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It is reproduced here with the author's permission.
is created and maintained by Daniel Siebert
My father helped me up and wiped the earth out of my eyes. As he was
doing so, this reality, this place, this Earth disappeared, wiped away by his
handkerchief. I saw my earthly reality as a dark stained mark on that white cloth
in his hand, and it all pulled away from me as he withdrew the cloth and crumpled
it up, closing it in his fist. He said, "You know, you ought to be careful not to let
that earth get in your eyes. If you do, you soon lose all contact with who you
really are, getting all wrapped up in that strange place, believing that it is real."
Then he said, "You can live a lifetime there and not know that it is just earth in
your eyes."
The thought then occurred to me, how strange the experience was, that I actually had a whole life in that place, a place that had such things as cats and dogs. I thought that it was all very weird; nothing like that really existed. I was glad that I had returned to reality, as a kid in my father's arms. The Earth was just a dream.
Then I was back, more earth in my eyes. Cats and dogs are real again!
When I was a very young boy I used to view cats and dogs as opposites and
because of this I believe their role in this vision represented the concept
of good and evil, light and darkness, the outward flow and inward pull.
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