<div class="floatleft"><div align="center">(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/cdc1/04s7432n614occi4g.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Chloe Dawson<br/>and Kimmie<br/>  ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾  </span></span></div></div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… Kimmie and I learn to ‘live together’ … this drives home to me what I knew mostly intellectually and slightly viscerally, that we occupy our transient bodies for as long as those can sustain where they live … we learn to motivate our shared body together … <br/><br/>… this drives me to focus on what the latter day teacher Gurdjieff revealed, methods to crystallize one’s existence beyond the physical … this turns out to be easier than it would seem for most … a focus and there it all is … where do I get this innate understanding of great secrets and the practical aspects? …<br/><br/>…. we learn accommodations … how to allow each other space in this corpus and brain and separation within our mind … formalism, do not intrude on the other without knocking … with some trepidation, I offer her control of ‘our’ body … I’m not much surprised when she declines … she seems ot be learning how to be a spirit and I watch her soar … we sometimes ‘fly’ together …<br/><br/>… often we turn our gaze on our children …<br/><br/>… comes a day when they are both about seven years on the physical … we return from the lab to find the two curled up on the carpet puzzling over a book … as usual, we nudge, asking admittance to Insight … and we learn they – or rather Isis with her sibling looking over her shoulder – is puzzling through Sunzi’s Art of War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War) in the original … we ask if we may observe and they grant this honor … Isis is translating the original into Egyptian and French and German and English and Sanskrit … each language exposes subtleties in Sunzi’s original … and the characters come alive … next Isis is reading and translating Egyptian writings that last had life in the Library of Alexandria … and then writings that existed last at the Library of Ashurbanipal and turned to dust over time … she studies history … and psychology … other days she’s reading texts that precede the Samhitas …<br/><br/>… Kimmie and I ride along with them as they let us … it is obvious the pair have a private, out of band channel that we do not perceive … they are teaching us and we humbly accept …<br/><br/>… with their counsel, I slowly introduce the Elders of the Sisterhood and Brotherhood to exercises in group focus … we carefully purge our ranks too of those who cannot or will not share … a sifting and winnowing as old as time … the daughters and sons too are given new exercises and tests and through those develop new skills … we are stronger and stronger …</em></span></span>