Chapter 03: Building a Life Together
We settled down and soon had a ceremony. To many life forms,
this ceremony would seem quite strange and foreign. These life forms never had
any sort of ceremony to mark the joining of two life forms into one entity. But
throughout the history of the human race, there has been a strong tide of
joining. Both Kak and I felt that it was a very important part of our union to
have this ceremony. We wanted to share the joy we felt with our families, our
friends, and the whole Mega-Universe. We decided to have the standard three-ring
ceremony. On the day of our union, we met, but for me it was as if it were the
first time. She was wearing a radiant white gown. I was clad in the same
material. On her, the radiance that it showed was unbelievable. Pure light
seemed to emanate from us. This was a symbol of the purity of our love. It was
as if this pure love could remove all the darkness that was ever known
throughout time.
Together we strode between our friends and family to the
front of the hall and exchanged vows. We swore to love, honor, and cherish each
other, in sickness (which was absurd since there was no more sickness in the
Mega-Universe) and health, and so on.
We also vowed to love, honor, and cherish the Mega-Universe
and all the life forms in it. For this ceremony, unlike the one and two-ring
ceremonies of the past, was not just the joining of two life forms, or two life
forms and their mythical God. It was the joining of two life forms and all the
life forms of the Mega-Universe. A joining to proclaim that two life forms had
become one entity and that one entity was a part of a larger entity.
We exchanged physical mineral rings, and with the
Mega-Universe, we exchanged a ring of laser light, projecting from the spot
where we stood outward in all directions. To call it a ring is an unfair
description. It was a ball of light expanding outward from us, encompassing all
the life in the Mega-Universe. But, of course, since it was only laser light,
it was only a symbol.
It was after this that we settled down together to form our
life. We had not enjoyed the pleasure of one another as yet (as many of the
past would have done) for two reasons. One, we felt that the spiritual joining
of our life with the Mega-Universe was the most important part of what had
happened. Secondly, the physical experience was no longer the main reason for
our union.
We knew that when we joined for the first time, we would
form a new life. One of the things that science had done was to prevent the
throwing away of life in attempts to form life that failed. When we joined for
the first time, we knew that a new life would come of it. This made the joining
all the more pleasurable, and this also meant that our time and ability to
produce life was greatly expanded.
So when we joined in body, the joy of our first child came
to us. The ultimate good had now come from our joining, for now out of many
came one, and we knew that would continue forever.
As with all the young couples of the ages, there were
difficulties. It was always difficult to adjust to a new planet. This planet
was mainly inhabited by scientists, so it took a little while to get used to
them and them to us. But we had the strength that came from our love for each
other, and the strength of the community behind us.
We continued to produce life as often as we could, for it
was not only a very joyful thing, but it seemed to us to be an important thing.
There were so many things left to find out and so many questions left to answer
in the Mega-Universe that the more minds available to help, the quicker it
could be done. We wanted to help.
We spent the next three score years living in this manner. I
was working for my newspaper, traveling all over the Mega-Universe to track
down the stories I was working on. It might seem strange that in a
Mega-Universe where thought communication was possible, it would need a
newspaper. You might think that any being able to do this would, in fact, be
wherever the news was taking place. Throughout the history of the
Mega-Universe, newspapers have played an important role of sending knowledge to
those individuals who for one reason or another found that they could not be at
an event as it occurred. Time made it impossible for anyone to pay attention to
the whole Mega-Universe, and of course, it was our job to store these events
for history.
Kak was working as a research assistant in a laboratory
which was attempting to develop a system by which life could travel from one
universal plane to another without passing through a black hole. Together we
had the joy of one another and of our large family of eighty children.
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