We take you to the river, and we cleanse you. You have heard this story many times. We take you to the river, and we cleanse you: You are reborn by the water and now must allow for the conception of a new water. This means not only the waters in the rivers, lakes, oceans, and rains but also the water of emotion that now washes over you. For this water to do what it is meant to, you must let it cleanse you. As a species, the humanness of you has held back the waters. The pain has been contained within your bodies. Now your bodies release the waters — the emotions.

The dam has been released. You can think of it as this: Beavers built a dam to live in, as you did. You built a dam and you lived in it to hold back the water, and you fed in that water. That’s how you fed yourself: in the container of the held-back waters. You thought you understood things because of these waters. You thought you were being fed by the waters you contained. Now that the waters are releasing, it is a different experience. This one who you know as Anara has been overwhelmed.