I nodded to signal that I intellectually understood my inventory
included everything real and imagined.
"A simpler way of saying this is that the world has been incessantly
described to us until we are capable of perceiving it as it has been
described. We then colour it to suit our changing beliefs about these
descriptions, using the minutiae of the same palate. Make sense?"
"Perfectly, so far."
"This process creates an internal dialogue that maintains the
description. This includes the person you think you are, standing in the
time and place you think you exist, believing the things you were told to
believe, when all of these things are borrowed beliefs or common
translations of our underlying reality. Either way, everything is a
metaphor," she concluded.
"Based on our essential form of existence?"
"Yes—why do you look so concerned?"
"You‘re saying I‘m not human."
"Excellent—you‘re on the path to a Stalker‘s cognition!"
"Huh?"
"It‘s all about energy," she explained.
"Let‘s just stay with reason."
"Energy creates form," Bonnie continued nonplussed, "and your
energy has chosen to create a human form through which you perceive the
world according to how you should perceive it, to engage specific
challenges. This focus of should equates to the reason of humanity—or
humanness, which is designed to hone your understanding of how to
properly delegate your energetic power."
"Okay," I said slowly, "but it‘s not accurate?"
"Am I speaking in tongues? All of the intricate influences I listed act
to create your personally reasoned arena of should. It is because we all
interpret uniquely that mankind needs a basis of agreement upon which to
interact with these metaphors in a coherent way. This commonality—or
the shared assumptions of rationality that provide these bonds—is our
reason." She took a thoughtful breath. "The point you‘re failing to grasp is
that reason is a tool—a transitional stage in our development, the same
way that learning the alphabet is the forerunner to communicating in
sentences. The next stage for everyone is learning how to see through their
illusions, foremost of which is their focus on self."
"I‘m this close," I said, biting the inside of my cheek as I held my
thumb and forefinger a micron apart.
To my delight, she tried again. "You have agreed with the root
assumptions of a physical experience, such as the three dimensions, and
