travelers, be they men or women, tell them
that there are many poisons and evils on
that path which can cause them to lose their
very nature and life. Do not let them seek
their own deaths."
Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store
Bodhisattva, Chapter 8, Page 182, Paragraph 2,
(Buddhism, Pure Land)
Sand blowing across the desert, my
spirit manifested in a dank political prison
somewhere in the Middle East. Thirty new
prisoners had arrived, and I was
immediately made aware of my assignment.
If it were not accomplished very quickly, this
reality could not be turned back, and all
these souls would suffer and die in this truly
God forsaken place.
Naked men and women laid in their
own feces, roaches and rats crawling all over
them. Aching, my heart had never been
witness to such torture. Manifesting as a
woman who'd just arrived, we had not yet
been put in the cages with the other
prisoners. Distracting the guards by being
loud and obnoxious, the eternal gave the
command to the others to use this distraction
to make an escape attempt. Hesitant to do