INTER CONNECTIVITY
1.
"In the Elliptical view, you are writing all of this into existence,"
Azure said.
2. "There are thousands of inhabitable shells," Kiles thought out
loud, "and NONE of them are as messed up as as THIS one!"
3. That fairly well wrapped up the volume on Earth.
4. "This is a unique experiment," they both agreed.
Countless shells in various stages of development were scattered
throughout the Universe: Some violent and some celestial... but
this one is downright sinister. Earth has produced a lot of
good and just as much evil.
5. "As you work on a solution, your co-located selves are working
on it with you," Azure said. He was able to present some of those
selves:
6. One Kiles was learning the Law of Attraction. Another
was fighting in a dimension where Lucifer defeated God and
subsequently annihilated that entire Universe. Another Kiles was
realizing, "We become what we think about," which answered the original
Kiles' question. As soon as one thinks a thought identical to
another consciousness, they connect, although one or both may be
unaware of the connection. Prayer, therefore, is mechanically
sound.
7. "Which brings us back to purpose," Kiles said. "What is
happiness?" Azure asked, interjecting the previous point, "Is it purely
a state of mind?" "How do you quantify the unquantifiable?" Kiles
added, which was where they were before the previous
distraction. "We will have to go back to the beginning," Azure
said, "Sometimes you don't have to quantify anything -- you just 'are.' Kiles smiled, "I
Am That, I Am."
'Purpose' is what drives us, he thought.
8. "And so you are," Azure confirmed. "Do you think some
day, someone might write about all of this?" Kiles asked
rhetorically. Azure just gave him that look.
THE
ELLIPSIS
9. Three D-20s were patrolling Cacci Dai space, stretching their
networked minds to infinity, in a Segment 7 paradigm.
D-20s were designed to patrol as a triune or in multiples of
three.
10. There was a small explosion that their high-precision
networked optics observed from far away, capturing more data in
that moment, than a week-long biological investigation. The lead
D-20 reported
the
anomaly to a patrol supervisor and engaged basic reconnaissance
protocols.
11. The wreckage revealed a family-sized space-faring
sedan; nothing worth salvaging. The debris was tagged and
re-directed toward Zena. There was one
biological survivor, roughly 4-cycles in age, that posed
a problem.
12. It was known that young biologicals were not self
sufficient, and required constant maintenance.
13. "Now what?" an assistant D-20 asked.
14. The 2nd assistant D-20 examined the child's jumpsuit,
"Do they have this kind of material?" it asked. The lead
D-20 approached, having tapped into the assistant's analysis. It
asked
some existential questions to itself, and replied, "No." "It's a
computerized fabric," of a complexity that required deeper spectral
analysis: The hybrid fabric had saved the child. Much of
the programming was passively inert.
15. The jumpsuit's manufacturer tag showed a holographic
10-planet system and nothing more.
16. With no further analysis needed, the lead D-20 paused to
appreciate the eternal expanse of
space, "It's all part of the
Ellipsis," it sighed.
LOBOTOMY
17. The head of Blue Funnel peered from the safety of his
mirror-domed B'line at the peaceful planet below. "So beautiful
and undisturbed," he thought. It would be a crime to export Blue
Funnel's commerce model to this world. He had observed that the
financial master of this world already knew Blue Funnel's playbook and
could probably teach him something he didn't know.
18. "Savagery," his pilot observed. Theotians were not
inherently psionic, so privacy was relative.
19. B'line cockpits could display images beyond the confines of
the
dome; revealing more data than a pilot would ever need. Those
images
contained various clips of Dirt's financial history. "Dirt," was
the Cacci-Dai transliteration of, "Earth," as the locals called
it. They were using an old Cacci-Dai map.
20. "So how does less than one percent of the population control
ninety-nine percent of the world's wealth?" the 2nd pilot asked the
obvious question. "Establish kingdoms and fiefdoms," the CEO
answered
nonchallantly, "and beat the population into submission."
Privately, he though, "Make sure nobody dares to ask that question."
21. The CEO took a more professional tone, "Destroy the
mind: Make the masses accept injustice as a natural way of
life:" Make food inedible, outlaw nature, sponsor a dependency on
drugs and kill anyone who doesn't play along.
22. "And put them in positions of power," the pilot added.
The comment was augmented with various images of Kings, Queens,
Presidents and Bankers. "Those guys," the CEO pointed at the
bankers, "Don't care who these guys are," he pointed at the heads of
state. "Sounds just like home," the pilot replied.
23. "At their advanced state, there's a faction that teaches that
their world is flat," the co-pilot noticed. His undertone
suggested, "How is that possible?"
24. "Destroy the mind," the CEO re-affirmed, "...and put them in
positions of power," he echoed. There was an encyclopedia
of stupid distractions invented by Humans to cover up every conceivable
crime. The masses were trapped inside a regulatory prison
while the self-annointed, upper-crust broke any law they pleased.
25. A medium-alert warning sounded at the tactical station, with
the subject in question, projected on a holographic viewer.
26. "Are you fracking kidding me!" the CEO screeched.
"That's one of us?" It was a statement of scorn and contempt more
than a question. "He's in a mountain house way over there," the
pilot transferred additional analytical data to the CEO's station.
27. "Covert Ops?" the co-pilot suggested. "Way the hell out
here?" the pilot wondered. "And I never got the memo!" the CEO
mocked. "We have to find out what the hell is going on before we
go any further: Are they connected with our guys on the
Island?"
28. "I highly, highly, doubt it," the pilot replied. "We
probably should get back," the co-pilot suggested with constrained
haste. "No argument -- hit it," the CFO agreed.
FEAR FARM
29. "Reverse matter is repelled by gravity, rather than
attracted to it," Kiles observed. "The anti-beings," Azure
pointed out. The entire Universe was dark matter, and from a dark
matter perspective, physics was the anomaly, not the other way
around.
30. The Earth, if seen with ungated sensory perception, would be
crystal clear on all bandwidths at all levels: Nothing would be
hidden.
31. But in fact, Human biology has severely diminished
perception; forcing Humans to rely on hunches and instinct more than on
empirical evidence. "Psionists are not long for this shell,"
Kiles noted. "Nothing is more frightening than the truth," Azure
added -- referring to how bona fide psionists are always killed once
discovered. Smart psionists kept their talent a secret and avoid
attracting attention to their unnatural intuition. 'Someone
who would let
themselves get caught and killed couldn't have been a smart psionist,'
Kiles thought... "death by ego."
32. "The anti-beings are different creatures: They inverted
their polarity and alligned with darkness. They were imprisoned
on Earth until their impending disincorporation. They feed upon
cruelty, hopelessness, fear and all forms of negativity," Azure
said. "Dark energy vampires," Kiles coined, "If shellans could
control their emotions, the anti-beings would die," Kiles
restated. "Yes, exactly," Azure agreed, "Evil, is in fact,
their food." It is responsible behavior that enables
escape, more than love. One can love sin and death. Evil
cannot commit a genuine act of sacrifice any more than God can force
his creations to love him.
33. "Which begs the question..." Kiles began. "...Why Azoth
allows it?" Azure finished for him. Kiles nodded.
34. "Friction," Azure answered. "The war between good and
evil is a war between freedom and bondage; expansion and
contraction." "Life through light and death..." Kiles quoted half
the litany. "You know your Kor," Azure smiled, and finished,
"beauty and savagery." "Intelligence and ignorance," Kiles added
contrast, "because ignorance is a choice. The litany was from the
1st Dan," Kiles clarified. Azure nodded, "I wrote it." "No
shit?" Kiles whispered.
35. "How do you suppoed Kor rose to the level he did?" Azure
asked. Kiles knew Azure was not scratching for something shallow,
'Did he write that?' he thought.
36. "Music," Kiles answered. Azure looked at him,
surprised. "That's a layer or two, deeper than where I was going,
but OK." At the vacuum level of existence -- vibration had a
place in the equasion. "El Sha and Daniel!" Kiles offered
again. Azure laughed, "Well, I suppose that fits the vibration
catagory too!" "Guards!" Kiles sighed, "I give." Vejhon's
watershell resonated at 528 Hz.
37. "I wasn't reaching for Zena," Azure assured him, "I just
wanted to point out that once the path had been created, Kor was
created to walk that path."
38. "You didn't write that!" Kiles chided him
politely, "Did you?"
GRATITUDE
39. "Gratitude is the greatest firewall against reality," Uhura
said, examining the high-speed progress of a newly seeded
civilization. The montage was stunning, vivid and
real.
40. "That's the secret of survival," A'zoth agreed: The
key to Eternity.
