"The Great Awakening"

I believe Briget and her husband are sincere in their beliefs about the cosmic, vibrational, multi-planar view of the universe.

I think I could have asked a lot of challenging questions to try forcing them to explain and justify their paradigm, but that wasn’t why I was there, and I don’t think I would have gotten as detailed and authentic of an explanation from them as I did.

I thought about my own beliefs about the universe—the things I feel confident about, the questions I have and where they come from, and what goes through my head when I attempt to explain or justify them to other people. The way I feel about someone challenging or question my belief system depends on what I perceive the person’s angle to be.

Genuine curiosity—I’m not only open to explaining or providing rationale, I actually believe it’s an obligation I have if I’m going to claim any belief as being true.

Looking to trap or make their own point—I’m less willing to engage. It’s not that I’m afraid of being proven wrong or getting “got”, but more a disinterest in playing a game that you only want to play if you feel there is something for you to win.

In the context of this conversation with an awakened, hyperconscious couple explaining solfeggio frequencies and past life hypnosis, I was torn. Part of me wanted to be the genuinely curious (because I am) objective learner. This is a piece of Elsewhere, and I’m here to capture it. But the other part of me kept whispering in my ear, “You claim to be a gonzo documentarian. Your interaction with it IS the story. Push on it.”

In the end, I didn’t do much pushing. And I feel it would be poor character to pretend to play the challenger here in an essay, where the ones whose beliefs are being challenged have no opportunity to clarify, defend, or explain. So, I won’t attempt to poke holes here.

For this reason, this particular Piece of Elsewhere probably has no overlap with the gonzo category. It was just documenting. I’m ok with that this time. I hope audiences still find it intriguing, if not downright entertaining.

Whether it was fear of conflict or not wanting to lose the access I’d been granted by putting them on guard, or perhaps some of both, I didn’t feel like getting subjective in this conversation. Maybe the next one will be different.

But I will say, I had plenty of internal poking at the ideas going on. In multiple instances as they spoke to me, tiny alarm bells went off in my mind accompanied by thoughts like,

“But isn’t that inconsistent with ________.”

“But how do you get from X to Y?”

“If that were true, then wouldn’t that mean _______?”

I think, actually, the reason I didn’t feel like I should challenge and poke is because being a challenger wasn’t how I got in the door. I had presented myself to Briget as the objective inquirer who wanted to better understand. And that was TRUE. But then when I was standing in their living room, alarm bells going off in my mind, my desires for authenticity, entertainment, story angle, etc. came to the forefront of my consciousness.

I’ve come to realized my split personality, figuratively speaking, in carrying out Some Elsewhere projects. I have an objective observer interest side and a truly investigative, engaging side. Maybe I don’t need to be so concerned about pre-planning exactly which one of them will lead on a given project. Briget might say I should just ask my higher self, though in the channeling she provided, my higher self seemed to say, “Do what you want, bud.”

I suppose reflecting on this particular project has raised my consciousness and self-awareness in some way, though maybe not the Great Awakening that Briget and my big, beautiful, higher self wanted for me.

— Camden

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