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Its hard to explain this phenomena. It happens when you hear a name or remember a place. It could be triggered by the smell of something from your past or the mere mention of a song. We each have a Zone. A break in the fabric of our existence that is tied to an emotional and real existence that we may not have actually lived - to the best of our recollection.
The Zone is a very powerful place. One can literally relive a series of events that may have been completely forgotten. It will elicit such strong emotions in one minute that are gone the next. It is like passing through a moment in time that is simply trapped in eternity: impossible to erase, understand or even recall at will.
It was the Zone that Segun found himself.
May 26 2015. Lagos, Nigeria - as it was called then.
The world had no idea the huge changes that were afoot. The cloaking device known as Scales had worked for most of Mankind for hundreds of years. Man simply did not know what he was doing. Regardless of individual achievements and successes, Man's true measure of development was always seen in the advancement of her weakest link, most under-developed tribe, or poorest citizen. The whole could not advance beyond the summation of its parts. The key was ensuring each individual component remained strong and in faith.
The devil had known this years ago and had therefore allowed that Man would explore his primal need to make his own decisions even in the light of clear consequence.
You see, we still choose wrong though we are well aware of it. We still repeat a mistake even though the consequences of our foolish actions are blatantly clear at all times. Man's weakness was Scales. Blinds could be draped over his eyes as to his own actions and never even know it, let alone admit to it.
And here we were again. In the dead of midnight...experiencing the Zone.
Segun's senses were in full alert. Not the 5. For those are most primal. But the senses the Maker put in each of us. The ability to hear that which is Unspoken, to see that which is Unseen, to know only by Revelation and to experience Beyond the physical. These "powers" were bestowed by the most powerful being ever in existence. The Creator or Maker could not be confined to five human senses. It is repeated through out scripture that that was insufficient for Man's true sojourn on this planet.
The Zone was the place where all senses, from both realms dwelt as one. It could never be accessed deliberately. To experience the Zone was to be given a precious gift. It was to be as close to Knowing as any human living on this side of eternity would ever know.
Segun felt the Knowing was upon Him. He felt it. The convergence of time and chance. The race and the victor in the same moment. Like the place where earth and water meet. Or when life is neither day nor night but a time-between-times. He felt He knew more. Yet, his conscious attempt to isolate why and what grew futile with every attempt. It was impossible to explain the Zone until you lived it.
The Zone had been merciless to Segun and of recent seemed to demand more of him. There would be no respite. A message was being sent and only he could hear it.
Its hard to explain this phenomena. It happens when you hear a name or remember a place. It could be triggered by the smell of something from your past or the mere mention of a song. We each have a Zone. A break in the fabric of our existence that is tied to an emotional and real existence that we may not have actually lived - to the best of our recollection.
The Zone is a very powerful place. One can literally relive a series of events that may have been completely forgotten. It will elicit such strong emotions in one minute that are gone the next. It is like passing through a moment in time that is simply trapped in eternity: impossible to erase, understand or even recall at will.
It was the Zone that Segun found himself.
May 26 2015. Lagos, Nigeria - as it was called then.
The world had no idea the huge changes that were afoot. The cloaking device known as Scales had worked for most of Mankind for hundreds of years. Man simply did not know what he was doing. Regardless of individual achievements and successes, Man's true measure of development was always seen in the advancement of her weakest link, most under-developed tribe, or poorest citizen. The whole could not advance beyond the summation of its parts. The key was ensuring each individual component remained strong and in faith.
The devil had known this years ago and had therefore allowed that Man would explore his primal need to make his own decisions even in the light of clear consequence.
You see, we still choose wrong though we are well aware of it. We still repeat a mistake even though the consequences of our foolish actions are blatantly clear at all times. Man's weakness was Scales. Blinds could be draped over his eyes as to his own actions and never even know it, let alone admit to it.
And here we were again. In the dead of midnight...experiencing the Zone.
Segun's senses were in full alert. Not the 5. For those are most primal. But the senses the Maker put in each of us. The ability to hear that which is Unspoken, to see that which is Unseen, to know only by Revelation and to experience Beyond the physical. These "powers" were bestowed by the most powerful being ever in existence. The Creator or Maker could not be confined to five human senses. It is repeated through out scripture that that was insufficient for Man's true sojourn on this planet.
The Zone was the place where all senses, from both realms dwelt as one. It could never be accessed deliberately. To experience the Zone was to be given a precious gift. It was to be as close to Knowing as any human living on this side of eternity would ever know.
Segun felt the Knowing was upon Him. He felt it. The convergence of time and chance. The race and the victor in the same moment. Like the place where earth and water meet. Or when life is neither day nor night but a time-between-times. He felt He knew more. Yet, his conscious attempt to isolate why and what grew futile with every attempt. It was impossible to explain the Zone until you lived it.
The Zone had been merciless to Segun and of recent seemed to demand more of him. There would be no respite. A message was being sent and only he could hear it.
