There is a tone of harmony. There is a very strong theme of natural harmonies in Shikasta. The natural state of all beings in the Canopean empire is to be in harmony with one another. The Canopeans aid the process of linking together. They attempt to impose a "Lock" on all of their colonies that brings together the SOWF - or the "substance-of-we-feeling" which binds all planets and beings on those planets in harmony with one another. The