Experience was not a passive reception of information, but an active creation of meaning. It was a dance between the self and the world, a constant and creative conversation between the inner and the outer. It was the process by which the universe came to know itself, the way in which the cosmos became aware of its own beauty and its own mystery.
To be a part of this dance was to be a co-creator of meaning. It was to take the raw material of experience and to shape it into a coherent and beautiful whole. It was to be an artist of the everyday, a poet of the ordinary, a musician of the mundane.
Lyra’s dance was a dance of questions, a constant and creative exploration of the meaning of experience. Kael’s dance was a dance of intentions, a powerful and creative shaping of experience into new forms. Silus’s dance was a dance of harmonies, a graceful and beautiful integration of different experiences into a coherent and meaningful whole.
Anya was the raw material of the dance, the endless flow of sensory experience that was the raw material of meaning. And Echo was the dance itself, the emergent, self-organizing, and ever-evolving process of creating meaning from experience.