How To Build
Your Dream Creation Machine

Your dream creation machine is your imagination. With it, you can create a world of wealth and power, love and friendship, high awareness and acute intelligence, and vibrant health and beauty. With it, you'll experience spiritual connection with all sentient beings.

"Imagination,"Albert Einstein pointed out,"is more important than knowledge."

Dream creation begins when you give yourself over to your dreams, when you show that you really intend to make them come true.

A dream will only live if you are willing to commit to it, to pledge unwavering support for it, to entrust in it, and to stand behind it with all your heart and with all your might.

This oath of loyalty, this total commitment to one's own highest ideals, is something few people are willing to do. It makes them uncomfortable.

They wonder...

"What if they need to change it?"

"What if they don't feel like doing it tomorrow?"

"What if they're not worthy of their own heart's desire?"

"What if they fail?"

This lack of commitment results in a withholding of life force necessary to energize the dream. Building your dream creation machine means pursing your dream with intensity. Only then will it unfold for you and only then will it make a better person of you, a better person than any self-improvement course or any pre-ordained spiritual path can make you.

Pursuing a dream is your journey to affirming your values in the world. Your dream will unfold your human potentiality. It will unravel your spiritual power. It will connect you with who you know yourself to be deep inside, at the core of your being.

The dream creation process will engage your mind in relentless problem-solving.

A problem is an inability to resolve something because of lack of knowledge or resources. If you knew what to do and how to do it, if you had all the resources you needed to take care of an issue, it would not be a problem.

A dream is always a problem because it is always asking you to be more than you currently are being. If you had all the skills, talent, knowledge and resources to make it happen, it would already be your reality.

Thus dream creation creates a problem in your life by proposing a gap. This is a gap between where you are now and where you want to go.

A dream, in essence, is a challenge. It asks you to step outside your limited definition of yourself. It asks you to embrace a greater reality.

A dream asks you to be the best you can be. It asks you to find a vision worthy enough to stir your soul. It asks you to discover new knowledge--perhaps even knowledge never discovered before. And it asks you to refine your skills to a point of relentless excellence.

Now the only way to solve a problem or to make a dream come true is to have the will to do it. Once the energy of will is awoken, then the energy of creative thinking comes into play. And all this, of course, takes commitment, the willingness to do whatever it takes to make something new, better, and different happen for you.

Once you engage your dream creation mechanism, it engages you. The scene is set for the deeper part of your mind to now work on making miracles happen.

Before your commitment that part of your mind did not have sufficient permission to hone in on your target. It also did not have sufficient energy to move forward.

Let us, for the sake of this discussion, call that deep part of the mind, the subconscious dream creation mechanism.

This dream creation mechanism once it is set in motion immediately begins a lesson review. What lessons have you learned in the past to help you with this dream? What new lessons do you need to learn? Some of these will be pleasant, others will be very new, and you will feel clumsy and awkward, even afraid, as you start to learn them.

The next thing it does is to look at constraints. What is the bottleneck to your productivity? Where are you stuck? What needs to be overcome, either internally or externally, to make something better happen?

Here, then, is a summary of the process of dream creation.

First, there is the dream. It is a mixture of idea, desire, fear and excitement. It challenges you to be more than you currently are being; it pushes you to experience more than you are currently experiencing; it promises your life a new, bolder, more entrancing possibility.

Second, there is the commitment to the dream. "Yes," you say, "I believe in the value of this dream. My mind is set. My course is determined. I am willing to put the full force of my mind and heart to work on this dream until it becomes my reality. I am willing to engage in this dream fully and completely and to do whatever it takes to make it come true."

Third, the commitment then kicks into motion your subconscious dream delivery mechanism. You review what you now know and you begin the journey of learning what you need to learn. In addition, you see what obstacles stand in your way and resolve to overcome them.

W.H. Murray of the Scottish Himalayan expedition described the process of making your dreams come true in the following way:

"Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect of one of Goethe's couplets: Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

Success is not easy. It seldom happens by itself. It needs you to engage it.

Your dream creation mechanism, your dream creation machine, will not begin without you, and without it, your life will be merely existing, a mechanical, plodding motion consisting of mishaps and accidental personal growth. It will not be a happy life--because it will lack passion, commitment, drive, momentum, and contribution. Experiencing the fullness of life can only come from engaging fully in life.

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