My foreplay with going in can now take days and even weeks. I need to make sure everything is Zen. I have to feel as aligned as possible. I'll plan to go in one night and end up reasoning my way out of it. I write my intentions down, I write down what I have to learn, what I have assimilated and integrated and I write down what I have not yet accomplished but have been taught.
Then I'll pack everything away, do some self study and wait for the next call, which could be the next day. Then I unpack, prepare my floral altar, my crystal skull and quartz wand, I make everything right with the world. I read my intentions from my previous attempt and keep them in mind. Weigh dose, scrub, pray to the oneness, stretch, breath, meditate or even have a little nap to escape the trepidation.
I take my place in the launch-pad. Hold the bong in my hand at which point there is no going back. Now is as bad a time as any to die. Then I blast off. Dying is never easy, in fact it's the most frightening thing we ever have to do. Most only have to do it once, but for us to commune with the most sacred oneness we have to endure a death, each and every time.
The greatest fear to conquer, the greatest earthly sacrifice is made in order to attain the greatest reward.
As soon as I enter the Queendom of hyperspace I am told:
'Everything you've just brought with you, please leave at the door'
And then it's all familiar and I am home. Deep inside the flux capacitor that undulates within the heart of Hyperspace. And I think a breath of relief, why was I afraid... why... wh..y?