August 2008 Archives
All morning I think about hands in the water, hands behind guises, meshes of the afternoon. How I could create so many dances with hands, alone.
Who was my lover in a past life? A marina in waiting. Who has moved with swift agility, up through the present? I can think of a few, pure, smooth stones. Entities in my life that hold ancient information, sear perception. A wordless knowledge.
And all of you have your guises and your masks that you wear and have worn. I am Sumari in another guise. And all of these guises are myself, and all of your guises are yourselves. And as I dwell in many realities, so dwell you in many realities.
The word Shambaline connotes the changing faces that the inner self adopts through its various experiences. Now, this is a word that hints of relationships for which you have no word. Shambalina Garapharti means the changing faces of the soul smile and laugh at each other. Now all of that is in one phrase.
Each of you receives revelations every moment of your lives. Your life is a revelation. We are trying to lead you gently so that you will accept the revelations of your peers. Within you are answers and questions. The questions are to lead you to your own answers, and the answers will not be the same.
The revelations have come through the centuries; the revelations are the centuries. The centuries are transparent. You can look through this history that you know. The selves that sit there know other selves. There are revelations within you that do not need words; they need to rise up like new planets into your consciousness, and you need to greet them gently and not give them labels or names.
We want you to do away with the normal punctuation of your experience, for you put periods and question marks and dashes where they do not belong...the words are stepping-stones to lead you into other areas of experience. Within the word is a wordless knowledge. Now you need the sounds to remind you.
In time--in your time--you will dispense with even the sounds. You will be walking backward, in your terms, into the heart of perception; therefore you will leave behind many of the truths that are now familiar to you, the words that you take for granted. For when you consider an experience, you apply words to it much more than feeling: does this word apply, or does that word apply, or what is it?--and without its label, dare I experience this unknown?
