Visions In The River of Dreams

Tony Crisp

On January the third of 2003 I experienced a wonderful and prophetic dream.

I dreamt I was walking outdoors at night. I had the sense that I was in the small country town in which I was born, but the physical features of the place were different. I believe I was walking along a road, possibly with someone else. I glanced up at the sky and was amazed how clearly the stars were visible. And as I looked I saw something that I had never seen before. Across the sky, from the horizon on my left to the horizon on my right, massive concentrations of stars formed stylised running figures. These great figures resembled human shape, and suggested to me that they were running across the sky. Their shape gave me the impression of the beautiful flowing movement of running or dancing. I felt it was a great pageant of life, ancient and wonderful. The figures expressed something that I found difficult to put into words, but nevertheless were very moving at a deep level of my being.

The dream so caught at my feelings and curiosity I meditated on it, explored it, and generally pondered on it for six months. Then in June of 2003 the gates to the dream suddenly opened for me, and a torrent of experience and realisation poured into consciousness.

As the gates of my dream opened I became aware of meeting actual beings. I knew in a direct way that these beings were the very substance and processes of our universe. Literally, the air we breathe, the water we drink is a part of their ‘bodies’. But we must not think of them as like us in the way we have a body. I was reminded at that point of the statement in Genesis where it says, God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

God says, “Let us” and that is plural. He does not say I will. And in the same way that I sensed these great beings, I also knew that they were there from the beginning of time. We see them as the processes, the laws, the manifestation of our universe, and locally our solar system and earth. Usually we think of these things as mindless forces, as we might think of gravity. But it seemed to me in the experience that the universe is fundamentally sentient and has innate intelligence. I also felt that these beings are described in astrology. In other words astrology attempts to define what they are and their influence in the cosmos and in our lives. Unfortunately we have a degraded and limited view of this. But literally they are the parents of humanity, and shape our body and life. They are the creators of stars and worlds. It is difficult to conceive of beings whose very body is the world around us and the sky and stars. This is why I saw them in the dream as having a body of stars and dancing across the night sky. In the dream I sensed them as a cavalcade of life -- ancient life. And that was an actual awareness of them, because they are the very pageant of life and death.

The time of the Bull and the Lion approaches

As I became aware of the Star Beings I knew also that they were asking something of us, something that we as humans were not giving. We were given life to be custodians of the earth and the creatures and life forms on it. If we cannot be that, then we open ourselves to destructive changes. If we listen, the Star Beings are telling us that there are shifts going on that will require something of us, something more than we are giving as a race. If we are not capable of giving it, then our time is nearing an end. Of course, what we have already done and lived will be absorbed if we cannot meet the shifts that will take place, that are already beginning to take place.

The message I receive from the ancient beings, the Star Beings, is that the time of the Bull and the Lion is approaching. This is simply a cycle just as summer and winter are cycles.

And I was shown that the lion represents what we can call the carnivore. The carnivore lives off the weak or the sick. It pulls down what is old or decrepit. In the terms of the Star Beings it represents processes or forces that pull down those things in society and in the world that are ailing, that are weak, that are not flowing with the energy of life. This force pulls down what is sick -- the degenerative parts of society and of the world. Considering the inequality, greed, corruption and agression in governments, businesses and society, there is an awful lot of sickness in humanity and our creations.

The bull, as in the ancient Mediterranean world, represents the Earth Shaker. In its most physical sense it depicts earthquakes. But it is really about forces that shake the world making weak structures crumble. So the lion and the bull together suggest incredibly powerful forces acting upon society and the world. Things, social and personal attitudes and ways of life, business practices, national and political structures that do not have a good foundation, things that are degenerate, diseased or weak will be gradually cleansed. In a way, what is weak shakes itself to bits through its own internal energy. It self destructs because it is not connected with life giving forces. It is full of self grabbing and self centredness. If a tree does not integrate the fundamental life giving forces of the sun, the bacteria and microbes as its root, it dies. So do we as a society, if we are not connected to what gives us life, die.

Prepare the way

I have the sense that large companies, social structures, governments, if they want to survive need to be aware of how things link with the longer cycles of life, and the changes that create and destroy. They need to look beyond market forces, or the rise and fall of the Dow Jones, and consider those wider processes that underlie these shorter smaller cycles. They should look at the tides of life. The rising and falling of influences acting upon all of us.

This is rather like having weather reports. If a ship knows a storm is coming it can pull into harbour, or make adjustments so it can meet the changing circumstances. Banks and the big corporations need to recognise that life itself is not served by getting higher and higher profits, and aiming for huge bonuses that profit only the few. Life is about supporting and cherishing life, the building of a home and the raising of loved children; the support of endeavours that really serve people's needs.

There are major changes coming about. This is not to be thought of in anyway as retribution, as a judgment. It is simply a change of season. They are the processes of nature. If you were a tree and your leaves fell off, you might cry out, "Is this retribution? Oh God, all my leaves have fallen off! They all turned brown and fell off. And now look at me?"

That is not retribution it is simply a change in the season. and if we are not prepared for that change, if we do not have the personal and collective qualities to meet that change, we will be part of what falls away in the cycle of things.

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