The Emerald Pool is part of a very strange and profoundly powerful plane of existence – The Causal Plane. It will claim Olivia and Perla into Its Depths. It is mysterious. It has no floor. They are going to enter the Unconscious of all faerie and human life. This is the 7th post in this Faerie Series.
Viola turns to Perla and Olivia:
Although you are not yet aware, you are in the Causal Plane. This was your first home – as the consciousness that you Are. Here is where you experimented with pairing ‘effects’ with ’causes’ to see how things might play out before you entered the Physical Plane.
We are standing in front of the Emerald Pool because it will expose you to your weaknesses and to your strengths … To navigate this Pool, you need to be careful to focus on ‘remembering’ your powers and strengths.
The aspects of you that are -‘Who you are not’ – will try to limit and distract you. You are to encounter them, and gather the jewels without giving your power to them.
You will embrace your strengths, powers and talents … as though for the first time … You will see them from a new perspective … from the untamed perspective of your transcendent Truer Self.
You must surrender your illusion of separateness before you enter the Emerald Pool. This will allow you to breathe it in, as you are taken into its depths.
As you reach certain depths of the Pool, you will enter the Unconscious through your personal rendering and also the Unconscious will sweep you into Its own Current of Resonance… Again it is important that you remember to surrender your sense of separateness . Your Higher Self will be guiding you through this Current of Resonance. Your journey will depend on your ability to surrender your sense of separateness with your Higher Self … with All That Is … with the Unconscious Itself. If you forget or limit your surrender, you could feel deeply confused and very lost. If you become too lost, your Higher Self will bring you back.
There can also be the unexpected … You can not fathom some of what can happen …
Olivia and Perla move to the edge of the Emerald Pool … and stare into its gentle swirl of liquid … They become mesmerized by its seductive spiraling flow … It calls them in … until they can not resist. They fall into its charms.
Perla panics at first, and feels as though she is drowning. She turns to Olivia who is gently breathing in and out … with a calm that allows Perla to slow the panic and begin to breathe in rhythm with Olivia … As they breathe, they can hear a faint music in their very rhythm of breath. They pause to let this in. It permeates their souls.
A quiet ecstasy fills everything … they become one with the essence of ecstatic bliss.
Olivia:
I want to be here forever. I don’t care if I experience anything else in my entire existence.
She begins to feel sleepier as if drugged by this bliss.
Perla:
Olivia, you are drifting away. Come back. I can sense that most would stay here … and they could lose their purpose. You are losing touch with your individuality. This is different than surrendering your sense of separateness. You still need this, unless you are going to leave the physical realm. Is that really what you want to do?
Olivia:
I love this feeling and want to be here forever.
Perla:
Even if it means that you give up an opportunity to give yourself to a new world that needs your love and your essence of being. If not you, there will be others. But I thought you wanted to be a part of this new birth and this new world.
Olivia:
Yes, Perla, I do. I want to bring this ecstatic bliss with me. OK I will breathe it in, rather than lose myself to it. I will receive it into me. I think this is what I am meant to do. And then I will be able to let it go … to give it to my world. As I let it go, more of this joyful ecstasy will be available to me. I can sense this. Thank you Perla, for helping me to stay awake.
They both surrender their separateness to the ecstasy as they breathe it in … Next they are swirling wildly within what appears to be a liquid worm hole. The movement becomes so fast 
that they can not register whether they are completely still or moving faster than their senses can measure.
They can not hold themselves together. They die. They die to everything that they know themselves to be. There is nothing anywhere. There are no sensations. 
They find themselves in a barren land. As they walk further, lifelessly. They sense a crimson light … a slit of crimson light … 
They enter the light … and they begin descending in a spiraling fashion … deeper and deeper … having no feelings … no thoughts …
Then are now standing in front of a very ordinary door. 
Olivia opens the door .. and they are … no more.
Yet, they feel something underneath what they think is their feet … and gradually precipitate on a beautiful ribbon of road … that seems to go on forever. There are fields of golden flaxen wheat waving in the breezes of a sunny afternoon
… they hear giggles coming from the fields. Are children around? Then they pass a couple of old women laughing and shaking their heads at their old men who are engaged in their ordinary afternoon conversations.
People begin to come down the road in their carts … making their way into their busy lives …
Olivia turns off the road and Perla follows her. This road is unpaved and naturally formed. They walk past a beautiful lake
where Perla stands in silence. She wants to enter the lake. Olivia pulls her forward.
Olivia:
We have places to go. You can come back here to explore more, at a later time. We are in the Underworld now. This is where our unconscious enters before it flows into our conscious lives. Perhaps the lake is telling you something about who you are.
Look over there, Perla.
Perla squints her eyes to see better. There is a very very old white sow.
They walk toward it and when they do, it begins to walk away from them … and they know to follow. It stops in front of an old stooped ugly woman who is wailing into a tree.
Perla who feels very concerned and repulsed at the same time, walks up to the old woman and asks her:
Can I help you? What is wrong?
The old stopped woman turns annoyed by the presence of another person and says with deadening resignation:
I have failed my life. I have lost my way and I don’t trust myself any more. No one can help me. You have nothing to give me. Leave me alone.
Perla:
I can care about you. I can listen to try to understand you.
Old Stooped Woman:
You don’t understand yourself. How do you think you will understand me?
Perla:
What don’t I understand about myself?
Old Stooped Woman:
You are alone even when others are with you. How can you understand me, when you do not even trust yourself? You have been trying to understand life … others … even yourself … partially to cover up your own lack of self- trust. It is beautiful to understand … but not as a cover for your limited self-trust. This is also true of your imagination. You must give your imagination to your transcendent truer self. They will guide you at all levels as they are woven into your essence of being.
Olivia turns to the Old Stooped Woman:
Perla is deeply understanding of me, when we are together, yet she does not trust that she can hold the love. So she substitutes her lack of trust with understanding everything she can … because she thinks that if she knows enough, then she can change things …
Her Other worlds have become her closest and most intimate of friends. I have been trying to figure out how to touch her so that she will lean on me and lean with me. Mostly I sense that she is in her own enchanted world of imagination. It is a real world that she has both created and received. But only Other enchanted Beings are invited. It could be that there are no humans and very few faerie who have shared that world with her. Most of the beings are from the Imaginal.
Perla to Olivia:
Don’t you have a world like that, where you can be … to explore unfathomable things … in a safe way. The human world would destroy me if I brought this there … so I keep this here, and I live here when I can.
Olivia:
You have separated yourself from the very life that you birthed yourself within. You did not come here to abandon your world.
Old Stooped Woman to Perla:
You entered human to bring the enchantment of your Being … into the human world. You can bring your enchantment … your beautiful worlds … into your human existence. You are not really human in the sense that humans relate. You are a spiritual being inside of a human body … so that you can remember who you really are … and then be this and give this to your human world.
You are also lost and believe that you have failed your life. And you limit help you because you will not lean with abandon. Instead you leave and retreat into the enchanted of your other worlds. You are here, Perla. When you bring your imagination, your dreams and visions, your enchantment, your magic of beauty, and innocence of being … here … with your sense of authority with your wisdom and understanding … with your dominion … you will be free. And ‘here’ will become an enchanted, beautiful, mysterious, mystical … imaginative and creative world of endless possibilities … and explorations … imbued with love that can have no name …
You live in the Between so that you can surrender your separateness to all worlds … and this is when the worlds can become One …
Perla and Olivia are without words … without thoughts … The silence has moved them into stillness … into a hush … They close their eyes and surrender into the hush.
When they open their eyes again, they are standing in front of a magnanimous Tree of Life, with their Higher Selves on either side of them. The hush fills all that is … And in the midst of it all… there is an Eye looking through the Daath in the Tree of Life
. All they can do is surrender to this Eye.
As they stare into the Eye … nothing else exists …Everything else becomes black …
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