Limitless Power

My wife and I live in a modest flat in Brighton, gone our former lives of prosperous, professional respectability. We are outcasts, pariah’s, our very names erased from rolls of honour of our alma maters. That we didn’t deserve it, that we were not the high and mighty intellectual snobs we were portrayed as in the media matters not a jot. We found the Holy Grail and destroyed it. You may have heard about us, we are professors Franklin and Joyce Wendell.

We were meditating when it happened. I felt a presence; it was like nothing I’d ever experienced before. A great sense of the peace “which passeth all understanding” consumed me. ’Who are you?’ I thought.

‘I am you and you are me, we are all one.’

‘Is it possible to see you?’

‘No.’

‘But you are here?’

‘Yes.’

‘So, why don’t you show yourself?’

‘In what you call the past we have been called angels, devils and spirits. None of these names are true. This leads to misunderstanding, confusion and our messages being distorted.’

‘Messages?’

‘Yes, messages for those of you able to understand. We do not seek to tell everyone. Most are unready.’

‘How did you get here, are you a spaceman or from another time?’

There is no such thing as time; it is a false construct of a primitive state of being, useful in its way, but utterly false. There is only the eternal now.’

‘I don’t understand.’

‘What can you do in your yesterday?’

‘Nothing, it’s gone.’

‘And what can you do in your tomorrow?’

‘Nothing, it is yet to come.’

‘And when it does come it will be now, the present, right?’

‘Yes.’

‘As for space travel by vehicular means that is next to useless.’

‘So, how did you get here?’

‘I simply transferred my consciousness, that way one can be anywhere one desires to be instantly. We are pure consciousness having dispensed with physical bodies many millennia ago.’

‘We?’

‘We are oneness, names denote separateness.’

‘I see, or believe I do. What’s this message and how do we fit in?’’

‘Some of you are beginning to understand quantum physics, the uses of sub atomic particles. You have discovered that everything is energy, everything that exists is made of energy and that energy can be harnessed.’

‘Yes, that’s my field.’

‘What you are about to discover is a means of harnessing limitless power, clean, free power.’

‘That’s what we’re working on, we have nearly completed our project, but what of it?’

‘There is a great danger that the more primitive among you will use it to destroy others and in doing so destroy all your species.’

‘We already have the capacity to do that with nuclear weapons.’

‘Indeed, if you used those things the destruction would be catastrophic but not absolute.’

‘So, why is that important to you?’

‘Because you are us one thousand five hundred millennia ago in your time terms, we escaped the fate that awaits you because of a message like this.’

‘So, we will survive?’

‘That’s up to you.’

‘My work is solely for peaceful purposes, the world will no longer rely on fossil fuel. We will have the limitless free energy you speak of; surely that is a noble aim?’

‘It is and you are about to invent what should be a great boon to humanity. Unfortunately it also has the capacity to turn your world into another sun.’

‘A chain reaction you mean? Uncontrolled fission? That is only a very tiny risk which we have contained.’

‘Not if the system is weaponised, which it surely will be. The risk will be magnified one thousand fold. There are those among you who seek power over others and will use any means to obtain it.’

‘But if they knew the consequences, the terrible dangers inherent in such a use surely they’d see it was an impossible dream. To conquer all only to end with self destruction, who would commit such an act of lunacy?’

‘There are those among you who believe they could control such risk. They could not.’

So, what am I to do?

‘You know what you should do and you know the consequence to you, personally.’

‘And if we don’t?’

‘That is your choice’

‘I see.’

Then the presence was gone. I came from within myself to look at my wife sitting opposite. She is my joint researcher, a brilliant scientist. We always meditate together. I knew she had shared the same visitation.

‘Ten years’ she said with tears in her eyes, ‘ten years of research, of trial and error. The millions poured into it by the universities. They will end our careers, humiliate us. We are finished my beloved.’

I knew she was right we were finished but we must destroy all our research, remove forever that which we had discovered. We had jointly used our meditation for deeply intuitive insights into this project. The chances of others discovering what we had discovered by straightforward research was extremely remote, possibly taking centuries.

That weekend we went to the research facility and started to systematically delete all our records. We destroyed hard drives and incinerated thousands of documents. Those computer records that were recoverable we altered, laying false trails. We worked for forty eight hours non-stop.

As scientists we were ruined forever, our reputations destroyed by what others saw as moralistic, intellectual arrogance. We were also accused of being bought off by the giant oil companies. That the Military were incandescent with rage is our greatest source of comfort.