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In a state of physical and emotional exhaustion, Grandfather all about him, all at once, was disaster. Piles of garbage reached fell into a deep sleep, but it was in this sleep that the warrior spirit to the skies, forests lay cut and dying, coastlines were flooded and appeared to him again and brought the remainder of the first sign storms grew more violent and thunderous. With each passing to completion. moment, the Earth shook with greater intensity, threatening to tear In his dream, the spirit spoke to Grandfather. "It is during the apart and swallow Grandfather. years of the famine, the first sign, that man will be plagued by a Suddenly the Earth stopped shaking and the sky cleared. Out of disease, a disease that will sweep the land and terrorise the mass- the dusty air walked the warrior spirit, who stopped a short dis- es. The white coats [doctors/scientists] will have no answers for tance from Grandfather. As Grandfather looked into the face of the people, and a great cry will arise across the land. The disease _the spirit, he could see that there were great tears flowing from his will be born of monkeys, drugs and sex. It will destroy man from eyes, and each tear fell to the Earth with a searing sound. inside, making common sickness a killing disease. Mankind will The spirit looked at Grandfather for a long moment, then finally bring this disease upon himself as a result of his life, his worship spoke. "Holes in the sky." of sex and drugs, and a life away from Nature. This, too, is a part Grandfather thought for a moment, then, in a questioning, dis- of the first warning; but, again, man will not heed this warning believing manner, said, "Holes in the sky?" and he will continue to worship the false gods of sex and the And the spirit answered. "They will become the second sign of unconscious spirit of drugs." the destruction of man. The holes in the sky and all that you have [Author's note: This is presumably a reference to AIDS.] seen could become man's reality. It is here, at the beginning of The spirit continued. "The drugs will pro- this second sign, that man can no longer duce wars in the cities of man, and the heal the Earth with physical action. It is nations will arise against those wars, arise here that man must heed the warning and against that killing disease. But the nations work harder to change the future at hand. will fight in the wrong way, lashing out at But man must not only work physically, he the effect rather than the cause. It will never must also work spiritually, through prayer, win these wars until the nation, until society, " . for only through prayer can man now hope changes its values and stops chasing the They will become to heal the Earth and himself." gods of sex and drugs. It is then, in the the second sign of the There was a long pause as Grandfather years of the first sign, that man can change . thought about the impossibility of holes in the course of the probable future. It is then destruction of man. The the sky. Surely Grandfather knew that there that he may understand the greater lessons of i could be a spiritual hole, but a hole that the the famine and the disease. It is then that holes a the sky and all societies of the Earth could notice would there can still be hope. But once the second that ou have seen could hardly seem likely. Pp y 'y earl aarti anea sEamnex.me | become man’s reality. It) spi! si clo an pots asin spiritual healing can then change the is here, at the beginning direct result of man's life, his travel, course of the probable futures of of this second sign that and of the sins of his grandfathers and 3 man can no longer heal mankind." grandmothers. These holes, the second With that, the warrior spirit let sign, will mark the killing of his grand- the Earth with physical action." Grandfather fall into a deep and dream- children and will become a legacy to less sleep, allowing him to rest fully man's life away from Nature. It is the before any more Vision was wrought time of these holes that will mark a upon him. great transition in mankind's thinking. Grandfather awoke at the entrance of They will then be faced with a the cave once again, the memory of the choice—a choice to continue follow- warrior spirit still vivid in his mind, the ing the path of destruction, or a choice spirit's words becoming part of his to move back to the philosophy of the soul. Earth and a simpler existence. It is When Grandfather looked out across here that the decision must be made, or the landscape, all had changed. The all will be lost." landscape appeared drier; there was no Without another word, the spirit vegetation to be seen, and animals lay dying. A great stench of turned and walked back into the dust. death arose from the land, and the dust was thick and choking, the intense heat oppressive. Looking skyward, the Sun seemed to be randfather spent the next four days at the cave entrance, larger and more intense; no birds or clouds could be seen, and the Gr for those four days nothing spoke to him, not even air seemed thicker still. It was then that the sky seemed to surge the Earth. He said that it was a time of great sorrow, of and huge holes began to appear. The holes tore with a resound- aloneness, and a time to digest all that had taken place. ing, thunderous sound, and the very Earth, rocks and soil shook. He knew that these things would not appear in his lifetime, but The skin of the sky seemed to be torn open like a series of gap- they had to be passed down to the people of the future with the ing wounds, and through these wounds seeped a liquid that same urgency and power with which they had been delivered to seemed like the oozing of an infection, a great sea of floating him. But he did not know how he would explain these unlikely garbage, oil and dead fish. It was through one of these wounds events to anyone. Surely the elders and shamans of the tribes that Grandfather saw the floating bodies of dolphins, accompa- would understand, but not society, and certainly not anyone who nied by tremendous upheavals of the Earth and violent storms. As was removed from the Earth and Spirit. he held fast to the trembling Earth, his eyes fell from the sky, and He sat for the full four days, unmoving, as if made of stone, and though for those four days nothing spoke to him, not even the Earth. He said that it was a time of great sorrow, of aloneness, and a time to digest all that had taken place. He knew that these things would not appear in his lifetime, but they had to be passed down to the people of the future with the same urgency and power with which they had been delivered to him. But he did not know how he would explain these unlikely events to anyone. Surely the elders and shamans of the tribes would understand, but not society, and certainly not anyone who was removed from the Earth and Spirit. He sat for the full four days, unmoving, as if made of stone, and Giese spent the next four days at the cave entrance, NEXUS - 61 "They will become holes in the sky and all DECEMBER 1999 — JANUARY 2000