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<blockquote data-quote="Byrons_Ghost" data-source="post: 961259" data-attributes="member: 7396"><p>Many people- artists, mystics, redeemers and the redeemed- believe that there are times in life when perceptions shift and one is in some way altered. For some, these are transitory things, fleeting glimpses of something larger than themselves, or perhaps the true workings of the world. Others focus more on these moments and make them into life-changing events: they are saved, or reformed, or born again, and they are never the same.</p><p></p><p>None of these analogies is sufficient to describe what was happening to Taylor at this moment. It was as everything around him halted in a single, eternal instant. He experienced a sudden, startling jolt in perceptions, as if suddenly regaining his hearing in the midst of a concert. If a person's remaining senses can become stronger to compensate for other, lost senses, then Taylor's inner perception took over completely from his lesser, mundane senses.</p><p></p><p>Everything of the past few hours- indeed in the past few days- had been leading up to this one moment. While everything around him became physically blurry and indistinct, he nonetheless was totally aware of his surroundings on a deep, intuitive level. He didn't need to perceive what was happening around him because it was already known. He could feel an energy pulsing around him- flowing through everything and everyone. It was unmeasurably powerful: primal, terrifying and exhilarating all at once. It flowed through everything and everyone around him, and seemed to be the very essence of what made up his surroundings.</p><p></p><p><em>This is it, he thought. This is the force behind it all. Everything in every story, or sermon, or spell in the world has been an attempt to access and understand what I'm experiencing right now.</em></p><p></p><p>As he saw the energy, and the chain of events which had led here, so to did he see the energy leading him away. A path of golden light was forming outside the car, leading off into the darkness. He didn't know where, but he knew that it had to be safer than his current position.</p><p></p><p>The moment coalesced into it's ultimate shape. The car stopped, the path emerged, a light rain began to fall, and Taylor bolted through the door.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Byrons_Ghost, post: 961259, member: 7396"] Many people- artists, mystics, redeemers and the redeemed- believe that there are times in life when perceptions shift and one is in some way altered. For some, these are transitory things, fleeting glimpses of something larger than themselves, or perhaps the true workings of the world. Others focus more on these moments and make them into life-changing events: they are saved, or reformed, or born again, and they are never the same. None of these analogies is sufficient to describe what was happening to Taylor at this moment. It was as everything around him halted in a single, eternal instant. He experienced a sudden, startling jolt in perceptions, as if suddenly regaining his hearing in the midst of a concert. If a person's remaining senses can become stronger to compensate for other, lost senses, then Taylor's inner perception took over completely from his lesser, mundane senses. Everything of the past few hours- indeed in the past few days- had been leading up to this one moment. While everything around him became physically blurry and indistinct, he nonetheless was totally aware of his surroundings on a deep, intuitive level. He didn't need to perceive what was happening around him because it was already known. He could feel an energy pulsing around him- flowing through everything and everyone. It was unmeasurably powerful: primal, terrifying and exhilarating all at once. It flowed through everything and everyone around him, and seemed to be the very essence of what made up his surroundings. [i]This is it, he thought. This is the force behind it all. Everything in every story, or sermon, or spell in the world has been an attempt to access and understand what I'm experiencing right now.[/i] As he saw the energy, and the chain of events which had led here, so to did he see the energy leading him away. A path of golden light was forming outside the car, leading off into the darkness. He didn't know where, but he knew that it had to be safer than his current position. The moment coalesced into it's ultimate shape. The car stopped, the path emerged, a light rain began to fall, and Taylor bolted through the door. [/QUOTE]
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