Blog 420 – 09.30.2016

The title for today’s article comes from the song first made popular by July Garland in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz called Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Judy Garland did the song so well that for many years few artists tried to cover it. Two in particular in recent years have done so quite well, I think, Israel Kamakawiwo’ole with his 1993 ukulele Hawaiian version, and Josh Groban with his more traditional version on his CD called Stages. Many of us have often dreamed of a land where dreams come true.

A great many people have for hundreds of years thought the United States of America was such a land and a large number still do. I have in my travels visited all fifty states and thus far eleven different countries and I can say that dreams are coming true in all of the places I have been as mine did just getting to be there. Your dreams are coming true every day whether you are aware of it or not.

But, Dreaming David, this nightmare is not my dream, you say. Oh, No, we’ll then whose is it? The First Peoples, I like that term better than Native Americans, make a little web-like hand craft they call “a dream catcher.” They believe the dream catcher is supposed to catch all your “bad dreams” or nightmares in its web and keep them from coming to you. It is silly to argue with anyone’s religious notions but I think the job of the dream catcher is our own job. We are dream catchers. All we dream comes to us in one form or another. Unfortunately since there is so much negativity in many of our thoughts those thoughts seem to materialize more often.

One of my favorite and most read authors, Mike Dooley, says, “thoughts become things so choose the good ones.” The Law of Intention says that what we intend to happen will happen and the things we invest the most emotion in, think the most about, talk about the most and and act with expectation of receiving materialize fastest. Now that is a scary thought if all one ever thinks and talks about, is sickness and sorrow, trouble and hard times.  Think, speak, and dream about what you want not what you don’t want.

It utterly amazes me how often even people who think they are “saved” can be so trapped by old thinking patterns that keep them enslaved to the “same old same old” sad horrific dreams of desperation, debt, disease, and despair. Honey, if that is the “good news” then no wonder church attendance is at an all time low in many places. Joel Osteen, the popular and famous TV Evangelist is criticized by many Christians for what they call his Prosperity Gospel but sour grapes doesn’t win a large following and someone said you can be miserable or you can be right. I’d much rather be happy than be right. Living my highest and best dreams is more important to me that always having to be right. Isn’t that really just a trick of the Ego anyway? So often when we think we are so right we can be so wrong (see Ted Cruz, but it happens to each and all, sorry Ted)

Another writer that I like to read, Tony Burroughs, gives us a couple of good tricks to help us be better dream and thought managers. When someone else is dumping a lot of negative stuff on you (sharing stories of gloom and doom, sickness and shortage) stay grounded. Imagine your feet touching the ground makes you a ground rod and that all things negative are trickling straight to ground leaving no residual effect on you. And secondly, instead of voicing agreement with their litany of woes or even nodding yes say out loud periodically, “Oh” and think of the “O” sound as cancelling out the negative comment. Want to see the world and all your friends healthy, happy, whole, and prosperous – refuse to hold any other vision of them or yourself in your heart,mind, and words. Your dreams will come true. It is the law. Thoughts and dreams become real in our lives. It is up to us to choose the good ones and refuse the rest because we all live in a place where dreams Really do come true. I can hear Kermit, the frog, singing, “The poet, the dreamer, and me.”

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White