Step Seven ~ The Kjrsos Wakening Practice

The Collapse

These last few chapters, you may have noticed, are exceedingly short. Short by intention, strangely hoping to encourage you not to rush. Hopefully encouraging you to work one step at a time to develop what is possible when you learn a new way to process.

This next step is when you've reached a point where certain thoughts or words seem important — thoughts you want to capture. I find it best to quickly jot down only one or two, never more than three. I have no idea why that is the magic number. But it is, it seems, at least for me. Try to go for more than three, and something is always lost.

Hopefully, by now, you have learned how to return to the state where you are half asleep. Hopefully, you will have reached a time when this won't wake you up entirely. But don't be surprised when it does.

Just know that for some, once we reach for the insight found — once we see what is there — this reality becomes the only one, and any other thoughts, any other revelations, any other answers just drift away. And often never return. Which is so incredibly frustrating.

If you know anything about quantum mechanics, you may recognize something here. The act of observation collapses the wave of possibilities into a single truth. Reaching for a thought, pulling it into the light of consciousness, does something similar. All those half-formed awarenesses swimming alongside it — the ones you hadn't quite grasped yet — they vanish the moment you collapse this reality.

Reaching too quickly for one of these insightful thoughts can pull us out of this half-conscious state and make it harder, if not impossible, to return there. And so we have to wait until another day to slowly drift out of sleep.