Article July 13, 1981 Issue

When we wake up

HELEN W. ECKEL

If mortal experience is a dream (and it is, since being is actually immortal), what do we see when we wake up?

An interesting question. Let's think about it. When we wake up from a night dream, we find that nothing has changed. Everything is the same as before we dreamed. We're in the same house, the same bed, the same night clothes. We may have been dreaming that a fierce animal was chasing us, had torn off part of our clothing and scratched our arm. But on waking we would find no sign of torn clothes or hurt arm, and no sense of pain.

This nonevidence surely indicates a nonhappening. All the time the nonhappening seemed to be occurring in the dream-sense, we were never actually undergoing it. So it is when we awake from the mortal dream of life in matter. We wake up to what has always been going on: to divine reality, to our God-sustained identity, to perfection.

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