Beginnings, Middles & Endings

Welcome to the Journeyers of the Dream Arc. As the name suggests, you can expect to be going on some journeys as you explore this category. Of course, it is all an inner journey, but it is likely that an outer journey will unfold for you, too. It may not be clear to you where you will go yet, but you are going to go somewhere and, in so doing, you will discover something.

The wider journey that humanity is navigating right now is the journey through suffering. We were brought here to this earth, and, while we are here, we suffer. This journey is about exploring that suffering in real depth, coming to terms with it, and eventually transmuting it into bliss. That will be the next stage for humanity, but we are not there yet. We still have some more of this journey into suffering left, and we have to keep going until it is done. There is no shortcut or way out of it. We can’t sidestep it. We have to go right through the heart of the suffering, and this takes courage. Journeys always take courage because they involve uncertainty. We don’t know what we are going to meet or what is around the next corner, and, when we meet obstacles and difficult circumstances, inner battles can unfold.

Eventually, though, when we are ready, we will come to our ultimate journey – the journey into bliss. But before we can enter into that journey, there are whole other universes and continuums which we have not yet been through, massive journeys within journeys waiting for us. Those who have discovered samadhi – the blissful consciousness that lies at the root of all things, report back that the journey into bliss is the journey into landscape upon landscape upon landscape upon landscape, that no human rarely has ever touched. Can you imagine that? This is what humanity is heading towards – a whole epoch, an eon of exploring the pathways of bliss, pathway after pathway, untrodden, with centuries upon centuries and millennia upon millennia to do it.

So it is important to be aware of where you are on the journey. At the moment, humanity is in the midst of suffering. But things are beginning to change and shift as we are beginning to transmute more and more of the suffering collectively, which brings more of the bliss, and more revelations, epiphanies and merging experiences.

Every journey is made up of a beginning, a middle and an end, but, of course, the end is never actually the end, it is just another beginning. This pattern is also repeated within each phase of the journey. Thus, in every beginning, there is a beginning, a middle and an end; and in every middle and in every end, there is a beginning, a middle and an end. It is the same in every fractal aspect of the universe – there is always a beginning, a middle and an end, followed by more beginnings, middles and ends. Every story follows this rhythm too. ‘Once upon a time…’ marks the beginning of a big struggle and a challenge, followed by an overcoming and a resolution. Then they all lived happily ever after. The end. ‘Dad, can I have another one?’ ‘OK, another one. Once upon a time…’ Everything in life goes like this, round and round, on repeat cycles.

You can look at any situation and find the beginning, the middle and the end of it. It is useful to be aware of this pattern in life because it is also the nature of the Dream Arc, which itself is a journey through time and space, made up of endless beginnings, middles and ends. So try to recognise where you are in a cycle and honour each phase, and, when a new phase begins, acknowledge it, and mark it perhaps with a prayer or in some other sacred way. 

If you become aware that you are moving through a middle phase, you will be in the midst of the experience and therefore in the middle of a transformation, but it is likely that you will have no idea what is actually happening. These times can be challenging and difficult, but they may also be wonderful. If you are in the middle of a testing time in a relationship, try to remember that all relationships endlessly have beginnings, middles and ends, and what you think is an end may just be a mini-ending.

Our bodies also experience cycles – we all move through seven-year cycles that have sub-cycles within them – monthly cycles, menstrual cycles, cycles within cycles within cycles. We all experience the cycle of the seasons, but there are many more subtle cycles that can be tuned into. The more deeply you explore the Dream Arc with your sensitivity and your listening, the more cycles and beginnings, middles and ends you will discover. This is the beauty of journeying, because we move through an endless cycle of cycles. Even when the cycle that you are in appears to have ended, at which point you may well get a pause, you will find that a new cycle begins straight after. It is the same with our lives. 

Thus, those who believe that one day when they reach nirvana, it will all come to an end and they will finally get to rest – I am sorry, but that is not going to be the case. We are not heading up and out, we are going down and in. We are incarnating the spirit into form, and it is never-ending. Why would anyone ever want it to end it, when there is so much expansion and layers upon layers of bliss?