12-07-2010, 12:00 AM
one night several years ago i went with friends to see some live music...danced my butt off all night and enjoyed long periods of self-less ecstatic dance
after the show the lights came up and the crowd was slow to disperse from the club, everyone milling around the floor and slowly putting their coats on
there was a hush in the room although it seemed everyone was talking about how good the experience was; faces glistening in post show sweat and eyes wide in wonder
i suddenly felt disjointed as the lights came up, my mind far away and waves of music and energy still washing through me...i began to hear a buzzing sound
as my 2 friends opened their mouths to speak to me and each other this insect-like buzzing sound issued from them above their words...
i was dragged along by that buzzing and watched it issue forth every time they opened their mouths...the sounds weren't random but seemed to be in conversation
as i focused upon the mechanism of the buzzing sound overlaying the words, i became aware of a general buzzing sound around the room
as a stated earlier, no one really left the club for some time, we all seemed held in abeyance, held in the glow of the awesome musical performance we'd just witnessed
no one was speaking very loud and folks were mostly bunched in groups of friends and also turning to their neighbors
as i focused on the idea that the insect buzzing sound coming from each person was in fact a conversation amongst these insect things inside of us the buzzing chatter became overwhelming and i was nearly sick to my stomach. I saw that no one else seemed to be aware of the insect sounds coming out of them...they all seems held in place murmuring meaningless platitudes about the band as the buzzing chatter reached a crescendo. Then folks started to move away. As we left i tried to express to my friends what i had been (still was) experiencing and the insect buzzing conversation sounds came out of my mouth as i spoke!! We went to a late night breakfast place and the waitress came by and as soon as we went to order our insects immediatly began to chatter to her and hers back to us and then everyone in the room had their insect buzzing in on the conversation. I was in a strange duality where i could order food and speak to my friends and also hear the chattering every time someone opened their mouths to speak. Strangely, the chattering was synchronized with a person speaking and was not apparent when folks were eating or reading menus, etc...This strangeness continued for me until i went to sleep that night and the phenomenon was gone the next morning.
I had read several Castaneda books years before this, but no The Active Side of Infinity...which was the next book in the cycle. I went and bought and read it and learned (some) about the flyers.
I've wondered since if these flyers communicate with one another (with seeming disdain for us) grouping us, corralling us and reeducating us after remarkable events happen to us? They are learning us aren't they? And communicating what they learn to one another as we speak to each other?
after the show the lights came up and the crowd was slow to disperse from the club, everyone milling around the floor and slowly putting their coats on
there was a hush in the room although it seemed everyone was talking about how good the experience was; faces glistening in post show sweat and eyes wide in wonder
i suddenly felt disjointed as the lights came up, my mind far away and waves of music and energy still washing through me...i began to hear a buzzing sound
as my 2 friends opened their mouths to speak to me and each other this insect-like buzzing sound issued from them above their words...
i was dragged along by that buzzing and watched it issue forth every time they opened their mouths...the sounds weren't random but seemed to be in conversation
as i focused upon the mechanism of the buzzing sound overlaying the words, i became aware of a general buzzing sound around the room
as a stated earlier, no one really left the club for some time, we all seemed held in abeyance, held in the glow of the awesome musical performance we'd just witnessed
no one was speaking very loud and folks were mostly bunched in groups of friends and also turning to their neighbors
as i focused on the idea that the insect buzzing sound coming from each person was in fact a conversation amongst these insect things inside of us the buzzing chatter became overwhelming and i was nearly sick to my stomach. I saw that no one else seemed to be aware of the insect sounds coming out of them...they all seems held in place murmuring meaningless platitudes about the band as the buzzing chatter reached a crescendo. Then folks started to move away. As we left i tried to express to my friends what i had been (still was) experiencing and the insect buzzing conversation sounds came out of my mouth as i spoke!! We went to a late night breakfast place and the waitress came by and as soon as we went to order our insects immediatly began to chatter to her and hers back to us and then everyone in the room had their insect buzzing in on the conversation. I was in a strange duality where i could order food and speak to my friends and also hear the chattering every time someone opened their mouths to speak. Strangely, the chattering was synchronized with a person speaking and was not apparent when folks were eating or reading menus, etc...This strangeness continued for me until i went to sleep that night and the phenomenon was gone the next morning.
I had read several Castaneda books years before this, but no The Active Side of Infinity...which was the next book in the cycle. I went and bought and read it and learned (some) about the flyers.
I've wondered since if these flyers communicate with one another (with seeming disdain for us) grouping us, corralling us and reeducating us after remarkable events happen to us? They are learning us aren't they? And communicating what they learn to one another as we speak to each other?