To create a masterpiece instead of a nightmare, instead of emotional dramas, can be very exciting. But if we are not aware that it's a dream, there is no way to change the dream. Most people are born, grow old, and die, and never notice that all of life is a dream, so they become trapped in their own nightmare. When we live without this awareness, something inside us is telling us all the time, "it is a dream, this can't be real." But we are not sure that it is a dream; it could be "real.
The reasoning mind is in the virtual reality, and it has no awareness that it's in the virtual reality, so it tries to justify, explain, and make sense of everything. The reasoning mind always wants answers. Even if the answers are wrong, those answers made us feel safe. That is why humans make all those assumptions, create all those theories, and all that knowledge that is completely untrue. Look at the knowledge of European society five or six hundred years ago, and you see a lot of books explaining the world of the angels, the world of the demons, life after death, going to heaven, and going to hell.

That mythology is beautiful, that art is beautiful, but it's not truth. It is nothing but mythology; it is candy for the reasoning mind and it's far from the truth, but it provided a structure that made those humans feel safe. Yet that knowledge was also used to judge people, condemn people, and even to kill them. How many people were killed during the Inquisition? How many people were burned to death because they were believed to be witches or because they didn't believe that the earth was the center of the universe?
Humanity has progressed a lot. Just by having the awareness that the whole society is dreaming, you can see all the possibilities; you can see that we are going in the right direction. But of course, in order to change the whole society, we first have to change ourselves.

©Don Miguel Riaz
THE FOUR AGREEMENTS COMPANION BOOK
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