Chapter 1 

The mind was quite capable of understanding that which gave it its birth, the womb from which it emerged. That had been part of the speculative dance on the Earth during my time, a happy, skeptical time that defied itself and joked with itself over questions that had perplexed all peoples from the beginning. What did it matter if one had a full belly and was safe for long periods of time? We would know the mysteries one way or the other. We would not communicate the mysteries if we absolutely ended, all things absolutely ended but there would be a few soundings into the mysteries if we survived. We survived, that was very clear to me now and I pitied the poor souls who had given it up because they were driven downward by the force of gravity, something they never picked up on or never articulated and thought, “this is the way it’s always been.”

The truth was that the mind was constructed not only to know the universe and prepare us for the next step but it opened enough great waves of energy flowed in and out of it even when we were doing the most mundane things possible.

And it swallowed it whole only to reveal more.

And so we were inside it and it had us but it was it.

David Eide
January 24, 2014