Unraveling Worlds

“Dear Ananke, what is wrong, Lo... Oh no, I'm so so sorry, Love. I see now what happened, I did not expect you to adapt and absorb the energy from the rest of us so quickly... Even though you are hurting right now, please understand this is a good thing...”

Freya said as she walked in to check on me and saw me rolled in a ball crying on the floor as I looked up at her.

“Wait... what do you mean adapt and absorb?? What have you done to me here??”

I responded demanding answers from her while reeling from the worst emptiness I have ever felt in my life.

“Please calm yourself, Love. Let me explain fully before you react, okay?”

Freya asked as I looked at her and though hesitant I nodded and agreed to listen to everything before reacting as she continued.

“Thank you. This may be difficult for you to understand... I mentioned earlier about us being sensitives or empathic, you remember that? You come from our bloodline, dear Ananke and as explained earlier, you have our abilities as well. What I did not tell you because I hoped to have more time to slowly ease you into it, is that with our abilities, if we are focusing or thinking about a person, or persons, or even an event... umm... how do I put this? We... our kind can... well, we can essentially relive and experience all of the things in the life of another. As you drifted off to sleep, you must have been thinking about the Tarzemeths. Because of this, you... well Love... you connected to them quite literally and experienced every aspect of their existence, every moment of their evil. I'm so sorry you had to feel that, Ananke. I did not expect you to be so quick to adapt to the increased powers you have here being connected to our collective minds.”

Freya explained as I felt myself becoming more upset and confused over the whole concept.

“What the fuck do you mean I will relive their experiences?? What the fuck!! So you are telling me that now when I'm near someone... ANYONE... I'm in danger of what... tapping into their minds and going through a lifetime of their experiences in just a few moments?? Feeling all their loss, all their pain and anger?? Is that seriously what you are fucking telling me, Freya??”

I screamed out in anger and frustration as I wondered how I would even be able to survive through the constant memories and pain experienced by others when I struggled just being in my head with my own pain and memories.

“I understand your frustration, Love... It is very difficult when you first begin to tap into your powers and experience them but they do serve an amazing purpose for our people, and they are your key to stopping the Tarzemeths... please trust me on that, Ananke. This is a gift, not a curse and it is the only way to save the human race from experiencing the same annihilation that has befallen so many other races. Your gift will also be the key to creating harmony and peace among the humans because it will give them the opportunity to experience life or situations from the eyes of another. This creates an amazing connection and gives understanding of the situation, which is so much more important than creating an opinion on something based on a belief without knowledge and truth.”

Freya began to explain further as her words were going right through me, I just felt completely numb and scared while trying to keep listening.

“The human race is flawed, Ananke, but it does not have to be. Empathy is the key to freeing humanity from the unnecessary pain and hurt that they bring upon themselves by reacting based upon opinions formed by what they are taught – rather than based upon what they learn from experience. This is the flaw that made humanity such an easy target for the Tarzemeths. They knew instantly that humanity would destroy itself once they revealed the “truth” of humankind's belief system.”

Freya continued to explain while my mind was just racing on the reality of what was being revealed to me.

“Wait.... just... wait... so you're telling me that being able to feel what others feel... it what?? How exactly does that save anything?? HOW is that the key to stopping these fucking Tarzemeths assholes???”

I screamed out in frustration as I struggled to understand anything going on.

“The Tarzemeths feed upon discord and destruction, Ananke. And their race is very sensitive to empathic energy... and you are one of the strongest empaths I have ever seen in all of my existence, you just have not been trained nor do you understand your abilities. But with my help and guidance, Love, you will be able to use your gift to not only save humanity but also destroy the Tarzemeths.once and for all – and in doing so, you will save countless other races from the same destruction that was brought to earth. I know this is difficult, Love... but you are the only one with the ability to do this. You will be able to use your abilities to enter into the shared mind of the Tarzemeths and in doing so, you can emit your psychic energy and they will not be able to counter the emotion channeled into their minds. They feed on destructive energy and fear. That is what gives them their power. If you channel positive energy and emotion into their minds, they cannot handle that and it essentially fries their systems. This is how we destroy them... or rather, this is how YOU destroy them, Ananke.”

Freya answered and explained as it still seemed unrealistic and ridiculous to think of this 'empathic' ability as a gift of any kind.

“I can't do this.... I just... can't... I'm sorry but none of this makes any sense! I'm supposed to somehow... send some type of psychic energy into them?? You realize there are millions of them right??”

I responded as I still could not fathom the way that I was supposed to manage to do anything to these destroyers of planets.

“Take a deep breath, Ananke. Allow your mind to reach a calm and peaceful state. You just have to use your energy to protect humanity when they are on earth, and also to help humankind change away from this path of self-destruction that they have allowed themselves to take for so long. We are going to give you everything you need to return to the before... once there you will reach out to certain contacts and you will help them build a weapon that we believe will protect earth from the Tarzemeths, and instructions on using your gift to help society learn acceptance, empathy, and tolerance in a way that they have never done before. Only then will earth be truly safe from the Tarzemeths. Through this, you will be able to destroy them and save humanity at the same time.”

Freya continued to try to explain while I continued to feel confused and scared.

I gave up asking questions and agreed to allow them to begin training me on this “gift” I supposedly had, despite still having no understanding over how I was expected to save anything... especially when there was not much left to save. I stayed there for what felt like months but the way time moved there in “Atlantis”, it was only days. The training was exhausting mentally and physically. I still could not believe the things that I was able to do, especially as my training advanced. I could read the minds of everyone within a group that I focused on, even if they were nowhere near me. I wondered if this gift would allow me to reach out to my parents, so that I would at least know if they were still alive and alright.

I used the focus meditation methods that Freya had taught me and I began to think of my parents. I used my energy and gift as I continued to try to reach them. I started to have visions of my parents but they were not where I expected to see them. I expected them to be on the boat or in hiding on an island, instead I saw them being held in a reprogram camp. I saw them being tortured... more than that though, I felt them being tortured. I began to scream and cry as Freya quickly ran into the room to check on me. I told her what happened, how I reached out to my parents and what was happening to them, but she said she already knew. She felt my energy and pain, and saw the vision as I experienced it.

“Oh Love, I wish you would not have done that. Let us hope that the Tarzemeths did not feel the intense energy as the rest of us here did. It was very difficult for all of us here to experience that torture. It is why I have discouraged you from trying to reach your parents while you have been here, to protect you from what was going on.”

Freya said as I was still shaking and crying hysterically, feeling overwhelmed with pain.

“Wait... you KNEW that my parents were already captured and being tortured? And you didn't tell me?? You let me stay here instead of being with them to help protect them??”

I yelled out from anger as I became filled with so many emotions at once that I could not control them.

“Ananke! Ananke! Please stop! Listen, Love! You MUST control your emotions right now, Ananke! Everyone is being hurt by the emotions you are sending out, please take a breath, Love. Please calm down... I know that you are extremely angry over what you saw but you must understand that everything can be changed! It can be fixed!”

Freya frantically shouted as I felt the intense emotions from everyone else reacting to my emotions and anger which became unbearable. The next thing I knew, I was waking up in the room and Freya was sitting next to me placing crystals around me and sage was burning.

“Ah you gave us quite a fright, Love! You need to be very, very careful with your gift, Ananke. You generated so much power that you nearly killed yourself. The physical body can only handle so much empathic emotion. That is why we must always be shielded because otherwise the gift will destroy you. Just take some deep breaths, and drink this tea, it will help.”

“What... what happened? My parents... I remember...”

I started to say while I began to remember the torture my parents were going through and started to feel the emotions rushing through me once more.

“Ananke! Stop, please. Here, drink this quickly, Love. Just drink and breathe.”

Freya said frantically as she pushed the tea towards my lips for me to drink. Once I took a few sips of the tea, I began to feel a sense of peace wash over me as I continued to slowly drink the tea. Everything started to become a little foggy the more tea I drank, and I could no longer remember exactly what I saw. I knew it involved my parents but I could not remember much more than that.

“Why can't I remember what happened?”

I asked Freya, confusion filling my voice, while she continued to push me to keep drinking the tea.

“It's the tea, Ananke. It has properties to help the mind erase recent trauma. The effects of it are only temporary though, so you must learn to control your emotions before it wears off. You have a power that can be very dangerous, Ananke. Your gift can do harm if it is not controlled. That is the reason you were brought here – to learn how to control and use your gift before you are sent back to change things for your world.”

Freya said with concern in her voice as she pushed the last drink of tea on me before taking the empty cup.

“I understand now...”

I responded as I began to remember what happened almost immediately after finishing the tea, the pain was there but I knew I had to control it as Freya smiled at me.

“Very good, Love. That control over your gift that you are showing right now is very powerful. I can see that you remember everything now but you are controlling the emotion and suppressing it. You are a natural at using this gift and this confirms that you are, indeed, the one we have been waiting for.”

Freya said as she reached for my hands and embraced them within hers while smiling at me approvingly. That outburst of emotional energy that I unleashed upon everyone opened my eyes to the reality that I had been trying to deny. I knew that Freya and the Athassuseans were telling me the truth because of what I saw and felt in that brief connection I made to my parents. I did not tell Freya everything that I uncovered though, I was not ready yet.

I had to learn more control over my energy before I could reveal everything to her. I could no longer deny my gift and my responsibility to try to change the course of humankind. It was not a journey I wanted to take but it was one that I had to accept as my path. I continued to practice controlling my energy with Freya and the others over the next several days and my skill grew substantially once I had embraced my path.

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