Into the Void

Transcript

This is how your life is already wonderful.

I was thinking about this dream that I had about going into the void.

What happened was I am having this dream that is half lucid maybe three quarters lucid perhaps and Im in a sort of very dense garden. More like a forest than a garden and I am walking through the garden and I see this tunnel formed by a bunch of trees or bushes or hedges.

So there’s a bunch or circles or rings of these bushes and I look into this tunnel of bushes and see at the end there is this profound darkness. I start walking into the tunnel and in some moment I think “maybe I shouldn’t be going in here”.

But for whatever reason the impulse in me surges and actually yes I am going in here.

And I go into this tunnel, into the unknown and I venture to this profound darkness but there is this deep disturbing nothing and I can feel this kind of ickiness.

What is this place? How can it be so strange? My skin is crawling a little bit and I think “Maybe I should get out of here.” And there’s no doubt even for a moment that I can leave this place and then I think “maybe I will stay because maybe there is someone in this place who doesn’t know how to leave and maybe they can use my help.”

I remember when I did awake from that dream it did inspire me to send a message to someone with whom I have lost contact thinking perhaps they could use my help.

They didn’t end up using my help but that’s fine, it was enough for me to offer. I remember many years ago I was at a personal development conference and I am starting to talk to these people and some of them are a little awkward. I guess that’s why they’re involved in this personal development seeking answers in a different way of doing things, a new perspective.

I am talking to this woman and I am standing there and practicing this bodily awareness at the time I was reading and listening to Echart Tolle a lot and I was very much out of my habits.

I was just thinking I can be perfectly comfortable in this situation and I started to notice the woman I was talking to was not comfortable in the situation at all. I didn’t act to make her any more comfortable even though I didn’t know exactly how to do it but I could have improvised something.

The point of this story is we can be comfortable in ourselves but it takes someone, perhaps an exceptional person to say “If I am safe, can I go a step further and help other people around me feel ok? Can I help lead them out of the void?

Now you might remember that passage in the Bible, I have probably mentioned this a few times before.

This says: Wow you tried to clear the speck out of someone else’s eye when you first have this log in your own eye. Clear the log from your own eye and it will be easy for you to clear the speck in another’s eye.

When we do clear the log from our own eye there might be a moment there where like okay I guess I don’t have to do anything but finally we do receive that call to help others and extend our sphere of comfort to allow others to feel comfortable in our presence. What a wonderful thing that is.

How grateful many of those people will be for our help when we allow them to step out of the void.