7. return to Leo and Catia’s “I don’t know what it is sweetheart, but your presence did something to me” Catia smiled thankfully at Jasmine. Jasmine smiled back a bit nervously. “Um, I don’t understand? I hope I did something good?” Catia smiled, and chuckled lightly a moment. “Yes dear, you certainly did! I could feel it beginning just before you rang our bell the other night. I could feel it fully when I met you. Now, days are even better for me. I had...foggy times...after the accident. At first it was mostly foggy times. Slowly, over the years, and with Leo’s help especially,” she squeezed his hand a little hug, and continued with her typical slight halting-stutter, “I could think again, clearly, more and more.” “But I didn’t do anything?… You mean co-incidence? I’m like a lucky charm or something?” Jasmine inquired politely. “No sweetheart, it’s your AURA!” Catia smiled at her. “Catia was my Ph.D. student studying the human aura, in the wake of discoveries by Valerie V. Hunt” Leo said. “Who?” “She was a professor in California, who started a scientific study in the 1970s of the "Lay on Hands" healers, Auric Seers, etc. She worked with the U.S. government in the 1980s and early 1990s to create machines that could "artificially" reproduce the same healing effects, specifically regarding mental health.” {{{see the book "Infinite Mind: Science of the Human Vibrations of Consciousness" by Valerie V. Hunt}}} “It worked wonders, then … disappeared off the radar of science.” Catia continued “I was trying to find the data Ms. Hunt had collected in her research, a patent, anything, but I just hit dead ends and top-secret government blocks. It was weird, because it seemed the data became top-secret AFTER she completed the project. It was all out in the open before that. Leo and I think they turned it into a mind-control machine to use with foreign spies, or whatever. “Anyway, sweetheart, I’m sure I felt YOUR aura. I feel it now! I was learning to feel them when I became Leo’s student. That’s why I wanted to research it. You have a strong flow from your heart chakra! I FEEL it!” She stopped talking and looked at the front door. “I … think …” Everyone focused on the door, so everyone heard the faint footsteps walk onto the porch, and the doorbell rang. “Yes, I think …” Catia held back but began to smile. Leo got up and answered the door. It was special agent Maxine Leffleur. “We were wondering how we should contact you, if we should call you.” Jasmine said, not at all surprised to see her. “I watched your car go to Las Cruces, and come back this direction. Don’t worry, I made sure I did it so they couldn’t tell I was watching YOU, specifically. No records are supposed to be kept after I review any data, anyway. “But then yesterday, they fired my boss and laid me off. I just kinda guessed you would come back here, and estimated when.” “We just got here 30 minutes ago.” Jasmine replied happily. “Tammy’s not with you?” She looked at Jazmin. “Please don’t tell me....” “It is” Jasmine responded, nodding her head slowly. “You lost your kids?” She looked Jazmin in the eyes. “Yes” Jazmin said quietly and timidly. “But we have a leed, and we hope you can help” Jasmine finished for her. “A leed?” Former special agent Maxine Leffleur looked surprised. “It’s weird, I know, but, …” She looked around the room, looked Leo in the eyes, exhaled hard through her nose and retook a shallow breath, and looked back at former special agent Leffleur “… we think her children are on the Moon.” Former special agent Maxine Leffleur’s eyebrows almost raised to her hairline. “The Moon?!!” “The Moon?” Leo questioned, jumping in. “The Moon” former special agent Maxine Leffleur said flatly, nodding her head. Jasmine was nodding her head also. “So you know about the Moon and her kids?” she responded hopefully. “We know that something is actively going on up there. Our government − the Pentagon, and the Chinese have been looking into it the last few years, but at the bureau, we have been left in the dark. How,… … … why do you think her kids are there?” “Um, a Mexican sorcerer-shaman guy told us?” Jasmine said smiling sheepishly, suddenly realizing how unreal her reality was to them. “Ah, and the fortune cookie…” she looked at Jazmin. Jazmin pulled the little slip of paper out of her pocket and showed it to former special agent Leffleur. Jasmine suddenly felt like a fool. What was she doing? Ghosts were not the concern of the F.B.I. “Well, that certainly makes sense, now” former special agent Leffleur said. “Can you explain?” asked Leo. “Let’s all sit.” He motioned to the couch. “Yes,” former special agent Leffleur said, as they all found their spots. “The GVT7800 - the craft Jasmine mentioned hearing about, is not a helicopter or plane, it’s "graviton-powered". At least that’s what we hear it called. It’s an anti-gravity craft. In space, it can create a gravitational field with a proportional density greater than normal gravity.” “You mean inside it feels like Earth’s gravity, but a few feet away, the gravitational field will have diminished at a rate greater than the inverse-squared proportion rule? So outside the craft you float away?” Leo asked. “Correct. You have a good way of explaining it” former special agent Leffleur replied. She continued “using those craft from Guantanamo — that’s why! They must be flying the subjects to the far side of the Moon where they could proceed without government interference. Then the Chinese must have gotten on to them, and sent the first probe, which they shot down. The Pentagon teamed up with the Chinese and sent more probes, but we at the bureau failed to get intel on what came of that. But enough info got out that the public got to see the pictures we took of the first downed Chinese probe. “Look, folks,” she said, herself looking around the room. “I’m not on duty anymore, but I’m not quitting on these kids,” she turned to Jazmin and took her hand “or YOU. We WILL find your kids and bring them home.” Jazmin smiled a real smile for the first time in 8 years. “Thank you special agent Maxine Leffleur!” Jasmine could not help but get up and give her a hug. “Please, call me Violet! That’s my middle name, and everyone outside the agency… …ah … well… my family all call me that.” Violet lived a solo life with no real friends. They would just hamper her job, and cause a liability if she was captured by an enemy or something. And the job was usually so overwhelmingly time-consuming. Maybe she made it to a concert one a year – alone. It was nice to feel like she had friends in her life, but, never-the-less, they felt like family already. “I think you ARE an ultra-violet flower, sweetheart! I can "see" it now in your aura” Catia said, smiling. Without warning the doorbell rang. Catia looked at the door, confused … “I didn’t even… … …” her voice trailed off. Everyone else remained silent. Leo stiffened. They were not expecting visitors. They NEVER had visitors! Jasmine instinctively looked at Leo. She had to admit to herself her physical attraction to his physique, even though it was talking to him that really stimulated her soul. He was a 6-foot 2-inch tall black man, made of solid muscle, with a shaved head. Just his presence made her feel safe. When he had held her, she felt as safe as she did in her father’s arms, when she was just a little girl, unaware of the real dangers in the world around her. But she could tell instantly Leo was nervous. They just had that kind of connection. They all watched the door. A pit of anxiety was growing in Jasmine’s stomach. Jazmin sat there, somewhat overwhelmed by the entire situation, oblivious to whatever danger may be just outside. She was with friends in a nice home, and was well fed at the moment. What more to worry about than her kids? Violet, always prepared, knew that "they" would not knock, but, then again, maybe a distraction at the front door was their plan. Leo got up and answered the door. He would never let anyone intimidate him into outright fear. “Aloha! I am Yellow Tiger. I’m here to visit with you all.” he said smiling widely as he peered in the doorway and waved his hand toward everyone in the room. “May I come in?” A Tibetan looking man stood there in the clothing of a Tibetan Monk, but he spoke solid American English with almost no accent. “I have a gift for Violet. And I want to talk story.” A hint of Hawaiˀian pidgin crept into his lingo though an accent. Now Leo was really confused. He looked at Violet, but she was just as confused. Catia spoke out from her wheelchair “Darlin’ you sure are bright! I think you should let him in Leo” she said smiling. Leo gestured for the Monk to come in, and glanced back outside. There was no car parked out there. He thought about special agent Maxine Leffleur − Violet − and her 15 mile run to hide their location. “How did you get here?” he asked. Jasmine instantly thought about the Mexican sorcerer-shaman guy, and how he appeared from nowhere and disappeared into nowhere. “I took an Uber. And a jet plane” the Tibetan looking guy said, smiling. He looked right at Violet, and continued. “No time to waste, this is for you.” He was wrapped in the typical yellow shawl of a Tibetan Monk’s attire, which he removed to reveal he was actually wearing two identical shawls. He walked over to Violet, and she stood up, almost involuntarily to meet him. He wrapped it over her shoulders. “It’s alpaca wool, just like the ones José Yaguar brought them.” Yellow Tiger pointed at Jasmine and Jazmin. “You mean so the "Dragon" can’t see her either? And, the weird Mexican guy we met is José?” Jasmine caught on quickly. “Precisely.” Leo spoke up. “So, I gotta know, as a physics professor and scientist. Is there a basis for this superstition? I know the Incan royalty was the only ones allowed to wear Alpaca in old-time Peru. What makes it special, do you know? I mean, I don’t want to be disrespectful or rude or even doubtful, I just want to know more.” “The specific angle in the twist in the calcium’s molecular structure in the hairs blocks the key signature aspects that identify an aura as belonging to a (specific) human” Yellow Tiger replied, knowingly. “I had a hard time even telling you were outside. I can see auras. And feel them. That’s the alpaca wool blocking the energy flow?” Catia responded back. “In the same way, Jade stone enhances the flow. That’s why when we were Mayans we put Chinese Jade on the mask of Quetzalcoatl. That angle is the magic angle of life: phi [φ], the refractive index of Jade. “It’s already late today, and I have a lot you need to hear” Yellow Tiger continued. “Please, have a seat” Leo said, motioning to the couch. “Would anyone like water or hot tea? We have 12 flavors. We also have cold Hibiscus tea already made, if anyone would like some.” “Some hot peppermint tea would be wonderful dear, please” Catia said to Leo, smiling. “Hibiscus, please?” requested Jasmine. Leo looked at Jazmin. “Ah, hot tea?” Jazmin responded. She was currently accustomed to the Mexican desert, not cold New England in the late winter. Leo replied “I’ll bring all the flavors for you to choose from.” “I’d like a hot tea also, please” Violet said, as Leo turned to her. Violet sat back down on the couch leaving an open spot at the end, but Yellow Tiger instead sat on the floor near Violet’s feet, with his legs crossed. “I hope you don’t mind, I prefer the ground. Better for the lower back. Water or hibiscus please, either is find with me; thank you, I didn’t drink much for the long flight.” They all got comfortable, and Yellow Tiger began to speak. His voice was so clear and resounding that Leo could still hear the jolly new visitor as he walked in the kitchen to get the drinks. “José Yaguar was the Dragon’s best friend long ago.” he began. “For many, many, many lifetimes, we all re-incarnated together. We had evolved our souls so we could remember our past lives in full detail and guide our destinies, somewhat at least; and we learned how to teach this to others. We became the dreamers - the creators of reality through consciousness itself. We brought all the people together into civilizations. We built the Sphinx, then the Great pyramid. For countless generations, a hundred thousands of years, we guided humanity toward peace and the overcoming of suffering. We would get together and meditate, and our light would illuminate the whole world. “And we each kept evolving from lifetime to lifetime. “Dragon found the secret of hiding in darkness. She learned the secret from the Alpaca, and learned to twist the structure, … the fabric of space-time itself …, to hide herself. But it took a lot of effort to do this. She mastered the technique, and the rest of us still don’t understand how to do it easy. So we use the Alpaca wool.” Leo walked back in and handed out two glasses of cold hibiscus tea. Yellow Tiger continued his story with little hesitation. “José Yaguar found the secret of "multiple attentions". He knows how to split the so called astral-body of his aura and send one out away from his fleshy-body. He taught that to many of us, but he says he can "see" the greater overall patterns in the "realm of consciousness" that we just don’t. We need to "link our minds" together as we die and re-incarnate, so we can keep in touch throughout time, or we loose awareness and communication with each other. He can split his astral-body into many — more than two, and even easily find the astral-minds of others and reflect his own mind’s vision in theirs.” “Are you saying he got in our heads and messed with out minds?” Jasmine replied, suddenly slightly perturbed. “Well, not exactly, if I understand him. More like he stood between your "first-attention" and "reality" and tricked your astral-mind like a stage magician, except in the realm of the spiritual dimensions. "HE" was not even in the room with you; it’s too hard for him to get around to visit in person. That was his "second attention", but he has more. We all think, theoretically, infinitely more is possible, but that takes a lot of focus to control all that attention! The Dragon, though, learned his secrets — José tried to teach us all — and from there she did find the secret of guiding and controlling the actual thoughts of others. Did you ever see "Star Wars"?” Yellow Tiger asked his audience. “You mean, the "Jedi mind trick" or whatever?” Leo inquired back. “Yep. There’s a lot of truth in that myth. It only works on weak-minded people, those who have evolved quickly to human form from lower forms, which is happening more and more these days … this millennia especially. They don’t fully learn the lessons of life through the evolutionary process. Like taking a child of 3 years old, and giving it the responsibility and tools of a teenager! Teens are bad enough drivers! Now, metaphorically speaking, we have spiritual babies driving cars down our highways causing all kinds of danger and crashes. Everything we LEARN through books or through our parents teaching us is only what we REMEBER in our spirit that we actually LEARNED through direct experience with our bodies throughout time in our past lives. Some children can be told "HOT! Don’t touch" and they listen because their soul remembers, while others have to touch and get burned first; their soul will begin to remember, after enough times being burned, or after a bad enough burn. 400,000 years ago, humans were the pinnacle of spiritual evolution. Lately, humans have been devolving. In Peru now, they say some people dream, but most people are dreamed.” Yellow Tiger looked around the room, looked into the eyes of the reader of this story, and then continued. “What José Yaguar realized is that consciousness in the realm of spiritual dimensions is like a giant liquid crystal with many — seemingly infinite — facets. And each face of the crystal is one of us. “Of course, we are talking purely in metaphor here. The realm of spiritual dimensions is beyond words, logical descriptions, beyond the limits of human logistical understanding because the human mind and its languages are all dualistic in nature, and is bound — grounded so to speak — by the limits of the human body into a basic fundamental set of metaphors that the nervous system can interpret directly: up, down, left, right, forward, backward, in, out, etc.” {{{see: books by George Lakoff: "Metaphors we Live By"; "Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About The Mind"; "Philosophy In The Flesh: The Embodied Mind And Its Challenge To Western Thought"; "Where Mathematics Comes From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being"}}} “These fundamental metaphors are like building blocks used by the brain and human language to describe and logistically understand experience, by building more metaphors from the building blocks, and then using those compound metaphors as building blocks themselves, and so on and so on, like a fractal. But our human senses and the dualistic nature of our understanding do not explain or comprehend the full nature of the Universe — and require extending metaphor beyond what we normally understand to explain the unimaginatively illogical nature of reality as it presents itself to our body’s senses.” {{{see books on quantum theory: "The Tao of Physics" by Fritjof Capra and "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" by Gary Zurkov}}} “What does Einstein mean when he says energy and matter are the same thing? What does it mean when a quantum physicist says light is both a wave and a particle? It is beyond the brain. Beyond human capacity for understanding directly. As Taoists say: "the Tao that can be spoken of is not the Tao." We can perceive the existence of The Tao indirectly, but not directly. The spiritual texts that the Jews and Christians acquired and follow metaphorically say the same thing, as Moses asks God on Mt. Sinai "What should I tell the people is your Name?" and God replies that he has no name, he is simply "God", because if you name him, you define him. “So when we say consciousness is a crystal, we are talking about something that we can not actually talk about! But each face on the crystal is one of us, and each one of us is like a smaller fractoid version of that same crystal — we each have many facets, and each facet is an aspect of our soul that we gain throughout our evolution. And each of THOSE facets, the aspects of our soul, is itself a crystal with its own facets just like ours, just like the giant one. And so on and so on … back to the source. I’ll say more about that in a minute, but what José saw was the PATTERN in this giant crystal, which allowed him to consciously travel to other facets and thus communicate with us. Now we all can talk to each other through the spiritual dimension. Psychic communication, as it is commonly called. Many sociogenic species, from dogs to elephants, have the basis of this so-called "spiritual–psychic communication" embodied in their beings, but it is very primitive. Humans have evolved a more complex communication system in general, in essence what we call spoken and written language, which extends into our spiritual being. Many humans have learned to master "psychic communication" throughout time and evolution, and their soul never forgets even if they forget their previous lives; so your "ears burn" when others talk about you, etc., etc. But as Seers, we are fully aware of each-others’ presence "in our own minds" when we choose to communicate.” Yellow Tiger smiled and he looked around the room, as his audience reflected on his words. Then he continued. “Another way to think of it is through the Story of the "Heavenly Palace of Indra,"” {{{see "The Tao of Physics" by Fritjof Capra — "part III – interpenetration" page 328; and "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" by Gary Zurkov — "I Clutch My Ideas − The Dance" page 265}}} “an old Japanese Zen Buddhist teaching. The Palace is decorated within using tapestries made from polished mirrored pearls − mirrored balls, arranged covering all the walls, the ceiling, and the floor, so that anywhere you are in the Palace you can see all the mirrored balls, and you can see yourself, everyone else in the Palace, and all the other mirrored balls in the Palace, all at once, in the reflection from every mirrored ball. There is a wind blowing the tapestries; they wave and shimmer in the wind, as they blow around from wall to wall, as you walk through the palace. “Anyway, José is quite a character; he loves being dramatical to get stuff − ideas − in your head. He abhors the concept of dictating the consciousness of others. Usually, he keeps us laughing at his antics. But right now, we are all serious.” Yellow Tiger looked at Jazmin. “Long long ago, we all realized the "energetic quality" of life and the universe we call reality, now commonly called Qi, and we, the Seers, began to understand the different characteristics of Qi and how they affect different life forms. Jasmine was one of the first to begin to realize these qualities, and mastered techniques to refine the energy to restore the evolution of life on earth toward growing in the spiritual dimensions. “During what we call "the great divide" in more recent human history, Jasmine retreated to what is now Peru and, with friends, started the Incan society, and taught the people how to understand and work with the vibrational qualities of Qi energy in the realm of spiritual dimensions: now called hucha and sami by the "paqos" in that region; the paqos are the "energy workers — the healers — the spiritual leaders" there. Hucha is now comprehended as "heavy" Qi energy, thick and slow like molasses, while Sami is comprehended as "light" Qi energy, thin and quick like air. I still personally think of them as "disharmonious" and "harmonious", but that is just another metaphor for something that can not be fully comprehended by the human mind. Either way, the states of Qi energy actually exists in a continuum between extremes in the human frame of perception. The human mind likes to make everything dualistic for comprehension purposes.” The teapot in the kitchen began to whistle, and Leo got up to bring it back to the gathering. Yellow Tiger took a drink of cold tea as his audience absorbed the teachings he portrayed, then continued “We all knew from the beginning … … … that is, as we each individually reached the point of a "higher consciousness" that began to perceive and comprehend the aspects of the spiritual dimensions, that there are two known Paths of Evolution: developing the mind of awareness, and eating the Qi energy of others.” Jazmin shifted, almost squirmed in her seat uncomfortably, as Yellow Tiger continued. “The evolution of most life on Earth is based on the compounding effect of eating the Qi. Life forms consume the Qi of other life forms by eating them, but also by simply interacting with them in certain ways, like making love or battling to the death. Often, life forms end up actually exchanging Qi energy, especially in sexual acts and fights that do not lead to death.” Yellow Tiger looked around at his audience. “As Qi is consumed or exchanged, the spirit grows in complexity, like adding a notch or decorative pattern to the facet of our spirit that is our current life. The spiritual being re-incarnates upon the death of its body into another body and brings along all the facets of the previous lives, and another facet is added to the liquid crystal that is our spiritual being. As the liquid crystal gains more and more facets and becomes more and more complex, it incarnates into more and more complex bodies. It starts with simple bacteria, and ends up at the human level. At first this is easy: whatever force drives evolution and reincarnation, it has no problem creating more and more complex beings, and those beings have no problem reincarnating. “However, the laws of Chaos are immutable. As the beings become more and more complex, … mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and these traits are reflected in the complexity of the physical body, especially the nervous system, … their internal coherence requires exponentially more and more energy to sustain an internal balance that is the basis of the soul’s coherence. The human form sits at that edge of complexity; going beyond the human spiritual form while retaining a body would require an infinite amount of energy. Other animals just "live their life" in service to living. As humans, we can break free of "reflexive and instinctual thinking" and make complex choices for ourselves, to the point we may decide not to even breed. All other life here on Earth strives to breed and replicate; not much else matters — that is the purpose and intent of that being. Our intentions and the paths we take in our lives are beyond evolutionary. We can sit on top of a mountain or deep in a cave and meditate our lives away, and then simply ascend… Or we can live lives that cause so much disruption in our internal balance that our soul is no longer coherent, and it breaks apart into multiple "lesser developed" souls. Devolution, in other words. It also leads to what is now called "mental illnesses" of various forms; you don’t see dogs or pigs sulking in a corner from depression − however, Elephants, for example, have begun to evolve to a level of complexity that can make them vulnerable. And you don’t see other creatures going on a shooting spree killing children in schools for no apparent reason. Yea, a male bear may try to kill cubs, for example, but it is a competitive survival instinct. Humans can just go off the rails into full on insanity — psychosis or schizophrenia — because of internal energy imbalances. We tried to teach this in the original Vedic teachings we recorded thousands of years ago, but the meaning was misinterpreted by the very souls we were trying to teach, and religions try to "shame" people with "morality" into being better care-takers of their own souls and purveyors of spiritual evolution itself. If you are bad, you may be re-incarnated as a dog or pig or something even lower on the ladder of life forms — like pond scum or something; or maybe you "go to hell". If you are good, you get to be a cow and live care-free, or "go to heaven", or whatever. Those are misunderstandings of the Truth. “One of us Seers, a favorite pupil of José Yaguar who had re-incarnated a few thousand years before directly from an African Lion, Jesus, re-incarnated a few times and tried to get the message straitened out by teaching Buddhist and Vedic wisdom to Jews in their own metaphorical terms, teach them how to obtain everlasting life using meditation into the spiritual dimensions to remember our previous lives after reincarnation, AND free them from the heiarchal totalitarian spiritual system that they were cajoled into adapting from the Egyptians − parts of that story still remain, like in the Christian Bible, book of John, chapter 10, verse 34, when Jesus says to the Jewish priests "does not the scriptures say: "YE ARE GOD"." But they were in cahoots with the Egyptian and Roman governments making lots of money, and Jesus had angered them by disrupting their profiteering schemes at the Temples. And he angered them even more by giving wine to the peasent people. Back then, water was dangerous to drink without boiling, and needed a few drops of wine in each glass to purify it; as Seers, we could feel the disharmonious energy of the bacteria in it, but we didn’t yet know WHAT we were feeling. Anyway, the rich elite, including the Jewish priests, were keeping all the wine for themselves to get drunk every night, and when Jesus passed it around, that only pissed them off even more. But 300 years later, the Romans, under the direction of the Dragon, changed the story into some magical thing Jesus did with the water. Same with the people he brought out of a coma using his Qi — back then, if you went into a coma you were as good as dead, and ususally would technically be within days of not drinking water. They repurposed the Egyptian Anhk into the cross - the symbol of eternal life, changing his teachings into a hierarchal story — for instance, the famous Bible phrase when Jesus says "I am the way and the light" was reinterpreted from him saying the LIFESTYLE and TEACHINGS he intentionally embodied and lived every day was the path to enlightenment — instead of seeing him as an example of how to live eternally through proper lifestyle, meditation, and reincarnation, Christians live eternally by believing "in" him. The story the Red Dragon came up with for the Jews that demonizes women in the Garden of Eden is about herself and Jasmine, with herself being Satin. It’s a reflection of her personal inner mental illness. But the last time Jesus incarnated and continued his teaching mission the Dragon interfered directly and he ended up being persecuted by the Roman government, who were under her control. You know the basic story. Except his best friend, Judas, did not "betray" him as the Romans claim. After talking directly with the local Roman leader and Seeing the auric link between him – Pontius Pilate – and the Dragon, Jesus knew the rich elite were going to attack and kill him and his followers — anarchal socialists who Jesus told to go out and start their own Churches, care for the poor, and shun the rich; so he told Judas not to argue with the Romans, but do anything they asked. That was central to the parable Jesus told about the mustard seeds — plant them where they won’t get trampled, and in fertile soil. The Dragon took his personal historical story and twisted it around into a hiearchal religious-political tool to use to get people to steal from and kill others in his name and the "name of God". That really bummed Jesus out, and these days still, he refuses to get involved and just hangs out on the Southern California coast surfing every day.” Yellow Tiger took another sip of tea and continued “The biggest problem for most folks is the illusion of duality. This is based on the human body’s bilateral arrangement — our two hands, and two eyes, especially, — and is a fundamental aspect of how our mind builds bigger, more complex metaphors from smaller, simpler ones, to understand concepts beyond our senses. We, the Seers, can feel the higher intelligence in an Octopus, but the signature forms of Qi in the auric conceptual-mind of these creatures are quite different and not dualistic as ours are; we can easily "read the mind" of a dog or cat, simple as it is, but an Octopus just mostly confuses us! An old friend of mine, we call her Sky Blue Dolphin Lotus … and she was best friends with Lilia, by the way … spent a lifetime by the sea, just eating mostly Octopus to try to integrate their Qi so she could then begin to communicate with them and learn from them. She could clearly feel the intelligence, but never cracked their codes.” Yellow Tiger looked around at everyone. “Let me ask you: "are we human beings having a spiritual experience? Spiritual beings having a human experience?"” Yellow Tiger looked right at Leo “"are we an organized mass of chemicals creating a harmonic electromagnetic field? A creative electromagnetic field organizing a harmonic mass of chemicals?"” Leo responded “I’m betting both and more.” “That’s what We believe. We, the Seers, that is. I must re-iterate this point: Higher-level life becomes more and more complex, until, at the human level, the "auric energy" becomes unstable, and its coherence is easily lost in chaos. The Hindu religion teaches not to eat "animals" because at the level of human complexity, eating animals can over-complicate the aura via numerous different factors, and create Chaos within, causing less internal coherence. Meditational practices help keep the aura coherent, even when other forces of life are trying to "shake it apart". In the greater sense, there is no "good" and "evil", those are just concepts conceived of by the dualistic nature of our mind as it tries to understand reality. We are not "sent back" to lower life forms as "moral punishment" for "bad deeds and improper lifestyle" as the Hindu religion says – that is a mis-interpretation made by lower-conscious beings of the Vedic teachings; but because the vibrational qualities of our own thoughts and being, the products we consume, the lifestyles we live, and the violence we encounter in our lives "shake us apart" and our aura looses its coherence. Karma is not a mystical reward-punishment system administered by the universe, but is a reflection of how our spiritual energy interacts with the universe as well as how it remains consistant from life to life. If someone is a successful criminal in this life, that will reflect into the next life, giving them the motivation and "mental tools" to again be a successful criminal, but also exposing them to a more dangerous, spiritually deprived lifestyle in general, which could lead to their soul exploding. Keeping our thoughts and hence our emotions focused on happiness, contentment, compassion, and love — starting with romantic love as the basis and allowing it to grow through compassion and empathy into the universal "One Love" that Jesus was trying to teach and Bob Marley sang about, versus frustration, fear, anger, and hatred; avoiding drugs that unbalance our systems, for example the so-called illicit "uppers" and "downers" and a host of other "pharmies" as well as culturally abused "big corporation" drugs like refined sugars or processed tobacco products; eating natural, organic, non-processed foods free of additives and the corporate-produced chemicals that build up in our environment that concentrate in the tissues of animals as they eat the plants that absorb these chemicals, and animals that eat other animals that have those same concentrations built up in their systems, compounding these carcinogens and toxins that the body can not filter out; living simple lifestyles free of self-inflicted stress from toxic work environments to high-stakes-gambling to a "must always have more" driven mind-set.” Yellow Tiger paused a brief second. “So, by "AUMing", we create a feedback loop in our own aura that gives it a stable vibration to resonate with, thus restoring and/or enhancing our aura’s coherence?” Leo asked. He was also feeling vindicated by his vegan lifestyle. “And I guess by focusing on our breath while sitting quietly to meditate, we are doing the same thing?” “You catch on quick. It’s basic science. Remove the turbulence, enhance the internal harmonics, and you gain coherence.” said Yellow Tiger. “And with meditation, we can not only enhance coherence through harmony and peace, we can grow in complexity — grow spiritually, intellectually, emotionally, without causing the disharmony within ourselves that ends up being devolutionary. And ONLY with meditation — and there are seemingly endless forms of meditation — and a proper lifestyle — which can vary somewhat by individual — can we gain enough coherence in our aura, our spirit, to evolve beyond the human form, into the spiritual realm, without the need of our body to ground us in reality. Religions might call this "going to Heaven" or "going to Nirvana". “The Red Dragon failed to realize the true importance of "lifestyle and meditation" in keeping her aura healthy and naturally coherent, and her vibrational energy has been slowly returning to hucha. Her meditative practice at death keeps her spirit coherent and she keeps re-incarnating as human on darker and darker paths, causing more and more trouble for her own spirit, as well as others each time. Killing her will not stop her, any more than it would any of us; she will come back again, reincarnated. We can not simply kill her over and over again for the rest of time!” Yellow Tiger looked Jasmine in the eye: “and she is our friend. Our eternal sister. We can not turn our back on her, either. She is devolving, and if she continues, she will explode and her liquid crystal will break back into lower life forms. The hucha she is acquiring and building now will pollute the soul-lines of the beings that incarnate from the pieces of her exploded soul, and spread into the rest of life itself. Of course this happens any time any human soul looses coherence from a disharmonious lifestyle, from boozers and junkies in the gutter to murderers running governments. But the package of hucha she has acquired and is carrying within her soul is enormous and has been building for thousands of years, thousands of lifetimes. She would have exploded long long ago, but she does know the proper meditation techniques at death to keep on keepin’ on. If she does explode, however, the vibrational shock-wave carrying her pollution, her hucha, will injure quite a large bit of life on Earth. So we can not simply decide she has reached the point of hopelessness and try to trick her and distract her as we kill her, preventing her from re-incarnating. “She must be healed, her hucha turned to sami; Jasmine has the power to do this. Even José Yaguar’s power pales in comparison to Jasmine’s ability to convert hucha to sami. “But Jasmine is at the root of the Red Dragon’s decline” Yellow Tiger continued, as he looked down at his open empty palms. Jasmine’s heart sank. It almost felt like it missed a beat. “The Red Dragon fell in love with José Yaguar, but he fell in love with Jasmine and she with him, lifetime after lifetime. The Red Dragon became bitter-hearted. Now Jasmine has to hide herself from the Red Dragon with the very secret that Dragon found: hiding in darkness. But the Red Dragon can see well, and could always find Jasmine through the energy of her auric mind, and would come to kill her. Jasmine had also been one of the Dragon’s best friends, so she knew Jasmine’s mind well. Jasmine learned to hide her own auric mind from her own self so the Dragon would not find her, but now she does not remember her past lives or realize her current mission on Earth. “The Red Dragon tries to kill all the Seers as soon as she can find them after they reincarnate, before they remember their previous lives, because now We are all trying to stop her. She caught José and Catia this time around” he said looking Catia in the eyes. Yellow Tiger stood up and stretched, and sat back down, seiza style on his knees. He continued “We, the Seers, would all try to re-incarnate far from each-other, in remote places, so it would be harder for the Dragon, and the armies she builds, to kill us all in the same time frame. We were keeping an eye on her, and she didn’t like it.” “Meanwhile, more and more people are reincarnating from much lower life forms, before their spirit is fully ready, because humans keep killing off all the animals, while propagating their own human form, causing a "vacuum" in the spiritual dimensions drawing the lesser-developed spiritual energy "up" into their human bodies. What is a porcupine to do when it dies, and there are no other porcupines being born? Not enough other creatures being born that are evolutionarily between a porcupine and a human to incarnate to? They must jump up to human form. It’s the same for any other creature. Life itself is quantum in nature, just like electrons and other sub-atomic particles; "as above, so below". Where are all the newborn humans going to get their souls from? There are not enough humans dying. They must draw much-lower-evolved souls into their body. Not even enough cats and dogs and bears are dying due to the exponential nature of the required energy — but though two cats and a dog together may have the energy required for a human soul, they still don’t have the spiritual intelligence of a human. The first humans all evolved from proto-humanoid beings — "homo-erectus" if you like. Now, on average, humans are actually far less intelligent. Dragon has realized this, and actively works to speed up the process, as this gives her "slaves" to enable her plan. So humans now breed and slaughter countless cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, etc. every year, creatures that are closer to being a "mindless reflex" yet have substantial Qi energy. As opposed to an antelope or elk or raven, for examples that think more for themselves with less of a simple reflex. Humans that incarnate primarily from the souls of the millions of "factory-farmed" animals are essentially "sheeple," as we call them. Their human brains may exhibit a high I.Q. and be fully capable of training — to be a rocket scientist or nuclear powerplant operator, but then they go home and just "chew cud" in front of the T.V. as it mesmorizes and controls their minds, and they respond to social situations like a reflex as they were trained by the "boob-tube". Or they play video games that entertain their eye’s desire to seek movement and distract their minds from practical or intellectual learning. They go to school as required by law, even go to a university in a quest for a higher paying job, but they don’t further themselves with education beyond that, except for casual entertainment. They don’t actually "think" for themselves or have real "curiosity" — that comes from the auric mind. Their human brains can be trained to know they need to work to survive, but they essentially waste the human potential to learn and grow on their own, and they don’t evolve spiritually, mentally, or emotionally as fast as old-school humans did. And in democratic societies that have broken free of the Dragon’s cohorts from the dark ages, these people are easily swayed into voting one way or another through dualistic division into imaginary categories.” Yellow Tiger looked directly at Jasmine and continued “the guys in black suits and sunglasses at the Tower were reptilian –snake–, and fish –shark– souls. They were under the direct influence of the Red Dragon - she was in their heads; she literally breeds the creatures in cages she keeps at her residence, and then hand-selects these souls and gives them an "evolutionary bump of Qi" into the human realm as she kills them on a sacrificial stone … with her own hands … with growing joy in doing so … growing psychopathy in her human and auric mind. They are her special servants − slaves. The "shock" from the vibrational energy of killing them as their soul exploded was far less and did far less damage to you than that of a more-developed human soul exploding, one that had spent thousands and thousands of lifetimes as mammals as most all humans did even just 1000 years ago, but the internal energy of fear and aggression within your own spirit, Jasmine, is disharmonious as it is for everyone, and still weakened your soul.” He looked at Jasmine with wide eyes “you asked me to remind you: keep focused on your center and keep calm.” Jasmine nodded solemnly. That was what her Aikido sensei had always reminded her was most important. Leo and Catia looked at each other solemnly. Yellow Tiger proceeded to continue “Dragon has built government empires throughout the world, arming them with soldiers, and uses them to find the other Seers to kill us. The Korean war, the Vietnam war, China’s war on Tibet, the wars in Central America, and the "violent upheavals" in South America, all this past century, were about disrupting the remote Taoist and Buddhist and Mayan temples, and jungle and mountain retreats, that were the homes of many of us — the incarnated Seers. Of course her "slaves" — the reptilian and fish souls she promotes to human form who’s minds she controlled were easily manipulated with the thoughts of money involved, land and resources for them to "posses and own". “Within little time, she realized that the best, top quality slaves were "family oriented" reptiles, particularly alligators. "Social order" was ingrained in their souls already though evolution, so they made great puppets for government leaders, puppets that she could "set in motion" to act autonomously with less oversight, yet step in and take full control when she feels like it without having to work so hard to manipulate their minds; whereas snakes and sharks, etc., were better "lone wolf" actors, cold-blooded assassins that do her direct bidding, for instance; or guards and goons that don’t have to think much about the duty they are assigned.” Yellow Tiger hesitated just a moment as he looked around the room. Then with a worried look on his face, he said: “President Stumpie is an Alligator, under the control of the Dragon. Putin in Russia is a Snake; he’s completely under her control − she micro-manages his every move. Snylon Puscle is a lizard, kinda like the geckos with eyes that look in two random directions and have big sticky fingers and that hang out on trash cans and just sit there gorging on flies; she uses a similar motivational pattern with him; he gets a bit more freedom than Putin, but the Red Dragon still directly controls most of his daily life. You can see it in their eyes; notice it in their thought patterns and subsequent actions that are particularly devoid of human empathy and thus compassion. Stumpie values his kids, but that is about as far as he can extend the concept of compassion. They are more of a trophy for him to show off to others to define what a great parent he is; like his trophy wife.” Everyone in the room shifted uncomfortably in their seats. “Sociopaths, narcissists, and psychopaths …” Leo said softly, a worried look on his face. “Well, Puscle is more of what we call "autistic" than an outright sociopath or worse. But his sociopathic friends are rubbing off on him — he is absorbing their Qi quickly; reptile souls are simple and absorb the Qi of those around them with ease. This seems to be the path that The Red Dragon uses to get in their heads and control their minds.” Yellow Tiger replied, and then continued. “But she uses other creatures, even mammals, also. She likes hyenas. They are pack-oriented, and will thoughtlessly follow any leader. And they have the kind of "you’re either with us or against us" prejudice pack-mentality that can be used to motivate them to do virtually anything. They can be vicious and mean, so getting them to kill for her is more than easy. Just point and say "not one of us". She has to leash them and hold them back sometimes to effectively execute her plans, or sometimes to keep them from killing each-other in power struggles. They are like 8 to 11-year-olds playing video games; that is their mentality level. Stephen Miller, one of President Stumpie’s most loyal sidemen and architect of the terror programs that they create, he’s a hyena. That guy from Fox News who now controls the U.S. military, Heet Pegdeath, he’s a hyena. Jeff Sessions from Alabama, he’s a hyena. She’s bred them, fed them, and spread them across the world. A lot of them. Remember the private military company "Blackwater"? They changed their name because of their notoriety. They are her hyenas, for example. George H. W. Bush, "daddy Bush" that is, and Dick Cheney are her hyenas. “Most of the so-called "conservative" supreme court justices are her pets, also. Kadido is a hammer-head shark that she personally bred; she just "pours blood in the water" and gives him a whiff to control him. Blarence Thomas is a hog, while Chief Justice Blowbert is a boar. As swine, they are easily bribed. Parrett and Kabapoe are, oddly, pot-bellied pigs. They arrived in human form by themselves without her boost; she just controls them. Mostly, she doesn’t care what they do, unless they rule on some aspect of her greater plans. Ultimately, she controls the Federalist Foundation who helped hand-select these judges, and one of its top founders and activists Leonard Leo,” (Catia winced at that name, as Yellow Tiger continued) “who is one of the greatest dangers to freedom and democracy in the United States, but, ironically, he is just a housecat. It’s hard to herd a cat! We think she just grabbed whatever pet was wandering around her house at the moment, to sacrifice, when she came up with the idea for him. She set him up with cash just before her last death in the 1980s, and got in his mind deep enough to get him to do her bidding while she was re-incarnated and still a little girl in the 1990s. She does that with many others, including Snylon Puscle. He didn’t become the world’s richest man simply by selling his online-payment company "X" to PayPal back 20+ years ago. It wasn’t truly worth the value paid. She can manipulate corporations through their board members and C.E.O.s, which she did with PayPal, to move the cash into private hands where it can’t be scrutinized. And like I just said, she does that with many many others behind the scenes also, as well as public figures.” Yellow Tiger stopped for only a moment, took a deep breath and stretched his arms over his head, and spoke more: “Clark Psukherghturd is a weasel; they are intellectually smart, but greedy. She manipulates him by using his greed. Seth Claytoes is a fox; sly and smart, but greedy also. Both of them would love to get in your henhouse and take all your eggs, more than they could eat themselves. She uses them to manage her wealth, they just don’t realize it! Like alligators or hyenas, she can "set them in motion", but with even less supervision. Their greed motivates them to find her the best solutions while she attends other things, or lounges, and then she leads them by their greed to do what is best for her ultimate plan. “Media characters, from Rush Limbaugh to Tucker Carlson; media conglomerators like Rupert Murdoch; other world leaders from Modi in India to a large portion of the Saudi Royal Family, Erdoğan of Turkey, just to name but a few, are all under her control, to some extent, more or less. For some reason, she likes to put common "sewer rats" in charge of New York City, like Eric Adams and Rudi Guliani; seems to be a joke for her or something. She creates division in societies using the illusion of duality, which she then uses to take further control of politics and hence governments. You know, "divide and conquer". “Then there are her hidden goons, like Jeff Self.” {{{see NPR link #1}}} “He was the one who physically initiated the kidnapping/abduction of children from their parents when they seek asylum at the border. And Matt Albence. He was instrumental in making sure that children were NOT reunited with their parents. Of course, you already know the results of that.” Yellow Tiger sighed quietly. “In a way, we understand her perspective on life” Yellow Tiger shifted. “"Why are we here?" she asks. Her answer is simply "to live". And to "enjoy life". Evolution beyond human form means nothing to her. "Why would a higher consciousness, beyond the boundaries of space and time, choose to dream of life on Earth and incarnate, if not to 'simply live'" she says. "The human form IS the pinnacle of all life and consciousness, with its complex sensory input and processing for entertainment, despite any suffering that may then occur," she says. We, the Seers, have assisted and watched many, many, many souls, hundreds of thousands, evolve to the point of reaching pure enlightenment and leave their bodies and the "ever-changing sensory input entertainment" behind, for the infinite unity and peace of Nirvana. All of us Seers have reached that point ourselves, but have chosen to stay in this realm to help others find the path to and through the realms of the spiritual dimensions to Nirvana. We kinda like it here, too, once you get used to it for a few lifetimes and learn to duck…” he smiled widely, then continued… “But the Red Dragon ignores the hucha building in her aura, and has stopped meditating for most of her lifetime in each life. Or she was when we last were in contact with her. Now she only hides from us. She lives a life of decadence and luxury to the point of gluttony at times. The hucha building within her aura has made her numb to the suffering of others that she is causing with her desire for power and wealth. She ignores the illusion of duality between mind and body, between incarnation and soul, between the 4-D world of our senses and the spiritual dimensions. But she remembers how to focus her attention and keep her aura coherent at the death of her body, and comes back again and again, quickly remembering who she is in the next life and acquiring the seats of power and wealth she set up for herself in her previous life, when she begins to hide from us again. The giant crystal of consciousness has many facets, and it is liquid: these facets are always shifting and changing. We, the Seers, have learned how to stay together, but finding the Red Dragon before she hides in her cloak of darkness is like finding a needle in a haystack while they blow in the wind of a tornado. It was Lilia who found her last time, it seems quite by accident no less, and that did not end up well.” Yellow Tiger got up and stretched again, walked over to Catia, and took her hand. “We called you Cheetah, because your mind could travel faster than time, and you could see the future. All We can see is an endlessly branching maze when We look to the future. Every little choice made by every macro-conscious being effects the structure of reality down to the sub-atomic level. We only see every possible choice. We can see the energy of emotion from the future, again, like they say in "Star Wars", if you saw those movies — that’s why Darth Vader tortured Han Solo, so Luke could feel it from the past and would come save Han in Vader’s trap. You see the actual future choices reality finally contains. Here, you need this.” He stepped back as he gently let go of her hand. He stood in the Qigong "horse" stance for a moment, as he pulled Qi from the Earth, filtered it a bit up through the energy meridians along his back, through his third eye chakra, and back down the front to his hara, where he rolled it up like a big ball of twine between his hands. Then he tossed it at her without moving his body, using only the "intention" of his auric mind. She felt tingling throughout her body. Her eyes widened a bit as reality itself became "surrealistic", almost "unreal", then she blinked and re-focused. He walked two steps back towards her, and placed his hands near the sides of her head, 4 inches away, palms facing her ears. Catia-Cheetah instinctively closed her eyes. As Leo stood there watching, he began to "see" the Qi energy flow from Yellow Tiger’s hands into Catia-Cheetah. “I can see it!” he exclaimed, as Yellow Tiger continued unabated for another minute longer, then stopped. Catia-Cheetah opened her eyes. She let out a quick hard breath, drew in a slow fresh one, and let out a quick hard one again. “I can think clearly again!” she exclaimed! “And your voice! Your words! It’s back! They’re back! It’s normal, not stunted slow and choppy!” Leo exclaimed, beaming a smile. “Maybe soon you will run faster than us all again!” Yellow Tiger hoped. “My God, thank you! Thank you!” Leo said, falling all over himself, getting up to shake Yellow Tiger’s hand. “Thank You!” said Catia Cheetah, a small tear in the corner of her eye. The doorbell rang again. “Ah, Ts'uyya finally made it!” Yellow Tiger said, looking at the door. Leo answered it. “Hello, I’m Awishona Ts'uyya {{{¿?¿?¿?¿}}}Shunepba Udeyanne{{{?¿?¿?¿?}}}” {{{Forest-Green Hummingbird Barrel-Cactus-Flower}}} “I have a gift for Jazmin.” Leo waved her in with a smile. He looked outside, and again saw no car. “I gotta get stock in Uber,” he said. “Oh, I rode my bike. I put it against the wall, there. Hope you don’t mind.” She had an old-fashioned beach cruiser, a ladies’ rider with a low center frame bar, and high handlebars. Awishona Ts'uyya didn’t waste time. She walked over to Jazmin and removed a road-runner pendant on a silver chain from around her neck, and put it around Jazmin’s neck. The pendant was also made of silver with cut inlaid stones of different types — turquoise, sea-shell, mother-of-pearl, black onyx. “No evil can ever catch you as long as you wear this pendant. Just remember, if you want to get married, you must take it off if you want the guy to catch you!” Awishona Ts'uyya said, looking Jazmin in the eye. Yellow Tiger laughed out loud. Jasmine caught the joke next, and started giggling a bit. Then Leo and Catia. Awishona Ts'uyya gave Jazmin a hug, and Jasmine joined in, then Catia Cheetah wheeled over and took Jazmin’s hand in a little mini-hug. Awishona Ts'uyya continued, smiling: “in this pendant is the "second attention" of more than 100 of us "spiritual warriors". You will never be alone. We will be looking out for you in the spiritual realms, watching your back, scouting the hillsides ahead of you. We will keep your path clear, and distract your enemies, as you walk forward on your path to your children.” {{{ ((subsection subject to editing to respect the Zuni and Hopi peoples’ traditions)) “A former student of mine loved Zuni jewelry — that’s what that is, right? — and it caught my attention, too. Then I heard they make "fetishes" also. So that’s the traditional reason they are made … more than good luck or somehow a connection to the spirit of the animal they resemble; they are a "connection" for others to follow spiritually, or hold on to, or something like that, so they can find or keep track of Jazmin to help her?” Leo inquired with eager curiosity. “No, that’s how we the Seers use them” Awishona Ts'uyya replied, “but traditionally they had several different meanings depending on who used them. Zunis traditionally associate the Road Runner with the Stealth of Warriors, for example.” {{{per a book on "Native American animal meanings"}}} “Awishona Ts'uyya was one of the ones who pioneered the way of connecting auric minds so long ago. She has lived with the Hopi and Zuni peoples for many, many lifetimes now … thousands of years” Yellow Tiger added. “My closest friends and family all love it there, we all love it there. We’re already planning our 10,000 year anniversary party for the next millenium.” Awishona Ts'uyya said smiling. “She adopted the method of using "attention getting" objects to "hold" the "second attention" of younger students and spiritual warriors, when silversmithing and polished stones were introduced to the southwest and the tribes there began to work with them.” Yellow Tiger explained further. “But that shouldn’t be confused with the "mana"” Awishona Ts'uyya said smiling, glancing at Yellow Tiger, “that the artist, any artist, all artists, put into the artwork they create. An advanced spiritual warrior may have many "connections" with the spirits of many different animals, and fine-tune the mana they put into the art to match the artistic form they create − that is, bear mana in a bear pendant, and then lion mana in a mountain-lion pendant, for example.” “And by "mana" you mean the Hawaiˀian word for life energy?” Leo asked. Awishona Ts'uyya and Yellow Tiger nodded. Awishona Ts'uyya clarified “by mana I mean a specific set of qualities and patterns of Qi from a specific individual life form. Mana is the "pattern" or "cookie-cutter" that is YOU and is the basis of what the Vedic teachings call your "karma" — but your karma extends out into the spiritual dimensions and interacts with the universe. Bears all have similar qualities and patterns, different from the qualities and patterns that mountain lions have in common; while other qualities and patterns are shared among both as well as humans also. Maybe YOU have mountain lion mana in YOUR soul” Awishona Ts'uyya said to Leo. “With an object with mountain lion mana in it, it can resonate with you, into you, and make you "ring" like a mountain lion; activate the mountain lion energy already within you. I guess you might say "power in numbers". However, just the shape of a lion perceived by your sensory system and resonating through your mind activates the lion mana that is already in you. You know, if you’re a lion, and you try to use a bear fetish, it’s not going to magically turn you into a bear or "give" you bear mana, or something. The power is already in YOU, you just have to realize it and tap into it. So we don’t just use any old rock for good luck or holding Qi mana, we make nice shiny polished attention-getting jewelry. “However, in this case with Jazmin, as I said, yes, the pendant also "holds" the connection to our spiritual warriors who have volunteered to help.” }}} Everyone looked at Jazmin, and smiled. Jazmin actually smiled back a bit, feeling the warmth grow in her heart, and her faith in finding her children was growing moment by moment. The question she kept asking herself popped back in her head: “what is a dragon?” she asked quietly. Leo grabbed his cellphone from the other room and pulled up some images for her, as the others tried to explain a "dragon" as a "mythical creature" as well as mentioning the Komodo Dragon is a real lizard. Jazmin looked at the pictures, and her eyes widened, and she looked even more scared — terrified — than she had been all along. “There was a picture of that thing on the truck that killed my husband. It was the picture of the gold-mining company that burned my village.” Yellow Tiger and Awishona Ts'uyya for the first time since arriving looked disturbed. “Her husband was a shaman, and saved her and her daughter from the truck.” Jasmine added. “We haven’t seen your daughter, Lilia, in almost 1000 years” Yellow Tiger said. “She stood up to the Red Dragon, but lost her life doing so. The Red Dragon had become very arrogant and we couldn’t talk any sense into to her any more. We have been waiting for Lilia to return. Cheetah said long ago, that she could almost see the future time when Lilia and The Red Dragon meet again, but it was "far away and around a turn" − too far to see. But she could feel the energy of happiness — the Qi — from Jasmine and Lilia and the Red Dragon coming from there in that time. Since then, the Red Dragon seems to realize Cheetah can see that far, and tries to kill her early in life, most often succeeding, like she is obsessed with it. Cheetah still has not been able to see what will happen.” “That’s almost more of a curse than blessing, seeing the future, I think” Catia Cheetah said, smiling a solemn smile. Yellow Tiger looked at the clock on the wall. “Well, it’s getting late, and I have a plane to catch. And I bet you ladies are looking for a good night’s sleep after your long drive.” “We were planning on dinner, wouldn’t you like to join us before you go? Catch another plane!” Leo responded. “I have a lecture to give tomorrow, and the flights back to the Big Island are long. But thank you!” he smiled widely, then looked at Awishona Ts'uyya asking “would you like a ride? My Uber is here.” Not 5 seconds later, a car horn beeped in the driveway. “Sure. All the way back to Sedona?” Awishona Ts'uyya teased, smiling a sly smile. Yellow Tiger and Awishona Ts'uyya stood up to leave. Yellow Tiger stopped a moment and winked sexy at Violet and said “I remember you” and giggled a bit as he started for the door, and he and Awishona Ts'uyya left. “How come you get the handsome one?” Jasmine asked, looking at Violet, smiling, breaking the tension. Somehow the inner calm she always managed to cultivate was returning fully. She was beginning to believe what Juan said back in Mexico, and whether she liked it or not, this was her destiny. The lighthearted moment failed to pierce Jazmin’s shell. “I’ve got to find my children…” she said quietly, sadly, in her little-own-world with it spinning around her, looking off through the walls in the room into the infinite distance. Catia was closest and wheeled herself over and took Jazmin’s hand. Jasmine walked over and rubbed her gently on the back. Maxine Violet Leffleur walked up and took Jazmin’s other hand “We ARE GOING to find your kids” she said firmly as she looked Jazmin in the eye.