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ceremony. While I am standing back
in the tunnel, a
young Indian woman comes up to me. She
puts her arm
around my waist and walks with me into the
cave, down
the path and out among the dancers. She dances with
me
briefly and then leaves me with
another partner. [The
fire gives off plenty of light but no heat. As aconsequence,
it is not unduly warm.] While dancing, I suddenly
realize
that my steps are exactly the
opposite of all the other
dancers'. I am momentarily uncertain about
what to do.
Then the woman who had brought
me into the cave is
back at my side and tells me that I am doing just fine. She
begins to dance with me, matching her steps to mine. The
dance works just as well with
my backward steps as it
does with the regular steps.
(C.K.S., San Angelo, Texas)
.
A
ballroom full of couples who are dancing to the song,
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree." (C.G.S.,
St. Petersburg, Florida)
I am alone in the middle of the desert at twilight. I
am
sitting on the driver's seat of an old-fashioned buckboard.
I hold the reins but there are no horses to pull the wagon.
I have a long white beard and long white hair. Encircling
my head is a cardboard ring painted
gold. Suddenly a
young girl appears out of the ground with a horse. Silently
she hitches the horse to the
wagon, then goes around
back and climbs aboard.
Suddenly there is a shiny,
pointed gem sticking up out of the front of the
cardboard
ring around my head. Then, appearing
from nowhere,
others come, each with his own
horse. As each silently
hitches his horse to the
wagon and climbs on board,
another gem-point appears on the cardboard ring. Finally
there are seven people on board and there are three pairs
of horses with a single lead horse.
The sky has been
growing lighter and the people are murmuring
about the
strangeness that as the hour grows
later the sky grows
brighter. Finally it becomes like broad daylight, although
there is no sun in the sky. I start to drive
and as soon as
the wheels start rolling, we are
no longer in the desert.
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