"I was returning from the Rainbow Ranch with my friend and mentor Will Sampson when he suddenly veered the car to a screeching halt. Before us lay a mound of bodies, dead ahead in the intersection. I told Will to let me out to investigate. As Will drove off into the distance, I noticed rapid sniper fire for the first time. I remember having to tell myself to duck, though I felt no sense of personal danger. And, despite the hostile confrontation bulleting all around me, I was acutely aware there were really no 'good guys' nor 'bad guys' with which to contend.
"As I made my way across the intersection, I realized Will's body lay on the bottom of the mound -- Will alive and dead in one moment? There was little time to ponder, as terror stricken people scrambled in every direction and huddled in doorways for protection. I found myself comforting an hysterical young mother and her small children, when two Native American spirit women appeared.
"One was young and very beautiful, with long black braids, the other ancient beyond time. Both had sacred necklaces for me. The younger woman gifted me hers first, then the wise old woman, and as she did these words were spoken, 'The Time of Transformation is Now.'
"The Time of Transformation is Now. This is the time which native prophesies throughout the world have long foretold, the time when the rainbow peoples, red, yellow, black, and white will unite as one family in peace. The Earth has been taxed to her limit, and there must be an awakening to secure the future for our children and generations to come. And so it is that the caretakers of the Earth, the native peoples, are sharing 'secret' teachings for the first time with non-native peoples."
The account above is of a dream I had a decade ago, while sleeping in front of an open fire at the Rainbow anch in Ojai, California. You might know Will Sampson as the big Indian, the giant silent presence in uckoo's Nest with Jack Nicholson. He also played the Native American medicine man in Poltergeist II, The Other Side, which is how we met. I was the unit publicist on the film.
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