Chapter 7 : Fun Day At The Pool
I had a vivid imagination as a child. My invisible friend was always there when I needed to talk. I just couldn’t receive any answers about the Big Ball. I experienced a dream quite often about a ball of light as huge as the world. It was always rolling towards me from a far distance at a high rate of speed. When it was about to crush, I’d wake up. I’ve daily studied a 1333-page manuscript titled A Course In Miracles for over fifteen years. The author is Helen Schucman. This is one of the hundreds of beautiful articles.
The Ancient Song:
“Beyond the body, beyond the sun and stars, past everything you see and yet somehow familiar, is an arc of golden light that stretches as you look into a great and shining circle. And all the circle fills with light before your eyes. The edges of the circle disappear, and what is in it is no longer contained at all. The light expands and covers everything, extending to infinity, forever shining and with no break or limit anywhere. Within it, everything is joined in perfect continuity. Nor is it possible to imagine that anything could be outside, for there is nowhere that this light is not. This is the vision of the Son of God, whom you know well. Here is the sight of him who knows his Father. Here is the memory of what you are, a part of this, with all of it within and joined to all as surely as all is joined to you. Accept the vision that can show you this, and not the body. You know the ancient song and know it well. Nothing will ever be as dear to you as is this ancient hymn of love the Son of God sings to his Father still.”
When I read this, I finally received the answer to what my childhood dream had been about. If the ball had hit me, the edges would have instantly vanished, and I’d be absorbed into it, becoming one with the light.
My first terrifying fear was due to a comic book about Count Dracula. When I found out he’d come in on moonbeams, I was petrified because there was a full moon. I slept between mom and dad that night. Weeks before my seventh Halloween, mom bought me a superman costume. I was overjoyed because he was my ultimate hero. I flew around the neighbor every day for weeks and would not take my suit off because it was the source of all my powers. When trick or treating, I was a little confused because all the neighbors knew it was me. When I was 13 my next great hero was James Bond in the movie Goldfinger. Sean Connery as 007 and his Aston Martin were the epitome of cool.
As children, we lived and played at the swimming pool for hours on end. I was a good swimmer and comfortable going off the dives. When I was eight, I did a back-tilted jump and smashed the back of my head. I was stunned, paralyzed, completely awake and floating to the bottom. I had absolutely no fear and was calmly looking at the beautiful refractions of sunlight in the waters. Someone saw the rising blood, I was pulled out and given mouth-to-mouth. The lifeguard said a few moments later, and I probably wouldn’t have survived. A miracle. I received over a dozen stitches.
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