I awoke to an overcast sky, which got me contemplating the clouds. Joni Mitchell reminded us in Both Sides Now that some things are lost and some things are gained each day, depending on from which side of the cloud you are looking. At the tail end of Moody Blues The Night (Nights in White Satin) from Days of Future Past, we are asked to decide “which is right and which is an illusion.” A few years after the aforementioned recordings, Richard Bach ‘s Illusions was published. We all have a reason for being here. We have a mission, which is why we find ourselves alive at this time, in the body we happen to be inhabiting. There have been times, when facing challenges, that I just wanted to abort my mission and go home (to my Source.) Bach reminds us; however, that if we are still breathing, our mission isn’t finished. Others have told us that life itself is an illusion – that it is just a dream we are dreaming; but all these words of wisdom do not prevent us from taking life too seriously. We believe too often that the dream is real. Amy and Emily affirmed for us that “It’s only Life, afterall.”
Scientists have shown us that we are not even solid, including those things around us. We are actually groupings of molecules and atoms dancing around and vibrating in patterns made to look like something solid. We are like the stars twinkling in the night sky, with vast space as much inside of us, as outside.
People have pondered the idea that perhaps our lives are merely a dream, and that the dreams we have while sleeping, are what is real. If in fact, life is just a dream that we are having, it is time to wake up. The dream of violence, fighting among ourselves, and killing one another, has turned into a nightmare. This horrific dream of destroying other species and our planet is far worse than any horror movie. The only way to end this frightening scene we have created, is for humanity to wake up. We must look beyond the illusions to the other side, where only love is real. If you are still breathing, your mission is not yet finished. The world is depending on you. This is a dream that we are all having together, but we must look beyond the illusions to transform it from a nightmare, back into a dream.
