THE THREE LIVES OF CHRISTINA THE ASTONISHING (#55)

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words
A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World

Next day, after he’d sentenced a salmon fisherman to death for poaching on the preserve of an ancient tribe known as the People who lived to the north of us—a tribe whose rights the Duke had always been careful to uphold—he turned to me. “Stop that,” he said angrily.
“Stop what, your Boldness?”
“That buzzing noise you’re making—it’s driving me crazy.”
“With respect, I’ m not making a noise.” I’d been deep inside myself, twirling and singing like a dust mote in a sunbeam.
“Then where’s it coming from?”
From inside the sunbeam I said, “The fear matrix you operate within.”
A long deadly silence followed. “You’re accusing me of being afraid?”
“The fear matrix is a universal framework all humankind operates inside of. It grates against the truth, which is Love. If you’re hearing a grating noise, that’s a good sign. It means something within you is rebelling against the fear matrix because it’s in tune with the truth.”
“What absolute rubbish!” he cried. “And that noise came from you!”

(to be continued tomorrow)