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The Science Better Way

Chapter 1, The Corridor
 

The intention of this novel is to convey the nature and techniques of advanced telepathy. Learn, explore, focus mind sharply On understanding Forget hopes and illusions Sense well. From the Natural Telepaths own version of the Gospels, attributed to the Eternal One. Ages of children: Sharla (9), Lisa (15),  Harla (12), Sara (17), Elisha (16)

Darth and Sharla were ever so late. Darth in a blue business suit with a tie, and Sharla in a long black satin dress. Her favorite. She holding her father's hand.

"Mum will not be happy", Sharla said as they opened the door to the Science Building.

"Which one?", Darth said as he looked up and they stepped onto the circular winding stairs leadnig to the second floor. With any other steps, Darth rarely looked up, but these stairs always made him look at the top before he put his shoe on the first step. Sharla, holding her long dress slightly up so it would not drag, was still holding her father's hand as they climbed the stairs.

At the top they turned right after emerging from the stairwell and into a busy large room. Women and men already seated. Lana and Helen, two of his three "primary" wives in their telepathic wonderland, were already seated. As was Lisa, Sara, and Harla. There were many guests in the room, some standing, others seated.

To the side a long science bench with many gadgets including test tubes. A man in a white coat behind the long bench. A woman in a similar coat near him.

"Sorry, we missed the boat so to speak", Darth said as he sat down between Lana and Helen. Sharla, not seeing a vacant chair, decided to sit herself in her father's lap but then noticed a chair that Lisa moved forward and rushed and sat on that chair.

"Is this truly important?", Sharla asked Lisa quietly.

"I don't know", Lisa shrugged, "its compulsory for all grades.

Sara, sitting behind Lisa, leant and whispered to Sharla. "Lisa is not happy. Would you believe", Sara gave Lisa's hair a swipe, "this sister of ours had this...argument with me...it began with Chi, she is only eight, saying she wanted dad to give her a bath. Dad would do it of course, but he tried to say delicately she really was getting too old and maybe she ought to have a bath on her own. Then Lisa, suddenly jumped in, said that was not fair, and that she would not mind if dad gave her a bath."

Sharla looked blankly at Lisa and covered her mouth to stop herself giggling.

Lisa looked a touch embarrassed and lowered her head. Sara had said this not quietly enough and others around them heard. Lana turned to a friend sitting on her left, and whispered, "know any other teenager who is almost sixteen and who has no problem, indeed, actually suggested this most seriously the other day, for her father to give her a bath? She is growing out of this...fetish...for want of a better word, but sometimes she still comes up with very puzzling suggestions. Darth just did not know what to say, and I didn't know. Fortunatelly Sara talked her out of that."

"They have a lovely and unique relationship", Lana's friend reassured her.

The large laboratory quietened as the scientist at the front turned to the blackboard behind him and pointed to images and schematics. "Ladies and gentlemen, students. This class is compulsory for all grades in our school, but its a controversial subject I will go into, and for this reason the school had requested all parents to also attend."

He pointed to some schematics then turned and leant and brought up a large cardboard box that he placed on the bench. "Imagine all matter in the cosmos to be inside this box. Imagine this box has invisible walls running horizontally and vertically. In between each small compartment, is locked a physical universe. For those of you who have been taught this, you ought to know our own physical universe is so vast scientists don't have any idea how to measure its vastness."

"Teacher", a student put her hand up, "so our physical universe, the stars we see at night and the galaxies such as our Milky Way, is not the only physical universe according to God?"

"Ah, yes, that is the easiest explanation and the correct view for students", the Scientist nodded.

"Can I just object?", Darth put his hand up then pointed to a man sitting against a wall, "I know for a fact that man can not find work and is having trouble paying his bills. Ought we not try to work out how to assist, instead of inventing schemes of the cosmos and the sea of not time and beyond eternity and all those other terms that, personally I think poets not scientists, had invented?"

"Sweetheart", Helen leant forward, gave him a kiss, put her hand on his leg, "no, let it be, the children have a right to understand. We can take the scholar", she pointed to the man against the wall sitting on his own, seemingly without friends, "aside after and see if we have any sensible suggestions how he can improve his chances of finding work."

The Natural Telepaths were sometimes most formal, but most of the time they were not, they were just ordinary in their interactions. While in the "formal mode", Darth's comment would have been absolutely listened to and accepted, he being their first-born, but in the informal interactions he was just like any other ordinary man or woman. Consequently his comment even received some "boos" from some of the parents who felt this was important teaching and the unemployed scholar could wait.

"Fine, I said my peace", Darth raised his arms as if surrendering.

A yellow flower formed on Sharla's lap. Lana noticed, turned and smiled. "I see. Now I know how you were born to me and your father. You are the most polite child I have ever seen."

Sharla smiled, blushed, and lowered her eyes.

"I think Helen is Sharla's true mother, mum", Sara said to Lana.

"Please", the Scientist at the front took this opportunity to stray off his course, "this is important in this talk also. We have worked out the genetics of spiritual and telepathic birth. Not so, Sara", he shook his head, "each one of you children, natural or adopted in a sense, who know Darth as your father, actually does have three genetics, one from each of your three mothers, and the other genetic is a spiritual type gene from your telepathic father."

"I don't know much what that means", Sara shook her head as she replied meekly to the Scientist.

"I will go into that, but not right now", the Scientist replied and turned back to his blackboard. "As I was trying to explain. We now know beyond physical matter is energy so fierce it pushes aside everything, the most smallest of particles of any kind. An absolutely true vacum forms. A vacuum like that attracts to itself with immense force. But it has no chance of attracting matter in this scheme, the total gravitational pull of all the physical universes much too strong to let anything escape. So, what appears to take place, is that an absolutely new, and the finest, of energy forms in this vacuum. The beginning of a spiritual dimension of life. The tremendous push of the forces from physical matter, keep causing a tear in the fabric of time and space as it exists beyond matter. And beyond this absolute vastness, is something we named the "Sea of No Time". Its just a name. By the time you get to that point", he pointed with his stick to the "end of matter" as he drew the schematics, "the event horizons are so complex and powerful, the very concept or notion of time is stupid. Let me explain an "event horizon". It has to do with what we know as "black holes". I speak of natural human science now. Around the black hole is a field so powerful light can not get past it. Another way of thinking is that the massive gravitational pull of a black hole does not allow any photon, which is a name for a particle of light, to escape its surface. As light slows, so to speak, so does time as we know it. The field past which light can not escape the black hole, at which light just stops, is the event horizon. This....". The scientist continued explaining and clarifying all this very exactly and precisely.

Curiously, the children and adults were most interested. The only person who had a real problem with all this was Darth. He of the opinion that having children as young as eight listening to this was a form of stupidity or cruelty. Helen was holding his will in a strong powerful lock to make sure his personal opinions did not "escape". Admittedly, telepathic children were much more intelligent than their non-telepathic counterparts, but even so, the level of intelligence required to focus and digest all this science seemed to Darth simply outside the scope of the young ones among them.