people will die and they don't even realize what is
coming.
      I know I have to get to higher ground. Something
compels me to go to the right of this multitude, out onto a
concrete-type platform. What lies beyond this large
platform I don't know, maybe pure space.
      I see a group which I join. It is the "group of 12." I am
the last to join or arrive, yet I am number 9. We all join
hands and begin dancing counterclockwise in a circle.
"Dancing" means "walking in various ways." In order to
attune myself, I have to shut my eyes and take bold, long
and dragging steps forward. My rainbow-colored afghan
trails behind me and is held onto by the person next to
me. We are all dancing in order to keep the winds calm in
our area for just a little longer. We are a powerful
group ...

     As this dream suggests, the transition into the New
Age may involve a flooding from the collective
unconscious. We may find ourselves bombarded by one
another's hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares.
Psychic sensitivity could be a handicap, adding to a
person's confusion. In such a situation, we would become
quite susceptible to autocratic rulership. (In fact, as will
be discussed in a future essay, there is a "shadow" side to
the Sundance principle itself, involving power, and
expressed symbolically in the direction of rotation of the
dance.)
      As Jesus exclaimed during the round dance,

                   "Whoso danceth not, knoweth not what
           cometh to pass. Amen." (Verse 95)

     A spinning gyroscope has a creative stability and can
maintain its balance and its orientation while being
buffeted by outside forces. Thus cooperation in a manner
suggested by the general principle of the Sundance motif
may provide a creative form of adaptation to the influx
from the collective unconscious and enable us to discern,

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