I met Jones in the parking lot the next night for our bartering session. The joint put my mind more at ease than I had been at weeks for some strange reason. I thought, at the time, it was because I was about to embark on my last journey through the Kaleidoscope Gate. Jones just laughed as he read my thoughts, and I somewhat blushed at forgetting that the two of us could read each other’s thoughts. We both clambered out of his car and walked through the propped open doors.
As usual, our Quacktails were waiting for us as we sat down. Once again, I got an early start and began to down the Quacktails one after the other. Billy just kept bringing me more as my eyes burned and my head spun.
“Tonight is the night we finally all meet each other,” Nameno broke out. Tasiny and our fair son will walk together along this final journey. After tonight the Quacks will know as much as they can for now. None of us knows what the future will bring, but what all of us do know is that we will get the last piece we have been searching for tonight. So, to Tasiny and our fair son, we drink these Quacktails to you!”
“Here, here,” the room echoed louder than ever, and every single Quack drank their Quacktail. Billy served us more, but this time he gave Tasiny and myself two for the road.
I did not talk to Tasiny on our way down to the Gate. I barely looked at him. He barely looked at me. I think the two of us were walking in sadness since we thought this would be our last journey and our knowledge would soon end. I think the two of us were also afraid that after tonight our search for knowledge was on our own.
We reached the Gate and walked through. We did not have to wait long for the voice to begin.
“The final stage is upon the Quacks tonight,” the voice began. “What you have learned thus far must be taken with you in order for you to reach higher levels. After this, I cannot guide you any farther. However, you must guide yourselves. The knowledge I have imparted you with are only the stepping-stones in which to further your understanding. For no one being can be taught everything unless he or she walks into the unknown on his or her own. Tonight I will explain the Duality of Existence – through which each Quack can realize what it is each is surviving against. Humanity exists in a world of black and white, up and down, left and right, front and back, fat and skinny, tall and short, large and small, etc., etc. Humanity live in a world of duality – simply put it is a duality of positive and negative. Each of these complement and eradicate each other. Every thing in existence complements each other at the extremes and eradicates (or negates) each other at the center. Where is the middle ground or gray area? Where is the neutralizing force? Where is the in-between? Unfortunately, it is not there physically for Humanity, because the Physical Reality is filled with contradictions. Where the middle ground exists is between the lapses of Time. In between the moments, where everything stops (or so it seems), the dual nature of existence disappears and everything becomes one. It is between these lapses of Time that humanity becomes one with everything. All three forces – positive, negative, and neutral – combine to make everything one. The Physical Reality is full of dual systems; it is inherent in its nature. In between the physical, at the Point of Existence, is the gray area, the one-ness of everything! There is not separation between forms and beings in the in-between. In the In-Between, where the Immaterial meets the Material, is where all three forces create eternity. The trick to all of Reality is to balance these forces in order to transcend each of the Four Planes of Existence. The trick to all of it is to balance these forces to keep Humanity on track to reach Plane Four – Spiritual Reality! The last words I have to say to you come from a great sage. And he said:
‘I live in fear of what I once day may become.
Fear of the simplicity and the calm.
For so much is confused by the chaos,
That to forget about it would be death.
But death to the social world is what I need.
Death to this social reality I am forced to exist within is what I want.
Death to all I know is what I shall become.
For without death there is no rebirth.
Without death there is no new beginning.
Without death there is nothing that can be reborn
Without death to all I have been taught there is no Sanity.’
Go Quacks out into the world! Understand the nature behind it! Comprehend your existence within it! Realize your potential among it! Transcend each Plane one by one! Begin the work that was once existent but has become lost! Reshape the thoughts behind Reality! Reshape Humanity’s existence!”
And with that the voice stopped speaking, the dark room became lit, and Lear and I walked out through the Gate into the common area from the strobe lit room. All of the Quacks were waiting. All of the Quacks were told what we had heard! None of us knew when we would be blessed with further knowledge, so we took the knowledge we were given and ran into the world to see what may become of it!
THE END
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