Re-configuration
Heroes from Outerspace
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Our brain is the crown of creation. It was designed according to the purpose the Creator meant it to be – to learn nature and reach for the realms of the Cosmos and beyond. And that’s the reason why we have 75% of the cerebrum in our brain. The Creator’s wish was to see the best in humanity, not the worst that there is now: considering our neglect of the cerebral parts of the brain and such things as drug problems, crimes of many kinds, arrogance, egotism and cynicism. It seems that the New Millennium started with a lot of concern of some people about drug-addiction and that lead to the universal thoughts of the quest for meaning of our lives in general. But we still don’t use our Neocortex on a large scale. In many cases, it’s wasted to the maximum, not to mention powerful weapons of self-destruction like alcohol, smoking and drugs.
The brain is the seat of consciousness, which proves that humans are thinking beings: Cogito Ergo Sum, which means, "I think, therefore I am." And thoughts are lights shaped by consciousness of our brain.
The soul is an entity. It’s a spiritual part of a person. Souls are also the thinking entities. Their thoughts can reach some realms in the Cosmos. But what happens when we lose our ability to think? We can’t communicate with the Divine Higher Intelligence in the Cosmos. Then, our souls can only feel. But feelings are of so many types. So the question is what kind of feelings can our souls experience? Love? Hate? Friendship? Animosity? Empathy? Anger? A friendly attitude to others? Or good feelings in general?
To feel good about ourselves is our motto. But what about others? Should we feel good about others too? Isn’t it the Law of Humanity? Not at all! Somebody said that we get from the world what we give to the world. I wish it were the Law of Humanity.
We are supposed to be intelligent most of the time. Are we? LOL. We aren’t always happy either. Of course there are circumstances in our lives that make us miserable. But is it the case for the whole life span of ours? Sometimes, the reason for our turmoil of feelings is our "fun-hunting". We want to be happy in spite of everything. Unfortunately, that includes drugs of many kinds, sometimes.
But before we look into this "whirlpool" of drug-fun, let’s look inside our brain and see how this divine structure reacts to drugs. We have a chemical in our brain called dopamine. According to many scientific researches, the first part of the word "dopa" is an amino acid that is converted by an enzyme (protein) into dopamine in the blood stream. "Amine" is essential to normal nerve activity in the brain. That’s why we may say that normal activity balance of the brain depends on how dopamine acts, because an excess of it or its dislocation may lead to severe mental illness. That’s the scientific conclusion of many scientists.
And now let’s go and visit Rave International where "Good Times Roll". Let us unleash our imagination to the point that the visual cortex will present us this picture: somewhere, on one of the islands in Eastern Europe five young people from different countries met. They were all on vacation. It was a sunny day and beautiful waves were embracing a sandy beach where all five young people were swimming in the warm waters of the sea. All of them were students. It happened that they occupied the same spot on the beach. They didn’t talk to each other because there was no chance to start a conversation. But the conversation started in a lame way, "Hi. What’s up?" Oleg asked Tina.
"Nothing much?"
"And you? Enjoying your vacation?"
"Sure. And you?"
"Yeah. It’s cool here."
"Where are you from?" Oleg was the first to ask.
"Scandinavia. And you?" Tina asked him.
"Russia," replied Oleg.
"We are neighbors," noticed Tina.
"Yeah. I am from Vladivoctoc," Oleg said meaning the location of his university and his home.
"Stockholm," said Tina.
The dialog didn’t last too long. But the two went to swim together.
"Hey! Wait! I am stuck!"
"What’s up? Come on. Let’s swim over there."
Their voices went down when the swimmers covered a distance of a mile or so. Both were very good swimmers and that made a kind of bond between them. When they went back, three people were talking loudly, interrupting each other, and occupying the place where Oleg and Tina had been sitting on the seashore. Oleg was the first to approach them.
"Sorry. We were sitting here." Oleg started--but was interrupted.
"I don’t see anybody sitting here but the three of us," said one of them, whose name was Tom.
"OK. Stop clowning around, Tom!" said another student.
"Why don’t we all sit together?" asked Oleg.
It took several minutes for the five people to start chatting and showing that all of them had a lot in common. It didn’t matter at all that Tina and Oleg didn’t speak perfect English. All the five quickly found common ground for conversation: it was fun hunting.
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About the Book
Reconfiguration is a paranormal fantasy. The book describes some unusual space adventures of five students from different parts of planet Earth. The students were drugged at a party in Europe, in result of which, they almost died. When they were unconscious, aliens took the students to a far-distant galaxy with the name G-575-X. There, the students underwent bio-chemical procedure of their brains that can be called reconfiguration. Though the procedure was done for the purpose of the students' adaptation to the dimensions of the galaxy, their cognitive functions were greatly enhanced. All five students were very intelligent before the reconfiguration, but after the procedure, they had more thirst for knowledge. They wanted to learn as much about the cosmos as they could in order to help the humanity in future. Their knowledge was needed for their mission: the students wanted to try to solve numerous problems on planet Earth and create a fair and happy international community. But the students couldn't go back to the Earth for several years. So, their clones were sent there instead. The clones were only "the ground-breakers" who were instructed to lay the foundation for the mission that would be accomplished by the real heroes-the students!
About the Author
Olga Altstatt is a former teacher who worked with thousands students of different ages during thirty years of her teaching career, which was her number one goal. Now, she has set another goal – to become a recognized problematic writer who will try to help in solving such problems as drug-addiction, smoking, heavy-drinking and in other areas of so called recreational activities of humans. Using her knowledge that was accumulated during many years, she tries to make people understand that if we won't stop our destructive habits, we may instinct like dinosaurs did millions years ago! Olga Altstatt is familiar with some of the brain functions. She is using this knowledge in her books. She is also a science fan. Her favorite subject is astrophysics. Her favorite scientists are Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, Andrey Sakharov, Dmitriy Mendeleev and Gene Shoemaker. Among the scientists of the new vision of the cosmos, she has a great respect for A. Young and neuro-biologist William Calvin. Her hope is that young generations in all countries would understand one day that it's their priority to change this unfair world for the better one, if not the best!