Dreams and Spirit: St. Peter and the Inter-State High-Way

(The following is one in a series of articles related to dreams and spirituality)

Clearing the Inter-State


Now, as I am driving along an interstate highway, there are certain places where there is road repair going on… so, I weave around it as I am driving. Then I come to a scene in which a man is working on a large rock that protrudes from the ground right along the inner lane. I slow and am looking to see what he is doing. He is working to break the boulder apart and make the way more safe and open.


Then, he is working on more rocky areas along the mountain and expanding and clearing the way for the Highway…


All of a sudden, the rocks begin to move and there the highway worker is sliding along with the rock slide. He ends up on the ocean shore and a large flat rock has him trapped. Someone calls to me to help him. "Help rescue St. Peter."


I find myself along the ocean shore and the waves are coming in… perhaps the tide is shifting. The waves cover up where Peter and the rock were last seen, but I recall where they are and go to the spot and reach in and find Peter and the rock… As I go to lift the rock, there is someone else there to help since the rock is larger than I can handle… and we free St. Peter from beneath the rock and he gets up…


Several times the waves cover me and I also notice that there are more people coming to the shore with each wave… they are people from other times and places that are being brought to the shore…


It is only fitting that Simon the fisherman, of the time of Jesus, who became Peter or “the Rock,” would be by the seashore of our consciousness. And Jesus was also referred to as “the Rock” by some of the early Christian authors. The “Rock of Ages” refers in the Christian scriptures to the eternally solid presence of Life’s Sacred Spirit and Energy, the ‘Most High!’


Here Peter is helping with the clearing of the Inner State High Way… I can only be thankful for this help of inner guidance and clearing… My tendency is to continue on around the boulder… as well as do a bit of rubber-necking… I could have stopped to help but chose to go on…


As I did, then Peter also went on… and the entire landscape began to shift. We mostly assume things will remain the same until we change them. When in ‘reality’ things are always changing far beyond what we assume or expect. The earth shifts… and before we know it the Wall of the Cold War has been toppled… the Soviet Union is dismantled… The twin symbols of US economic heights collapses… The world is in an endless war… and we continue to destroy our earth home on a daily basis. Could it be that the institutions of religions themselves will crumble as quickly into a new consciousness… a new way of seeing… a new way of being here on earth…


A unitive consciousness that is aware of the oneness of Life.

Simon was called by Jesus to follow, and became Petra… or Simon Peter…He and his brother Andrew left their fishing nets and followed Jesus… Simon Peter became a disciple… and witnessed the Life of Mystery called Jesus… He became a teacher… who became martyred… who became a ‘Saint’ and cornerstone of the largest institutionalized religious movement of the last 2000 years, the Roman Catholic Church…


And this ‘Saint’ has come to help clear the path for a new way to the higher consciousness of Being… In the major shift, the ‘saint’ is flattened by the upheaval and rock-sliding event… and is submerged into the great ocean of the unseen… I am asked to rescue this ‘saint’ from his doom and am somewhat submerged myself… but recall where to go… when I discover the spot, I am given a ‘hand’ in raising the rock off of St. Peter… there is always hope and help if we are willing to get wet and do what we are asked by the universe.


The other night, I was watching an amazing site as I witnessed a TV commentator, who happens to be a ‘Catholic,’ rebuke and suggest that a Catholic Bishop was transgressing by trying to control a legislator… What was remarkable was to see this scene as if I was watching a small boy, raised in the Catholic Church, lash out against the oppressive authority of his youth and spirit… I suppose he may be next on the list of public figures to be chastised by modern day ‘religious leaders.’


As I looked up some info on St. Peter, it is impossible as always to create an accurate picture of the facts of what was so many years ago. Historians always have their own mindset filters through which they present material. Writers and scribes who may have been translating or editing texts and notes would undoubtedly add their own embellishments to give authority and weight to their particular version… Whether Mark was actually Peter’s son or disciple and therefore giving us Simon Peter’s account of the events of early Christian era cannot be substantiated.


So, as St. Peter was resurrected from beneath the ‘rock,’ many others also came to the shore from the ocean’s depths… and what follows is what I can only imagine were some of the words St. Peter shared as he stood on the sandy shore…


“My beloved friends, it is with a great joy in my heart that I stand with you today. It is truly a new day. I am glad for this opportunity to share some new perspectives I have gained over the millennia. In those days, we spoke from our heart and through our culture. We spoke through our ego and did the best we could to preserve something of the mystery we experienced when we walked together with Jesus. He was so, so different than anyone I had ever met. He walked on earth but seemed to always be in a different world than the rest of us. I didn’t understand.


“Now I realize that he walked in the present moment of love. He walked with an acceptance of what is. I was concerned about how women could be equal to men, and obviously I could only see through the traditional and cultural mindset in which I was immersed. I was so concerned during my lifetime about establishing a group that would carry on the teaching of our Savior. And he truly was our Savior, since he was completely true to the Love and Life of the moment, even though it took him to the cross. He saved us from ourselves in a new way. He gave us a new way to see life, even though we didn’t get it half the time. He taught us to forgive ourselves and others and to let go of the past. “He was trying to show us how to walk in Love and the present moment and we were often lost in our own ego needs as to how to do this or if we would be special in some way or what the timeline was. We mostly didn’t realize he was talking about the timeless and eternal present moment … all we could picture was some location in the sky where things would be better… Now I realize that ‘heaven’ and ‘hell’ exist right now as a state of mind…


“The church has served a positive role for the most part in keeping the memory of Jesus alive. When we experienced the ‘sacred spirit’ we saw many miraculous things occur in an instant… The church, no matter by what name it is called, has tried to capture that spirit in teachings and rules. That is simply another ego exercise. The Spirit is always present. It is we who avoid its presence through ego fantasies of specialness, greed, and control games.


“It is enough to turn away from the contents of your ego-mind based on wants and fears… to let go into the present moment… let go of negativity, blame, domination and submission, and future fantasies. Forgiveness was big with Jesus and there is good reason for it… forgive yourself and forgive everyone…even as Jesus did when he cried out from the cross, “Forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” He knew he talked to those who were asleep and unconscious… it was not their fault that they followed the civil and traditional and religious authorities of the day… the collective and personal egos… all based in fear.


“Today you would also would rather follow the authorities of your medical models… your science… your national, political, and religious ideologies… then to open to Life as it is. You have made your ideologies your addictions. You have made your mind and thought-forms your addictions… You have made your emotions based in fantasy and rigid thought-forms your guides. You angrily or subtly shout at one another for being non-rational… which usually means, someone doesn’t agree with your beliefs.


“In the past I have loved you and also wished to preserve our memory of my friend and teacher, Jesus of Nazareth. I am sorry I have not been a better teacher and student. Jesus always was trying to tell us that the ‘Kingdom of God was at hand”… We could only think in terms of days or years… in terms of time. He was actually, as I know now, telling us that the state in which he was living in the moment was already here right then and right now and always. The present moment is always eternal… Life is always eternal and timeless … and we are never separated from Life… except perhaps in our own perceptions. The step from where you are to the Present and Holy Spirit of Now is instantaneous. Simply ask for it and let go of who you thought you were or would be…


“All of Life is Sacred and All is One…

“There is the Holy Presence in ALL…even when forgotten and suppressed…


“Respect all the interconnectedness of Life… without judgment…


“Love is the vehicle of Understanding… Stop and listen to others, to Life, and to the Silence within…


“Share what you know in your heart to be true…


“Hear the guidance, knowing, and wisdom that breaks in from the unknown… and follow the guidance… Listen to the heart of Being… the ‘Most Deep’ and ‘Most High’ within… and from others when it ‘rings true’ for you!


“Now as we gather at various places often unseen to others, let us continue the work as the shift also continues. Many will continue to live in fear. As more of us emerge from the sea of sleep to this new world, there will be many who will react… as Love and Oneness grow, there may also be strange pockets of irrationality and fear-driven behavior. We can see it in extremist ideologies and actions. It is the collective fear-induced sleep and unconsciousness that is controlling many like zombies under a spell. The ego fears it demise… both at personal and collective levels… Once you wake up, we encourage you to stay awake… to return again and again to the moment… even if it means being reborn 34 times each day… the more often we wake… the more we will extend the length of our wakeful moments…


“Each day: Wake up… Let go and Release what is not needed… Tune Up and In… Connect… Task on… in the Moment… Each day...


“Each Night: Tune in and up… See what pops from the day… rejoice, release, forgive, and let go into a restful sleep.

“ …And now to Jesus and to all teachers who show us the way Home to the Eternal Moment, to all our brothers and sisters, and to the Mystery of Spiritual Oneness…Life, we give our heartiest thanks.”