Excited and his heart was filled with peace. He could hardly wait to tell his people what he had discovered, but there were no words to explain it. He tried to tell the others, but they could not understand. They could see that he had changed and that something beautiful was radiating from his eyes and his voice. They noticed that he no longer had judgment about anything or anyone.

He was no longer like anyone else. He could understand everyone very well, but no one could understand him. They believed that he was an incarnation of God and he smiled when he heard this, and he said it is true. I am god, but you are also god we’re the same. You and I are images of light.

We are god, but still, the people didn’t understand him. He had discovered that he was a mirror for the rest of the people, a mirror in which he could see himself. Everyone is a mirror. He said he saw himself in everyone, but nobody saw him as themselves and he realized that everyone was dreaming, but without awareness without knowing what they really are. They couldn’t see him like themselves, because there was a wall of fog or smoke between the mirrors and that wall of fog was made by the interpretation of images of light the dream of humans.

Then he knew that he would soon forget all that he had learned. He wanted to remember all the visions he had had, so he decided to call himself the smokey mirror so that he would always know that matter is a mirror, and the smoke in-between is what keeps us from knowing what we are. He said I am the smoky mirror because I am looking at myself and all of you, but we don’t recognize each other because of the smoke in between us. That smoke is the dream and the mirror. Are you the dreamer [, Music, ], domestication, and the dream of the planet?

What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. You’Re dreaming right now. At this moment, you’re dreaming with the brain awake dreaming is the main function of the mind, and the mind: dreams 24 hours a day, it dreams when the brain is awake and it also dreams when the brain is asleep. The difference is that when the brain is awake, there is a material frame that makes us perceive things in a linear way. When we go to sleep, we do not have a frame and the dream has the tendency to change constantly as humans are dreaming.

All the time before we were born the humans before we created a big outside dream that we will call society’s dream or the dream of the planet. The dream of the planet is the collective dream of billions of smaller personal dreams which together, create a dream of a family, a dream of a community, a dream of a city, a dream of a country, and, finally, a dream of the whole humanity. The dream of the planet includes all of society’s rules, beliefs, laws, its religions, its different cultures, and ways to be its governments, schools, social events, and holidays. We are born with the capacity to learn how to dream and the humans who live before us teach us how to dream the way society dreams. The outside dream has so many rules that when a new human is born, we hook the child’s attention and introduce these rules into his or her mind.

The outside dream uses mom and dad the schools and religion to teach us how to dream. Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive. We can perceive millions of things simultaneously, but using our attention we can hold whatever we want to perceive in the foreground of our mind. The adults around us hooked our attention and put information into our minds through repetition. That is the way we learned everything we know by using our attention, we learned a whole reality, a whole dream.

We learned how to behave in society, what to believe and what not to believe what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. What is good and what is bad, what is beautiful and what is ugly, what is right and what is wrong. It was all there already all that knowledge, all those rules, and concepts about how to behave in the world when you were in school. You sat in a little chair and put your attention on what the teacher was teaching you. When you went to church, you put your attention on what the priest or minister was telling you.

It is the same dynamic with mom and dad brothers and sisters. They were all trying to hook your attention. We also learned to hook the attention of other humans and we developed a need for attention which can become very competitive. Children compete for the attention of their parents, their teachers, and their friends. Look at me, look what I’m doing!

Hey, I’m here, the need for attention becomes very strong and continues into adulthood. The outside dream hooks our attention and teaches us what to believe beginning with the language that we speak. Language is the code for understanding and communication between humans every letter, and every word in each language is an agreement. Once we understand the code, our attention is hooked and the energy is transferred from one person to another. It was not your choice to speak English.

You didn’t choose your religion or your moral values. They were already there before you were born. We never had the opportunity to choose what to believe or what not to believe. We never chose even the smallest of these agreements. We didn’t even choose our own names as children.

We didn’t have the opportunity to choose our beliefs, but we agreed with the information that was passed to us from the dream of the planet via other humans. The only way to store information is by agreement. The outside dream may hook our attention, but if we don’t agree, we don’t store that information as soon as we agree, we believe it – and this is called faith to have faith – is to believe unconditionally. That’S how we learn as children, children believe everything adults say we agree with them and our faith is so strong that the belief system controls our whole dream of life. We didn’t choose these beliefs and we may have rebelled against them, but we were not strong enough to win the rebellion.

The result is surrender to the beliefs with our agreement. I call this process the domestication of humans and through this domestication, we learn how to live and how dream. In human domestication. The information from the outside dream is conveyed to the inside dream, creating our whole belief system. First, the child is taught the names of things mom, dad milk bottle day by day, at home, at school, at church, and on television, we are told how to live.

What kind of behavior is acceptable? The outside dream teaches us how to be a human. We have a whole concept of what a woman is and what a man is, and we also learn to judge we judge ourselves. We judge other people, we judge the neighbors. Children are domesticated, the same way that we domesticate a dog, a cat, or any other animal.

In order to teach a dog, we punish the dog and give it rewards. We train our children, whom we love so much the same way that we train any domesticated animal with a system of punishment and reward we’re told you’re a good boy or you’re a good girl when we do what mom and dad want us to do. When we don’t, we are a bad girl or a bad boy. When we went against the rules, we were punished when we went along with the rules, we got a reward, we were punished many times a day and we were also rewarded many times a day. Soon, we became afraid of being punished and also afraid of not receiving the reward.

The reward is the attention that we got from our parents or from other people like siblings teachers and friends. We soon develop a need to hook other people’s attention in order to get the reward. The reward feels good and we keep doing what others want us to do in order to get the reward with that fear of being punished and that fear of not getting the reward. We start pretending to be what we are not just to please others just to be good enough for someone else. We try to please mom and dad we try to please the teachers at school.

We try to please the church.

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