THE TWO WAYS OF ACCESSING REALITY
Toltec Shamans have been studying the two different ways of accessing reality found within the various kingdoms of the cosmos. If it is found there, humanity as the cosmic archetypes would exhibit these traits of perception as well.
The two groups of peoples, called dreamers and stalkers, respectively, represent humans or denser races at stalkers (among us there is a further subdivision), and almost all other kingdoms as dreamers. The stalkers are analytical and the dreamers intuitive.
Stalkers versus Dreamers and How They Cope in Relationship
For the cosmos to come to a resolution enabling it to return to the heart of God on the inbreath, it has to achieve something similar to a human being preparing for entry into God-consciousness. The left and right ‘brain functions’, or way of accessing reality, have to blend and work smoothly together.
The right and left ‘brains’ of the cosmos are represented by the left and right brain races. One of the biggest challenges that must be met is for these races to cooperate and successfully interact. Because the earth is the arena in which many of the cosmic problems are solved, humanity consists of both left-brained and right-brained dominant individuals.
The planet is feminine and the right-brain oriented people outnumber the left-brain dominant ones (we shall call the right-brained ones Dreamers and the left-brained people Stalkers). Those approaching life through the left brain, the Stalkers, have what is called a vertical approach to life. The right-brained Dreamers approach life horizontally.
The reason for this description is that, at the moment awareness is born (when the implosion occurs), the mental component of the Infinite, which is a vertical wave form, fuses with the emotional horizontal wave form. Awareness consists of both wave forms, horizontal and vertical, fused together as two carrier waves traveling together. A cross section would look like a wobbly cross.
The Stalkers access more of the vertical mental waves of awareness and the Dreamers the horizontal waves. Stalkers access the known deeply and analytically, like a flashlight shining a small, bright, clearly defined light beam onto a wall. Dreamers access more of the unknown, like a circle of wide, diffused light.
Stalkers can juggle twelve balls in the external world for every one the Dreamers can. But Dreamers will pick up many times more non-cognitive information.
The way Dreamers access the world has been very much misunderstood. The educational system is designed around the way Stalkers think. As it is, Stalkers can grasp external information at the rate of thirty-four units to every twenty-one units the Dreamers can. The Dreamers have consequently traditionally been underestimated and under-achieving.
Because we are archetypically finding a way for the cooperation of these two dissimilar parts of Creation to take place, we are manifesting personal relationships in which to study these approaches:
Stalkers in Relationships
• In personal relationships Dreamers find Stalkers cold and calculating at times. They are less inclined to make small talk and think they’re helping by analyzing their partners or the situation.
• Stalkers often fire facts at co-workers or employees in a way that reminds one of a machine gun. They may pause for breath just long enough to ask whether there are any questions, since they may be getting a dazed look from the Dreamer listeners.
However, the Dreamers can’t assimilate such a deluge of information, get lost early in the conversation and don’t even know at this point what the questions are.
• Stalkers feel unheard because after ‘carefully explaining’ in great detail, it’s clear that nobody seems to do as instructed (since no one understood).
• Stalkers may ask Dreamers a question (since they seldom make small talk, it’s abstract or profound) and get unclear or evasive answers. Again they feel unheard, not understanding that Dreamers will process a question by internalizing it; feeling it in their heart. Only then will they think it over. It could take days.
• Stalkers feel particularly unheard when voicing their feelings. A typical conversation between a Stalker husband and a Dreamer wife may go as follows:
The husband comes home from work and complains that the lunch she makes him every day is giving him heartburn. She is washing the dishes, hardly looks up and says, “That’s nice, dear. By the way, the upstairs toilet is plugged. Would you fix it?” He thinks she doesn’t care, but what she has really said is that it’s not the lunch; his ‘plumbing’ is backed up. She doesn’t know herself what her words mean. She just accesses it. He’s supposed to analyze it.
Dreamers in Relationships
• Dreamers feel unheard by Stalkers. The Stalkers find Dreamers’ questions to be out of place, not on track, or not to the point. They are therefore often dismissed as not contributing or being irrelevant.
• When Dreamers express their feelings, it’s often very emotional and appears to the frustrated Stalker to be irrational or illogical. When a Stalker husband tries to create order out of his Dreamer wife’s ‘ramblings’, she feels he is not honoring the process of her feelings.
There are great gifts Stalkers and Dreamers can give each other. The Dreamers have a knack for improving the quality of the journey through life. They may take longer to reach the goal, but the end product is often more creative. They provide a lot of energy to Stalkers through their association.
Stalkers are goal-minded and bring organization to the Dreamer’s life. They are good at running daily life and creating order out of chaos, something that appeals to Dreamers who frequently have difficulty keeping the physical aspects of their life in order.
Until Dreamers and Stalkers see how to utilize the respective gifts each mindset brings to the relationship, the friction between these groups will be ongoing. Many of us still look for uniformity in our relationships, which brings stagnation rather than growth. The goal of having unity within diversity promotes the most growth but requires understanding, patience and the tolerance necessary to support each other’s differences.
Excerpted from Journey to the Heart of God