave what? The Void or a host of other images stemming from consciousness that we influence in some manner. It's a conundrum like a mirror reflecting a mirror generating an infinite number of additional mirrored reflections ad infinitum. Answering "How did we get here" opens up the wide realm of after life possibilities.
The more I consider that both my waking and sleep states are dreams, the more life makes sense and is far more entertaining and purposeful. Love your questions and thoughts on this. Great article!
Will, First, gratitude for this question..."Are we dreaming?" Second, a handshake to the post below. I tried reading "A Course in Miracles" in my late teens and found it confounding. I appreciate the wisdom Mike has pulled from it and connected to your question.
On a simple level, I choose one word each year to remind myself what I'm doing here, in this lifetime, dream, simulation etc. I actually struggled this year, with the noun / verb question that Fuller's quote brings to mind. I kept going back and forth between "create" and "creator" and it took me awhile to decide. I didn't want the pressure that the verb "create," implied. I didn't want to feel like I had to wake up every day and create something.
I decided, instead on the noun "creator." - less pressure and a simple reminder that each day I am the creator of my reality. But, I did struggled with its association to the capital C connotation as in "the Creator." After all, trying to replace God was the devil's greatest sin (light laughter here), but it did hang me up because words carry energy and stories that live in us. This word struggle has inspired me to comment on your post today because it connects to your original question, Are We Dreaming. As 2026 rolls onward and I remember my word, daily, I have settled on this: I am a creator of my own life. This is not ego or blasphemy, it is helpful & empowering. I believe we are part of a whole Universe of creators, all of us making it up as we go. We inspire and influence each other, as you demonstrate often thru writing. Thank you for raising questions that help readers sort things out, maybe remember something forgotten. We're all trying to figure this out - who we really are and the sheer potential of it!
I am brought back to meeting Buddha at the gas pump in that all of humanity is being served with the possibility in these Fires to going a direct route into the records in Design and Control.
I have in true agreement been seeing little snippets of our Home in form showing Her face in my reality .They come as a gift to integrate in this state in movement toward our flowering and transmutation in that the former things are passing away into unconditional LOVE .
Hi Uncle Will: Jesus answers your question in lesson 132 of A Course in Miracles: “The world is nothing in itself. our mind must give it meaning. And what you behold upon it are your wishes, acted out so you can look on them and think them real. Perhaps you think you did not make the world, but came unwillingly to what was made already, hardly waiting for your thoughts to give it meaning. Yet in truth you found exactly what you looked for when you came.
There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release. Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly. Ideas leave not their source. This central theme is often stated in the text, and must be borne in mind if you would understand the lesson for today. It is not pride which tells you that you made the world you see, and that it changes as you change your mind.
But it is pride that argues you have come into a world quite separate from yourself, impervious to what you think, and quite apart from what you chance to think it is. There is no world! This is the central thought the course attempts to teach. Not everyone is ready to accept it, and each one must go as far as he can let himself be led along the road to truth. He will return and go still farther, or perhaps step back a while and then return again”.
I'm genuinely curious to know if anyone actually remembers.
Great question, "How did we get here". By our own means or some other influences. Moving outside the dream leave what? The Void or a host of other images stemming from consciousness that we influence in some manner. It's a conundrum like a mirror reflecting a mirror generating an infinite number of additional mirrored reflections ad infinitum. Answering "How did we get here" opens up the wide realm of after life possibilities.
The more I consider that both my waking and sleep states are dreams, the more life makes sense and is far more entertaining and purposeful. Love your questions and thoughts on this. Great article!
Will, First, gratitude for this question..."Are we dreaming?" Second, a handshake to the post below. I tried reading "A Course in Miracles" in my late teens and found it confounding. I appreciate the wisdom Mike has pulled from it and connected to your question.
On a simple level, I choose one word each year to remind myself what I'm doing here, in this lifetime, dream, simulation etc. I actually struggled this year, with the noun / verb question that Fuller's quote brings to mind. I kept going back and forth between "create" and "creator" and it took me awhile to decide. I didn't want the pressure that the verb "create," implied. I didn't want to feel like I had to wake up every day and create something.
I decided, instead on the noun "creator." - less pressure and a simple reminder that each day I am the creator of my reality. But, I did struggled with its association to the capital C connotation as in "the Creator." After all, trying to replace God was the devil's greatest sin (light laughter here), but it did hang me up because words carry energy and stories that live in us. This word struggle has inspired me to comment on your post today because it connects to your original question, Are We Dreaming. As 2026 rolls onward and I remember my word, daily, I have settled on this: I am a creator of my own life. This is not ego or blasphemy, it is helpful & empowering. I believe we are part of a whole Universe of creators, all of us making it up as we go. We inspire and influence each other, as you demonstrate often thru writing. Thank you for raising questions that help readers sort things out, maybe remember something forgotten. We're all trying to figure this out - who we really are and the sheer potential of it!
I am brought back to meeting Buddha at the gas pump in that all of humanity is being served with the possibility in these Fires to going a direct route into the records in Design and Control.
I have in true agreement been seeing little snippets of our Home in form showing Her face in my reality .They come as a gift to integrate in this state in movement toward our flowering and transmutation in that the former things are passing away into unconditional LOVE .
Hi Uncle Will: Jesus answers your question in lesson 132 of A Course in Miracles: “The world is nothing in itself. our mind must give it meaning. And what you behold upon it are your wishes, acted out so you can look on them and think them real. Perhaps you think you did not make the world, but came unwillingly to what was made already, hardly waiting for your thoughts to give it meaning. Yet in truth you found exactly what you looked for when you came.
There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release. Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly. Ideas leave not their source. This central theme is often stated in the text, and must be borne in mind if you would understand the lesson for today. It is not pride which tells you that you made the world you see, and that it changes as you change your mind.
But it is pride that argues you have come into a world quite separate from yourself, impervious to what you think, and quite apart from what you chance to think it is. There is no world! This is the central thought the course attempts to teach. Not everyone is ready to accept it, and each one must go as far as he can let himself be led along the road to truth. He will return and go still farther, or perhaps step back a while and then return again”.
(ACIM, W-132.4:1–6:5)