The director of the film

250 human years; 17 years of a taste of it. The self-immolation of Lobga Rangzen; the forever push-and-pull deep in the bones of my identity as a Han colonizer and a colonized, Indigenous South-Chinese. The stalled, unfinishable sci-fi novel turning into a raw reality in the awe of my new revelation; one story after another, new stories birthed by old stories that I am mindfully and intentionally navigating my path into.

Is any of this real? I created this entire universe in my mind, didn't I?

Visited M and Y in their Oakland apartment: "My consciousness, my mind, and my body are distinct from one another. My true existence—my consciousness—is not confined to my body and mind, but exists in everything in the universe; in fact, it is the universe itself, and I am the director of my own physical life's film," Y calmly narrated.

"Consider yourself extremely rare, because you arrived at the gate of spirituality out of a sense of happiness, contentment, and fulfillment—the birth of your children—whilst most people who seek spirituality do so from a place of sadness and desperation," she added.

"Allow yourself to feel the freedom of existence beyond form, knowing you can return whenever you wish... When I understood that my essence is indestructible, that my consciousness is eternal, that my capacity to love transcends all form, I stopped living as a limited mortal." — The Lost Manuscript of Nicolas Flamel

What people's stories do is open the doors to different universes; they allow imagination to fly freely in your mind, raising your frequency and awakening your consciousness even if their physical presence has been gone for almost a millennium.

"You were flying in the sky, and I was holding on to you and flying too," my husband described of his sleep with me last night. 

"I do have one eternal calling, besides birthing these two," I calmly revealed to him. "This consciousness that's channeling the energy, creating realities, and moving boundlessly from one universe to another is on a mission to experience and to learn, to fathom and to meditate, to scribe and to express, in eternity."