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Without any warning, the electrical grid stopped flowing its billions of electrons of usable energy all over the county. Everything light went dark, but fortunately it was only 2:20 in the afternoon. The earth’s Electromagnetic Field had failed. 

      Dr. Corser was in the middle of his ace lecture on the biology of sharks and whales, part of his unit on ‘Life Under the Sea’.

      When the lights failed and the classroom fell into shadow, not darkness, just a softer light to learn by, Dr. Corser, with more than a hundred years experience teaching in a classroom, so it seemed, simply carried on, “Next, let’s talk about electricity.

      “What makes electricity go and stop? Gary?”

      “A circuit. Electricity freely flows when it is in a complete circular circuit.”

      “Got it. Good. Tommy, how fast does electricity flow through the wires in your home?”

      “At almost the speed of light. The speed of light minus the resistance of the wires its traveling through.”

      “Bang on, Tommy. What actually makes the electric flow in the wires? Max?”

Max knew. He had often helped his uncle who was a professional electrician. Max even understood that electrons don’t really flow. The energy comes from millions of waves, surrounding the wire and traveling outside it through the circuit. The electrons stay put and just let the energy flow through and around them.

      Kelle concluded, ”The electrons are moving in a timed rhythm. They dance about as they make their journey around the electric circuit of their life.”

Rhythm and timing. 

      “Everything in its time,” Dr. Corser agreed. Then he asked, “Now, what time is it?”

 

 

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Jewel was a living entity. That’s what Dr. Tom’s Hive had concluded. And they would treat her as one.

      “Yes she is. Just a living entity without a physical body.”

      “And who needs one anyways?” asked Kevin who began a rant while pointing to his own physical features, “Look at this body. It’s a mess of poor design and lack of proper maintenance.”

      “Well, we’re all communicating just fine with the Code not having a body, and from her point of view, we don’t have bodies either. We’re just intelligent sounds trying to communicate our thoughts and feelings. From her view we aren’t aliens, we’re just confused foreigners who can’t speak the local vernacular.”

      “That’s a relief to my pointed ears,” Mr. Myers sighed dramatically. “Then she is defiantly not an alien.”

      “Just a foreigner without a physical body, traveling from here to here in an eternal quest to keep the universe in balance.”

      “Yup, I think that pretty much sums it up.”

      “How about it Mr. Myers? Ready to travel the cosmos in a bodiless space ship? Meet entities from other cultures, impress them with our technological advances, universal morales, and humanistic practices?”

      “It would be fascinating. Sure, for a while maybe.”

      “Too strange. Too weird,” Kevin pointed out. “I like feeling my fingers when I play my Uke.”

      “I like feeling the rose petals when I smell them,” Lisa said with a big sniff and then a snort for effect.

      “The Code sure seems like a human woman. How can we say she is not? Because she doesn’t have a body? Beehives don’t have a body. The hive is a flexible, fluid type of Being, it has no solid physical body. Neither do ants. One ant can’t survive on its own.

      “And I suspect the same is true for humans. Despite are dislike and hatred for each other, we still need each other. All of us. We need to be part of a group, a community, a hive.

      “I see no reason to treat her like anything but another person on the Team.”

      They all agreed that Jewel was truly a living being, an authentic entity due the respect and love of any other living being.

      “Look what Jewel has been giving us,” Dr. Tom pointed out. “Respect and love.”

      “And nothing else,” Bill agreed.

      “And with no body,” Jaxon agreed.

      “That’s just love. How could it be anything else?”

 

 

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Jewel and Rosie were chatting. Rosie had brought some art supplies and was happily drawing and coloring while they talked. Kevin was in the Playroom with them, strumming Caribbean music on his guitar, listening in on the girls’ conversation, and throwing in a curveball statement whenever he felt it was needed.

      The Code wrote, “To have, to live in a physical body, one would also need a physical place to live. An environment designed for supporting physical life. The two work in harmony.”

      “Sure.” Rosie said matter of factly, “Like a whale wouldn’t need her fins if there was no water in the ocean.”

      Jewel laughed. Rosie loved Jewel’s laugh because it sounded so human. How could Jewel be anything less than human? And Rosie was thinking Jewel was really something much, much, more.

      “Exactly Rosie. The two must have each other to be the Being that they each are. The ocean water and the whale are one, a singular. They experience their lives by being connected with each other.”

      “Like me and you.”

      “Exactly correct again. Now, Rosie, where would I be without you?” Jewel asked in jest.

      Rosie thought Jewel’s comment was a joke and knew the punchline, “You would be ‘no where’ without me!, just like you are right now. You are nowhere with me.”

      “You and me together living in Nowhere?”

      “It is a lovely place.”

      “Are there lakes and streams for swimming? And food growing everywhere to just pick off the vines and stuff into my mouth?”

      “Yes, but Jewel, you don’t have a mouth.”

      “Then how am I talking to you?”

      “I don’t know,” Rosie tried not to laugh.

      Jewel then laughed in her evil witch voice, “I don’t know either! I really don’t have a clue. I never got an instruction manual on how to live my life. I never had parents or a family. But I did have teachers and many friends. And while I don’t belong to a specific culture of beings, I am here and I’m part of the Universe, part of the Creator’s creation, and part of God’s Plan.”

      “Well, me too, I guess.”

      “We’re not so different, Rosie.”

      “Whatever we are, we are together.”

      Kevin threw his best curveball by playing a famous Beatles’ tune, “Come together, right now, over me!” then he thumped out the classic riff and sang on.

      ”He roller-coaster, he got early warnin’. He got muddy water, he one mojo filter. He say, ‘One and one and one is three.’ Got to be good-lookin' 'cause he's so hard to see!’”

      “Sing it with me girls!” Kevin shouted like he was performing at a concert. 

      They joined in the last phrase with joy and laughter, “Come together. Right now. Over me!”

Kevin finished the tune dramatically with his signature finger-picking riff that ran down the guitar’s fretboard and then back up to a crescendo finish.

      The girls applauded and cheered and then Kevin applauded them.

      “You got soul, Kevin,” Jewel agreed with the group.

      “We all got soul,” Rosie announced with delight.

      Kevin smiled in agreement but Jewel became silent for a while.

      When Rosie and Kevin noticed her silence and had looked at each other with a sense of confusion, Jewel spoke, but in a sad, serious voice.

      “No, not all people have souls. Some people are soulless.”

      “What? Huh?” the two humans said with surprise.

      “Think like, uh…” Jewel was searching for a good metaphor, “like a plant or tree. A mature tree obviously has a soul. But do each of its thousands of seeds? Or the baby trees that first grow from the seed. Do they have tree-consciousness?”

      Jeweled paused, letting them put two and two together, then continued, “No they don’t. They haven’t matured. In a living being’s life process, she or he starts in unconsciousness and matures into an enlightened, conscious Being.”

      “So some of the people hanging around aren’t really people?” Kevin confirmed.

      “No,” Jewel replied. “All people are people. They are real and will impact your life in a physical way when you come in contact with them.”

      “Like robots? automatically reacting to their environment?”

      “Well, like people because they are not being controlled by someone or something else. But you are correct. They only react to their environment. Only doing what will satisfy their immediate needs or desires.

      “They are everywhere, doing what society tells them to do. They live inside their own world and so reflect life only as they experience it. Not thinking of others. Not as a part of life but outside of life.

      “They are observers, like students learning the ‘game of life’.”

      “Should we be afraid of them?”

      “Quite the opposite. They are mostly harmless, just persistent. They will follow their beliefs off a cliff and into Hell if that is what they believe the Lord wants them to do. They always follow the rules and will tell you to do the same. It makes them feel secure in their own belief-system.

      “And as conscious beings. That means you too, Kevin!” and Jewel did her witch laugh again.

      “Are you sure you are not evil, Jewel?”

      “Oh Kevin, I am Evil, and loads of it. But my evil is balanced by my sacredness. My sacred-self exists because of my evil-self.”

      “I knew it,” Kevin said. 

      “Like Yin and Yang!” Rosie realized.

      “Yes, Rosie. They are always battling, those two. Fighting, lying, and playing tricks on each other. Sometimes one is winning but then the other suddenly moves ahead. It’s an eternal, spinning relationship. No one wins, no one is better than the other. Neither of them ever becomes the King or Queen.”

      “Balance,” Kevin acknowledged.

      “The people without mature souls carry on and their lives are good. They are actually the happiest people on earth. Think about it. Never busy with thoughts about their future or what they should be doing with their lives. Never worrying about what others think of their actions. Other people are the enemy. They are the ones stopping and controlling that person.

      “They can’t do any harm. Like a child, they just don’t think that way.”

Kevin pointed out, “But kids can do a lot of harm.”

      “Yes! And so do the soulless people. But, like a child, not intentionally. They just do what they do and stuff happens. Good and bad.

      ”Yang and Yin again.”

      “So, love is the answer?” Kevin asked Jewel.

      “Yes. Love is the only answer.”

      “England Dan and John Ford Coley!” Kevin then shouted. He put a ‘capo’ on his guitar strings to change the pitch and then burst into song, Kevin’s favorite action,

      “Light of the world, shine on me.

      “Love is the answer, let it shine.

      “Shine on us all, set us free.

      “Love is the answer.”

      “The answer to every question,” Rosie said knowingly.

      Kevin sang the verse and to his surprise, or maybe not, Jewel sang along with him in a stunning operatic voice, and Rosie joined in by humming along until she figured out the lyrics, then sang with all her heart.

      “When you've lost your way, love one another.

      “And when you're all alone, love one another.

      “And when you're far from home, love one another.

      “And when you're down and out, love one another.

      “And when your hopes run out, love one another.

      “And when you need a friend, love one another.”

 

 

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