*Essassani Culture*


Q:  Could you tell us a bit about your society?

B:  What specifically?

Q:  Oh, let's see?  I presume you're not the only member of your society?

B:  No.

Q:  So tell us about... are there any social habits?

B:  Habits?

Q:  You know, are they different than ours?  Like, we have the habit of
shaking hands as a greeting.

B:  Our society in that way is what you would call telepathic.  Empathic,
more precisely.  For all telepathy is actually empathy.

Q:  Do you have any physical needs?  Like we need food for our sustenance?

B:  Very little.  Our sustenance at this time, though we have a fourth
density bodily form, that your would recognize as a physical form, sustains
itself, mostly, upon energy at this time.  Though there is a symbolic
representational organic substance that you would recognize as a vegetable,
very small, very much like what you would call your lima bean, in this way.
 That symbolically represents all of the intake of sustenance in a physical
form that we require.  It is not taken often, and it is taken /ever/ so much
less than it used to be.

Q:  What do you do for recreation?  What do you consider fun?

B:  Many things.  What I am doing right now is fun, this is one of my
recreations.

Q:  Do you believe... do you have competition between members of your
species?

B:  No.

Q:  Not even for purely amusement?

B:  It is not looked at as a competition, for each individual is recognized
for their own merits, separately in that way, as the individual, and is not
compared to any other individual.  All may partake in what you may call a
game in that way, to some degree, but it will not be /us,/ verses /them/.  It
will simply be individuals interacting.  There is music, there is art,
there is exploration, there is sharing of consciousness in many different
forms and expressions.

Q:  What about schools?

B:  No.  Not in terms of what you say to be the structure that you have
made them to be.  Our children in that way, will draw themselves exactly to
where they need to be drawn and will learn, as you will say, "on the job."
For any adult they will encounter will be willing to recognize that it is
no accident that the child is there, and they will teach them.  For all
adults are the parents, and all children are the children of /all/ -- for all
in our civilization are married to everyone.

Q:   There's no need for an exclusive marriage setup?

B:  No.  There are the biological parents, and they are recognized as such,
but that is not something that prohibits the idea of the child from forming
the relationships with all the other parents that they have in the society.
 We always know where they are anyway.

Q2:  Somebody's got them.  (Audience laughter)

Q1: Do you have the same senses that we have?  Are you limited by the body
that you're currently inhabiting?

B:  To some degree, but in this way we also have the ability to blend our
consciousness to extend our senses beyond what you would call the physical
form.  This idea is what is allowing my ability to communicate with you, to
go on right now -- my conscious recognition that I have this ability.  You
have this ability as well.

Q2:  Is you growth practice similar to ours, as far as relaxing?

B:  We are always in a state of ecstasy.

Q2:  Is the idea of growth recognized, or is that another idea?

B:  In a sense, yes, but we have a very different reference of what you
would call a time frame, in that sense.  To us the idea is simply that we
are living in the moment, and everything is an eternal *now*.   We are
enjoying what we are creating ourselves to be, and in this way, again, we
can recognize the idea of additional expansion, but not through the process
of comparison, in the sense that we are, quote/unquote, better than we used
to be or worse than someone else.  You follow me?

Q2:  Yes.

B:  Our recognition of the idea of growth, in that sense, is to simply to
become all the different types of perfect *now* manifestations that we can
image.  You are not going to achieve perfection, you are perfect right now.
 Every thing that you do is a perfect manifestation of the thing you are
doing.  It is no better or worse than any thing else you have ever done, it
is simply different.  Complete unto itself and equal to anything else in
its potential to allow you to grow and to choose.

Q2:  Do you have what we call emotions?

B:  Yes.  Most of them are joy.  (Audience laughter)

Q1:  What do you look like?

B:  We are of average five feet of your height, whitish gray skin
coloration, wide set eyes in this way.  The eyes are mostly white, but you
would perceive them to be black because the pupils engulf the majority of
the circumference, in that way, of the eye.

The males will have no hair, females will usually have hair, usually be
whitish, though there are exceptions in that way.  You will find us to be
relatively slender and akin to the idea of what you would call a cross
between American Indian and Mongolian in aspects, though not exactly
either.

Q2:  What is your art like?

B:  There are many different forms of the idea.  The majority of it would
not be what you call painting, but would be what you call sculpting, or the
manifestation of energy forms.  Although tonalities, music, as you would
call it, to some degree, will be the basic forms of what you would
recognize as our art.  Although again, to us, EVERYTHING that we do is art.
 Life is art.

Q2:  Do you have what we term like theater or media?

B:  To some degree, yes.  Although it is, again, mostly spontaneous, not
what you would call to be - pre-planned, to any extent.  Individuals will
come together and interact, perhaps, for the enjoyment and the amusement of
others, who also, co-incidentally, just happen to be gathered in that spot
at that time.

Q:  Do you have books?

B:  No.  Not what you would recognize as a book.

Q1:  They don't sell tickets, either then?

B:  No.  We do not have a monetary system.

Q3:  Do you have the need for words?

B:  We are mostly now, the idea, again, of telepathy.  We do have a remnant
language that we have shared aspects of from time to time, that is from the
time when we more used the idea of vocabulary, but it is now in remnant
form and it's usually only used as an accent.  You follow me?

Q:  Yes.  Can I get real specific?

B:  Yes.

Q:  Let's say if you were to have a telephone, and you wanted someone to
call you...

B:  Why would I need a telephone?

Q:  Would you need the idea of a person picking up a telephone or would the
words be what would be transmitted, or would it be the idea of seeing the
individual doing something, or seeing an object, or is the telepathy
transmitted through the symbology of words?

B:  No, not words, no.

Q:  Okay.

B:  It is feeling an image.

Q: What's the emotion?

B:  In a sense, emotion is what ACTIVATES the idea -- that is how we use
them.  You have the idea to be prosaic of a picture, you apply the feeling,
the emotion to it, and that is what allows the picture to be transmitted
and received.  E-motion, energy motion.

Q:  Are there objects on your planet, like we have streets that a number of
people use that the government creates and maintains and so forth...

B:  No.  We do not have need of streets.

Q:  Are there objects that have common use?

B:  Yes, buildings, but they are in this way created by associations of
individuals who find joy in the manufacture of those structures.  Does that
answer your question?

Q:  Yes.

B:  Thank you.  Yes?

Q:  Did your society get lost into fear levels that we are experienced and
are familiar with?

B:  No, that has not been our definition from the beginning.

Q:  Has our society done something that your society has not done?

B:  Oh, many things.

Q:  Both positive and negative?

B:  Yes, of course, positive and negative in this way.  The idea that you
are your own expression and you will always be doing things in your own
way, even if you should have something similar, it will not be exact.

Q:  Thank you.

B:  Thank you.