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Kato'ya: When you were three you ask me a question. You considered the answer I had given, a hundred years later. It occurred I should tell you I now know a better answer to your question. Now that it had come to your mind once more. Now you ask another question. You want to know if I had anything I had wished to tell you for the years that passed between the time you ask a question and that time I ask one of you. A better question may be why you did not think to ask another of me before that time? I was only able to ask one of you once you called me into your mind, from your thoughts of me. It is not a cloud I live upon, but within your heart. Now you wish me to tell you what is real and what is the dream. That is something I can do. It is all a dream. It is all real. When I ask you to understand about the sameness of the rock and the flesh and the sun, you could not, because you had not understood the legend of worm. Do you understand that tale now? Chu'a: I think I understand it to speak of how fragile all life really is, even unto the universe itself. Maybe the worm is supposed to be man dreaming of a world that is truly only chaos. Or it could be that worm is truly the Great Spirit, who is dreaming man and then re-creating him later. Hoping for his perfection the next time? It is a story of much confusion, Grandfather. Tell me what is the true meaning of worm? Kato'ya: It is a very strange story, that tale of the Great Worm. It has always confused me. I had hoped you would find its meaning. I have never understood it. Maybe it is just a story after all. I have thought it could be a parable about the one thought of the Great Spirit that is needed to create all we see as the great creation of the universe. We can not know anything for a certainty. Only one thing is known by man, with any certainty. We may be certain of our uncertainty. ��Knowing our uncertainty will help us to understand things that may otherwise seem strange to us. Like our dreams being just as real as when we seem to be awake. Why the stone is the same as the sun. Help to see how it is in the universe, compared to how it may seem to be. Help in understanding that all life is energy. All energy is of the one life. The worm is just as real as the matter of his dreams. He is only part of the dream. He lives at the end of time and time is just a law of matter. Time cannot exist without matter any more than matter could exist outside of time. So time and matter both become part of the dream. So the worm crawls on. It will help to understand the nature of matter. It is only an illusion of energy. It is energy at rest. The more it rest, the heaver and denser the matter becomes. So you think the stone is not like the sun or the flesh. But they are all only energy at different speeds. When looking at the smallest parts that make up the stone, it is only the same small parts that you would find to make up anything you looked at. Just arranged a little differently. What is most interesting about these small parts is how far apart they are and how active they are. It is because they are alive with energy. Just small particles of energy held together in the illusion of matter. Each with vast amounts of nothing between. Each combination of nothing and energy combining to display the illusion of matter in its own way. All I can say with any certainty about the story of worm, is that it confuses me. It is something that confuses me. Chua: Is there nothing real, Grandfather? When I go to the cities to see my brothers and sisters suffering there, is that not real? What of the warnings foretold in the prophecies of the Elders, Grandfather? Are they just Illusion? Should we pay no heed to our danger, as it has been foretold? What about the way we treat our Mother Earth? Should we not treat her with respect, so her song grows strong once more, like in the times before? Is all just illusion and no meaning is to be found? Can there not be hope? What of hope, Grandfather? Kato'ya: Hope ��For the dream will only end when the worm returns to the chaos of the great void once more. ��Do not mistake the reality of the dream. Do not mistake the reality within the dream. Also know of the great reality outside of the dream, even though it cannot be known to your experiences while living within the dream. It can be discovered to also live within your own heart. ��Know that we exist within the dream, but beyond it as well. Know the illusion of matter is part of the dream but also our reality while we dream within that illusion. We are partially made from the illusion of matter, so have a hard time to see beyond matter. ��While we exist within these animal forms of matter we are limited by what we sense to be real within our limited ability to perceive reality through our limited senses. This is a problem to us while here within the illusion. We tend to deny what is not bound within our ability to see, hear, smell, taste, touch or conceive of as being real. Just as the dream seems real to the dreamer, once he is awakened he sees what had just seemed very real as the dream and the illusion he has been awakened into as real. Only to ask if he was just dreaming and has now awakened, or just dreamed that to have happened also. One who is truly awake has no need to ask. It is a thing that is already known to them. ��This can also be true of one who is awake within the dream. They are then awake to the reality of the dream. This puts them in a place of great advantage in understanding the importance of dealing effectively in nurturing the dream to its conclusion, so not to awaken the great worm at world's end prematurely. You ask if it is all illusion, with nothing real. But I have said to you it is all a dream that is very real. Just as the suffering you mention is real, so too is our need to overcome that suffering. We must understand the realness of our true situations within the dream. This requires us to wake up enough to see the dream around us as it really is. Instead of how we have perceived it to be until now. This requires us to understand the dream is our reality for the time we are trapped within it. Trapped within the dream of matter while contained within animal bodies, for the experience of feeling them. For the experience of wearing them into their advancement to that of a human being. A creature most unique in the universe. Half man, half God. A creature who has truly awakened from the dream within the illusion. That is where your hope should truly be placed, Grandson. Place your hope in the true spirit of the fully developed human species. It is that enlightened spirit that will stop the suffering of humankind as well as the destruction of Mother Earth. Mankind is like a small child who has outrun the guidance of its parents. But with discovery and experience becomes more mature in its decisions. As it reaches the strength of adulthood, it also reaches a state where it has more power to do itself greater harm. Hopefully it will also gain enough wisdom by then to go back and seek the advice of its Elders. In order to avoid some of the pitfalls already known to exist, by those already awakened from the dream. Otherwise the worm will awaken and this cycle will end. Incomplete, just as those that have gone before. So then all hope must be placed on the new turning of the great wheel, when the Earth will come back cleansed to a newness. Awaiting the new start and for the next cycle to begin. It is this understanding that will keep us aware of what is at stake, to do less than we are capable of doing. We are placed here as caretakers of the earth, among all other reasons for our being birthed into creation through the use of these animal bodies of matter. Birthed into the physical reality of the great illusion. We are physical beings with base animal natures, as well as conjoined with the divine part of ourselves that is also part of the one great energy of all life and creation. That is our reality while here. Our questioning nature should be tempered with a consciousness toward our need to deal effectively with that truth at its foundation. It is that ability that will foretell our ultimate success as a species. Grandson, please heed my words well. It is the whimpers of hopelessness and the sobs of pain and suffering and the wails of hunger and need of your brothers and sisters, as well as those of the Earth Mother, that will cause the Great Worm at World's end who lives beyond time to awaken and crawl on to continue his journey. Thus ending ours. |