Kingsley L. Dennis, Contributor
Waking Instances

Allow us to start with a narrative …

Human life is a narrative. And but it isn’t one single story. It’s an open guide stuffed with wealthy, wonderful, highly effective, and generally harmful, tales. Humanity is kind of actually dwelling its personal 1001 Nights but throughout millennia. And similar to that guide of masterful storytelling, there have been unbelievable tales that stuffed the minds, and hearts, of many thousands and thousands of individuals all through the ages. We reside upon and inside a narrative every second of our lives. A few of these tales are better than others – extra epic, extra highly effective, and extra influential. Others are every day tales that fill our pockets and organize our hours. But over and above our tales there has at all times been a grand narrative. It’s this grand, sweeping story that narrates, and influences, the overall path wherein humanity strikes.  And this grand narrative is usually so compelling, so stuffed with persuasive element, that we consider in it wholeheartedly. Like a tremendous story advised to a toddler earlier than bedtime, this story then turns into woven into that evening’s dream. Upon waking, the dream feels so actual that it lingers far lengthy into the day and till it’s replenished as soon as once more earlier than bedtime. And but generally, inside particular circumstances, the dream is so fascinating and convincing that it causes the dreamer by no means to awaken. The dreamer continues to dream the dream that they have been advised earlier than sleeping.

Human historical past is sort of a dream inside a dream – an inversion inside an phantasm. And as many dreamers know, there are ranges inside desires. Like a Russian Matryoshka doll, there are nesting layers of tales that every one mix to create an overarching narrative physique or realm. And many individuals, like good dreamers, discover themselves caught up inside one of many layers. And it may be virtually inconceivable to get out. Despite the fact that we’re technically awake, we’re additionally dreaming. Why? As a result of we live by way of explicit tales and narratives which were sown, implanted, or entwined in our heads. They get into our unconscious and from that privileged place they start to affect our behaviour and pondering from behind the scenes. Even once we suppose we’re awake, we’re by no means free from these tales, narratives, and constructs that handle our perceptions and create the arc of our dreaming lives. To really be awake, an individual would want to know how you can drop all these tales and step out of the assemble; that’s, to show ourselves the precise method up throughout the inversion. This may occasionally even have been achieved by just a few individuals, but it has at all times been thought of one thing odd, esoteric, or mystical to take action. As a result of to the dreamers, anybody who steps out of the dream have to be some bizarre eccentric, should they not? Or that’s maybe simply how the primary story goes.

‘We’re dreaming the mistaken desires.” ~Anon

The mainstream story doesn’t like very a lot when dreamers – sorry, individuals – attempt to go away. Why would individuals wish to go away when the story is so compelling? Total, nevertheless, that is hardly ever an issue as so few individuals ever understand that it’s all a dream inside a dream, so the problem rarely comes up. So, we could get again to our story?

… Issues in life should not as they appear… Human life is lived as a normalization of this inverted actuality assemble. That’s the reason life is crammed with so many irregularities, oddities, and downright insanity. Everyone knows, or instinctively really feel, that one thing has gone astray.

We now consider in something as a result of nothing seemingly has any fact to it. We’ve grow to be misplaced throughout the reflections of our personal mirror world. Seeing our reflections smile again at us, we’re content material with the distraction. Every little thing have to be okay, we inform our reflections – the governments wouldn’t misinform us, would they? We’re protected by benevolent authoritative constructions that look after us like our moms. Oh expensive. Topsy-Turvey.

To allow you to in on just a little secret… it’s been like this for a very long time. Solely that till not too long ago, the waking dream of the Inversion was good at maintaining everybody asleep (besides the uncommon few) as a result of the trickle of consciousness throughout the actuality assemble was low. However one thing has been taking place – for those who haven’t seen? There’s been cracks within the veil; and extra consciousness has been seeping by way of. And it’s been stepping into our heads, even when we hadn’t seen. Steadily, individuals have been gaining increasingly consciousness over this factor they name the ‘human situation.’ There have been just a few distinctive people inside every era that spoke about this stuff, and even wrote about them; however few individuals listened and fewer nonetheless learn any of their writings (as a result of they’d been saved illiterate). However nonetheless, the gradual seeping of consciousness into this actuality assemble continued. And the insights saved coming. Some individuals have been impressed; others gained revelations. However the numbers remained small. The Inversion continued to impose itself; to maintain the blinders on the dreamers while turning up the music. Higher distractions have been provided; a glittering array of leisure sprang up. And incentives got to these individuals who started to open simply one in every of their eyes. These few who suspected one thing have been noticed early on and fast-tracked up the hierarchy of the ‘individuals pyramid’ in order that they benefited most from the pleasures and positive factors of the Inversion. Then these increased ups would wish to put money into maintaining the system precisely the way it was – a safety of self-interests. The lots of dreamers – the sleeping mob as they have been known as – remained swaying to the lullaby. However slowly, the frequency of the lullaby was being modified. A brand new vibration was being added. I feel you get the gist of the place that is going.

And it arrives to right here: the place you might be sitting proper now.

So – what are you going to do about it…?

In regards to the Writer

Kingsley L. Dennis is the creator of The Phoenix Era: A New Period of Connection, Compassion, and Consciousness, and The Sacred Revival: Magic, Thoughts & Which means in a Technological Age, obtainable at Amazon. Go to him on the net at http://www.kingsleydennis.com/.