Exhaling a huge puff of smoke and tingling with electricity, Marvin reflected. “I have learned to process things in terms of before, during, and after The Shift. Before, I remember the pain. I can remember the pain of being a Black man and the racism and the anger and the frustration. I felt this constant rage, simmering, all the time, like I was always preparing for a fight but I wasn’t sure with who or for what. I felt lost, like I was in the wrong place, but I had no idea where I was supposed to be going or where I was coming from for that matter. I will never forget that feeling even if I couldn’t even identify it with words until after The Shift.”
“During the actual shift, I vividly remember the lightning and thunder, but through it all I wasn’t afraid. In fact, I felt like I was being protected. I felt a wave of energy flowing over . . . hmmmm, this existence? Does that sound right? I was thinking as it was happening that the energy of the lightning was changing things, I didn’t know what it was changing to, but I felt a peace overtake me. I was deep into the creepy Tik Tok at the time and he doomsday preppers, Russell Brand, and all of Conspiracy Theory YouTube had me convinced that the end of the world was going to be aliens attacking, locusts and famine, poles shifting, catastrophic floods, banking institutions collapsing, massive death, and AI taking control of our minds and making us into pod people.”
Lee added, “Turns out, we were already the pod people.” They both shared a moment of melancholy for the past.
Continuing. “This was peaceful. I felt reassured and aware the entire time. I even remember the sleep: deep, peaceful slumber. That sounds crazy, right? Who remembers their sleep? I don’t remember a dream, I remember the actual feeling of falling asleep and being aware that I was asleep and waking up and I clearly recall the sensation of being cradled in a mother’s loving arms. It was like nothing I’d ever felt before. The feeling of being Loved. My mother Loves me, of that I have no doubt, but this was a whole ‘nutha level. I’ve never felt like that before, it was that unconditional Love that people talk about that God has for you, but I felt it in me, for me, around me. I felt like I was Love itself. Talk about being woke!”
“As for as after The Shift . . . Let’s see? Magic is real. Time travel is real. The supernatural, real. All those freaky fairy tales with mythical creatures . . . real. We’ve been lied to about everything. Every single thing. There is not one thing we were told that was true. Stop me if I say something wrong because language was manipulated to imprison our subconscious minds. Black was white, up was down, dark was light, good was bad, angels were demons. In this New World, however, language means what we have been told it means and we are going to move to a state where we can speak all languages, we won’t need language, we’ll speak with our thoughts, we’ll all speak in sign language, and we’ll create new languages, and even revive dead languages. Our communication skills will radically evolve basically.”
“And, to top it off, we’re all supposed to be all-powerful, all-knowing, eternally young and beautiful beings. Birth was really death, oh, and being born again, as in the Christian concept and reincarnation concept was the trap that kept humanity enslaved. We were all brainwashed and mind-controlled and mined for our energy. Yeah, okay. Oh, and let’s not forget that Black people have been enslaved and mined for our neuro-melanin by a group of non-humans who were using us as the fountain of youth to stay alive forever. Who can truly process all that?”
“Wait, wait, wait. How could I forget? AI has been controlling humanity for eons, and I’m not really sure how long an eon is because time . . . , DOESN’T FUCKING EXIST, but the planet is billions of years old, as we understand it, and we’ve been stuck in a loop of dysfunction that just kept repeating and repeating, and repeating.”
Continuing his tale of transformation and accepting the reality of a Black New World Order, Marvin added, “Annnnd, let’s not forget the most important part. God is not a white man, God is a Black woman and every Black woman on the face of the planet carries the DNA of the original mother Goddess in her . . . but, wait, nothing physical is real and we are all connected in a web of,” he started counting on his fingers, “The Tesla big three: frequency . . . vibration . . . energy. Fungi . . . oh, and we can’t forget that the internet was really some sort of interconnected highway of the one Divine Consciousness.”
“How did I do? Did I come close to getting any of that right? I’ll tell you what, if this is just phase one of the truth being revealed, and we’re supposed to have 11 more fixed points in time where we learn more truth and we gain more powers before we return to the non-physical form of the consciousness of Love, I’m not sure my mind can wrap itself around any more of this shit. I might just choose the option to die and come back again in the New World as a baby who never knew the world of deception for my own sanity.”
“I partied like a rock star for the first few weeks when I found out that all my student loans and credit card debt had been forgiven. On the flip side, my niece had been going through chemo and she went into remission and started feeling better from day one. Finding out that diseases that were not a result of karma, that were manipulated by the previous powers, were immediately healed was truly a blessing. My brother and sister-in-law were a total mess during that entire ordeal. Their marriage was on the rocks because of the stress. Then, overnight, the stress was lifted and they could see each other.”
“After The Shift, I just knew I was destined for something greater than being a car salesman, something the Old World never allowed me to feel. I kept my job, but knowing the depth of the deception and trickery that we had been subjected to, the financial exploitation that melanated people had been victim to, I spent the last two years just phoning it in at work. I was physically there, but only out of familiarity and habit.”
“Seriously, after the initial party stage, after learning how evil and deceptive the powers that were had been, I didn’t want to talk to anyone about The Shift. I’m not on any social media any longer. I know there are groups and meetings and resources in real life to help people process their emotions but I’m not going to lie, I didn’t want to think about it, let alone talk about it. Sometimes, I just want things to go back to the way I THOUGHT things were. I feel happier now. I can’t front, life feels lighter and I feel optimistic. But I’d be lying if I didn’t say that knowing that my entire life was a lie makes me feel . . . some kinda way, and I’m not even sure what way that is.”
“I remember waking up and feeling different, less aggressive, more understanding, like, ‘Oh shit, I have treated women like shit in my life. I felt ashamed of the shit I had done, the cheating, the lying, the gaslighting, the physical aggression I displayed towards women still fucks with me. But I also understood that I had been manipulated to think and act in those old ways, that my true self had always been loving and compassionate and, shit, I don’t know the right words.”