Who I Am With You (Imagination #10) - Staci Stallings Page 0,117

like tapping into God-consciousness.

“So when I talk to you, even if we’re not in the same room, I can hear in your voice something is wrong. There’s no real hard-data on why I know that, I just feel it, I perceive it on a level that consciousness can’t get to on its own.” Yoli took only one small breath. “I’ve had that my whole life. I knew when my parents were going to start fighting. The air felt different to me. I couldn’t explain that, but I knew it. And I think back then was when my brain started piecing things together. Then at night, when I was in my theta mind, the sleep or subconscious mind, it would put things together so I could see them in ways I didn’t when I was awake. It’s not weird or bad just the mind thinking differently than most people think.”

“Awesome.”

“In that mind, your intuition kicks in and you receive things from a place that isn’t purely physical. No one told you it. You didn’t see it with your eyes, but you perceive it, you know it. It’s like being able to see things in the future, like ideas and new inventions, that have never been thought up before. Or seeing paradigms shifting way before anybody else does. Or synthesis, like my dreams, taking bits and pieces of different experiences and putting them together to know or see things other people don’t. Or even being able to learn really, really fast—not because you’re reading every single word or sitting through all of these lectures but because you both tapped into something bigger and because you’re paying really close attention to life and what it’s telling you.”

“And this is all brain wave stuff?” Taylor asked, having gotten really lost in the depths of Yoli’s excitement.

“It’s all tied together. So like beta is consciousness, and high beta is like freaked out consciousness. Like me, when Dr. Brown asked me to go. I went into, ‘Why would she ask me? What if I mess it all up? What if I’m not smart enough to even understand any of it?’”

“Not smart enough?” Taylor asked.

“But see, what I’m understanding now, is that’s not even me. It’s my primitive brain, the amygdala, kicking on and trying to keep me in my comfort zone where I’m safe. True, nothing happens and it’s boring there, but it’s safe. When I step out of that, the amygdala freaks and tries to tell me all the reasons I shouldn’t do this new thing. That’s high beta, that crazy worry-stress talk your mind does when it gets freaked. Then there’s beta, normal consciousness when you’re awake and thinking. Then under that is alpha, which is when you’re going to sleep, it’s the bridge between conscious and subconscious. That’s where your lateral thinking starts taking over. That’s where we dream—between alpha and theta. Theta is sleep or subconscious. It’s the collective consciousness, where we know but we don’t know how we know. It’s where we start quantum thinking.”

“Man. Wow. Okay. Uhm…”

“It’s a lot. I know. But it’s so cool. And I can see it, you know? It’s like Nelson with the music thing.”

Nelson. Great. A topic Taylor really didn’t want to discuss.

“When he writes,” Yoli said without pause, “he’s tapping into the theta brain waves. That’s why he can’t really explain how he does it. I remember LJ saying they’d talked about Nelson and him writing songs like he does, and Nelson said he felt weird about it because he couldn’t really explain how he does it. He just kind of gets quiet and listens. What I think is happening is, he’s learned to slow his brain waves from beta down through alpha all the way into theta, even when he’s awake, so he can ‘hear’ what’s there and then interpret it for us to hear.”

“He’s bringing it back,” Taylor said, suddenly having a flash of understanding. “He went to the surface and he’s bringing it back to share with us in the cave.”

“The cave?”

“The Plato Allegory.”

“Oh, right. That.”

“The guy gets free from the chains, goes to the surface, sees the light, and comes back down,” Taylor said. “He comes back to share what he saw.”

“Sharing our dreams,” Yoli said. “LJ used to talk about how his film professor said films are ways to share our dreams with each other.”

“So are books,” Taylor said. “And paintings.”

“And cooking and writing.”

“And music. And poetry. Wow.”

“They are all ways we go into the theta subconscious and bring