I closed my eyes and found myself walking in a forest in the middle of autumn with orange, yellow and brown leaves all around and where the trees were long, tall and straight but utterly bare. This didnt seem like a NZ forest though - maybe like those English or European ones.
Anyway, Im walking along and see this creature standing just off my path. He looks like a mushroom with large, dark round eyes on either side of his mushroom head and a gaping mouth with sharp, jagged teeth. I wave to him and he acknowledges me by looking at me but then all of a sudden he grimaces and bares his teeth at me.
Early in the morning I had a dream of a woman with sharp pointed teeth and my fear had got the best of me, so when this fulla started grimacing at me and baring his teeth I just said, 'Hey, hey, calm down mate. No need for that. Come over here and we'll take a seat aye' to which he calmly came and plonked himself down.
I asked him, 'So, is this all you do just hang out in the forest aye?' He answered by nodding his head rapidly. I asked, 'Is it just you here or what?' to which he looked out over the forest and all of a sudden I saw heaps of these mushroom/tree fungus type people moving around the forest.
I spotted one nearby and took a closer look and saw what those teeth were for. These mushroom fungus things grow on dead wood but what I saw was one of them using their jagged, sharp teeth to chew the dead wood.
It then came over me that maybe Im too judgemental when seeing new things - albeit things which might be a little frightening. Funny though that te ao wairua had to invent a whole race of people just to teach me a personal lesson.
I mean, these may have been real people but the bigger lesson here was to teach me about seeing the world - and others, in different ways and of being open and receptive....
Anyway, Im walking along and see this creature standing just off my path. He looks like a mushroom with large, dark round eyes on either side of his mushroom head and a gaping mouth with sharp, jagged teeth. I wave to him and he acknowledges me by looking at me but then all of a sudden he grimaces and bares his teeth at me.
Early in the morning I had a dream of a woman with sharp pointed teeth and my fear had got the best of me, so when this fulla started grimacing at me and baring his teeth I just said, 'Hey, hey, calm down mate. No need for that. Come over here and we'll take a seat aye' to which he calmly came and plonked himself down.
I asked him, 'So, is this all you do just hang out in the forest aye?' He answered by nodding his head rapidly. I asked, 'Is it just you here or what?' to which he looked out over the forest and all of a sudden I saw heaps of these mushroom/tree fungus type people moving around the forest.
I spotted one nearby and took a closer look and saw what those teeth were for. These mushroom fungus things grow on dead wood but what I saw was one of them using their jagged, sharp teeth to chew the dead wood.
It then came over me that maybe Im too judgemental when seeing new things - albeit things which might be a little frightening. Funny though that te ao wairua had to invent a whole race of people just to teach me a personal lesson.
I mean, these may have been real people but the bigger lesson here was to teach me about seeing the world - and others, in different ways and of being open and receptive....
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