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Podcast: THE GIFTS OF GOD —Sondra Ray and Markus Ray on A Course in Miracles
Episode: TGOG 2024; 6-24; TEXT 18; SEC II; THE BASIS OF THE DREAM
Description: Why do we dream? Because we feel threatened and fearful, we make up a substitute "reality" in which we are "in control" of all aspects of a story we make up, but one that is not really there. The "basis" of the dream becomes our "protection" from these attacks. We feel attacked, and this is the cause for "dreams." We want a "reality" in which we are "protected" from this attack. We substitute illusions for truth, and believe that illusions form our "safety" from a world that is dangerously unsafe, and directed against us. We arrange a fantasy world...