Gerry Eitner

Some spiritual paths view life as a “dream”, with each human being as the creative dreamer. If we are indeed all here making it up, how can we create a more evolved level of community, evoking the utmost expression of love from each person?

In both Eastern and Western traditions, the experience of life as a dream peeks through, usually at the tip of the mystical traditions. The Hindu tradition speaks of life as “maya”, or the illusion. The Course in Miracles, coming out of Western thought, provides a framework for a new teaching from Jesus. The teaching posits a structure of each person walking through a pre-structured construct or dream, set up by the person’s higher Self before he or she came here.

The purpose of the “dream” is for the person to return to God, after experiencing a separation from God that is illusory. To do that, the person needs to develop the discipline to be in a constant state of love and forgiveness. (Very important – in this scenario, the “return” has to be done here in this lifetime, rather than waiting until one dies and goes to “heaven”.) The internal heaven is to be created here first, and to be done no matter what is swirling around one. Reincarnation is a given in this scenario, since it takes quite a few tries to get this perfected state!

Wow. What would that really mean, if it’s true? How can we experiment with this? How could we set up real communities, engaged in this making it up scenario? And what could be the ramifications of a world consisting of interlacing “communities of peace,” each consisting of the highest expression of love from each person?

What would they look like? To begin with, it would require every person being fully engaged and in his/her true nature, spilling out the love that they are in this magnificent contribution, It would be much like nature itself; each part of nature inherently giving forth its gift to the whole – the sycamore tree, the peonies, the herons, the wind. In this scenario, no one would have a negative self-image, be demeaned by others, or wish they were someone else. It wouldn’t even occur as a possibility. Each person would find his or her natural place, their part in the dream, and be happy in it. After all, they created it.

The way that I see it, “peace”, isn’t a boring state, or a nothing-happening one. Rather, it’s a state of balance, where everyone’s fulfilled and contributory just in being themselves. In that state, the appropriate compensation and support would come back just naturally, from the community. A person could hardly keep his or her self from making their contribution, in that it would be holding back life itself.

So where to start, in constructing these Communities of Peace? If we’re all children of God, here making it up, then we might start by going back to that childhood time, where we did indeed “make up” what we wanted our life to be. It’s probably the closest connection that we have to remembering why we came here, and what we wanted to learn from this life, in order to return to God

Next - it has to be fun. Children, after all, like to have fun. What children consider fun varies – often it’s adventure, sometimes it’s playing house, many times it’s making up games. Some people are gifted at a young age with a vision of creating something valuable to share; of solving a problem, or of opening a new frontier. The rules of this particular Community of Peace sandbox, however, are that whatever it is has to be positive, not hurt anyone, be inclusive, creative, and evocative of the best that is in one.

Gerry Eitner is a mystic, Sacred Heart Reiki Master and spiritual teacher who developed the Communities of Peace program (www.communitiesofpeace.org). As part of this program, she initiated the first model for Global Family Day, a resolution that has recently passed both houses of the US Congress. Gerry was a delegate to the United Nations Millennium Forum, and has taught meditation at the Pentagon. She was appointed as an Ambassador of Peace in 2006. She can be reached through www.gerryeitner.com. Copyright 2006 by Gerry Eitner

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