Letting Go of Saving the World

[Ariel]

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Letting Go of Saving the World

[Ariel]

speaking of this post, I just had this whacked out dream... (it's 5:30am as I write this)

I borrowed someone's SUV and was watching myself drive this SUV from overhead. Somehow I was both driving the vehicle and seeing myself from a helicopter view down. I had parked the car at an intersection while brushing my teeth, went out to go spit out the toothpaste in the storm drains, only to come back to find the car had falled down a ditch. I drove it back and wound up hitting like 8 things on the way back. The owner was freaking out, wondering why I didn't just stop and why I kept hitting things.

Long story short, I was gonna go to jail for a long time in this dream and was like "Oh my God, I can't believe this is actually happening." In the recognition that I was gonna go to jail for a long long time, I woke up, finding myself grateful that that was all "just a dream."

You know what I saw in that dream? All our problems are self-created. They are fully our responsibility. The only way to really rise above that energy is to take responsibility for our creations and empower ourselves to begin creating new energies.

Instead of saving the world, it's so much better to empower the world by helping people recognize their power and their roles in the actions they take (beyond victim/perpetrator), see that they are fully creating their whole reality, and give them the tools to begin changing what they created consciously.

No more jails, punishment of others, being angry at others, and so on. It's all you. Your creations. Your choices. Your reality. "Everyone else" is just here to help you experience certain energies, energies that you yourself choose.

In any event, I'm going back to bed.

'nite!

[Jean]

Interesting dream Ariel

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You know what I saw in that dream? All our problems are self-created. They are fully our responsibility. The only way to really rise above that energy is to take responsibility for our creations and empower ourselves to begin creating new energies.
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Like Bashar always says: you have to own it first because you can not change something you do not own.
Pleasant dreams.

[Lee]

I LOVED WHAT YOU WROTE.

It was powerful.

I noticed that you wrote the following-

Seeing the Dream
Let’s say you were to watch your dreams at night. Would you actually panic about the danger and death you saw people experience in the dream? You may want to go in and help the dream people and create a better feeling dream, sure, and you may want to experience yourself as someone who makes a difference because you like that feeling, definitely, but that underlying fear of “Oh no, they’re actually in real danger” wouldn’t really be there.

It’s like the danger is being declawed. The seriousness of what used to be feared isn’t being taken as seriously.

And then you actually did have a night dream. A nightmare!

speaking of this post, I just had this whacked out dream... (it's 5:30am as I write this)

I borrowed someone's SUV and was watching myself drive this SUV from overhead. Somehow I was both driving the vehicle and seeing myself from a helicopter view down. I had parked the car at an intersection while brushing my teeth, went out to go spit out the toothpaste in the storm drains, only to come back to find the car had falled down a ditch. I drove it back and wound up hitting like 8 things on the way back. The owner was freaking out, wondering why I didn't just stop and why I kept hitting things.

Long story short, I was gonna go to jail for a long time in this dream and was like "Oh my God, I can't believe this is actually happening." In the recognition that I was gonna go to jail for a long long time, I woke up, finding myself grateful that that was all "just a dream."

You know what I saw in that dream? All our problems are self-created. They are fully our responsibility. The only way to really rise above that energy is to take responsibility for our creations and empower ourselves to begin creating new energies.

Instead of saving the world, it's so much better to empower the world by helping people recognize their power and their roles in the actions they take (beyond victim/perpetrator), see that they are fully creating their whole reality, and give them the tools to begin changing what they created consciously.

No more jails, punishment of others, being angry at others, and so on. It's all you. Your creations. Your choices. Your reality. "Everyone else" is just here to help you experience certain energies, energies that you yourself choose.

This was a Fear dream- and your conclusions- what you saw in the dream- came from this fear.

In your blog post you wrote-“It’s like the danger is being declawed. The seriousness of what used to be feared isn’t being taken as seriously.”

And then the nightmare came, with lots of serious danger! This is so life typical!

I feel it is Fear itself that is being asked to look at and accept. We all have fears. And when fear comes, we are to acknowledge it, watch it, allow it to be.

Facing fear is very much part of the spiritual journey. Facing fear takes us deeper.

Otherwise we move into a deeper consciousness, and write about it, but then the Boogieman sneaks through our window and we go “Fuck That!”- Uh- everyone is responsible for their own creations!!!!
Fear is what this is about. In the post you were writing about going a new way, giving up motives- like trying to change the world- and something in you got frightened by this. Perhaps the very ego that liked the things you were giving up. Like part of yourself you were giving up- “danger danger!”

It’s great what you are doing, don’t let fear or the ego stop you.

Maybe writing on fear itself?

[Ariel]

haha yeah, it would seem that life is not without a sense of humor...

Gives you more of what you're working on, giving you a chance to go deeper and go beyond.

It's funny.. I had a second dream after I went back to sleep. I was climbing through the mountains in the snow, and I'm a warm weather kind a guy. Cold weather isn't really my thing. I was trying to cross a pass when I wound up slipping hundreds of feet down the mountain, off ledges and crags, way away from where I started. I was barefoot, without a pack, food, water, or warm clothing. Basically like a death sentence.

(The other day I'd read some stuff on wilderness survival and not panicking in dangerous situations.) In the dream I simply started looking for paths to walk back up. There was rope on the ground covered in snow left behind from other climbers, but I didn't need it. It turns out that there were bare rocks just next to the snow that I could easily climb up, vertical roots that I could use as a rope or horizontal roots that were beautifully spaced like a ladder and perfectly sized for my hand and everything.

It's like in that dream, I was also put into a dangerous situation, but not going into fear allowed me to see the beautifully placed escape route that I had oh so conveniently fallen to the base of. God/synchronicity/whatever had my back.

What a fun game.. using these night dreams.

[Lee]

Both of your dreams are rock'n. Of course the second dream was

There's more here than a game. You be Happen'n! And I mean that in the most "un you" way.

This is great stuff Ariel!

[Eric]

On dreams, I've been having some amazing ones lately, and both this world and the dream world are blending together more and more smoothly, since I'm mostly lucid in both.

The content of them isn't important at all, but what I've noticed night after night is that, when dreaming, I suddenly have an infinite power to change anything I want to physically or otherwise "external". Flight, teleportation, telekinesis, invincibility, etc, they're all there immediately whenever I want to access them. So I play, and there's a sense of "me" flowing freely around and through the world. The dream then flows effortlessly, perfectly, and playfully from moment to moment until the body wakes up.

When I'm in this dream, the one I'm typing these words in right now, the overt physical abilities are completely gone, and in their place are more subtle abilities to do whatever I want to whenever I want to, but they're now all emotional, mental, and otherwise "internal". Joy, Peace, manifestation, abundance, new experiences and adventures, etc, they're all there immediately whenever I want to access them. So I play, and there's a sense of the world flowing freely around and through "me". Life then flows effortlessly, perfectly, and playfully from moment to moment until the body falls back asleep.

What's really been interesting is that there exists a sense that the same level of energy is open and available at all times, and is only unavailable to the extent that I resist it. The real difference is the appearance of an "opposite world". In neither place can I actually find a "me", and whenever I look, I find a vast, seemingly infinitesimal space. Cool feeling.

In both cases, the difference between "me" and "the world around me" is breaking down, more quickly in the dream world, and slightly more slowly in this world. When that breakdown is fully experienced, though, without a single doubt or shred of resistance, everyone instantly feels more and more like a cool dream character who I created and then forgot everything about them that I created. And how fascinating and cool they are now! This makes allowing for instant and powerful rapport in social situations, as well as getting anything done I genuinely want to get done, as easy and effortless as breathing.

My girlfriend tells I'm crazy while smiling; I tell her that I'm merely out of my mind while laughing.

[thepixellator]

This is a great line:

You help empower the world to change itself. You don’t change it.
You help empower others to change themselves. You don’t change them.

For those who are chronic fixers, it's difficult to cross that line, but once you do, you realize you were the log in your own eye. (to continue with the bible metaphors).

Once again, excellent post, Ariel. Go lead by example!
Jessica

[imustbecrazy]

Congratulations Ariel!!!!!

I'm so happy for you. This is a big jump and I know from your Twitter posts, something you've been trying to figure out. I love how you put it.

You help empower the world to change itself. You don’t change it.
You help empower others to change themselves. You don’t change them.

Since my experience, I know I'm supposed to guide people, help them find themselves. But I had no idea what that meant. I was in the save the world mode but had no idea how to do that, so didn't do much of anything. Not until recent years did I start to figure out what that meant. Now, I'm learning and expanding in ways I never would have imagined. I'm always amazed how little I know.

I have a couple projects I'm working on (I think I told you about one of them) that does exactly what you're saying here. And there are many of us ready to start on a much bigger scale. The time has come.

We're not saving the world. We're just helping the world save itself, one person at a time. Thank you for your wonderful post. You have the gift of passion that touches our hearts. We are so fortunate to have you.

Love and blessings,
TJ

ps. So what do I make of the dream I had of watching someone (think it was me) finding a journal that belonged to Whoopi Goldberg's grandmother. It had the usual journal entries in the front but in the middle there were wonderful sketches and in the back unknown writings that told of her spiritual calling. I knew Whoopi had to see this journal because it would explain her deep feelings of a calling and only she would know what to make of the unusual sketches. When I woke up felt the need to tell her a journal existed she didn't know about.

Too funny, our dreams!!!

[Ariel]

Here's a wonderful quote that just popped up on facebook. Fits really well here:

"You cannot quantify the actuality of the Universe, you can only quantify your idea of the Universe. Therefore, the only world that ever truly heals, is your idea of it. When you recognize the world you see is only your version of it, the world ...spontaneously transforms before you. When this is seen clearly, there are no longer any ideas preventing you from feeding whoever appears hungry, or freely giving to another." -Matt Kahn