Wild West of Enlightenment Part 3

Mahoot undertook her final bipop ritual. Yakataboof and her sister Yahoot watched as she ingested the Wawoni plant. She happily took her vow of life extension for the sake of her life goal, which was to serve the art of awakening. The understanding of who she is, the self-recognition of herself as realized shakti never left her. It always lived her now. How was she changed by her self-recognition, by her understanding? She was now aware of the dreaming of others and their purpose or search to find happiness, how they overlooked that they were already the source of what they were seeking. She was happy to be on her home world. She wanted to serve in the beginnings of creating a way of life, a livingness of true being that allowed for her people to live the true way, the life of the open heart. She loved her new world even though it was built, formed on the remnants of the old one. What had happened to Earth 1? She wondered. She laughed to herself when she remembered that she was also living there. I am a native of Earth 1 and Earth 2. I am living in the past and the future of the old world evolving into the new world. Her heart was gladdened at all the bright possibilities of Earth 2 and she was moved to serve the best and brightest of all possibilities. She was a living, moving force of happiness, of awakening on Living Rock. It was good to be home.

Yahoot was happy to have her sister back with her. Her daughters already adored Mahoot and wanted to be with her every chance they got. She loved to play their childhood games with them, the ones that she and Mahoot had played together when they were young. Her life with Yakataboof and her daughters and having Mahoot back made her feel full. She knew her time was limited as she had chosen not to undertake the final bipop ceremony. She had chosen a family life and did not envy her sister or regret her decision. Was it the life of adventure that she had wanted? Yes, Yakataboof was showing her amazing new ways to understand and travel deeper into the mystery of herself. Seeing the transformation of her sister—how her journey, both external and internal, changed her—Yahoot felt a deepening respect for their teachers, Yakaboobis and Yakataboof. How lucky I am that Mahoot is with me once again as Yakataboof does not get to remain his dear friend and teacher. Yakataboof had told her that he was only a moon to Yakaboobis’s sun. She could not understand how that could be so, as he blazed like a sun to her.

Yes, her time would not be the long life of a fully realized bipop, but she knew the time she had left—20 or 30 years—would be filled with the adventures of a life lived in the love of her home, her family, and her strange husband with his strange ways. He only wanted the beset for her and though his ways were strange, his loving ways were so fun. He was always full of humor and his daughters adored him. He had told her that Earth 2, Living Rock, was living a new imprint, one that was hard-learned by the mistakes of Earth 1. She didn’t know what he had meant by that. What she had seen of Earth 1 in the short time she was there with Mahoot to help Yakaboobis, it appeared amazing to her, a bit unsettling, but all the luxuries people lived with back then would make their lives easier here. You can’t miss what you never truly had. She had been only a visitor for a very short time. Now that her sister was living with her again, she felt that she would probably never go back to Earth 1—and yet…her sister Mahoot was living there with her teacher Yakaboobis. Could she see her sister there? She wondered. For now, she was contented that she was with Mahoot, here on Living Rock, the future home of Earth 1.

Yakaboobis was feeling his age. Losing his hand to the bite of the rattlesnake in the desert made it difficult to do many ordinary tasks. Fortunately, his dominant hand was not the one that was bitten. He reflected on his age, 70 years now. We are all made to disappear, he thought, and he was well aware that his body was working under immense pressures that no ordinary body could work with for any long period of time. He didn’t know if he would be here when the big change occurred. He saw many of the signs that it was ready to occur. One of the signs was the appearance of Mahoot as moving, universal shakti. He helped to steady her in her understanding. Frankly, he didn’t know that this was the next step for her—it had surprised him. Rainbow Sage had hinted at it—he had seen the signs for her transformation. I just didn’t understand them, Yakaboobis thought. I have always been a part of a big plan that involves the world of everyone, I’ve done my part the best I could. All I know is that everyone must come home—to realize source as their very True Self. He wondered why he had a different imprint than the rest of humanity. Mahoot is another imprint, a new one that has great implications for the revelation of the feminine. He missed his dear friend Yakataboof. They often theorized on the mystery of their lives and Yakataboof had always tried to get him to express the why and the how of his work. He could draw it out of him. Ah, the good times we had, he thought of Yakataboof.

Mahoot rested. Three more miles, the elevation gain was significant on this hike, she thought. She caught her breath and smiled at David. He was coming up on the rear, also trying to catch his breath.

“Whew, this is a tough one.”

David inhaled deeply, “Yeah, we’ll make it right before sunset. And why do we like doing this so much?” he laughed.

“Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you live longer,” laughed Mahoot.

“Well, I think we will live through the night, but I don’t know how much longer if we go on to the next summit tomorrow.”

“Oh!” laughed Mahoot. “You’re doing just fine, a little out of shape?” she teased.

She certainly is a moving force, thought David, and a challenging force as well. Mahoot is all together a force to be reckoned with, and I only want to stay on her friendly side, and now that I have come to know her, I want to stay by her side. But keeping up with her is no easy feat.

They pitched their tents just in time to see the sun set. Tomorrow they would meet up with the Rainbow Sage. He was at Evolution Valley, which was another 20 miles to go. He wanted to show Mahoot something that grew there. He thought it might be of use to her if she so desired.

The day dawned beautifully. They got an early start. The going wasn’t as steep as the previous day, so their pace was very good. At about 3 in the afternoon, when the day was at its warmest, they saw Rainbow Sage sitting atop a boulder in a deep meditation. Both of them saw his body as white light shimmering and approached him quietly and reverently. Eventually, Rainbow Sage left his meditation and clapped his hands when he saw them sitting below, also meditating. They opened their eyes and Rainbow Sage spoke first. “I have something to show you, Mahoot.” He jumped off the boulder and they followed him for about 200 yards off the trail—up the side of the hill. He stopped suddenly and turned to Mahoot, “Look, Mahoot. You might recognize this.” And he pointed to an unusual plant that had reddish and bluish pointed leaves.

“Why, that’s the Wawoni plant,” exclaimed Mahoot. “Or it looks like the Wawoni.” She plucked a leaf from the plant, smelled it and rolled it in her hand. She tore a piece of it off and tasted it. It had the same taste as the Wawoni, bitter with a hint of hot.

I didn’t know that the Wawoni grew here in this time, but why not, she thought.

She turned to David, “You know that in your future people are bipops—they integrate both their masculine and feminine aspects for the purpose of a long life. To have a long life we can live up to 200 and some fully vowed bipops have even lived to 250 years. The Wawoni plant diminishes the sex drive so the integration can occur.”

David wondered why life extension was connected to a diminished sex drive. He thought that being sexually active as long as possible helped to generate and maintain a longer life. He didn’t really have any evidence for that, he just wanted it to be that way.

Mahoot picked a few of the plants. She would dry them and test their properties cautiously in the manner she had learned, so she would not cause any danger to herself. She thought of her other self who was living far into the future with her sister Yahoot, Yakaboobis, and their family. I must have taken the final bipop ceremony by now. She thought of herself there. Yes, I would be a fully developed bipop now.

The Rainbow Sage spoke up. “I’ve seen this plant only in a few places before, but I never knew it had any significant properties. No one in this day and age would ever want to suppress their sex drive,” he laughed. “But there has been a rumor in the yogi world that it helps with an over stimulated kundalini.”

Mahoot didn’t know what Rainbow Sage was talking about, she just laughed on cue.

David thought, these two people have the weirdest problems, I just love it.