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Awakening the Dreamer Symposium comes to Truckee April 4
By Wendy Lautner
Tahoe World
Tahoe.com
When: Saturday, April 4
Time: 1-5 p.m.
Where: For Goodness Sake, 10157 Donner Pass Rd. in Truckee
Cost: $20 (nobody will be turned away for lack of funds)
RSVP: www.awakeningthedreamer.org
Time: 1-5 p.m.
Where: For Goodness Sake, 10157 Donner Pass Rd. in Truckee
Cost: $20 (nobody will be turned away for lack of funds)
RSVP: www.awakeningthedreamer.org
You know how sometimes 7 a.m. just kind of sneaks up on you? You go to bed, fall into a fitful slumber and then — bamm — your alarm starts buzzing, beeping, humming -— maybe you’ve got one of those alarms that just gradually increases light? Anyway, all of the sudden it’s 7 a.m. and it’s time to get up.
At first, you might be feeling groggy, thinking “Man, this bed is way too cozy to leave, it feels so nice in here.” But then your eye catches the rosy glow of sunrise shimmering in the freshly fallen snow on the treetops and suddenly you’re like a freight train barreling toward the door — you wouldn’t want to spend another minute lying unconsciously in sleep because your conscious participation in the powder is much needed!
That’s kind of what it’s like to “awaken the dreamer.” It’s a movement all about bringing people into a conscious state of living. It’s about people making a commitment to heighten their awareness about how their actions — often unconscious actions — have a ripple effect on people across the globe.
It’s a presentation that defines the “alarms” that have been going off on Planet Earth as a way to “awaken” us to something brighter than the darkness of unconsciousness.
Awakening the Dreamer is all about “changing the dream of the modern world.”
The mission statement is to bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on Planet Earth. It’s an initiative to spread consciousness and it’s taking off.
In January, the first local Awakening the Dreamer symposium was held in Incline Village with rave response. And now, the symposium is coming to Truckee’s For Goodness Sake, Saturday, April 4. I took a few moments to speak with event facilitator and Incline resident Cathy Norris, check out what she had to say:
At first, you might be feeling groggy, thinking “Man, this bed is way too cozy to leave, it feels so nice in here.” But then your eye catches the rosy glow of sunrise shimmering in the freshly fallen snow on the treetops and suddenly you’re like a freight train barreling toward the door — you wouldn’t want to spend another minute lying unconsciously in sleep because your conscious participation in the powder is much needed!
That’s kind of what it’s like to “awaken the dreamer.” It’s a movement all about bringing people into a conscious state of living. It’s about people making a commitment to heighten their awareness about how their actions — often unconscious actions — have a ripple effect on people across the globe.
It’s a presentation that defines the “alarms” that have been going off on Planet Earth as a way to “awaken” us to something brighter than the darkness of unconsciousness.
Awakening the Dreamer is all about “changing the dream of the modern world.”
The mission statement is to bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on Planet Earth. It’s an initiative to spread consciousness and it’s taking off.
In January, the first local Awakening the Dreamer symposium was held in Incline Village with rave response. And now, the symposium is coming to Truckee’s For Goodness Sake, Saturday, April 4. I took a few moments to speak with event facilitator and Incline resident Cathy Norris, check out what she had to say:
TW: How did you get involved with Awakening the Dreamer?
Norris: I heard a director of the organization, Jon Symes, speak about changing his life. He talked about shrugging off the old and remembering who we truly are. We are not the consumers we’ve become, instead we are citizens and collaborators. He also talked about giving away practically everything he owned. That inspired me because I had been living in Singapore temporarily and in the process of moving there, living there and moving back I got rid of many of my possessions. And living in Singapore where the favorite pastime was shopping, I felt very moved to pay attention.
TW: What do you enjoy most about these symposiums?
Norris: What I enjoy most is helping to bring the participants to a deeper awareness of the sustainability of our environment, the status of social injustice in the world and the realization that we are all connected. And I also enjoy seeing others make a commitment to awaken others to this awareness.
TW: Is the purpose of the symposium to empower people to make global changes or more grassroots changes, relying on the ripple effect for global change?
Norris: We don’t prescribe activities in the symposium. It is to raise awareness and ask for the individual to do more and whatever that “more” is about is up to the individual. In Incline, some participants are exploring these issues further by meeting bi-weekly in a Be The Change Circle.
TW: What kind of follow-up happens after people attend a symposium?
Norris: There’s a possibility people might want to form an action group to focus on issues like sustainability after the symposium, but that is up to them.
TW: Many people think progress and consumerism drive a good economy. Especially in a time like this, how can it be important to consume less? Doesn’t that mean the economy will suffer?
Norris: That’s a question that we bring up in the symposium. We don’t have those answers either. And again the symposium’s purpose is to awaken people to look at our unexamined assumptions about progress and about using the earth’s resources and just look at them and question them, to begin this process. We don’t have all the answers, we raise the questions.
TW: Who should go to this symposium?
Norris: Teachers, students, anyone who’s involved in community organizations. In my experience everyone who’s attended a symposium already wants to make a change in the direction that we’re going as a planet with the way we’re using the earth’s resources. Usually people who come recognize this on some level.
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