Chapter Twenty-Two
Pakua checked his alignment. His sits bones were pressed firmly into the ground. He sat in a lotus with his hips open to collect the energy into his center. The vertebrae of his spine were stacked one on top of the other in perfect symmetry. His shoulders were back and pressed down as though a weight pressed them away from his ears. His head was light, as though it floated in the ship’s atmosphere. His eyes were opened and focused on a single point of light.
The pain in his side was dull. He could push it from his mind entirely. It was the never-ceasing pain in his hearts that Pakua worked to dull. The only thing that lessened the pain was meditation. The higher up in the levels he went, the less the pain.
As younglings, Eloheem learned to enter the first phase of enl
