Peray Ra Ree

While the floater floated on his back looking to heaven, the crowd was chanting Peray Ra Ree. A hush grew over the crowd and the floater continued to chant Peray Ra Ree, Peray Ra Ree. Down below entered a man with black shinny boats and he looked up at the floater who continued to shout Peray Ra Ree, without a moment’s hesitation, the man reached up and struck the floater with a razor blade from the back of his neck down his back to the tips of his feet and immediately the floater was soaked in red while shouting Peray Ra Ree.

The floater stopped in front of the man with the shinny boots and stood in a pool of blood and with a smile on his face and said to the man, “Peray Ra Ree.” The man glared at him and yelled how dare you say such a thing in my presence. The floater just smiled and said, “I only wish you feel what I felt as I came and floater over the lake and made it to the other side. The peace, the joy, the contentment the excitement of looking over all that I saw and hearing the crowds chanting with me Peray Ra Ree, then you would know why I stand here with a smile on my face in this pool of blood.” In rage, the boot man struck him again and the floater dropped to his knees, with his last breath, he said, “may you know the peace of saying, ‘Peray Ra Ree’ and then collapsed and floated away to the sights of golden streets, gates of pearls, a building of Jasper, sapphire, chalcedony, and emeralds with smiles everywhere and the sound of “‘Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’

The crowd quickly found covering  for the floater’s wife and covered her over so that the men in shinny boots could not find her for it was common for a floater to have his wife in the crowd below dressed in the light weight clothing that a floater must use to float his way along the surface of the earth. His spouse was there to see and enjoy the moment of the floaters return. Though many try it, few actually make it down the hill, across the lake and to the land below where the people shout and chant Peray Ra Ree. The outlawed words spoken only in closets and in hushed tones so that the men in boots can never hear the words they wish to never hear for they only want the words that they want spoken for they delude themselves into thinking they are in control of the world. They do not know how the world was made or how to make it work properly but they stand tall and proud and they decide what can and cannot be said out loud in this world they think they are in control of.

They cannot see nor can they enjoy what the floater experienced in this world as he climbed to the top of the mountain and with one giant leap he threw himself off the mountain and began to see:

The mountain goats that lived at the top of the mountains that moved among the rocks that caused minerals to escape from the rocks which moved down the mountain sides to the valley below to replenish the land with minerals that were carried from the top of the mountains to the valley below by way of melting snow that was water stored for the people below to be able to drink when there is no rain. He saw the great forests that provided oxygen for him to breath and with each exhaling breath he gave back co2 that the forests needed to create the oxygen he needed. He saw great wide areas of flowers that were producing pollen that the bees needed to produce honey while giving to the flowers what they need in order for the flowers to produce the pollen that the bees needed. He saw great bears that were delighted with the honey they just found in the rotting log that they tore open which provided what  the ground needed to produce the nutrients that the trees needed to grow tall and strong. He enjoyed the wind in his face though he could not see the wind, he knew it was there supporting him as he floated his way down the mountain. He saw one floater after another get tangled up in the trees which stopped their decent down the mountain and kept them from enjoying the marvelous experience, he was having descending the mountain.

Peray Ra Ree floated out of his mouth as he descended the mountain. Just as he said Peray Ra Ree he saw a beautiful stream of water and he glided over the top of the stream and received refreshing water into his mouth.

 As the floated down the mountain, he thought back to all the struggles he had climbing the mountain. He remembered paths that wandered for what seemed like forever only to find himself at impossible dead ends only having to return down again to start over to find a new way up the mountain. The ice castles that lead to disappointment, the loneliness, the frustration, the anger he felt the harder he tried to find the right path, the more dead ends he found. He thought back to the ravine he fell into and the three days and three night he spent alone and lost not able to find any paths out, fearing he would just die never reaching the top of the mountain. He remembered the desperation he felt as he laid there not finding any way to turn and no way to climb out. Then he thought back to the peace that he began to have as he thought about the mountain itself, the paths, the ravines, the crevasses. None of this was made by themselves so he cried out, Designer and maker of this world including me, you put this desire in my heart to climb this mountain, please show me the path you want me to take up this mountain.

 Suddenly a gentle breeze began to blow and he dropped his heavy coat and followed the breeze into the tiniest of entrances to a cave he could not find before and it was full of crystals and some of the crystals glowed in the dark and he took them and used them as light to guide him through the twisting turns of darkness until he found his way out of the cave and onto a path, headed back up to the top of the mountain.

It was that moment when his ascent up the mountain changed. No longer was he climbing the mountain because he wanted to, but he was climbing the mountain, created by the creator and asking to follow the paths that the creator of him wanted him to follow. He entered the ice castle that before had brought him to the deepest despair and the ravine that he fell into, but this time it turned into a wonder of beauty and re-fractions of beautiful light that brought him into awe and wonder on how things were made.  

He now went into deep dark caves that at the entrance of the cave seemed scary and foreboding but he went in knowing he was on the path he was to follow and the darkest cave of all brought him to a pool of the deepest blue water he ever saw and when he dove into the water he experienced more peace then ever experienced in his life; who knew that the darkest cave he ever experienced would actually bring him into the deepest pool of peace he would ever experience. Who knew? His creator knew and he wanted him to experience peace that no one in this world could give him.

He remembered that pool of peace as he floated his way across the great lake at the bottom of the hill. He looked over and saw many a floater stop floating and fall into the lake, never able to float their way across the lake to the land on the other side where the people were chanting, Peray Ra Ree. He could feel the pull of all that water trying to weigh him down and pull him into the lake but it was not where his creator wanted him. He was to float to the other side. And so he did.