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Fox and the Eye of God

Dreamed 1984/8/15 by Wayan

INTRODUCTION

When I first built the World Dream Bank I favored story-like dreams showing dreamwork was more magical, beautiful and fun than people think. But now I'm going through my old journals and finding a lot of apparently predictive dreams like this--dreams not resolving neatly as stories, but evidence that the waking world is rather more magical than people think. Too.

THAT NIGHT

After years, I finally found my Career Track. It's a steep trail from the mudflats by San Francisco Bay west over the mountains toward the sea.

The climb is hard, but I slog up to the pass. Here I leave the settled lands of the Bay for the near-wilderness locally called the Watershed. It's a climate-border too--from summer heat and dry grass to early Alpine spring, with pale new grass poking from snow. Wow, that's some divide!

To the south is the mouth of a valley nearly as rugged and scenic as Yosemite. Curious, I detour--explore this Career Byway. It soon branches, and long lines wait to climb each fork. Three choices--shall I head on west, or wait for one of these two paths? Then I spot a fourth choice. Little-used and steep, but no one waiting. It zigzags right up the cliffs... Like the Sierra Point trail in Yosemite proper. A dead end, but what a view! Fox on a rock in snow; dream sketch by Wayan.

North, across the trail to the sea, I see a dot on a snowfield. The Fox! There's only one of course. Foxes were locally extinct for decades, and a lone fox got reintroduced here just a year ago--as a survival test.

Then I see a second. Can't be! But it is. A mate, in winter coat. White on white.

My sister Althea shows up with two mules. She's heading down the canyon to the sea. Says the mules are Spicy and Shaggy. "No, you misheard me", she corrects--"Spice--not Spicy--is a nickname. Spice's true name," says Althea, "is Althea." No, not quite--a Polynesian name with lots of A. Ale'a, Akala?

I use magical power to encourage the mules to hurry down the river to the sea.

In the river, I see lines form. Arcs. The arcs form an eye! Sauron's eye, red, flaming. ACK! I nearly fall in.

Then I look up. The First Fox runs across a snowfield, leaving an arc as a trail. A bird flies overhead, leaving another. These two arcs form a second huge eye! Pink and gold, not red. The Eye of God! And this eye banishes Sauron's eye of fire. A relief.

Angelic creatures wheel around us. I feel joy; from now on we won't journey alone.

Animal tracks--a fox in snow & a bird in flight--form the eye of God watching over me. Dream sketch by Wayan. Click to enlarge.

NOTES IN THE MORNING

THE NEXT DAY

I read Richard Lupoff's The Triune Man. It's full of images from the dream!

So I'd add one item to "dreams, play, love and sex": premonitions specific enough to justify the label ESP. The old shamans were right; scientists, wrong. Don't ignore the data to fit scientific theories! Trust your hunches.

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