
There are paths through Heaven already made before you ever arrive. Destinations already known. Vastnesses already waiting. I can show you distances beyond imagination, Sagittarius and countless worlds beyond it, but understand this clearly: you may travel there, but you may not remain through possession.
Possession is not tolerated.
Look at yourself for a moment. You would arrive there as what you are now—a human being. Deep inside, you may barely notice it at first. You might even say, “That is someone else,” while still carrying yourself into another world. Violence bigotry indifference unpreparedness and even within what you know could be a simple seed a virus that can become a seed to something on the world your seeing that would lead to its destruction. This is why you can only see it as a vision a long one or short one. But you must return to your point of origin. What you see is that throughout it all people are all building impossible dreams and architecture. They are all at work you me everyone else doing the very things that you do even unto your own planet. Then you return with that knowing and back to work.
But this becomes a problem, not merely for you, but for the worlds themselves. A systemic problem.
You would leave, or die, or perhaps even be born there, and then someone must resolve what was carried across. Someone something like me could must rise from what they are doing and say, “Whoa, whoa, whoa,” and deal with the consequence. Not you—me. A migraine among worlds.
And what if I have friends there? What if I know strange consciousnesses, ancient beings of awareness? The richness of the cosmos is not merely stars and distance, but the knowing of many, many psychological states. One mind. Then another. Then another still. The ability to understand them and bring them into resolution—that is part of the wealth of existence. Yet I do not wish to be looked at differently by those beings because someone refused to let go of themselves.
So understand this:
No possessions.
All achievement, all titles, even the self you cling to, must eventually be left behind for true travel to occur. Freedom of movement requires release. The freedom to go from one place to the next depends upon not trying to own what cannot belong to you.
You come from Earth. And perhaps the highest wisdom is simpler than anyone realizes:
One foot in front of the other.
Movement itself.
Travel. Passage. Continuation. Moving on instead of remaining fixed forever. This is among the highest understandings. And know there must be something sacred behind existence itself for movement to continue at all. The moment all movement stops, one begins to wonder whether life itself is still alive.
Now let us speak of the desert.
There are gods, though the word has been misunderstood. Gaia, for instance. If you come from her, you return to her. This means she is authentic—the point of origin. What comes from her belongs ultimately to her. The authenticity of worlds matters deeply.
And the desert—how you love the desert.
You respect it.
You prepare for it.
When you enter the desert, you no longer look only to yourself. You look to the desert itself, because you understand something essential: the self alone will not survive there without reverence. You learn the signs of water. The shape of wind. The meaning of heat. And when you stand beneath the sky, breathing deeply, you may finally say:
“I was made for this.”
But even there, you must carry your own waste. You must not leave it behind.
Why?
Because if everyone abandoned their waste in the desert, eventually the desert would become filled with it. Rain would carry contamination. Creatures would change. Instead of seeking what naturally sustains them, they would begin searching for what humanity discarded. Their instincts would bend toward pollution. The purity of the desert would become sickened through carelessness.
Do you understand?
Love of the desert means refusing to poison it.
And traveling through the desert teaches something greater still:
You leave behind what weighs you down.
Possessions become burdens. Vanity becomes exhaustion. Excess becomes death. Yet preparedness must not be confused with selfishness. You do not prepare the desert for yourself. You prepare yourself out of respect for the desert, because without proper preparation, the self will perish there.
Travel through the cosmos is much the same.
To move among worlds, among consciousnesses, among heavens themselves, requires humility, movement, reverence, and the willingness to leave behind what cannot travel with you.
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Chase McQuade
I have had an awakening through schizophrenia. Here are some of the poems and stories I have had to help me through it. Please enjoy!
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