The Way of the Shaman--Part 2 024 -- 1984 What we call a human being is a cross section of a fixed path through the Creation and it is through this path that the essential self travels. If the speed of the essential self's passage changes, inevitably its identification with the machine is lessened or else disappears entirely. Naturally the essential self would begin to question its situation and at this point it could become aware of the Work. Mr. Gold explains how his `music' is intended to produce this effect of changed rates of passage.