How might your inner Teacher help you benefit from understanding that “life is but a dream”? To find out, I invite you to simply open a conversation! You can do this by journaling (as below) or through direct, active imagination and then write about it or otherwise represent what you gain from this later.
I’ll share an excerpt from an archetype dialogue with my Teacher part of self:
Self: I call upon my Teacher persona. Are you there?
Teacher: Always, yes.
S: How would you like to be addressed?
T: It depends on your reason for calling me; what is it you need?
S: Just to chat, for a blog topic about the metaphor “Life is a Dream”.
T: Okay then, call me Coach.
S: Okay then. Why Coach?
T: To realize the potentials of manifesting your Dream, a life coach can help you expose your goals.
S: That could be helpful. What would you suggest then?
{Synchronicity (aside): As I am in the process of engaging this dialogue, Tolkien’s Return of the King is on TV. I had forgotten that Frodo and Bilbo Baggins both depart with Gandalf at the story’s finale, on an elvish boat that heads out to unknown and indescribable Adventure.}
T: How could it be otherwise? Bilbo and Frodo are Adventurers by their deepest nature.
S: How does this relate to living life as a Dream?
T: You must follow your dreams. To do this, listen to your heart, then act accordingly.
S: My heart aches lately. I long to embark on the next phase of my great adventure, too. But I wish I could do this, when I go, with fellows such as Frodo has; true friends of the Soul.
T: Follow your heart then.
S: I don’t know what you mean.
T: You are never alone, not when you realize HOW Life is a Dream. Your fellows are right beside you, and within, always.
S: Thank You. I begin to perceive what you are teaching me. Separation is an Illusion.
T: Trust the process. The law of spiritual economy ensures that everything is interconnected; nothing is wasted…
I gain from this encounter that since Life is But a Dream, there are no limitations except for those we choose to accept for purposes of learning life’s lessons. There is a freedom to ACT in the direction that accords with our own deepest nature. A dream is malleable; it can be redirected according to the will of the Dreamer. This does, however, require (and reward!) an exercise of mindful awareness.
On another level, as someone reminded me this week, we can also think of God or Higher Wisdom itself as “the Divine Dreamer”. In this sense, mine or your dream-life is neither accidental nor random. Remember to ask of any life situation: “Whose Dream IS this, really?”
I welcome your comments and stories. I invite you to engage in Archetype Dialogue with your own Inner Teacher persona!
Better Endings 