Games People Play

י'ח בתשרי תשס"ח

I dreamt.

Times and places were superposed. The events in the scenes were archetypal, yet 3 particular individuals came out of the complexity to show me the story.

A peaceful herd of primeval mystical yet physical elephant-like creatures of time were grazing on a plain. A Voice in the atmosphere explained to me how the female elephant-like creatures gave birth each to her one baby through a hole which opened up on the top of her back during the birth process. The Voice further explained that this was because the females of the herd so often had to give birth "on the run". Had the birthing process been any other way, the mystically beautiful elephant-like creatures would have become extinct. And this is why ...

I saw that the herd migrations were usually forced in a game humans played similar to "running with the bulls". Only, in this game, it was a chariot chasing event. Human couples made community sport by stampeding the herd with their chariots. The human couples had no care that many of the newly emerging creature babies would fall off the back of its mother as she ran to escape death by those humans in the chariots. This was because as the creature baby was emerging from the birth hole on its mother's back, it rigidly and unstably stuck straight up into the air and was susceptible to being blown off by running against the wind as the herd tried to escape.

When a creature baby fell off, the many human couples in the game ran over it with their chariot wheels. I was horrified to see this happen over and over. I saw one of the creatures babies escape death by chariot wheels.

Off to the side of the sporting place, the creature baby turned into a man. One chariot couple came over to him. The couple were dressed like a two from a black and white Humphrey Bogart movie from the 1940's. He wore a black business suit hat and she wore her hair like starlets did in that era.

The couple approached the man who had been a surviving creature baby. The couple-man demanded survival-redemption money in the amount of "twenty" from the creature-man. The couple-man indicated that the creature-man should give "twenty" to the couple-woman, as payment to her for not being killed in the chariot race, for escaping. The couple believed the creature-man to be of subhuman value. They believed the creatures to be of animal intelligence, while they themselves were of human intelligence. As human intelligences, the two believed the creature owed them the survival "price" of animal intelligence, namely "twenty". If the creature-man refused to pay them "twenty", they as humans, had the divine right to snuff out his life. They believed.

The creature-man looked with astounding intelligence at the couple standing there waiting for him to give the woman the demanded survival payment. Let me tell you a story, he told the two.

The creature-man told a beautiful story, brilliantly illustrating indirectly the Divine Intelligence of both humans and the creatures they killed - there was no essential difference between humans and the elephant-like creatures. All were made with the essence of the Divine Intelligence.

The couple were not "getting" the implied message of the creature-man's story. The message made no impression upon their consciousnesses. He could see that they could not see. As he backed away from the couple, he told the last satiric line of his story - "and the difference between us is twenty." The creature-man turned and walked away into the darkness.

I woke up.