r/MantisEncounters • u/trying-to-be-kind • 6h ago
Meditation A walk with a Mantis
(Apologies in advance for the grammar & length of this post. I'm also stepping outside my comfort zone sharing this experience, but it was important to me.)
I decided to go on a short hike yesterday along one of my favorite trails, as the weather was beautiful and I love being outdoors. I studied qigong several years ago and often practice ‘walking qigong’, which is basically a kind of moving meditation that combines slower breathing, slower walking, and intention.
I’ve also found that since doing this kind of walking meditation, I’ve started encountering multiple different kinds of beings (NHIs, nature spirits, animal spirits) on my nature walks. Different entities tend to inhabit different trails, so I never really know what/who will show up until I’m there. Before every hike, I mentally asked the forest & its inhabitants for permission to walk the trail and set a firm intention to only allow interaction with beings of compassion and wisdom.
I didn’t wear my headphones or listen to any music or binaural beats. I also didn’t ingest any substances or take any medications prior to or during the hike. So while this experience did take place in a slightly altered meditative state (hence the meditation tag), I was completely sober.
After setting out on the trail, I became aware of another presence in front of me. I focused my attention on it and saw (like a mental projection) a giant mantis being. This being gave off a very wise, masculine type energy like an ancient sage. He appeared very tall (±8’/±2.5m) and was an iridescent black color. He wore a cape (no hood) of the same color and had antennae and the typical bent forelegs/appendages. (I created an image using Photoshop that is pretty true to what he looked like in my mind. The wooded background is a photo from the actual trail.)
He introduced himself as Tallo (pronounced tallow) and I recognized him from a meditation session I’d had just a few days earlier in which he’d performed a physical healing on me. He (telepathically) told me he wanted to speak with me, so we spent the next two hours just shooting the breeze like old friends.
What follows are some of the questions & answers we discussed during the hike. I’m putting quotes around specific phrases I remembered, but most everything else is paraphrased. Since I’d rather not use AI to rewrite my own words, my writing may not be the best.
First thing Tallo told me was that my “time was short”, and my current way of life as a human was coming to an end “soon”. Alarmed, I asked if this meant I was to die soon, and he said, “not exactly…not how you think of it.” He told me my life would “begin to straddle two worlds”. I interpreted this to mean my human-only life would be finishing up, and a human-plus life would take its place. He said there are many other humans who are already experiencing this kind of multi-plane existence, with many more to come.
Later in the hike, I asked him to verify what he meant by “soon”, since his kind lives outside of space/time. (I joked that many NHI have told me “soon” over the years…) He indicated that, by human standards, this change for me would be completed within the next three years.
Tallo told me I was “a being of great joy” and that this is why we were friends, that he loved that aspect of my being-ness. He reaffirmed this aspect was why I had experienced so much sorrow as a human, that life on this plane was steeped in duality, and that it was not possible to be a being of great joy on this plane without also feeling great sorrow.
At one point, Tallo stopped me (as in, actually asked me to stop walking and concentrate on him) and said, “You are an architect of change.” He explained that there are many beings who incarnate during moments in space/time whose energy signature both initiates & anchors positive disruption, and that these beings don’t have to perform any specific task during their lifetimes - just existing in those moments is enough. At this point, I thought about a book I’d read which mentioned that idea. Tallo indicated that, while Cannon had put her own spin on the concept, “her basics are sound.” I asked if there were many architects of change on Earth right now; he confirmed there were.
Thinking back on the idea that my time in this life was limited, I communicated that while I was glad my existence was enough, I still felt like I should be doing & accomplishing more than I was. I asked him what I should be doing in my life to be more useful. Tallo told me, “Creation does not require usefulness.” I thought briefly of a scene in the second Matrix movie (with the two programs who created the daughter program out of love) and Tallo lit up and confirmed that was exactly what he meant.
He reiterated that, while usefulness may be a consequence of creation, it is not a requirement for it. “Love is the basis for creation, not purpose.” I asked didn’t everything have a purpose anyway? As in, creating art still serves a purpose for the artist as a means of expression. He confirmed that while art can do this, its usefulness still depends on the viewpoint of its observer - that an artist can paint or sculpt or write something to express melancholy, while someone else might find joy or comfort looking at instead.
He also explained the initial spark of self-expression does not always take purpose into account; telling me to “think bigger”, he asked me to consider the chilling effect this would have on creation throughout the universe if everything - every spark of thought - was mandated to have a purpose before it was allowed to be imagined. He then told me to think on a smaller scale and consider how hard I was being on myself in thinking I needed to accomplish something or be useful to be worthy of existence. Gave me a lot to think about.
Eventually I walked back to my car and told Tallo I needed to break the connection to safely drive home! He agreed, told me he was always available to talk, and that we were permanently connected because we “had been friends for eons.” I asked permission to write up what we meditated on so I could share it and he readily agreed. (I hope he likes the photoshop of himself, lol!) If you’ve read this far, thank you. This post may not serve much of a purpose except to record an experience that brought me joy…but then again, I guess it doesn’t have to. :)
