Epiphany

Prologue

In the beginning was the Word...                         

John 1:1

The vast intelligence existed timelessly amidst an amorphous "foam" of possibilities.  There was no past or future, only an infinity of present moments.  What is and what is not plays across that Mind as it floats within an existence of its own ideas and concepts. 

The Mind extends itself outward, reaching with its senses, but reaching into what?  There is the sudden awareness that there is nothing but what it perceives.  And abruptly there is the startling revelation that it is singular and alone.  A sense of yearning is at once conceived and then recognized as the desire for something beyond itself.

Expanding concepts form in the Mind.  Emananations of thought begin to push at the fabric of a proto-reality that is yet to be the universe.  The desire to extend itself and to create suddenly results in the carving of energy from the foam of its own existence.  Energy is focused and bursts forth as a pulse of unimaginable intensity and power.  The resulting explosive wave expands rapidly from the Genesis Point creating both space and time as it expands - all under the direction of the Mind.  As the energy cools it begins to form the matter of the Cosmos.  From a paradigm of thought comes a universe of reality and possibilities, a universe of galaxies, worlds and creatures.

But there is more! The concept of relationship is also created out of an unfathomable desire - a desire that is at the core of  existence.  Reationship is, after all, the nature of the Creator and the created.

Chapter 2

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. 

Helen Keller

"No matter how many times I do this it always gives me goose bumps," murmured Captain James Havel. "To be in a place where no one has ever been- it never ceases to amaze me!" He made himself look away from the forward view screen and scan the instrument panels of the bridge. He watched his crew at their appointed jobs. But it was difficult to stay focused and he lapsed into reflection on everything that had brought his crew and him to this new place among the stars. He thought about the wonders of his age that allowed humans for the first time to travel across vast distances, virtually in an instant. "Truly amazing!" he sighed as he shook his head slightly.

Havel reflected on the tingling sensations on the back of his neck that were now receding. His training told him that the quantum engines that created the artificial wormhole, allowing his ship to traverse the alternative reality of sub-space and travel parsecs in an instant, were the cause of the physical sensation. "But then maybe some part of the tnigling is my own excitement," he smiled to himself. "We literally jump across light-years of normal space in an instant. How incredible is that?"       (continued)

Chapter 5

Live simply so that others may simply live.

Gandhi

Beta Continent

The high pitched shrieks of animals in the treetops and the intense smells of the wet jungle played across!Kerrt's mind as she stalked in the dim pre-dawn light. It was becoming hard to tell whether the pangs of hunger and the emotions of fear were her own or from her prey. She had been tracking the herd of Ela for serveral day cycles now and her tension was as great as her need. She knew this band of Ela would be especially dangerous because she sensed several young males among the majority of females and the one dominant male. But she was driven by the desparation that comes from hunger and the realization that she must soon feed or die.

Her stategy was simple, written on the very fabric of her being. It was the timeless struggle of hunter in search of prey.

(continued)