Part I

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The only way to end a nightmare is to wake up from it. Everyone knows that -- common sense, no? And yet this simple common-sense realization, if we take the time to reflect on it, can be the key to release us from the otherwise traumatic impacts hitting us from all sides today, and ignite the inner and outer freedom so many of us yearn for.

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As someone who’s been dedicated for decades to realizing our ultimate, non-dual true nature, and is also very concerned about the precarious state of our world today, especially what we can do to stop the rapidly encroaching dystopia of global technocratic tyranny decimating our essential human rights and freedoms, I have struggled for the last four years to reconcile these two seemingly disparate aims (and alienated many friends in both camps in the process!). But deep-down, I have always felt there is a point where spiritual realization and liberating action converge, and that these times of extreme crisis are precisely calling us to that convergence, the seat of both our inner and outer freedom.

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Today we find ourselves in a surreal world that assaults our sense of well-being and sense of reality at every turn. Instead of feeling victimized, can we take it as a wake-up call that it is not reality at all, but a grotesque simulation, a virtual appearance, that cannot possibly be real because it is so grossly distorted? In the moment we truly see this we pop out of the illusion, and experience it from the outside, as the witness, not the inside, as the victim. Just as when we wake from a nightmare, the illusion of what we feared and cowered from in terror is exposed as nothing but a projection of our own consciousness, a figment of our dreaming imagination, and dissolved through the power of that realization.

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We have all heard of lucid dreams, and many of us have experienced them. In a lucid dream, one stands both inside and outside the dream, and from the outside can both observe and direct the inner content – one can choose to fly, to visit other planes, to change a dangerous situation into an exalted one, monsters into angels. In this state, straddling the inside and outside of the dream, there is a tremendous power of transformation. And eventually one wakes, to the highest freedom of all, where the whole play itself dissolves and one knows oneself as the pure consciousness in which all the scenes – monsters and angels alike, light and darkness – were simply energies of our own consciousness, whirling in empty space, appearing and disappearing.

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Is this our world today, whirled out of the space of pure consciousness and energy, and if so, doesn’t it follow that we can un-whirl it, reel it back into the space of pure potential from which it arose in the first place?

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I believe that the answer may be yes, and that the phenomenon of lucid dreaming provides vital clues as to how we can confront, transmute and liberate ourselves from our collective nightmare today, turning it into the dream of beauty and well-being we want to see, and attaining ultimate wholeness and freedom. It starts with imagining ourselves both inside and outside of this nightmare, already on the other side even as we are still engaged in its action. Then the action we take within the dream is enlightened, powerfully transformative, guided from the inside by the deep knowledge that comes from the other side, the part of our consciousness that is already beyond it.

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Well, you might say, that’s all very well and good for my own personal dreams, but this collective nightmare today is reality. But, as we saw earlier, it’s so bizarre and chaotic – and collapsing -- it pops us out of the trance that it is solid reality, no less than our personal nightmares propel us into awakening when they are no longer tenable. It is actually our worldview that is shattering, that held that collective world-illusion together, that can no longer hold… and that is a very good thing, because it is liberating us into a greater creative fluidity, a space of infinite potentials, and our ultimate freedom.

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In short, the key to dismantling the nightmare of global tyranny lies in awakened consciousness, and its super-powers of lucid action.

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Holding the whole undivided consciousness, both inside and outside the dream – doesn’t mean, as many spiritual types think, that we are just meant to witness what is happening in these tumultuous times without taking action. We do take action, but it’s not the action of resistance, anger, fear or fighting – it’s enlightened, caring, loving action guided by the knowledge that we are already whole, we are already home. And that is the most powerful kind, the fearless power of the sacred. It comes from our true freedom, not the illusion of our entrapment, and that makes all the difference.

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Only then can we achieve escape velocity from this nightmare; only then can we fly high in this dream, our superpowers ignited; only then do we know we are the infinite sky, that holds all the light and darkness, the black and white holes, death and rebirth, turning into and out of each other, and yet is forever free and Whole, invincible and eternal.

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II

The Master Switch to Freeing Ourselves from Global Tyranny: Our Own Consciousness and Energy Frequencies

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Many spiritual traditions have attested to the dream-like nature of the world, and the need to wake up from that dream. But what does waking up mean? Does it mean the whole world disappears instantaneously; or that we can act lucidly in the dream, harnessing its fluidity to our creative intention, and even as we know it’s all ultimately a dream, making it a dream of harmony, joy, sanctity and beauty?

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That the world is “dream-like” doesn’t make it any less sacred or deserving of our reverence and care; in fact, it makes it even more miraculous and awe-inspiring! That all the action takes place in thin air makes it all the lighter and freer, and gives us far more creative power, because that thin air is pure consciousness, the unlimited Source of all creation!

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Recognizing the world as dream-like doesn’t mean ignoring or escaping it but recognizing it is malleable, a product of our own energies and consciousness, individually and collectively.  The world we see is not fixed in stone or solid, but fluid and receptive, responsive to the way we frame it, with the intentions, attention and energy frequencies we project. This means the nightmarish scenarios appearing in our world right now are not inevitable; they are a reflection and expression of distortions within our own consciousness, and it is from there that we can most powerfully redress and realign them.

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This is tremendously good news, because it puts the power back in our own hands – where it always was, we just didn’t know it!

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Changing the Narrative, Changing the Frequency, Changing our Actions, Changing the World

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In the face of our global crises today, many people in spiritual circles either deny or ignore what is happening, and even if they know they avoid action, saying it only feeds the illusion or the negative forces. It is absolutely true that we need to keep our focus and energy frequencies attuned to the positive vision of the world we want, but we also need to act accordingly, for that vision to become our reality. Positive, high-frequency vision and action are not opposed; on the contrary, they can only work when they come together.

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In order to consciously change our world, three things need to change in tandem: our worldview, our energy frequencies, and our actions. Fortunately, there is a natural knock-on effect between them. As our consciousness evolves, our worldview follows suit; we see we are not separate from the world, but project its appearance and can therefore change it. Higher energy frequencies are activated with this shift in perception; and the actions that flow from those energy frequencies are far more aligned and powerful, penetrating and dissolving the misaligned scenarios we have projected that are now playing out in our world.

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It is at the energetic levels that we have shaped, and thus can re-shape, our reality; but first, at the conceptual level, we have to reframe it, flipping our belief in linear causation, with us as the victims of outside forces, to the infinite potential of holographic quantum causation, flowing from within us outwards, impacting all around us -- from our communities, local and global, to our entire Cosmos. And just as we impact the entire Cosmos, the entire Cosmos also supports us, rippling through our own energy bodies in a reciprocal flow. This is the unified field that interconnects all of existence, and we are all an essential part of it. Once we recognize this and start to embody it, in our own energy field and our actions, we return ourselves to the heart of creation, and the helm of all possibilities.

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We are currently living in an inverted perception of reality, hence our crises and acute sense of helplessness, but we have within us the master switch to reverse that and reclaim our true power. We are not fractured pieces of a broken Whole, but fractals of the Whole with infinite power, because we each contain the Whole within us. This is the flip in our worldview and consciousness that can turn our lives inside out, and revolutionize our world.

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It is no accident that quantum theory arose in the last century, though at the time few understood it, much less integrated its implications. Now in the new millennium, the time has come to put it into action, compelled by the crises that are driving us to a higher mastery of our consciousness and energies, under the threat of an encroaching dystopia or even our extinction if we fail to do so. Changes in the energies of the Earth and cosmos, solar flares, photon belts and intergalactic contacts, are also accelerating this quantum leap in consciousness, propelling it rapidly into manifestation.  We are not alone: we are being pushed and pulled by powers both within and beyond us, conspiring in an evolutionary shift to a whole new level, as the boundaries between inner and outer, self and world, human and Cosmos, are blurring, and the boundlessness of our true nature beckons.

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III

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Outer Space is Within Us; Aliens, Intergalactics, Ascended Masters are All Part of the One Unified Field of Consciousness that We Are

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Extraordinary as it might sound, outer space is within us; aliens, intergalactics, ascended Masters are all part of the one unified field of consciousness that we are. The archetypes of Jung’s “collective unconscious” are now becoming conscious, as we make contact with forces previously hidden or thought to be mythical, as well as new ones previously unimagined. None of these higher forces are outside us; just like the lower forces playing out in our world now, they are reflections, or ripples, from the spectrum of consciousness within us, and “contact” with them is enabled by the elevation of our own frequencies.

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Each of our chakras is a portal on the spectrum of our universal consciousness, which we can activate and enter, walking through to the higher dimensions. These connections are our natural birthright, but they have long been disabled, especially in modern Western culture…now they are coming online again, flinging open the prison gates of lower dimensional perception that have entrapped us for centuries.

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Interdimensionality, one could say in short, is becoming the new normal, as the lower dimensions of dualistic perception break down, or open up, to the indivisible, multi-dimensional reality that is our true nature – the unified field of Consciousness in all its myriad expressions -- spanning time and space, and also beyond them.

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All of the higher dimensions and future timelines we seek are actually higher frequencies available in our consciousness, in the present moment, if we only know how to connect with them. In one way, we could say we make contact with higher Cosmic dimensions and entities through synchronizing our frequencies with theirs, but in fact we already contain those frequencies within us, and the whole field of consciousness in which they play.

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When we go beneath the surface appearance of separation, into the streams of light that we are, all of this becomes apparent…we are the eternal dance, the symphony of constellations, the Cosmic play in all its expressions…when we enter into it in this way we become not its victims but its co-creators. This is true freedom, at every level, transmuting the nightmare into a dream, and soaring both within and beyond it. This is the Wholeness of our true being, which has never been born and never dies, but gives rise to, and eternally welcomes back home, everything in its own Creation.

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While, on the surface, these times can seem extremely daunting, they are actually exalted times, when the birthright of our true Divine Wholeness is on offer, for all who can open their hearts to it. From shouldering the burden of life, we fly home instead on wings of light, a resurrection from terror and death to the immutable grace of our own eternal true nature.

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IV

Lucid Consciousness: The Key to Liberation, In the Dream and Beyond It

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I’d like to come back to the metaphor of the lucid dream, and the science behind it, because I believe it has great relevance for our present world situation and how we can transform it.

When we are both in and out of the dream – the witness, actor and director – we are in a much higher frequency state, and our brain, heart and hara (core power centre) are in maximum coherence and coordinated power. This is true of our personal dreams, as well as the collective dream we call this “world”. The implications of this cannot be overstated -- it is the key to both our creative power and our freedom, inner and outer.

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Normally we rotate sequentially between three states of consciousness: the everyday “waking state” of worldly sense perceptions by day, and deep sleep and dreaming states at night. Each has its powers, and limitations, and is mutually exclusive of the others. When one is “on”, the others are “off”, and vice versa. It is only in the lucid state, the truly awakened “4th state” of spiritual enlightenment, that we blend the powers of all three together, and go beyond them into a higher harmonic. This gives us a whole other level of power and freedom -- the freedom both to transcend the dream and to act within it -- tapping into the super-power of all-pervading consciousness that is awake within the dream, to transform its contents from our conscious intention, vision, and energy frequencies.

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Where Science and Spirituality Meet: The Spiritual Science of Realization and Liberation

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The waking state; sleep state; dream state; and lucid (awakened dream) state are all associated with different brainwave frequencies, heart rhythms and settings of our nervous system. The lucid state contains and integrates the frequencies of the first three states, giving us access to the particular levels of perception of each state, and harmonizing them into Wholeness. This is a perceptual awareness beyond the usual limitations of ego-consciousness and embracing the whole of creation, both manifest and invisible, as particles of particular forms and as waves of pure potential.

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When we enter into this lucid state, we enter into full-spectrum power – not power-over, but power-with – power with Creation and her Divine laws, her sacred templates of alchemical transformation. By accessing the lucid consciousness of integrated brainwave frequencies and brain-heart coherence, we break the spell of the nightmare of tyranny, outer and inner, that has held us so long in its thrall, where we are helpless victims of a fate beyond our control, and become creators and co-creators of the world we want to see, of Wholeness, communion and freedom.

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Ironically, part of the tyranny that has enslaved us is the very illusion of the division between inner and outer in the first place, that gives rise to all conflict, divisiveness and violence we experience in our world. It is only by seeing through the veil of the dream from both sides, inner and outer – dispelling the delusion of duality itself -- that we gain the power to change it, not by fighting each other inside the dream. As Einstein famously said, you can’t solve a problem from the same level of consciousness that created it. We have to stop shadow-boxing with figures in a dream, and access our true powers of liberation.

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How do we gain this power? One of the most potent ways is through meditation, and other introspective techniques that help us access the deepest level of our awakened nature, and bring it to bear on the veils – our limited beliefs at the mental level, and our traumas and shadows at the emotional and energetic levels – in a loving and compassionate way, first for our self and then for others, that melts them rather than fights or resists them, liberating our world from the false wounds of separation that have caused so much suffering.

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We could say this is the way of the feminine, rising now in our collective consciousness -- winning over our demons, inner and outer, by melting them in love and compassion, rather than compounding them by taking them as real and battling them, which only provokes their counter-resistance and escalating opposition.  And I add again that this doesn’t mean that we don’t act – we act with strength and conviction, but from a place of compassion and the transformative power that comes with lucid vision. This is a higher melding of the feminine and masculine that elevates both to their true unity and their ultimate power.

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A simple practice that can help us access this power of unity, healing both our own wounds and that of the collective, is to imagine the white light at the heart of every atom in the universe streaming into your heart as you breathe in, and streaming back out through every atom in the universe as you breathe out. Do this as many times as you like as often as you like, breathing slowly and deeply, pausing at the end of the out-breath and in-breath, as you gently expand and return to centre with your loving awareness. Feel the vastness of the farthest reaches of Cosmos, as well as each of its microcosmic, nested dimensions – atoms, cells, and all forms of life -- flowing to and from your own heart with each breath, blessing all with love and compassion, and at the same time receiving them.

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This integrates all the levels of our being (physical, energetic, emotional, mental, spiritual) and all the multidimensional levels of the universe too, as the breath passes through them, unifying inner and outer, self and world, into their true oneness with the Source of Creation. In this, we become both witness, actor and co-creator of this dream we call our world, dispelling the nightmare we’ve unconsciously created into a conscious, lucid creation of infinite potentials, of personal and planetary healing, of harmony, love and beauty, aligned with the highest templates of our natural evolution.