Posted by giveawayboy on June 16, 2001 at 10:25:08:
....this all reminds me of a dream I had. It was about this
shopping mall. There was a huge sort of patio with a pool and a
garden inside the mall. One side of it was actually open to the
outdoors and there was this huge chainlink fence there. Behind
this fence there was nothing but pure 100% wilderness. I could
see that there were these various animals out there--everything
from butterflies to elephants--and they were trying to get into
the patio, and by virtue, the shopping mall. The people in the
mall were all empty spiritually. The world of animals outside
the mall represented the spirit realm and truth. I knew that if
the fence were not there that they would surely overrun the
shopping mall--the mall would be destroyed and overgrown with
wild plants in no time. However, I also knew this needed to
happen. Then just on the other side of the fence I saw this
beautiful deer and I thought--I need to open a hole in that
fence, so me and a friend got some wire cutters and started to
cut some links and we spread apart that fence until she looked
like a woman about to give birth. That humble little deer bowed
its head, as if to say "Thank you" and then stepped out onto the
cement floor of the mall patio. I can recall the sound of his hoofs
scratching on the floor. He was starting to pass the pool
and enter the shopping mall itself, when I was suddenly
frightened by the next thing I saw, a huge lion, marching out of
the wilderness and right toward the opening I had just created.
I realized that I had a moral choice here. I could either tie
the fence back together or I could decide to allow a dangerous
form of truth to enter the small world of human affairs and make
it bigger and wilder. what was I going to do. I knew that
sometimes truth can not only be elegant, and beautiful, but also
deadly. Then I thought, I MUST leave the hole in the fence. I
cannot abort the truths that wish to pass from the spirit world
into my world, or anyone else's.
This dream I think relates to us since, no matter what our
convictions, ultimately we all stand before these butterflies,
deer, lions, and elephants and we all stand before a billion and
one vines that want to grow into us and change us into something
more wild and alive. I do not want to be the guy that erects the
fence and holds the truth back. I want to be the guy who
respects the womb and let's truth come forth.
Bill