AWAKE, O SLEEPER : Denial versus Detachment

Peace cover you, within without the same,
    In shining silence and in peace so deep
    No dream of sin and evil can come near
    Your quiet mind. And then in stillness wake.

You are the dreamer of the world of dreams. No other cause it has, nor ever will. Nothing more fearful than an idle dream has terrified God's Son and made him think that he has lost his innocence, denied his Father, and made war upon himself. So fearful is the dream, so seeming real, he could not waken to reality without the sweat of terror and a scream of mortal fear unless a gentler dream preceded his awaking and allowed his calmer mind to welcome, not to fear, the Voice that calls with love to waken him. [A gentler dream, in which his suffering was healed and where his brother was his friend.] God willed he waken gently and with joy. And gave him means to waken without fear. Accept the dream He gave instead of yours. It is not difficult to change a dream when once the dreamer has been recognized.

 Rest in the Holy Spirit and allow His gentle dreams to take the place of those you dreamed in terror and in fear of death. He brings forgiving dreams in which the choice is not who is the murderer and who shall be the victim. In the dreams He brings, there is no murder and there is no death. The dream of guilt is fading from your sight, although your eyes are closed. A smile has come to lighten up your sleeping face. The sleep is peaceful now, for these are happy dreams. (T-27, VII,13:1-14:8)

    First there is silence; then awakening.
    Now is the time appointed for the end
    Of dreaming. Still the cradle where you come
    To be reborn. The Christ is stirring in
    The home that He has chosen as His Own.

“Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead, And Christ will shine on you.”

 Happy dreams come true, not because they are dreams, but only because they are happy. And so they must be loving. Their message is, “Thy Will be done,” and not, “I want it otherwise.” The alignment of means and purpose is an undertaking impossible for you to understand. (T-18,V, 4:1-3)

    His vision rests upon your eyes, and soon
    You will behold His face, and will forget
    The fantasies that seemed to be so real
    Until the stillness came. The Son of God
    Has come to join you now. His shining hand
    Is on your shoulder. And God's silent Voice
    Speaks ceaselessly of Heaven. You will hear
    His single message calling to His Own
    From His abiding place, to wake in God.

AWAKE IN STILLNESS
By Helen Schucman,
             January 15, 1974
             From The Gifts of God©, p. 73
             Published by the Foundation for Inner Peace

We are the Dreamer in it dreaming and keeping alive the dream… Neville Goddard 26 June 1970 THE PROMISE EXPLAINED

Who paints a picture, writes a play or book
Which others read while he’s asleep in bed
O’ the other side of the world — when they o’erlook

His page the sleeper might as well be dead;
What knows he of his distant unfelt life?
What knows he of the thoughts his thoughts are raising,
The life his life is giving, or the strife
Concerning him — some cavilling, some praising?

Yet which is most alive, he who’s asleep
Or his quick spirit in some other place,
Or score of other places, that doth keep
Attention fixed and sleep from others chase?

Which is the “he” — the “he” that sleeps, or “he”
That his own “he” can neither feel nor see?
— Samuel Butler

O Dream of Dreams, tell me, where is the dreamer?

O Dream of Dreams of Dreams, tell me, where is the dreamer?

O Dreamer, speak unto me,--in which of these dreams wilt thou be found?

O Dreamer, speak unto me, art thou the dreamer in the Dream, or the

dreamer of the Dream?

O Dreamer, answer me,--if thou speakest unto thyself, and hear the sound

of thy voice and reply unto it,--are there then two people speaking, or is it but

one?

O Dreamer answer me,--how many people are dreaming thy dream?

The Three Books of the Absolute

by Richard Rose

Denial versus Detachment_Themes from "A Course in Miracles"