"Wait. Stay a while. There is more to be explored here.
Acceptance at this point creates a lull. Wait here.
The mind billows and pools
Finds a level resting place
Expands
Into the space given it."
"And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man:
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things. "
As we exited the park, Ixyl morphed in front of my eyes; her whole being was unstable; she switched faces and clothes by the second, each smoothly becoming the next. I understood her as not a specific person, but as every woman simultaneous. I entered the apartment building alone and with everyone at once.
I came to understand that the room in which I was now seated, Ixyl's basement laundry, was a portal, a passageway between chambers, between other egg-sac worlds—each a cell in embedded wheels I pictured as millions of people working their way inward from the outer zones to some inner circle of escape, transcendence, samsara, whatever. I came to understand that there were many stages and positions in this wheel, filled by many entities; that the world I had occupied was a world I was now, rapidly, being sucked out of. I could not tell whether I was moving outward or inward.
I came to understand that the outer egg-sac worlds involved intense, inescapable suffering, where each successive exit meant only more imprisonment. My worst nightmares about about opening a door only to find myself in the same aluminum cell, over and over. Why had Ixyl brought me here: to be with me in the end? to ensure my journey over? Was she bound up in the same fate or my deliverer or my deliverance. The room started to vibrate, and I looked at Ixyl, she was sitting watching me with scared eyes. I kissed her. She asked what I was doing, she said "You have a girlfriend." I gestured at the churning noises, I asked what she thought came next. She said, "Spendy, that's the washer machines."