Being of the Field (47 page)
‘And come back!’ Aurora made a desperate appeal for the impossible.
‘What can I say?’ Ringbalin raced to the closing door to add his piece. ‘You’re beautiful people…love your work!’ The door slammed closed, so Ringbalin waved through the window.
Taren was choked with emotion as the doors of the craft locked and she waved frantically to her departing space family.
Lucian was having trouble containing his emotions himself, but he squeezed Taren and urged her to accompany him back to the bridge.
‘Alone at last.’ Lucian observed the expansive surface of the inter-system gateway which was only minutes away from making contact with their craft.
That was one consolation and Taren found a smile to bestow on her lover.
Not quite all alone.
The sound of his deceased wife’s voice rather rained on Lucian’s parade. He looked about and saw her standing by the console, where last he’d seen her alive. ‘Amie,’ he announced for Taren’s benefit and Taren’s delight turned to shock.
‘Your dead wife?’ Taren queried, discomforted. ‘You’ve been talking to your dead wife?’
‘She’s just leaving, I suspect.’ Lucian looked back at her sternly.
I’m going,
Amie informed.
I just wanted to say thank you…you did good.
‘I didn’t do it for you—’ Lucian pointed out.
I know,
she was a little sad to admit.
But thanks anyway.
She blew him a kiss and vanished.
Lucian forced a smile as she departed. ‘She’s gone now.’ He expressed both great relief and great pain in the statement.
‘But I’m still here.’ Taren embraced him tightly, so grateful for everything. ‘What say we blow off this universe and see what the next
one has to offer?’ She swallowed her fear of actually going where only her consciousness had ventured before.
‘Sounds good.’ Lucian played along, as petrified as she was. ‘Ship, set a course for the universe parallel.
Hey
, look at that,’ he said, faking amazement as he motioned to the systems monitor, ‘it’s already been done for us.’
Taren turned the captain to face her. ‘I guess there’s nothing left to do but enjoy the ride.’ Taren moved in for a kiss, but, in the event they got carried away, she thought to add, ‘But should something go horribly wrong—’
‘It won’t.’ Lucian was the voice of reassurance for a change, as he had noted three larger-than-life spirits out of the corner of his eye. ‘We have guardian spirits watching out for us.’
Taren had forgotten about the grigori, even though they had been the ones who had inspired her to take this risk. With the reminder, all her fears departed and she placed her trust in the higher power she hoped to one day understand. In the man before her she saw her beautiful guardian, and if she was to meet her end this day, it would be in the divine bliss of his love.
I think they can probably take it from here,
Azazèl commented, to distract his comrades’ attention away from the intimate moment, but he felt proud of a job well done.
Aye,
Sammael agreed,
you never did have any problem in that department.
Well then,
Armaros rose into the air to leave, feeling they were now intruding.
Let us see this ship safely to its next destination.
As Azazèl fondly observed his split-soul manifestations in the throes of passion, he suggested,
Take the scenic route.
That’s a given,
Armaros jibed as he led his fellow threshold dwellers upwards.
The triad soared beyond AMIE as she penetrated the entry barrier of the inter-system gateway and swept along the quantum tunnel ahead of their charge, towards the crossing that would grant entry to the universe parallel.
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The Donning International Encyclopedic Psychic Dictionary
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McTaggart, Lynne:
The Field: the Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
. HarperCollins Publishers, London. 2001.
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The Intention Experiment
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Maladaan
Capital City: Esponisa
Ruler: President Woodford Tallak
Climate: Polluted
Landscape: Overdeveloped
Highrise-modern cityscapes
Known as the technology capital of the USS
Frujia
Capital City: Kotan Bathaar
Ruler: Chief Matan-tu-hoo
Climate: Hot, tropical
Landscape: Scattered island archipelagos
Small tourist colonies
Known as the pleasure capital of the USS
Sermetica
Capital City: Heavensgate
Ruler: President Jabez Anselm
Climate: Controlled
Landscape: Desert-mineral rich
Mobile-airborne cities in the clouds
Known as the mining capital of the USS
a.k.a. the Planet of Men
Phemoria
Capital City: Tonissia
Ruler: Queen Qusay-Sabah Clarona
Climate: Moderate
Landscape: Forest and ocean rich
Beautiful ancient cities, unspoilt by time
Known as the cultural capital of the USS
a.k.a. the Planet of Women
Oceane
Capital City: none
Ruler: Azazèl-mindos-coomra-dorchi
Climate: Wet and steamy
Landscape: Largely ocean and small rocky land masses
Unknown to the USS
1. Clairvoyance
(clear vision)—to see into the ethereal dimension without using physical eyes, to reach into another vibrational frequency and visually perceive ‘within the head’ or ‘in outer space’ something significant to this incarnation, eyes opened or closed. To see psychically a full blown picture, part of a person or scene, an object, lights, words, colours, auras, geometrical figures, thought forms, deceased friends, living friends, etheric world intelligences. Visions are shown regarding past, present or future.
Clairaudience
(clear audio)—to perceive sounds or words when no person is present. Sounds are inaudible to the normal hearing, can appear to come from ‘within the head’ or ‘out in the atmosphere’.
2. Shape-shifting/Physical Transformation
—to physically transform oneself into another human being, animal, bird, fish or object for a temporary period and to be able to perform the task of that animal or object and use the mind, memory and senses of the adopted form as if it were one’s own.
3. Levitation
—to elevate oneself or an object in the air. The object or the self is kept suspended for a length of time without the use of physical means. Performed by a psychic in a semi-trance or fulltrance state of consciousness. Levitation is always willed and desire controlled. This is accomplished by the undivided concentration of the subconscious mind or the guides. The psychic’s subconscious reverses the attraction of gravity in the subject or object.
4. Mediumship
(mediator; go-between)—one who serves as an instrument through which the personality of an intelligence in the etheric world can help earthlings. The intelligence enters the medium’s body to speak.
Channel
—bringing psychic information or healing energy to others. Comes through in physical and mental
psychic skills while the person is in a deep or semi-trance state. The intelligence advises the psychic and the channel passes on the information in their own voice.
5. Psychokinesis
(PK)—to deliberately change the position, form or elements of objects of a specific energy field with disciplined concentration of the conscious or subconscious minds. To physically and intentionally direct one’s will to act on elementary atoms of the third dimension in a definite manner.
6. Precognition
(speaking before)—a word meaning psychic message from the future. All psychic information pertaining to future events that comes spontaneously or willed.
7. Remote Viewing
—to perceive clairvoyantly something that is happening at the present moment that is out of range of the physical eyes. This sometimes involves astral projection.
8. Astral Projection
—to will one’s soul-mind to leave the physical body en-clothed in an astral body and travel to distant localities.
9. Telekinesis
(TK, tele ‘over a distance’; kinesis ‘movement’)—a psychic production of movement or motion over distance. To act psychically on third-dimensional matter and change its position, form or elements. Phenomena is always pre-planned, willed and desired by the medium.
10. Telepathy
(tele ‘distance’; pathos ‘sensing’, ‘to feel afar’)—the touch of consciousness of one person upon another person with the ability to discern what that person is thinking and feeling at the present moment: thoughts, visions, hypnotic energy, body movements, subconscious data, feelings, illness, emotional states, psychic messages or the train of inner dialogue. Both individuals can be alive or one deceased. Can be voluntary or involuntary, selective and deliberate, or spontaneous and undesired.
11. Transmutation Teleportation
—to transfer one’s body, another’s body, or an object through ethereal space from one physical locality to another, via the use of the will. To dematerialise one’s own body by rearranging the atomic structure until it is ethereal in nature and attuned to a higher vibrational frequency, and to re-materialise one’s body into the mundane.
12. The Healing Touch
(Remote; Holistic; Spiritual; Sympathetic; Psychic; Magnetic; Mental)—all holistic healing requires that the practitioner takes into consideration every aspect of the patient’s lifestyle and emotional attitudes to find the cause of an ailment. To use etheric world energy to cure a patient, or etheric world information to diagnose an ailment.
I’d like to thank David, Sarah, John, Mum, Dad, Gillybean, Kyle and Joey, Steven and Lorraine, Mo and Ken, Shane, Wendy Connie and Oliver, Geoff and Terry, Michael, Sue M, Chez, John-Mark, Harold, Lisa, Claire-Bear, Karen, Sally, Sue W and Kath—for keeping me sane, making me laugh, supporting me, and reminding me what life is all about.
Loads of thanks also to everyone on the Traci Harding Community Message Board (the THC) and Trazling—especially, Chez, Willow, Temmies, EJ, Whirls, Fi, ED, Thirsty and all my moderators and helpers.
A special thank you to Sue M, Chez and Whirls—my pre-readers.
A very big kiss and hug to my agent, Selwa.
And a huge chug on the shoulder to everyone at HarperCollins Publishers—especially, Linda, Stephanie, Annabel and Jordan—thanks for thirteen wonderful years!
I would also like to acknowledge the fantastic work of Lynne McTaggart, who inspired this book and the entire trilogy. You’ll find the details of her books in the Bibliography. I have not read anything so mind-expanding in ten years.
Traci Harding lives on the Hawkesbury River, with her husband David and their two beautiful children, Sarah and John.
Traci has written three trilogies—The Ancient Future, The Celestial Triad and the Mystique Trilogy—as well as three stand-alone novels,
The Alchemist’s Key, Ghostwriting
, and
The Book of Dreams
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The Ancient Future Trilogy
The Ancient Future: the Dark Age (1)
An Echo in Time: Atlantis (2)
Masters of Reality: the Gathering (3)
The Alchemist’s Key
The Celestial Triad
Chronicle of Ages (1)
Tablet of Destinies (2)
The Cosmic Logos (3)
Ghostwriting
The Book of Dreams
The Mystique Trilogy
Gene of Isis (1)
The Dragon Queens (2)
The Black Madonna (3)
Triad of Being
Being of the Field (1)
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