Thank Goodness For Evil
Dave, the wise Irishman would tell you, "Make Evil your neighbor and Luck will come to visit."
“No matter how much evil is created, it will be exactly equal to the good created by the same actions,” Jaxon quoted a common but misunderstood scientific theory. "You can't add or subtract energy."
Bill knew it too and Jaxon was happy for the young man to explain.
“The amount, the quantity of energy in the universe is finite. The electromagnetic field is complete. Nothing can be added or taken away,” Bill explained. “Things can only change. And energy is always in a constant state of changing.”
"So the more we do evil, the more good the Code will bring to the world and to us?” Kevin concluded simply.
It was perfectly logical and even Jaxon agreed, “Yes sir, that’s the way it’s gotta be.”
“Yes… and no," Dr. Tom answered. “It’s not a person’s action that is good or evil. It’s the person’s intention while they are planning and doing the act.
“If one is intentionally planning an evil act, then that’s evil. But if one truly intended to do good and bad happens, that’s not on him or her. It’s simply the way the future chose to play out.
“And if a person lives a life full of negative intentions and actions, they can never do good. Their life has failed.”
“Intention verses action,” Bill thought about pitching. “The pitch I want to throw and where I want to throw it, verses where the ball actually goes. The two are usually a little different.”
“Well, whatever, it seems the Code is telling us that something is going to happen. That it has a plan and we are the players with influence,” Tom concluded. “We are not victims of this situation. The Code is our friend and I sincerely believe, and have faith, that whatever the Code is, it's here to help us, to teach us, and guide us and the people of the world through this crazy, weird time in human history.”
"And so?” Kevin challenged.
“And so we will be proactive. Get ahead of the Code, predict its next moves and where it’s going. If there's going to be suffering, let's prepare for it. For ourselves and others.”
“I would suspect that Evil must have to work with the good. Balance is not a one-man act. The Devil has to dance with the Goddess,” Jaxon emphasized.
“Like electricity, there has to be a complete circuit. A negative and positive charge,” Bill instructed.
Jaxon was trying to imagine Evil differently, "Instead of thinking good verses bad, Yin verses Yang, what if it's more like a coin with positive and negative on one side and negative and positive on the other?”
Bill shook his head, "I don't get it.”
Musical Kevin had the answer, “If you play a rhythm, if you play a rhythm with a four count, you have to beat four times for every measure, each bar. And only four beats because that’s all there is, all the bar can hold. But…”
Jaxon nodded his head. Kevin was thinking in the right direction.
“But we are not limited to only four beats in a four-count measure. We can multiply by two and play four beats with an eight count. It’s what drummers do all the time. Double or quadruple the beat while staying in perfect rhythm. Now, out of the box, we could also double that beat again and play sixteen beats to a measure. That would be like playing a drum-roll.”
Jaxon came up with a wild idea, “What if we played the Code at 1200 beats per measure?”
“Then things would get wild,” Kevin spoke with mystery. “What about going faster. How fast could we go? 5,000 beats per bar?
“Is that even possible?” questioned Lisa.
“How about a million beats per measure?” Dr. Tom added, as if a million beats was a real possibility.
"How would it sound different?” Lisa asked. "What would it do?"
“Likely, there is a specific rhythm that the Code works on,” Jaxon said, “like electricity.”
“And that’s what we need to find,” Kevin concluded the conversation by plucking two strings on his ukulele together.
Lisa listened and realized that she already knew this, just in a different context. “Most countries use 50 hertz or 50 cycles per second as their standard electrical AC frequency. And only a handful of countries, like the United States, use 60 hertz.
Lisa continued, “What’s know as the ‘human frequency’ is 963 hertz. That’s 963 waves of energy per second.”
“That’s sounds like a super-fast rhythm,” Kevin nodded.
“It’s called the ‘Frequency of Gods’. It activates the pineal gland in the brain and the crown chakra, known as the ‘Third Eye’, or ‘Seat of the Soul’, which is said to connect a person with the Divine or Universal Consciousness.”
“How could we affect the dark part without diminishing the light?"
Evil is a raging storm that destroys, but also provides fresh drinking water and nourishment for all. Evil is manure, and good things grow well in the manure of evil.
Evil is your friend. It never lies to you. It never misleads you. It will tell you always what it is doing. Evil is in us, not outside or around us. It doesn't make us do evil, it just makes us want to.
"Evil works like the rain,” Jaxon explained. ”It just pours down the water, knowing the water knows where to go and what to do. And what the water really does is just follow its prime directive: flow with gravity.”
“And so it goes, we’re driving the ‘car of truth’ with Evil in the backseat giving directions.”
“What happens when actions create both good and evil? Isn't it a balance question?”
“Exactly. And all actions do create balance."
"The whole world is in balance" in the sense of the world being a singularity.
The more the everyone talked about balance, the more this entire episode started making some sense.
Balance wasn’t a relationship between good and bad or positive and negative. It was solely about balance. No need to put things in balance. The Team just needed to actively do whatever they could to maintain balance. To do what felt natural.
When Good is playing in the garden, Evil is hiding in the bushes.
Evil is opportunity’s bad choice.
“Evil is the buzzing of a mosquito in your tent, the bank closing ten minutes before you arrive, cooking a dinner that is tasteless, coming home from work and your family feels like a group of strangers,” Lisa spoke like a nagging mom.
Evil is a young girl in need of help, a handsome businessman with too big a bonus, a dark corner where everything is allowed, and nothing is ever spoken again.
Evil is your friend coming over to share her new music record, and stopping you from doing your homework, and so rather than homework, you enjoy your friend’s new music and her loving company.
"As the Devil would say,” Lisa changed to her funny Devil voice, “So? What’s wrong with that? What did I do? You don't like your friend? You could just tell her to go away and she would understand. I'm not in control here. I am just making an offer, letting you choose. Fair is fair! Give me a break! Just a little, just a song to ruin your life. But you decide. Don't ever let another person make your decisions for you.”
Rosie agreed. She made her own decisions and knew when she was being tempted by the Devil.
“The Devil’s job is to keep each of us on our Sacred Path. If you see the Devil then you’re off your path! Evil is evil but it is also the Truth too! Darkness, confusion, pain, ugliness, hate. They are all your friends, your teachers.
“Evil is a charming businessman and a goofy guitar player. Evil is a beautiful lost woman. Truth is an ugly old woman. But Evil is only imagined, Truth is experienced,” Lisa explained.
Everyone listened and agreed with her analysis. The goal of the discussion was to accept Evil, whatever that was, into the equation and see what might equal what."
“It's a Yin Yang thing.”
"You gotta have dark to have light. If we just had light all the time, you wouldn't know it, you wouldn’t have a name for it, nothing to compare it to. Neither light nor dark would exist. Things would always be just as they always have been.
Contrast is a fundamental human experience and skill. Can you see the difference… between a snake and a baby’s bottle?”
"As soon as we do the good, the bad is coming." Kevin warned, "Coming ‘round the bend.”
“Also, as much as good can be done, it's only possible when as much bad will be done. Immediate results of the Storm’s effect will be tragic but the future of humanity will be full of blossoms.”
"Doesn't sound like the way to win a baseball game," Bill considered.
"It's all-ll a-bout bal-ance,” Lisa spoke with a little rhythm. She feels Evil coming but she also feels the need, the opening Evil always provides. It gets dark but then it becomes brighter and then balances.
Rosie suddenly shouted out, “The speed of light. Music at the speed of light.” Then she looked around nervously, not sure of what she just said.
“The speed of light?” Lisa questioned with a suspicious half-smile.
Jaxon brighten up. “Yes, of course,” he said with a smile to Rosie’s for her enlightening statement,
“The speed of light is the maximum speed possible in the universe. So what if light speed was the normal, standard speed and some electrons just traveled slower?”
"Everything must find its own balancing point."
"Everything in its own time."
"Rhythm and timing were everything."
“Now, all we have to do is: nothing. And let nothing happen to us.”
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