Let’s Take Dreaming Back Again…

Something violently irritates me about the topic of dreaming

Something violently irritates me about the topic of dreaming: how demonized it is in culture right now. Intellectualism calls it frivolity; psychology calls it dissociation; teaching calls it dangerous: for it may lead you out of reality, right into fiction, leaving you listlessly far from rational truth and groundedness. Don’t even mention how spiritual leadership often portrays it—leading many out of this sacred practice, either to embrace suffering more or to land somewhere more “theologically sound, realistic, or embodied.” 

Experientially, my spirit dims and reality (or shall I say mundanity) becomes a dark habitation apart from the habit of dreaming. Dreaming is the sparkle in the dark. Not a departure from reality, but a gateway to it—a direct portal that thrusts you into heaven itself. Finally giving the grief of this world (vying to overcome us) a little hopeful luster back. Some call it “holy imagination.” Some call it prayer.

Dreaming is a guiding light—the practice that finally sheds beauty on a desperate world that is craving revolution. It’s the match of inspiration needed to ignite new ideas, movements, and the change that’s possible in this world.

Therefore, I pray for cultural illumination on the topic of dreaming. Actually, I pray for revolution: Dream Revolution. Revolution of heart, mind, and body to bring us back to reality…to bring us back to spirit. May our world be carried into joy, delivered into hope from the birthplace of dreams. And may you: find your spark again. May the reason you were created glimmer back into your soul again, giving your lungs the refreshed breath they need to revitalize.