The Girl from Mars

The phone was ringing. She remembers answering it.

Nothing else. For 4 days, there is nothing but a white light, then a void.

The phone kept ringing after that, every evening, and she talked to the stranger. He would not say his name, neither would she. It was a game they were playing.

The lights went out and her mind broke. The mystery man had destroyed her.

She forgot him. She forgot herself.

When her husband found her, and the mystery man appeared again, she did not know his face.

His voice and then his face, later his name would be deleted.

Why won't you talk to me! He pleaded.

I talk to you every day! She said.

For years, she became whatever people needed.

Her mind could feel others, and had been wounded that day in the hall.

The pain she felt was too great, and she buried the memories.

One day she remembered the mystery man.

Her friend and lover. She recalled how she hurt him.

Her strength was her weakness. She could feel minds, but could not separate from them.

Both men's minds were powerful and dominant. She had no will around them.

One man she no longer loved, but she could not leave. The other man she loved, but she could not stay.

Stronger now, she knows one man's love was an addiction. The mystery man was the man she wanted, even when he was not there. He was the man she missed.

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Think of Consciousness like the atmosphere of the planet. You live in it. You breathe it in and breathe it out.

It has a gravity. It pools and waves.

We can gravitate towards other minds and they can lift us up or depress us.

We are living in a collective pool of consciousness, with swirls and eddies, like thoughts and ideologies. Within a larger sea of Mind and then an Ocean of Consciousness our tiny awareness is like a drop of light.

We can be any part of it by learning to focus and detach. Let go of the things, thoughts, ideas that keep you rooted to today, here, now. You cannot hold on to any moment and you cannot stop time. You can flow with the river Now.

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Read: Doing Time on Earth (a book about consciousness)