The experience

It was not easy. Your head bangs and beats like the roaring sea, there is unbearable and unexplainable noise that covers every nook and cranny of your mind and a feeling of being constricted and pushed through a tiny hole. Then you pop into the emptiness and you are reborn a free soul 1 and alone from a whole world of people.

The power that we speak of is not material, psychic, or metaphysical in nature; it is the pure essence of existence which can only be experienced once one is able to free themselves. The hardest part is that nobody can help you in this trial.

Once the soul is free, it can bathe in and draw nourishment from the essence, and it is from this nourishment that the spirit can be formed. This spirit must be condensed and coalesced until it reaches a point of stability; after this process, one should leave the experience. The experience is far from pleasant and should not be taken lightly even for those born hearing; it is far more natural to be crippled and turned deaf from the hearing than to push through and be freed.

The troubles of the freed only start from this point onward; now one must learn and come to terms with the truth of existence. What are we? What is this new world? What is the purpose/point of life? Who are the listeners? And maybe the most interesting subject: what are you capable of now?

The first thing a young hearing learns is to be quiet. It is the first experience after the break that teaches this fundamental lesson: one must be quiet. The listeners are always listening; the noisy always fall first.