[INWARD STONE SERIES] Stage III: The Certificate of the Blue Face
On August 15, 2013, I had a dream.
My name is AYANA. I am on a pilgrimage, devoted to the Divine, and I arrive at a remote place. In my hands, I hold a certificate bearing a blue face with closed eyes, embroidered in stitches. As I explore, I encounter a monkey and a sparrow with two baby chicks on its belly—both are human-sized. I watch them curiously. The monkey transforms into an old man, who looks at me and says, ‘I have heard of a Vietnamese girl who has been wandering around this place.’ I cry with joy, and he says he understands. ‘Only a small handful come this far,’ he adds. They are searching for a princess for their village….
Ayana is an ancient Sanskrit word meaning ‘going, walking, road, path, or way.’
In the waking dream technique, holding the certificate in my hands feels like an achievement—an accomplishment. I realised that the blue face with closed eyes symbolised the Divine. The embroidered face reminded me of my mandala, which I stitched during my Healing course in 2009.
My mandala is pictured above.
Both the old man and the princess are archetypes of the Self. I realised that, in the dream, my name, Ayana, symbolised my soul’s recognition of itself. This dream helped me understand, in a deeply personal way, that at the centre of my mandala—at the very core of our being—we are all Divine in essence.
