In November, 2007, I had a ‘big’ dream. I knew it was ‘Big’ at the time, but didn’t fully grasp *how* Big until it began playing out in waking life on a public as well as private level. Below is a summary of the Dream. To read the original entry, see the posts titled ‘Beyond the Lava River’.
The Dream (summary)
In the dream, something very large had imploded and all were driven to the edge of a chasm that could not be crossed. The implosion was so big, the cloud of debris could be seen rising high into the atmosphere though the implosion itself was beyond the horizon. I had been at the edge of the chasm for a long time, not knowing what to do. People were running from the implosion, and there was fear, panic, and trying not to fall into the chasm even as the press of the growing crowds pushed people in/over. Fear, panic, and trying not to fall in made no difference. In time, the shock wave from the implosion would eventually sweep all over edge into the chasm. I was not afraid, only confused and uncertain. I knew I needed to do something, I simply did not know what to do.
Among the hundreds of thousands, there were also those few who were curious, not afraid, even excited. Something wonderful and momentous was close at hand. These people would pause for a moment (or not) at the chasm, and then fall in on purpose. One of these people passed close to me. I clearly saw the look of eager anticipation on his face, how he knew something important and welcomed what was unfolding , his momentary surprise at the edge of the chasm, and then his open and fully embraced, joyful cannonball-style fall into the chasm. I hadn’t understood that this (falling in on purpose) was an option. I realized in a flash ‘I can do that!” And so I did, literally diving into the chasm. In the moment before I entered the chasm (and what looked like a lava river), I realized ‘this is gonna hurt’ and was, simultaneously, relieved and grateful that the pain, while intense, would be very brief.
I ‘came to’ on the other side, in a completely different world. Gently rolling land, green, trees, clear clean sky — and no sign of human civilization. I had apparently been here for some time and was part of a small group of people who had ‘fallen through’ the chasm/lava river and had come out the other side into this place. We were the only ones. We had in common that we had not been afraid, had, in fact, been curious, joyful, excited, etc., as we fell into the chasm/lava river. In the time we had been in this new world, we found things ‘from the time before’ (which, in the dream, I knew was the time and the world of our current waking life). We brought these items to a single location in our area and used them as needed. They were a kind of temporary ‘cushion’ and we understood they were finite. In the dream, desks and office supplies were among the ‘found’ items, and the supplies associated with me and some others were represented by the colors used by a program in a job I had been involved with for some time. Even as these items helped us ease the transition in this new place, they would soon enough be gone and so we sought, found, and learned renewable, re-usable alternatives within nature. There was no money (currency, cash, etc.). There was no need for money. What needed to be done was done. Roles and tasks were fluid, and sub groups formed and dissolved as the need arose for various tasks and activities.
Now, we were coming together, gathering as a whole group, to consider ‘what’s next?’, and to explore the questions and possible solutions at hand for our next step(s). We had been, individually and with others, exploring the questions and possible solutions. Among the questions being explored were those related to preparing for the time when the ‘found’ items from ‘the time before’ were all used up and we would live in direct contact with the earth. There was also a question about money, as we were of a size where money could be a useful thing. Only charred coins have been found — paper money did not make it through the barrier — was it possible to bring money from the ‘time before’ to here, did we need someone who ‘understands how money works?’. Several of us went to the barrier between the worlds — a shimmering energy boundary that looked like a deep and painful bruise all yellow, dark purple, and red — a ribbon through part of the sky which dipped close to the earth at one point. To return to ‘the time before’ we created a kind of energy ‘bubble’ in which we could travel through the barrier — this energy bubble would also enable us to bring someone back from ‘the time before’ who had not gone through the chasm/lava river as we had. Our plan was to see if we could bring not just money, but also someone who knew how to work with money for the purpose we had in mind. We crossed the barrier and returned with a ‘money man’. But when the energy bubble opened, the entire environment instantly went on ‘high alert’ and we immediately understood the danger. (The concept of) money — how it was used, handled, thought of in that other world — was toxic to this world. We had (unknowingly) brought an illness, a sickness, a disease into our world. We quickly returned the ‘money man’ to ‘the time before’ on the other side of the bruise. With the ‘money man’ gone, the environment breathed with relief and relaxed from high alert. The money sickness was contained and a disease pathogen had been removed before damage was done. We would share what we learned with the group when it gathered as a whole.
At one point as we came together, in a conversation with another person, I commented that it would have been nice to have had a desk like the one they were using (a desk of sufficient size) ‘in my last job’. In the dream, ‘my last job’ referred to the job I had ‘before’ crossing over, in the time of the implosion and fear/panic, on the other side of the barrier that separated this world from the ‘before’ — the job which I held in waking life at the time I had this dream. The job I had long ago outgrown and needed to leave. In the dream, ‘last’ also meant ‘final’. In this place, there were no ‘jobs’ as there are here in the world we currently know.
The dream continued with several specific scenes and then an overwhelming personal ‘ah ha’ insight regarding my part in this group — an understanding of and clarity of purpose — a way our group could help those who will also enter this world, how I ‘fit’ and what, exactly, I can do which benefits the whole of the group and contributes to the larger question of ‘what do we do next?’ — before drawing to a close and my waking up in this world again.
Since November 2007, this dream has shown itself to be a kind of ‘template’ for what was to come, though not necessarily in the way I thought when I first had the dream.
(continued in ‘The Dream Goes Public’ )