Individuals in the mythical world can commune with distant life forms that are so remote that only a tiny number of people know about them. Giant creatures composed of gas seem to float; they are not substantial natural gas bags or an organ filled with gas; they resemble clouds of light shaped like a torus with an island in the center with a thick forest. They float around like balloons or clouds traveling around the mountains; the learned people have discovered that they are not filled with gas. They were creatures of light, energy, and soil, like the earth’s surface where things grow on them. Animals lived their lives on its surface; it was rumored and later confirmed that people were also living there. The creatures don’t always resemble a giant torus; their shape changes during the seasons, but the people and animals living on them never notice the creature’s shape-changing. The creatures live in the deep valleys and high mountains of the north and far south. These creatures have no predators, but other flying animals, including birds, feed off the trees and soil that are part of these creatures. They have a voice like the earth; if one lands on one of the creatures, they will hear the oceans, the rustling of leaves, the sounds of animals, and the winds. Some people have communion with these creatures. The communication type used is different from those used for inanimate objects or animals. The people who commune with these creatures try to become that creature, absorbing all their feelings and history. People and animals have been known to live inside of these creatures, and it has been said a whole world exists inside of these creatures. This means that people and animals are parasites on the surface and inside these creatures, but actually, the creatures welcome them. These creatures are intelligent beings. They can decide and reason things out. Why do the communion people talk with these giant creatures? They had been known to harm and help people.
There is another type of creature that the communion people speak with; these are small gelatinous, resembling a jellyfish or a humanoid being that floats in the air. They communicate through telepathy; they had been known to make some mischief, and people would hear mocking, beautiful, angry, hateful, or intelligent voices from this creature. Some might think they resembled fairies or spirits; some could transform in this way, and at other times these tiny creatures could turn into reflections of sunlight on the water. Nothing seems magical about them; what they do is part of what they are.
Communicating with animals like rabbits, rainbow birds, a dragon-like bird called a Thoutcam, foxes, hawks, Naitha, a ground-dwelling armored bird, dogs, sheep, and every other creature is the domain of the communion people. It is also natural for the communion people to communicate with even the wind, fire, and rain; they consider these elements friends and companions.
The distance does not daunt the communion people; nothing impedes their communications with objects that are many light-years in length. They hear the storms on other planets and converse with different worlds of the solar system. If the communion person is compelling, they can have conversations with the sun and ask and answer questions if the sun asks them about themselves. It should be remembered that the sun doesn’t talk to just any communion person.
When communion, people are conversing with the things of the universe and natural things on earth. It is not always like the words between people sometimes; it can be visual, thought to thought, or an idea. Some forms of communication are incomprehensible to the average person. Only people with special powers can understand the earth’s and universe’s deeper meanings.
Communion people can read the thoughts of other life forms. Even what is not considered life is also communicated with. Learning is essential for communion; all life forms, from the seen and unseen, are embraced, spoken to, and learned from.
When the ocean was calm, people who were able to commune with it could calm their souls and do the same for the souls of other people; this was a unique technique cultivated after many years of practice. There are no acknowledged masters in this discipline, and personal experience was the only way to acquire this skill. This specialty was learned by being called by the ocean to sit near the shore to hear the incoming tides and become part of the ocean itself. The novice communion gradually sees things in the water that few people can see. The special communion people can hear all the subtle variations of the ocean. They can understand when the winds are conversing among themselves. Communion people have their approaches to communicating with things of nature, and each technique is very different; when they translate the words of the ocean into a language people can understand, the interpretation of the words is different to fit individual capacities because each communion master is different. As with language, each communion person’s knowledge of the ocean is incompatible because they have different levels of understanding. The way the communion person thinks, the body of water called the ocean isn’t just the ocean. There are many facets of the ocean; they see many thin layers of water, each being different and expressing different thoughts.
Some communion masters have been known to converse with microbes and insects. Some had been known to have conversations with the things of the universe, like galaxies. They would live with a tree, trying to establish friendship and communication with it and building a tree house in that tree with its permission. A communion musician would sing to the night accompanied by an instrument; this was a technique for communicating with the darkness of the night. There was such a variety of communion people that it may not be possible to know everything about them.
Robert J. Matsunaga
