It's your memory now, It's not mine to experience any longer. I gave it away. You can remember last year, or the year that you were a Seven, or a Five, can't you? It's much the same. Everyone in the community has one-generation memories like those. But now you will be able to go back farther. Try. Just concentrate.
Call back the memory of the ride on the sled. Just the beginning of it, where you're at the top of the hill, before the slide starts. And this time, look down at the sled.
Excuse me, but don't you have to give me the memory?
Why can't everyone see them? Why did colors disappear?"
You've come very quickly to that conclusion. It took me many years. Maybe your wisdom will come much more quickly than mine.
We shouldn't have!
Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.
Another day. I'll tell you another day. Now we must work. And I've thought of a way to help you with the concept of color. Close your eyes and be still, now. I'm going to give you a memory of a rainbow.
Giver, how did it happen to you when you were becoming The Receiver? You said that the seeing-beyond happened to you, but not the same way.