Stephen's Secure Blog #426
These stories about Stephen began was when he was 10 years old, and
moving to a new part of the country to attend a special school for
gifted students, in the 1950's. This was from a time before computers
would fit on a desk, and when people communicated with friends in other
countries by actual letters sent through the postal service. He wrote
225 of them to a friend. He stopped writing to his penpal, but found he
still wanted to record his life, in case he lost his memory again, and
wrote 30 entries in his first logbook. Then he wrote to an artificial
intelligence called Geenee, in the master computer in his school for
gifted students, which he started attending in 2016. Now it's after
2018, and he's continuing to save his memories in a secure blog.
All characters are fictitious, even if some of them might have names
that belong to some actual people, or act like people we know.
The stories may not be posted in chronological order.
Stephen is 23 in this story, in Spring of year 13 of his special school.
Stephen's Secure Blog #426 "Tibet and My Legacy"
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Both Sol and Kamala are showing signs of a past incarnation. Some
attitudes and mannerisms. I informed Rhamcha of that about Kamala, and
he was very happy, when I had a meeting with the government of Tibet. I
said to the PM, "I see you are still in office." He said "I think they
were afraid to change. I'm not disappointed." I said to the Abbot of
Labrang, "And you are official now." He said "I am glad I can still
contribute. I have resigned As Abbot, and Losang is now the official
Abbot of Labrang. He is doing well. Your teachers are very much
appreciated in our Monasteries." I grinned, and said, "And not just for
their minds?" They laughed. The PM said "Those with fur are VERY
popular, in secret." I said "And they are seriously enjoying that, but
that wasn't why I chose them. They needed maturing, and they have."
They nodded. I said "Our young teachers have learned just as much as
their students have, as intended. Soon most will be gone, as unneeded
here. They are needed elsewhere in the Galaxy, as we discover more
people and empires." Rhamcha said, "And you?" I said "I keep busy. Ten
years. At a love broadcasting event here, I'll say my farewells. Before
then, Rose will tell you how we will manage it. No, you don't get to
keep my body. I prefer to have people remember me as when I was alive,
and not as some shriveled dried up peace of rotten meat." They had some
unusual reactions, which I examined with interest, which they noticed
and had to laugh about.
The Finance Minister said, "The universities are earning for us so
much, we can't spend it all and keep a stable economy. Your charity is
now only used to help the monasteries, and primary education, and some
social functions. Some of the foreign students do cause trouble at
times, but much of that is more humorous than dangerous and
destructive. Then there is the student named Frank." They noticed my
grin. Rhamcha said, "You know of him?" I said "We've had some serious
discussions, when he was close to being expelled." He said "I suspect
that is not an issue now. You could not have a more loyal supporter
among the students, and if he were any louder, he would not need the
telephone to call home." I said "I'm not sure that's all so much of an
improvement. But why is he still here? He should have finished his
program already." The minister of Education said, "He did, and was
granted permission to continue to study here, Intercultural Studies. He
had completed one advanced degree, and is working on another." I
looked, and said, "I see. And politics. Maybe I should warn the
political establishment in America." They laughed. Rhamcha said with a
grin, "They see you, and they are already warned." The Education
Minister said, "We review all your TV appearances and other public
communications. Not just for their entertainment value. The
universities here do it as well. There are lively debates, and you know
how much we like that." I said "That I do, over many lifetimes. Even
caused my death a few times. Worth it, though. Life isn't really worth
living, if we can't debate even that." They all grinned and nodded.
I said "I think you might know now something I didn't say about why I
wanted foreign students here." Rhamcha said "You wanted them to learn
who we are, and maybe become a little more like us in some beneficial
ways." I said "Yes, just as I am promoting Native American culture to
the rest of America. Modern societies have lost sight of real spiritual
values. We need to help them to recover them. Exposure will do it,
where force would only make things worse. We do that out among the
stars, too, by who my students are." They nodded, and some with a few
tears.
I said "I like how things have been working out here. In the past,
some of you had wanted me to be more active in the government, even
rule. What do you think of that now?" They all looked at Rhamcha, and I
had to grin, and he had to laugh. He said "You were correct. It was
better that you didn't rule, or be too active in Tibet. Our citizens
love you even more, if that is possible, for your restraint. And your
trust in us as a people. You forced us to be better, than if you had
been here for us to follow." I nodded, and said, "It was a risk, but in
my opinion, a very small one. I doubt it would have worked as well with
any other people." We hugged with love.
I asked to meet with Frank. After polite things, I said, "I've been
hearing about you. Well, a lot of people have been hearing you more
than they felt they needed to." I said that with a smile, and he
laughed. I said "And did you really have to embarrass me so much?" He
laughed some more, and said, "I'm almost sorry about that. I didn't
understand or appreciate you as much as I should have. When I learned
better, I saw that there were a lot of people who were like I used to
be. I wanted to change that." I said "Well, some think you have at
least changed their ability to hear and have patience." He laughed
again, and said, "Not more?" I said "Well, a little, yes. Just be
careful of your goals, that they don't get ahead of you." He nodded. I
said "Sometimes a little restraint can improve one's respect, and a
vacation or two from you, can help make their memories fonder. Yes, I
use those tactics myself. You know I practice what I preach." He said
"I know that, and really appreciate it. Your Conservative opponents
were a little late to see that." I grinned, and said, "My manager and
great grandfather Chad, wasn't disappointed in that at all. He loves
watching me debate the pants off of nasty people." He laughed, and said
"And so do most of the people in Tibet, including the students and
staff here. Very educational, too. We debate that as well." I said "I
think you've discovered an almost universal Tibetan vice. Debating." He
laughed, and said, "Absolutely! We've learned a lot here in Tibet, and
not just in the courses. I think you intended that." I said "I could
have set up these universities in other countries, but never even
considered it, and you have told me one reason why. Well done. I am SO
exposed!" He laughed. We hugged with love.
Frank said, "There are some students I hope you will meet with. Will
you?" I said "Yes. Let me check my calendar." I made a cartoon image of
a large roll of paper, with months of the year endlessly rolling off of
it. He laughed really well. I said "Set up a date and time, and if I'm
available, and if my wife can take her hands off me, I'll show up." And
that's what happened. It was more of a meet and greet, than anything
momentous.
The Supreme Leader of the Nagindra asked to see me at one of the
sessions at San's house. I popped my projection into view, and said, "I
was temped to just show one half of me, but couldn't decide which
half." They laughed. I said "Once, in my past life, at a big retail
establishment that had just reduced their prices by half for an event,
I asked if I could pay just the other half of the price. The clerk was
VERY confused. My friend with me almost couldn't stop laughing." They
laughed some more. Leader said, "We had a discussion. A mention was
made of our other species' Adepts. It was mentioned that we have slaves
of those people. We should do something about that." I said "And that
something is?" He said "You aren't going to make this easy, are you." I
said with a grin, "Correct." He said with some frustration, "You can be
very frustrating." I said "Most of my best students say that." He said
"And the others?" I said "They groan and growl a lot." They laughed. I
said "But when they become teachers, the best of them receive the same
complaints, but have the most accomplished students."
He said with a sigh, "It's very difficult for me to become angry with
you." I said "Of that, I am NOT complaining." He had to laugh. He said
"The slaves. We don't know where all of them are. Oh. Thank you. That
was fast!" He looked at the list I had ported to his lap. He said "We
have to decide what to do with them, after we free them." I said "Why
decide? Why not ask them?" He said "But they are slaves! Menial
laborers." I said "And before they were your slaves?" He said "Oh!" I
said "San, what are the lessons in this?" He thought, and said, "I see
many. May I state just one, and then pass the question on?" I nodded,
and he said, "All of us are more than we seem. We can only see and
appreciate a small part of each person, and only what is apparent at
that time." I said "Next?" One said, "Labels are very small, while what
they are for, are very large, and they are often applied incorrectly.
We should think beyond them, to see more of the truth." One said "More,
we should question ALL labels, because we use the wrong ones much more
often than we think."
I said "In simple terms, a bed is for sleeping. A child who isn't
fixed on that label, can use it for jumping on. And soon learns it's
for falling off of, too." Leader said, "Semantics. The map is not the
territory. Yes." I said "In thinking, yes. In psionics, things become a
little strange. I see your interest!" They laughed. I ported a map to
the table, and said, "One of your larger islands. Are any of you
familiar with it?" They weren't. I said "San, go to the map and will it
to be the territory. Yes, it responds. Here is a piece of copper on a
string. Please take it and hold it over the map, and think hard about
finding copper, while you move it over the map in a scanning pattern.
Stop when you feel it respond." He did that, and exclaimed, "I can feel
a pull at a certain spot!" I said "Here is a map of the same area, with
major companies shown in locations." He looked at it and said, "There
is a mining company there." I said "I think you don't have to guess
what they are extracting." He said with a smile, "Copper!" I said "With
practice, an Adept can use his psionic senses directly on a map, and
see and locate a lot of things, including people." Leader said "How
does it work?" I said "Our spirits exist partially in another realm
which has some strange properties in different parts of it. Our psionic
senses use those properties, but our physical brain and mind has
resistance to that process, so we trick it by using devices like the
map and a sample. In mindtalk, we use a mental image. In that other
realm, there is no distance. You can use mindtalk from one end of the
galaxy to another in real time, through that realm, if you don't mind
some relativistic time distortions sometimes." They said a bunch of
wows.
I said "Those slaves. You might ask them if they would like to create
embassies for their people here." Leader looked surprised. I said "Many
of them are well educated professionals, and they do know your society
and people very well now. You can bet the embassies will be kept very
clean, too." They had to laugh, even though they felt shame and
embarrassment. The Leader said to me, "I have wanted to think you were
our enemy. I've tried, and I just can't." I bowed to him, and said,
"This might sound strange, but that is due more to YOUR nature now,
than it is mine." He said "Yes. I see more than I could before. Some of
that is looking very ugly now." I said "We don't need ugliness. Some of
us with courage, work to change ugliness into beauty. Unfortunately, it
takes more than a little paint. To destroy is easy. To create good from
bad, can be very difficult, and take a long time. Only unceasing
dedication will succeed. There will be many temptations to return to
ugliness, because that is the easy way. But the easy way is fun for a
child, not to a real adult. Do what makes you like, love, yourselves,
and you will win your personal way to beauty, and maybe change your
people, slowly, to follow you. Lead with your heart, and there WILL be
success. How much, and how fast, is not to be predicted, but then, who
could have predicted what has already happened? I didn't, and I am not
unskilled at that." They were really impressed, and had some tears. I
bowed, and they returned it. I said "I should leave you to your
thinking. Never forget that I love you." I glowed and wrapped them in
my love, and ended my projection. I ported some memory cards of what
happened, to Ronalda.
Rose had some tears, when she said to me, "That was a beautiful
speech. One fit to lead your legacy." I said "I didn't say it for that,
but the truth of that is universal. I'm sure I'm not the only one in
existence who's said it, or something very like it." Hawk said, "That
may be true, but with such critical timing? I doubt that." I said "Only
time will tell." Chad said "Look." I did. I nodded, and said, "Yes." He
added his tears to ours.
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