“The Bubble”
“Three men dressed in colorful robes were seated triangularly in the center of the barren living room. As Gilberto entered, he had the intuition that he was to sit at the center point of their triangle. He quietly made his way to that spot and sat down. One man uttered a long-held mantra. The moment he stopped singing, the next man began a different mantra. Then the third man added his own. As soon as he finished, Gilberto found himself singing his own mantra. They kept this up for quite some time, each mantra flowing into the next, all together forming a mellifluous whole, a sung prayer that resonated throughout the room. At some point, they all simultaneously opened their eyes. Above them floated a sphere of some perfectly smooth material. The sphere resembled a huge bubble like one of those blown out of a child’s bubble wand. It was transparent and colorless, but radiant with a soft and very appealing light. The four men saw themselves inside this bubble. They were seated within it just as they were on the floor of the living room. As they observed the sphere, it began to fill with more and more people. What was inexplicable and fascinating, though, was that the people looked life-sized, and yet all fit comfortably within the bubble. More and more people, of all shapes, sizes, colors, and manners of dress, appeared in the ball. They were happy and interacted with each other like best friends. Gilberto felt that he was both on the floor and inside the sphere at the same time. Yet nothing about this multi-presence bothered him. It seemed quite natural and even inevitable.” (from “Palace of Perfect Wisdom”)
