The energy making its way through the Giant doesn’t move from here to there haphazardly. One thing we noticed right from the start: the energy travels along specific paths. And these energy paths that we’ve seen in the Giant remind us of the energy meridians that exist in us on our own human scale. During our last visit to Liverpool we began to see that the Giant’s energy was moving along meridians in much the same way as our own chi does. We’ve decided to call these G-chi paths because they’re so similar to the chi meridians in our own human body.

     As we started to map these paths we wondered if it was possible to travel along them with the Giant’s chi. Hard to do if we thought of ourselves on our own human scale, but because we’re so small on the Giant’s Scale we realized we’d be just the right size in the Landscape of the Giant. Places where there are blockages to the Giant’s chi would seem large to us. We’d be able to see the residues that accumulate when energy slows and stagnates as it flows through the Giant. And in a way you could even say that if we walked along the G-chi paths we’d be giving the Giant an energy massage from the inside out microscopically on a cellular level.

    It’s hard to say how many days it took for this overall shape of two interlocked ovals to crystalize for us. We didn’t actually grasp its full significance until after our visit was over. But the more we moved through the Landscape of the Giant and shifted our scale of consciousness to that of the Giant, the more clearly we came to see that there were pulses of energy moving along these two oval pathways. All sorts of questions arose from this sight. Where does the energy come from? Where is it going? What does it do? Here’s what we’ve found out about this so far.

1) The energy moving along the G-chi paths enters into the Giant’s body from both the crown and the root - two different entry points for the energies that nourish the Giant. The energy at the crown can be seen coming in from some other place a long, long way away. Watching it from the fire pit in the field there, it can be seen to enter from the sky above, it comes from beyond the earth’s atmosphere, from another galaxy even, from some completely other place impossibly far away out there somewhere. The energy entering into the root comes from some completely other place as well. Watching it from above the spring in the cemetery it seems to roll out from the depths of the ground, from the centre of the earth, from beyond that even, from someplace impossibly far away inside the fabric of the world. For now we are remembering the difference between these two energies by saying that the energy coming in through the crown is from the cosmos and the energy coming in from the root is from the ancestors. It is interesting that the Giant does not generate its own energy - it needs to receive and process energy from outside to sustain itself.

2) The energy entering through the root and crown does not arrive as the pulses we see moving along the G-chi paths, but comes into the Giant in a more uniform way. In the crown it falls like a gentle rain and collects in the field. Then when a certain amount of energy is present it moves out as a pulse that moves along the two G-chi paths that run down to the root through the Giant’s chakras. In the root the energy coming into the Giant arises as small bubbling waves rolling up from below in much the same way a natural spring flows up from the earth. When a certain amount is present it moves out as a pulse of energy that moves along the two G-chi paths that run up to the crown through the Giant’s chakras. The G-chi pulses that originate in the root and the crown continue to circulate along the oval path they first entered until their energy has been fully absorbed by the chakras they travel through.

3) The chakras receive this circulating energy from the passing energy pulse in two basic ways. The pulses themselves throw it off naturally as they move along. At times this is quite dramatic, like sparks or electrical discharges shooting off. Sometimes it is more gentle like perspiration seeping to the surface and dropping off. The second way is for the landscape of the chakra to draw the energy off the pulse. Sometimes this happens accidently as the energy pulse bumps against some feature of the landscape. Sometimes there are specific locations along the Gi-chi path that are specialized in this activity - acting like groves of trees with low hanging branches that brush against the passing pulse. Sometimes the Gi-chi path flows through into a widened area that slows the pulse and encourages it to stay while energy is combed and separated from the pulse by the landscape.

4) When the Giant’s chakra absorbs the energy that it receives from the passing energy pulse it combines it with other energies native to the chakra and produces new and (to some extent) more refined forms of energy. This process is similar to what happens in our own human selves when we digest food. Initially the body can’t use the food as it is received from outside itself. It must be broken down and recombined to produce substances that are more specific to the individual needs and activities in various body locations. The chakra energy system in the Giant is not so chemical in nature, but the process of using energy from outside the Giant to produce new and more specifically useful forms of energy inside the Giant is analogous.

5) Some of these newly-made energy-forms are to be used in the chakra where they are created, but some are needed in another chakra as one of the components necessary in the formation of even more complex forms of energy. So when an energy pulse arrives in the chakra it often picks up the imprint of a newly-created energy-form and transports it along the two main oval G-chi paths to other locations in the Giant’s chakra body where it is used in further energy-creating functions occurring there. (We will focus on specific instances of these energy-exchanges in the next section of this writing as we relate our experiences following energy pulses along the Gi-chi paths.)

6) When an energy pulse picks up the imprint of one of these newly-made energy-forms, the moment of contact invariably manifests as an event, a curiously strong and symbolic one when seen on the Giant’s scale. The event that occurs always has a highly emotional quality. Not that all energy-exchange events convey the same feeling, not at all - the particular emotion involved with their sighting is quite unique in every case - but they all have the same unusual and somewhat unsettling tone. You can’t miss them, and even when you do, looking back on it later you can easily see what it was that you missed. And it isn’t as if there’s a lack of content - the content is there and it’s quite complex. Better to say that these energy-exchanges are immediately felt but not necessarily understood in the moment. It’s almost as if they register as a symbol with all the content information contained inside.

7) When an energy pulse encounters one of these newly-made energy-forms it does not actually pick it up and carry it away. What happens instead is that an imprint of its structural arrangement is transferred to the energy pulse. An analogy might be helpful here. We could say that the pulse that circulates along the Gi-chi path is composed of an energy-substance that is soft and pliable like clay. But when the newly-made chakra energy-form is created it becomes fired in the process. It’s almost as if its surface has become hardened into a symbol or glyph which stands out in relief like a stamp. When this newly-made energy-form comes into contact with a passing energy pulse, the rigid symbol of its energy arrangement pushes into the relatively softer energy-substance of the energy pulse and leaves an impression without transferring any actual material. When the energy pulse moves on along the Gi-chi path it carries away this impression.

8) When the energy pulse receives the imprint of a newly-formed energy-form, the energy-substance around this impression is also fired and hardened and the impression is thus preserved, at least temporarily. There is a distinctly emotional quality to this moment when the exchange of structural information occurs. A strong and distinctive event invariably manifests in the landscape of the chakra during this contact and everything arranges itself to display all the inherent content in a highly symbolic way.

9) When the energy pulse carrying the impression of the exchange reaches another chakra it can pass on the impression it is carrying. Again there is no exchange of substance, but rather an exchange of symbolic information. The still-rigid impression on the energy pulse acts like a mold as it receives the softer, more pliable substance of the chakra’s energy and casts it into the energy shape it picked up originally.

    Now at this point it must be said that we did not observe these aspects of the Giant’s energy system all at one time or even in the order that they have just been presented. Our understanding of the overall energy-transfer system in and between the Giant’s chakras has been and will continue to be a gradual, step-by-step process. It should also be stressed that this is not an “objective” point of view. It is a recounting of what it looks like when the consciousness of the viewer is shifted to the Giant’s Scale - it’s what the Giant’s energy process looks like from the point of view of the energy itself.

    The landscape where this energy process occurs in the Giant is not the human landscape we experience in our every-day activities in the city. Because we are sleeping in much the same way that the Giant is sleeping, we only see things on our own human scale. We don’t even guess there might actually be a whole other scale of activity going on in the very same space we mistakenly think is our own private place. We don’t want to see that the city of Liverpool and everything occurring there might also be, concurrently, important energy manifestations in the landscape of the Giant. It should, however, lead us to speculate that something like this must also be occurring on our own human scale within ourselves. Holistically speaking there is no real difference between the Giant and ourselves. If we were able to shift our consciousness to the cellular scale of our own energy landscape we might well see the energy moving there inside our own selves in much the same way we’ve seen it behave in the Giant.

    Before going on it’s useful to mention a few more things that we’ve recently seen concerning the Giant’s chi energy. The oval shape of the two main energy paths is the overall shape the Gi-chi would take if everything in the system was balanced and the Giant was fully awake. The Giant is still asleep however and its chakras are not functioning the way they would in their awakened state. There are many energy blockages and places where the energy Landscape impedes the Gi-chi flow. So the two main Gi-chi paths are not the perfect ovals that the diagram describes when they are encountered in the Landscape of the Giant. Make no mistake though, the energy pulses always find a way to circulate through the Giant’s chakras - it’s just that they have to find their way around chronically problematic places within the energy Landscape. Certain chakras are particularly blocked and new and more difficult obstacles constantly arise. We’ve noticed that the energy pulse is often forced to find new and topically viable Gi-chi routes in the Giant’s throat and will chakras. Recent specific instances of this will be noted in the following section describing the Gi-chi paths.

    The second thing to mention is that the two main oval Gi-chi paths are not the only ones in the energy landscape. There are numerous “lesser” Gi-chi paths that connect various places in the energy landscape of the chakra where they are located. Occasionally they will continue on into the adjoining chakra, but generally they are the “local roads” in contrast to the “super-highways” of the two main oval Gi-chi paths which are the major meridians of the energy’s inter-chakra flow. Thirdly: it’s important to note that the energy pulses don’t circulate one at a time, one by one. Any number are sure to be moving along different sections of the main Gi-chi paths simultaneously, although right now we don’t really know their rate of frequency.

     So. To review. Energy from somewhere else is received by the Giant in the root and crown chakras. This energy becomes concentrated into a pulse that moves along the right or left G-chi path until its energy is released and absorbed at multiple chakra locations. Some of the energy that is absorbed is used to sustain basic functions in the Giant. The chakras also use some of the energy they receive from the pulse to create new forms of energy. Another energy pulse picks up the imprint of these newly-made energy-forms and circulates them throughout the Giant’s body. These imprints are received in other chakra locations and are used to recreate copies of the original energy-forms that passed on the imprint to the energy pulse. The receiving chakra combines these copies with other, often locally produced energy-forms to continue the production of more complex forms of energy. This is an unconscious and continually operating activity that supports and to some extent even defines the aliveness of the Giant. It functions even when the Giant is asleep; the Giant would not be alive if it didn’t function this way.

    This system works very well for maintaining the Giant in a sleeping state. But if the Giant is to wake up, it will need a completely different process to make the necessary transformative energy forms required for altering its state of consciousness. This continual circulation of new energy (from outside the Giant) and of altered energy (created within the Giant using the energy received from outside the Giant) will not suffice. A different, more refined energy is required. A new system of energy creation and movement must begin to operate. Both the energy that arrives from outside the Giant and the altered energy forms that have been created within the Giant must be brought to a specific location. They must be brought to the Giant’s heart.

    We’d always known from the very beginning that the heart chakra was key to the Giant’s awakening, and that this was where the process begins. This emerging understanding eventually took the form of a second chakra Story, a smaller whole within the larger whole of the overall Giant Story. This second sentient Story eventually became consolidated as the central play in an epic cycle we wrote down soon after our second visit. Full outlines of all the plays are included in the appendix. Here’s the outline of the heart story in its short form:

    A woman is sitting in her kitchen in Liverpool when a letter is delivered into her hands. The letter, which is written in the language of the heart, is from a very old acquaintance she has forgotten about but with whom she has a deep intimacy. An extraordinary meeting is upcoming. It will happen in her home. Six others are already traveling towards the meeting and she will be the seventh. Everyone is bringing essential skills and objects to use in an important endeavour together. They’re coming to the woman’s home from far away and have some work to do before they arrive. She is the only one of the seven who doesn’t have to travel, but she has to make all the preparations.

     The meeting referred to in this play takes place in the heart chakra and the six characters who are coming to the meeting are each from one of the other six chakras. We have always known that there is to be a meeting in the heart and also that our role is to be part of the preparations for this meeting. But what we didn’t realize was that this story was also a very specific reference to a whole new system of energy movement that links the Giant’s other six chakras to a special location in the heart.

    As we got better at shifting our consciousness to the Giant’s scale it became increasingly easier for us to see what was happening energetically within the Giant. Little by little, bit by bit, our abilities while in this new state of consciousness began to improve. Our relationship with the Giant Story was improving as well. We’d heard the call of the Giant’s dreaming and acted as if the Story was true. And because we did, the Story was now responding to us, continuing to evolve as we entered into its unfolding saga. This new information about the Giant’s energy system was just the Story telling us what we needed to know so we could do what we had to do next - if we wanted to take a role in the ongoing Story, we had to see with more clarity how the Giant’s energy flowed. Not surprisingly we were given the opportunity to see just that.

    We didn’t see the entire shape of this energy system right away - the diagram of energy flow on the preceding page shows the cumulative understanding we managed to reach eventually. But one thing was certainly clear at the start: transformational energy needed to be created in the Giant’s heart. And not just the heart in some general sense, but a largely unknown and unique location in the landscape of that chakra was the only place where all the various energies could come together to meet and combine. We realized right away that we already knew where this place was. It was Sweetheart Park, the small, out-of-the-way park we’d discovered early on in our first visit. It had always been a very special location for us, although, curiously, hardly any of the people who live in the city knew of this place at all. It was almost as if it didn’t exist, though for some reason this place was key to the upcoming transformational process.

     We also knew that the energy pulses never went through this place in the heart. They passed nearby, but how would they turn and take a new path that branched away from the main Gi-chi pathway? The pulses had no real consciousness, they lacked the innate ability to choose the way to go. If left to themselves they just go along the main Gi-chi path they’re already on. This is a very useful thing for keeping the Giant alive and well - the energy pulses will continue to flow throughout the Giant’s chakra body without any guidance at all. But this same automatic tendency also keeps the Giant asleep. Some special consciousness was clearly needed to alter the course of an energy pulse. It wouldn’t take much, just enough to turn it along the unused path to Sweetheart Park.

    Taking on the role of special consciousness marked a pivotal point in our work with the Giant. We still didn’t understand very much about what the special consciousness did, but it was definitely true that we already knew what we needed to know to act it out. Interestingly enough we’d actually been preparing for this role for some time. On our very first visit we mapped out the Giant’s chakras and we found the meeting place in the Giant’s heart. On our second trip we tuned into the Giant’s dreaming and wrote out plays for each of the chakras. These plays all referred to an upcoming meeting that was going to take place in the Giant’s heart. On our third trip we began to prepare the meeting place in the Giant’s heart so it could receive and process new energy. And all this happened before we knew anything about the Giant’s energy system.

     When we arrived for our fourth visit we found and mapped all the G-chi paths as well as the turnings that connected them to the meeting place in the Giant’s heart. We saw the incoming energy arrive in the root and crown. We noticed energy pulses moving along the G-chi paths, around and around the Giant’s body as they picked up the newly-created energy-forms the chakras produced. Everything that we needed to know to take on this role was shown to us. This was a part we could certainly play! Because in our hearts we definitely knew we’d been called all the way to Liverpool to take on this role, summoned by the Giant’s intent to fully awaken.

    So at the end of our 4th stay we traveled with an energy pulse along the Giant’s main G-chi paths on four consecutive days. Path #1 started in the root and rose up through the chakras on the western side, crossed through the crown and descended down the eastern side until we turned the energy pulse and brought it to the meeting place in the Giant’s heart. On the second day we traveled with an energy pulse down from the crown along path #2. We descended through the chakras on the western side, crossed through the root and turned upwards again along the eastern side until we turned the energy pulse in towards the meeting place in the Giant’s heart. Path #3 started out in the crown. On that third day we traveled down the G-chi path on the eastern side of the Giant, crossed through the root and traveled upwards again along the western side until we turned the energy pulse and finally arrived at the meeting place in the Giant’s heart. On the final day we started in the root for path #4. We picked up an energy pulse and traveled with it along the path that rose along the eastern side. After crossing the crown and descending down the western side we turned the energy pulse towards the meeting place in the Giant’s heart. Four energy pulses along four different paths on four consecutive days.

    The same thing happened on the next three days as we waited in the crown and the root to start our trek with an energy pulse. Not the exact same event of course, but an unavoidable message to us that the energy pulse was leaving. We’ve come to think of the various people who turn up this way when an energy pulse is about to start off as dispatchers because that’s what they do from our point of view. Now these people don’t have the slightest idea that they’re playing a role in the way the whole Giant Story unfolds. Surely they had their own personal story that they saw themselves to be acting within. But the tone and the timing of what they do is absolutely significant within the larger Giant Story that they aren’t really able to see. It reminded us of the lyric from the Beatles’ song Penny Lane: “And though she feels as if she’s in a play, she is anyway.”

     Generally we found that the role of special consciousness wasn’t as hard for us to take on as we thought it might be. Our ability to move along with the energy pulse became greatly improved, and we were able to see with more clarity what happened as it moved along through the various chakras. We knew already that especially emotional events occurred when the energy pulse picked up the imprints of the various energy forms it encountered. But these events took on a whole new level of expression for us in our role as special consciousness. They looked completely different, more like symbols than events, and we felt the imprint they made in a much more personal way than before. It wasn’t so much that we understood the content of each imprint, but rather the symbol that manifested when the imprint occurred demonstrated the exact structural relationship of the entire content without us having to know what it meant.

     We haven’t as yet fully understood everything contained within these symbolic events, but each event was so strong and complete that it’s still possible now for us to recall the internal structure of all that happened that day. In the writing that follows we’ve noted the symbols that manifested at the imprint exchanges along each of the four paths. We’ve highlighted certain aspects of each symbol to underline some of the emotional qualities that were part of the events that manifested. But mostly we’ve just presented them exactly as they occurred.

    Up until now our main responsibility has been to make sure that the energy pulse is turned to Sweetheart Park. To do this we don’t really need to know what each imprint means, but as we act out the role of special consciousness we are in a unique position to observe the process of the Giant’s awakening from the inside out. These symbols that we were able to see on the four days we traveled with the energy pulse were notable in that they were exactly what the Giant needed to bring to its heart to begin the transformational process. Are each of these symbols universally necessary for this process to occur or are they just the particular ones that this particular Giant needed at this particular time? This is a large question and one that we are interested in pursuing in more detail as the work with the Giant proceeds. Whatever the answer this much is certain: when we see these symbols arising within the Giant we are witnessing a basic process that is part of the ongoing evolution of consciousness.