“You know cars,” Lee mentioned, “so maybe you can help our engineers build a better car that runs more efficiently and faster and smoother that doesn’t break down. Or you can learn a new skill or hobby that has always interested you. All we ask is that you add to the community in ways that only you can do, share your laughter, your Love, express yourself, and experience the fullness and sensuality of life.”
Marvin was in a daze. “I’m not gonna front, before The Shift, I would have said that sounds like a cult. Having experienced The Shift and believing in my core that we are living in a different world, I’m in awe. I was drawn to the truth and beauty of In Loving Color, so much so that I knew I had to be here. When I was reading those stories, when I saw all those pictures that were unlike anything I had ever seen before, even watching the videos and seeing Black men and women making Love, not fucking but really making Love. It was the relationships that really spoke to me, how people communicated and worked out their differences, and hearing brothas that sounded like me, talking about fears I had never spoken out loud in my life, I knew that I couldn’t keep living my old life and that I had to come and be a part of whatever this is.”
“OK, so what happens if you leave the community? I’m going to assume you have to give it all back? Eh, yo, what happens to the people who don’t contribute to the community? I know a lot of chumps sign up and then get the biggest house and the best car and skip.”
“You don’t have to give anything back. I could wake up tomorrow and say that I don’t want to see any more Kings and that I want to focus on myself and I wouldn’t have to move, I would even still get paid my weekly allowance. We are all destined to reunite in the consciousness of pure Love, that is inevitable. We’re allowed to take any path we want to get there. And that means we can fuck up because it’s all a part of the process of learning, growing, and healing. Everything is going to move us closer to Unity regardless of the path we take.”
Marvin said, “You say we an awful lot. Sorry. Go on.”
“The frequency of greed has been neutralized, it still exists in varying degrees in humanity but it’s no longer in power, greed, as an entity, no longer exists. Everyone who has joined us thus far has understood that they are gonna be getting much more than they give so everyone wants to contribute and participate. That is the beauty of humanity when we are free to make our own choices, we all want to find ways to be happy. In creating your own happiness you help others experience theirs as well. Your joy is contagious, so everyone is encouraged to find their joy.”
“Say you love, love, love to roller skate. You’re saying, ‘How does my roller sking make anyone else happy?’ How about you design the roller-skating rink of your dreams and have it built and it’s there for everyone to enjoy, families, people on dates. How about if you create a roller-skating extravaganza, a Starlight Express, a, a, a, what’s the one with Olivia Newton-John? XANADU! You need costumes and music and sets and other people to roller skate. Everyone who loves to sew, or create musical scores, or anyone who wants to be a set designer can express themselves. Anyone else who loves to roller skate gets to participate. And everyone else gets to come and watch and enjoy your roller-skating creativity. Everything is connected. We all win.”
“Also, keep in mind the only people who are invited to the community, right now, are those who are either recruited or invited from within the community or the individuals who read every story of In Loving Color, not the ones who skip ahead to the sex, not the ones who only read a few stories, not the ones who only looked at the pictures. The people who are still working out karmic vibrations of cheating, lying, and stealing, even those who are still vibrating at the frequency of violence, rape, and murder, people with those energies aren’t going to be the ones who are going to invest in reading every story. Everyone who ends up here is supposed to be here. And if a murderer or rapist ends up in our midst, it’s because we need to heal some part of ourselves and work out that karma. As humanity experiences greater frequencies of healing, we won’t need to be nearly as selective. Fear still exists in this World, in ever decreasing vibrations, but it’s the source of a lot of dysfunction so we try to keep it out of this community with the understanding that, again, everyone who is supposed to be here, absolutely is.”
In that moment, in that split second, Marven felt the gravity of destiny consuming him.
“It’s also very important to point out that white men are not invited to be a part of the community yet. Whiteness was the biggest source of pain in the Old World. White women who have melanated children or spouses are welcome in the community though. Black women with white spouses are asked to understand that more healing of whiteness has to be completed before they are invited to fully participate in the community. That’s something that hopefully won’t be an issue as we expand as there are multiple steps being taken to eradicate whiteness on multiple fronts across the world. I know for a fact that there are multiple complexes being built that will allow white men to go through a similar process to what I went through but I’m not privy to the planning stages of that. Trust me when I say that whiteness will add a new whole set of drama and dysfunction to the community until we collectively heal a whole lot more.”
They both nodded in agreement.
“Now, we have had issues dealing with people saying that they are going to be at a specific time and place to help out for one specific project or event and then not show up and that threw things off on multiple fronts because everything is connected. We have to run like a finely tuned machine. We completely eliminated that problem by having counselors and therapists at the intake center evaluate everyone’s level of childhood trauma and abuse which in turn affects how much they can conceive of being a member of a team and working as a collective as opposed to survival mode where they only focus on themselves. We simply assign them as Scholars and they spend 2 years in an intense learning and healing environment and they get 20 hours a week of therapy and healing available to them as opposed to 10. And we’ve seen wonders in growth and healing with our three-week psilocybin and ayahuasca protocols.”
“Yeah, I looked into those when I was in Costa Rica but I opted against them just now. I just felt like they weren’t right for me at this time.”
Lee cosigned his intuition. “Take it from me, when the time is right, you’ll know. In fact, it was my commitment to learning my truths with the help of psilocybin and ayahuasca protocols that revealed this version of who you see before you now.”
Wanting to get an idea of where Marvin was on his path of understanding and healing, he asked, “What do you remember about The Shift? I mean, what did it feel like to you?”