Dear friends at Peony,
Hope this email finds you well in these strange times.
(Pardon me if I do not observe trade conventions for this is the first of such correspondence I ever made.) I write today to your good selves on our age-old obsession for the never-ending story that is Love.
This is the event website for a party (link) I have planned for my wife. To be a little less boring, the evening is in the format of a “letter” - last of 108 I promised her. This website is also a sort of digital shoebox for all things we hold dear. This private link (link) is her landing page.
Thanks to Covid, I have had time with this - the very best gift I have for the love of my life. Along the way, as if by clockwork, a host of synchronicities spring up in rather magical and beautiful ways. Some of these are captured in the videos. To us, there are no better testaments to the magic we are all truly living in, and no better backup for that bold, “cheesy” statement I have on the homepage.
On the link are some videos and a photo album. A hodgepodge of travel log, schoolboy poetry, favorite music, films, etc., these videos are created with an audience of one in mind. They are rather personal and represent a great deal of meaning to the two of us. To be honest, a lot of it may only make “sense” to us; but it is not the content or the pretty pictures that I am here to talk about.
We decide to share them with you for a reason that might be best told with a feeling. This feeling is at once personal and universal. Our natural resonance to it reveals that deep down we are all really one and the same. In its presence our hearts open to a reality where things are woven by connections invisible to the eye. Here, life feels like the miracle it truly is. Here, words are superfluous. I defer to this feeling to convey what I am here to communicate.
A bit more background. The theme for the party is Beauty and Magic - to which, in the tradition of answering her questions in my letters during our dating days, I put forth my darnedest reply. Bohmian concepts on the quantum field (link), Solzhenitsyn’s discourse on Beauty (link), Bryan Ferry’s lyrics, etc. and great many things in between are invoked to make my point. The photos mark the tracks along the way. The evening is to be captured and kept on the website; but due to Covid the party is now postponed.
Love stories, real ones are lived every day the world over… Ours is but one of many, many. I, for one, cannot wait to see what others do to celebrate their magic, to feel the love through those who put their heart and soul into living it. Like your good selves in the publishing field, we believe resonance follows a law. Like ripples, it flows out. We need only let ourselves and just go with this flow. When things are in sync, we cannot but feel natural captivation. When in resonance, life all of a sudden feels and looks different. Synchronicities show up as markers on a path, leaving us curious of what we might find around the next corner.
Without putting too many expectations in your mind, may I ask for a lazy afternoon to peruse the event website as our guest? Should you find this resonance is present, I would like to discuss a proposal for a storybook that writes itself in perpetuity.
A word on this other bold claim. Allow me an oversimplification to rehash timeless esoterica - what might be closest to truth that human understanding xxxxxxx. As you know, we are at our core vibrations and we respond to the same. Frequencies are at existence’s most basic level the precursors of form, and they go on to manifest into all there is in the universe. They determine at what state we vibrate as well as the level of harmony we have with the world. Without pointing out the obvious, humanity is at a state of advanced fragmentation at the moment. However, since the field is all pervasive and energy in it move around in one seamless ocean, no matter how fragmented we become there is always a way to trace our way backwards to the pristine harmonization we once were - the point in a prizm where rainbow becomes light. Pure light. Where literally all is one and one is all.
This point is the “original” fragmentation, also the very point to which we all harbour an inner yearning to return, so to once again feel whole. To feel Love.
A “clue” is revealed in the way this original fragmentation takes place. The way Existence goes on to manifest itself gives way to the blueprint of its own architecture. Frequencies travel in trajectories, in bands of colours so to speak. They could go on to fragment into indefinite number of worlds; yet they are of one single source. These “trajectories” are quantifiable. This is also the reason astrology (some may say a higher science than modern astronomy) is able to work. There is a map. When we pay attention, we see it.
I am here to talk about this architectural blueprint and how by using this map it is possible to speak to everyone on the planet. Every single one of us is a product of our frequencies. Underneath form, these are what might be described as our essence. “Personalities” exist in our basic makeup, and as such they make for direct channels into communicating with our core - in ways beyond words. This is also the reason why - if this is shown to different people, they will feel different intensity to the material. In the case of 108 letters, all the music, films, words, and really the people behind them who produce them are themselves vibrating on the same channel. This is the reason this stirfry feels in sync. xxxxxx In words or music or film, these underlying frequencies show through AND ARE ABLE TO SYNC UP.
In total, there are 9 of these basic frequencies. The “purer” the frequency, the more potent its penetrative force. One story has the power to reach 1/9th of the world. Our hearts respond to it in ways supernatural to any human construct. xxxxxxxxx Our eyes will catch the knowing glance of a kindred spirit. Our heartstrings are yanked by the feeling of knowing exactly how it feels to be “on the same boat”. xxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx
As readers, we lament that as a category “love stories” are no longer in fashion. Our focus in these times are diverted to many directions and distractions. We have forgotten much and xxxxxxxx.
Should you still be here with me, you must have felt something that engages you on a level deeper than just the conscious everyday mind with all its concepts. There is something with independent existence at work here. This frequency connects the subjective with the objective. It’s both inside and out there, as souls we receive and transmit it. It literally passes through us. The proverbial wave in a timeless ocean.
To close, I will bring up the latest synchronicity, which took place just last week. The planning of this party has taken much longer than I anticipated. I now understand why. I have held reservation about its message being lost in translation. For all the song and dance, the subtext to the story is for us to pick up the mantel and be that cocreator. For it is our true nature. I have held reservation whether this message is clearly expressed. The feeling does not feel 100%. This is in L110.
Cocreators of stories that are our lives.
Sacred Space. This shoebox. Thanks to Tom. Magician video magically weaves together all the materials presented in one coherent, condensed 15 mins.
Baby driver. Introverts Half the world.
L110
Diamonds. Repository of forever.
Convergence.
Liminid space. Steward. First letter.
Condensation of many into 9.
Let me close this letter with a few words on our intention. We are not seeking to publish. My wife and I are classic introverts and rather keep to ourselves. Your good selves at Peony are the only one in the business with whom I am making contact. As said, we are following the synchronicities and they have led us here. We feel very fortunate to have been graced and touched deeply. We feel we must pass it on.
As a casual writer I have never found satisfaction in expression with words. “Feelings” escape my command of language. What makes me say these video letters make the best gift I can ever give is the unexpected outcome from mixing those things we love. It seems everyone - chanteuses, dancers, filmmakers - people who live in love for what they do - come to my aid and help me paint this picture. I did not write the words, nor the music; but there is no better thing than this song and dance to bring out and communicate the exact feeling I have inside. I say this because no matter how many times I watch these creations of mine, my own heart races as if watching for the first time. These homemade videos turn out to be unwitting repositories of a piece of me.
Ours is but one of countless many in the world. Stories (link) that soothe, literally stories that save our souls. My wife and I are content with knowing we have done our small part to stand on the side of Love in these strange crazy times. it might be possible to use our collective stories to strengthen our overall connection to love - a force of creative creation. To be honest, I have no idea if this will ultimately work; but I humbly submit that it is something worth our damnest try at this crazy time. In this crazy rainbow-coloured samsara of a world, the full-on embrace of this connection is the only real thing we can hang on to.
Look forward to continuing our conversation.
For love,
I&J Chan