The dream of reality is shared. No one dreams alone.

Minds are not part of the dream, but it's there that we will meet when we awake together.

You support me in my illusions, as I support you in yours. Is death a part of your dream? Together we keep the dream alive.

Although the forms we experience are exclusive to each, it is the underlying currents the forms ride upon that we all share.

In my dream a loved one dies, while in yours, sickness impoverishes a body. Yet suffering attends both. You will support the ‘reality’ of my suffering, because I support yours. Dreams seem different, yet, they have always been the same. They are interdependent, contrasting illusions of sickness and health, war and peace, love and hate.

Six billion dreamers support each others dream by dreaming up a 'world' all their own.

You are the dreamer of your dream, as I am center of mine. We seem to be apart in the dream, but are co-conspirators in cause and effect. An illusion of wealth contrasts with poverty, while our fears and joys seem to compete in our collaborative collusion. I support your illusions, as you support mine and together we make it “real.” Always together as one (dreaming we are apart).

The moment either of us chooses to end the dream, all dreams must die. Six billion minds, each cause and effect. There is no First Cause to illusion. I have allowed your illusion as, simultaneously, you allow mine.

Your satisfaction must contrast with my disappointment for both to be "real." My illusion of happiness is distinguished in opposition to your illusion of misery. You direct my performances, as I direct yours. My effects make you cause and your cause makes you an effect of me.

You cause the dream in which I control your controlling my control of you.

I can never fulfill your purpose for me. Nor will you fulfill the purposes I apply to you and in that, the dream persists. Sometimes you dream that I make you angry or sad or even happy, but if you are cause, then I can only be mere effect. We can never truly meet in the dream and our bodies insure against that ever happening.

But I must have your support, for my dream to continue and you require my services as well. If one refuses to play, then the game ends for both. Yet, as long as you are part of my dream, I will be with you in yours. What we "see," is what we agree to see and and, therefore, what we see is proof of our agreement.

Do you see death? So do I. Yet, if one of us breaks that contract, death can no longer be visible.

We are both cause and effect, for we are one. I cause my dream, while you are merely an effect of me. Yet, as an effect of my dream, you are cause to your own, while I am nothing but an effect of you. We all collaborate together in cause and effect of our mutual interlocking dreams of “reality.”

As long as we both share in dreaming of death and suffering, it must be "real" and it is this shared part of the dream that makes dreaming seem separate. We must agree we are separate in order to dream of meeting as bodies. You must share in my illusion of 'self' for me to share in yours. The moment you choose to awaken from your dream, my dreaming must end as well, for without you as an effect, I can no longer be cause.

One dreamer cannot be both cause and effect, because all dreams are.

To wake me is to awaken yourself, as you can only wake with my help. No one wakes alone, because no one dreams alone. We will eventually forget our dreams, but not each other. Never each other, because to forget is to remember. That can never change, simply because it's not a dream.


Sweet dreams are made of these
Who am I to disagree?
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something
Some of them want to use you
Some of the them wanna get used by you
Some of them wanna abuse you
Some of them wanna be abused
(Annie Lennox)

Recently I came across an interesting stock market report by CNN ("the most trusted name in news"), entitled "Make Fear and Greed Work for You."

"Those are the emotions that rule the markets, and changes in stock prices simply reflect the swing of the pendulum between the two extremes."

Actually, those are the emotions that rule the world, as long as the world embraces acquisition and loss as defining it. Therefore, those who experience the 'world' will be taught to define themselves by those standards. My gain is your loss and, in a world of limits, there must always be winners and losers.

Capitalist markets and monetary-value systems are egoic inventions manufactured to define the ego-self through fear and greed or loss and acquisition. Both states of mind accentuate "you" as existing and without them, the ‘self' could not exist and you could not know your ‘self' as "you" now do.

Many wish to extricate themselves from this dynamic by refusing to play. But who has not experienced fear or greed and conducted their life accordingly? In fact, your daily functioning is solely based on acquisition and defending against loss. These are the games of the ego and we generally refer to our participation as "life."

Unfortunately, most spiritual ideologies are unsuccessful in defining the self through "love," because they, too, embrace the egoic desire for acquisition. Seeking to acquire a "spiritual goal" (awakening, enlightenment, non-duality) that perpetuates disengagement from the world is a problem, because it has always been true that if you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem.

Postmodern ego exists, or self-actualizes, through what it acquires. Loss is equivalent to psychological death (recall the actual suicides in the market collapse of last year). We grieve loss, because it is a psychological dying of the self, bit by bit. It's not the death of a loved one the ego grieves, but the loss of the love object to the ‘self.'

Ego's do not like to lose and, because of loss, may experience a living-death. Deprivation or loss defines the self as rigidly as does acquisition or 'getting.'

Fear and greed don't just the fuel capitalist markets, but are components of the ego-self or that package of beliefs you define as "you." Greed demands competitive acquisition and fear demands defending, or protecting, what you have acquired. Whether cooking the books to hide huge bank losses or "keep your dog off my property!" You will do what it takes to defend what you have acquired simply because you believe it defines you.

‘Life' is defined as protecting what you have acquired believing it defines "you" and the U.S. constitution was based more on protecting property rights, than in upholding "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Property rights, or monetary value, is the measure through which your "happiness" is determined. Without those standards defining your ‘self,' you would become desperate because the beliefs that defined you would now negate you as less than 'alive.'

As a collective consciousness, we are beginning to experience an Age of Desperation (and it may not be "quiet").

When the foundation of your self-defining belief-system is suddenly pulled out from under you, you will experience a free-fall into doubt and fear. This is why your defining foundation must not be built on the shifting sands of a self-definition extracted from what the world teaches, because the world teaches greed and fear.

Become an infinite player in the games the ego devises. With no expectation of outcome, you will experience no loss. Expect rewards and you will experience deprivation and define your 'self' through absence as opposed to presence, lack as opposed to fulfillment and bondage as opposed to freedom. When you have nothing to gain, because you have nothing to lose, fear and greed can no longer limit "you."