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44: the collective is dreaming through you. · Soul Salon with Ayandastood

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  your dreams are dreaming you back okay I want you to sit with these words often we think of this
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  in the sense that the actual dream in the universe is dreaming of us but I want to bring this
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  from the individualistic space into the collective space where dreams originally were
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  for our ancestors as a species we've been dreaming together we've been visioning together
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  that is in our bodies it's in our DNA it's in our ancestral understandings and wisdom
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  that we are here to collectively bring forth realities that don't currently exist right and
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  also to just vision and dream together in this world we frequently are made to dream and made
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  to understand dreams in a very individualistic way so it's about the self actualization self
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  realization the self living up to its fullest potential why is this the case because they know
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  that the world can only change through vision right you can't change the world unless you have
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  some sort of imaginative vision of how the world could be otherwise and that's a deeply powerful
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  and also spiritual space that the colonial consciousness has weaponized for its own ends
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  and has reduced in its power and its scope from the broad and powerful space of the collective dream
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  space into this more limited and also destructive space of the individualistic paradigm so now you are
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  taught to conceive of dreams in this very individualistic way so when you think of your dreams
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  dreaming you back what I mean by this is really that if you dream of writing there is someone who
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  dreams of reading you if you dream of singing there's someone who dreams of listening to you
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  if you dream of being seen there are people who dream of seeing and being seen through you
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  so our dreams in the collectivist realm are dreaming us back if you dream of teaching
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  there are students who are dreaming of being taught by you so that is how we then conceive of
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  our dreams as this kind of vessel into how we are meant to be existing within the collective
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  consciousness and to serve the collective well-being so I'll give you an example for myself
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  I love and I dream of pouring my love into my podcast I could conceive of this in a very
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  individual way and be like you know I think it is my purpose to have a podcast and I want to
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  win awards and I want to be on the ranking list and the ego can just run away with the dream
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  or I could say wow you know I really feel cold too I really desire I really dream of having a
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  podcast and what this may be an invitation into understanding is also that there are people who dream
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  of being seen by the words that I have to speak there are guests who dream of being interviewed in
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  the way that I want to interview so let's say some of the author out there maybe she's South African
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  she wrote a book she is looking for an audience for her book if I develop my podcast I can build
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  the kind of platform that will be supportive to her so therefore a collectivist dream has been
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  realized because in me living my purpose I can therefore create a space for someone else to live
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  this and if me living my purpose is to be heard then in my voice being heard someone can feel like
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  truly this resonance with me that activates them on their journey so the question I would ask you
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  to ask yourself is if I become my fullest expression if I honor this dream who might be dreaming me
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  back because we often think of this in a very one-sided way we are like wrestling with like why
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  isn't this working and we go through this process of desire but we don't often really allow
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  ourselves to really think who is desiring us we've all felt that feeling in the bookstore whatever
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  way we're like wow I wish there were more stories that resonated with me when we're watching TV
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  shows I don't feel like seen by the show I wish there was a show that spoke to me so in that
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  expression of this you know of discontent it's like I'm dreaming of the kind of creator who's
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  going to create insecure who's gonna create something that deeply speaks to my identity so that's
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  what I mean we are all audiences and we are creators so we are all people who are opening ourselves
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  up to consume and to receive the art of other people which means that we are dreaming of the kind
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  of art that speaks to us and so as artists we need to be able to understand both of these things
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  that there are people who dream of our art they dream of being seen by our words or felt by our
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  sound or listened to by our creation whatever it is they want to be received by us and so I wonder if
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  you become your fullest expansion who will expand through you in what way is the collective dreaming
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  through you rather than you just dreaming for yourself think about it if you really think about it
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  you can understand that your favorite singer your favorite they've changed you even if you didn't
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  know to really crave a director or an artist or a writer or a teacher exactly as you had
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  now that you've experienced them they were what you needed so on some subconscious level it's almost
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  as though you were dreaming of their kind of music their kind of art so for example you're looking
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  for a song you finally find the song that resonates with you so in a sense their devotion to seeing
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  that dream through allowed you to realize your dream of being seen through their music that's
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  what I mean so when we take this approach I think it also shifts the way we relate to our dreams
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  rather than the pressure and the self obsession and the self actualization and this focus on how we
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  can become our best selves we start to say whoa okay what if I'm meant to be doing this what if I
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  feel cold to be doing this because other people are trying to express themselves and their desires
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  through my desire it takes off the pressure because those people aren't seeking perfection they're
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  not seeking it to be a certain way they're just seeking something that speaks to them so then
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  all I need to do is resonate on the frequency natural to me honor this calling and see it through
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  and understand that I'm going to magnetize the kind of person and the kind of communities and
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  people and listeners who are seeking me and that is one of the beauties of the digital age is it's
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  like a portal and I know it has so many problems there's so many isms there's all of these hierarchies
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  that exist in who can reach an audience and so on and I don't want to undermine that whatsoever
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  downplay that at all but what I do mean is in this world it's just much easier for our voices to
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  pierce through and find potential listeners and potential readers and potential resonators like people
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  who will resonate with us so I want to leave you with the question of if you are dreaming of something
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  who might be dreaming you back who is sitting in their bedroom crying or hoping or dancing they don't
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  have to be in despair they could be enjoyed but who is seeking to be seen through you because then
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  it becomes this thing where you are just a representative of the frequency that is natural to you already
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  of the calling that is natural to you already of the energy that is natural to you already so
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  again if you seek to write poetry there are readers seeking to read your poems and be felt
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  and seen and feel themselves through your poems we've read poems I've read poems that shifted my
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  entire relationship to reality what if that poet hadn't written the poem so I was dreaming of them
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  not in this conscious way that the Western mind wants to kind of think is the only form of dreaming
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  where it's like I dreamed of this and then it happened rather than this more subconscious and subtle
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  sense this vibrational sense of oh I was calling this in and then now this poem even unknowingly
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  now this poem is speaking to that calling I was yearning for something I didn't even know I was
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  yearning for now that I've received and felt and been replenished by these words I can feel that
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  this is what I was seeking all along but it's not the active kind of seeking do you know what I mean
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  so it's just as if you're manifesting a partner there's someone who's manifesting you as a
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  partner as well so allow yourself to see the other side allow yourself to not only be part of the
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  yearning but also of the yearning for not only part of the desiring but also that someone is
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  desiring you use your imagination and just conceive of the fact that there are people who actually
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  rarely want you and are counting on you in a sense to become your fullest you because your dream
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  unlock this okay what you seek is seeking you what you desire is desiring you what you are dreaming
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  is dreaming you and you can use your collective consciousness to really tap into that energy because
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  if this is appealing to you if this is interesting to you if this is just pulling you I'm telling you
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  my love there are many other people who feel that same pull and you are actually looking to be
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  led by you in this way and led in the beautiful spiritual sense that we are all seeking sometimes
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  to just surrender to someone's consciousness or their art form or their perspective that feeling
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  of woe okay I found the resonance and now I'm ready to sit back and receive I'm ready to be in the
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  world that this artist created that this director created that this writer created because I'm already
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  feeling that sense of resonance and trust so I'm ready to surrender who wants to surrender to you
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  in the most beautiful way in the western mind again surrender is seen as submission which is
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  seen as negative power and dominance are seen as good things and so control is seen as a good
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  thing and so this idea of surrender can feel uncomfortable in a consciousness shaped in many ways
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  by coloniality and by the western way of thinking but really surrender is a beautiful process
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  so long as it's of course this voluntary process that we are undergoing in service of our own
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  deepest consciousness in service of love in service of each other and in service of the collective
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  I love you so dearly I'm wishing you all the best please do subscribe and follow and stay in touch
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  with my consciousness if it speaks to yours which if you are here it definitely does thank you for
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  being on this journey of life and unfolding and deepening our consciousness together I love this
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  journey of life I love wisdom if you are listening to this or watching I bet that you love wisdom
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  as well I'm on a lifelong journey to become more and more wise in that incompletable way in that
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  profound way in that sublime way so if that resonates with you stick around because it's going to
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  be a journey okay it already is and I love unfolding with you and with us okay I love you so
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  dearly I will see you on the next episode bye I hope some paradigms have been shifted for you
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  in today's conversation as always if you can please leave a five star rating on apple and Spotify
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