Why Vision and Dream the Future?
Visioning helps us step closer to what the Navajo call "the beauty way." Dreaming the world into being, we feel our true power; we find our paths and our individual destiny. The energies of imagination are more fun than the energies of complaining (think of a child in those two states). And as we feed the collective matrix with our visions, we help shift the "probability threads" into a weaving that nurtures and sustains all life.

As the Old Ones said, dreaming affects the collective. Reality follows our expectations and our visions. We do create what we perceive. When a vision is magnificent, our hearts sing with the universe and each other, and we are empowered to live more fully. When a vision is terrifying, we learn how to let go of outcome and focus on doing all we can; and it takes us into deeper communion with the original creative energies of the cosmos.

In Courageous Dreaming, As Alberto Villoldo writes

"The dreamtime, the creative matrix, does not exist in a place outside of us. Rather, it infuses all matter and energy, connecting every creature, every rock, every star, and every ray of light or bit of cosmic dust. The power to dream is the power to participate in creation itself...dreaming reality is not only an ability but a duty, one we must perform with grace and love so that our grandchildren will inherit a world where they can live in peace and abundance."

Making Change
To make change, we need courage. We need to believe it is possible to shift our energy, alter our beliefs, nudge the consciousness of a people, a country, a world. We know (or at least have been told) that we attract what we think about, focus on, and put energy into. Yet most of us don't find it easy to articulate a clear vision of what we want, for ourselves or the planet. This happens -- our vagueness, our difficulty with visioning -- because most of us have been taught that we cannot create what we want, and we often lack the tools or support to move forward. How do we change such beliefs and circumstances?

extract from Meg Beeler/ Earth Caretakers