The reality inside the dream. I live in a dream, the, cars, houses, material objects,  boxes, time and space are the dream. Inside the dream, under it, below it, all around it, is the reality. The reality is the visions, the voices of spirit, the sounds of the goddess sighing, the ancestors, spirit guides, spirit animals, voices of teachers, revered sacred figures,  lovers, Great Spirit and Mother Earth, grandmothers and grandfathers of the 4 directions talking to me in the non moments between time and space. Two bears, a bear I dance with says, “I don’t put on a bear skin to dance as bear, I put on a human skin after the dance,  to dance as human.  I am actually the bear. That is who I am. The  bear skin is my real skin. Then, when the dance is over,  I put on the human skin to lead material life.” In other words, the reality is bear, the dream the human. Ummm yesterday I saw the vision of roots, our roots, the tree’s roots , the roots were alight, many changing colors,  alive, they went everywhere and connected me to all. Yesterday, I saw the  vision of tendril filled with bubbles, leading from above into my body. The bubbles were love I was told give to all people around me. Umm and the dream, was packing boxes to move, eating dinner with friends, looking at my car and …

Alex Grey, Hildegard of Bingen and Keith Smith