Belize 1990: The dream of the white guayabera

 Martin Lorenzo is 2^nd from left.

Dr, Ahmadiyeh is on left

In 1990 during Dr. Ahmadiyeh's last fateful trip to Merida to help start a Mayan teaching team, after one consultation, one of the friends accompanied him to shop for a guayabera shirt. Dr. Ahmadiyeh wanted to buy one to take to a Counsellors’ conference that he would be attending.

In one shop, he found a beautiful, silk white one, but the price was very high. After bartering with the shop owner, he was able to buy the shirt at a reasonable (very reasonable) price. The shop owner actually said he was selling the shirt at below cost, which might have been true.

Unfortunately, Dr. Ahmadiyeh never had a chance to wear the shirt, as he died at the Friendship Bridge between Mexico and Belize the following evening. Several weeks later I made a trip to Dangriga and spent time with Martin Lorenzo, who had been very sick, but was much better. He told me that he had been sick and unable to do much, and one night he had a powerful dream of Dr. Ahmadiyeh. In the dream Dr. Ahmadiyeh was wearing a beautiful white guayabera and calling out to Martin saying, "Martin! Teach! Teach!" That was before Martin had heard of Dr. Ahmadiyeh's death.