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A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to explore Ireland for a weekend.   It was good stuff!  Yeah, the beer and fish and chips were good, the people warm and Dulin a brilliant city all around.  However, as I discovered, I wasn´t in Ireland for that stuff really.  I was in Ireland for a refresher course from my Australian journey.

Those who know me know I love history and the sea.  Of course I had both in Ireland.  On Saturday I went to the Irish National Museum of Archaeology (http://www.museum.ie/en/intro/archaeology-and-ethnography-museum.aspx).  It was here where I saw an old “friend” . . . a burial chamber/cave drawing made by a prehistoric person around 3000 BC.

It is a simple drawing of concentric circles.  But what is important is that it is the exact same prehistoric drawing I saw in the caves in the Outback, made by the Australian Aboriginals.  That sent chills down my spine.  You gotta understand, this drawing, which could mean a lot of things, including “Source” or the universe, is one of the most important images of my months in Australia.  The literal meaning of the drawing isn´t important because  I believe it is something we understand on an intuitive level . . . our understanding of it is basically encoded into our DNA.  It is a pointer towards “God”.

So the next day, I am in Dun Laoghaire, walking along the harbor, a bit lost in my own thoughts, as I usually am at the sea.  And I am thinking how could two very different prehistoric cultures, thousands of kilometers apart, have the same drawing.  I was totally focused on those concentric circles, when for a moment I glanced up in time to catch a glimpse of the emblem on the fleece jacket of a guy passing me by.  The emblem said, “Outback Australia”. 

It was then when the energy of the Outback, The Dreaming,  hit me again full force for just a moment.  I don´t feel it as often or as strongly as I used to, but am always grateful when it reveals itself to me, letting me know it is still there, and that I am on the right track.  It is still very difficult for me to verbalize what that energy means, and what I experienced while living within it.  It´s about the connection between your thoughts and what your eye catches.  If you stop and stay in a desolate place long enough and connect with nature and the Milky Way, you will catch it more often.  And, you might just pick up things like ESP, have your dreams become very vivid,  or hear voices in your head . . . and go “insane”.

That is what happened to me in Australia, and through that I came to understand sanity.  The Outback flipped my world inside out, and although I haven´t been back since that time in my 33rd year, I continue to hope, no matter how far I am from the Outback, the energy will continue to follow me, to protect me, and to never let me forget what sanity is.

Merry Christmas . . and Keep Dreaming,

Brian