Shadow Nula Home Page

Rose's Shadow Nula Homepage can be read from her/Marin's computer in Omega Mart.
== Transcript ==
Rose's Shadow Nula Home Page
Am I channeling a Shadow Nula?
Connecting with the cosmic companion within. Luna, Adjunct Psychonaut, 7mv
What is a Nula?
Nula are creatures of pure Source energy who cross the gulfs of the Multiverse in a collective ball of light. They leave ghostly fingermarkings as they go. 
Not all Nula travel the Multiverse as a collective. 
Some Nula, the Shadow Nula, are lonely creatures who spend epochs in solitude seeking wisdom.
They are not material and they have no written language. Most of what we know about them comes from human companions who channel them. Channelers. Perhaps you know one. Or PERHAPS YOU ARE ONE! Take the quiz to find out.
Are you...
Wake up from deep REM sleep to see an energyform in your field of vision?
Suddenly aware of deep, cosmic truths that can be difficult to relate to others?
Experiencing profound loneliness even when you're in a crowd?
Witnessing alien landscapes whose geometry conforms to no Forked Earthly laws?
Gifted with an innate understanding of symmetry and technology despite having no formal training??
0: You probably are not channeling a Shadow Nula.
1-5: You are definitely channeling a Shadow Nula.
4. The Spiral
Nula shed their material dorms when the Multiverse was young. Nula follow a life cycle that looks like a spiral. Picture a cosmic spiral oscillating between bands of light and shadow. Nula cycle between light (collective) and shadow (individual) aspects.
A "light" Nula is a cosmic ball of luminous Nula, how many? Dozens. Hundreds. Billions. It is a collective. It is curious. It can step across universes as easily as you can walk between rooms in your house.
Shadow Nula are solitary creatures, crouching in the remote corners of the Multiverse for the purpose of gaining new knowledge. Their existence is lonely, but necessary, for without fresh experiences the collective will stagnate and collapse.
Nula in general have mastered the use of Source energy, a remarkable feat since so many other civilizations have failed. The Nula are cosmic scholars and perhaps the only creatures who wield Source with prudence. Freed from the material world, Nula pursue lives of collective ecstasy and solitary scholarship.
The Spiral, oscillations between light and dark, may be the secret to their eternal balancing act.
5. The Light Nula
"I regret not having wings. I regret not having a thorns. I regret not having the anatomy to leap between worlds like the Nula, so fast that information herself starts to mutate."
Asuncion, herbalist emeritus, 7 Monolith Village
Light Nula visited this planet in primordial time. We know this because their fingerprints cover the table in the Source well. Those of us who are channelers are able to touch the fingerprints adorning the well and get a general idea of the creature we are dealing with.
They mastered the use of the Source, shed their physical forms, and explored the Multiverse at faster-than-light speed.
At some point in Forked Earth history, this nearby collective must have tapped the nearby Source well. Maybe this was to fuel their cosmic journey (the Gas Station theory to be vulgar about it), or maybe the well itself is a gateway to a multiplicity of worlds.
Whichever it was, the Nula raised the table and chandelier in the Source room, got what they needed, and left it for others to find. The Zenion inherited this well. Then humanity.
Is this benevolence from the Nula or a criminal display of neglect? Perhaps one day we will be able to say for certain.
7. Shadow Nula
Shadow Nula are also called "Dark" Nula. Some people prefer the term "shadow" because of the implied value judgement in "dark." The Dark Nula is a solitary Nula, an individual. The Dark Nula is left alone to individuate in and learn about the Multiverse. They return to the Light Spiral, feeding it new knowledge. 
The material realm holds no danger for these aetherial creatures, but loneliness must be a real hazard. Therefore, some Shadow Nula keep psychic connections with creatures on planets they have visited. You may be one of these creatures. This is nothing to worry about. The Nula's interest in us seems to be strictly academic.
This is a symbiotic relationship. Some channelers have glimpsed the atherial realm and returned with information that saved 7MV in times of great crisis. Never forget: you are connected to the Source just as the Nula are. You are wield the same Source as they. In exchange for companionship, human channelers will earn wisdom.
That's not to say the experience is always pleasant. 
7. Why me? 
You know something worth knowing: The Nula are scholars. Search yourself for any knowledge (no matter how for-granted you take it) that may be of use to a creature that has no points of contact with the material world.
You can do something worth doing: a Nula/Channeler relationship is symbiotic. Perhaps our cosmic forbears are here to give you a leg-up on a challenge you are about to face or an epiphany you are about to have.
Were there Zenion channelers as well? If you so, then why did Zenia fall? If you can answer that you would have solved a riddle that only the monoliths know.
8. Making the Most of It
The channeler sometimes experiences a dizzying oversaturation of perspective. I suggest having a channeler-sitter with you for the first few months of your visitation. They can take care of all your material concerns while your inner self is communing with an entity older than most stars.
- Consider leaving a voice-activated recorder to chronicle experiences you may not remember after returning to the physical world.
- Make sure all blunt and sharp objects are in a secure, difficult-to-access place.
- Have your sitter tuck you in at night. You may risk falling out of bed.
- Keep a journal nearby, even if it feels like you can't articulate your experience in writing. Many channelers have found illumination in a scribble.
9. Oscillations
"Are there two spirals: light and dark? Or is there one spiral that is both light and dark? Still, staying too long in either leads to the same outcome: stagnation."
Rose, herbalist emeritus, 7MV
Can the material world ever be transcended entirely? Or would evolutionary memory retain the ghost of the ego, in spite of our best memories to shell it?
Perhaps this is the fate of the Nula, who oscillate down through the aeons between communal and shadow forms. Think about the people you know. How are they like the Nula? Is your grandmother one of the collective? Is the artist a shadow, haunting the wildlands? How about your friends growing up? The executive? How are these people oscillating or, or failing to oscillate, along the spiral?
The last of the Zenion rulers made themselves into symbols, Thali tells us. One Zenion lord, we're told, fired beams of Source into the air for his 60th birthday, lighting the gaunt, hungry faces of the swimmers below. Where is he on the spiral? Where is motion?
The spiral is a thin, fragile thing and no one coil could hold weight for long.
10. The Aetherial
The Source well was either fuel for the ancient Nula, or a tunnel to another place or both. We know that physical beings are not suited for cosmic travel in whatever form it takes, be it physically moving between stars, or between the mental convergences of the Multiverse.
The only way Nula can prepare themselves for trips of this nature is by following the spiral, the spiral coiling up from our Source well and all Source wells. This dedication to the spiral nature of light and shadow keep Nula in pliable bodies that can cross the cold gulfs of space, or the cold gulfs of the psyche. 
Some people say that Source is the most precious resource in the Multiverse. I'd instead argue that balance and poise are more valuable. 
11. What now?
... is a question I struggle with all the time. I know that there are pitfalls to the right and left of you. It is equally perilous to ignore the being inside you as it is to believe that this visitation makes one elect. What you are experiencing could be another accident of Nula biology, nothing more. 
But let me offer this: the Shadow Nula you are channeling has been cut off from its community. They are living an existence as alien to themselves as they are to you.
Be the light, then. Think of your channeling as an opportunity for gain, but not for yourself. All around you are people that need you. This corner of the Multiverse is all they have ever known. Most beings never even get off Earth. You can be their eyes. You can describe the cosmos. You can be the link between their solitary, shadow existence and the numinous. 
They'll thank you. Your Shadow Nula will, too.
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