6 Astral-Dream Projection? (1/2)

When a soul was in the threshold of true awareness, what followed was the profound silence. And the projection of the profound silenceg, was the beginning of the soul's becoming.

Deep in the world of dreams, Ethera felt herself floating in the dark energy light of the underworld. She was observing the landscape underneath her while her spirit soared. The landscape scenery was of utter wonder. The way it was naturally formed and carved, was truly magnificient to behold. As she watched, the landscape continued to enlarge, as the three dark realms of the Underworld came to fore.

She noticed three massive energy flares at the center of the realms which brought her to a realization. She must be seeing all these due to her spiritual sight. For, there was no way such flares could be seen with the naked immortal eyes.

Floating sensation? Spiritual sight?

Astral projection!

But for certainty, this wasn't of her doing. She would have kept her conscious knowledge of being in an atral projection from the very beginning , if she was the one that actually initiated it. Nevertheless, anything that initiated the astral projection of her soul without her knowledge of it from the start, must be exceedingly powerful.

Extreme caution was needed. Since she was still a young deity, she had to thread cautiously here. Deity or no deity, she could easily die in here. The thought gave her a degree of fear since she would soon be taking her first steps into the immortal life of a true deity.

The expansion of the landscape continued in a blur that made the floating soul of Ethera, ache badly. As her spirit was at the point of combustion, the image slowed down and showed the scene of total darkness. Complete darkness. Ethera quickly went from blanking what she was seeing, to, trying to open her spiritual sight to make sense of the darkness she was looking at.

As she strained her spiritual sight, to no avail, she heard a gentle and soft voice that seemed distant.

\”The void. The true beginning.\”

\”Uh?\”

Ethera turned to the source of the voice, only for her to continue seeing complete darkness. She looked sideways, to the same results. She tried to reach for her spatial sac in order to take her defensive talisman but realized that she was in spirit projection.

\”Not meant to startle you, young immortal.\”

The already rattled Ethera, stared at the direction of the voice in bewilderment. Not meant o startle? 'But, you already did!' She wanted to scream and maybe whoever brought her here would just throw her out of this place. But, slowly calmed her jostled mind. Who knew maybe the entity that brought her here would simply chain her spirit up if she would annoy it. After a moment, she asked.

\”Who... who are you?\”

\”Who I am, is not yet for you to know. As a matter of fact, it was not in your power to know. But, the time will come and won't be long. That, I can assure you, young immortal. Do you even know the great length I went through to be here, to bring you here?\”

\”Astral projection.\”

\”Close enough but huge difference. This is Astral Dream Projection. Much more difficult to initiate.\”

\”Ok, but why am I here?\”

\”You are here for us to meet. And, Is there a better way to meet you than to show you the tiniest glimpse of what was? What was of the universe, of myself and ofnyourself? How we all came to be? This way, you will fully understand me when the time comes.\”

\”I can't even see you now, and my head hurts from trying in the darkness.\”

\”Don't stress it, young one. You can't. Not with the stage you are now. However, don't worry. Though you can't see me now, but you will, young immortal. You will. And as I said, the time will come. But for now, I want you to see and know about the power of the essence of the dark matter. The very essence that gave birth to the universe, to me and to you, but all in a different way.\”

There was a short pause before the entity gave a short sigh.

\”Are you not going to ask me how? What I meant by all these?\”

The questions caught already confused Ethera off-guard as she scrambled to recollect her thoughts. With a raised brow, she slowly asked.