Light in the Darkness, Chapter 3

The intention of this novel is to convey the nature and techniques of advanced telepathy.

I have overcome the world...

From the Natural Telepaths own version of the Gospels, attributed to the Holy Spirit.

In the spirit interactions seemed to take place early in the morning Sharon's time. She would awaken suddenly from sleep, find she could not get back to sleep, and before long she would imagine being with Darth. She in a nightie, the image much as she was in ordinary life and the nightie the one she wore, and Darth as a man, both sitting at a low-coffee table. Her image was certainly distracting to a man - especially so when sometimes she might stretch in bed in ordinary life but in so doing her mental image also stretched, exposing partially her breasts which were impressive - but Darth managed to focus, and the two took opportunity to clarify ideas and reasons in their mind.

"The spirit, and alien", Darth flowed, "as we have discerned, says our planet is too primitive for police and law and order systems. But, that does not seem realistic...take away police from a ocuntry and chances are riots, looting, rapes, a breakdown of society - society might recover but more likely you might get local barons forming gangs and the country becomes a permanent conflict zone."

"I know what you mean", Sharon was focusing on the notes Darth had in front of him. He himself not very good with this "white paper ESP technique" of seeing images or words, but sometimes he managed.

As they wondered together, two men, both police officers in ordinary life and members of the Jewish Noble Way that was solely for police officers, imagined being in the setting also sitting at the low coffee-table. Sharon, more familiar with this group that Darth, explained that she while a Methodist had for a long time known and interacted with that Noble House.

The Padre (the Methodist Minister) also imagined being in the setting which was their number 1 telepathy house main lounge room, and sitting on a chair. Darth flowed to the Padre, "apology for how this...this..wife...looks...rather sexy...its because..."

Darth was about to go into details why Sharon had such a bried and rather provocative nightie in the setting but Sharon leant, gave him a kiss, and shook her head, "no, the others don't see me like this...you see me as my physical husband laying next to me in ordinary life would see me...because I have accepted you as my husband in the spirit, equal to my husband, and Helen does not mind nor Lisa-1 or Lana, but I am only allowed to consummate a telepathic relationship once...no problem, I have never found tha much satisfaction in telepathic sex, not that I did it that often...I just want to be friends in the spirit with you not so much a wife but Helen would not allow that unless I take this oath of a wife that she knows how to put into effect...but, the point being, the others", she pointed to the three me, "see me in ordinary clothes, not a nightgown."

"Oh", Darth glanced then explained his pondering about why what the spirit had revealed did not altogether add up, almost did not make sense in the context of life on Earth.

The two Jews felt that the spirit might make mistakes sometimes, that it was not the true spirit of God that formed from the hearts of those party to a particular Life in the Spirit, but rather one attune to humanity and possibly capable of mistakes just like a human being is.

That did make sense. After some deliberations, the three men concluded that the message from the spirit was only meant for the Noble House that was solely for police officers. It was also the Jewish telepathy groups that had an order system, a legal system, and a court system, across their telepathic plane, in their in the spirit interactions.

"But Padre", one of the policeman stood and imagined pulling a chair over and sitting next to the Methodist Minister, "if we form a new Police Group, in competition to the Jewish Noble Way, it will need protection from the psychics. For some reason, tradition, or whatever, those who are police can never touch Life in the Spirit, but among Jews they do have their own Noble House, a telepathy group. The psychics, in principle, although individually any can be swayed to admit they don't see anything wrong with anyone being a police officer, do not tolerate a will other than their own, and to them any police officer is part of a will."

One of the most important functions of the combined Life in the Spirit group was to also act as an interface between other telepathy groups and Life in the Spirit groups. One step, or one telepathy channel along the "vertical" structure of telepathy channels, was reserved solely for this purpose. But this did not mean "communication" was easy or simple. Jewish spirituality was deep and different to Christian spirituality, and other forms of enlightment. What the term "spirit" meant to a Jew was not always the same as what it meant to say a Methodist. For this reason it took a few hours using soft telepathy for the two policeman to convey accurately to the Padre what the issue was.

At one point Sharon sat down on the sofa, one leg bent across the other, she itching a toe - except the visual image was simply too "sexually attractive" to Darth. He imagined banging his head once on the table, then got up, and imagined putting a night coat on Sharon - this he did by recalling putting one on his wife Anne in ordinary life. The overlap of imaginary vision and the ordinary life recall worked well, and Sharon imagined sitting on the sofa in a nice lovely light blue night coat.

"Now I can focus!", Darth muttered as he sat down at the coffee-table again.

"According to Lisa-1, your Catholic wife of the faith", Sharon explained to Darth and the Padre, "when I accepted you as my husband of the faith, the Jews use the word spirit and the Christians faith, I am not to consider that you have other wives. Not easy, but I feel she is right. For this reason, I am not concerned what Helen may think of me using this..this..nightie image...or Lana, or Lisa-1, or Amy, or whoever."

"I wish I could see it", one of the policeman mused to the others, "all I see is a woman in rather ordinary clothes."

An image of a female police officer formed in the setting, sitting by the coffee-table. Her uniform was one Darth instatly recognized - a NSW, Australian, police woman. She leant a touch and flowed as she pointed to herself, "but I am a Catholic...why did I end up interacting in the spirit with a Methodist Minister? I feel like I know the one you call Padre."

Darth glanced at the Padre, sensed he was not an Australian, and replied, "as the spirit began to work in you, could have been years ago, in your line of work you might have talked to a Methodist Minister and took a liking to him, or a certain faith in you formed in regards to the man, perhaps you believed his story in regards to something he had seen...I don't know, any combination is possible, search your memories and you might find that point in time when a touch of faith or interest in a Methodist point of view, or individual, formed in you."

"I understand", she nodded and glanced at Sharon sitting on the sofa.

"That man is a Natural Telepath", Sharon pointed to her new husband, "aren't you a touch afraid of him...you are in his domain, the telepathic plane."

"Not really", the woman replied and shifted the imagery to sit close to Darth, "but I am curious...what happens when lots of Australian police officers come online?"

"This is the group, we hope, that can look after them", Darth replied, "forming complex telepathy intelligence networks as well...improves sense, national security, all sorts of useful side-effects."

The woman, impressed, glanced at Sharon then turned to Darth and gave him a kiss on the cheek and touched his hand saying, "but...in time, that will make the Australian police network the most intelligent in the world."

Darth puzzled, "you have a problem with that?"

The woman paused, covered her mouth, and flowed in an amused way as she shook her head, "no, not really, just struck me as something too wonderful to be true."

The Padre was suddenly aware of a deep mental image, and with the image a sense of divine guidance. In the image he saw himself as a small cartoon figure and next to him a pretty and clever female image. "That's me, Lisa-1", Lisa-1 explained as she sat down in this life-like yet cartoon and ever so colorful and special mental image, "this is the Catholic Faith Path imagery...and the depth and sense of divine faith is awesome, the image causes it I think, causes that deep feeling of majesty, grandeur, faith...but, before I get carried away...we also have an Anglican theologian, we call him John the Anglican, who had considered this very carefully and felt it was too "strong" for the ordinary Anglican, and developed like a side path." Lisa-1 pointed to what seemed a narrow channel drawn from the main faith path, inside the color red while the main path was black.

"I understand", the Padre considered, "but I am no Methodist scholar, just a doer of the word. My faith bind is mainly with one man, the one you call Darth."

"I know, my husband of the faith", Lisa-1 replied.

"My curiousity is killing me about this", the Padre replied, "I can not work out why he seems to call Helen wife sometimes, often even, sometimes you, sometimes Lana, and sometimes another woman...even a relative stranger like Helen."

"Because in him a spirit that sees his true wife", Lisa-1 replied after much reflection, "as spirit and faith and flesh. The spirit is in many women and men, and those women who while in the spirit connect to him through faith, me in a sense, he can not tell easily if that is Helen or not - the visual imagery is not always that crystal clear, so he calls her wife also."

"Much too deep for me", the Padre mused, "I think I will just accept the man has more than one lovely and dedicated wives in the spirit."

Lisa-1 maintained her focus on deep faith, this to allow others from the combined group to assist the Padre in a basic understanding how Methodists may differ from other Christian churches. Two small Wizard creatures entwined into the vision, quickly pacing about, then drew a white band along the Anglican path. One Wizard said, "but...that means the Methodists use both spirit and faith to go into the spirit...actually", he imagined sitting down with a large book and flipping quickly the pages then explaining as he turned to the Padre image much higher in the imagery, "but that...according to the Torah in its dark mystery passages...in simple modern terms...is improper and unethical. Not my problem - but now I understand why Jewish police officers can not awaken to a proper Jewish Life in the Spirit and need a telepathy group of their own", he tossed the book awy over his shoulder and the two faded from the imagery.

The vision faded slowly and the setting in the house formed clearly. For a moment Darth imagined Sharon again on the sofa but in a brief golden nightgown equally if not more "sexy" than the white one. The moment he turned toward her in the setting she imagined covering herself up with that blue night coat. "Sorry", she flowed as she winked. Darth lapsed his head on the table, being certain Sharon was doing this on purpose mainly to keep a "will" level bond - that is, while trust might fade now and then between herself and Darth, and this would cause the in the spirit interaction to go away, but before it did if she projected into his thoughts a sexual or sensual or tantalizing image, chances are his brain would maintain the telepathy using a different mode of telepathy (because a part of the brain was seriously attracted to the sexual or tantalizing image and wanted - willed on its own without the mind assisting - to maintain the telepathy channel open).