Day 1

I may have fallen asleep. Or I may have died, for just a little while. I was in the arms of angels at certain points; and I was also ignited by light in flame. I had one hundred dreams. I may have been drugged; or I may have died, for just a little while.

Upon waking last Monday morning, I was to begin a mandatory education. I am to learn eleven things, epiphanies, that will illustrate the man who I thought I was.

I am currently no-man. I am not he who flew to the midwest 10 days ago. I am not he who awoke this morning. However, soon, I will be him, I will know him, this new man, this new me that I have become.

I am not the same man today as when last you met me; and I will never be him again. It is the eleven epiphanies -- and their steady revelation -- that are teaching me this.

This, then, is the first epiphany.

To quote a song, ‘everything is in its right place.’ As with planets aligning to birth new solar systems, this life around me reached its crecendo, the end of preparation. The time to do arrived. All of the people I know, my family and my friends, my enemies and lovers and strangers I pass on the street, all of the humans were moved into position last weekend. All of the cities became ready while I slept – Boston and Madison, but also somewhere on the West coast, and somewhere south. These are instrumental places, though I do not know them yet. I will know.

Last Monday morning, I awoke to sunlight. Someone in my skin awoke to sunlight, and smiled with the gift of the first epiphany.

This is the first epiphany: I was aligned; the stage was made ready. Upon my waking into the sunlight last Monday morning a story began to unfold, a story that may end soon, or never; but it will end when I end. Perhaps this is my final act; perhaps this is, finally, my first.

Either way -- it (revelation; education) has begun.

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