In the world of thought, though, we are responsible for everything. We think as we choose, and we are what we think. Not what we eat,
what we think. If we do not want the responsibility for how we have
created our self, then we ignore this self-creation aspect, and liveexclusively in the form that we inherited. If we know that thought is
capable of healing, of creating a happy life, and of making a difference
in the lives of others, then we respond to life with our ability . We are
then living responsibly . Once our focus includes the inner world of
thoughts, we shift to a more responsible way of being in the world. Look within yourself to disco ver how you feel about being  more
responsible to the world. We may enjoy the dreaming part so much that we do not even want to
consider that there is much more available if we awaken. Thus we
choose to remai n asleep, unaware of the grandness that is there for us
in awakening. When we stay with the familiar we take no risks. If we
do not risk we do not have to change. Avoid change and we can
explain that the reason for our lack of growth is a multitude of external
circumstances. It is a comfortable-seeming circle that keeps us safe,
albeit stuck in place, and in a place that seldom serves us or those we
love at a very high level. Resistance is a basic part of the fear of changing. When we approach
metaphysical or spiritual issues,  we encounter a long history of relying
on seeing is believing, and that becomes a stumbling block to looking
anywhere but where our senses  seem to point. I suggest we turn the
stumbling block into a stepping-stone by revising our thoughts to: “I’ll
see it when I believe it.”
 
YOUR WAY OUT  OF THE CAGE
 
 
Remind yourself of how to improve at anything you wish to
accomplish in the world of form. For instance, practicing the piano for
two hours a day will improve your piano playing. Hitting a bucket of
golf balls each day at a practi ce tee will improve your golf game. Imaging is the equivalent of practice in the world of the formless. Before going to sleep at night practice getting an image into your mind
of precis ely what you want for yourself. If it is to be more physicallyfit, practice seeing yourself exactly the way you would like to appear . Let the image get fixed in your mind. Remind yourself to do this
several times during the day too. The work here is to use your thoughts
to focus on positive images, to grow from the perfect person that you
have chosen to be up to now to even higher levels of present-moment
perfection. Do not think of yourself as imperfect. Get the image in
your mind of precisely what you would love to be and you will find
that you will automatically start acting on that new image. In other
words, begin to act as if you already are where you would like to be,
and the actions will follow automatically . Work each day on your thoug hts rather than concentrating on your
behavior . It is your thinking that creates the feelings you have and
ultimately your actions as well. So give this dimension of your being
all the attentio n it deserves. Catch yourself when you verbalize
thoughts that are self-defeating . For example, if you blurt out loud,
“I’ll never be able to get out of debt,” or “I simply cannot reach my
mate no matter how hard I try,” stop and gently remind yours elf that
you are acting on your thoughts, rather than having your thoughts
come from the conditions in your life. Now rearrange those thoughts
and see yourself out of debt. Refuse to think indebted thoughts. You
will soon begin acting upon the image of yourself as a debt-free
person. You will find yourse lf tearing up your credit cards, or
consolidating your debts, or working at an extra job and doing the
things that flow from the imaging that you do in your mind. Similarly ,
with your spous e, rather than act from the image you have of being
married to an impossible person , begin to act as someone who is going
to resolve your relationship one way or another . Create an image of
yourself in a relationship that is full of love and harmony , and you will
act that way. If you do not receive the feedback that is consistent with
the image, you may consider moving on along your own path alone, or
with another who is more in harmony with you. But instead of being in
turmoil because your spouse is unapproachable, you will begin to act
on the image of you as a human  being in harmony . If you work things
out, that will be terrific, and if you do not, you will move along in
peace. In either case you will be resolving your relationship rather than
feeding yoursel f on the frenzy  of a mental image of being in anintolerable situa tion. Make the situation perfect in your mind, and you
will act upon that perfectio n. The quality of relationships is
inseparably linked with our images and thoughts. What we see is
evidence of what we believe. Remind yourself that your circumstances do not make you, they reveal
you. Some people tell me that they think it is easy for me to give
advice on how to be happy and successful because I am rich and
famous. My reaction is that I feel that my circumstances reveal me. That is, I do not give advice because I am rich and famous. If I am rich
and famous it is because I have followed this advice. I have lived these
principles all of my life, and believe that that is why I have achieved
the measure of wealth or fame that is a part of my life. Look at your
life, whatever condition it may be in. Your relationships, your financial
picture, your level of happiness, your state of health. Now  try to
consider that these circumstances reveal  something about you. Acknowledge your involvement in your circumstances and view them
as a reflection of how you have been thinking and consequently  acting
upon those thoughts. You can use that power of visualization to have
the picture stay the same, deteriorate, or grow into whatever you
illuminate on your inner screen. You are what you think about all day
long. And even if you are thinking about the people who barely exist in
squalid conditio ns, remind yourself that these people, more than any
people on our planet, need to hear and believe what I am writing about. If somehow they could change their inner pictures of despair and
hopelessness to an image of something grander for themselves, and if
they steadfastly refused to imagine anything else, they would
somehow begin to make that image a reality in the physical realm. The evidence is overwhelmin g when you consider people who have
escaped from seemingly hopeles s conditions, and who report that their
belief was the impetus for their accomplishment. Secondly , know that
you are not that person. You are here, right now, the result of all the
previous pictures you have painted for yourself, and you can paint new
ones, including one of yourself assisting those who need help, if that is
what you want to do.Remind yourself daily that thought is not restricted to the confines of
time, cause and effect, beginnings and endings, and all of the other
rules that govern form. There simply are no limits in the astral realm of
thought. Armed with this aware ness, you can begin to meet others in
this realm. Relationships can exist in this area, and you can make them
come about by reminding yourse lf that everyone  in your life is a divine
entity with an intelligence behind all form. Your loved ones share their
bodies, just as you do, with God, or whatever you choose to call that
perfect intelligen ce permeating all form. Relate to them in this manner ,
reach them in this new place, stay in touch with their perfection  within
their form, and you will find the quality of all your relatio nships
improving dram atically . Furthermore, you can relate to strangers in the
same fashion. See everyone as a part of the wonderful, mysterious,
invisible force that is in each and every one of us. Treat other people
like the divine creatures they are. Study the seven principles of becoming a waking dreamer by applying
one to each day of the week. Here is a sample of how you can make
this your own reality in the week to come. 1. Sunda y: Time does not exist. Spend some time today outside, in
nature, looking straight up. Try to imagine that up goes forever ,
since even our rational mind tells us that the universe cann ot
simply end. If it goes forever , then it is already complete,
mysterious as this sounds. It is all complete. In a complete d
universe, time simply is mankind’ s way of helping organize the
days and keep track of things. Eternity is forever , no time, only
always. Now , what can you do with this? You can eliminate
preoccupation with time, aging, type-A  behavior , scheduling your
life, and hurryin g. It is all so perfect, this universe we are in. Slow
down and enjoy it all. Your lifetime of ninety or so years is
exactly the same as your dream  of eight or so hours. I did not
invent this notion of no time. Einstein gave it to us in amathematical sense, and philosophers from the beginning of
recorded history have reminded us of it. The Bible is replete with
references to eternity . Your lifetime in form is to be honored and
celebrated, not calculated and compartmentalized. Go beyon d
your enslavement to time and live fully in this, the only time you
have. In the Now, the working unit of your life. 2. Monday: There is no cause and effect . Today take time to
comprehend what it means just to be. You are not a human doing,
but rather a human being. While form follows all of the rules of
cause and effect, formlessness is acausal, just like the time you
spend dreaming. Now here, now there, your thoughts independent
of each other . You can get past pure cause and effect by tuning in
to your invisible  humanity . You need not continue to do the work
you trained yourself to do, simply because as a teenager , thirty
years ago, you made some decisions about what you were going
to appre ntice or major in. You need not remain governed by the
belief that past decisions cause you to be whatever you are today. You can be a creator without old rules governing your life. You
can be anything you choose, regardless of what anyone says or
does, and regardless of anything you have done or not done
before. If you can imagine it, you can be it, and your imagination,
your thinking, is not restricted to the rules of cause and effect. Today , Monday , work at not being the effect  of anything, but the
creator  of that which you imagine yourself to be. You do not need
a consultant in this matter; you simply need to put your form in
harmony with your thoughts and then just allow yourself to be it. 3. Tuesday: There is no beginning and no end. Practic e living this
day as if forever were all tied up in this day. This is forever right
here and now. Without time as a factor in this metaphysic al
experiment, today and a million years are the same. You are
eternal, and the invisible essenc e of you can never die. Knowing
this, all of the petty , worrisome areas will melt into insignificanc e.
Attachment to things you can never own will also diminishsignificantly . Look into the mirror on this Tuesday morning and
say out loud, “I am not my form. I am something much more
divine than mere form.” The fact that you can come and go in
your dreaming body independent of any time constraints gives
you evidence that the dimensio n of thought is not something to
fear, but something to savor . Today , Tuesday , live each moment as
if it were the eternity that it is, savoring everything there is to
appreciate in every moment. Make it a habit beginning today . One
moment at a time. One eternity at a time. And be patient and
loving with any fearful thoughts. Reassure your fears that you
understand their need to warn you of what they think is dange r,
and invite them to experiment with you just today , to try this new
way of thinking, safely and lovingly . 4. Wednesday: Every obstacle is an opportunity . Today , welcome
any disorderly or unpleasant behavior toward you from other
people, as an opportunity to remind yourself that they are only
talking to your form. Know that they cannot have your divinene ss
unless you choo se to share it with them, and then, perhaps for the
very first time, you will be able to see the divineness in them,
inside the form that is being unpleasant to you. Use the obstacl e,
the annoyance, as an opportunit y to connect with your inner self. Today , see how many times you can take what would have been
an uncomfortab le reaction within you and transform it into a
blessing for yourself and the other divine beings as well. Use the
incidents as opportunities to practice and experience
nonjudgmental observation of what is happening in the world of
form. Set judgment toward yourself and others aside, and instea d
observe what you are feeling, and let those feelings free you. Eventually , in this way, you will discover the blessing or
opportunity in what previously you allowed to be an obstacle to
harmony in your life. Today , Wednesday , you are becoming the
waking dreamer , turning obstacles into opportunities while in
your waking body , just as you do when you are in your dreaming
body .5. Thurs day: You create everything that you need for the dream. As waking dreamers we know deep within that when we die our
consciousness will live on in a new dimension, and that
everything experienced on our present level of wakefulness will
appear as an illusion. Thus, just as in the dreaming body ,
everything that we need for the waking dream is created by us,
even the people whom we experience as difficult: they are in our
life because we put them there . They have important lessons to
teach us. Today , concentrate on asking yourself, “Why did I create
this in my life?”  Take responsibility for everything that is in your
life, believing that you created it all. Dedicate this Thursday to
experimenting with this self-realization. Respond today as if
everything that comes your way was put there by you, just as
everything that you experienced in your dream last night was
created by you. Everything that happens to us is in some way a
mirroring of our inner beliefs. When you really and truly know
that you create every aspect of your daily life, then you will learn
to discontinue disharmony , or to discover its message. When you
no longer need to learn how to deal with disharmony in your life,
you will stop creating it, and you will create love and harmon y
virtually everyw here you turn. Today is your day to keep this
uppermost in your consciousness all day long. 6. Frida y: The reactions are real, the characters are all illusions . Today is the day to soar in a transformational sense. Look at how
you play out the reactions to all of the characters and events that
you create for your life. Remin d yourself that all of the feelings
that you experience within you, the anger , joy, fear, stress,
happiness, are all very very real for you, just as in your dream
when you find yourself panting and breathing hard because
someone has been chasing you, the panting and breathlessness are
real, but the characters are your creation. Your reactions are the
very stuff of which the quality of your life is made up. Today
study how you are reacting to all of the externals that you have
created for your life, concentrate  on how you are processing yourthoughts. Reacti ons to life are determined by our thinking. Begin
today to study the self-defeating reactions instead of the event or
person. Imagine  waking up from your dream and being upset all
day long because one of the characters in your dream did not
behave the way you thought he or she should. You know enoug h
to say simply , “That was a dream,” and then get on with living, or
examine this reflection of yours elf. Today , you can use that very
same strategy and refuse to be immobilized by the actions of
anyone else. 7. Saturday: The only way you know you are dreaming is to
awaken . Today you can practice awakening, that is, dying while
you are alive, and look back at what you judged you needed to do
for your life. Begin to realize that everything that you experien ce
is a thought. The cookie that you want to eat but that will not help
you is nothing more than a thought. The anger at your spouse or
children becaus e they refused to act in a certain way is only a
thought. You are awakening, and by doing so you are able to see
exactly how all of your self-deprecating actions are really
responses to what you are creating for yourself. From this
perspective, you are separated  from your body , and you are
watching how you behave in a variety of situations. Like an actor
on the stage, you see your body  go through the hoops and roles
that you have created for it, and you know that you are not
exclusively that physical form. You are invisible and impervious
to the senses for a day, and you can almost laugh at yourself for
acting so foolishly as to immob ilize yourself through the avenue
of thought. As an awakened being you know that you can only
give away what you have inside, and that whatever is inside is
there because of thoughts. If you give away any hate or anger
today , it is not because of anything outside of you, but rather what
you have inside to give away . Loving, harmonious thoughts
produce love and harmony to give away , regardless of what is
coming at you. Disharmonious hateful thoughts produce the hate
and anger that you have to give away . Both reflect your belie fs
about your world. In this life, in this dimension of wakefulness,you simply cann ot give away what you do not have. Watch what
you give away all day long, and realize that the only way you will
ever get a firm harmonious grip on how to live out this illusion is
to awaken to another dimension and view all of your actions from
the new perspective. So ends a week of working each day at being a waking dreame r. Knowing
that we only have moments to live, rather than weeks and months, we can
begin to use this awareness to make our everyday lives a state of
wakefulness as unlimited as that which we experience in our dreaming
body . Keep seven words uppermost in your mind and think on the wisdom that
is behind them. From the Prince of Peace, “As ye think, so shall ye be.”
OceanofPDF .comONENESS
 
You are at once a beating heart and a single heartbeat in the body
called humanity . Take a few moments to study the word “universe,” the term that we use to
describe this immense world of form in which we find ourselves thinking
and breathing, day in and day out. Breaking the word down, we have “uni,”
meaning “one,” and “verse,” a “song.” One song! That is our universe, my
friends. Just one song. No matter how we separate into individual little
notes, we are all still involved in the onesong. This is one of the most difficult concepts for us to grasp and apply to our
daily lives, because we believe so strongly in our separateness. We
recognize ourse lves as one unit functioning separately among billions of
others. We ident ify exclusively with our own mind as unique and separate
from everyone else’s on our planet. We look out from our separateness and
believe that through it is the only way to interact with the world and our
reality . A huge shift is required in our consciousness to include the universal
principle of oneness. Once we make that shift and begin to recognize all of
humanity as a beautifully harmonious song, magnificent change s take place
in our individua l lives. But to make the shift you will need to suspend
beliefs resulting from the narrow perspective of a personal life history , and
instead begin to think about yourself in relationship to everyone else who
shares this planet now, who has ever been here before, and, even more
strikingly , who will show up in the future. A NEW  PERSPECTIVE ON OUR PLACE IN THIS ONESONG
 
Albert Einstein, a man I consider perhaps the greatest mind of our century ,
wrote these words regarding the perspective I am asking you to examine:
A human being is a part of the whole called by us “Universe,” a
part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his
thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, akind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a
kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free
ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty . Einstein was much more than a scientist; he was a deep-thinking
metaphysician, with little or no regard for the established ways of thinking
and doing. In the words I have quoted, Einstein offers us a challenge to free
ourselves from our cages and to see how we are all connected, not only in a
spiritual or astral sense, but in a linear physical real world sense as well. I have my own way of making that concept take shape for me. First, to
get a perspective for dealing with metaphysical matters, I ask myself, “Can
I get back far enough to see the entire picture?” I visualize being able to
stand in a place and literally see the entire scope of creation. Since this is
impossible to do in form, I try to look in the other direction, that is, toward
the tiniest speck, and to magni fy what is inside that speck, and so on to
infinity . Victor Hugo put it like this: “Where the telescope ends, the
microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?” So I suggest
that you tempor arily put away the telescope on the entire oneso ng and take
a look inward, at the one thing you know the most about, your own body . Here we will see we are all an “I that is we,” to borrow a phrase from
Richard Moss’ s marvelous book of that title. Let’s take a look through this
metaphorical microscope. We are teeming with life-forms, most of which are necessary to keep us
in a state of aliveness. Our eyelids have many tiny organisms that work in
harmony with the whole. The lining of our large intestines has hundreds of
different kinds of microbes, all alive, all with their own unique
characteristics, yet still very much a part of the whole person. Our scalp is
home for tiny organisms, each one of which has a separate identity that can
be examined with a powerful microscope. So too, our liver, pancreas,
toenails, skin, heart, and on and on are brimming with life, all working in
harmony with the whole that we call “me.” Yes, indeed, you and I are a me
that is we, and though those microscopic life-forms that reside inside our
toenails will very likely never  come into contact with those other very
different life-forms that live in our eyeballs, they are both separate and
unique and crucial to the survival of the totality that we call ourselves.This became abundantly clear for me when I saw a documentary on the
life-forms living within one raindrop. With a very powerful microscope,
scientists docum ented that there were hundreds of life-forms in each
raindrop, many of which had no physical contact with the other life-forms
in the same drop. They were of different colors, shapes, and origins, each
with unique physical characteris tics, and were as far away from one another
as we are from tribesmen in Afghanistan. Yet they all composed the totality
called “raindrop.”
In an endless universe, it is conceivable that our physical size is
proportionately the same as that of the tiniest microbe within the tiniest
microbe, within the even tinier microbe all within that drop of rain. The
infinitely tiny life-form that resides within my toenail will never make
physical contact with the tiny microbes in the inner lining of my retina in
my eye, in that eye’s socket, on the head of my torso, ad infinitum. At the
same time it is a separate, unique part of the totality known as “person.”
From this perspective we can contemplate our self as a person in relation to
the totality known as “universe.”
With our narrow vision we can see that we are connected at the physical
level, and we can validate this with physical-measurement meth ods. But we
tend to use those  measuring sticks, which we have invented, as instruments
to enslav e us to a confining and narrow interpretation of our place in this
onesong. We do this by believin g that reality is only what we are capable of
measuring, rather than both what we can measure and what is still
unmeasurable. Germs and bacteria existed in our lives and bodies long
before we could examine them under the microscope. The invention of the
microscope did not create the germs! Just as we have created devices to
measure what was previously there but unmeasurable, so too it is possible,
and, for me, probable, that each of us is a part of a “we” that is
unmeasurable by contemporary man-made technology . If we think of all humanity as one being, and ourselves as individual
pieces of the gigantic being, and if somehow we could manage to get back
far enough to see this entire life-form, we would notice immediately if one
part of the being was missing. Our eyes would automaticall y go to the
empty space. That space shows how important each of us is. You and I
make the body of humanity complete. If we are not fully alive and working
in harmony with the entire body , it lacks harmony and balance. And ifenough of us are missing, the body will die. This is the perspective we must
take in order to understand and begin to live the principle of oneness. It is, of course, a paradox to be unique and all-one at the same time. Nevertheless, it is our reality , and once we know how this principle of
oneness works in this endless universe, we will begin to see how we can
make the principle work not only for each of us, but for this entire song that
we make  up. The harmony will be felt within you, and it will radiate out to
make the onesong a rapturous melody , totally in tune, harmoniz ing with all
of the individual notes that make up this universe! Let me tell you what a
personal dif ference it has made for me in every aspect of my life. MY FIRST  CONT ACT  WITH ONENESS
 
My mother ’s mother holds a very special place in my heart. When my
mother was beset by so many difficulties after my father abando ned us, my
grandparents took my oldest brother to live with them. And from my
grandmother ’s role as a mother I got my first inkling of the concept of unity
and oneness. My grandmothe r had nursed each of her children and had been extremely
protective of her young, includ ing my mother . She had spent most of her
time lovingly rocking, singing, cuddling, and caring for her infants. My grandmother was in her ninety-fourth year when she began to lose
some of her physical faculties. She needed constant help and care as she
approached the age of ninety-five. I watched my mother taking care of her
in those final days of my grand mother ’s life. I watched as my mother took
clean clothes to her mother , and made absolutely certain that her
under garments were never soiled. And one day I watched my mother
holding my grandmother and peeling a banana for her and actually mushing
it up in her own mouth and massaging her mother ’s neck to help her
swallow it. Then she helped her put on clean underclothes. She rocked her
mother and talked to her almost as if she were a baby . As I watched, I asked
myself the question that was swirling around in my head: “Who is mother
and who is child? Didn’ t my now-helpless child-grandmother once change
the diapers of the mother -child and mush up her food to make sure that she
was properly nourished?” Weren’ t these two human beings really fulfilling
the same role for each other?The oneness of it all struck me in an astonishing way as I watched this
scene. I realized it is all one big circle, just as the universe is one big circle,
and while we tend to identify ourselves with our separateness, when we can
get a different perspective we see that it is all one, and that there exists in
the onesong a large being called Human Being, and that each of us is born
into that being. My second encounter with this oneness concept came when I began to
read some of the literature on collective consciousness. I had read Ken
Keyes’ s The Hundr edth Monkey , and I was trying to put it into a personally
meaningful context. Very briefly , the hundredth monkey is a theory about
how all of us within a species affect one another . A group of monkeys was
being studied off the coast of Japan, and one monkey within the group
began washing his sweet potatoes in a certain way in the salt water . Soon all
of the monkeys began mimicking this monkey and doing the same thing. When a given number of the monkeys behaved in this fashion, the same
behavior began to appear in a group of monkeys hundreds of miles away ,
even though the two groups had had no physical contact with each other . The hundredth monkey symbo lized what scientists call the critical mass
within the species. It is theorized that once a critical mass number is
reached, the same behavior begins to show up in all of the other members of
the same species. It seems to be true for all species that when a given
critical mass of its members begins to think or act in a certain way, so does
every other member of that same species. In Ken Keyes’ s book,  he uses the
example of nuclear war and suggests that if enough of us as members of the
human species believe and act as if there will ultimately be a nuclear war,
then when we reach that critical mass, we will of course create our own
reality as a species. On the other hand, if enough of us believe and act as if
such an occurren ce were impossible, then we can create that reality for our
entire species as well. The invisible connection betw een all members of a species  is more
verifiable now than it was a few years ago. Physicists describe it as “phase
transition.” Scientists report that when atoms within a molecule align in a
certain way and a critical mass number is reached, the rest of the atoms
spontaneously line up the same way. Nick Herbert’ s Quantum Reality ,
Fritjof Capra’ s The Tao of Physics, Gary Zukav’ s The Dancing Wu Li
Masters , Lewis Thomas’ s The Lives of a Cell, and Rupert Sheldrake’ s A
New Science of Life are a few of the books in the growing literaturedescribing a connection between the principles of physics and a collective
consciousness. Just imagine the staggering implications of this fledgling scientific notion
—a scientific basis for the oneness of it all, and the idea that if enough of us
who share this life-form called  human being begin to think  and act in
harmonious and loving ways, we can affect the entire being called Human
Being. The entire history of the Human Being is filled with war and disorder . How many moth ers have wept for sons who have gone off to fight one war
or anoth er over the centuries? An endless cascade of terror and division
marks this being that we call Human Being, and you have showed up in it! Do you support the divisions that have become a part of this being’ s history ,
or can you be one voice affecting the voice next to you and so on until we
reach that critic al mass where the entire being will align itself with the
harmony that is the onesong? It is only the Human Being that has been out
of harmony with the rest of the totality that is God or oneness or whatever
we choo se to call it. When the individuals within this total being align in a
certain fashion, much like the atoms within a given molecule, then they can
affect all of the beings within the one Human Being. I have heard scientists in virtually all fields of study talk about the
invisible forces that connect all members of a species. They report how
when liquid matter crystallizes on one part of the planet , the same
crystallization process occurs almost simultaneously in another spot without
informational or physical contact. I have heard researchers talk about
microbes in Europe suddenly behaving differently , while microbes on other
parts of the globe demonstrate this new behavior almost simultaneously
without an exchange of informa tion. The entire history of the Human Being
seems to follow these unwritten rules of a collective consciousness. I am not trying to make a case here for the scientific verification of this
point of view , but to show that the idea of oneness enjoys credibility in
scientific circle s as a means of explaining what has previously been
scientifically inexplicable. Certainly if enough of us begin to think in
nonaggressive harmonious ways to reach a critical mass, there could be an
end to war. As each being reacted harmoniously rather than with enmity
toward the being adjacent to him, it would not be long before there would
be no soldiers to follow the orders of the generals. Harmony would begin to
reverberate in those who design the weapons of destruction. When thedesigners stopped creating weapons, government officials would stop
contracting to purchase weapons of destruction, and the spin-of f effects
would begin to be felt in all fields of human endeavor . People who transport
weapons would find this behavior inconsistent with their own internal
harmony and would simply refuse to participate. Advertisers would begin to
feel the pressure to align on the side of harmony rather than of tumult. The
transition would  work within the Human Being, much as it does within a
molecule. As more and more align in harmony , the pressure becomes
overwhelming, and the oneness of humanity is the winner . And how does it
all start? Symbo lically , with that one monkey picking up that sweet potato
and having the courage to behave differently , and then the next, until the
critical mass is reached. One person with a conscience actually  becomes a
majority through this collective consciousness process. I was running one day and thinking about this business of myself being
an “I that is we” when I noticed another runner about thirty yards ahead of
me, and I asked myself a question that was to be a life-changing event for
me: “How can I possibly be connected to that being, whom I’ve never seen
before and don’t know from Adam and yet who seems to be doing the same
thing I am doing?” Then I remembered the question of perspective. I
thought about my feet moving one in front of the other , and all of the life-
forms that are alive in and on me, that will never see one another and yet
are inextricably connected and essential to make up this being that I call
Wayne. I decided to project myself back far enough, and I realized for the
first time that thirty yards in physical distance was absolutely nothing in an
endless onesong  that we measur e in the distances that light travels in years. The other runner was no farther away from me than the microbe in my eye
was from the one in my pancreas. For the first time in my life, I saw myself as connected to a being who
previously seem ed separated from me. It became crystal-clear  to me that
regardless of where any of us is on this globe, given a world that is round, it
is impossible to choose up sides. I saw that we are literally all part of this
being that we showed up in, with a mode of behavior and a personality all
its own,  and that each of us within that being can make a difference in how
the totality proceeds and exists . One small voice within that onesong can
influence the entire being toward destruction or harmony . It just hit me that day, and then when I got home and began to talk to my
wife about this amazing realization, I opened a letter from a woman in Iran,a letter that was to crystallize it all for me. An English-speaking person in Iran had read several of my books and
had decided to translate them into Farsi and make them available to the
peoples of Iran. She had translated the books and actually had five thousand
copies of each book circulated, and then had elected to go into a second
printing. At that point, the government decided to place a disclaimer in the
book stating that my subversive ideas were inconsistent with the philosophy
of the revolution taking place in Iran. The niece of the translator got my address through the American
publisher and wrote to tell me that my books had made a remarkable impact
on her. Her letter arrived on the day that I had my stunning realization that I
was not only connected to that runner some thirty yards away from me, but
to all humanity as well. The letter from Mariam Abdollahi in Iran helped me
to see that we are all connected as humans, regardless of the boundaries and
divisions we have drawn to make us believe the contrary . Mariam wrote in
detail how important my word s were to her, and said that there was a
growing awareness within Iran of the need for people to stop hating one
another and come together with the rest of the world. She began to write
regularly , and arranged for gifts to be sent to our children: tapestries that
now hang in our home, books about peace and love. She showed us there
was another aspect to the peopl e who were caught in that vicious cycle of
war. One Friday afternoon I receiv ed a long-distance telephone call from
Tehran, and there was Mariam, weeping in joy over some of the audio and
video tapes I had sent to her, along with other gifts from this part of the
onesong. We have since become friends, talking by telephone periodically ,
and she tells me that words I wrote and tapes made several years ago are
now having an effect on people who speak Farsi. The oneness of it all again
hit me dramatically . Then a beautiful letter arrived demonstratin g anew the
universality of us as human beings. Listen to Mariam as she writes from the
other part of our circle, and realize how impossible it is to choose up sides
on a circle. Wayne:
It was November 20, two weeks ago. I was a little tired of
working for one week and wanted to rest. My mom: “Get ready , the guests are coming.”“Oh, I’m tired. Tell them that I’m not at home.”
“No, this time is dif ferent. Get ready as soon as possible.”
I didn’ t know what was going on. The bell rang. I opened the
door. My niece came. In her hand, I couldn’ t believe it. My
package. Oh, how long I had been waiting for it. “Aunt Mariam, this is for you.”
My brother had got the packag e and didn’ t tell me anything
about it. I kissed the box lots of times. After a while my sisters,
our friends, relatives came. “What’ s the matter tonight?” I asked. They wanted to take part in this celebration. My mom had
invited them. There were about thirty people at this party . I told
my sister, “Oh, Layla, what did I tell you on Tuesday?” On
Tuesday evening my sister and I had gone to buy some meat and
milk. One can hardly get meat and milk at 7:00 P.M. but we had to. On our way I thought with myself, “Oh, if we will get meat, it
means that I will get my packag e. But if not, oh no.” This we call
intention. I was afraid to intend but what about the risks that
Wayne Dyer talks about in his books? “You are very lucky . All our meat is finished, this is the last. Eight kilograms  and four hundred grams, you are very lucky ,” the
man said. We wanted eight kilograms. “Oh, Layla, I’ll get my package, I’m sure.” When I told people
that Dr. Dyer had sent me a video, everyone said, “That time you
were lucky to get your package. But this time you won’ t get it
because they’ll open it and won’ t give it to you.” Oh, Eykis must
come here to make a list of worries such as if they arrest my son
on the street and take him to the front, if today is our turn to be
killed by Iraq bombs, or if I won’ t get my package!! “Layla, I got it at last,” I told my sister and kissed the box. “Open it,” people said. “No, after eating cake,” I said…. [Mariam descri bes her emotions after examining all the
contents. She closes her letter with the following:]
“Listen, everybo dy, let’s hear his voice. Okay? Suppose that he
is here….”
We listened to you on the tape: “Either get out there and take
charge of your life and be a responsible person and make thingshappen or be one more of the kids in the orphanage…. I have
found that anything is now possible for me…only because I
believe I can do it. My work really reflects the notion that you
become your expectations. Whatever you expect to become…”
What a good night it was. I never forget it. It was two in the
morning. “OK, guys, go home. I have to wake at 5:30 A.M.”
“No,” they say, “we haven’ t seen such a happy face, such a
real, genuine laughter , such sparkling eyes for many years.”
My brother -in-law: “I bet you don’t sleep tonight and read the
letter over and over and listen to the cassettes.”
Thank you for making some moments of my life, moments to
remember . I enclose some pictures. Please send pictures as much
as you can. The more the better . Is it the disease of more? Descartes, “I think, therefore I am.” Mariam, “I have a letter from
Dr. Dyer, therefore I am!” Very grateful to you for sending me the
book and also wish you Happy Holidays. Love, Mariam
We can begin to fathom the potential magnificence of seeing the oneness
of it all, withou t threatening our individuality . We can allow ourselves to
feel genuinely connected, knowing that our thoughts, feelings, and behavior
impact on everyone, even on those whom we have never seen. Each of us is
a whole composed of an endless number of particles of life, and each of
those life particles going inward continues ad infinitum. The reverse is true
as well, when we shift from the microscopic point of view to the telescopic
and see ourselve s as part of one life-form in a larger and larger being which
is onene ss. The great parable on this subject is Gulliver ’s Travels, wherein
being a Lilliput ian or a Brobdi ngnagian is a matter of perspective. Let’s
take another look at the entire business of oneness and how it applies to
your individual body . GETTING A CLEAR REFERENCE TO THE WHOLE
 
If I turn my meta phorical micros cope inward and look at a single cell within
the totality that is me, I will find many many cell components, with fancy
names like nuclei, mitochondria , DNA, RNA, centrioles, basal bodies, and
the like. One single cell is a whole, a totality unto itself, and carries withinit all that is required to reproduce the entire organism called me. One of
your cells carries all of you. Assuming we have six billion cells,
theoretically , any of those cells has within itself the capability  of cloning
another whole person. There is also, however , something else that makes up
a cell, something that defies physical explanation and requires going
beyond the physical to the metaphysical. Something that holds that entire
cell together. That something we describe as the source, or as serenity ,
harmony , peace, or ease, or as my personal favorite, love. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin put it this way: “Love is the affinity which
links and draws together the elements of the world…. Love, in fact, is the
agent of universal synthesis.” Love or harmony is that immeasurable,
invisible ingredi ent that synthesizes and creates the form which  we call our
bodies and our physical world. When a cell does not have internal harmony or ease, even though all of
the inner parts are there in the proper proportions, that particu lar cell will
behave in a nonharmonious way and affect the entire whole that contains it. Thus a cell with an absence of ease, a diseased cell, is lacking a reference  to
the whole, including itself. A diseased cell lacks internal ease or harmony or
love, or whateve r we choose to call it. That cell has absolutely no reference
to the whole, to the individual person. Consequently , it destroys everything
in its way by refusing to cooperate with the adjacent cell, until it destroys
the whole, and as a result it destroys itself. What I have just described is the working of a cancer within a body . It is
an organism with no reference to the whole, which does not cooperate with
the other cells, and ultimately kills the whole and itself in the process. Because it lacks that reference to the whole, it puts itself on a path toward
its own destruction. Now shift your consciousness with me to the telescope and begin to look
outward from that cell, and imagine the self as one single cell, among six
billion cells in a larger body that we call humanity . The totality that you are
is very similar to the workings of a cell. You have many comp onent parts,
and something mysterious and invisible that holds you together—the same
thing that Teilhard described. Love is your universal synthesizer , if you are
the universe. When you, as one cell, are composed of something other than
that ease or harmony within, you are diseased, and you will react to the
cells adjacent to you in the way that a cancer cell acts towards its neighbors. You will not cooperate; instead you will attempt to gobble up, oraggressively destroy, or insidiously judge your neighboring cells. Thus a
cancer in society is almost identical to a cancer in your body . When an individual acts destructively toward another person it is because
he has no reference to the whole. Without that feeling or belon ging to the
whole, he will act aggressively toward others and in the process end up
destroying the self as well. We begin to see how a lack of affinity for the
total unit or a lack of thinking in terms of oneness can produce a cancer in a
cell, and in society as well. Now let’s turn the telescope up to a stronger focus. Think of the entire
planet which we live on as one cell. I have never read a better  description
than Lewis Thomas’ s in The Lives of a Cell:
I have been tryin g to think of the Earth as a kind of organism, but
it is no go. I cannot think of it this way. It is too big, too complex,
with too many working parts lacking visible  connections. The
other night, driving through a hilly, wooded part of southern New
England, I wondered about this. If not like an organism, what is it
most like? Then , satisfactorily for that moment, it came to me: It
is most like a single cell…. Viewed from the distance of the
moon, the astonishing thing about the Earth, catching the breath,
is that it is alive . The photographs show the dry, pounded surface
of the moon in the foreground, dead as an old bone. Aloft,
floating free beneath the moist, gleaming membrane of bright sky,
is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the
cosmos. If you could look long enough, you would see the
swirling of the great drifts of white cloud, covering and
uncovering the half-hidden masses of land. If you had been
looking for a very long geologic time, you could have seen the
continents themselves in motion, drifting apart on their crustal
plates, held afloat by the fire beneath. It has the organized, self-
contained look of a live creature , full of information, marvelously
skilled in handling the sun. How about that? The entire planet as a cell? And why not, when you shift
your perspective to the enormousness of this entire onesong? All of the
characteristics of a single cell, just like the cell that you are, and that cellinside the tip of your nose, and the cell within that cell in the tip of your
nose, and inward, and outward to infinity . It is all one. And what of the cancerous or disharmonious cell on our planet? Take a
look at what we call the nucle ar age. What have we done to our planet? Have we not in fact created weapons that have no reference to the whole, to
our one cell called Earth? Isn’t it working just like a diseased cell, gobbling
up everything in its wake and ultimately destroying the whole and itself in
the process? Should we ever explode one of those devices in aggressive
warfare toward any of our brothers, wouldn’ t we in fact be destroying not
only our neighb oring cells but ourselves and our planet as well? Without a
reference to the whole, a sense of the oneness of it all, we can only act like
a dis-eased cell. And what is a dis-eased cell but one that lacks internal
harmony , serenity , or as Teilhard called it, love? The way to oneness seems
to be through the path of inner harmony . The way to inner harmony is
through thought. And what kind of thought? The thoughts of oneness and
unity . The thoughts that all of us are connected. Though the bonds may not
be visible to the naked eye, they are still there, just as they are within each
individual cell in your own body . Whenever you fail to see yourself as a part of this entire whole, related to
all of us in this being that we call Human Being, then you lack inner
harmony and become dis-eased. That dis-ease will manifest itself in
aggressive, nonloving, and uncooperative behavior toward your
neighboring cells. Thus, the problems of a lack of oneness in our world can
really be traced to the individual cells that compose this body we call
humanity . As we work at eliminating cancer in our bodies by teaching a
sense of oneness and harmony and positive visualization, we also can help
to eliminate the carcinogens in our society the same way. Each of us as a
single cell has the opportunity to affect the entire being in either a
harmonious and loving way , or in a disorderly and dis-eased way . Up until now, the history of the Human Being has been one of far too
many cancerous cells, and too few cells filled with harmony and ease. The
body is wavering, and each of us must do what he or she can to make the
shift toward higher consciousne ss and harmony reign supreme and make
the onesong harmonize. This is not a job for others, it is for each of us to be
involved and help the entire body heal and stay well. The Human Being has
too long been divided, and it is our ultimate challenge to get a reference tothe whole, to see ourselves as one, and stay a single cell within a larger cell
that is working harmoniously . It becom es clear , then, with this new perspective, that anyone who is
acting in a destructive or aggressive way toward anyone else is actually a
person who lacks inner harmony . We should examine all of our aggressive
hateful behavior  toward others as a problem not with our neighbors, but
with what we are sending out to those neighbors. Within this context, it is
constructive to take a look at how we treat those cells adjacent to us who
look a little different from us, or who speak a different language, or worship
uniquely . We have created a large cell that is composed of many diseased
cells, and we all know that the whole cannot long survive when it is made
up of cells which are dis-eased . This was Einstein’ s warning to all of us
when he reacted to the splitting of the atom by telling us that we were now
on an unparalleled course toward ultimate disaster unless we could learn a
new way of thinking, an alternative to solving our disputes through
aggression and war . A VER Y BRIEF LOOK AT THE HIST ORY OF THE HUMAN
BEING
 
Ours is largely a story of divisio n rather than unity . Study any book which
chronicles the history of the Human Being, and we see one long story about
how divided we are as a species . The most startling thing about our history
is that we have always been at war with one another . We can measure our
advancement in the sophistication of the devices we have created over the
centuries for the purpose of killing off our brothers. We have evolved from
simple weapons of destruction such as crudely fashioned knives and
tomahawks to guns which can get the job done from a distance, to
automatic mach ines which can kill many of our brothers at once. Now we
have the twentieth-century term “megadeaths” to describe the lethal
capacity of our weaponry . Reconsider the analogy of our own body and the billions of cells which
constitute its physical totality . If we project that this one body was able to
live for fifty thousand years, we would see that that entire period of time
was devoted to creating micro bes and bacteria within the body for the
purpose of destroying the body quicker and more economically . We would
see that we had now killed off the pancreas, the liver, the arteries, removeda few limbs, and were ready to have all of the component parts fighting
each other in such a way as to complete the destruction of the entire body . And we have now created the ultimate cancer , a means of destruction
which, if ever used, will destroy the entire whole once and for all. The history of this being is also one of emphasizing our differences and
divisions. Look at our history books, and see how we as a total being have
behaved. The East against the West. The dark against the light. The old
against the young. The German s against the French. The civilized against
the savage. Endless chronicles of dichotomies, of peoples figuring out ways
to conqu er one another , to outdo one another , to defeat one another . It is
analogous to all of the life forms in your body choosing up sides based
upon physical appearances. The liver cells against the whites of your eyes. The larger cells of your skin against the tiny cells within your blood. The
liquid cells against those in the heel of the foot. The longer cells in the
intestines versu s the shorter cells in the eardrums. Division, division,
division, until at last one group wins and kills off the entire body . You know
how absurd it would be for you to try to live with this disharmo ny going on
within you. You know without even having to think about it that all of the
component parts  that constitute you must work in cooperation  and with a
reference to the whole that is you if you are to survive for ninety or so
years. Well, the being that is our Human Being simply has a longer life span
because it is so much bigger (a question of perspective), and consequently
you must take a look at how the individual beings within this Human Being
have been behaving, and then ask how it is possible for the being to survive
with all of this division. The answer is that we either help to change the
behavior and attitude of the beings that make up the Human Being, or it will
destroy itself. Listen to Paramahansa Yogananda writing in The Divine
Romance:
I believ e there will always be wars, until perchance we all
become so spiritual that by the evolution of our individual natur es
we will make war unnecessary . No matter what their difference s,
if great minds such as Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Mohammed, sat
together , they would never use the engines of science to try to
destroy each other . Why must people feel it necessary to fight?The power of guns evokes no wisdom, nor has it ever
accomplished lasting peace. Our history is replete with references to how we have divided ourselves
and brought the entire human race to the brink of destruction as a result of
our emphasis on enemies rather than allies in this miracle of life. Some of
the great est mind s who have been among us know that oneness is more than
idle thoughts of philosophers and metaphysicians, that it is the very essence
of our reality . In the oneness that is human ity we have practiced division to the
detriment of the entire whole. Yes, we have had some shining lights who
have attempted to help us see the folly of our ways, but essentia lly we have
not been able to transcend our physical forms and see that our humanity is
in our thinking, and that the totality of our thinking has always been that of
divisiveness and separateness. There is much for you, as both one single
cell in this body  called humanity and as a functioning whole composed of a
multitude of individual cells, in the application of this principle of oneness
to your own personal world. One of the best places for you to begin to put
this principle to work is in how you function in relationship to all of the
other humans within the onesong. You can be either an instrument of
cohesion and leadership, or one of the beings that unconscio usly brings
your unit down. CUL TIVATING A REFERENCE TO THE WHOLE
 
Not long ago as I was running through the neighborhood, I noticed a tree-
trimming servic e at work on a neighbor ’s lawn. Since I had a large
overgrown tree in front of my house, I stopped to ask the worker if he could
give me some information so that I might use the trimming service. His
response gave me a great deal of information about how he sees himself,
both within his company and within his world: “Look, mister , I can’t stand
here and talk, my job is to get the trees trimmed. I don’t know a damn thing
about the front- office end of this business.” He proceeded to turn up the
volume on his chain saw and dismiss me entirely . He was so preoccupied
with his own little compartmented responsibilities that he failed  to see how
his actions affected the whole business, and that if he displayed that attitude
on a regular basis, he would be alienating himself from the whole andcontributing to its downfall, and therefore his own downfall as well. It is
akin to a waiter in a restaurant responding to a diner ’s request for the time
by saying, “Sorry , that’ s not my table.”
In the world of business, two attributes stand out clearly in distinguishing
leaders from followers:
1. All effective leaders have a reference to the whole . In any given
day I could count hundreds of examples of people I encount er
who have no concept of the whole, who in fact act just like a
single cancer cell in the totality  that is their business enterpris e.
“It’s not my department—you’ll have to talk to accounting.” “I’m
only doing what I’m paid to do.” “I’m sorry , that’s someone else’s
responsibility .” “I can’t take responsibility for how others do their
job, I can only do one thing at a time.” You hear it from a teller at
a bank, a cashier , a telephone operator at a large department store,
a clerk at the driver licensing  bureau, and so on and on. No
reference to the whole. No sense of belonging to the entire unit,
no understanding that one must cooperate with those adjacent to
us in order for the unit to survive. All on a self-destructive trip
each day in their contacts with the public they are being paid to
serve, breaking down the effectiveness of the entire unit because
they see only the very narrow , it’s-not-my-department picture. A
leader always sees the whole and knows that each individual
impacts on everyone. 2. All effective leaders have a reference to the larger whole . Yes, I
said the “larger” whole. Keeping in mind that time is not a
construct for those who are truly transformed, we then have to
look at our business enterprise as a totality outside of time,
measured by the instruments we have devised to keep track of the
whole. Thus, we see that true leaders understand in their hearts
that a customer alienated today  by an employee is also someone
who is impactin g on the busine ss days, weeks, and years down
the road. The leader is in this endeavor for the long haul and
knows that a mistreated customer will affect the whole not only
today , but forever . In addition, that dissatisfied customer will tellten other people about his experience and they will impact on the
whole down the road as well. Thus, the effective leader knows
that every single contact betwee n any employee and a customer  is
a total moment of truth. The big picture is now and forever , the
whole now and the grander whole of all time. The typical
follower employee is unconcerned about whether you ever return. His attitude says, “I only care about getting this over with and
getting home, and having my paycheck arrive on time.” He does
not have  it in his consciousness to care that that customer will
inevitably select a competitor next time, and will do so for a long
period of time, because of the surly treatment by the employ ee
with narrow vision. Those employees with no reference to the
larger whole are sabotaging the entire unit in the same way that a
diseased cell gobbles up everything in its wake. If your job invol ves business recruiting, I suggest that you look
for these variables in your future employees. If they view
themselves as belonging to the whole and are aware of how their
individual pieces of behavior impact powerfully on the whole,
you have a potential leader . A leader is alert to how every single
piece of human behavior affects the whole, and knows that the
whole cannot survive with cancerous cells doing the work. The
effective leader knows that future business is determined by how
each customer is treated in that specific moment of truth when
contact is first made. When I encounter a person who has no
reference to the whole, I sense that that particular business or unit
is in serious jeopardy . The clerk who lets me know that I am
important and is willing to do whatever it takes to produce results
is the employee who makes me want to return to that business. That clerk is one of the harmonious cells that will make the entire
body function ef fectively today and in the future as well. Within the confines of our own family unit we need each
member to be a single individual, functioning alone, and at the
same time working in harmony  with all who share the same unit
or hous ehold. This can be said of communities, cities, states,
countries, and yes, even the biggest whole of all, humanity . When we encompass this concept of oneness and apply it in
our daily life, we begin to feel a sense of being a part of thehuman race rather than of fight ing it. We begin to sense that we
are all truly in this together and that each and every individu al
piece of behavior impacts in some way on this body or being
called Human Being. In the panoramic picture, onen ess becomes abundantly clear . Truly great world leaders know  that we cannot stay divided and
survive. They know that all of the divisions of mankind, whatever
those divisions may focus upon , contribute in some way to the
destruction of the whole of humanity . Sadly , it is quite difficult
for people who think this way to get elected. Voters are
predisposed to vote for those who favor their particular division s,
and not leaders who are workin g toward a harmonious objective
for all mankind. A Jesus Christ could hardly have been elected in
his time, nor could a Mother Teresa today . Yet still we have seen
some leaders emer ge who understand the totality of mankind. Certainly the United Nations is one small step toward using
cooperation rather than aggression to solve the disputes that arise
over the borders and divisions we have created in our attempts to
carve up our onesong. An Abraham Lincoln surfaced when unity
was called for in the previous  century . Perhaps there will be
another Lincoln in this next century to assist humanity toward
harmony . From the smallest individual cell, up through you as one cell,
and outw ard to all of the units that we see emer ging within our
social structures , to our largest units which we call countries, and
outward even farther to the entire universe, the message is the
same. When we sense the oneness in all of this, and we behave as
individuals with the highest regard for that totality , we allow the
whole to survive and flourish. When we act without respect for
the totality , we contribute to the downfall of the whole, and to our
own destruction in the process. Seeing the oneness is not simply  a metaphysical exercise; it is a
way of being that transforms life. When we have harmony withi n,
it becom es automatic to see it in the larger context of how we
relate outwardly . We will give away only what we have. When we
see it within and vow to have it there, then we will be one more
cell seeking oneness, and keeping the self flourishing as well. ONENESS AND THE DREAM
 
I would like you to go back to the perspective of your dream ing body to
remind you that while you are dreaming you are in a world of pure thought
in which you create everything you need for your dream. You do not need
your senses to see, hear, smell, touch, or taste. Everything that you
experience while you dream is reacted to by your body . The characters that
are a part of the dream are simply illusions; they are your creations to act
out your dream. All of which leads to the biggest lesson of all, and the most difficult to
grasp while you are in form. There is only one dream! Read that again. There is only one dream. Granted, there may be a thousand characters in a dream. The dreamer
creates many different life situations that have nothing to do with time. There may be automobiles, airplanes, boats, knives, bombs, beds, or
anything that the dreamer wants, but there is only one dreamer and one
dream, and that is you. In the state that we call dream ing consciousness,
there is only one dreamer and one dream. Now for the hard part. In chapter 2, I described three dimensions of
consciousness, which I called dreaming consciousness, waking
consciousness, and higher -level  consciousness. Masters of the higher -level
consciousness state have disguised themselves as ordinary people and have
walked among us letting us know that what we experience in dreaming
consciousness is also possible for us in waking consciousness. Jesus told us
that even the least among us could do all that he had done, and even greater
things. Imagine a truly higher level of consciousness in which all form is an
illusion, as it is in your dream. In this scenario too there can be only one
dream. Yes, waking consciousn ess can be seen as one big dream, taken
from the perspective of a level of consciousness higher than this one, if you
perceive yourself as one of the characters in this lar ger-than-life dream. Who is the ultimate dreame r? Call it as you will: God, higher
consciousness, Krishna, spirit, whatever pleases you. But try to let this
possibility in.
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        In the world of thought, though, we are responsible for everything. We think as we choose, and we are what we think. Not what we eat,
what we think. If we do not want the responsibility for how we have
created our self, then we ignore this self-creation aspect, and liveexclusively in the form that we inherited. If we know that thought is
capable of healing, of creating a happy life, and of making a difference
in the lives of others, then we respond to life with our ability. We are
then living responsibly. Once our focus includes the inner world of
thoughts, we shift to a more responsible way of being in the world. Look within yourself to disco ver how you feel about being  more
responsible to the world. We may enjoy the dreaming part so much that we do not even want to
consider that there is much more available if we awaken. Thus we
choose to remai n asleep, unaware of the grandness that is there for us
in awakening. When we stay with the familiar we take no risks. If we
do not risk we do not have to change. Avoid change and we can
explain that the reason for our lack of growth is a multitude of external
circumstances. It is a comfortable-seeming circle that keeps us safe,
albeit stuck in place, and in a place that seldom serves us or those we
love at a very high level. Resistance is a basic part of the fear of changing. When we approach
metaphysical or spiritual issues,  we encounter a long history of relying
on seeing is believing, and that becomes a stumbling block to looking
anywhere but where our senses  seem to point. I suggest we turn the
stumbling block into a stepping-stone by revising our thoughts to: “I’ll
see it when I believe it. ”
 
YOUR WAY OUT  OF THE CAGE
 
 
Remind yourself of how to improve at anything you wish to
accomplish in the world of form. For instance, practicing the piano for
two hours a day will improve your piano playing. Hitting a bucket of
golf balls each day at a practi ce tee will improve your golf game. Imaging is the equivalent of practice in the world of the formless. Before going to sleep at night practice getting an image into your mind
of precis ely what you want for yourself. If it is to be more physicallyfit, practice seeing yourself exactly the way you would like to appear. Let the image get fixed in your mind. Remind yourself to do this
several times during the day too. The work here is to use your thoughts
to focus on positive images, to grow from the perfect person that you
have chosen to be up to now to even higher levels of present-moment
perfection. Do not think of yourself as imperfect. Get the image in
your mind of precisely what you would love to be and you will find
that you will automatically start acting on that new image. In other
words, begin to act as if you already are where you would like to be,
and the actions will follow automatically. Work each day on your thoug hts rather than concentrating on your
behavior. It is your thinking that creates the feelings you have and
ultimately your actions as well. So give this dimension of your being
all the attentio n it deserves. Catch yourself when you verbalize
thoughts that are self-defeating. For example, if you blurt out loud,
“I’ll never be able to get out of debt,” or “I simply cannot reach my
mate no matter how hard I try,” stop and gently remind yours elf that
you are acting on your thoughts, rather than having your thoughts
come from the conditions in your life. Now rearrange those thoughts
and see yourself out of debt. Refuse to think indebted thoughts. You
will soon begin acting upon the image of yourself as a debt-free
person. You will find yourse lf tearing up your credit cards, or
consolidating your debts, or working at an extra job and doing the
things that flow from the imaging that you do in your mind. Similarly,
with your spous e, rather than act from the image you have of being
married to an impossible person, begin to act as someone who is going
to resolve your relationship one way or another. Create an image of
yourself in a relationship that is full of love and harmony, and you will
act that way. If you do not receive the feedback that is consistent with
the image, you may consider moving on along your own path alone, or
with another who is more in harmony with you. But instead of being in
turmoil because your spouse is unapproachable, you will begin to act
on the image of you as a human  being in harmony. If you work things
out, that will be terrific, and if you do not, you will move along in
peace. In either case you will be resolving your relationship rather than
feeding yoursel f on the frenzy  of a mental image of being in anintolerable situa tion. Make the situation perfect in your mind, and you
will act upon that perfectio n. The quality of relationships is
inseparably linked with our images and thoughts. What we see is
evidence of what we believe. Remind yourself that your circumstances do not make you, they reveal
you. Some people tell me that they think it is easy for me to give
advice on how to be happy and successful because I am rich and
famous. My reaction is that I feel that my circumstances reveal me. That is, I do not give advice because I am rich and famous. If I am rich
and famous it is because I have followed this advice. I have lived these
principles all of my life, and believe that that is why I have achieved
the measure of wealth or fame that is a part of my life. Look at your
life, whatever condition it may be in. Your relationships, your financial
picture, your level of happiness, your state of health. Now  try to
consider that these circumstances reveal  something about you. Acknowledge your involvement in your circumstances and view them
as a reflection of how you have been thinking and consequently  acting
upon those thoughts. You can use that power of visualization to have
the picture stay the same, deteriorate, or grow into whatever you
illuminate on your inner screen. You are what you think about all day
long. And even if you are thinking about the people who barely exist in
squalid conditio ns, remind yourself that these people, more than any
people on our planet, need to hear and believe what I am writing about. If somehow they could change their inner pictures of despair and
hopelessness to an image of something grander for themselves, and if
they steadfastly refused to imagine anything else, they would
somehow begin to make that image a reality in the physical realm. The evidence is overwhelmin g when you consider people who have
escaped from seemingly hopeles s conditions, and who report that their
belief was the impetus for their accomplishment. Secondly, know that
you are not that person. You are here, right now, the result of all the
previous pictures you have painted for yourself, and you can paint new
ones, including one of yourself assisting those who need help, if that is
what you want to do. Remind yourself daily that thought is not restricted to the confines of
time, cause and effect, beginnings and endings, and all of the other
rules that govern form. There simply are no limits in the astral realm of
thought. Armed with this aware ness, you can begin to meet others in
this realm. Relationships can exist in this area, and you can make them
come about by reminding yourse lf that everyone  in your life is a divine
entity with an intelligence behind all form. Your loved ones share their
bodies, just as you do, with God, or whatever you choose to call that
perfect intelligen ce permeating all form. Relate to them in this manner,
reach them in this new place, stay in touch with their perfection  within
their form, and you will find the quality of all your relatio nships
improving dram atically. Furthermore, you can relate to strangers in the
same fashion. See everyone as a part of the wonderful, mysterious,
invisible force that is in each and every one of us. Treat other people
like the divine creatures they are. Study the seven principles of becoming a waking dreamer by applying
one to each day of the week. Here is a sample of how you can make
this your own reality in the week to come. 1. Sunda y: Time does not exist. Spend some time today outside, in
nature, looking straight up. Try to imagine that up goes forever,
since even our rational mind tells us that the universe cann ot
simply end. If it goes forever, then it is already complete,
mysterious as this sounds. It is all complete. In a complete d
universe, time simply is mankind’ s way of helping organize the
days and keep track of things. Eternity is forever, no time, only
always. Now, what can you do with this. You can eliminate
preoccupation with time, aging, type-A  behavior, scheduling your
life, and hurryin g. It is all so perfect, this universe we are in. Slow
down and enjoy it all. Your lifetime of ninety or so years is
exactly the same as your dream  of eight or so hours. I did not
invent this notion of no time. Einstein gave it to us in amathematical sense, and philosophers from the beginning of
recorded history have reminded us of it. The Bible is replete with
references to eternity. Your lifetime in form is to be honored and
celebrated, not calculated and compartmentalized. Go beyon d
your enslavement to time and live fully in this, the only time you
have. In the Now, the working unit of your life. 2. Monday: There is no cause and effect. Today take time to
comprehend what it means just to be. You are not a human doing,
but rather a human being. While form follows all of the rules of
cause and effect, formlessness is acausal, just like the time you
spend dreaming. Now here, now there, your thoughts independent
of each other. You can get past pure cause and effect by tuning in
to your invisible  humanity. You need not continue to do the work
you trained yourself to do, simply because as a teenager, thirty
years ago, you made some decisions about what you were going
to appre ntice or major in. You need not remain governed by the
belief that past decisions cause you to be whatever you are today. You can be a creator without old rules governing your life. You
can be anything you choose, regardless of what anyone says or
does, and regardless of anything you have done or not done
before. If you can imagine it, you can be it, and your imagination,
your thinking, is not restricted to the rules of cause and effect. Today, Monday, work at not being the effect  of anything, but the
creator  of that which you imagine yourself to be. You do not need
a consultant in this matter; you simply need to put your form in
harmony with your thoughts and then just allow yourself to be it. 3. Tuesday: There is no beginning and no end. Practic e living this
day as if forever were all tied up in this day. This is forever right
here and now. Without time as a factor in this metaphysic al
experiment, today and a million years are the same. You are
eternal, and the invisible essenc e of you can never die. Knowing
this, all of the petty, worrisome areas will melt into insignificanc e. Attachment to things you can never own will also diminishsignificantly. Look into the mirror on this Tuesday morning and
say out loud, “I am not my form. I am something much more
divine than mere form. ” The fact that you can come and go in
your dreaming body independent of any time constraints gives
you evidence that the dimensio n of thought is not something to
fear, but something to savor. Today, Tuesday, live each moment as
if it were the eternity that it is, savoring everything there is to
appreciate in every moment. Make it a habit beginning today. One
moment at a time. One eternity at a time. And be patient and
loving with any fearful thoughts. Reassure your fears that you
understand their need to warn you of what they think is dange r,
and invite them to experiment with you just today, to try this new
way of thinking, safely and lovingly. 4. Wednesday: Every obstacle is an opportunity. Today, welcome
any disorderly or unpleasant behavior toward you from other
people, as an opportunity to remind yourself that they are only
talking to your form. Know that they cannot have your divinene ss
unless you choo se to share it with them, and then, perhaps for the
very first time, you will be able to see the divineness in them,
inside the form that is being unpleasant to you. Use the obstacl e,
the annoyance, as an opportunit y to connect with your inner self. Today, see how many times you can take what would have been
an uncomfortab le reaction within you and transform it into a
blessing for yourself and the other divine beings as well. Use the
incidents as opportunities to practice and experience
nonjudgmental observation of what is happening in the world of
form. Set judgment toward yourself and others aside, and instea d
observe what you are feeling, and let those feelings free you. Eventually, in this way, you will discover the blessing or
opportunity in what previously you allowed to be an obstacle to
harmony in your life. Today, Wednesday, you are becoming the
waking dreamer, turning obstacles into opportunities while in
your waking body, just as you do when you are in your dreaming
body. 5. Thurs day: You create everything that you need for the dream. As waking dreamers we know deep within that when we die our
consciousness will live on in a new dimension, and that
everything experienced on our present level of wakefulness will
appear as an illusion. Thus, just as in the dreaming body,
everything that we need for the waking dream is created by us,
even the people whom we experience as difficult: they are in our
life because we put them there. They have important lessons to
teach us. Today, concentrate on asking yourself, “Why did I create
this in my life. ”  Take responsibility for everything that is in your
life, believing that you created it all. Dedicate this Thursday to
experimenting with this self-realization. Respond today as if
everything that comes your way was put there by you, just as
everything that you experienced in your dream last night was
created by you. Everything that happens to us is in some way a
mirroring of our inner beliefs. When you really and truly know
that you create every aspect of your daily life, then you will learn
to discontinue disharmony, or to discover its message. When you
no longer need to learn how to deal with disharmony in your life,
you will stop creating it, and you will create love and harmon y
virtually everyw here you turn. Today is your day to keep this
uppermost in your consciousness all day long. 6. Frida y: The reactions are real, the characters are all illusions. Today is the day to soar in a transformational sense. Look at how
you play out the reactions to all of the characters and events that
you create for your life. Remin d yourself that all of the feelings
that you experience within you, the anger, joy, fear, stress,
happiness, are all very very real for you, just as in your dream
when you find yourself panting and breathing hard because
someone has been chasing you, the panting and breathlessness are
real, but the characters are your creation. Your reactions are the
very stuff of which the quality of your life is made up. Today
study how you are reacting to all of the externals that you have
created for your life, concentrate  on how you are processing yourthoughts. Reacti ons to life are determined by our thinking. Begin
today to study the self-defeating reactions instead of the event or
person. Imagine  waking up from your dream and being upset all
day long because one of the characters in your dream did not
behave the way you thought he or she should. You know enoug h
to say simply, “That was a dream,” and then get on with living, or
examine this reflection of yours elf. Today, you can use that very
same strategy and refuse to be immobilized by the actions of
anyone else. 7. Saturday: The only way you know you are dreaming is to
awaken. Today you can practice awakening, that is, dying while
you are alive, and look back at what you judged you needed to do
for your life. Begin to realize that everything that you experien ce
is a thought. The cookie that you want to eat but that will not help
you is nothing more than a thought. The anger at your spouse or
children becaus e they refused to act in a certain way is only a
thought. You are awakening, and by doing so you are able to see
exactly how all of your self-deprecating actions are really
responses to what you are creating for yourself. From this
perspective, you are separated  from your body, and you are
watching how you behave in a variety of situations. Like an actor
on the stage, you see your body  go through the hoops and roles
that you have created for it, and you know that you are not
exclusively that physical form. You are invisible and impervious
to the senses for a day, and you can almost laugh at yourself for
acting so foolishly as to immob ilize yourself through the avenue
of thought. As an awakened being you know that you can only
give away what you have inside, and that whatever is inside is
there because of thoughts. If you give away any hate or anger
today, it is not because of anything outside of you, but rather what
you have inside to give away. Loving, harmonious thoughts
produce love and harmony to give away, regardless of what is
coming at you. Disharmonious hateful thoughts produce the hate
and anger that you have to give away. Both reflect your belie fs
about your world. In this life, in this dimension of wakefulness,you simply cann ot give away what you do not have. Watch what
you give away all day long, and realize that the only way you will
ever get a firm harmonious grip on how to live out this illusion is
to awaken to another dimension and view all of your actions from
the new perspective. So ends a week of working each day at being a waking dreame r. Knowing
that we only have moments to live, rather than weeks and months, we can
begin to use this awareness to make our everyday lives a state of
wakefulness as unlimited as that which we experience in our dreaming
body. Keep seven words uppermost in your mind and think on the wisdom that
is behind them. From the Prince of Peace, “As ye think, so shall ye be. ”
OceanofPDF. comONENESS
 
You are at once a beating heart and a single heartbeat in the body
called humanity. Take a few moments to study the word “universe,” the term that we use to
describe this immense world of form in which we find ourselves thinking
and breathing, day in and day out. Breaking the word down, we have “uni,”
meaning “one,” and “verse,” a “song. ” One song. That is our universe, my
friends. Just one song. No matter how we separate into individual little
notes, we are all still involved in the onesong. This is one of the most difficult concepts for us to grasp and apply to our
daily lives, because we believe so strongly in our separateness. We
recognize ourse lves as one unit functioning separately among billions of
others. We ident ify exclusively with our own mind as unique and separate
from everyone else’s on our planet. We look out from our separateness and
believe that through it is the only way to interact with the world and our
reality. A huge shift is required in our consciousness to include the universal
principle of oneness. Once we make that shift and begin to recognize all of
humanity as a beautifully harmonious song, magnificent change s take place
in our individua l lives. But to make the shift you will need to suspend
beliefs resulting from the narrow perspective of a personal life history, and
instead begin to think about yourself in relationship to everyone else who
shares this planet now, who has ever been here before, and, even more
strikingly, who will show up in the future. A NEW  PERSPECTIVE ON OUR PLACE IN THIS ONESONG
 
Albert Einstein, a man I consider perhaps the greatest mind of our century,
wrote these words regarding the perspective I am asking you to examine:
A human being is a part of the whole called by us “Universe,” a
part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his
thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, akind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a
kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free
ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Einstein was much more than a scientist; he was a deep-thinking
metaphysician, with little or no regard for the established ways of thinking
and doing. In the words I have quoted, Einstein offers us a challenge to free
ourselves from our cages and to see how we are all connected, not only in a
spiritual or astral sense, but in a linear physical real world sense as well. I have my own way of making that concept take shape for me. First, to
get a perspective for dealing with metaphysical matters, I ask myself, “Can
I get back far enough to see the entire picture. ” I visualize being able to
stand in a place and literally see the entire scope of creation. Since this is
impossible to do in form, I try to look in the other direction, that is, toward
the tiniest speck, and to magni fy what is inside that speck, and so on to
infinity. Victor Hugo put it like this: “Where the telescope ends, the
microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view. ” So I suggest
that you tempor arily put away the telescope on the entire oneso ng and take
a look inward, at the one thing you know the most about, your own body. Here we will see we are all an “I that is we,” to borrow a phrase from
Richard Moss’ s marvelous book of that title. Let’s take a look through this
metaphorical microscope. We are teeming with life-forms, most of which are necessary to keep us
in a state of aliveness. Our eyelids have many tiny organisms that work in
harmony with the whole. The lining of our large intestines has hundreds of
different kinds of microbes, all alive, all with their own unique
characteristics, yet still very much a part of the whole person. Our scalp is
home for tiny organisms, each one of which has a separate identity that can
be examined with a powerful microscope. So too, our liver, pancreas,
toenails, skin, heart, and on and on are brimming with life, all working in
harmony with the whole that we call “me. ” Yes, indeed, you and I are a me
that is we, and though those microscopic life-forms that reside inside our
toenails will very likely never  come into contact with those other very
different life-forms that live in our eyeballs, they are both separate and
unique and crucial to the survival of the totality that we call ourselves. This became abundantly clear for me when I saw a documentary on the
life-forms living within one raindrop. With a very powerful microscope,
scientists docum ented that there were hundreds of life-forms in each
raindrop, many of which had no physical contact with the other life-forms
in the same drop. They were of different colors, shapes, and origins, each
with unique physical characteris tics, and were as far away from one another
as we are from tribesmen in Afghanistan. Yet they all composed the totality
called “raindrop. ”
In an endless universe, it is conceivable that our physical size is
proportionately the same as that of the tiniest microbe within the tiniest
microbe, within the even tinier microbe all within that drop of rain. The
infinitely tiny life-form that resides within my toenail will never make
physical contact with the tiny microbes in the inner lining of my retina in
my eye, in that eye’s socket, on the head of my torso, ad infinitum. At the
same time it is a separate, unique part of the totality known as “person. ”
From this perspective we can contemplate our self as a person in relation to
the totality known as “universe. ”
With our narrow vision we can see that we are connected at the physical
level, and we can validate this with physical-measurement meth ods. But we
tend to use those  measuring sticks, which we have invented, as instruments
to enslav e us to a confining and narrow interpretation of our place in this
onesong. We do this by believin g that reality is only what we are capable of
measuring, rather than both what we can measure and what is still
unmeasurable. Germs and bacteria existed in our lives and bodies long
before we could examine them under the microscope. The invention of the
microscope did not create the germs. Just as we have created devices to
measure what was previously there but unmeasurable, so too it is possible,
and, for me, probable, that each of us is a part of a “we” that is
unmeasurable by contemporary man-made technology. If we think of all humanity as one being, and ourselves as individual
pieces of the gigantic being, and if somehow we could manage to get back
far enough to see this entire life-form, we would notice immediately if one
part of the being was missing. Our eyes would automaticall y go to the
empty space. That space shows how important each of us is. You and I
make the body of humanity complete. If we are not fully alive and working
in harmony with the entire body, it lacks harmony and balance. And ifenough of us are missing, the body will die. This is the perspective we must
take in order to understand and begin to live the principle of oneness. It is, of course, a paradox to be unique and all-one at the same time. Nevertheless, it is our reality, and once we know how this principle of
oneness works in this endless universe, we will begin to see how we can
make the principle work not only for each of us, but for this entire song that
we make  up. The harmony will be felt within you, and it will radiate out to
make the onesong a rapturous melody, totally in tune, harmoniz ing with all
of the individual notes that make up this universe. Let me tell you what a
personal dif ference it has made for me in every aspect of my life. MY FIRST  CONT ACT  WITH ONENESS
 
My mother ’s mother holds a very special place in my heart. When my
mother was beset by so many difficulties after my father abando ned us, my
grandparents took my oldest brother to live with them. And from my
grandmother ’s role as a mother I got my first inkling of the concept of unity
and oneness. My grandmothe r had nursed each of her children and had been extremely
protective of her young, includ ing my mother. She had spent most of her
time lovingly rocking, singing, cuddling, and caring for her infants. My grandmother was in her ninety-fourth year when she began to lose
some of her physical faculties. She needed constant help and care as she
approached the age of ninety-five. I watched my mother taking care of her
in those final days of my grand mother ’s life. I watched as my mother took
clean clothes to her mother, and made absolutely certain that her
under garments were never soiled. And one day I watched my mother
holding my grandmother and peeling a banana for her and actually mushing
it up in her own mouth and massaging her mother ’s neck to help her
swallow it. Then she helped her put on clean underclothes. She rocked her
mother and talked to her almost as if she were a baby. As I watched, I asked
myself the question that was swirling around in my head: “Who is mother
and who is child. Didn’ t my now-helpless child-grandmother once change
the diapers of the mother -child and mush up her food to make sure that she
was properly nourished. ” Weren’ t these two human beings really fulfilling
the same role for each other. The oneness of it all struck me in an astonishing way as I watched this
scene. I realized it is all one big circle, just as the universe is one big circle,
and while we tend to identify ourselves with our separateness, when we can
get a different perspective we see that it is all one, and that there exists in
the onesong a large being called Human Being, and that each of us is born
into that being. My second encounter with this oneness concept came when I began to
read some of the literature on collective consciousness. I had read Ken
Keyes’ s The Hundr edth Monkey, and I was trying to put it into a personally
meaningful context. Very briefly, the hundredth monkey is a theory about
how all of us within a species affect one another. A group of monkeys was
being studied off the coast of Japan, and one monkey within the group
began washing his sweet potatoes in a certain way in the salt water. Soon all
of the monkeys began mimicking this monkey and doing the same thing. When a given number of the monkeys behaved in this fashion, the same
behavior began to appear in a group of monkeys hundreds of miles away,
even though the two groups had had no physical contact with each other. The hundredth monkey symbo lized what scientists call the critical mass
within the species. It is theorized that once a critical mass number is
reached, the same behavior begins to show up in all of the other members of
the same species. It seems to be true for all species that when a given
critical mass of its members begins to think or act in a certain way, so does
every other member of that same species. In Ken Keyes’ s book,  he uses the
example of nuclear war and suggests that if enough of us as members of the
human species believe and act as if there will ultimately be a nuclear war,
then when we reach that critical mass, we will of course create our own
reality as a species. On the other hand, if enough of us believe and act as if
such an occurren ce were impossible, then we can create that reality for our
entire species as well. The invisible connection betw een all members of a species  is more
verifiable now than it was a few years ago. Physicists describe it as “phase
transition. ” Scientists report that when atoms within a molecule align in a
certain way and a critical mass number is reached, the rest of the atoms
spontaneously line up the same way. Nick Herbert’ s Quantum Reality,
Fritjof Capra’ s The Tao of Physics, Gary Zukav’ s The Dancing Wu Li
Masters, Lewis Thomas’ s The Lives of a Cell, and Rupert Sheldrake’ s A
New Science of Life are a few of the books in the growing literaturedescribing a connection between the principles of physics and a collective
consciousness. Just imagine the staggering implications of this fledgling scientific notion
—a scientific basis for the oneness of it all, and the idea that if enough of us
who share this life-form called  human being begin to think  and act in
harmonious and loving ways, we can affect the entire being called Human
Being. The entire history of the Human Being is filled with war and disorder. How many moth ers have wept for sons who have gone off to fight one war
or anoth er over the centuries. An endless cascade of terror and division
marks this being that we call Human Being, and you have showed up in it. Do you support the divisions that have become a part of this being’ s history,
or can you be one voice affecting the voice next to you and so on until we
reach that critic al mass where the entire being will align itself with the
harmony that is the onesong. It is only the Human Being that has been out
of harmony with the rest of the totality that is God or oneness or whatever
we choo se to call it. When the individuals within this total being align in a
certain fashion, much like the atoms within a given molecule, then they can
affect all of the beings within the one Human Being. I have heard scientists in virtually all fields of study talk about the
invisible forces that connect all members of a species. They report how
when liquid matter crystallizes on one part of the planet, the same
crystallization process occurs almost simultaneously in another spot without
informational or physical contact. I have heard researchers talk about
microbes in Europe suddenly behaving differently, while microbes on other
parts of the globe demonstrate this new behavior almost simultaneously
without an exchange of informa tion. The entire history of the Human Being
seems to follow these unwritten rules of a collective consciousness. I am not trying to make a case here for the scientific verification of this
point of view, but to show that the idea of oneness enjoys credibility in
scientific circle s as a means of explaining what has previously been
scientifically inexplicable. Certainly if enough of us begin to think in
nonaggressive harmonious ways to reach a critical mass, there could be an
end to war. As each being reacted harmoniously rather than with enmity
toward the being adjacent to him, it would not be long before there would
be no soldiers to follow the orders of the generals. Harmony would begin to
reverberate in those who design the weapons of destruction. When thedesigners stopped creating weapons, government officials would stop
contracting to purchase weapons of destruction, and the spin-of f effects
would begin to be felt in all fields of human endeavor. People who transport
weapons would find this behavior inconsistent with their own internal
harmony and would simply refuse to participate. Advertisers would begin to
feel the pressure to align on the side of harmony rather than of tumult. The
transition would  work within the Human Being, much as it does within a
molecule. As more and more align in harmony, the pressure becomes
overwhelming, and the oneness of humanity is the winner. And how does it
all start. Symbo lically, with that one monkey picking up that sweet potato
and having the courage to behave differently, and then the next, until the
critical mass is reached. One person with a conscience actually  becomes a
majority through this collective consciousness process. I was running one day and thinking about this business of myself being
an “I that is we” when I noticed another runner about thirty yards ahead of
me, and I asked myself a question that was to be a life-changing event for
me: “How can I possibly be connected to that being, whom I’ve never seen
before and don’t know from Adam and yet who seems to be doing the same
thing I am doing. ” Then I remembered the question of perspective. I
thought about my feet moving one in front of the other, and all of the life-
forms that are alive in and on me, that will never see one another and yet
are inextricably connected and essential to make up this being that I call
Wayne. I decided to project myself back far enough, and I realized for the
first time that thirty yards in physical distance was absolutely nothing in an
endless onesong  that we measur e in the distances that light travels in years. The other runner was no farther away from me than the microbe in my eye
was from the one in my pancreas. For the first time in my life, I saw myself as connected to a being who
previously seem ed separated from me. It became crystal-clear  to me that
regardless of where any of us is on this globe, given a world that is round, it
is impossible to choose up sides. I saw that we are literally all part of this
being that we showed up in, with a mode of behavior and a personality all
its own,  and that each of us within that being can make a difference in how
the totality proceeds and exists. One small voice within that onesong can
influence the entire being toward destruction or harmony. It just hit me that day, and then when I got home and began to talk to my
wife about this amazing realization, I opened a letter from a woman in Iran,a letter that was to crystallize it all for me. An English-speaking person in Iran had read several of my books and
had decided to translate them into Farsi and make them available to the
peoples of Iran. She had translated the books and actually had five thousand
copies of each book circulated, and then had elected to go into a second
printing. At that point, the government decided to place a disclaimer in the
book stating that my subversive ideas were inconsistent with the philosophy
of the revolution taking place in Iran. The niece of the translator got my address through the American
publisher and wrote to tell me that my books had made a remarkable impact
on her. Her letter arrived on the day that I had my stunning realization that I
was not only connected to that runner some thirty yards away from me, but
to all humanity as well. The letter from Mariam Abdollahi in Iran helped me
to see that we are all connected as humans, regardless of the boundaries and
divisions we have drawn to make us believe the contrary. Mariam wrote in
detail how important my word s were to her, and said that there was a
growing awareness within Iran of the need for people to stop hating one
another and come together with the rest of the world. She began to write
regularly, and arranged for gifts to be sent to our children: tapestries that
now hang in our home, books about peace and love. She showed us there
was another aspect to the peopl e who were caught in that vicious cycle of
war. One Friday afternoon I receiv ed a long-distance telephone call from
Tehran, and there was Mariam, weeping in joy over some of the audio and
video tapes I had sent to her, along with other gifts from this part of the
onesong. We have since become friends, talking by telephone periodically,
and she tells me that words I wrote and tapes made several years ago are
now having an effect on people who speak Farsi. The oneness of it all again
hit me dramatically. Then a beautiful letter arrived demonstratin g anew the
universality of us as human beings. Listen to Mariam as she writes from the
other part of our circle, and realize how impossible it is to choose up sides
on a circle. Wayne:
It was November 20, two weeks ago. I was a little tired of
working for one week and wanted to rest. My mom: “Get ready, the guests are coming. ”“Oh, I’m tired. Tell them that I’m not at home. ”
“No, this time is dif ferent. Get ready as soon as possible. ”
I didn’ t know what was going on. The bell rang. I opened the
door. My niece came. In her hand, I couldn’ t believe it. My
package. Oh, how long I had been waiting for it. “Aunt Mariam, this is for you. ”
My brother had got the packag e and didn’ t tell me anything
about it. I kissed the box lots of times. After a while my sisters,
our friends, relatives came. “What’ s the matter tonight. ” I asked. They wanted to take part in this celebration. My mom had
invited them. There were about thirty people at this party. I told
my sister, “Oh, Layla, what did I tell you on Tuesday. ” On
Tuesday evening my sister and I had gone to buy some meat and
milk. One can hardly get meat and milk at 7:00 P. M. but we had to. On our way I thought with myself, “Oh, if we will get meat, it
means that I will get my packag e. But if not, oh no. ” This we call
intention. I was afraid to intend but what about the risks that
Wayne Dyer talks about in his books. “You are very lucky. All our meat is finished, this is the last. Eight kilograms  and four hundred grams, you are very lucky,” the
man said. We wanted eight kilograms. “Oh, Layla, I’ll get my package, I’m sure. ” When I told people
that Dr. Dyer had sent me a video, everyone said, “That time you
were lucky to get your package. But this time you won’ t get it
because they’ll open it and won’ t give it to you. ” Oh, Eykis must
come here to make a list of worries such as if they arrest my son
on the street and take him to the front, if today is our turn to be
killed by Iraq bombs, or if I won’ t get my package. “Layla, I got it at last,” I told my sister and kissed the box. “Open it,” people said. “No, after eating cake,” I said…. [Mariam descri bes her emotions after examining all the
contents. She closes her letter with the following:]
“Listen, everybo dy, let’s hear his voice. Okay. Suppose that he
is here…. ”
We listened to you on the tape: “Either get out there and take
charge of your life and be a responsible person and make thingshappen or be one more of the kids in the orphanage…. I have
found that anything is now possible for me…only because I
believe I can do it. My work really reflects the notion that you
become your expectations. Whatever you expect to become…”
What a good night it was. I never forget it. It was two in the
morning. “OK, guys, go home. I have to wake at 5:30 A.
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