By Sera Beak on July 29, 2009

Divine Dreaming and Spiritual Superheroes

A few nights ago I had one of those A-HA dreams. The message is a wee bit typical, but the experience was quite inspiring. Here it is:

My landlord moved me to a new apartment building outside of San Francisco, on a remote forlorn beach. It was a strange building, to say the least, filled with dark passageways and heavy unlocked doors, odd shaped rooms with hooks coming out of the walls, and concrete…lots of concrete, to protect it from the elements (being on the open beach and all).

I felt unsettled as I often do in new places and wondered if I should stay there or not. So, I walked up some stairs to talk with my “upstairs neighbor” and asked her what she thought of our strange new digs. She informed me that this was the building where they used to keep vampires and all those weird hooks coming out of the walls were where they used to hang the vampire bodies.

How lovely. Nate Berkus would faint.

So, I’m pleased to say my dream self reacted the same way my “real” self would initially react upon hearing such words, with a: “Holy Shit!!! I am SO out of here!!!” But my friend “from above” grabbed my arm and said, “please don’t go, you can’t go”. I broke away from her and ran downstairs to grab my stuff and high tail it back to the SF I knew and loved – that Garden of Eden filled with green parks, cute cafes, beautiful alive people, organic food, friendly dogs, and even friendlier sex toy stores.

As I was frantically packing, a vampire came up behind me to have his bloody way with me and I instinctively turned and smashed his vampy ass to bits.

I suddenly, immediately, completely “remembered” that I was a vampire slayer! With that awareness more vamps lunged out of the passageways so I started kicking some major vampire booty.

By the way, I feel I must add that these were not the sexy, tormented-soul, human-friendly hottie vampires with a conscience from say, Twilight, or an Ann Rice novel or HBO’s True Blood or Buffy. This dream was not about being all “love and light” and Dalai Lamaish. Not that there’s anything wrong with being all peaceful and compassionately chill, it’s just not the message I needed to receive on this particular night and at this particular point in my life. In my experience, the Universe loves to teach personal lessons through dream time, and It also communicates in many different languages – my new personal fave: Whoop Ass. But I digress. Back to my dream.

When I was done sending these baddies to dust heaven, I thought to my dream self, “Who am I kidding, this is EXACTLY where I should be living, this is exactly where a vampire slayer should be perched. How perfect.”

So, the basic message of my vamp dream (it isn’t just that I’m crushing on Joss Whedon’s old T.V. show), is that even though times are downright freaky right now – what with the economy nose diving and swine flu swirling and the environment rightfully lashing out, not to mention our own personal fears we are up against every day in our careers, relationships, and bodies…..

We were made for this.

That’s right, in my red universe, we are all spiritual superheroes and this is exactly where we should be right now. Each and every one of us have unique, but latent superpowers that can only be realized, only be experienced and lived and shared if we are pushed to our edges…if we are sometimes forcibly moved out of our comfort zones and into the strange, the unfamiliar, the concrete bloody fear.

Take a look around your life. What “vampires” are lurking in your shadows – those relationships, jobs, foods, newscasts, unhealthy habits, TV shows, fears that are literally and metaphorically “sucking the life” out of you? Draining you of your soul’s purpose. Scaring you…to death. Make a list. Check it twice. Definitely find out who’s been naughty or nice, and then do something about it. Take healthy appropriate action (say “no” more often, create a “completion” ritual, redraw your personal boundaries, turn off the nightly news for one night a week, learn Aikido or to meditate or a new breathing technique). Reclaim your space, your body, your mind, your life. Fact is, we can’t shake this world awake if we run away, avoid, or ignore the vamps hiding out in our own corners.

We have been warriors in waiting for far too long. It’s time to roll up our sleeves, pull up our superheroine boots (by the way, I recently bought some crazy sexy bright red platform boots, which I wear around my house now whenever I need some extra power and whoop ass might. It’s my own type of “walking meditation.” Buddha, eat your heart out. I highly suggest you find some of your own power shoes to strut around in whenever you need an extra special divine spark in your step. Seriously. It can change your entire perspective), stretch our red hearts open even wider, and get down and dirty and thus divine with the best and worst of life… knowing eventually, ultimately, that there is no real difference between the best and the worst.

So superheroes and heroines, I can hear your inner timers ringing from way out here on my dreamy beach. Time’s Up. Come out, come out where ever you are and come in, come in to who you truly are. We need you. You have a planet to save, a universe to serve, and some super fine new footwear to wear.

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