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Description of a dream I had on holiday in Israel

May 04, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
I have just been able to read the Easter column headed “Mob violence is always with us”. The column mentions: “….The churches have been adorned in white, a change from the mournful purple that adorned the altars and pulpits during the preceding days.”
In 1993, during the week of Yom Kippur, I took a group holiday in Israel and the Holy Land, one afternoon visiting, among other holy places, the Mount of the Beatitudes, where we spent more than an hour, awaiting a replacement coach. I sat eating a large bunch of white grapes purchased on site, staring at a large ancient tree, with roots above ground curling back on themselves. The consumption of grapes left no room for dinner.
Around 3.00 am the next day, I dreamt I was back on the Mount, approaching the large tree, having to kill a long curled-up snake lying in my path, with a sword placed nearby. A figure clad in white slowly approached me, and I eventually realised with shock that it was an Indian-looking man. He berated me for killing the snake and threatened to use the sword on me, unless I ate the snake! I refused; the sword appeared in his hands, as if by magic. I shook myself awake immediately, shaking, heart thumping and drenched in sweat.
Around the man’s waist, was a lilac-pink (purplish) cummerbund. From what he said, the circumstances, and everything else, I gathered he was “the One”. I have, over the years, discussed this experience with Christians, some highly placed, and have had mixed reactions; some regarding it as just a bad dream, others smiling mysteriously. I know what I experienced, and what my assessment is. I gather the colour purple in the Christian religion denotes high status.
I also took a tour of Turkey, and we visited the tiny in-and-out one room hut where the Virgin Mary was said to have stayed the night before “the Birth”. Almost out of sight among some bushes, there was a statue of The Virgin – a black statue. Some years before, when we visited St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, our tour group was intrigued by the black statue of him at the entry, his left foot almost smooth, because of worshippers touching or kissing it as they entered or passed by!
I can well believe the theory of the race factor in the creation of the Christian religion, itself perhaps a breakaway from some other ‘unfriendly’ group. In turn, it then became a product of ‘hijacking’. The route the Christians took, had astrological symbols for street names, and we had to look on the ground for the drawing of a fish to guide us along the route the followers took.
We did the ‘Stations of the Cross’ – a long journey, as I recall 14 stations in all. ‘We learnt that ‘stations’ meant, whenever Christ stopped to rest, mainly along the side of the road, now a pavement instead. Just being there, gave one a feeling of peace. The residents were mostly of mixed appearance – Indian + (‘dougla’-looking). We visited the Coptic ‘order’, occupied by two men dressed in long black tunics, yet another in-and-out short corridor, with a few steps ascending.
To recall a scene from a film I once watched, of a family of mother and father with their small children passing a church one Sunday, the children asking to join the service. The father answering they could not – he had been trying to “get in there for 20 years, and was not allowed in”. A voice from above proclaimed; “I have been trying to get in there for two thousand years, and I cannot”. The youngsters today may be trying to find a better future for us all – with or without religion. What will be, will be!
Geralda Dennison

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