I have a dream

Every Revolution begins with a dream. One individual has it, and then spreads it. (And sometimes, in order to keep spreading that individual’s dream, their sermons must be institutionalized, and we get religion in some form or another.)

Vision is another word for dream, right?, and revolutionaries have very good visions. They are Idealists. Visionaries. "A dream is a wish your heart makes," and they are not just hallucinations. When Dr. King said, “I have a dream” he was talking about an actual world he saw: A vision. He contacted an actual state of being (or state of mind) existing in a worldspace we might call today pluralistic or multicultural. In a way, he saw into the future. Not any details, but his dream revealed the overall mood or social attitude where people aren’t judged by the color of their skin. This vision he had eventually grew into the common norm or pattern of thought. Visionary.

When you envision a perfect worldview, filled with wisdom and compassion…feeling love for all beings and acting altruistically for the benefit of all beings, your vision actually helps build that future, (within you and without). You know that altruism (or at least it’s potential) is possible because you know it is inside yourself. It exists, and has been expressed by countless saints and sages and ordinary people throughout human history. The philosophers are thinking about it, the sages are talking about it, the artists are painting picture of it, and the musicians are playing its music. The New world first appears in the stories and dreams as the Announcement.