This e-mail was in response to a friend having problems trying to
finish a book. He had a dream in which he struggled to create a store
display by packing books (!) into a display case. This proved to be
very difficult and as no one offered to help, he gave up and walked
away in frustration. Immediately his manager, working with another
employee, and breaking union rules, filled the rest of the display with
big red apples.
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I agree that your dream was about your book project, among other things...
We have all been taught that pushing our energy (that is to say
attempting to force things to go our way even when they don't seem to
want to) is an appropriate response to sorting things out in the world
to better suit us. This turns out to be unsupportable nonsense.
As we begin to know and experience the fact that the World is a
confirmation of our energetic expressions, we realize that pushing the
world results in the world pushing back! It's just the physics of
consciousness. So our experience becomes that of always attempting to
fit into a world that doesn't seem to have a place for us.
Pushing ourselves is simply another variation of pushing the world.
Except when we push ourselves it gets up close and personal and the
push back can get very close to home. When we try to make the world be
what we want, the world reflects that by increasing demands on us that
we measure up to the world's expectations. When we try to force
ourselves to be what we perceive we are not, ourSelves reflect that by
seeming to force us, against our will, to deal with personal aspects
that are difficult and that we don't want to acknowledge.
As illustrated beautifully in your dream, the solution is so simple
and easy that it takes your breath away to experience it. Just let go
of pushing or forcing your energy, or will, or intentions on ANYthing!
Do the best you can with any situation and then relax and allow your
whole self, which includes the World, to be what it naturally is - a
divine force moving inexorably towards Self fulfillment.
The reflection of this in our relationship with the world is
conditions and circumstances that are relaxed and easy and allow us to
have the experiences we want, in the most serendipitous and practical
way. The reflection of this in our relationship with ourselves is a
civilization of aspects that smoothly appear and disappear in each
moment, in an orchestration of traits and abilities that spontaneously
unfolds within us, as unending open-ended opportunities to explore our
potential and fulfill ourselves.
In your dream, after you have done your best with the 'information'
available to you (the books) and when you accept that you cannot do any
more and 'walk away' (crucial) the Universal Manager takes over and
cheerfully fills the gap with 'knowledge' (apples) which is even better
than information.
A particularly nice aspect of your dream is that when we walk away
from an issue after doing our best, the Universal Manager will
sometimes even break the rules of official reality as we understand
them, to fulfill our intent, because this aspect of ourselves is not
limited by our focal belief systems. This is the hidden back door
through which the miraculous can sneak onto our stage, if we allow it!