When the dream started, I thought I was looking back in time to a Muslim world with a teacher and a small group of students sitting under a palm tree somewhere in the desert or a place with a similarly dry climate.
The teacher was wearing the kind of priests collar, long sleeve, black formal attire that you might have found back in the middle ages. They were using books and the students were in robes. Their world was Muslim, and the entire place resembled the Middle East in topography. They were talking about the West in an historical sense and it's importance to them. How the West had been God's instrument in moving humankind, them and those who worshiped Allah off the world and onto this other world. This immense world.
And then the picture shifted, and I moved out into space to see the world they were on and it didn't resemble the world at all, but a large asteroid that was about the thickness of the Earth. Largely knobby and smooth like a pebble that had been lying on a riverbed. An odd shaped world circling an immense star that had a carrying capacity much greater than Earths.
