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I had a very disturbing dream last night. I was in space, but I could see all that has been and all that will come to be. Time had stopped, and I was on a platform with my family and the Six Ages of Man were represented by holograms of the earth in various conditions. The ages were: Innocence(the first human presence on earth), Inquiry(humans had spread, discovered evil, and science in its most primitive state asserted itself), Enlightenment(science was now structured and humans had rudimentary knowledge of how to exploit the earth), Understanding, Manipulation(understanding and manipulation are where we are now), and finally, Mastery(Man acheives total mastery of the universe and its laws). I fell through the structure on which I was standing and fell to the very end of time. On an obsidian pedastal, was the Seventh Age of Man, Desolation. This earth, unlike the others that all resembled each other and were recognisable, this one was different. It had a charred, tortured suface with cracks that stretched to the very center of the earth, where an orange light glowed down underneath. The oceans had boiled away, and volcanoes belched steam and toxic gases. Mastery lasted for only seven days, before Desolation.
Then something miraculous happened, the steam from the volcanoes began to condense into clouds. And for the first time in 500 million years, it rained. And as time accelerated forward I saw the first signs of life on the surface. Desolation was reminiscent of the earth that was formed when the sun first shone. This earth was a crucial part of the cycle, as it was the bridge between Mastery and Innocence. I then woke up because I heard through a speaker above my head that we were about to land at Los Angeles International Airport. And with that disturbance cam the dim realization that I was home, and that I was not in Hawaii anymore.
[Edited on 8/16/2004 4:14:50 PM]