albionspeak 2: the gates of dis (14.2)

SESSION 75:  1ST NIGHT, 11/1/02                                                                       

          [Scribe]’s flight got in at dinnertime (just like last year), and we ate at a local Italian restaurant before arriving home around 10:30 PM, 1:30 AM [Scribe]’s time. Following last year’s precedent we went right to work, knowing the session would be short.  

          Our invocation:  “Everness” by Jorge Luis Borges, chosen spontaneously whilst flipping pages.

                                                                                                                            Jane

  1.    Q:      [Guide], are you there?
         A:      I  AM ONE OF THOSE FACES IN [THE] MIRRORS

            [Guide] refers to Line 7 from the invocation which [Scribe] then quotes:

  2.    Q:      “Faces left behind, faces yet to be”?
         A:      IN A DAIMONIC WORLD [THE]SE ARE ALL AT ONCE

            Humans are ideally linear, one face at a time.  In contrast daimones are many-minded, occupying many spacetimes at once.

  3.      Q:      Don’t you, like us, have a multitude of faces?  Or just one?
           A:      I  AM MANY AT ONCE   MANY EYES

            This refers to the flower-petal drawing on our mandala and might be a pun on the word “I.”

  4.    Q:      Have you an exercise for us this evening?
         A:      I  DO  &  IT HAS TO DO WITH FACING

            If the planchette had not signed off so clearly (down and off the board to the left), we would have thought this response was incomplete.

  5.    Q:      How so?
         A:      RECALL [THE] BUTTERFLY ARRANGEMENT?

  6.    Q:      We have just reminded ourselves.
         A:      NOW INSTEAD OF SEEING A CONSTELLATUM  I  WANT YOU TO SEE                          

                   US ALL AS IF IN THESE POSITIONS

            Below is the diagram, already encoded at our board, which [Scribe] and I discovered at last year’s YES-&-NO Game session.  Each of us is represented by a letter or symbol (and some, not shown below, are yet to emerge for us).

        [YES]                                                             [NO]
         DON                                                            JOSEF

                           DUNCAN         [SCRIBE]            
                                 U                     E

                                            ◊
                                      [GUIDE]

                                           V
                                        JANE

        VILANSIT                                             ANAND
        [FLOWER]                                              [CUP]

                                                                                          Sensing From the Prow

  7.    Q:      What makes this different from last year’s “all-eight” exercise?  [We forget     

                   I.]
         A:      IMAGINE ALL OF US IN A LARGE BOAT ON [THE] LAKE
                   YOU BOTH ARE AT [THE] PROW

  8.    Q:      Please continue.
         A:      FACING FORWARD  I WANT YOU TO SENSE ALL [THE] REST                    

​                   INCLUDING  I   BEHIND YOU IN OUR FORMATION 
                   FOLLOW?

                         U                    E

                                    I    

                  [YES]                  [NO]

                                   ◊

                                   V

         [FLOWER]                    [CUP]


12.    Q:      The wings (teachers) dominate, but we are the remote sensors.
         A:      [YES]   & YOU HAVE [THE] TASK OF FEELING
                   § JANE

            Cf: 67.18:  Last year we were given a three-part curriculum of which only the first two were explored:  seeing energies by day; receiving dreams at nights; feeling the aliah of others.   Clearly this year’s theme would fall to the last element.

13.    Q:      Jane, we traditionally greet you by asking:  “What face this time?”
         A:      I  AM GOING TO LET THAT EMERGE   BUT I AM [NO]T A TWIN

14.    Q:      Last year, Don brought up the task of “feeling the aliah of others.”  We did             

                   not develop this topic.
        A:       ISNT IT TIME?
                   NIGHTS TO COME…

15.    Q:      Sorry, Jane.  [Scribe] could not read the end of the last message.
         A:      WE WILL EXPLORE SOME FACETS OF THIS

            [Scribe] and I were tickled by how far we’d already come:  a new face for Jane, a new constellation, a new topic -- and we’d only just gotten under way.

16.    Q:      We were just remarking that with only a few exchanges we are already in             

                   new territory (new waters, rather).
         A:      [YES]   I  SENSE THIS AS WELL - ADVENTURE?

17.    Q:      Adventures involve spontaneity.
         A:      [YES]   OR CALL IT A CERTAIN SUPPLENESS -
                   IT MAY BE THAT YOU HAVE A NEW SENSE FOR THIS NOW

18.    Q:      We intuit what you mean by suppleness.  Does it imply curiosity - (we feel             

                   like saying “youthful curiosity”)?  [In our pre-question discussion I include             

                   the word “openness.”]
         A:      OPENNESS IS HELPFUL 
                   NOTICE…
19.              IT IS COMMON TO BOTH IMMERSION AND OVERVIEW

20.    Q:      Overview cannot be narrow.  A “moving balance” [to quote their                  

                   description] has to be responsive; in a sense, pliant.
         A:      SO FAR WE HAVE NOT ADDED FEELING AS SUCH INTO [THE]                     

                   BALANCE

21.    Q:      Except as “dreamweight.”    
         A:      IN [THE] FLYER’S MIND  DREAMING & WAKING MERGE -

            Now an old teaching for us.  To clarify, while [Scribe] and I have long identified the value of dreamweight -- that is, an emotional cue, aiding memory, which indicates the relative significance of a particular dream -- we hadn’t particularly discussed this component at the board.  At this time we were equating feeling with emotion.  We didn’t yet know better.

22.    Q:      So there is “waking weight” as well.
         A:      EXACTLY   ALTHOUGH IT MAY NEED TIME TO SENSE HOW MUCH &                 

                   WHAT KIND

23.    Q:      Immersion involves openness to a “deep” (alien, unobvious) medium or             

                   quality.
         A:      FACING INTO [THE] DARK?

24.    Q:      We can tell there is something to learn about facing (we recall “E facing A”). 

                   [Choice of direction, alignment, asymmetry]
         A:      KEEP THIS IN MIND
                   I  JANE  AM SAYING GOOD NIGHT FOR ALL YOUR FRIENDS
                          JANE

1:00 AM

            Our now-traditional introductory short-session.  It was nonetheless unusual for our interlocutor to break off before we’d considered closing.

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