A Peak (or Peek) Experience. I had a dream that I am involved in a mountain climbing expedition. There is a skilled mountaineer Jessie, and a group of climbers bound together by ropes. Everyone is at a different level. Jessie has climbed the mountain many times and is showing us novices how to best climb. He knows all he proper footholds which will allow us to get to the top. He has learned by trial and error and insight. He is so skilled and has done it so often he could literally climb the mountain blind folded. It seems his main purpose is to help everyone get to the top. He knows what is on top. As we climb we follow in his footsteps and we then can instruct those who follow us . From what he tells us the view from the top is magnificent and unlike anything we have ever experienced before. He tells us that his function is to see that we all make it to the top (which he called the WAKE UP level). He said that our fundamental function is to put the fun back into function and fundamental. And to personally make it to the top. He said we would find it is easier and more fun to help our fellow climbers because we cannot reach the top until everyone does. He said: “some of the climbers get frightened or bored and unhitch and return to the bottom. Others really enjoy the climb and are reluctant to reach the top as that will end the journey, so they repel back down to start over. They take great delight in doing this and find new footholds and argue over which is the correct way to do it.” Others, it seems, under the guidance of Jessie go back down and encourage the ones who gave up, or who haven’t tried or who don’t even know of the mountain, to start the climb. The ones who get to the top however realize that Jessie was correct about the view. It is so magnificent that nothing we had ever previously experienced could even touch it. It was a total shift in perception. A total paradigm shift from perception to vision. He told us there is no need to repeat the journey; that there are no errors to correct, no sins to atone for; that it doesn’t make any difference if we don’t complete every step correctly; that we don’t have to correct our brothers; that everyone and everything along the journey who we thought was holding us back or interfering with our journey is really a master teacher teaching us the quickest way to get back to the top; and best of all, that we had been on top all the time and the journey was without time or distance and had only occurred in our mind. Our one mind. He then pointed out a sign I hadn’t noticed. It said: “No mountain I climb means anything”. At this point everyone remembered to laugh and we were HOME.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:29:09 +0000