One of the secondary reasons why I wrote The Bigger Picture is that, to continue to move forward in our spiritual growth, we need to embrace the concept that we're spiritual beings living a physical existence - not the other way around. We continually and consciously limit reality with our notions of "how things are." What if we allowed ourselves to be open to any possibility?
I wrote two articles this last December and January, Offering the First Seed and A Field Guide to Humankind that address that question With things beginning to "open up" on every level imaginable - including the mystical - if we really want to embrace the opportunities for growth and spiritual evolution that are available to us, we need to begin embracing that life might just be a little bigger than we think it is.
While there are obviously applications where magick and the spirit world is concerned, there is more to life than just the mystical. To really begin to open ourselves up to the fullness of what's available, we need to extend that spirit of openness and possibility across the board. Maybe there's a reason why that person cut us off in traffic, our boyfriend or girlfriend walked out on us, or our car wouldn't start when we tried to leave for work this morning. We regularly and continually filter events through our own prejudices and preconceived ideas. That limits our reality almost as much as denying that anything exists beyond the physical.
Instead, we need to understand our own heart, cultivate its beauty, and learn to follow it where it leads us. It's the best guide we have in this incarnation. Period.
One of last night's dreams tied into this concept. I had journeyed through a forest and over some mountains and was looking down over a city, similar to what I imagine Los Angeles would look like if you could pick it up and plop it down again in the midst of pristine wilderness. Suddenly a column of golden light descended from the sky, large enough to encompass about half of a city block. Within that column, reality completely rewrote itself and everyone within the light radically changed, finding joy, wisdom, peace, even though the process of change brought absolute chaos within the pillar of light.
The column didn't disappear, but became a permanent fixture over that part of the urban sprawl. And then a second column descended. And a third. And suddenly there were columns of light appearing all over the dream city, embracing about third of the entire metropolis.
I came down out of the hills and began walking the streets, only to find pedestrians ignoring the columns. If one appeared before them, they would simply stare at the ground and change their path to avoid it. I watched as a man reached for the door of a small neighborhood grocer, only to have the store engulfed in light. He immediately withdrew his hand, turned his eyes to the ground, and walked away as if nothing had happened and he had never tried to go to the store in the first place.
It wasn't a matter of people being shut out by the columns of light. They consciously sought to ignore them, looking anywhere but at the columns of light around them.