that point it became a lucid dream, in which I was consciously aware of being asleep and dreaming. In my dream state, I knew that my alarm clock would go off in a few minutes and that I would have to get ready to go to work. (I was working the evening shift at the local airport’s parking authority at that time.) Not knowing how long the encounter might take, I thought back to them: “Please, not now, but soon.”
I then woke up (I’m a very light sleeper), but the Horse Ancestors were still there with me in my bedroom! They repeated their request, and this time I pictured myself talking with Linda Kohanov (with her teaching me how to contact them). I again thought to them: “Not Now. Soon.” I sensed approval from them and another thought that in English would be: “Very Well. We will talk then.” Just as I gradually became aware of them in the dream, they gradually faded from my consciousness’ ability to perceive their presence. I got up and went into the kitchen to fix my “breakfast.” The encounter was not spooky or dramatic; it was relaxed and pleasant. I felt no fear, nor any pressure from them. They were a gentle and quiet presence.
On December 23 rd, 2003 I had the telephone session with Linda Kohanov. Before and during the session, the Horse Ancestors revealed to her facts about me and about Lucy (the mare I knew and rode when I was a teenager living in northern Georgia) that I had never told Linda about, things that she could not possibly have known otherwise.
As we talked before beginning the session, she told me that she had contacted the Horse Ancestors before I called. She had asked the Horse Ancestors if they could provide her with any information about me that could help her to work with me. She saw an image of a group of horses standing with their upper lips curled. (Horses do this to retain faint scents and to direct this scented air to a second, more sensitive olfactory organ in the sinuses.) They were doing this to “read” me. They confirmed to her that I am a horse. Next, she saw an image of a man’s legs, viewed from the back. Then she saw up to the base of the spine, where there was a hole in the back on the right side. Energy entered the back through this hole and flowed up to the heart, where it flowed out of the body. The base of my spine on the right side is precisely where my injured back hurts. This is very significant, as is explained below.
Before we actually began the session, I asked Linda THE question that perplexes us horses who are in human form: What are we doing here in human form? Her answer was astounding, but not totally surprising to me. In human terms (and her own words), our purpose here is espionage, infiltration, and influence on human society. The Horse Ancestors do not fully understand human behavior or motivations, and they asked some horses to live among humans in human form so that we could learn “what makes humans tick.”
They are not able to give us detailed instructions on what to do as we live among humans. Linda told me that I and other horses in human form will have to rely on our human-derived wits to determine how to proceed with our work on behalf of the Horse Ancestors. They want us to do nothing less than alter the course of human civilization. They know that current human attitudes are resulting in environmental destruction and the exploitation and needless suffering of billions of animals, including humans who live in the Third World. (Living in human form, I know that these attitudes result from beliefs such as “Nature belongs to man to do with as he pleases,” “The market is all that matters,” “In everything there are winners and losers,” etc.)
The Horse Ancestors want us to persuade and influence humans to adopt the Way of the Horse, a way of life which values cooperation and gentle persuasion over conquest and domination, never prospering at the expense of another (what humans call “Win-Win” situations), and in which