Our slow walk to the Aquabus dock at the foot of Hornby Street took
fifteen minutes, and the crossing of False Creek to Granville Island only
five more. Along the way, Bonnie continued her technique of reviewing
my lessons while expanding them, and having me integrate this
information into a larger overview:
"We choose physical incarnations from our primary state of
conscious energy," she said, "which is translated into what we perceive as
the physical form. This idea- form has chosen, and is therefore predisposed
toward engaging specific lessons, and bypassing experiences that are more
appropriate to other challenges."I nodded patiently.
"As we experience early life without explanations, we translate the
nature of events into their influences on us as sublimated beliefs. This
programming always translates into behaviour, at the instigation of related
events. With the development of language skills, our developing
personality accepts, rejects, or modifies our beliefs, based on what we
conceive to be in our evolving best interests."
"Still with you—is this the point when our personality is set, and we
begin adopting our predominant flaws?"
"Which are what?"
"Pardon me?‘
"You said you are still with me, so you can either intend to know
them, or shift your assemblage point to the spot where our conversation
took place."
Knowing better than to doubt her, I said, "Give me a second." I
closed my eyes, waited quietly, recalled the beginnings of that
conversation, and said, "The pious assess nothing but understand
everything, the bigot is always right because he ignores what he doesn‘t
understand, and the obsessed are pretty much ping-pong decision makers."
"Well done. Hold that position, and explain the translation process for
the development of any belief."
Still with my eyes closed, I whispered, "What the fuck."
As Bonnie tittered, a moment later I found my starting point, whic h
filled out as I spoke.
"I am a translation of energy that translated familiar energetic
concepts into unfamiliar physical laws about my new existence, which my
experiences transformed into a way to apprehending my new place. That
