The End of the Small World

The end of the small world. I had a dream the other night. It was just a snippet of a dream. A scene. Some words. And a lasting impression.

The scene was a meeting room. Several people in business attire seated around a table. One was standing over some documents that were lying on the table pointing out various aspects of whatever it was. It appeared they were going over or developing a plan. The words associated with this dream were “the end of the small world”.

This wasn’t a disturbing dream. It was all very matter of fact. I awoke feeling that I should remember this and do... something? Contemplate it? Share it? Or simply remember?

The end of the small world. That could mean a lot of things. In our doom and gloom society with all the valid concerns we have over the changing climate, the rise of extremism, the ever growing population, those words could be describing an inevitable disaster - the end result of the stress on all our systems both natural and societal. The dream might be a warning from my under consciousness that the world is coming to an end. That is one thing those words could mean.

They could also mean quite literally “the end of the small world”. The small world is where we live when we believe that what we see and sense with our physical bodies is all that exists. The small world is where we live when we lose our faith in something bigger, something grander, something infinitely more divine than we could ever imagine or conceive.

A dream about the end of the small world may acknowledge that there is a dawning awareness, a beginning of a new consciousness, a recognition of a new infinitely larger world in which we know that we are more than just human beings.

A new larger world where we know ourselves as spirit as well as physical beings. A world where we recognize ourselves as part of God, but also as beings who have chosen to experience life in material form. A world where we can experience all the joys and beauty of being alive while still remembering what we really are.