This is the second in a series of articles on Reality Creation. Bringing your dreams to life so we can head to a different future. Here is the first article.

When’s the last time you truly allowed yourself to dream?

Most of my clients show up with a story that they don’t know their true purpose, or if they do, don’t have a clue how to turn it into a meaningful and impactful career or business that sustains them.

Often, I call bullshit (compassionately).

Most often, their dreams have been slaughtered, or at least fallen asleep.

Cultural genocide of dreams happens when things “out there” seem fiercely impossible.

Your dreams die when you listen to the “experts” who tell you:

a) you don’t have much chance of success (or survival) because everything (water, money, resources, hope) is drying up,

b) our brains and bodies aren’t actually made for the task of carrying out our dreams, so you need to become SuperHuman to get to the finish line, or

c) there are too few of us who care (or are ready,) so good luck finding compatriots to help you do the hard work.

Oh, and of course these kinds of “experts” will tell you that, in addition to upleveling your neuropsychology, peak states and performance, you probably also need a Plan B.

If you’ve been following predictions, you’ll know these experts also believe that Plan B includes either:

a) a 1000+ acre “community” of like-minded also SuperHumans who can farm, hunt, mill, blacksmith, consciously carry a gun and simultaneously cook, sew, teach the young and have wild state-inducing sex, or

b) build a Bomb Shelter, store many years worth of rations, and keep a healthy dose of Tums to process your grief.

Yea. There’s that. No wonder most of us don’t dream anymore.

When Radical Hope Turns Rancid

I recently spent a week listening to one of these experts who spent more than half of my expensive backwoods “camp” experience describing how we got to this sordid place.

I thought I was signing-on to a weeklong exploration of Radical Hope. I had been promised (and sorely needed) a dialogic exploration of how to move past the “nearly impossible” through advanced tools, mindsets, and break-out solutions.

Instead, I got more of the quarter-of-a-second til midnight argument that basically says we’re doomed but feel free to wend your way down the path in the off-chance that you’ll come up with solutions while you’re carrying that extremely heavy backpack.

The gut-wrenching agony I felt after the week, having been pummeled with facts and figures and forced to assume a fighting stance, felt completely disparate from the communal, confident coherence I was seeking.

Our situation is indeed dire, and rooted in the mind-bending patriarchal systems that supported our fossil-fuel dependent capitalistic approach to profit and productivity over regenerative living systems.

Yet, only focusing on the problems won’t yield new innovations nor produce the kind of truly radical hope (and dreaming) that’s required to find our way out of this mess.

Rob Brezsny, the astrologer whose book Pronoia is the Antidote to Paranoia, insists that “pronoia” is the antidote to our societal determination to be miserable and overwhelmed, rather than happy.

I realized after that weeklong slog through humanity’s painful past that I had to concede the source of my disappointment.

Disappointment is always about our own projections — what’s missing ‘out there’ is also resonating internally.

In this case, I had hoped someone else would have a solution for my internal doubts, fears and beliefs that it really is hopeless. I’d desperately wanted someone to have answers.

But instead, this expert threw everyone under the bus who had any shred of “hopium” (his words) left in their system. Instead of hope, he spewed disillusionment.

Having spent decades wrestling my own demons, and tuning out the radio frequency of cultural annihilation, I truly know what both hope and disillusionment look like.

I choose to live in the belief that we can create something different.

Pronoia.

Radical longing.

I know, from my own personal experience and witness to thousands of clients, that a soulful life and work, rooted in purpose, is possible.

As Daniel PInchbeck writes in his article Magic at the Edge of Time, we need an “authentic call to the human heart that goes far beyond statistics and evidence.”

You need to believe in your dreams, especially the ones worth daring to dream.

When You Personally Slaughter Your Own Dreams

You kill your own dreams by not only listening to the experts (who tell you it’s too late), but also by listening to your own nagging doubt-inducing beliefs, that sound like:

• It’s too hard. I’ll never make it.
• I don’t deserve that anyway.
• It’s too much risk and I have to … (e.g., pay my bills, take care of my family, save for retirement, keep my health insurance.)
• I already tried to “do what I love” and it didn’t work
• Why rock the boat if I’m comfortable?
• I need security so I’ll just suck it up for now.
• Everybody would tell me I’m crazy.

I’ve had all those thoughts over and over again each time my pea-sized brain tries to talk me out of one of my deepest desires or downloads.

But I know I can’t resist my dreams because my operating system is organized around the need for alignment with my purpose- my reason for being.

I can’t stop my “can’t not do” version of my life.

So I’m torn between:

• My dreams- what I “can’t not do”- my purposeful vision, and
• The nagging voices of my inner sub-psychic parts that want to protect me, keep me safe, stay small to avoid disappointment and help me not look like a looney-tune.

But…

I’m crazed about living purposefully. I claim it.

And it’s a little bit easier when people know to expect crazy from you… they don’t expect you to do normal stuff.

And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

’Cause it always turns out exactly as it needs to, even if the journey has lots of hiccups and misfires and a few wrong turns or second-guessing.

When I make those seeming “mistakes,” I become even more adept and empowered to live that next version of me that I was resisting.

The hurdles you have to overcome are the exact lessons you need to give you the tools to live that next version of you anyway.

Believe me.

I have a birds-eye view of why it’s so hard to make your dreams come true, and it always has to do with faith and taking action.

Trust in Allah and Tie Your Camel

You may not believe in God or Allah or any other deity. Cool.

I don’t have religious beliefs per se either, but I do trust that the universe has my back and conspires on my behalf.

But do you have faith that there is another way?

What if there’s just the slightest possibility that you could imagine that you were living your dream life?

You know, the one where you would find more meaning and fulfillment, live more fully in joy and freedom, and be doing the thing that would bring you satisfaction and create an impact?

That’s trusting in Allah or God or the quantum field, however you envision that which is beyond your limited notions of who you are as your World Self.

Trusting in the fractal-holographic notions of the cosmos as having purpose and intention to guide you in just the right direction to get what you need in exactly the right time.

But living your dream also requires you to tie up your camel. To do the actual work.

Having Faith is a Verb

It is not enough to sit on a cushion or kneel on a bench and meditate or pray that things will come.

Faith is knowing that every step, in any direction, is better than waiting for something to magically appear.

Taking ANY step either leads to success or failure. Both of which lead to learning. Which leads to moving forward or trying again.

Have faith. Do the work. AND magic will appear.

Dream Big. Start at the Trailhead.

Daring to dream requires both holding on to the possibility that anything can happen, then letting go of exactly how that will transpire.

And often you get stuck believing you’re not worthy of your life-altering dreams because you see the top of the mountain and you want to go there.

When the vision you create is about the top of the mountain, you forget the tasks to prepare for the climb, or the one-foot-in-front-of-the other march up the mountain.

When you’re looking at the top, the incline looks pretty damn steep.

And then usually your aspiration is not believable, because you don’t see the way up and fear creeps in.

The key is to hold onto those fantastical dreams, then let go of reaching the top and take one step at a time.

Have Faith. Dare to Dream. Take Bold Action.

That’s the simplicity on the other side of complexity, where dreams still come true.