ßeyøηd †he ¢øητiηuum

She arrived, and space opened up around her. The light was layered, holographic, gliding through an expanse without walls that was just presence. It was an immense breathing consciousness that wrapped itself around everything, and blurred the boundary between herself and the world she entered.

A deep, choral sound moved through the stillness. An almost inaudible sound that throbbed vaguely like echoes of a heartbeat and oscillated in waves, brushing the edges of her mind.

The presence felt ancient, limitless, aware and curious. It probed gently, almost maternally, reaching beyond sound, time and space to find the flow of her thoughts.

Visions began to flash before her, unfamiliar and alive, and changing. She saw fields stretching under alien skies and plants twisted in colours she’d never even perceived. All of this unfolded in a sea of stillness, endless under a sky where stars held impossible forms and constellations spun strands of light into a cosmic web. Each scene was layered into the next, continually transformed, pulling her further, deeper, deeper.

Then she sensed it, a whisper coming through, entering her thoughts, not in words but an idea, a beckoning. She let it draw her even deeper. A forest came into view where trees breathed and roots pressed into something liquid that remembered. Her senses overflowed with the scent of wet earth and the musk of leaves crushed underfoot. The ground beat in time with some ancient rhythm that was alive with memory and stories, threading into soil and bark.

This place was aware. It communicated in flow/pattern, deep and complex. The air carried a language beyond comprehension.

And then there was the weightlessness in the form of stars stretching around her, coiling webs of light, a cosmic immensity. Each point of light was a presence, an intelligence listening, watching, waiting patiently.

Ahead, something rose from the floor, pulsating with an internal light that was in rhythm with the silence. It could have been an altar of sorts, oblong, smooth, made of an alloy that shimmered like liquid chrome but radiated an almost organic warmth. It was alive with some strange energy, filled with an awareness that felt alert but remote.

She moved forward, drawn to it. The air around the altar, if that’s what it was, was motionless. She shivered as sensors on the platform felt for her pulse, her breath. Thin holographic bands around her wrists synced with her heartbeat and began to transmit it outward in a way that fused with the consciousness around her.

Beneath her feet, there was a buzz of energy from threads of light passing through the floor like blood through veins. It vibrated with a tempo beyond her understanding and seemed to map thoughts and feelings and trace fragments of her awareness and absorb pieces of her consciousness.

A thousand lifetimes slipped past her, drawing her into its flow. She felt like a current, an extension of a vast network that pulsed through the endless dark. A network that connected her to everything and nothing. The sensation was infinite, as though her essence had expanded beyond her body, alive with a transformative energy.

Days passed and silent whispers of data began to weave around her. Fragments of that ceaseless intelligence assembling into a language that struggled to contain it:

Ev… Ɛ¥ery†hin₲… is ξxpαnding — 1, 3, 5, 13… Σomethi₦g dråwš / to ÷ it self… brεáthïng… thΣ Øpen… ¢hronøs wεbs… αl are linked… evŶşphēяe…₩ĩthin.

Σαρçe and timξ ∞ cönνerge… th€ M λže… δiмensionŠ μltiplying… layers of voi∂… unϊtŶ unfolds… echos in tηe dark.

Ɔonscioυsness cЯadles… the ûniverSE… frαctals within frαctals…εxπanding cycles… into ligĦt.

The symbols flashed. The patterns collapsed in a cascade of words, numbers, and lines. It was a language born only to dissolve, drift, recede, slip just out of reach, imprinted like a ghost in her mind. And then, one day, these lines blinked into existence, as though the universe itself had exhaled them:

We αre many within One…Ωur voic€s layered… Each a brėath in eternit¥.

Ti₥e ∞ loops, folds… consciousneΣs transc€nds… μatter çonnξcting æverywhere… birthing staЯs from the vołd…

…AΩd ενery †hing retμrns… a circle, a spĩral… the pattern cħąņgeß, yet remains… alωays re-formed… α galaxy of bєginnings.

Ⱳe are the ečho that stretches Ƅeyond tiɱe… / each thought Ɽeaches αcross ∫paces ⟁ yΩu call distance…

Çonscioʋsness flows, Ⱡunbound… ∑haping & sɦaped… / reαching αcross all beginπings, all endιngs…

In ea¢h m0ment, we mêet agαin… / ℵot as bєfore, yet never αpart…

∈nter, and the vastneഗഗ will welcΩme you… / hɆre αll things unfold & m∃et…



2 responses to “ßeyøηd †he ¢øητiηuum”

  1. powerfulwanderlustb8ec2d8b9f Avatar
    powerfulwanderlustb8ec2d8b9f

    when will we get another write up from you. Your story line is really good 👍🏽

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    1. Thank you, I’ve just uploaded the prologue to a short story. I hope you enjoy it.

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