Ragna june 3rd 2008

Note: I'm writing this note on September 27th 2014. The Geocities web site doesn't exist anymore. However, most of what I had there regarding Arcane etc. is now at dragonofcompassion.com my newer archive site.

fiction?
note: I have written about Elohar and Ragna since the early 1980s. They are reincarnations of my parents who live in the year 7028. Whether this is fiction or not I'll leave up to you to decide. end note.
2nd note: If you want to read about Jonathan Flow(my alter ego) Arcane, Elohar and Ragna, The Galactic Sentience and all the others please read if you are interested "Memories" through "memories 11". You will find these buttons at my website at:
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They will be down the page a little. I made my site all text pretty much so only mature people who could deal with spiritually, psychologically and technologically mature subject matter. After all, it is the universe according to Fred.

Ragna was somewhat overwhelmed with his experiences on New Deva. However, sitting cross legged in a large green inter-dimensional sentient sphere forcefield and going about 1,000,000 years into the future while sitting facing Arcane while holding his hands with both crosslegged in a double lotus hatha yoga position and then going there and meeting young Arcane at age 15 swimming and breathing in a home sized large fish tank breathing water and catching fish for the New Deva Sea Scouts jamboree had just basically blown his mind in ways he still hadn't accounted for.

Now he was back in 7075 AD on earth. He looked around at his well appointed home and thought about the last few weeks in the future on Arcane's old home planet, New Deva. He shuddered. Even 25 years as a professional military time traveler hadn't prepared him for what he had encountered on New Deva. Since Arcane was nothing if he wasn't a very logical and rational man, he laughed and laughed and laughed now that it was safe to do so. He laughed now it was safe at what he had experienced and he laughed at the contrasts of Earth life in any period he had visited and the entirely different paradigm of New Deva which is quite possibly a newly terra-formed earth in about 1,000,000 years AD.

Ragna looked out through his picture window of the Matterhorn. He thought of the days when there were reported to have been glaciers here. Now living at 10,000 feet was the climate of southern California in the 20th century without the smog. Only the synthetically generated ozone burned ones nose slightly as one breathed.(Ozone was manufactured now to prevent skin cancer for those who went out in the sun. The ozone layer in the atmosphere was now almost like it was in 1900 most places on earth.

Ragna called out to his computer and video screen and had a conversation with it. "How, was your sojourn, Sir?" Ragna said, "Well Veevee, I feel a little disoriented." Veevee the computer and video screen said,"Would you like music and dancing girls, Sir. Or would you prefer the news or an adventure move." Ragna said, "Well. I just had an adventure that would take the top of most peoples heads right off, so no adventure movie. How about a music video of some of my favorite artists. That might settle me down to my normal self again." Veevee said,"Coming right up, Sir."

Ragna loved Veevee. He liked being taken care of the way he tried to take care of and to protect the earth from unwanted time intrusions from other planets or from other times. Though he was always on alert he had given his son the primary duties he had exercised the last 25 years or so. That was why he was allowed to leave the planet on vacation with Arcane. After about an hour he decided to call Arcane in Mt. Shasta, California on the alternate time-line where North and South America still existed as habitable places.

Ragan called Arcane and said, "What were you really trying to show me, Arcane?"
Arcane chuckled and said, "I wanted you to see just how different my life was before earth." Ragna said, "Well. You did. The problem now is I don't know what to do with all I learned. I don't know whether to write about it or to just let it go wherever it wants to." Arcane being the older friend said, "There is a saying Ragna that, 'truth is stranger than fiction', today and the last few years you experienced just how true that is." Ragna said, "But what am I supposed to do with what I learned?" Arcane just said, "It'll come to you, Ragna. I have a sense you will be very long lived just like me." Ragna said, "Thanks, Arcane. Goodbye."

However, when he put down the phone he found himself uneasy with what Arcane had said so he called Elohar, his wife and the mother of his son on the videophone. He let Veevee dial for him. Soon she answered from her wrist phone. He said, "Where are you, Honey?" Elohar said, "Oh. I'm doing a little research on Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa." Ragna was now worried. He said, "What about the radiation count?" She said," We did a radiation scan and radiation isn't a problem at this altitude so I'll be fine, dear."
He could hear the thwap thwap thwap of the helicopter hovercraft in the background.

Ragna said, "When will you be home, Dear?" Elohar said, "Oh, in a few days dear. Are you all right? You sound a little disoriented?" Ragna said, "Oh, Arcane took me to New Deva to meet his boyhood self." Elohar started laughing and couldn't seem to stop. Then she said, "You Do know he's your Guru right now don't you?" Ragna didn't find this amusing and glowered at her through the video phone. She finally said, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" Ragna said, "What is that a Zen Koan or something?" Elohar said, "Exactly! Arcane just broke your mind in the koan of the trip to New Deva when he was a boy. He thinks you're ready for enlightenment! This is a very good thing, Ragna." Ragna said, "I don't like it, dear." Elohar again laughed and said, "No one likes enlightenment. It is only the balanced understanding of how everything works and interfaces on all levels philosophically, scientifically, and spiritually, all at once. You don't have to like it, Ragna, but once you're there you will never be fooled again about anything meaningful." Ragna said, "Well. I guess if you say so it must be important." Elohar said, "It is." Ragna said, "You're the greatest, dear!" Elohar said, "Be home soon. Darling!"