(You are intended to walk before you fly, as you put it. Those who fly first must reach back and remember they have already learned to walk. This was necessary for you.) Now came the first of the high hard ones. Why me? Why did I learn to fly first? (You had the latent capability to perform an important function of a very minor nature at this point in the development of human consciousness.) What possible capability could that be! What function! It must be so minor I can’t perceive it. (You need but examine yourself, as you and only you know what you are. As to function, you are performing it very well, as expected.) With a little help now and then, I hope, whatever the function is … Can’t pull it all together instantly, have to sort it out … even to the beginning of my flying. Did they help on that one? (You were given some assistance. One facet of your capability was the actual instigator. It should be obvious to you. It directs your actions so frequently you have become conscious of it.) The percept flared instantly. I always felt the trait was of dubious quality. It always created more problems than solutions. Curiosity. (That is correct.) And the old saying, curiosity killed … (A different species. It may kill cats on occasion. You are alive in many forms.) Now, if I could just get a percept on this function business, I might be able to perform more efficiently. (We will attempt to bring you into an awareness of the totality of which your function is but a part, in other meetings. Until that is accomplished, you are unable to obtain a clear percept or any rote you receive will distort the function you are performing.) I held on to the promise of that statement, feeling very humble and inadequate … and astounded that I remained as calm as I had in the face of the encounter that was taking place … the effrontery of my probing, the extent of my ignorance … Their radiant response to these flickers of thought was so profound that I nearly broke down