Written some years ago during a shamanic trance as the spirits try to explain the beginnings of my transformation to shaman ... enjoy!

YES AND NO!

So we are going to talk about positive and negative, as I understand this anyway. Is this what we are doing now?

YES AND NO

Yes I know yes and no, but aren't these statements of positive and negative, light and dark, male and female?

YES AND NO

O.k. I get it; you're playing a game

IF YOU WISH

A game of yes and no, I ask the questions and you answer yes or no

NO

WE ANSWER YES AND NO

Is that it? Just yes and no

YES AND NO. SEE YOU WILL GET THIS IN A MOMENT.

I don't think so!

OK. STOP THE GAME. WE ARE HERE TO SPEAK OF PARADOX

A THING OF CONTRADICTION, UNLESS IT IS NOT.

WHY DO YOU SUPPOSE THAT YES IS POSITIVE?

Because we associate yes with the positive response to a question. When we ask permission for something we expect to receive a positive response.. a yes.

CAN YOU NOT SEE THAT A YES ACTUALLY CARRIES BOTH A YES AND A NO? AND A NO CARRIES BOTH A NO AND A YES?

How?

BECAUSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR REALITY IS A PARADOX.

So what happened to maybe?

MAYBE DOES NOT EXIST, A MAYBE IS BOTH YES AND NO AT THE SAME TIME.

So maybe does exist

NO IT DOES NOT. IT CANNOT. BECAUSE A YES IS BOTH A YES AND A NO. A NO IS BOTH A NO AND A YES. LOOK AT IT THIS WAY, YOU CANNOT HAVE BOTH YES AND NO AT THE SAME TIME.

IT IS EITHER ON OR OFF, BUT IT CAN BE EITHER. A YES IS ON AND OFF; A NO IS ON AND OFF.

Look, quite frankly I was trying to understand what you were driving at, but really what has this to do with what we are achieving here on earth?

WITHOUT IT, NOTHING EXISTS.

SEE THE YES FOR WHAT IT IS IN THE CONTEXT THAT IT IS SPOKEN. NOT ALWAYS IS A POSITIVE RESPONSE NECESSARILY THE CORRECT ONE. SOMETIMES A POSITIVE RESPONSE ACTUALLY CONTRADICTS WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT TO HAPPEN. AND YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THAT IT MUST NOT MATTER TO YOU ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. IT MATTERS NOT, UNLESS IT DOES. PARADOX MY FRIEND, THE GREATEST SECRET OF THE UNIVERSE. OBSERVE IT!

Well quite truthfully, I am sitting here absolutely stunned.

WE KNOW.

OBSERVE IT MY FRIEND, AND THEN MAKE UP YOU OWN MIND. IT IS FOR YOU TO DECIDE. ALL WE CAN DO IS GUIDE YOU IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. THE DIRECTION OF THE SOURCE OF ALL THINGS. AND DO NOT EASILY BE FOOLED. FOR CONTRA-DICTIONS BECOME DICTIONS.

So are these dictions a contradiction

YOU DECIDE; WHAT DO YOU FEEL?

A MAN WITH A PLAN AND YOU KNOW PEOPLE

IS THIS A PARADOX? A CONTRADICTION OR NOT?

It is if you don't know it

EXACTLY

AND NOW YOU KNOW IT.

AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH IS THAT EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE TO EVERYTHING ELSE

And how many absolute truths are there?