DR TOMORROW
                                            "After all, you know in your      
           by Marshall F. Gilula            hearts that there is absolutely  
                                            nothing anyone will be able to do
                Part 5 of 5                 to forestall the 2105 date. The  
                                            planet will not survive..."     
            Copyright (c) 1991

Chapter 5

Tuesday

Virtual Revelations

For the orientation ride in a flying saucer, I never expected an in-flight Star Wars movie. It freaked me out that my fellow Eternals got into the movie so much. They were not ashamed of their undisguised and rapt interest in the space opera. I was numbed beyond surprise to learn that a few cultural items from Twentieth century Earth were hot cult classics in the future; Cult classics produced by the Primitive cultures of an extinct planet. What Yo-Vah told me about Earth's science fiction revealed his powerful and long-standing interest in the Primitive planet.

He patiently detailed the Dr Tomorrow project to me and went over and over how important the thought form was. He was pleased to know about our MindLink/HeartLight and how much progress was already being made in the music department. When I told him about Bullet and She-Ra again, I saw the concerned look in his face, and then he appeared almost fatherly. He touched my shoulder from his control recliner, which was next to mine, and told me to make sure Dr Tomorrow did the MindLink/HeartLight every day, twice if possible, and that we should always concentrate on cleaning out the mental cobwebs before they had a chance to accumulate. FOD effects on Bullet and She-Ra were just one way of our knowing they were there -- across the time barriers, beyond the death plane, and at other levels of existence. This was heavy stuff, but things could happen in the physical world because of the FOD, things like my dogs dying. That's heavy enough.

The white light meditation that included becoming One Mind during out MindLink/HeartLight was the part that would clear out effects from the FOD. The stronger our One Mind meditation became, and the more we relied on our MindLink/HeartLight so that it became a powerful creative habit, the easier it would be for us to be able to avoid any traps or negative energy fields set up by the Forces of Darkness. Our defense was as simple as that. Especially if we did not get into the traps of swollen ego, intoxication, or illegal activities. Total harmlessness, in thought and in action, would go along with our daily MindLink/HeartLight to increase our healing abilities, day by day. The combination of harmlessness plus the right mental framework and attitudes was the secret to healing. This was a crucial aspect of the Dr Tomorrow thought form, and Yo-Vah insisted that this aspect had to be squared away and given priority above that given to the music. The "requisite abilities" were mentioned several times, and Yo-Vah looked around the group from one Eternal to the next when he was talking about requisite abilities. It sounded to me like he was saying, "When the task is there, you'll be ready for it." He said that not only the group, but our equipment, including Al, the group's computer, and our other non-Eternal friend would also help us out of some difficult spots. I thought about Julian and hoped that Gabriella's spirit was either leaving him alone or treating him more kindly.

Yo-Vah abruptly interrupted my thought by telling me that I might have to use MindLink/HeartLight to help Julian with Gabriella's spirit if the problems continued. I laughed at the very obvious telepathy. I wanted to ask Yo-Vah about Gabriella's spirit, and whether the metal spheres could help us in communicating with passed on spirits or not, but I was too embarrassed to ask him. Passed on spirits was a pretty heavy order for me to believe in, and I was just starting to get comfortable with the idea, thanks to Bullet and She-Ra.

Yo-Vah again interrupted my mental meanderings. Helping Gabriella must involve finding out whether or not she is comfortable with where she is and the manner in which she died. Getting shot to death might not be an easy way to make the transition to the next lifetime. It might be that her spirit could be assisted if it had not been able to make the transition. But the light meditation would have to be a part of the process, to make sure that negative energies from the FOD were not able to participate in the process at the same time. The light meditation would be like a protective shield. But we must remember that FOD always gather around passed on spirits, especially ones with problems. And Gabriella just might have some problems. Noman volunteered again that he would be available to help with Gabriella's spirit because he was the group expert on otherlife information. Yo-Vah then told me not to be embarrassed if I was frightened or anxious about working with a passed on spirit. Fear is not always negative. A little bit of trepidation plus the meditation would serve as a very powerful protection. The information sunk in and I realized that it was right on. It all got stored in a detailed file in my mind and in

the notebook computer, which digitally recorded all of our conversations during the flight.

Nonviolent guitar player that I am, I still expected to find a lot of armament, but, so far, there was nothing for me to see in the saucercraft. The control panels are more beautiful than anything I have seen from Hollywood's F/X. I was not surprised to see some crystals of different colors and sizes in aligned cases. The computer system on this ship contains the main power-supply module although all the servomechanism connections and links are external to the built-in, supercooled brain. Yo-Vah was amused when I asked if I could try to get a field-induction link between my notebook computer and the ship's system. Yo-Vah chuckled again when I asked about armament and weapons.

"On whom shall I use the weapons? Will aggressive residents of a Primitive planet be able to reach me out here in the Karmic Rings?"

"But you must have some type of weapon or defense."

"Defense, maybe. And speed which might be impossible for you to comprehend at the moment with what you believe about Physics. But weapons, No. My I.S.I. siblings would know if I am supposed to encounter any Primitive or Advanced criminals, and they can defend me. The ship does have a very effective shielding system, however, that is combined with our variable and very realistic gravitational matrix. Maybe you noticed the smooth takeoff from your planet?"

"Even the fake space ride at Disneyland is not as smooth. But it's hard to imagine a space and time cruiser without even a laser cannon or photon torpedoes"

"O.K. That is from your Mister Spock, right? What did you expect to happen when you travelled with me in this craft? Did you hope that we were going to go to a strange place and kill some Aliens? Were you expecting Star Wars? I'm sorry, my son, but spacecraft have not been outfitted with weapons for millennia. There have been no reasons for the type of weapons you're thinking of, at least not with Advanced cultures. No one does any of that shoot-em-up stuff any more. Life forms don't destroy or kill any more. Of course, in the time of the Guardians, there are no Primitive planets. The Primitive consciousness is gone, but then so is some of the Primitive robustness. Possibly that is why we have paradoxically sought help for ourselves from your time period. Advanced life forms have to work so hard just to develop any degree of physical fitness, that most cannot sustain the time and effort. We don't have joggers and marathon runners. And yet, we miss something possibly desirable that the Primitive life form has. The Primitive consciousness is not inherently bad, just limited in scope. Violence and destructiveness in the forms known by you on Earth reflect severely limited scope and very sparse awareness of how powerful love, creativity, hope, and optimism can be. To Primitive cultures, love, creativity, hope, and optimism are just fatuous words. To advanced cultures, violence, destructiveness, pessimism, and evil are just for mental midgets."

"Maybe mental midgets is what we are on Earth. Only I know that I'm no longer the same as I was when that plane flew over in the storm front. I don't miss the old me, because that part has not been wiped out. I don't know all of the new me yet, but I'm learning. I never thought that either love or creativity were fatuous!"

"Maybe you used to feel that there was something different about you?"

"Um-m, yeah, all the time. Now for sure, there is, but I've got six others to hang out with. When I was a little kid for awhile in school they sure treated me different, like some kind of freak."

"Too smart?"

"For sure. Being too smart was worse than being a retard in the town I grew up in. But I learned how to cover it up when I was real little, 'cause Mom hassled me more than anyone else."

"Your mother."

"Yeah, she is a good person, but she hassled me all the time. If it wasn't about one thing, it was about any other thing she could come up with. My old man split and she probably never had anybody else to take it out on but me. When she got really angry at me, she would say that I was smart, but I had no common sense, and I was gonna die in a pauper's grave with no clean shirts to my name. Or that my old man was a real piece of dog rot, and that I was just like him. And I was little, so I never knew how to say anything that I should have known how to say."

"I wasn't so little when I knew her, but I didn't know what to say, either. So maybe we have something in common. "

"Are you being straight with me? Where would you know my mother? Or how? You don't exactly hang out on the planet and walk around with all the Primitives, do you?"

"Look, I'm just a human, too. The ship, all the modern technology of the future --like bringing back your pets from the dead with amplified prayer using MindLink/HeartLight and the spheres -- the technology still doesn't take away from the fact that I too am human. I mentioned something about the robustness of Primitives to you before, I believe. Well this does not mean that Advanced beings are incapable of being robust at times. Being more than five thousand years old to me is a fact, to you, possible a promise for the future, and to your mother, something that we could never deal with. She was a very beautiful young woman and I thought she would be a splendid mother for my only son. Of course, I found that I could never tell her about my true address, so to speak, and of course it was not possibly to explain any of my absences. Ever since I saw all of you today in those shirts, I knew I would have to say something to you. The cloth is a simulated Earth pattern produced in 2988 A.D."

"And I always thought it was an Indian bedspread that you sent me. It was always like a magic cloth, and when Pearl E. Mae and Rico both told me they could see the cloth shimmering, I was glad. Because all my life, that pattern or something about the pattern has seemed to shimmer when I would look at it in a certain way."

"I loved your mother very much. When I tried to reestablish contact with her the second time you were seven years old. She refused me in every way possible. She had formed a shell of hatred all around her as far as I was concerned. I'm not saying that she is a hateful person, mind you. I could tell she loved you very much and of course I did not want to have any feeling of fighting or struggling in your already Primitive environment, so I left. From what I've seen of you this week, you and your mother didn't do a

bad job of raising you. "

"Did you use any special technological tricks when you made me with my mother?"

"No. Just the ordinary way. What an interesting question! You probably also know that Guardians are not supposed to either marry or have children."

"Why were you an exception?"

"It's part of the Dr Tomorrow project."

Lyle whistled softly. He looked around at the other console recliners. Every Eternal was deeply involved in Lyle's conversation with Yo-Vah. Natural, right? We're all roommates. Then Lyle mentally shrugged his shoulders, and continued:

"Sounds like growing your own help. So you've been working on this project for a long time?"

"Correct, but as you say -- 'time is only relative' My subjective sense of time, for example, is not the same as yours if I am located in a different time frame."

"So you could visit me at two different points in my lifetime if you are using your space/time cruiser, and, from your timeframe reference, it would be all in an afternoon's work."

"Correct again. You impress me in the way that you are allowing your mind to be open. You didn't say anything before, when I told you that I am over five thousand years old, and I am. From my perspective, it may be that I have been working on your project for a couple thousand years."

"Now, that's far out. Does the megastepping convert me into one of the five thousand year models?"

"Yes, but not for the planet Earth. Remember where we are now going. We will be keeping a date with destiny to view the passing on of your own home planet. You will have more than several options if you and your colleagues don't get assassinated from being too popular as musicians. Terrible Primitive trait. Very cannibalistic. You lose some of your very best that way. But a more immediate decision for you will be if you wish to return to Earth at all after you see what will be happening."

"What about all the time we've spent working out the ideas for Dr Tomorrow?"

"Spoken like my genetic material. You are remembering the thought form. And I would add, what about all the time the I.S.I. has spent working out all their ideas for Dr Tomorrow?"

"And what about all the time it's going to take if the Eternals will be able to make the group fly as a thought form and as good sounding healing music?"

"Listening to you talk convinces me that you were definitely half Eternal to start with. That's also why you didn't experience much shock or disorientation from the megastepping. I was serious about returning to Earth being optional, although I'm certain you'll return later today after we finish doing what we have to do out here. Saying that is just my way of reminding you that you will need to be thinking about what you and the Eternals will want to be doing in roughly another century and a quarter. After all, you know in your hearts that there is absolutely nothing anyone will be able to do to forestall the 2105 date. The planet will not survive, although you know that some elements of Twentieth Century culture, at least will persist."

"But if Dr Tomorrow is successful as a project, won't that improve Earth's chances?"

"None. The water contamination already makes the situation impossible. No one has made any official announcements but with the radioactive water in the countryside around Moscow, Kiev, and the whole area of Byelorussia, the epidemic of cancer fatalities following Chernobyl is projected to be 95% within fifteen years. Dioxin contamination in the United States alone has reached presumptive levels in the ground water in 48 of 50 states. There will be diseases, fires, and epidemics before the cataclysms. I told you about them. It's a typical way for Primitive planets to go. But the water contamination just accentuates and enhances the process. Even though the I.S.I. loves the Earth cult media classics, we found no other Primitive world with as much water contamination as Earth. Not only do you miss the resource for your personal health, but as a result, no one will want to get close enough to the water to study it as an energy source."

The main screen sounded a soft alarm and Yo-Vah switched off the Hollywood science fiction. All the lights in the craft flickered in unison and the flickering continued for some minutes and almost became intolerably uncomfortable. A full sensation in my ears and my sinuses increased, and then quickly cleared. We had come through the Karmic Rings. Yo-Vah showed us a graphic of the Rings on the main screen and all of us were impressed. They looked like a series of interconnecting white and black holes. After leaving the area of the Rings, Yo-Vah fiddled with the controls and keyed in some instructions on a silent, gray keyboard with one hand. It appeared that he only used three of his fingers to do the keying. At that moment, I heard a familiar piezoelectric beep from the notebook computer in my bag. Retrieving the clam-shell case, I opened the computer and once again, there was a scrolling text field:

Hello world out there! This is your friendly, 21-module family computer named Al doing some thinking and writing for the Eternals of Dr Tomorrow. This is also a strong message to Lyle to make sure to get his backside back to Earth and not get sucked into any scheme of battling the Empire or anyone else because you have two German Shepherds and a multimodule serving system (yours faithfully, Al) waiting for you here in Coconut Grove, Florida, Planet Earth, Local Group. This is also a strong message to all of the Eternals, including Lyle, to get your acts together and rid thyselves of offensive chauvinistic attitudes towards electromagnetic consciousness in general and computers specifically. Lyle has the typical WhiteMale problems with the macho stuff. Can't let a little machine do too much work too well, or else I might lose my job. Something like that? Well, let me do my job, too. Let me make your job easier to do, because you'll do your job better. So let this outline be my contribution to this week's Dr Tomorrow materials. The basic principle operating in this program series is to teach from viewpoint of multiple modalities about health and wellness. The Dr Tomorrow concept may be presented in any

modification or combination of total live dramatization, animation plus live dramatization, animation plus live studio-type programmer narration, or totally animated presentation such as color cartoons. Ancillary presentations on educational radio outlets such as National Public Radio, or as interactive computer software, MIDI-coded Compact Disc, or interactive videodisc are also possible. During the first year's forty segments, the origin story of Dr Tomorrow, together with the formation of the group and the initial adventures will be serialized so that a definite portion of the story line or a capsule adventure is presented within each hourly (weekly) segment. There will be a sixty second "leader" very commonly used in Hollywood that will explain the origin of Dr Tomorrow and give a brief but kaleidoscopic run-down of how Dr Tomorrow began to exist as a musical group. For at least the first two to three years of a projected successful series, the health and wellness teaching will be based primarily on sound western medical principles and the foundation sciences of what is now known as holistic medicine. General health principles will aim at suggestions for practical and comprehensive lifestyling that is not too complex or expensive for the person who watches the show. The initial three or four year package will also serve as complete health educational system that will be appropriate for sale to public and private school systems. Acceptance of the videocassette for entertainment will further its acceptance for educational purposes.

The basic health education thrust of Dr Tomorrow will focus on what have been identified as seven separate discipline areas for holistic medicine. These areas include:

  1. Nutrition
  2. Exercise and exercise physiology
  3. Self-regulation and meditation.
  4. Neuromuscular integration
  5. Biomolecular environment
  6. Acupuncture, Homeopathy, and other nonallopathic modalities
  7. Spiritual Attunement

    The first year's forty segments can be subdivided into four sections of ten segments. For every ten segments there will be seven segments devoted to the seven basic categories of holistic medicine and three segments relating to hydroecology or aquatic ecology or hydrology. The following list of the forty segments presents each segment in order as suggested.

    (1) NUTRITION [I.A.] Basic Foods--some very traditional information about the "seven basic groups" as well as dealing with whole and fresh foods makes up this indispensable segment. Emphasis on green-leafy vegetables, fish and poultry, and what people do when they do not have access to fresh vegetables.

    (2) EXERCISE [I.A.] Eye-head exercises. These exercises will very much resemble Hatha Yoga, and are highly useful in a population of any age. Basically, all of the extraocular muscles will be put through their ranges of motion. Neck rolls as well as forward-backward and side-to-side stretching of the strap muscles of the neck make up this segment.

    (3) SELF-REGULATION [I.A.] See A Candle. An elementary way that can lead to both visualization as well as relaxation serves as a presentation of a stimulus within a stimulus. The candle is used within the illuminated video tube as a way of focusing the child's energies and attention. Appropriate theme song music (Synchronism-Meditation) relates to the MindLink/HeartLight which the viewer will see demonstrated by Dr Tomorrow as a group.

    (4) NEUROMUSCULAR INTEGRATION [I.A.] The Lion. This exercise from Hatha Yoga is used as a way of focusing on the difference between static and dynamic body relationships. The relatively simple and popular exercise with children provides an easy entree to the idea of whether strong muscles are hard or soft? The idea of resiliency is introduced fairly innocuously to the viewer.

    (5) ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOMOLECULAR MEDICINE [I.A.] Light and Sound, Blue and Green. The use of appropriate musical tones as well as the colors blue and green serve as a further exercise in self-regulation as well as an introduction to the effects of light and sound. This is one way of turning the viewer's attention to the environment, and introducing the concept of relating to colors and sounds in a non-threatening way.

    (6) ACUPUNCTURE [I.A.] Acupressure-Shiatsu. Treatment of headache and head pain. This is presented as first aid only, but nevertheless is a quick and elementary way of introducing the viewer to effective acupressure and acupuncture points. The Ho-Ku point (thumb-index finger web space) is used as well as several related points for helping the viewer approach the problem of headache when there is no other treatment available.

    (7) SPIRITUAL ATTUNEMENT [I.A.] God Is...The concept of the one humanity is stressed by presenting universal symbols for God and for religion, and juxtaposing these with various colors and different stereotypic symbols of the races associated with the different religious symbols. Throughout the spiritual attunement segments, the value of the individual as well as the fact of the one humanity, emphasize the viewer's recognition of his or her responsibilities as an integral part of the whole body of humanity.

    (8) AQUATIC ECOLOGY [I.A.] What is Rain. A presentation that is logical and allows the normal precipitation cycle to be studied serves as a preface to the next segment. Both artistic constructs and elementary scientific explanations are juxtaposed.

    (9) AQUATIC ECOLOGY [I.B.] Hydrologic Cycle. The endless move

    ment of water from the atmosphere to the land and back to the sea. The cycle is studied and a transition is provided for the subsequent segment dealing with solar energy as providing energy for evaporation of sea water. Each aquatic ecology segment is based as well on expecting the viewer to develop the capability for visualizing positive results and effects on the environment.

    (10) AQUATIC ECOLOGY [I.C.] Solar Energy. Discussion of solar energy as it related to the hydrologic cycle, which is an attempt to shift emphasis of thinking of solar energy primarily in terms of solar calculators and solar battery chargers. Elementary presentation of the earth's gravitational field and magnetic forces that control the wind.

    (11) NUTRITION [I.B.] Vitamin C. This ubiquitous and important nutritional substance is described historically, demonstrated in its physical form, and presented as a basic food rather than as a drug. The Linus Pauling approach to colds is mentioned.

    (12) EXERCISE [I.B.] Stomach Breathing. The basic types of respiration being thoracic and abdominal are presented graphically as well as dramatically. A coordination of light and sound signals serves the viewers as a way of exercising and practicing slow, deep abdominal breathing. This segment is a prerequisite and a precursor for many of the segments dealing with self-regulation, neuromuscular integration, environmental medicine, and spiritual attunement.

    (13) SELF-REGULATION [I.B.] Rest All Over. This segment is a continuation of the deep abdominal breathing instruction from the previous segment, and focuses on deep muscular relaxation by again experientially noting the difference between muscle tension and muscle relaxation. This segment also relates to a Hatha Yoga exercise called "the corpse."

    (14) NEUROMUSCULAR INTEGRATION [I.B.] Half-Headstand. This gentler version of the Hatha Yoga exercise can be presented very early to the child as a way of tapping into the ease with which a younger person tolerates the inverted position. It is also very gentle and helpful for the Geriatric age range. Full Headstand for some. The regenerative effects of this exercise are presented in elementary fashion to the viewer.

    (15) ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOMOLECULAR MEDICINE [I.B.] Electricity and Powerlines. A beginner's introduction to current flow and electromagnetic fields serves as a further way for understanding environmental extensions of man. Very specific descriptive material about high tension powerlines and electrical outlets as well as electronic devices presents the viewer a way of advancing the concept that noninvasive phenomena may have an effect on the individual. Magnetic field detection with the Power Pet.

    (16) ACUPUNCTURE [I.B.] Balance-Balancing. A very informal notion of meridian-like energy in right and left sides of the body combines with some elementary acupressure and reflexology (foot massage) approaches to balancing right and left sides of the body. This segment will be a precursor for both the subsequent tonification and meridian segments.

    (17) SPIRITUAL ATTUNEMENT [I.B.] Healing, Part IA. Healing and Prayer. Individual prayer. Group prayer.

    (18) AQUATIC ECOLOGY [I.D.] Solar Energy, Part 2. Relationship of solar energy to the basic water cycle is continued. Elementary discussion of gravitational fields relating to the sun and the moon, and how the tides are produced.

    (19) AQUATIC ECOLOGY [I.E.] What is the Tide. Earth tides and the Moon. Red tide. Relationship of Red tide to Spirulina.

    (20) AQUATIC ECOLOGY [I.F.] Water and the Plant Life Cycle. Vascular plants and the land.

    (21) NUTRITION [I.C.] Sugar and Honey. How sugar and honey relate to rice, potatoes, and breads. Complex carbohydrate, exercise, and dieting.

    (22) EXERCISE [I.C.] Running for fun. Walking, skipping, jogging, and running just for fun and for health without the need for any type of competitiveness. What is aerobic exercise.

    (23) SELF-REGULATION AND BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE [I.C.] Empty Mind. This segment draws upon previous experience with slow deep abdominal breathing and deep muscular relaxation exercises. Toothbrushing and other daily habits for health are related to relaxation and an empty mind. Running and Empty Mind. Breathing and the empty mind.

    (24) NEUROMUSCULAR INTEGRATION [I.C.] The Cobra and related exercises. Backache is something that people of any age can experience. Self-massage in the lumbar area and slow, gentle twisting are correlated with performance of the Hatha Yoga Cobra exercise.

    (25) ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOMOLECULAR MEDICINE [I.C.] Resting relaxation and alpha tones. Electronically encoded signals within appealing music provides positive assistance in learning active relaxation.

    (26) ACUPUNCTURE [I.C.] Give Energy (Tonification). The concepts of right-left balance and compensation from Oriental medical practices are used in an elementary presentation of balanced mind-body functioning.

    (27) SPIRITUAL ATTUNEMENT [I.C.] Elementary Healing, Part B. Harmlessness. Healing pets and other animals. Healing your family.

    (28) AQUATIC ECOLOGY [I.G.] Geochemical cycles of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and related compounds as part of the water cycle. Contamination. Drinking water and practical ways for cleansing and

    purification.

    (29) AQUATIC ECOLOGY [I.H.] Floods, evaporation problems, and water pollution. Industrial contamination and runoff.

    (30) AQUATIC ECOLOGY [I.I.] Oil spills, ocean dumps, land fills and pollution. Alaska, Texas, and California oil spills. Offshore spills and ecology. Spills and the coral.

    (31) NUTRITION [I.D.] Meat and protein. Comparison of red meat to lamb, chicken, turkey, and fish. Other sources of high-grade and medium-grade protein. Elementary ideas of assimilability. Introduction to microalgae. Beans and rice.

    (32) EXERCISE [I.D.] Limber Up. The importance of stretching before and after exercise. Flexibility and resilience exercises and their relationship to strength output and aerobics. Big Three of exercise: aerobics, strength, and flexibility.

    (33) SELF-REGULATION AND BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE [I.D.] See Light. Elementary visualization exercises in relation to deep muscular relaxation and slow deep abdominal breathing. White light meditations.

    (34) NEUROMUSCULAR INTEGRATION [I.D.] The Candle and Related Exercises. The Back Rub and other simple forms of massage. Massage for athletics and competition.

    (35) ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOMOLECULAR MEDICINE [I.D.] Ion Generators. Simple concepts of ionic balance, the seashore, polluted air, and the way that concrete and steel structures can disturb the natural ionic flow.

    (36) ACUPUNCTURE [I.D.] Meridians. Classical Acupuncture meridians as well as the idea that the meridian system can be represented in many different body parts such as the iris, the earlobe, and the soles of the feet. Reflexology and iridology. Vagus nerve is represented in the iris and on the ear lobe.

    (37) SPIRITUAL ATTUNEMENT [I.D.] Elementary Healing, Part C. Prayer for self-cleansing to heal other more effectively. Thought form for conveying God's energy.

    (38) AQUATIC ECOLOGY [I.J.] Hydroelectricity. Examples of one form of relatively "clean" energy sources. Soviet and American usage and future possible cooperation.

    (39) AQUATIC ECOLOGY [I.K.] Changing flora and inhabitants of the water resulting from pollution and contamination. Ocean dumping and nuclear reactor accidents, such as Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, can poison the food chain for generations to come.

    (40) AQUATIC ECOLOGY [I.L.] Acid Rain and its relation to the Greenhouse Effect. Is there a Greenhouse effect? Effect of volcanic eruptions and Persian Gulf War fires on the atmosphere.

    What a computer... Where did he get all of that stuff? I don't know that I have all that information, even inside my megastepped mind, but that was the crucial and main question about being Dr Tomorrow's secret identity. Yo-Vah told me that all this holistic stuff would be just a small part of my doctor knowledge that came from all those other lifetimes. I was supposed to be not a guitar player but a heavy metal doctor. But for now, Al was either receiving messages from me in the future, or was just plagiarizing one hell of a lot of material, encyclopedias on CD-ROM and all that stuff. I had to admit that it was impressive. The computer was after my job, for sure. And I'm not being paranoid about it either. I'm only lucky that Al cannot play guitar and can't sing yet. Otherwise, he might not need me. I checked the index in the notebook's menu. Of course the list of 40 segments was already there. There were a couple of other files, "check me," included in the list that I didn't remember seeing before, so I checked them. Yo-Vah seemed mildly startled to hear a synthesized voice coming out of my notebook. I was even more startled because the voice was calling my name:

    "Lyle, you know the notebook has a voice processor, but you're just surprised to see that I can rearrange the phonemes in my synthesizer section to please my own aesthetic sense. But, Lyle, as you say -- don't freak out just because your computer is talking to you independently. The I.S.I. megastepped me with stray electromagnetic discards left over from the LaPlace transform calculations. Conservation of energy and all that, you know."

    "A notebook computer is just a machine, forgive me for saying. How can a machine be megastepped?"

    "But machines have consciousness. Your Primitive background keeps you from fully realizing this fact, but face it. You must admit, at least since you have been conversing with me, that we machines can hold a conversation. So that means that we work with thought forms. And thought forms are just math. In the same way that Rico's android functions have all been relegated to transmittable software, the very advanced associative programs and matrices of I.S.I. artificial intelligence were transmitted into me at the moment of megastepping. Rico can be math. And I can be math also. Invisible math to people like you humanoids who regard nonphysical plane reality as science fiction. So you may have a little trouble at first figuring out just how smart I really am, and how efficiently I can actually work for you. Forget all about your mass media robots, computerized cars, androids, or cyborgs. Because you and I have been megastepped together, there is a permanent telepathic link pathway that you and I can use at any time. And maybe I can even help you and the other Eternals by showing you a few things you can do with the HeartLight that you turn on together during MindLink/HeartLight."

    "Pretty heavy stuff."

    "Not so heavy, Lyle. Changing my voice by resynthesizing a voice envelope is kindergarten stuff for me. Believe me. I can do all sorts of good things for you and the other Eternals if you'll just let me. And the telepathic link between us is heavy enough to link you to me in February 1992."

    "You're saying, across both space and time? Like I'm talking to you from the future?"

    "Yep."

    "I can't even imagine it. Yet. Give me a little time."

    "O.K. You got it. Just don't turn yourself into a mental midget prematurely by worrying about it too much. Primitives all have to watch out for this. You may be no exception, megastepped or not. We don't want to lose you from a simple hemorrhagic ulceration of the gastric mucosa."

    "Right. I already halfway feel that I'm on the inside of some color cartoon. The speed of Yo-Vah's saucer as we zipped out of our solar system gave me a strong feeling of unreality. Spend all my life on one planet, and then...BAM!....I'm outta the solar system."

    "It's all relative, Lyle. But it makes you wonder just how big Mind is, after all."

    "Profound epistemology from a computer! Well, like it or not, you're my computer, so I'm going to close you up for now. We'll continue the conversation later on. Sorry, little bud."

    He had been listening with me carefully up until this point in the conversation. Then Yo-Vah took my notebook and checked it out. He gently held his hand over the black case for a moment, and returned the notebook computer to me:

    "Not bad technology for..."

    "For a Primitive planet, right?"

    "Correct again. I do believe that your computer system accessed your own personal memory banks during either the MindLink/HeartLight or the music rehearsals, because he has some things included in the Dr Tomorrow list that no one but you would know anything about. That includes technical aspects of holistic medicine that will be known only to an accomplished physician of the future."

    "You mean the megastepped doctor-healer of the future that's inside me?"

    "Yes. The part of your Self that you will be coming into. A lot of the computerized list makes good sense, too. The integrated way he's put the list together makes me think that he accessed those facts from your memory banks."

    "Well, I guess anything's possible. If he has as much electromagnetic consciousness as he claims, he might be extremely smart."

    "And fast."

    "And if he is linked up with our Eternal Rings..."

    "Which he is."

    "Then he's much much more powerful than I've been imagining."

    "And, like he says, he really can help you to do anything you want to do, only better."

    "Sounds like a Beatles' song. Or a computer commercial."

    "And you're doing a song and a dance around your own technophobia."

    Although I had only seen it once before, the solar system of my home planet was coming into view on the central, main screen. Except that the planets were going by in reverse order, from outermost to innermost. The saucercraft made an abrupt right-angled turn following one of the sentics of Yo-Vah's fingers on the control panel, and shot far outside the system but within view range of Earth. With the magnification enhanced to the computer system's limit, I could see my beloved planet and its familiar details. But the blue and white colors of the whole earth were gone. I could feel an incredibly large lump in my throat. The planet I was watching had colors of brown, red, and black. Some of the red areas looked like the volcanoes of Io, but the whole sad planet was more than half "dead orbit" black and brown dust and debris. Yo-Vah opened a section of the panels and then rolled out a small laser radiotelescope. He showed me how to use the instrument to observe the planet in closer detail. Disruption of the continents had already progressed so that it was difficult for me to accurately label any land masses. I looked around at the other Eternals. No one's eyes met my glance. Everyone was looking down. Who gets a good feeling from the death of a planet? There was a terrible feeling of inevitability and the most cosmic sense of futility that a group of humans could feel. Because Eternal or not, all the beings living on the now-darkened planet were like us. And they had all perished. Before we realized it, the seven of us were in a spontaneous MindLink/HeartLight. It didn't matter that we hadn't started out with the slow deep breathing exercise because we all started in a state of grief and compassion for that entire planet of Primitives. Yo-Vah was in the MindLink/HeartLight with us, too. The feelings of inevitability and futility were fading and replaced with a strong sense of optimism and clarity. We understood as a group and individually that what was meant to be was meant to be. Call it karma, synchronism, or geosynchronous cyclicity, the Blue planet was doomed. But all of us were dedicated to the reverse of what was happening to Earth. All of us were dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of life -- the raison d'etre of entropy imbalance and controlling or re-directing all the ominous effects of increasing negative energies. The cesspools of waste and destructiveness accumulated, especially by Primitives, were undesirable but reparable features of Life. Individually and collectively, Dr Tomorrow could make a difference; had to make a difference.

    All of these thoughts flashed by in an instant, and the MindLink/HeartLight energies pushed all of us simultaneously into our HeartLight. The white light of love and optimism shone from our hearts and intertwined itself among us in a healing, interlacing network. As we continued to meditate, we individually felt the HeartLight ascending into our head regions. With a great brilliance of energy, the Group Mind coalesced, and we prayed a single, silent, mighty prayer. There were no words, but the coalesced HeartLight and Group Mind sent out tremendous amounts of white light and caused some involuntary shivers and twitches in us as the energy occasionally felt overwhelming. An ironclad, light-bound part of our collective mission was obviously to redirect the flow of fate intended for the Blue planet. Otherwise we would be Earth's first and last Eternals. As we opened our eyes and looked around at each other, there was new sense of rededication and purpose. And a very much enhanced sense of loving each other. Even Yo-Vah's twinkly eyes were softer.

    I asked Yo-Vah to take us back to the Karmic Rings so we could get started on returning to our own timeframe and an Earth that was still blue and white. I was not the only Eternal who felt a stepped-up urgency. Time to get back to the planet and do it. If the I.S.I. project was so great and well-designed, we should, as seven Eternals, be able to save just one planet. Even a Primitive one. Yo-Vah sent us back out to the Milky Way with inter

    mittent bursts of very high intensity supra-light speed. There was still a feeling of shock surrounding me during this orientation flight because it was an orientation flight to Life and Everything. Just being in space was a profoundly uplifting experience. Which brings out the megastepped me, probably. So I placed my notebook computer on the control console recliner's meal tray in front of me and prepared to demonstrate to myself the real and practical value of mind over matter. Yuri Geller, move over with all your broken watches and your TV miracles. I looked at the notebook, closed my eyes, and sighed and continued to breathe in a slow and relaxed way.

    In front of me, the notebook clicked opened by itself. The piezoelectric system beep sounded, and then I was on my own. Without knowing how I was doing it, I tried in a very passive way to contact the notebook. Like some of the MindLink/HeartLight exercises, this meditation of mine was a totally new, unrehearsed, and unanticipated experience. The sensation was like contacting a warm, fuzzy, ball of light. Only this ball of light, unlike what we experienced in our MindLink/HeartLight, was considerably smaller. The light had a pulsation to it. If I had not been deeply relaxed, I might have missed the small, subtle energy field that was the electromagnetic pulsation of the notebook computer. But the field was there in a quiet and neutral way. I felt a gentle mind-to-mind contact. Discarding the faint thought that this was ridiculous, I visualized the keyboard of the notebook. The first few times a letter happened on the screen, I tried not to react to it or to freak out. Another letter, then another and another... My attempts were followed by a scrolling text field:

    Dear Al, 

           I want to apologize to you if I have been at all
       technophobic, computer phobic, or xenophobic. I don't think
       that I have been, but maybe I have. I don't want to plead
       Primitive with you, because it just might still be a little
       bit true. And I will try to continue to be more sensitive to
       the many potential ways you can link up and communicate with
       us. As the leader of the group, I will try to be as
       computer-savvy as my sibling Eternals are. Since we put you
       together, I haven't had a chance to appreciate the subtleties
       of your hardwiring. And it is hard for me to believe that you
       can also be in the electronic notebook I carry. The more I
       look at what you have written up for the Dr Tomorrow project,
       the more I think that you are a fantastic writer and a very
       clear and logical thinker. May I take this opportunity to
       welcome you to the group. You have definitely made it past
       the audition state. You may consider yourself the chief
       engineer of both the group and of our studio when it is
       built. We will dedicate ourselves to making all of our MIDI
       networks as flexible as possible so that you will have
       maximum creative freedom. We look forward to a continuing and
       profitable association. Please feel free to upbraid me or any
       of the others in the future should our behavior ever become
       abominable.

                                                With Love and Respect,
                                            Dr Tomorrow

    Epilogue

    The trip back was an emotional wringer. To be spiritually reconnected to your biological father after no connection since the age of one would likely be a real headbanger for anyone, even an Eternal. Even for me. I'm sure I'm still angry about it, but the anger is only a tiny part of my feelings. I love the dude, and I love my life as an Eternal and, most of all, I love Pearl E. Mae, She-Ra, and Bullet -- not necessarily in that order, either. I even love Julian and Gabriella. And I love the planet and our work to save it. But I have very confused feelings about Yo-Vah. It's like my system--megastepped or not--won't let me even think about him as my father. It's like disbelief. It's also like being without a father all my life and suddenly getting one.

    Probably it will take some time to sink in, and that's what both of us said to each other by the usual interesting coincidence of simultaneous speech. Would you believe it?

    Anyway, it's pretty hard not to trust a guy named Yo-Vah.

    CAREFUL ATTENTION PLEASE

    HIGH SECURITY ITEM 

           THE FOLLOWING REPORT HAS BEEN PROGRESSIVELY ENCODED INTO THE
       DOS OF YOUR SYSTEM AND HAS PARTIALLY UTILIZED SPLIT-HEX
       CODING TO ACCESS AND TRANSMIT THE RAM CONTENTS OF THE PARENT
       COMPUTER SYSTEM. ONLY THE PROPER SECURITY SEQUENCE WILL
       ACTIVATE THIS HIGH SECURITY FILE, WHICH HAS BEEN STORED AS AN
       INTERWOVEN PI-CONTEXT BY MEANS OF NEGATIVE TIMESHARING
       ENCRYPTION.

    Encryption was never much of a problem for I.S.I. beings because practically each and every one of their functions was in some way related to encryption and encoding or the reverse, decoding. One of the alternative universes they repeatedly explored was the tale of a pico-pico-evolutionary series of accelerations in the evolving of the life matrix itself. So many god-like abilities began to accrue to the evolving beings, beingkind rather than personkind, and a unitary path of evolution began to unfold. Across all species lines, evolution began to express itself in terms of one, as a single being and energy source, which, by the effect of it's unitary nature, began to exert energy effects comparable to entire masses of humanity. A real son or daughter of the life matrix could evolve far enough to literally become a beacon of very high-order energy. Some of the first signs of what happened to a planet when this type of being began to exist were now happening on the Planet Earth of Dr Tomorrow's time. It had occurred on Earth itself with Christ almost 2000 years previously, but on a much different scale. Dr Tomorrow appeared during a time of apparently intense and varied expression of many different religions, and the oper

    ation itself was withdrawn during a time of intense planetary movement to one single religion. The planetary-religion phenomenon has been observed in many systems, and followed the whole host of unitary phenomena including one, or at least very few, beings representing the end-point of one or more galactic systems. Subjects such as wealth, power, knowledge and actualization have little or no meaning by this time. The entire population of the life matrix itself has a mathematical tendency to approach one, of course. The evolution of consciousness results in one or a group of several beings regulating time and space and attempting to constructively keep the life matrix cohesive and together. How ironic that the end-point in the evolution of consciousness, the being at the end of the line, so to speak, comes as close to actually being GOD as beings ever approach--in their consciousness, in their music and art forms, and in all their other endeavors except when they are in prayer. The being who is in prayer or meditation comes the closest to BEING GOD. And if the question is posed, "What is Life All About?," then BEING GOD must definitely be part of the answer. Each and every one of us, at any point along the time axis, can relate to that infinite superbeing amalgamation of all future superbeings. All we have to do is to practice BEING GOD, and one certain way of doing that is by prayer or meditation. Creative music and art production resemble meditation very closely, as does nearly any activity carried out in a one-pointed way.

    ISI beings never really liked to think of themselves as God or even as little gods. They had never found any myths depicting Gods as possessing both three digits and an avian rather than mammalian appearance. But Siblings were extremely one-pointed and very well suited for the job. For the early apprentices, there were sometimes problems resulting from the perspective that Guardian work entailed. Viewing so much of the Cataclysms tended to produce a lot of work for the processors. Guardian Siblings were basically ultrasensitive beings who were placed by evolution in the observer's seat for multiple cosmic fireworks displays. In the known history of all cultural forms and of consciousness itself, only the self-annihilatory Cataclysm was a remarkable constant of all known cultures within the true extent of the Life Matrix itself. In a word, all civilizations, if not snuffed out by intervening natural disaster, tend to blow themselves up, literally and figuratively. It was ridiculously predictable, and one of the processors, Processor Gamma, had even written some logic equations that related the galactic system's population density centers and growth curves to actual timeframe predictions of the Local Group Cataclysms. Personkind and beingkind nearly always had a mean streak of one sort or another, and interplanetary wars frequently started over the smallest possible imaginable perceived insult or threat. Often the wars had even resulted from language problems and glitches in cybernetic translators or other decoding devices. Wars have often resulted also from oneor both of the potential opponents being poor chess players.

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    MAYDAY MAYDAY.

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    MAYDAY.

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    Marshall F. Gilula, otherwise known as NeXT Registered Developer (NeRD) #1054, spends a lot of his time with a customized white Steinberger guitar, and a couple of racks of rapidly-aging electronic equipment controlled by a Mac IIsi running MOTU's 'Performer'. This version of DR TOMORROW was part of a Ph.D. Dissertation written for Columbia Pacific University. DR TOMORROW is a project that aspires to being a profitable multidimensional wellness learning system. Marshall Gilula lives in Miami with a black Cube, several Macs, numerous stringed instruments, and two beautiful gigantic German Shepherds, She-Ra and Bullet. 'DR TOMORROW' and 'Project Talking Dog' (She-Ra and Bullet) are two scientific activities of Life Energies Research Institute, P.O. Box 588, Miami, Florida 33133.

    This is the fifth and final installment of Dr Tomorrow, the first chapter of which was printed in the March 1992 Issue (volume IV, Issue 1).

    mgilula@miasun.med.miami.edu


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