Kha-lib faced Rachel. "Teachers have struggled with their personal
development like everyone else, for one cannot teach what they do not
know. She (Bonnie) is passing a critical point of change in her lessons,
beyond which we can teach lessons in power directly to her. You have yet
to reach this stage."
"What‘s the knowledge she knows?" Meaghan said, innocently.
"She has long ago learned that who and what you all think you are is
a description contrived from how you interpret the physical world, and
your experiences in it. Essentially," he said, addressing Meaghan‘s
confused expression, "time slowly manifests your decisions from which
you learn that you create your own reality through your view of whom and
where you think you are. Everything is a reflection, and you relentlessly
summon or create these to help you see yourselves, and your choices
clearly. This is the nature of the school you all attend, which means the
natures of the events you encounter represent a particular purpose."
"Not sure I follow that."
"You do things in the name of camouflaged interests, the
ramifications of which often bewilder you, because they come from a
broader underlying reality. In many ways, you are like puppies barking at
a mirror, confounded by what you see when faced with your own
reflection—as if it was an influence outside of yourselves—and often no
less aggressive defending your perceived territory on this side of the
mirror. "
"How does that make her different, now that I know the same thing?"
Meaghan said.
"She is being reminded of knowledge she has claimed as her own at
the level of an assumption. This is that the world she perceives is a
description about reality, so there is no need to judge or embrace anything
or anyone as an unalterable fact. She understands that for us to say she is
acting the fool is a precise observation—the portion of her source-soul that
has been conformed to believe is her entire self, known in this time as
Bonnie, is acting in a foolish manner that will reveal the drawbacks of that
behaviour. She understands that she is performing, and that this audition
demands of her a personal evaluation, after which she will behave
differently. In the same way, she knows that soldiers, clerics, sceptics, and
artists are literally projecting their beliefs upon the physical world, to
probe for answers about themselves in the reflected consequence. Unlike
them, she can already observe and assess these reflections without reacting
to their descriptions, which would be highly damaging for one of her
energy."
"Literally projecting?" Elani said.
