“If you wish to declare your own self-determination as a living man, confirm it by how you have helped another living man to determine himself.”

 

A dream is a direct message from God to man, without intermediaries. By interpreting the dream based on the knowledge of the canons of divine law and the traditional knowledge of the indigenous and tribal people of the Laksha clan, we affirm that we believe in God, serve our family, our family line, our people, and all people of other indigenous and tribal people of the world, and we also help open the path of pure and sincere self-determination and self-identification to every living man who desires this with all their living heart. We thank God for all His gifts!

 

A dream experienced by a man on October 10, 1994, according to the Gregorian calendar, when he was nine years old, in the city of Moscow near the coordinates 55.7792° N, 37.8265° E, 162 meters above sea level: "I am standing in a space bounded by two planes – the floor and the wall in front of me. I cannot see the ceiling or the side walls. My gaze is fixed straight ahead. The floor and the wall consist of flat surfaces in a black-and-white checkerboard pattern, exactly like a chessboard. The width of each square is about half a meter. In front of me and slightly above, suspended in the air, hangs an opaque black rubber sphere that reflects nothing. Because of this sphere, which is about one meter in diameter, I cannot see what lies beyond it: it hangs so close to me that I cannot see a large section of the checkerboard in front of me. Behind and to the left of the sphere, suspended in the air, is a small yellow rubber duck with a dirty red beak. The duck is turned toward me with its left side facing me." At this point, the man’s dream ended.

 

Dream interpretation: The dreamer is infected with the virus of mechanistic, functional existence and lived in submission to those who represent the dead rubber duck and the rubber sphere. The dreamer is separated from the living world. The dreamer has no connection to the earth, nature, or the living world. The rubber duck is a figure of the dead father in psychic reality; the duck’s dirty rubber beak represents the dreamer’s father’s destructive oral addictions: smoking, alcohol, unrestrained cursing, and swearing.

The rubber duck can only quack artificially, symbolizing something incoherent and meaningless that the dreamer received instead of living speech. And since the dreamer was born a boy, he was destined to identify with his father – that is, to become just such a rubber dead duck. The black rubber sphere represents the figure of the mother, with no clearly defined boundaries between the physical and the psychological, and thus an inability to differentiate. With such a mother, the ability to make choices is impossible. The figures of the mother and father foreshadowed to the dreamer the impossibility of building a happy future for himself. The figures of the mother and father are dead, empty, soulless objects with which the dreamer grew up in the absence of connection, relationships, and love.

 

The man was doomed to loneliness from the moment of his birth and unable to perceive himself as a living man; he existed as a chess piece – a pawn, entitled to move only one square at a time. The alternation of black and white squares on which the dreamer stood signified the alternation of causeless joy and the loss of life’s meaning through unrelenting melancholy. The man was doomed to a lack of success, to chaotic, unstable, and self-destructive actions, with a high probability of turning into a spineless creature and a weak-willed slave.

 

A possible way out of this hopelessness consists of two stages. Stage one – bypassing the dead figure of the mother and moving beyond her limits. A man can accomplish this only through another woman, and to meet his woman, he needs God’s help. And if God grants the dreamer a miracle, he must also be able to keep this woman, rather than destroy her, while remaining captive to the lifeless figures of his mother and father. If the first stage is successfully completed, the second stage will be the task of finding a new meaning for the image of the rubber duck so that the boy’s identification with his father can acquire values and new, living meanings. And in such matters, only God can help.

 

Two years after our interpretation, the man sent us a letter asking us to publish his dream, our interpretation of it, and a story of what happened next. We are happy to fulfill the living man’s wish: "Dear Evgenii and Olga! Two years after your interpretation, I met a wonderful woman who became my wife. My wonderful wife gave me a new meaning for the symbol of the duck, telling me a story about how, when she was seven years old – her father, serving in a military unit in a poor Soviet city, in absolute poverty, in the cold and with no shops whatsoever, let alone toy stores, did the impossible to buy his daughter a toy – a small rubber duck – exactly the same one that appeared in my dream. For many years, this duck was my wife’s only toy and joy.

 

My wife’s story gave me a new version of the image of a father – now I am a living, loving, feeling father; I declare that thanks to the understanding of my childhood dream, I have the will and the full right to express my will regarding the fact that I am self-aware, self-determining, and self-identifying: I am a living man who honestly, openly, and sincerely serves God, my family, and all people. My wife and I are the happy possessors of the knowledge of who we were, who we are, and who we will become on the path of serving God, each other, and helping those people we can help.

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And we know for certain that my wife and I are wonderful living people – successful, strong, wise, talented, healthy, loved, creative, caring, self-sufficient, prosperous, responsible, happy, beautiful, conscientious, honest, reliable, and just people. We live according to our conscience, speak the truth, observe God’s laws, are honest and responsible, and we live in peace and harmony with all living people and living beings. God, we thank you for everything you give us. We thank you for all your miracles!"