This is Amorella. I provide a wonderland of explanations. My approach is: ‘Who can argue with imagination as long as it is reasonably presented in fictional form?’ I see two kinds of light to my left. Both were framed by thinking human beings. I was framed without a thought.
Now, here is the rub, I am the small part of orndorff’s brain that was not hypnotized during those several sessions at the university. I am the inner part that watched as his right arm felt like it was holding several concrete blocks. It felt this way because the doctor told his arm, which was under an alternate reality, that it was holding up several concrete blocks. Orndorff remembers this.
Yes, of course. It was very exciting. I will never forget the experience. It was during our first session using hypnosis. I sat, laying back in the lounging chair and was told to stare at a spot on the ceiling. I did. The doctor kept talking but it seemed like he was further and further away to the point I did not understand all the words. Then when he had me hold out my right arm I found myself doing just that. When he said I was holding up one concrete block a part of myself separated. (I told the doctor about it after the session.)
The observing part, the part not hypnotized, sat in the center of the back of my brain and it felt about the size and shape of a ping-pong ball. The experience was immediately quite delightful as I was (or felt I was) in two places at once. Every time in every session I felt in two parts. One small part of my brain/mind was not going to be hypnotized because that would take away the fun.
Being practical-minded orndorff found the experience useful as he had already begun writing his first novel back then in the early eighties.
This is the simplest, most direct, and best explanation Amorella has ever come up with (for me). I am ready for whatever she puts on the wall. This book, indeed, ought to be fun to write. I love mythology, I love Virgil, Dante and Milton. I am really looking forward to beginning this book. Whatever concerns I have had on the subject matter (over the past year or so) seem to have vanished away. I can’t wait to see where this goes.
You will begin with a short Introduction and Prologue based in part on what you already have from your earlier start. Find the file and put what you have in here – then I’ll alter it.
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Introduction
One of my fondest dreams is to create a practical place in my head where all children and adults are equal in worth and dignity and where they all can receive good health and an education that is worthy of their growth and dignity as a human being.
As I see these books, I am working towards that concept in an albeit unorthodox way. As long as I consciously see this objective between the lines I will continue writing the books until the sixth of the series is complete. As I do, the act of writing allows me my own self-dignity to continue to mentally grow and mature. Unconsciously, I feel people are better than our societies give them credit to be, that we can do better as a species and everyone can live more humanely than we presently do.
If this fourth book, which focuses on the beginning of the First Rebellion in the Place of the Dead some 2700 years ago, helps me reach my objective in my head, then good. The first three books of the Merlyn series made me feel freer within. That is worth more than any amount of money. If the next three books help me feel even better about having lived a life, then this book along with the next two will have been worth the endeavor.
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Prologue
This is Merlyn. The date is 15 December 2009. I have been here among the Living since Merlyn’s Mind was published in May 2008. This is certainly not the earthly reality I bodily left in the fourteenth century. Being dead and conscious is one thing. Being living again and conscious is quite an ordeal.
Gravity is overwhelming and it is an immediate distortion to an otherwise recently hovering mind. Both gravity and the dimensional aspects of the body are suffocating to this mind in any case. As far as one of the Dead is concerned common physics distorts reality as much as it clarifies.
I thought I was here to tell the story of the Rebellion because it is a simplified fictionalized account and I am well suited to tell a fictional tale; however, Amorella has decided to tell the abbreviated story herself with me as an interior living who has been recently dead, leaving orndorff out in the world of the living with a few close friends for moral support.
In retirement and living relatively comfortably within the realities of a state teacher’s pension, Richard desired to write honest fiction, six volumes conditioned in the concept that if G---D had asked Richard to tell any honest fiction he could come up with, this eventual series of six books would be the fiction he would literally read to G---D if so requested.
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This Rebellion was a matter of consciousness first. These two questions below are basic to what rebellions are almost always about.
One, who am I? And, two, how do I wish to exist within myself and within my relationship to others of my species?
These are two existential questions the author first asked himself and his response to these questions is found between the lines of the first three books as well as this, the fourth book in the series of six. The format of this book will be as the ones already published through iUniverse at www.iuniverse.com.
Merlyn
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