Dreaming — MYSTIC SISTER

I grew up being told that I couldn’t spend my life living in another world. That I was too much of a dreamer, that I was out of touch with ‘reality’ and needed to ‘come back down to earth’, that there was something wrong with me for rejecting the world around me and wanting to escape. I was scolded for my innate desire to create and escape to another world inside my own head and in the spaces around me. I was never given a chance to explore this profound ability with curiosity rather than shame. Well, all of those people were wrong. We can all dream and imagine the world we want to live in, and if we believe in it strongly and fiercely enough, every small action we take will be another step in making that dream become our reality.

As kids we were dreamers; we used dreams to survive and escape from the messed up things we saw and endured. Many of us grew up in broken homes, in violent environments, in poverty, chaos, emotional distress. If it wasn’t in our homes, it was everywhere in the world outside of it. We went to school, we grew up and got jobs - some of us grew up less privileged and missed even these opportunities, we became indoctrinated and conditioned to accept the way things are. We were fed media that insisted the world is a certain way, without being told who profited off the fabrication of those realities. We built a personal and collective reality based on our limitations and institutions rather than our potential and our dreams. We innocently believed that this was the way things should be. Well, it is not. Just because it has been this way in the past, does not mean it needs to be that way in the future. We still need our abilities to dream, more than ever. We still need to resist. And when we dream, collectively, we shift our collective reality into one that is more in alignment with our needs and with the divine nature of our souls. Our dreams become less about escape and more about hope. About love. About connection and community. The mechanism of our dreams shifts from survival into creation and purpose. Dreaming becomes a necessity for the evolution of our souls.

The world is a hard place to live in. How could we not actively dream of a different world? So much of our life experience has been created and manufactured without our consent. Dreams are our way out. When we align with our dreams, we create the possibility that they could be, or even already are, real. So much about the world is constantly looking to the past, being bound by it, repeating it. We pore over history books and outdated religious texts, instead of writing and creating our own. We become so obsessed with what was that we forget what is, and most importantly, what could be.

In Shamanism, the process of Soul Retrieval involves going back, usually guided by an experienced shaman, to reclaim parts of our souls that have been left behind in the past. This usually occurs when we fragment due to trauma or unfavourable experiences. The idea is to reclaim and invite the lost and forgotten parts of your soul back into your body, to bring you closer to wholeness. To return to the events in which you might have split, and retrieve and reclaim the parts of you that were left behind. Rarely do we even ask WHY it might be that parts of ourselves do not yet want to return. What kind of world, life, body are we coming home to? What work do we need to do before inviting these lost parts of ourselves back? How can we be trusted when we were never taught to trust ourselves? An even lesser known shamanic practice is something called Future Destiny Retrieval. In this process, you are using your imagination to dream of a potential future destiny (which there are an infinite amount of of in the universe), and as you hold that image in your mind, it becomes real. Your vibration slowly raises to match that of this potential destiny - making it easier to manifest into reality as you are now in alignment with it. Everything is vibration, including our dreams. Outside of this dimension, time is not linear. Therefore we can move fluidly between the past, present, and future, because they are all happening at once. This process is CRUCIAL to creating the change we want to see in the world, in our own personal lives. Everything that has ever been created started with an idea, a thought, a dream.

The world needs your dreams now more than ever. The Earth is crying for reconnection, for reconciliation, for healing. We are all a part of the earth, and therefore our souls are crying out for the same. The hardest part of dreaming isn’t learning how to dream - we all know how, we have just forgotten. It’s giving ourselves permission to try again, and not waiting for someone else to give that permission to us. It’s deprogramming and breaking down the conditioning that has made us forget that we ever knew how. Dreaming isn’t just something we do at night when we are sleeping; when we actively dream as a spiritual practice, we gather information and gain knowledge about our needs and desires from our subconscious and bring them to consciousness. Through our dreams, we become more awake.

Don’t accept something just because it’s being offered to you, including a version of someone else’s reality. When we learn to say no, we remember how to say yes. To ourselves, and to the universe. To decide what really matters for us. To become conscious co-creators of our own existence. To trust our ideas. To expand. To free ourselves of the patterns and restrictions of the past. We stop longing to go somewhere else, and begin the act of inviting that ‘somewhere else’ to come closer to where we already are. All of our dreams are within reach if we learn how to listen to them.

Dreaming is an act of resistance. Dreaming is an act of justice. Dreaming is an act of love. When we dream, we stop trying to change the past, and instead shift our focus towards creating our future. To embody Spirit and know ourselves as Creator. To imagine and engineer our own liberation. To create our own destinies. To build the world we want and invite others to join it. To collaborate in a way that is more in harmony with nature, ourselves and each other. And to bring ourselves one step closer to making those dreams our reality.