Some of my fav Deep & Progressive House tunes, featuring spoken words of Don Miguez Ruiz & Alan Watts.

“What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. You’re dreaming right now in this moment. You’re dreaming with the brain a wake. Dreaming is the main function of the mind, and the mind dreams 24 hours a day. It dreams when the brain is awake. And it also dreams when the brain is asleep. The difference is that when the brain is awake, there is a material frame that makes us perceive things in a linear way.

When we go to sleep, we do not have the frame and the dream has the tendency to change constantly. Humans are dreaming all the time. Before we were born, the humans before us created a big outside dream that we will call Society’s Dream Dream of the Planet. The dream of the planet is the collective dream of billions of smaller personal dreams, which together create a dream of a family.

A dream of a community.   A dream of a city, a dream of a country. And finally, a dream of the whole of humanity. The dream of the planet includes all of society’s rules, its beliefs, its laws, its religion, its different cultures and ways to be its government, schools, social events and holidays. We are born with the capacity to learn how to dream, and the humans who live before us teach us how to dream the way society dreams.

The outside dream has so many rules that when a new human is born, we hook the child’s attention and introduce these rules into his or her mind. The outside dream uses mom and dad the schools and religion to teach us how to dream. 

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.

We can perceive millions of things simultaneously, but using our attention, we can hold whatever we want to perceive in the foreground of our mind. The adults around us hooked our attention and put information into our minds through repetition. That is the way we learned everything we know. By using our attention, we learn a whole reality, a whole dream.

We learned how to behave in society, what to believe and what not to believe. What is acceptable and what is not acceptable. What is good and what is bad. What is beautiful and what is ugly. What is right and what is wrong. It was all there, all that knowledge, all those rules and concepts about how to behave in the world.

When you were in school, you sat in a little chair and put your attention on what the teacher was teaching. You went to church. You put your attention on what the priest or minister was telling you. It is the same dynamic with mom and dad, brothers and sisters. They were all trying to hook your attention. We also learned to hook the attention of other humans, and we developed the need for attention, which can become very competitive.

Children compete for the attention of their parents, their teachers, their friends. Look at me! Look what I’m doing! Hey, I’m here! The need for attention becomes very strong and continues into adulthood. The outside dream looks our attention and teaches us what to believe. Beginning with the language that we speak, language is the code for understanding and communication between humans. Every letter, every word in each language is an agreement.

Once we understand the code, our attention is hooked, and the energy is transferred from one person to another. It was not your choice to speak English.  You didn’t choose your religion or your moral values. They were already there before you were born. We never had the opportunity to choose what to believe or what not to believe. We never chose even the smallest of these agreements.

We didn’t even choose our own name. 

As children, we didn’t have the opportunity to choose our beliefs, but we agreed with the information that was passed to us from the dream of the planet via other humans. The only way to store information is by agreement. The outside dream may hook our attention, but if we don’t agree, we don’t store that information.

As soon as we agree, we believe. This is called faith. To have faith is to believe unconditionally.”

— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

Track List

 

  • Canis (Jerome Isma-Ae Remix) – Kamilo Sanclemente, Dabeat
  • Saru – Wassu & djimboh
  • Take My Breath (Remix) – The Weekend
  • Dark Magic – Proff
  • The Way We Do (Extended Mix) – Glaue
  • Cosmos (Alexander Volosnikov Remix) – Sam Davies; Alexander Volosnikov
  • Last Indos (Nicolas Rada Remix) – Robert R. Hardy
  • All I Need (Sundriver Remix) – Denis Laurent; Kaisa Martina; Sundriver
  • Voices –  Nathan Katz
  • Come Together – Nox Vahn, Marsh
  • Internal World (Original Mix) – meHiLove
  • Teenage Heart – Jones Meadow, Nina Carr