(Juno speaks) "Look and see."
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Everyone on the planet Earth agrees that they shared the same experience at the exact moment of New Year 2200. Even those who were not watching the vidicasts of the Alexandre party, probably yourself as well. We were suddenly all there--mentally, in spirit-- INSIDE that little girl, floating in the air. And we could SEE. We could see radio waves, gravity currents, the curvature of space. We could see that everything was connected in the flow of a perfect wireless system, each of us with everyone else, with the world, with the sun, with the planets, with the Jupiterians... We heard Juno whisper, "Now look within." Then we plunged deep into our own bodies, to the cellular level, where we experienced being one of our own cells, living in a world of muscle fiber among all the others like us. Aware that we had a certain degree of individual consciousness and instinctive function, but not understanding what kind of thing we were part of, except that it was BIG. We moved on to experience being lung cells, lymph cells, brain cells. Our perception expanded to include myriads of other organisms inhabiting that world: seemingly gigantic bugs, germs, bacteria, virii, sliding and crawling crawling in and out of our bodies, jungles full of monsters living in our eyelashes. All of this is part of us, our bodies just as modular as Jupiterians. As for interchangeable parts: those who discovered any potential sickness or cancer in their bodies also saw how to flip over an allele in their DNA to correct their biosystem. All the while, Juno was our guide, "As you see, we all function as elements of progressively greater beings, such as our very own Human Spirit " (many of us saw an image of Christ or Buddha), "and how that is connected with Jupiterians" (we saw Xenolotle) "all part of the collective Solar Entity (the sun with tendrils reaching out everywhere). Which is in turn a cell of the Galactic Entity. It doesn't end there, in fact, it doesn't end anywhere. "Sounds like Big Stuff," she told us, "but try to keep things in perspective: you are tempted to conceptualize such entities as omniscient all-powerful Gods, but really, they are only modular beings composed of us. You don't need to worship those Entities any more than the cells of your body are required to worship you. All you need to do is comprehend the connections. Thank you." And then the tour was over, we were each back in whatever place we had been. Except that everything was changed now. |