Lynne - The forest path is one that has been taken since humans began to wonder what they were. In India for instance great beings arose in the middle of such jungles, they arose from simple people.
“Now I saw the mystery of the jungle - something coming out of the jungle as I sat in existence. It was my own connection with all things, and I felt myself melting back into it. This was very gentle, and I realised it was deepening as I got older.”
The private path is one in which you are not simply following a direction many take, but are following your own guidance from your Core. Of course a few others have taken it also, but it is the path of the Hero/ine. I salute you.
The wonderful view is the result of taking the path that has led up the mountain - the mountain within you that opens to experiences of enlightenment. It often gives a view of your own life, seen all at once and from a different perspective. Therefore you see something you probably missed living close up - the wonderful pool. The pool is the place of life, and if we enter it consciously we share awareness as one species, the pool of communal awareness in which animals and plants exist, in which we all exist prior to the development of personal awareness, of having a personality. But it is a promise that if you bathe in the pool, share it with the whales and the dolphin you will have the ‘pool of consciousness’ as well as the personality. See
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/kundalini/ If you imagine yourself in that pool you may re-experience being in a ‘completely serene trance like state’. But if you haven’t yet used the
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/acting-on-your-dream/#BeingPerson it really is worth persevering to learn it. As you can have a waking lucid dream state in which you can realise the depths - amazing depths - your dream is revealing to you. Perhaps also see
http://dreamhawk.com/inner-life/clicking-on/Tony