August 2026
The themes of August are empowerment, enrichment and enlightenment. As an opportunity for healing, some of you may be faced with your dark dream patterns of pain that you believed were true and that you have anchored your life around. These patterns can only be healed when you see what needs healing. You may begin to realize it was all a dream, and that you are still dreaming, but you can awaken from this dream. When in the dream, if you realize that it is a dream and you are the dreamer, you can, as a result, begin to awaken. You may first begin to realize that the dream was how you wanted it to be to make you the ‘hero of the dream’; or the ‘victim-hero’ of the dream, who against all odds, and against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, has triumphed. Or at least you have gone down swinging, having done what you had to do to survive in this cruel world. You are the dreamer of your dream. You can choose to change it. Heaven will help if you ask.
Dreams are wish fulfilment. This is the essential aspect of the dream. We are writing, acting, producing and directing a movie in which we are trying to work out the dreams of the past. We have forgotten that we made up this movie. We seem to be at the effect of what this world does, but we are its writer. These dreams of the past that are the cause of our present life are actually gone now, but somehow, we are still attached to them and their wounded guilt, sadness and separation. What was done to us in dreams was what we did to others in ancient dreams. What was done to us by others we actually did to them, but dreamt they did it to us.
We are not a figure in the dream. We are its author. At this point in time the collective unconscious is pushing to the surface, and since it is tied together with our present consciousness, it is now affecting the weather and other geophysical changes, such as floods and earthquakes. Earth changes are coming.
We can begin to question why we would dream such a dream. What does it allow us to do? What excuse does it give us? What wish is it fulfilling? Is it to be separate and independent? Is it to be special, even if it’s the dark specialness that comes of being a victim where once we were the victor? Is it the dark glamor of the evil urge that has us caught in the illusion and collusion of victim and victimizers to escape our calling? The Tao is unfolding so we learn to value truth, sharing and community. To realize that we are the author of our waking dream gives us the power to direct the dream, and to ask for help from Heaven for what seems beyond us to change.
In A Course in Miracles it states the best way to change a problem is to give it to the Holy Spirit for undoing. The miracle changes what seems impossible to change in our life and in the world. We also have the power to change the ancient collective dreams of injustice that we were a part of personally and collectively. Relying on Heaven rather than ourselves is a whole level up. A miracle is our love and God’s Love focused on some dream aspect, knowing it is not God’s Will but an illusion.
We have the power to change ‘bad’ dreams. Heaven wants you to know you have that power, that you are that Power, because you were created that way. God does not want to see His children suffer trying to repay some past illusionary guilt, when it was all a dream meant to have us learn vital lessons to upgrade our consciousness. God knows we are innocent because He created us innocent. Only you, caught in the ego illusion of separation, could believe yourself guilty; which you then project on others to punish them for your guilt denying it in yourself.
Others are figures in your dream. They are punished by acting out, and for acting out your past, even when it is against yourself. As you separate, you experience pain, and are punished and disempowered by believing it was done to you against your will. This is the essence of being a victim and attempting to proclaim your innocence. Being an ‘innocent’ victim is using another to punish us. We are all innocent. This was how we were created by God and it can’t be changed by the illusion of separation by our ego. Yet we malign the people around us with our past. It is our dream and we are responsible. The past is made of dreams and of lessons we didn’t learn, which must be repeated until we can learn them.
We have bound and imprisoned ourselves with our beliefs. They don’t just color our perception; our beliefs are what constructs and constricts our perception in the dream. Yet, this month the veil is thinner, and we can wake up to a truer reality. or even beyond this dream world altogether, to a world without judgment. Our world has always been the projection of our guilt.
All of our emotions – such as fear, anger, guilt, heartbreak, and revenge – are all forms of self-attack on ourselves. They are fundamentally untrue, though we suffer continuously from them. The ego attacks us, along with its false goals and dreams of winners and losers, or being superior or inferior at others expense. We use others as our “accessories” to prove “good” or “bad” beliefs about us.
This is a time to know that grace, which is God’s Love for us, is as strong as it always was. But if we are blind to it, it is because we feel we aren’t worthy or ready for it, or because we have other goals in the world rather than remembering God and Heaven. Great strides can be made for true success this month. And the greatest stride is to know it’s all a dream, and that you are the dreamer of the dream. To the extent that you are willing, and know this awakening is an act of love, you can wake up this month.
Be the leader.
Be the lover.
Be the miracle worker.
Know yourself as God’s Child.
Be a bridge between Heaven and earth.
Know the Christ in you.
Know the Quan Yin in you.
Know the Buddha in you.
Know the Mary Magdalene in you.
Know the King David in you.
As they reached Oneness, they became a part of your mind. Remember that they are within you, and you can know them as a part of yourself. They are extending their help as you extend your love, and God’s Love, to all. Let them guide you.
August can be an idyllic time, but it is not to be spent idly or with idols. Passing joys and pleasures can be savored, but short-sighted living and momentary pleasures can only bind you to them and distract you, being a compensation for the depression that you still have within you. Depression from old losses points the way to death as the only way out of this life. Instead of the ego’s depressive path and death march, you can know that your Oneness with God is the way out of this illusion of life, and into real Life. We all have the unconscious call within us to return to the Love that is God and Oneness; but still, our commitment to focus on this accelerates it and makes it stronger.
The most important thing you can learn this month is to learn to connect with the Holy Spirit and to follow Its Guidance. As the Tao, the Holy Spirit unfolds things in the highest possible way, given what needs to be healed. Do not participate in someone’s dream of sickness. Their sickness is a shared dream that needs a witness to lock in place. Your personal mind attempts to distract you from the awareness that the Holy Spirit is part of your mind. The more you invite the Holy Spirit into your mind and use Its Guidance, the more your mind becomes the Holy Spirit part, instead of your ego mind.
The Holy Spirit is the bridge from God’s mind to you. He is the part of your mind that will remain once you fully identify with It, instead of your personal mind. In death, the identity that you have spent your whole life building is stripped away from you. Yet, as you go through life letting go of attachments and other illusions, what is left is love and joining. When you reach Oneness, it is because there is no identity left in you but the Tao, and this takes you to your Oneness, your original, eternal Identity. Now, since you still believe in separation instead of Oneness, the Holy Spirit is here to help you remember God. When all the wounds that you used to make up your present identity are gone, what remains is God and the ecstatic Bliss of Oneness.
Invite the Holy Spirit to your mind many times a day. If you have a problem, especially a chronic problem, give it to the Holy Spirit to undo. The more faith you have in Heaven, the more the Tao will quickly undo the problem for you. Remember, you are God’s Child, deserving every good thing. God did not create your problem. It would be impossible for God, as Wholeness Itself, to create lack. Lack comes from separation, especially from your belief in the original separation from God.
Once God established you as part of Himself in Oneness, It could not be changed, as God’s Will is unchangeable. Yet, our ego, as the principle of separation, needs you to believe the illusion of separation for the personal mind to exist. The Holy Spirit leads us back to Wholeness by letting go of separation and attachments. These hide the lack inside us that we compensate for. The Holy Spirit is the Healer, the Corrector, the Bridge back to God. He will lead you Home if you ask for it and give yourself to Homecoming
August could be a month of resplendent Joy. Let it be…
Chuck Spezzano
Nightlight Newsletter
August 2026
Kahuku, Hawaii