INTERPRETING
A DREAM
When
I was a
child I used to have a dream that would occur from time to time and
would never get its meaning. Some years ago I had it again only once
and I finally understood it. After having learnt the lesson, I never
had that dream again. It was like this:
I
was an adult
coming home on feet with my family and we had to take either a very
long path, which seemed safe, or a shortcut by which we would go
straight home but which would make us go through a dark and scaring
graveyard. After thinking for a moment at the road crossing, I would
always decide to take the shortcut. We would hardly have walked a
hundred meters when an enormous beast would appear coming from the
graveyard. It would have the size of a cow but the body, the head and
the grin of a hungry wolf. The beast would start running at us and I
would take some steps foreword, urging my family to stay behind. When I
was a child, the dream would stop at that point and I would wake up
very scared.
When
I had the
same dream a few years ago, I was already a Spiritist, a medium, a
meditative man and a yoga practitioner. I think the few meters forward
I had already walked on my evolution path allowed me to have a
different end for that dream. The different end was as follows:
While
the beast
ran in my direction, I walked calmly towards it, sending continuous
waves of love in its direction and viewing it as a small kitten that
would jump into my open arms. As I walked towards the beast, its grin
slowly changed until it lost its aggressive mood and the beast began to
move slower and slower until it hardly halted. When we finally reached
one another very gently, I opened my arms wide as if I would hold a
kitten in my arms and the beast let its enormous body fall to the
ground close to my feet, curling its entire body like a little cub
asking for its mother’s caresses. We stood there in a beautiful
transcendental love scene and the dream ended.
When
I woke up,
the meaning of the dream was clear to me. The crossroad meant the
choice I had to make. The long path home is the one that shows no
danger but is no more than an illusion, that is, the quest for material
possessions. The shortcut is the path that seems dangerous but is in
fact the only real one, to say, the spiritual quest. The graveyard
represents our previous lives. The dangers it presents are our own
inner beasts that live in our past and in our present: pride, vanity,
anger, jealousy, revenge, cruelty and so on. The powerful weapon that
tames all the beasts is unconditional love. And the family behind me
surely means
the Spirits I have to lead on the perfection quest.