Transcendent Beings - Final Part

Becoming the Real You

And, yes, the adventure began with a splash! Misty gave Fernando a big wet lick to comfort and help fully awaken him. The fondant head wrap began to lighten, the metallic scent he could taste, sharpened his mind and his brain felt clearer and clearer, sharp as crystal. As his mind hummed "Hero" he reached up and gave Misty a big heartfelt hug of pure joy to be alive and with his Hero! He felt as if he had just given himself a big hug and realized his mother is alive in him and we can all be heroes together.

He thought, this is almost too trite and sweet to be true, but I feel it. And Misty exclaimed, "Yes! I FEEL it too!" "I LOVE You!" and she gave him a full face licking complete with fresh grass from the meadow he could see through the crystal framed portal, shining rainbows of light upon his grassy face, to the idyllic landscape with lake he could see through the cave entrance.

Fernando laughed out loud with glee, green grass and all! He felt so happy to be sitting with his hero and Misty too, that he giggled and giggled. As he rolled around in the sand, he wondered what could possibly be next in this adventure of life...

He looped his arm over Misty's shoulder and managed to stand up, giggles and all. Misty clambered with him through the luminous crystal frosted arch of the cave entrance into the brightest diaphanous sunshine he had ever experienced. The sparkling brightness of the sunshine colored everything in the meadow, including the lake a golden hue of soft richness. He felt the warmth penetrate his cells and he felt compelled to wade into the lake. With the water lapping upon his chest, he let go of the ground and slid forward into the cooling cradle of the buoyant water. He watched the gentle waves radiate out from his arms and felt at one with everything. As he tasted the lavender raspberry of the moist air, he felt his eyes sting with tears.

Am I high? Am I on drugs? Did I take something more? Or is my brain high on life, making drugs for me, am I me? Is this the 'real' me or a multiverse version of me? Is Misty here or in my mind? Did the transcendental beings hum me here? Am I awake, or am I dreaming I am awake...Fernando asked himself again and again questions?? Misty chimed in. "Silly, relax, we are all here in the multiverse and this gift is to be, roll in the magic, happy!" Fernando told himself to listen, to relax and trust in the process of being one with himself.

As he emerged from the lake, he joined Misty on the sandy beach and flopped out in the golden sunlight thinking perhaps to be is the doing and all is good as I am. He stroked Misty's sun warmed silky fur and marveled at his fingers. He wondered at the miracle that they worked. "Or am I dreaming" Fernando pondered.

He rested on the beach with Misty, gathered strength, this much thought was exhausting, and for his next amazing challenge to cement his adventure in the multiverse. A shimmering across the lake penetrated his eyelids, he glimpsed the emergence of the transcendent beings humming through the portal between verses of the multiverse and felt a warm sense of anticipation for the adventures to come...

He decided to stop asking questions and accept his being with the transcendent beings, including himself! He belted out his own unembraced rendition of "Hero" and heard it echo into the cave from the mountains surrounding the lake and return to him, as if his mother was singing it back to him. And a swelling of sound surrounded him as a hum of chorusing voices rose around and in him, throbbing with feeling, of finding the treasure of heroes all around in the sound of oneness...

And the brightness intensified into a whiteness of light, blinding him to all but the light. The humming vibrated his brain, his bones, he felt himself floating on lavender scented air that tasted of raspberries. Whoa, what is going on now...

Slowly, the scent he tasted shifted to the exhaust of the city neurotics rushing about, amidst honking and shrill screaming. Oh, boy, oh, boy, he thought as he held his throbbing skull, now the real work of the adventure has begun...how to be happy in the wild world of artificial reality when his reality has so expanded in universal infinitum...

And in that moment, Fernando realised that he was back. Back to reality. Back to Facebook. Back to the group of Transcendent Beings. It was a group of ten when he left. Now it was a group of 500 and growing with each day as life became more and more complicated in the city.

But what he had taken from the journey he had just completed had given him a new and clearer perspective. He felt stronger, inside and out. He felt taller and he could see clearly where he was going. He picked up a pen and wrote down his daily goals with a sense of purpose like he had not known previously. Like a brand-new quantum computer, his mind methodically sought out and provided solutions to every challenge in front of him. Self-confident was not the best description, maybe “whole & healthy” was better.

“I can do whatever I want. I can be whoever I want to be.” he thought to himself. “The city will not alter my perceptions. I will determine which is my path and I will follow my own intuition. I will trust in my own heart and share my love with those I choose.” he continued.

Fernando was a new person. He had transcended the daily pettiness of life in the city. He had stopped listening to strange voices calling from the street. His adventure was now officially underway.