A spiritual reality lurks behind every dream, a reality that spells tragedy to your soul, a reality that you are afraid to face. Dream long enough, my friend, and you will find yourself jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

You will seek your usual escape from tragedy and failure in the world of dreams, only to meet the awful reality behind the dream.

Of course, all you have to do to get away from dream monsters and tragedies that have their origin in imagination is wake up. But how many of us do? We are like the dreamer running from the evil doctors, still looking for our shoes.

Either we will not wake up, or we don’t know how.

The human journey through life nearly always begins with an egocentric dream and ends in tragedy and spiritual nightmares. Dwelling too much in the world of imagination can be a terminal disease in itself.

The more problems you create by not being aware, the more afraid your ego is to face up to the actual results of your failure to stay awake, and the more you tend to descend into the world of imagination for escape “answers” from the phantom saviors you have conjured up out of your ego’s need to be saved from guilt and to be cloaked with innocence.

Dreaming is the actual villain that leads to the real tragedy, the real failure that we are afraid to face. The end of the line is the spirit of horror lurking behind the nightmare dream. There is a flip side to thought, another side to the ectoplasm of thinking, and that is where its architect, the evil reality, lurks.

You cannot govern your emotions or take control of your life as long as you remain a prisoner in a thought world. You must begin to thread your way out of the world of imagination and come up to the Light; you must stir from your trance-like state, for only above your thoughts can you find new and meaningful alternatives to the way you are going, alternatives that will save you from the horror of sinning and dying.

Remember, there is nothing wrong with you that waking up, becoming fully conscious, can’t cure.

"there is nothing wrong with you that waking up, becoming fully conscious, cant cure"

How can you function intelligently if you are perpetually lost in a sea of thought? You can’t. You must find a completely objective presence of mind in order to break down the power of deception. If you can’t wake up, it’s because you won’t, or you don’t know how.

And if you don’t know how, let me teach you, through the meditation tapes that are available from The Foundation of Human Understanding. They will teach you how to separate your conscious Self from the thinking, feeling mind, so that you may come to know the Truth that can set you free.

Thoughts can be dealt with, but not dreams. In dreams, you are not the master, but the victim. The thoughts that rise up in your fantasies from below, seeming to have no purpose but to serve you, are really your Lord.

But how can you know that, as long as you are so busy escaping from the Truth? Why else are you dreaming? Evil spirits, masters of deception, disguised in loving and religious images, are your comforters and “saviors,” and as long as you are vain (openly or covertly), they will be your reality.

It is your love of deception that draws dream phantoms to embrace you and draw you reciprocally to themselves. Finally, when the veil parts, you will see the evil spirit behind them. 

No one ever cared enough to show you the way. The vested interests of society have never wanted to help you. They have only wanted to put you to sleep and exploit you in your ignorance. Horrible as these tangible external realities are, they are often cloaked in respectability.

They are the “friends,” who teach you to be ambitious. They lead you in your trance state to their master and maker, the Devil himself.

The moment you are willing to become aware of the fact that you are dreaming, in that moment, you will no longer be floating in the dream.

As you continue to observe the dream as a dream, you see a transformation take place: it becomes thought, no longer real. Seeing the dream as a delusion of thought, and observing the deceiver behind the deception, you are no longer confused.

You do not follow. You are no longer compelled to react and obey. You begin to take charge of your own life. You begin to function from a wordless, common sense knowing, and a new world begins to work itself through you. At last, life is meaningful.