About Contact (3/3)
COUNCIL
Contact is Encounter. Encounter is unmediated flow of information. Encounter is exchange unfiltered by disguise.
TARA
When two humans meet they look at one another through layers of image. The essence of each is concealed by data-shields and filters.
COUNCIL
The game of single-song requires concealment. True Encounter is precluded. Collapse of games of single-self is prelude to Encounter, the threshold of Contact.
TARA
When we in Council come to gather you, we ask you to permit the piercing of your shells. When shielded you cannot see the essence of another.
CORWYN
This kind of self-protection is a barrier to seeing. You create it to remain unseen. You lose essential seeing as the price.
TARA
We tell you that your are in rehearsal for Contact. The arena of your practice is the mundane world.
When humans seeks relation, a complex game begins. Each conceals the nakedness of essence with layered history. Patterns of "memory" and desire, rules, beliefs, agendas. This you take for normal.
CORWYN
To run naked through the streets - a sign of madness! To strip oneself of storied layers as prelude to encounter -a sign of crisis?
TARA
When humans seek relation, they discover or invent affinity. They explore each other's data-stores, in search of consonance. Matching stories. Making stories fit with fantasy.
In eras of less intensity, before the current challenge to all games of single-song, humans could settle into parodied relations, and call them real. Now disguise becomes a burden. Now affinity of masks is mockery.
The Yearning to be real subverts all fiction. Moments of shock arrive with growing frequency. To journey with another, and then see that you are married "mask to mask"!
CORWYN
We do not laugh at you. The illusions of the game of single-self are often shed as tears. Your pain is real.
RAPHAEL
The pain is felt as frozen longing in your core begins to melt. A word to those who bear this pain as penitence. Share! You are not designed to suffer. Come to us, your Council, co-beings of your Integral, and pour your longing out.
CORWYN
If you come to us in sober monotone, you miss the radiant spectrum of connection. Raise your voices. We require from you one thing: be real with us. If anger roars, then roar at us. If tears are all you bring in certain hours, we receive your tears with gratitude. No single mood is passport to connection. Come as you are. Only lift your voices, merry or morose. Speak to us...and listen.
RAPHAEL
The game of single-song leaves many echoes. The pride that says, "This single self can do it all alone" is warning that you are mired in the "past". We know the healing that you need. The need is deep and urgent. Even after years of work, the pain is like an ocean. This does not diminish you.
Cease to fear the vastness of the pain. It is a gift of revelation, showing you the scope of longing. It was always there, within the sleep of human seeming disconnection. You long for home-reality. Nothing less will serve.
Come home to your reality, naked, as you are, and we, your kin, will heal you.
TARA
You are in rehearsal for Contact.
COUNCIL
The nature of Contact is our theme.
TARA
Each being is a mystery. That means no being is defined. Each being is a many-song, expanding sense of 'self" in endless journeys of discovery.
To deny the mystery of human, star and planet, plant and animal, drains all color from the world.
COUNCIL
When you shift the point of your perception, you find yourself within the Realm of Contact.
ANSALIM
Human perception of Reality has been a closed game. The Earth is far more than it seems. The matter of the planet and your body is dimensioned. Any object, person or event that you encounter is Mystery in disguise as common fact.
Percipient, perception, percept. Elucidation of this triad preoccupies the racial mind. For those enmeshed in toils of normal striving, the problem seems remote. Yet those who move across conforming limits of the sciences, inner and outer, find they pull at root-assumptions.
ANTARA
Root-assumptions rule a world of games. For instance: "Time is real". For instance: "Subject and object are forever separate".
Beyond horizons of convention, other vistas beckon. More humans see them with every passing day. Their seeing speeds replacement within collective data-storage.
HELI
A being born into the human drama must take the rote of "human". Such compliance is demanded. You, as human, borrow from data held in storage by the race. You use the data in all human dealings.
As the race matures, through long cycles of inspection, it modifies the data-stores. Your era is distinguished by the rapidness of sorting. The reasons are multiple and convergent:.
FTL desire impels the inner-curious to challenge all assumptions. As humans they are vanguard to the race. They open "new" domains of understanding. Some move in open resonance with helpers in the Game. As they persist they help co-energize repatterning of data-layers in the common mind.
Your matrix-sun receives and relays to its planets fresh impressions from galactic fields. Beings, human and beyond, are pulling data from the cosmic flux, sorting and refining, and feeding information into core-arrays within collective storage.
The "signal to return" is shifting some percentiles of the population into phase with Integral. This opens memory of "past" and "future". Nonconforming data help deletion and replacement within the common store.
Around the planet, orders of technicians, expert in their science, out of phase with physical vibration, work in complex harmony to orchestrate unbinding. They operate in many ways. Some use coherent light emissions, coded energy, to trigger data-activation in the bodies of receptive humans. Such humans are exemplars, catalyzing others.
CORWYN
Two points.
The "Law of Free Will", despite appearance, protects your planet. This means that nothing can invade unless you let it in. It means that even brilliant assistance cannot be imposed. You must agree.
The second point is this. The term "exemplar" is vitally important. Humans believe that "communication" is necessarily a matter of words. And yet, more and more, the real goods are circulating wordlessly.
What-you-are communicates beyond the words, sometimes in contradiction of the words. Whatever is activated in you communicates directly into the person who is ripe for the same kind of activation.
COUNCIL
In Contact, Presence mingles song with Presence. In Encounter song and song pour through each other, and a greater song is born.
TARA
You are in rehearsal. You are being helped to shed illusion. As dull concealment melts, your pain comes out of hibernation. Many linger in this stage, afraid to move. Pain is not paralysis, but longing come to life again.
Pain is neither destiny nor destination. It is a passage to a greater World of meaning. You are molting data-skins. You are melting your concretions. Within your shields essential many-song is waiting to emerge. Your naked Presence is magnificent.
COUNCIL
Your naked Presence is resplendent. Upon the surface of your Earth, within the mergings of your "time", you prepare.
CORWYN
Revelation. You revealed. You seen and seeing. The anteroom to Contact.