CONSCIOUSNESS
The World as a Dream
This physical world and human experience are a 'waking dream' authored by the individual. People often mistake the dream's creations for an external reality…
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I Am The Cause
I have awakened you, momentarily, but you may fall back to sleep again and continue your dream, of which you are its sole author. It's very easy to be caught up in the reality that you, yourself, are making, even though what you see may frighten you. You may have many horrors in your dream and believe what you are seeing is a reality outside of yourself and beyond your control, but you alone are writing the script. Haven't you had a dream where you were scared to death, not knowing you were its cause? The same thing is happening in the waking dream, but man does not know that this, too, is a dream, until he awakes from it in the manner of which I have told you.
This physical world and human experience are a 'waking dream' authored by the individual. People often mistake the dream's creations for an external reality beyond their control, experiencing fear and suffering. True awakening reveals the individual as the sole cause and author of their reality, just as in a night dream.
No Other Foundation 2
If this waking world is as much a dream as your sleeping world, you should be able to control it... Now awake in this world, you think it is real and outside of yourself, but I tell you: this world is a dream, too. It is every bit as much a dream as the dream of the night, only it is more difficult to control because it appears so real and independent of your perception.
The waking physical world is a dream, identical in nature to night dreams, and can be controlled by the dreamer (human imagination) through conscious assumption, despite its appearance of independent reality and difficulty in control.
The Secret Of Causation
This world is just as much a dream as that one, but man is sound asleep and does not know that he is dreaming. No one will sentence a man for dreaming he killed another; rather they will try to analyze it for him, and most of our so-called experts on dreams are past masters of misinterpretation. They do not realize the great mystery surrounding us. I tell you: the whole vast world is the individual dreamer pushed out, and the conflict is within himself, and not on the outside. This world is every bit as much a dream as that world, and you, its dreamer, are God learning to exercise your powerful imagination, in love. The day will come when you will awake from this dream, and you will see what my friend saw in another aspect of the dream - that the world is dead, and only the reflection of an activity of the human imagination.
The entire physical world is a dream, and humanity is largely unaware that they are the dreamers of this reality. All external conflicts, events, and circumstances are internal projections of the individual dreamer. Awakening within this dream allows one to consciously control and change it, realizing one's true identity as God, the creator of the dream, learning to exercise imagination in love.
Where Is Golgotha
For un-numbered centuries he walked and took up his cross every day, and walked in the dream world. This world is a dream. And he walked in this world, believing himself to be something completely independent of everything else, and he’s not a dreamer – no, he’s a reality – this is not a dream. But the day that he begins to awake within him, when he begins to rise within himself, he realizes he has been dreaming all along! ...And we think that we are completely awake. We are doing all things here fully conscious, not knowing that we are dreaming, and the dream is projected, as it is when you dream at night. It’s a dream within a dream, and this is the dream.
This physical world is a 'dream world,' a dream within a dream, in which individuals believe themselves to be fully awake and independent. The realization of this dream-like nature comes upon awakening within oneself, revealing that one has been dreaming all along.