Entering the Dream
September 16, 2009
I was listening to a programme from the TV series “Numb3rs” (in which a maths genius applies mathematical principles to tackling crime), when something was said that really touched base with me.
It was the insights from a maths professor who had just returned to Earth after spending 6 months on an international space station. He talked about his experiences in space and said -
“I entered my dream. My being became bigger than my body, bigger than my history.”
My ears could have tingled, for in the way that he spoke it you were taken into a sublime experience.
“I entered my dream.” Feel what that implies. Feel how moving and exciting it is, to enter your biggest dream and to know that you are living it.
Such a revelation does not require us to physically leave the Earth (thank goodness!) But it’s the ability to detach from our history and know ourselves differently in the NOW: the freedom to define the nature of our beingness and the context in which we operate, that gives us a great sense of vast possibilities.
Somehow the words resound the achievement of the first moon landing, and recall our collective looking back at Earth, to view the precious space that we physically occupy.
Our beings are bigger than our physical space. Our beings form the infinite. We get a sense, a feeling of what that might be. As humans, living the spell of history, we have watched the skies and wondered about creation. Yet the moment we cross the barrier and become vaster than the sum total of all our experiences, the moment that we live unfettered by the constrictions of time/space thinking, then we no longer talk about life in terms of dreams waiting to be lived.
There is nothing to compare with knowing that you are living the vastness in every possible sense of meaning. Bigger than the world, the universe, the deep spaces of creation. Bigger than dreams, bigger than physical reality – for you know that collectively we create the vision of what it all is.