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Now we do not have any precognitive dream. Instead, we have the realization of some inner difficulty. In this case, the cellar is the mind. The alligators represent fears, the fears that lie within you; your subconscious. You are afraid your house rests on shifting sands. You fear your fears would devour you and are afraid to go among them. Yet these thoughts that you fear do not represent any real danger. You project fear upon them. They are not harmful. There is a reason the dream comes at this time. There have been others with smaller fears but now larger. You are afraid of losing your footing, you see. The fears have to do largely with experience that may come to pass within a three year period. There are decisions to make, but you are uncertain and disinclined to face yourself fully to reach a decision. This fear is formed into alligators and you disconnect them from your own being. They are perfectly harmless parts of your personality that you have not accepted fully. You fear them because you misinterpret their meaning.
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You must all remember questions you had when children, and you must never stop asking questions. You must ask yourself where I came from and what my presence has to do with you. I have been where you are. I have been young and old; as I have existed you shall exist. You must develop your abilities now.
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You must face yourself now. You cannot afford to play overlong—to hide yourself in trivia—to become so busy that you cannot hear the truth that shouts within you. I know what the transition is like and I tell you it is pleasant—but your responsibilities will still exist, and you will ask yourself how you have fulfilled them. You must know yourself if you would help others. You must look inward and listen.