posted on Apr, 12 2011 @ 03:27 AM
Hmmm, very interesting. In replying to this post and relating some personal experiences I was taken back to the original post and unable to use
Firefox to re-acquire my words...
Anyways, my experiences are different but somewhat similar. All throughout my adult life (20+ years now) I have had a recurring dream where I would be
offered "it all" money, women, sex, drugs, power, etc. Each and every time I had this dream, I felt the overbearing presence of evil. Each time I
awoke reciting the Lord's prayer.
Now I'm no big Bible thumper but having been schooled in a Catholic and then a Protestant school, I believe that there are things greater than this
world. I believe in the paranormal, miracles, UFO's ancients, demons, etc. In short, I believe in good and evil or for the more scientific mind, a
positive and negative life force.
Long story short, no matter how hard I try, success just hasn't reached me yet. I've done alright over the years but just never seem to have made
it out of mediocre middle class America. Hey, that's OK because I'm happy with what I do.
About 2 years ago I had a dream where a glowing beautiful woman with long silky flowing hair that was braided in a circle around her head was tugging
the covers off me in the middle of the night. After pulling the covers off me, I awoke somewhat mad, I looked and standing in my room was my deceased
father who told me to pay attention to what was about to be said.
My dad faded away as this woman sat at the foot of my bed and told me that I had done well for myself. She said I had passed my first tests. She told
me that in order for me to proceed to the next level, I had to study the books. In my mind I saw three generic looking hardcover bound books with
black embossed symbols on the front covers. The first symbol looked like and Ankh, the second looked like a cat and I can't quite describe the third
symbol except to say that it matched the style of the first two.
The woman got up and departed in a blaze of white light. Now mind you this was a dream but I actually awoke and wondered what had just happened. It
all seemed so real! As I layed there in bed unable to sleep and trying to comprehend what had just happened the only three books I could think of were
books I had never read, the apocryphal books of Enoch, Jasher and Maccabees.
After reading those books I was still scratching my head. Perhaps the woman in my dreams wasn't an angel but instead a demon. When the devil fails he
sends a woman to do his bidding was what my mother always used to say. However, I can say that even though sometimes my life seems infinitesimal and
meaningless, I know that I have a purpose and fear no evil for thy rod and staff comfort me.
I know evil rules this world, I know I succumb to evil on a daily basis, (eating too much, drinking too much, coveting my neighbors wife, pornography,
etc.) all I ask is forgiveness. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak!
Since that last dream a few years ago my life has calmed down so much. I see the beauty in everything on this world. The harmony of seasons and
flowers and critters. The perfection of the solar system, the ebb and flow of the tides and yes, the deception of evil. The greed for money, the quest
for power, the desire to consume. I see that and realize how true the song "Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd really is.