Time: During the day
Date: Summer of 1985
Place: The hiking path between Heiligenblut and Franz-Josefs-Höhe
The event
I was lying on the grassy bank, resting in the sun with my eyes closed. I suddenly saw an image of a horizontal rod with two bulges. The bulges were at the two ends of the rod — one underneath the rod, one on top — and were identical. The bulges didn’t meet in the middle; they were too small for that. The rod was perfectly balanced.
Thoughts and theories
I understood the rod to demonstrate Yin-Yang balance. It was a rod, not the circle that we’re familiar with. I didn’t imagine the rod; it seemed to exist in its own right.
The rod suggests that we should aspire to perfect balance — not getting rid of the bad and having only the good (which is impossible), but rather balancing them both perfectly.
I have found again and again in my life that the “bad” balances the “good”, in small things and in big things. I don’t like it; I don’t like the bad poking its nose in, but I have to live with it.
Seeing the rod was only a small matter, I know — only a momentary thing — but nonetheless I include it in this collection.
