for UU Band of Writers, April 1, 2022, for meeting April 3
Prompt: walking to
Dorothy and I, Eric, had fallen asleep alongside the road less travelled in Oz. Dorothy had not remembered this road, since she had taken the other fork instead to which the scarecrow had pointed those many years ago. Dorothy and I had been attending the Uncle Tom's Dragon Farm for young souls, but then Glenda had taken them through dreamland to Oz again. But the buzzing bees from the Wicked Witch of the West's old beehives had put us to sleep.
On waking up, we continued walking on down the road, even though they were groggy at first. The bees' buzz continued in the background, which was reassuring since their om-like buzz had kept Oz and the universe alive. But after a while we came to a little bridge that crossed a river. Dorothy had not remembered any bridges during her former visits to Oz so many years ago. But this one was all colorful, like the rainbow bridge of the chakras they had been learning about and getting in touch with. That was the meaning of the word Dragon in the name of the farm, because the chakras are located amongst serpents within us called the kundalini. But we wondered about the river. Why was it here, and where did it come from?
https://www.crystalinks.com/rainbowbridge.jpg
We decided to leave the yellow brick road and walk along the riverbank. The long stream meandered like the kundalini serpents. There were little serpents swimming in it too. "Are they crocodiles?", Dorothy asked. No, they are too small for that, I said. Still, one of them leapt up and tried to bite Dorothy. "I'm the king of the river," said the croc. "The lion may be king of the Forest, but I rule the waters!" "OK, but do you bite everyone you rule?" I asked. "No, only those with weak kundalini crocs in their spirit bodies. We figure we can send one of our other crocs inside the weak soul to replace it" said King Croc. "Well, you failed", I said. "So will you leave Dorothy alone then?" "OK, but only if you prove you can get your kundalini to rise". So Dorothy sat down, and called for the bees to come to help us make the OM sound. It was very beautiful and so calming that even the bees fell asleep! King Croc was satisifed, and asked Dorothy and I if we wanted to ride him up the river a ways. "OK" they said, and off we went riding up the river on King Crocodile. I was used to hitchhikers, you remember.
Naturally though we wondered, since we were now going north toward the Emerald City, whether the river went north and westward up to the Wicked Witch of the West's castle. After Dorothy had liquidated her the first time, the Wicked Witch of the West was able to come back to life out of the puddle a few days later. Witches are powerful, after all. But she was such a tyrant that her winged followers killed her again after a few years, and when she arose again, they ate her. This time, she was as dead as her sister had been when Dorothy's house had fallen on her. After eating some of her, the winged ones invited the Munchkins to come to the Castle and munch with them on her and sing " Ding Dong the Witch is Dead " for them, just to seal the deal.
The Witch had used the river for her water supply, which is how her winged followers were able to fill the barrels up with the water that Dorothy threw on her back in 1939. No-one had explained why this river water was so dangerous to the witch. I guess because water brings life, and wicked witches bring death. Water nourishes the soul, too, and we always are nostalgic for the water from which our physical being evolved. Our bodies are mostly water, and we have power serpents flowing through them called kundalini. These serpents within the wicked witches bite and drink and devour their souls, so they become allergic to water. But Dorothy wondered who replaced the Witch in her castle. What powers now ruled in the West and the East after the wicked witches had been killed?
I remembered that Glenda had once explained that Oz sometimes parallels Earth in its history. After all, Oz is connected to Earth through our imagination. You could say it is a deeper dimension of Earth, and there are many other lands in this dimension too, connecting to many nations and many planets. In 1939, you see, the USA had been threatened by a Wicked Witch of the East called Japan, and a Wicked Witch of the West called Germany. In the world war that followed, the USA killed these two witches, just like Dorothy and the Witch's followers had killed the two witches in Oz. Thereafter, democratic elections were conducted, overseen by Glenda the good witch of the North and Diana the good witch of the South, to replace the wicked powers in the east and west with good ones who had smoothly-flowing kundalini and open chakras. We were eager to meet the new leader of the West, so we continued walking on along the riverbank as King Croc went back to his friends downstream, and we reached the Castle in a couple of days. A modern escalater had replaced the steep rocky climb Dorothy and her friends had scaled back in 1939. It had been installed in 1960, just like the world's fair of 1939 in New York had envisioned for the new streamlined world.
So we walked into the Castle of the West, and because we were visitors from Uncle Tom's Dragon Farm, we were given permission to meet some important leaders of Western Oz. They explained, however, that the leader had gone to the Emerald City for a convention. They needed now to choose a new Wizard, and there was concern that one of the candidates himself might be wicked. He was campaigning on a platform that no more immigrants to Oz should be admitted through any more Dragon farms. He was even suggesting that the kundalini dragon within us all should be replaced by fat. This candidate loved to eat so much that he had destroyed his own awareness of the Dragon within, and the only colors he could conceive of were red and black. He even denied that kundalini even existed. Through his ability to arouse crowds, he even got his many followers in Oz to wear red hats saying "Make Oz Great Again". These MOGA hats were springing up all over Oz. Even some of the Munchkins were wearing little MOGA hats. His crowds had been convinced that we needed no chakras anymore, and that all our energy could come from eating fat and shouting slogans. And this fat would not come from eating witches, either.
The leaders of the West and the East who had replaced the witches were concerned now, since Diana the good Witch of the South had been replaced by a Wicked Abbott who supported the Fat Man candidate. All of Oz was being divided and tempers were flaring. We all wondered whether Fat Man would be defeated at the convention in Emerald City or not. But I guess you'll have to wait for Part 4 of The Hitchhiker to find out.
The Hitchhiker part 1
Dorothy's Visit part 2 of The Hitchhiker
The Wiz "Ease On Down the Road" Performed by Diana Ross and Michael Jackson
Ding Dong The Wicked Witch is Dead
Walkin' My Cat Named Dog by Norma Tanega
The Rainbow Bridge by crystallinks