Remembering the Dreamer
The Joke's on US
‘‘The outer world reflects the inner belief. What we hold in mind becomes our experience. The great irony is that we authored the drama, suffered through it, and then prayed to be freed from our own story.’’
The Cosmic Joke is simple, yet it reaches into the very core of existence. We are infinite, powerful beings, expressions of divine intelligence, consciousness clothed in form. But we forgot. In that act of forgetting, the game began. We descended into the illusion of separation. We believed we were alone, lost, or broken. We imagined a God outside ourselves, far away, inaccessible, judging and withholding. We built religions to reach Him, forgetting we were already part of the divine source.
From that first illusion of separation came the rest. Time became linear. Life became a struggle. The world seemed filled with danger, loss, and scarcity. We adopted identities, formed beliefs, and wrote stories to explain our suffering. We became victims in our own play, unaware that we wrote the script. We were authors with amnesia, living a story so deeply we mistook it for truth.
The Nature of Reality in New Thought
According to New Thought philosophy, reality is not something objective and fixed. It is shaped and molded by consciousness itself. Thoughts become things. What we believe, we experience. The outer world is a mirror of the inner world. Every fear, hope, limitation, or aspiration that we hold in mind shows up in form around us. We are not passive observers of life. We are active participants, though most do not realize the power they hold.
New Thought teaches that there is no separation between the individual and the divine. God is not a being in the sky. God is the creative force within all life. It is the life force moving through each of us, expressed uniquely through our thoughts, emotions, and intentions. When we align with this truth, life begins to change. When we forget it, the illusion tightens its grip.
This forgetting is not accidental. It is part of the game. The soul chooses to forget in order to remember. The drama is not a punishment, but a path to awakening.
Self-Created Bondage
The Cosmic Joke is not that we are powerless, but that we have always been powerful and did not know it. We cursed the chains we tied ourselves. We prayed for escape while gripping the lock. We blamed others, fate, or even God for what we created from our own consciousness.
Each experience of struggle, pain, or confusion served a purpose. It reflected some belief within us. Often, those beliefs were inherited from culture, family, religion, or trauma. We rarely questioned them. Instead, we built lives around them. Limitation felt normal. Suffering seemed inevitable. And so we endured, forgetting that we were the ones who said yes to the script.
Even the heroes we admired were often bound by the same illusions. They too sought victory over something outside themselves. But the real victory is inward. It is not about conquering the world. It is about remembering that we created the world from within.
The Punchline of Awakening
The punchline comes not with a thunderclap, but with a laugh. Awakening is not always dramatic. Sometimes, it is the quiet realization that there is no prison. There is no captor. There is no flaw to fix. Only a mistaken belief in those things.
We wake up, not because the world becomes softer, but because we stop seeing it as an enemy. We shift our perception. We recognize that the dream of suffering was never real in the deepest sense. It was always a misperception, a shadow play on the wall of the mind.
The soul laughs, not in mockery, but in deep joy. It sees the beauty of the design. It sees the depth of the story. And it knows that nothing was ever truly lost.
There Is Nothing to Fix
This is perhaps the most radical idea in New Thought. There is nothing wrong with you. There never was. You are not broken. You are not in need of saving. You are a creative, powerful soul playing out a story.
Once you stop resisting what is, and begin to observe it, you gain the ability to change it. Not by force, but by awareness. Not by blame, but by clarity. The story changes when the storyteller wakes up. The patterns end when the one who created them stops believing in them.
Healing is not about fixing what is wrong. It is about seeing what is true. You are not separate. You are not bound. You are not flawed. You are not alone.
We Are the Creators
This is the essence of the Cosmic Joke. We were never the created. We have always been the creators. We wrote the story, forgot that we wrote it, and then spent ages trying to escape it. We waited for salvation, not realizing we were our own savior.
The divine is not somewhere else. It is right here. It is in your breath, your mind, your choices. It is the light behind your eyes. It is the voice within that whispers truth even when the world screams otherwise.
New Thought does not ask us to worship a God outside ourselves. It asks us to recognize the God within. To stop playing small. To stop pretending we are powerless. To awaken to the truth that we are shaping the world every moment with our thoughts and beliefs.
A Gentle Reminder
The Cosmic Joke is not cruel. It is not a punishment or a test. It is a reminder. A reminder that you are loved. That you are powerful. That you are the dreamer and the dream.
This life, with all its ups and downs, is a masterpiece of your own design. You are not here to suffer. You are here to remember. To laugh. To love. And to create again from a place of awareness.
The joke is that we ever believed otherwise. But now that you see it, you can smile. You can breathe. You can begin again, not as a seeker, but as a knower. Not as a victim, but as a creator.
And in that moment of remembering, the cosmic game finds its punchline.
Reality Check‼️