I conduct a monthly gathering known as "Waking From The Dream". It is a guided discussion group and here is my vision of what the group was to be and how that has changed, which it has.

Initially I had a desire to share my revelations about the idea that this reality is something other than what it has been presented to us since our birth. It can be called a type of holodeck, to use a term from the TV series Star Trek. The movie The Matrix brought into the public awareness the idea of the matrix which says that our reality is a computer program that we are plugged into from some other place.

The original name I gave to the introductory talk was "Welcome to Holo-Matrix Earth, Now let's go home." Not only is that a mouthful, it also implies that I could accomplish both the successful convincing of the idea that our experience of this Earth is a type of holo-matrix and that I could then show a way to transcend it.

As I have stated in my emails and in person, and as the name of the discussion group became "Waking From The Dream," a way to do so is to practice remembering your dreams, waking up in your dreams (lucid dreaming) and to eventually awaken from the dream (this one).

In reality I was looking for some reinforcement by drawing to me like-minded people that had been thinking similar thoughts, who would also be reinforced. I hoped that in the process we could produce a synergy where a sharing environment would then be created. This intent had not fully surfaced in me at the start of the group. In other words, I was not consciously aware of my own processes that were motivating me to form the group.

In the last couple of months I have had some epiphanies. One has resulted in the awareness that I am able to manifest my thoughts into physical reality with an ever increasing ability. Another is that I do not yet have the wisdom to use this ability for the greatest good. I have therefore throttled back this activity and focused its use on acquiring that wisdom. In doing so I have become aware of my own inner demons and I have been doing battle with them which has resulted in some physical distress, some of which manifested itself just prior to our last meeting.

Most recently I have learned through my meditations that perhaps the only way through the process is not to do battle but to surrender. Surrender and release therefore become the methods of transcendence. Surrender to what, you might ask? Well, call it the light, God, Great Spirit or the cosmos. It really doesn't matter what name you give it for it is the life force that is at the core of being. I call it Love.

About a year ago I was in park in Santa Barbara, California with a beautiful young woman and I was pontificating about how we could create and change anything in our reality if only we believed in the process. I told her about the method that I used to do so, to control the dream, to change reality. She then asked me the first of two very important questions, "So how do you transcend the dream?" I was at a loss for words. That is what led me to later add the part about waking from the dream. I continued to explain the process and then, after a very patient listening period, she asked the show stopper, "How does Love fit into this?" As I blithered, attempting to answer, she told me not to try to make up something.

Then it was her turn to talk and she did. This angel of a being took me to the highest point in the park and had me look around and then she pointed at various objects and asked me to tell her about the love in each object. As I struggled and stammered she patiently gave me her view as to how each object contained love. It was a profound experience.

Last Saturday while returning home from Lompoc I made an appointment to have dinner with some friends who live in the Santa Barbara area. I had several hours to kill so I went to that same park and while there I was reminded of that experience. I kept hearing her words, "how does love fit into this?" As I lay on the grass soaking up the sunshine I almost expected her to appear. She did not but what did appear for me was that everywhere I looked I saw love. There was a wedding in the park that day and I saw love in that, which was easy. There was a man with his two to three year old son looking at the fish in the pond and I saw his love for his child. There was a couple on a blanket obviously in love and I saw that. An elderly couple strolled around the park holding hands and I saw their love for each other still after all these years. A young girl setting on a bench alone crying, I sent her thoughts of love and immediately her cell phone rang and as she answered it a big smile came across her face as she wiped away the tears. I saw love in that. The birds, the fish and the trees all radiated their life and I saw love in all of that.

I am continually finding myself surrounded by more and more beings of the light with each passing day, those of us who have decided to help change the planet at this time by sharing our light and love. I am just beginning to awaken to this realization. It is My Truth and not The Truth, at least not until everyone in my reality shares it.

Love, Light and Prayers,

Oliver