RACING WITH THE BLACK MAN
He dreams that he is walking with his dog on an unknown beach. They're heading north. A black man is walking with them, down closer to the water. They come to a boundary marked with stones stretched across the beach. Beyond the boundary, the country is wild and unexplored. At this boundary stands an old wise man. He warns them that going further is not to be taken lightly. There are deadly perils. They look at one another and decide to continue on together.
They are racing now. After awhile, they cross paths, and now he's running down by the water. The black man is the fastest runner in the world, and he's excited to be running with him. He's keeping up with him too, his dog at his side. He's giving him a good race.
As he comes onto the acid today and feels his body again, he realizes just how simple it really is. He has only one body. If he wants it to last and be enjoyable, he has to take good care of it. It's like a dog. It needs to be well fed, allowed to sleep all it wants, and exercised a lot.
Ever since he was that little boy, terrified by his experience of death, he's been hiding from his body, staying mostly in his head, especially since he began graduate school. It has been easier for him to stay with his books and his thoughts and fantasies than to actually be the body he is. Acid's making a difference though, as a catalyst that's giving him the courage and the wisdom to find his way back to his body.
In his dream, he's not yet body and whole. His dog is still carrying the animal for him. He does have a great deal of physical potential though, as shown by the black runner. In his life, he has always sold himself short. All those years, he has failed to realize that in hiding from his body, he has actually been hiding from his strength.
In time though, with acid's help, in the many years he hopes to still have, he's going to find his way back to the innocence of body. He's going to become a body with a mind, no longer a mind with a body.