“Don’t really know,” came the reply. “We heard it some- where, perhaps from Monsignor Ronald Knox himself, and simply latched on to it. We recite it from time to time to remind ourselves that we do exist. After all, if we had to wait for peo- ple to wander by to let us know we’re really here, we’d proba- bly die of boredom—although that would be quite impossible for us to do.”
“Who are you talking to?” Larry asked Zeus.
“Haven’t a clue. It’s just a voice in my head. Since you laughed at the limerick, I gather you heard it too.”
“Yep.”
“Hi, guys. My friend Larry and I are just trying to dope out some quantum stuff. You’re more than welcome to join in, if you like. By the way, who are you?”
“Look around
and what do you see? Pieces of mountains, all parts of we!”
came the reply.
“You’re the rocks?” Larry asked.
“Bingo! The two of you have been climbing, jumping, and sitting all over us for the past two days. It’s about time you stopped and introduced yourselves.”
“I’m Larry, as you already know, and my little four-legged friend here is Zeus. But don’t let his size fool you; he’s one smart doggie. This is only our third day in Joshua Tree and he’s already taken me from being a wide-eyed wanderer to well past the no- fly zone of back and beyond.”
“The pleasure’s all ours,” the Voice replied. “We got a pretty good idea of who Zeus is when you two first met Gathering
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Cloud. It’s been a while since we counted, but give or take a few hundred millennia, I’d say we’ve been hanging around this neck of the woods for about eighty-five million years. We’re beginning to think that’s long enough for one place, and we’re about ready to go see another part of the Universe.”
“Can rocks do that?” Larry asked. “No, but we can.”
“What? What?” The bird’s high shrill jarred Larry and thor- oughly amused the Voice.
“Bingo! We did it. We made ourselves a bet that we could get ol’ What-What to appear within the first fifteen minutes. We did it in under three. Now, that’s got to be a record.”
“What are you talking about?” Larry asked.
“It’s a game we play. After you’ve named all the stars, counted the grains of sand, and played host to the antics of four- leggeds, two-leggeds, and innumerable creepy-crawlies, your imagination starts to find other ways to amuse itself. Our latest diversion is to tune into park visitors and see how long it takes us to trigger a predictable event. In your case, the challenge was to answer your questions honestly while trying to confuse you enough to evoke the bird.
“Now we’ll expand upon our answer, if we may. We’re not really the rocks, just as Zeus is not simply a dog and you are not totally contained within your human form. Your visible body is merely the local aspect of your presence, the one where the wave form happens to be the most dense. Visible matter is created by the interference patterns of wave forms frozen in the illusion of space/time to define what you bipeds like to call reality—the last grand illusion of the mechanistic Universe. Last night when you took a trip out into the Void, you left your body behind. When we’re ready, we’ll simply do the same. And judging by recent happenings, that’ll be sooner than any of us have believed.”
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“What do you mean by that?” Larry asked.
“It’s part of what you two have been discussing. There’s been a gradual buildup of quantum nonlocal events that have already begun to collapse into a determinate state on this side of the Veil. Or, to put it in human terms, things have been cooking in the center of the galaxy and they’ve already begun to impact Earth in a big way. How humanity chooses to act over the next ten years will be critical to how God’s dice fall.”
“What events are you talking about?” Larry asked.
“Come see for yourself,” the Voice answered. “You and Zeus are invited to join us, if you’d like.”
“We’d be honored to,” Zeus interjected. “How do you sug- gest we proceed?”
“Continue walking along the base of the cliff. Once you pass that spill of boulders ahead, you’ll see a little cavelike hollow. Walk into it as far as you can so you are out of the sun, and find some place comfortable to sit.”
Larry and Zeus followed the instructions and sat within the shallow cavity, their backs to the rocky wall.
“Now, close your eyes and simply follow your breath. . . .” The Voice led them into a deep state of meditation, then instructed them to drift upwards, out of their bodies, and find a tiny crack in the face of the cliff that would permit them to enter. They no longer had physical form; they were pure Consciousness drifting through solid rock as if it were as permeable as morning mist.
“What do you see?” the Voice asked.
“This is amazingly beautiful,” Larry exclaimed. “I’m in a crystal cave, surrounded by millions of sparkling points of light reflecting off perfectly formed iridescent spires.”
“And you, Zeus? What do you see?” “I see you.”
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“And we see the two of you. Welcome to our world, gentle- men. Sorry we can not offer you tea. Perhaps what you are about to experience will partially compensate for this slight suspension of gentility?”
“Au contraire, kind sir,” Zeus quipped, “it’s not every day that we are invited into such an exquisite presence. I suspect that in the time we spend with you, we’re going to suspend a great deal more than the outer trappings of cultural refinement.”
“Quite so,” the Voice agreed. “Perhaps we should have erected a portal into our realm of consciousness with a caveat that states: ‘Abandon belief all ye who enter here.’ As you quite rightly suggest, clinging to your previous concepts will effectively shield you from what you are about to experience. In your world, it would be much like donning a raincoat before showering.
“Let us begin by saying that we have been following Master Larry’s progress over the past few days with great interest. We have been aware of the strong probability of your joining us for some time and cannot tell you how pleased we all are that it has come to pass. Zeus, you and your friends are to be com- mended. This is as fine a piece of work as we have ever wit- nessed.”
“Thanks,” Zeus responded, “I’d like to say it’s all in a day’s work, but I’m afraid we can’t take too much of the credit. Larry did most of the work himself—although in his current condition, I doubt he’ll admit to anything.”
“Larry, what Zeus says is well taken. You must begin to acknowledge who you really are and the important role you are to play over the next, decisive decade. You are one of the few among us who has actually experienced incarnation in human form within the third-density dimension. Your insights into the emotional and psychological makeup of the human experience
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will be invaluable as we assess how to be of service during this time of transition.
“Zeus, why don’t you take it from here and give Larry a lit- tle background briefing before we embark into esoterics?”
“A splendid idea,” Zeus responded. He then directed his remarks to Larry: “As you are well aware, the outward state of this planet is not very encouraging. What you see now is merely the predictable outcome of a process set in motion quite early in human history. From our perspective, the entire Grand Experiment taking place over the past fifty thousand years on this planet appears to have ground to a halt. Although you have advanced technologically, outside of a few isolated exceptions there has been virtually no significant spiritual growth. It’s like one of your old phonograph records spinning around with the needle stuck in the same groove, unable to play the rest of the song.
“As I told you earlier, this is only the second time that ani- mals have been permitted to talk directly to humans.” Larry smiled, recalling Zeus’s reference to Noah’s Ark. “Well, that’s only part of the story. There have been several authorized inter- ventions in the past when sixth-density entities were given per- mission to interact directly with humans, just as we’re doing now. The only difference is that they were permitted to come to Earth in human form without going through the Veil of Forgetting. These earlier visitations were meant to help the evo- lution of Awareness on this planet move forward—interfering as little as possible while gently moving the needle to the next groove. Without getting into details, let me simply say the results were less than anticipated. Instead of advancing humans along the path of Awareness, these visits only produced misconstrued myths that unfortunately found their way into what many peo- ple revere as sacred texts.
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“Recall your own words as you addressed the Council of Nine: ‘You are well aware that this planet is at the very end of the current and final great cycle and that she is already shifting into the fourth density. You are also aware that human Consciousness has not evolved as expected.’”
“I recall saying that,” Larry responded. “But if advanced beings from the sixth density couldn’t set things right when they were here before, how do you expect me to make any dif- ference now?”
“Easy there, big fella,” Zeus cautioned, “don’t get too far ahead of yourself. Remember, you are not the same person you were two days ago and you can’t even imagine what you will become before leaving this magic place. Now’s not the time to ask questions or jump to conclusions. You simply don’t have enough information to do either intelligently.”
Zeus took Larry’s silence as tacit agreement and continued: “Earth’s shift into the next dimensional octave is proving more difficult for humankind than originally intended. It’s an invio- lable law of Creation that an early fourth-density planet cannot support third-density life forms. In other words, as the planet’s shift continues, the energetic conditions become progressively hostile to humans if they insist on holding onto their old patterns of belief. This is why there’s such a marked increase in abusive relationships at every level of your societies, with unparalleled atrocities pervading your families, churches, schools, sports, nations, and environment.
“As we were just reminded, there is precious little time left. Visualize each person on Earth hanging onto two rungs on a jun- gle gym—one representing the Consciousness of the past, the other the direction forward along the path of Awareness. Part of each being wants to move ahead, part is afraid to let go of the
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familiar rung behind. This is collective humanity’s condition— stuck in indecision. Now that time as you know it is running out, a new twist has been added. As Earth undergoes her transition, the space between the rungs is slowly expanding. This began some seventy years ago, hardly noticed except by a few sensitives who almost no one took seriously. However, the widening has accelerated markedly since the new millennium, and it’s begin- ning to cause real angst at the inner-knowing level of every human on the planet.
“The special blue-indigo-star-crystal-AIDS children are being born by the millions, and they are holding the energy of the next density as an open invitation. These kids have entered the illu- sion with a double body in activation, so they can adjust to the instreaming of higher-octave frequencies without disrupting their third-density physical forms. This is not the case for the balance of people now on Earth. They are subject to a lot of vibrational stress, which is why so many bizarre events are taking place—the death throes of the old guard, terrified of the prospect of change. The Earth and the children will be fine. We have come to serve those who are entangled in the illusion’s web, unable to break free. Our fondest wish, during our time on this side of the Veil, is to assist anyone who chooses to ask—those who have the courage to let go of the past and move joyously into the next level of experience.”
“An excellent summary, Zeus. Thank you very much,” said the Voice. “Now, as we recall, the two of you were deep in your exploration of nonlocal quantum worlds when we interjected our little ditty. We recognize where your discussion of Schrödinger’s cat was leading. Perhaps this would be a good time to continue—especially as it has major relevance to the facts we will then share.”