Theos-Talk Archives (August 2002 Message tt00080)

Alder was walking down the street, somewhat distracted
from the events in his previous night's sleep. He did
not have some exotic relationship with a female, nor
did he fend of a midnight intruder. Rather, Alder had
a perplexing dream which left him, as I said before,
somewhat distracted.

The dream Alder had was a recurring dream. He first
had it when he was about six, well, at any rate, this
was the first time he could remember having the dream.
There was nothing too extravagent to this dream, there
was no monster chasing Alder down the hallway or fears
of falling off tall buildings. Simply, Alder found
himself standing before something immensley huge,
larger than the universe itself. The size of this
entity, an entity Alder could not discern, was truly
overwhelming. To try and to comprehend it all at once
was simply unfathomable. Just as Alder was coming to
terms with this entity it
quickly inverted itself and became, in an instant, an
entity that was immeasureably small. So small in fact
that Alder felt like the previous gigantic entity. It
was smaller than a pin prick, smaller than a cell,
smaller, indeed, than an atom itself. This entity was
so incomprehensibly small that it hurt Alder's mind
simply contemplating it.

So that was it, that was the dream. Alder standing in
something big, then Alder standing in front of
something tiny. Simple. Too simple in fact. The dream
was so simple that Alder was sure that there was some
hidden meaning to it all. And the fact that it had
been recurring to him for the last twenty years made
it even that more perplexing.

So what was Alder to do? Already had he consulted
those new age spiritual dream books, though they were
of no help. Already had he consulted a psychologist,
at great expense, who told him that the dream was a
manifestation of Alder's insecurity of becoming an
adult and his desire to once again be a child. This,
too, was most unsatisfactory. Alder enjoyed adulthood,
indeed relished in it. The freedom that adulthood
afforded one was much too pleasureable to return to
the suppression of childhood. So what, then, was Alder
to do?

Well on this day that Alder was walking down the
street, somewhat distracted, he accidently knocked
into an elderly lady. This lady was short in stature,
stout is a most appropriate term, with an expression
on her face that would have been sterotypical of an
kindly old lady in a child's fairy tale. She wore a
scarf about her head and sort the assistance of a
cane. Fortunately it was this cane that prevented her
from being completely knocked over by Alder's
inadvertency. Alder apologised profusely to this kind
lady and, in return, she deposited a note into his
breast pocket. Initially Alder did not realise this
and it wasn't until much later that he discovered the
note. Alder opended the folded note and read its
contents. There was just one sentence:

"As above, so below"

Instantly Alder knew that this note explained his
dream. A simple one sentence, if it could so be
called, explained away a tewnty year perplexion. The
gigantic entity was mearly a manifestation of the tiny
entity which, in turn, was a manifestation of Alder
himself. Everything that happens above us also happens
below us and with us as well. The universe is infinite
in extant, both in time and space. The universe is
delineated by the atom, for there are quarks and
superstrings smaller than the atom and, no doubt,
there are entities even smaller than these. Nor is the
universe delineated by the galaxies, nebulae or
blackholes. There are entities much larger than these
and the entity which we call the universe is, in fact,
just another entity within an entity as us humans are
an entity within the entity that we call Earth. 

That night Alder once again had the recurring dream.
Although this time it was a pleasent dream. The dream
took on a new meaning that made it appear as alive as
we believe we ourselves are. That night, though, the
dream was slightly different. That night, instead of
the gigantic entity instantly turning into the tiny
entity there was a slow progression, evolution if you
will, from giant to non-giant. In the process the
entity reached the size of Alder himself. It was then
that the dream took on its profoundness. It was then
that Alder realised the interconnectedness of
everything; that everything above is as everything
below. The next morning Alder awoke with a most
satisfied smile upon his face.



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