I met a man yesterday or was it years ago.

He told me he was doing an eagle dance. As he moved into himself he could feel himself changing. The rhythm of the drum and his body became one. He was transformed into a golden eagle.

He climbed higher and higher. He turned and went back through time, flying through many nows. On occasional nows, he would descend, each time taking a gift.

He chose comfort on one stop, security on another, and competence on a third. He also picked up love, acceptance, gentleness, joy, and several other items. He then went back through the nows, descended to now, and, turning back into a man, stored all the gifts deep inside himself.

At the beat of the drum, he again was transformed into a golden eagle and took flight.

When he was above the clouds, he turned the other way again went through a series of future nows. It was there he saw his human-self building his dream. At each now, the dream looked different, moving like the ebb and flow of waves in the ocean, and growing stronger while pushed by the winds of change.

The eagle was pleased with his vision and returned to the dancing place and again was transformed.

The man then moved toward the vision, through the nows he dreamed, sharing his gifts along the way. He was full to overflowing. The more he gave away, the more the gifts grew, moving him toward his visions with greater and greater speed.

He told me he was enjoying his journey.

Robert D. Andrews, August,1993