Chuckling, she said, "I couldn‘t have done that if I wanted to. You
have to discover the truth from your own vantage point."
"There‘s more than one true point of view?"
"No. Personal perception does not assemble facts; it is a tool for
exploring assumptions. Teaching is about guiding students through their
assumptions, to a place from which they can see the truth. That place is
unique to everyone, but what they see is uncompromising."
We stopped in the right side lane for a red light, and a biker on a
chopped Harley pulled alongside; the dual explosions of patently tuned
exhaust forestalled conversation.
When the light changed, and the biker had eased his machine through
successive rhythms of pulsating blasts ahead of us, Bonnie said, "Again,
for our purposes there are three barriers to the average person achieving
true clarity of mind. O ne of them lies in not understanding our true
essence is energy, another is our social conditioning, and the third is our
self-image."
"What does energy have to do with it?"
"You have seen human bodies die, so you might believe in death as
some kind of finality, instead of the transition point your out-of-body
experience demonstrated. It follows that, without having that experience,
you also might not believe this earth is a school for self-development.
Now that you know you don‘t die, you can embrace the theory, as a
second hand conviction, until you learn something you consider definitive
proof that all of this is first and foremost a school. And like all schools, its
purpose is to be transcended, just as the body is a temporary means for
conscious energy to learn in this arena."
"Understood; social conditioning?"
"Social and cultural conditioning biases us to the point of being
unable to determine right from wrong, and self- image interprets events
through the limited vision of the self. It demands that the world evolve
around us, so we can see no further than our self-interests."
"So we‘re screwed in three ways from the get-go."
"Your statement does not recognize these barriers as the decisive
tools this school uses to teach us how to transcend the influences of all
illusions, so that we are responsible in every circumstance. Maybe a better
way of saying it is that they create the human experience we are here to
master."
"So you‘re trying to have me transcend being human?" I joked.
Seriously, Bonnie said, "In a Stalker‘s terms, I‘m teaching you how to
integrate your earth-bound energy with Spirit; gathering vast amounts of it
is required to do this, which includes losing the human form—that‘s a
