Release the guilt

Analysis of dream submitted by Anonymous in Canada.

Dream: I was in a second floor of dank prison with a soundproof door and walls. The window had bars to a colorless, dirt courtyard. A dark man in my room squeezed through the bars to escape into fresh air. I felt this person was guilty of a crime, but I resisted calling the guards playing poker next door. Part of me wanted him to escape. I sensed the guards would not hear me call. I got the attention of a hot, black prostitute wearing red in the yard. She got the attention of the guards next door. They came and set me free. I was puzzled.

Steps:  (1) Reflect on details highlighted by your senses
            (2) Identify what content stands out
            (3) Notice the landscape, color and associated feelings

Interpretation: You are smarter than you think. The mind can seem like a mental prison. The very nature of ego is to instill guilt. This is bestowed on you as a child., the idea you are separate, unique and different. Your suffering depends on judging. You come to feel guilty for inclinations toward love, sexuality or anything you want that is natural. You are taught certain thoughts or behaviours are unacceptable in the external world.  Your nurtured action is to instill guilt (fear of not being loved) in children and other people.

This dream echoes you punish the self unnecessarily. Regardless of what you may have done or considered, it calls for unconditional love.  In truth, there is no such thing as guilt.  You only experience guilt because you think you are separate from what you want.  The fear of not being loved is unfounded.  You are love incarnate in a body that forgets its own being.

Notice your dream captors are gambling. The mind is leveraging some kind of wager.  Who are you playing against? Consider perceived adversaries. You may fear imagined consequences. Ask yourself to reflect on your understanding of 'risk.' Are your worried about losing identity, tarnishing reputation, changing values, principles or beliefs? You have risen to new levels of self-knowledge but do not yet feel comfortable with what you sense about your core urges and unexpected creative or other freedom.

Colors evoke intense emotions and certain ones stand out. Trust your intution about your own associations with color. Black is often viewed as negative, evil or a reflection of depression. Your conscious self urges you to eliminate dark thoughts. Red can represent things like love and passion, sexuality and life force. Reflect on the themes of resistance and surrender, where and to whom? You are the judge and jury.

What is really missing?

Human beings often decide they want something.  They are convinced something is missing.  This may be an object, a goal or, something that cannot be bought. This may be something immeasurable and formless.  Mind appears to imagine want and create hindrances. What if nothing is really missing?

To want nothing implies you already have everything. To choose not to make or want anything reminds you completeness exists already. Love expands in an empty mind.  This is discerned as you remember to see and feel clearly.  When was the last moment you felt absolutely free to just be? 

Physical existence offers many opportunities for every human being to gain insight into his condition.  You may wonder what this means.  The true meaning is in front of you at this moment.  Letting go and releasing unnecessary thoughts differs from holding on and resisting.  The universe gives everything.  To rediscover the feeling of completeness prompts one to wonder why people make life so complicated.

Before mind appears, emptiness is all there is.  Emptiness is energy. Energy is emptiness.  Energy transforms. To be willing to go through a learning process enables you to tap into the true self. You return to the clean mirror, before words, thought and distractions.  Every lesson brings you back to the Source.