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Age Is No
Barrier
by Susan Kramer
1963. “Suite Ballet,”
choreographer Nel Roos, music Jess Meeker, at Jacob’s
Pillow featuring Claudia Cravey and Hans Meister. Susan Kramer standing at far
left.
Back in the early
1970s I was running the track alongside the men’s team at Anne Arundel Community
College. This was because there was no women’s team at that time. It was
exhilarating just to run, and I kept it up till moving to the west coast in
1975.
Fast forward
to last night (September 2023). After an almost 50-year break, I once again
experienced that runners’ high, and this time in a dream.
I felt all
the sensations in my dream body as if it was a physical body, which was nice,
because when I awakened I was not sore or even out of
breath. All the highs and none of the pain. And this was even after my dream
body ran all out between San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara on the west coast.
To add to the excitement, I pushed myself and raced past a group of male
runners along the way (I guess that I was still thinking about running next to
the men’s team in college).
This was an
experience that reinforced in my mind that we can fulfill our physical and
mental desires in our dream dimension if we can’t act out in the physical.
And now in
my 70s I can’t run full speed for a block, much less a long distance like I did
in my lightweight dream body – or astral body if you call it that.
At other
times I have performed classical ballet on stage in my dream dimension, like I
did in my teens and 20s. What is amazing to me, is that in dreams the execution
of the steps is easier and more perfect than my physical execution ever was.
What I’m
learning is that age is no barrier to experiencing what we want to in the world,
if we can accept that it’s okay to enjoy our dream or astral body as a
substitute, or even as better than a physical experience – BECAUSE IT IS GAIN
WITHOUT PAIN.
A
dimension of our reality –
The
astral world.
More: http://www.susankramer.com/stories.html
Age Is
No Barrier © 2023 Susan Kramer; photo from Jacob’s
Pillow archive. |
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About the Author:
A meditation and yoga practitioner and international author since 1976, Susan
Kramer writes on practical spirituality, family and social issues, and dance.
Her instructional books are listed at her web site – http://www.susankramer.com/books.html
Email:
susan@susankramer.com
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2023