Let love speak to you and show you the way. In a world in chaos, it’s the only way to roll. Choose love as your path. Choose love as your language. Choose love as your every thought, word, and deed. It’s really the only way to go if you want to go up rather than down.
Let your heart be your main guide, for the heart has a direct line to spirit. You may think the brain is the center of human consciousness, but in truth, the brain only takes care of the body. The heart takes care of the spirit. Turn more often to your heart center and ask for its help. Quiet the mind and listen to the heart instead. Learn its language, the universal language of love and begin a new dialogue, within and without. You won’t be disappointed!
Water, in its highest aspect is a symbol of our high Soul, the ultimate source of who we really are. Water symbolizes ultimate unity. Lacking in differentiated parts, the river flows in its wholeness: the Tao.
At the level of everyday consciousness, the world is perceived in a highly differentiated way that separates, classifies, and organizes energy into distinct objects that enable an individual to navigate life in a material world.
This perspective has the side effect of obscuring or downright blinding us to our underlying interdependence and oneness and also sends us into deep opposition within ourselves and with our many neighbors.
When snow appears in a dream, it represents the Truth from the high Soul being transmitted to the plane of everyday consciousness in the form of water, congealed. This intervention from the high Soul freezes water into snow, as we are not ready to grasp its full message at our current level of consciousness; we need to first melt the snow.
Melting the snow begins with the recognition that its appearance in the dream is significant. To contemplate its meaning initiates the melting process. It is likely that the message will not be revealed in an immediate eureka moment, though indeed that is possible.
Contemplation has its own limits, as it issues from the mental plane, which tends to think in terms of opposites and differentiated parts. However, reliving vs merely thinking about a dream can give rise to spontaneous associations that begin to decipher the message from the high Soul. In this way, contemplation makes space for direct communication, as well as intuition.
To fully melt the snow, one must enter into communion with the greater unity of the high Soul. From one perspective this means fully owning every aspect of the dream as part of one’s wholeness. Regardless of who the characters are in the dream, their drama, at a certain level, is one’s own drama.
What distinguishes this perspective from narcissism is its willingness to permit a fuller knowing of self, particularly aspects that function autonomously in the darkness of the shadow. Rather than dismiss the existence of other, this approach promotes solidarity with other in a greater acceptance of the universality of all human experience. In contrast, in narcissism, one is the only one who exists; there simply is no other.
Taking a walk in the snow in last night’s dream, I unknowingly found myself nearly falling off a precipice. Time became elongated. I had full clarity that my balance had shifted beyond the tipping point; indeed it seemed I was about to fall. In deep slow motion, I next experienced a counter energy that gently reversed my body movement like a rubber Gumby, as my feet remained planted on the ground. Balance was restored.
This dream speaks to many dimensions of my being, but at the most universal—that of the high Soul—it follows up the message of last week’s blog, The Turning Point. Here the turning point becomes the tipping point, the point of apparent no return. And yet, despite the inevitability of deep crash, balance was restored.
The message from the highest center of unity suggests that though the current Earth drama may go so far as to throw it out of its normal elliptical revolution, a return to balance is possible. Regardless of the deeply exaggerated precipitous ledge we find our world currently in we will swing back.
With this knowing, seek refuge in the heart center, the Truth center that melts all the congealed snow.
Even as you turn inward and seek balance and peace within, turn also outward and observe nature all around you, its proclivities, its tendencies, and its ingrained behaviors. Patterns galore exist in nature, just as they do in human nature, repetitive and predictable. But just as there is the unpredictable in human behavior so is there the unpredictable in nature. Learn the signs of coming unpredictable events in nature so that you may be alert to them in human behavior as well. Premonitions and intuitions are equally as guiding as what you see with your own eyes. Become an astute student of nature so that you may become master of your own human self, and not only understand yourself better but the greater way of the world and where it is headed as well. In alignment with nature, perfect your natural inner guidance, the source of your own true knowledge, foresight, and wisdom, your spirit within that knows all. As within, so without.
Turn inward now, away from the discontent outside of you, and get centered in what is truly right. For only then, if you are centered and calm in the heart’s truth and the heart’s knowing will you have the fortitude and knowledge to proceed along a proper and rightful path. A path of heart supersedes all other paths. Begin there, and then see what happens to bring about peace without. Peace within, peace without.