A DREAM, MAY, 2025 I descended, almost like falling down a treacherous mountain, maybe half-way down. There a young man, not at first visible to me, had put scores of anchors into the slope. The anchors were connected by a thick rope. Another young man, almost like an angel, appeared and pointed to the knot at the center of the rope and said that when it was pulled up, the network would become a house, a shelter against a hoard above threatening to destroy everything. The house could instantly appear and disappear, and thus foil the hoard, and our safety was not in living inside the house when it was raised but in knowing the house was there. The rope was Indra's net. ![]() NOTE: I had this dream after I had completed revising the sonnets, but it caused me to review the Introduction another time. I had thought it also was ready, but the dream led me to revise and add to it in light of a sharper sense of the horrors and what Eliade taught about, in his famous use of the phrase, "the terror of history." |