You know that feeling when you are dreaming and you feel trapped, out of control, and stupid but then you wake up and you are aware and back in control?
That’s the physical analogy to becoming spiritually awake.
This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” Ephesians 5:14
So many people are walking around in a slumber, their subconscious programming on autopilot. They need to wake up. They need to bring conscious light to the darkness of their subconscious. They need to become aware of themselves and aware that they are dreaming and that a world of light and possibility awaits those who are awake.
Recommended Movies to Watch:
Inception (2010):
Key Scene “Waking Up” https://youtu.be/XQPy88-E2zo?si=IC9-upvEkNK0QStT
Field of Dreams (1989):
Key Scene “Is this heaven? No. It’s Iowa. https://youtu.be/izF0LoBkhZY?si=kJnkrRSXrBhrxdQV
Titanic (1997):
Key Scene “Jack saved me in every way a person can be saved” https://youtu.be/-ZKTxvLD9vw?si=jExL_rGE1QJ-qrvA
The Matrix (1999):
Key Scene: “He’s beginning to believe” https://youtu.be/aXNLdw9CUgE?si=82vPcwc0kpgLxfkt
Song illustrating this “Awakening”
And Can it Be? (1738) by Charles Wesley: https://youtu.be/Tu2uA6U4Fxg?si=L0V54fkpOFTzIoIv
Key Lyrics from the fourth verse:
Fast bound in sin and nature's night ;
Thine eye diffused a quick'ningt ray,
I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;
My chains fell off, my heart was free;
I rose, went forth and followed Thee.
Bible passages illustrating this phenomena
“Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized,” Acts 9:18
“They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.” Acts 2:3
Video of me explaining this concept with all the associated clips and passages:
https://youtu.be/LGIWVkbSRPM?si=bSI22byB_N4fn5hE
THE DREAM THAT MUST BE INTERPRETED
This place is a dream.
Only a sleeper considers it real.
Then death comes like dawn,
and you wake up laughing
at what you thought was your grief.
But there's a difference with this dream.
Everything cruel and unconscious
done in the illusion of the present world,
all that does not fade away at the death-waking.
It stays,
and it must be interpreted.
All the mean laughing,
all the quick, sexual wanting,
those torn coats of Joseph,
they change into powerful wolves
that you must face.
The retaliation that sometimes comes now,
the swift, payback hit,
is just a boy's game
to what the other will be.
You know about circumcision here.
It's full castration there!
And this groggy time we live,
this is what it's like:
A man goes to sleep in the town
where he has always lived, and he dreams he's living
in another town.
In the dream, he doesn't remember
the town he's sleeping in his bed in. He believes
the reality of the dream town.
The world is that kind of sleep.
The dust of many crumbled cities
settles over us like a forgetful doze,
but we are older than those cities.
We began
as a mineral. We emerged into plant life
and into animal state, and then into being human,
and always we have forgotten our former states,
except in early spring when we slightly recall
being green again.
That's how a young person turns
toward a teacher. That's how a baby leans
toward the breast, without knowing the secret
of its desire, yet turning instinctively.
Humankind is being led along an evolving course,
through this migration of intelligences,
and though we seem to be sleeping,
there is an inner wakefulness
that directs the dream,
and that will eventually startle us back
to the truth of who we are.
- Rumi
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