You received a note from your Aunt Patsy yesterday. She wrote that she and Uncle Ernie had listened to the audio CD of chapter one that you had made for them and she thought it contained “insights”. This was a good sign as far as you are concerned because they are so much older and more experienced in life than you are. Thus, you want to work on the disk for chapter two and have it completed before you visit your daughter in Cleveland next Friday. You can drop it off on the way up from Mason. So, for now, that will be the focus. As you finish the scenes in audio drop them in the post as they are then a second, clearer draft than the first. - Amorella.
Chapter Two
© 2009 Richard H. Orndorff
Scene 1
This is the battle royale so far. The moves have been made in a place beyond Olympus and Elysium. In the real world of astronomic studies this would be three to four end on end universes away from the one you are presently living in. In other words, the usual quantum leap of thought isn’t going to get you to the original chessboard from where you are. This is how it is at the inner dimensional moment in the story.
Allegorical Dimensional Chess
4. Black pawn moves to Queen’s Knight 4
5. White pawn takes black pawn (lateral move to White Knight 5)
6. Black pawn takes white pawn (lateral move to Black Knight 4)
The declared winner of the first rebellion is discovered on the seventy-third move at the beginning of chapter twelve of book five. This book concludes with the forty-second move in a dimension that can be touched upon by the human mind while at a complete conscious rest. The effects of first rebellion do not begin to affect the Living until the later Classical Age of Greece with Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.
This work is an interpretation of the three chess moves made in each chapter. Outside of the metaphysical war-battle exercise of singular dimension oriented chess at the beginning of each chapter, some characteristics of quantum mechanics lead the development of the story. Here are six characteristics of quantum mechanics expressed within the setting and plot:
1. random chance exists;
2. it is impossible for either the gods or the Dead to predict an outcome of the rebellion even though one exists;
3. no link exists between cause and effect except through the human brain/mind;
4. no phenomenon exists until it is observed;
5. particles/waves exist in the mental thought/concept of which Elysium is composed;
6. the reader changes what is observed by reading the book; and the last, number seven, relates to Chaos Theory rather than quantum mechanics;
7. the chess game is on a higher level of human thought and behavior and it is attributed to knowledge and expectations, thus probability or outcome of the rebellion shows that what appears to be random chance in Quantum Theory does not necessarily appear random chance in Chaos Theory.
Scene 2
This Elysium works on what is presently known in science. The connection between the Dead and the Living is in the mind’s perception. The Living help the Dead by learning and increasing the bounds of human experience.
Everyone contributes through self-education, what one learns in and from life is taken with the Dead. The human mind, if you will, serves as a serendipitous taxi service. The Dead, of course, are out of time, therefore have can more easily develop theory, which they inversely pass on to the Living. The River Styx is the conduit, for whatever the river is in actuality, it is a Form that carries a current of new ideas and concepts both to the Living from the Dead and from the Dead to the Living.
The reader is as an angelic-like observer of a portion of these Books on Life and Death. Imagine, if you will, your mind as angelic-like, but only in its form. Imagination is a prerequisite to reading or listening to these books.
Scene 3
Salaman sat thinking. Zeus and Hades are conspiring. Why is it Hades is not on the throne in Olympus? He is the oldest brother. Salaman rehashed the theology. Zeus saved his brothers and sisters, the brothers Poseidon, Hades and Zeus share the power.
Hades has the invisible helmet and he could visit Olympus if he wished but he enjoys his own Underworld. He is not as ambitious as either Zeus or Poseidon. These gods need humans as much as humans need them. I can’t imagine that any of them would take kindly to our rebellion. Zeus rebelled against his parents to save his siblings, and Apollo and Artemis could rebel against Zeus and help us. That’s our backup defense.
If we can know the children side with us rather than with the Parents, Aunts and Uncles who control Olympus. It is the young who unite in rebellion among the Living. Perhaps we can persuade them to join our cause. Apollo has already protected one of our own in this. I need to talk this over with Mario. He is the closest to Sophia in council.
Scene 4
Mario and Salaman sat at a table in a small stone walled diner called ‘The Mikroikia’ in a late afternoon sparsely clouded blue sky. A decorative fireplace sat to the west with a three step mantelpiece of plastered flat stones about three feet wide and two feet high. The L-shaped working counter is decorated with various pieces of colorful marble – mostly a mix of blues, grays and browns, with a few onyx and deep reds. The bottom base of the bar is a wall of stone each stone is about the size of one or two human fists. Four clay bowls are inserted into the well spaced holes in the top of the stone counter with the larger lips of the bowls holding them in place.
The nearby Dead assume the food is what they ate and drank along the southern Greek coastal towns. The food, along with its aromas, is what comes to mind when they sit and talk as these two are in this establishment of convenience. Salaman has just explained his point of view about Zeus and Hades and the need to discover a way to add Apollo and Artemis to their own forces.
Here is Mario’s reply. “I think you are correct about Zeus being involved already Salaman; but I think Zeus is cleverly implementing himself within Thanatos [Death] and his twin, Hypnos [Sleep]. We are as still as dead bodies when we aren’t dreaming, but when we are dreaming we are semi-conscious of the fact.
The dream that Aeneas had at Stone Hill and Thales had later this morning may be distractions to keep us from our task which is mainly a presentation, a protest of our right, our natural right to want to visit our descendants and tell them how things in this world really are.”
Salaman showed cleverness in his brightened eyes as he replied, “How are things here? We don’t know what are world really is other than we continue to exist. This diner is a representation of what we knew in life. We feel comfortable coming here for discussion. We remember the foods and drinks we enjoyed and feel as though we are or have been partaking in them recently, perhaps moments ago, which is enough for our satisfaction, for our pleasure, for our sense of fullness, but look around Mario, there is no food. It is wish fulfillment or a community madness.” He stopped but then voluntarily added, “We did not understand reality when we were alive, and as far as I am concerned, we understand it even less being dead.”
“This is why our protest is important,” added Mario. “We need to know more about our situation here. What it means? Why we still exist, particularly in this given state. We have justified reason to demand an audience with Zeus himself if need be. He knows this already, yet he and his brother are toying us.”
Salaman asked, “Where is Sophia?”
“She is with Kassandra or at least she was earlier. I suppose their discussion is similar to our own. I will have a talk with her.”
Salaman then suggested, “Perhaps we should have a full meeting and develop a plan to rouse Zeus out instead of the Supervisor.”
Mario replied, “It is possible that Zeus is his brothers. Who would know? He is perfect at disguises.” Mario stopped a moment as a stone in deeper thought, “Perhaps he is the whole pantheon of gods and goddesses.”
Salaman answered, “Doubtful. Zeus needs all the help he can get.”
“Perhaps, Salaman, there are gods we do not know involved.”
To which Salaman added, “It is truly possible that the Supervisor is one of those, one who is higher even than Zeus, Anything is possible here.”
“We live by imagination and rumors,” recited Mario and then he mumbled aloud, “This is a curst Place.”
Scene 5
Sophia is ruminating over her situation, let’s listen in to her private soliloquy.
‘I am in this position because of my looks. This is just like life. I have administrative and people skills but I am respected more in this Place because I appear to be a twin of our Mother. What must our Mother think? She arrived here alone and many of her grandchildren’s grandchildren followed her to this Place. If a goddess were human, Mother comes the closest.
We are a good species. The people Here are still courageous in mind and yet moderate in their thoughts and actions. No one wants to be thrown into Tartarus, the abyss with the fallen Titans, but I doubt Zeus would throw us humans into an eternal fire and brimstone reserved for the gods.
We are built to rise up. We are built to become more than we appear to be, even in death this is so as we are still Here. We are built with prudence, with reasonable self-discipline. Our minds have use of shrewd skills and good judgment, and that may be our best common resource in this coming protest with the Supervisor. Our heartsansoulsanminds have to be as a singular dimension to be at our sharpest if we are to meet this goddess in charge of our demeanor.
The Supervisor shows herself to have a woman’s shrewd cleverness. Look at Zeus. Men don’t have the patience, mostly thunder, with lightning bolts only when needed. Kassandra agrees with me on this, but our differences rest in our fourth great virtue as a species, justice.
It appears to me that we have been merited a punishment by our not being allowed to communicate directly with our descendants. Some have tried but the message always seems to be in garbled dreams if it gets through at all. Our purpose is lost in translation.
Purpose, now there is a word. Meaningful intent. We want the Living to learn to live so their children may have a better life. Sometimes I think that it is only through our children that we have reason to exist, yet I know deep down there are other, more mysterious reasons, and being in Elysium appears to be one of them.
Kassandra thinks it is the principle of the thing that is the injustice. We are built to have and to care for the good of our children. This should be extended beyond our Living. Our primary purpose, continues Sophia, appears lost in Elysium. A continuing parental sense of caring, through our basic humanity, is being withheld from us in this Place.’
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