Subject: A Meteor Hit Earth. Part 2. Mar. 7, 2008.
This talks about "In The Beginning".
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At that moment, a shock of extraordinary violence
shook the spacecraft. Thao looked at me with horrified
eyes - her whole face had completely changed and one
could read in it sheer terror. With a dreadful
cracking sound, the vessel split into several pieces
and I heard screams from astronauts, as we were all
hurled into space. Thao had grabbed hold of my arm
and we were flung through the sidereal emptiness at
a giddying speed. I realized, only because of the
speed we were travelling, that we were about to
cross paths with a comet - exactly like the one we
had passed by several hours earlier.
I felt Thao's hand on my arm but didn't even
think to turn my head in her direction - I was
literally mesmerised by the comet. We were going
to collide with its tail - that was certain - and
already I could feel the terrible heat. The skin
on my face was ready to burst - it was the end...
(from page 49)
"Are you OK, Michel?" asked Thao gently from
her seat. I thought I was going mad. I was sitting
opposite her in the same seat where I had listened
to her account of the first man on Earth.
"Are we dead or mad?" I asked.
"Neither, Michel. There is a saying on your
planet that a picture is worth a thousand words.
You asked me how we were able to delude crowds
of people. I replied immediately by creating an
illusion for you.
I realize I should have chosen a less
frightening experience, but the subject is a very
im****tant one in this case."
"It's fantastic! I never would have believed
that it could happen like that - and so suddenly.
It was so very real - the whole scenario. I don't
know what to say... The only thing I ask of you
is not to frighten me like that again. Besides,
I could d-e of fright..."
"Not at all. Our physical bodies were in our
seats and we simply separated our ... let's call
them "astropsychic" bodies from our physical ones
and from our other bodies..."
"What other bodies?"
"All the others: the physiological, the
psychotypical, the astral, and so on.
Your astropsychic body was separated from the
others by a t-lepathic system originating in my
brain which, acts in this case, like a
transmitter. A direct correlation is established
between my astropsychic body and yours.
"All that I imagined was projected in your
astropsychic body exactly as if it was happening.
The only thing is, not having had time to prepare
you for the experience, I had to be very cautious."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, when you create an illusion, the subject,
or subjects, should be prepared to see what you
want them to see. For example, if you want people
to see a space****p in the sky, it is im****tant
that they are expecting to see one. If they expect
to see an elephant, they will never see the
space****p. Thus, with the right words and cleverly
controlled suggestions, the crowd will unite
around you in anticipation of seeing a space****p,
a white elephant, or the Virgin of Fatima - a
typical case of the phenomenon on Earth."
"It would have to be easier with a single
subject than with 10 000.
"Not at all. On the contrary, with several
people, a chain reaction is produced. You
release the astropsychic bodies of the
individuals and when you put the procedure in
motion, they tel-pathise among themselves.
It's a bit like the famous domino lines - when
you make the first one fall, all the others
must fall right down to the last one.
"So it was a very easy game with you. Since
you left Earth, you have remained more or less
anxious. You don't know what will logically
happen next.
"I took advantage of this typical case of
conscious or unconscious fear that is always
present when one travels in a flying machine -
the fear of exploding or cra****ng. Then, as
you had seen the comet on the screen, why not
use it too? Rather than cook your face as you
approached the comet, I could have made you
cross the tail believing it to be frozen."
"In all, you could have driven me insane!"
"Not in such a short time..."
"But that had to have lasted more than five
minutes..?"
"No more than ten seconds - just as in a
dream, or should I say a nightmare, which
occurs by the way, in approximately the
same manner.
For example, you are sleeping and you begin
to dream... You are in a field with a wonderful
white stallion. You approach to catch him, but
each time you try, he runs away. After five or
six attempts, which take time of course, you
leap on the horse's back and begin to gallop and
gallop. Faster and faster you go and you are
happily intoxicated by the speed... The stallion
gallops so fast that he no longer touches the
ground. He is airborne and the countryside
passes beneath you - river, plains and forests.
"It is truly wonderful. Then a mountain
appears on the horizon, looming taller and
taller as you approach. You have to rise higher
with difficulty. The horse flies up and up -
it is almost over the highest peak when his
shoe strikes a rock, unbalancing you, so that
you fall - down and down - you go into a chasm
that seems to have no end ... and you find
you have fallen out of bed on to the floor."
"No doubt you are going to tell me this
dream lasts only a few minutes."
It would have lasted four seconds. The
dream started as though, from a certain point
you wound back a film on video and then
watched it. I know it is difficult to
comprehend but in this particular dream, all
would have begun at the moment you lost
your balance in bed."
"I confess that I don't understand."
"I'm not at all surprised, Michel. To
understand completely requires much more
study in the field and, on Earth at the
present time, you don't have anyone capable
of instructing you on the subject. Dreams
don't really matter for the moment Michel,
but without your realizing it, during the
few hours you have spent with us, you have
made great progress in certain areas and
this is what matters. Now it is time to
explain to you our motives for bringing you
to Thiaoouba.
We are entrusting you with a mission. This
mission is to re****t all that you are going
to see, live and hear during your time with us.
Re****t everything in one, or several books
that you will write when you return to Earth.
We have been observing the behaviour of the
people on your planet for thousands and
thousands of years, as you now realize.
A certain percentage of these people are
arriving at a very critical point in history
and we feel that the time has come to try to
assist them. If they will listen, we can
ensure that they take the right path. This
is why you have been chosen..."
"But I am not a writer! Why haven't you
chosen a good writer - someone well known, or
a good journalist?"
Thao smiled at my vehement reaction. "The
only writers who might have done it, as it
must be done, are d-ad - I mean Plato or
Victor Hugo - and they still would have
re****ted the facts with too much stylistic
embellishment. We require the most precise
account possible."
"Then you need a journalist re****ter..."
"Michel, you know yourself, that journalists
on your planet are so inclined towards
sensationalism, that they often distort the
truth.
"How often for example, do you see news
re****ts that differ from channel to channel
or paper to paper? Whom do you believe when
one gives the de-th toll in an earthquake as
75, another as 62 and another as 95? Do you
really imagine we would trust a journalist?"
"You're absolutely right!: I exclaimed.
"We have observed you and we know all about
you as we know about some others on Earth -
and you were selected..."
"But why exactly me? I am not the only one on
Earth capable of objectivity."
"Why not you? In time, you will learn the
principal reason behind our choice."
I didn't know what to say. Moreover, my
objections were ridiculous since I had already
embarked on this affair and there was no going
back.
Ultimately, I had to admit I was enjoying
this space voyage more and more. Certainly,
millions of human beings would have given all
they owned to be in my place.
"I will argue no further Thao. If this is
your decision, I can only yield to it. I hope
I will be equal to the task. Have you
considered that ninety nine per cent of people
will not believe a word of what I say? For
most people it will be too incredible."
"Michel, almost 2000 years ago, did they
believe that C-rist was sent by G-d as he
claimed? Certainly not, for they wouldn't have
crucified him had they believed. Now however,
there are millions who believe what he said..."
"Who believes him? Do they really believe
him Thao? And who was he anyway? First of all,
who is G-d? Does He exist?"
"I have been expecting this question and
it is im****tant that you ask it. On an ancient
stone tablet, which I believe is Naacal, it is
written: In the beginning there was nothing -
all was darkness and silence.
"The S-irit - the Superior Intelligence
decided to create the worlds and He commanded
to four superior forces...
It's extremely difficult for the human mind,
even when highly developed, to comprehend such
a thing. In fact, in a sense, it is impossible.
On the other hand, your A-tral Sp-rit
assimilates it when it is freed from your
physical body</U>. But I'm getting ahead of
myself - let's go back to the very beginning.
"In the beginning there was nothing except
darkness and a spi-it - THE Spir-t.
"The S-irit was, and is, infinitely powerful
- powerful beyond the comprehension of any
human mind. The Sp-rit is so powerful that it
was able, by the action of its will alone, to
trigger an a-omic explosion with chain
reactions of unimaginable force. In fact, the
Sp-rit imagined the worlds - He imagined how
to create them - from the most enormous to the
most minuscule. He imagined the atoms. When
He imagined them He created, in His
imagination, all that moved and will move: all
that lived and will live; all that is
motionless, or seems to be - every single thing.
"But it existed only in his imagination. All
was still in darkness.
Once He had an overall view of what He wanted
to create, He was able, by his exceptional
spiri-ual force, to create, instantaneously, the
four forces of the Universe.
"With these, He directed the first and the
most gigantic at-mic explosion of all time -
what certain people on Earth call "The Big
Bang". The Spi-it was at its center and induced
it. Darkness was gone and the Universe was
creating itself according to the will of the
Spir-t.
Part 2.
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
A Meteor Hit Earth. Part 3. Mar. 8, 2008.
This explains how you might appear to weigh more
or less on another planet.
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"The S-irit was thus, is still, and always will
be, at the center of the Universe for He is the
Master and Creator of it..."
"Well then," I interrupted, "it's the story of
G-d as the C-ristian r-ligion teaches it - or just
about - and I never believed in their nonsense..."
"Michel, I speak of no re-igion such as exists
on Earth and especially not the Chr-stian re-igion.
Don't confuse reli-ions with the Creation and the
simplicity of all that ensued. Don't confuse logic
with the illogical distortions of reli-ions. We
will have the op****tunity to talk again later on
this subject, and you are certainly in for some
surprises.
"For the moment, I was trying to explain the
Creation to you. During billions of years (for
the Creator of course, it is eternally the
"present", but it is more at the level of our
understanding to count by billions of years),
all the worlds, suns and atoms were formed,
as you are taught in schools, the planets
revolving around their suns, and sometimes
with their own satellites etc. At certain
times in certain solar systems, some planets
cool down - soil is formed, rocks solidify,
oceans are formed and landmasses become
continents.
"Finally, these planets become habitable
for certain forms of life.
All this was in the beginning, in the
imagination of The Sp-rit. We can call his
first force the "Atomic force".
"At this stage, by his second force, He
conceived the primary living creatures and
many of the primary plants, from which
later derived the sub-species. This second
force we will call the "Ovocosmic Force",
as these creatures and plants were created
by simple cosmic rays, which ended up with
cosmic eggs.
"At the very beginning, The Spi-it imagined
experiencing feelings through a special
creature. He had imagined Man by means of
the third force that we will call the
"Ovoastromic Force". Thus Man was created.
Have you ever considered Michel, what
intelligence it took to create a human being
or even an animal? B-ood that circulates
thanks to the heart that beats millions of
times independently of the will ... lungs
that purify the bl-od by means of a complex
system ... the nervous system ...the brain
which gives the orders, aided by the five
senses ... the spinal cord which is
ultra-sensitive and which will make you
[instantly] withdraw your hand from a hot
stove so you won't burn yourself - it would
have taken one tenth of a second for the
brain to issue the order to prevent your
hand from being burnt.
"Have you ever wondered why, that of the
billions of individuals on a planet like
yours, there are no two fingerprints the
same: and why, what we call the "crystalline"
of the blood, is just as unique among
individuals as the fingerprint?
"Your experts and technicians on Earth,
and on other planets, have tried and still
try to create a human body. Have they
succeeded? In regards to the robots they
have made, not even the most highly perfected
will ever be more than a vulgar machine in
comparison with the human mechanism.
"To go back to the crystalline I mentioned
just now, it is best described as a certain
vibration particular to the bl-od of each
individual. It has nothing to do with the
blo-d group. Various rel-gious sects on Earth
believe absolutely in the "rightness" of
refusing bloo- transfusions. Their reasons
relate to the teachings and books of their
religi-us teachings and their own
interpretations of these, whereas they should
look to the real reason, which is the impact
the different vibrations have on each other.
"If it is a large transfusion, it can have
an influence on the recipient to a degree and,
for a length of time, which varies according
to the volume of the transfusion. This influence,
of course, is never dangerous.
"After a time, which never exceeds one month,
the vibrations of the recipient's bl-od takes
over, leaving no trace of the vibrations of the
donor's blood.
"It shouldn't be forgotten that these
vibrations are much more [5] a feature of the
physiological and fluidic body than that of the
physical body.
But I notice that I have deviated greatly
from my subject, Michel.
In any case, it is time now to rejoin the
others. We are not far from arriving at
Thiaoouba."
I didn't dare ask Thao then, about the
nature of the fourth force, for already she
was heading for the exit. I left my seat and
followed her back to the command post. There,
on the panel and in close-up view, a person
was talking slowly and almost continuously.
Numbers and figures, with luminous dots of
different bright colors were continually
crossing the screen, interspersed with
symbols.
Thao sat me down in the seat I had previously
occupied and asked me not to interfere with
my se-urity system. She then moved away, to
confer with Biastra who seemed to be supervising
the astronauts, each of whom was busy at her
respective desk. Finally, she came back and
sat down in the seat next to mine.
picture from a swedish
http://www.galactic-server.net/rune/gosta2.html
book on a contact to an seemingly
pleiadian/lyran civilization in 1946 - on the
same situation as in this "thao-book". rø-comment
"What is happening?" I asked.
"We are reducing speed progressively as we
approach our planet. We are now 848 million
kilometres away and will arrive in about twenty
five minutes."
"Can we see it now?"
"Patience, Michel. Twenty-five minutes is
not the end of the world!"
She winked, evidently in good humor.
The close up view on the panel was replaced
by a wide angle shot, allowing us a general
view of the command room of the intergalactic
base, as we had seen earlier. Now each operator
was deep in concentration at her particular
desk. Many of the "desk-computers" were operated
orally, rather than manually, responding to
the operators" voices. Figures, accompanied by
luminous dots of various colors, crossed the
screen rapidly. No one in the spacecraft
remained standing.
Suddenly, there it was, right in the middle
of the panel. The intergalactic center had
been replaced by... Thiaoouba!
My guess had to be correct - I could feel
it. Thao immediately tel-pathised an
affirmative, leaving me in no doubt.
As we approached and Thiaoouba grew on the
panel, I couldn't take my eyes off the sight,
for what I saw before me was indescribably
beautiful. Initially, the first word which
sprang to mind was "luminous" - this then
was juxtaposed with "golden" - but the
effect produced by this color was beyond
any description. If I were to invent a word,
perhaps one that might apply would be
"‘lumino-vapour-golden". In fact, one had
the impression of plunging into a luminous
and golden bath - almost as if there were
very fine gold dust in the atmosphere.
We were descending gently on to the planet
and the panel no longer showed its contours,
but rather, the contours of a continent
could be distinguished, ending abruptly at
an ocean, that was sprinkled with a
multitude of islands of different colors.
The closer we came, the greater was the
detail discernible - the zoom lenses were
not used at the time of landing, for a
reason which was explained to me later. What
captivated me most, was the color before me
- I was dazzled!
not from book - made of Daniel Holeman
All the colors were, in each tonal variation
more vivid than ours. A bright green, for
example, almost shone - it radiated color.
A dark green had the opposite effect - it
"kept" its color. It is extremely difficult
to describe, for the colors on this planet
could not be compared with any that exist
on Earth. A red could be recognised as red,
but it wasn't the red we know. There is a
word in Thao's language which defines the
types of colors on Earth and on planets
similar to ours - our colors are Kalbilaoka
which I translate as "dull" - theirs, on
the other hand, are Theosolakoviniki
(footnote 2 - Theosolakoviniki, - a similar
effect can be observed with pure
monochromatic colors, when light vibrates
in a narrow band of frequencies. The author
had confirmed this when he was shown such
colors. Is it a coincidence that "Theo'’
in Greek means "God"? Are these colors
"pure" like G-d? Explanation of the Editor)
- which means they radiate their colors
from within.
My attention was soon drawn to what looked,
on the screen, like eggs - yes, eggs! ( - I
should say half an egg, as we shall see
later on, the description would be more
appropriate. Note of the Author) I could see
the ground dotted with eggs, some half
covered with vegetation, and others quite
bare. Some seemed bigger than others and
some lay down.
Others were upright with what looked like
the pointed end towards the sky.
not from book
I was so astonished by this sight that I
turned again towards Thao to ask her about
these "eggs", when suddenly on the screen,
there appeared a round form surrounded by
several spheres of different sizes, and,
slightly further away, yet more eggs". These
ones were enormous.
I recognised the spheres to be space vessels
just like ours.
"Affirmative", said Thao from her seat, "and
the round form you see is the cell in which our
spacecraft will be accommodated in a few moments,
for we are in the process of docking.
"And the gigantic eggs, what are they?"
Thao smiled. "Buildings, Michel, but just now,
there is something more im****tant that I must
explain to you. Our planet contains many
surprises for you, but there are two, which
could have harmful effects on you. I must
therefore ensure that you take certain
elementary precautions. Thiaoouba does not
have the same gravitational force as your
planet. Your weight would be 70 kilograms
on Earth - here it will be 47 kilograms.
When you leave the spacecraft, if you aren't
careful, you risk losing your sense of
equilibrium in your movements and your
reflexes. You'll be inclined to take too
great a stride, and perhaps fall and
injure yourself..."
"But I don't understand. In your spacecraft,
I feel fine."
"We have related the internal gravitational
pull to correspond with that of Earth - or
almost."
"Then you must be extremely uncomfortable,
for you must weigh about 60 kilograms more
than your normal weight, given your size."
"It's true that under this force, our bodies
are heavier, but we have counter-balanced
this by a semi-levitation, thus we are not
uncomfortable, and at the same time, we have
the satisfaction of seeing you move among us
at ease."
Part 3.
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
A Meteor Hit Earth. Part 4. Mar. 8, 2008.
This tell how tall the trees are on the planet
that he visited.
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A slight jolt indicated we had docked. This
extraordinary trip was over - I was going to put my
foot on another planet.
"The second point," Thao resumed, "is that you
will be obliged to wear a mask, for a while at
least, for the brightness and the colors will
literally intoxicate you, just as if you had
drunk alcohol. The colors are vibrations that act
on certain points on your physiological body. On
Earth, these points are so slightly stimulated, so
little exercised, that here, consequences could
be unfortunate."
The s-curity force field of my seat had just
been "turned off" liberating me again, to move
about as I pleased. The panel was blank but the
astronauts were still busy. Thao led me towards
the door and back into the room I'd first
entered where I had lain for three hours. There,
she took a helmet, very light, which covered my
face from my forehead to just below my nose.
"Let's go, Michel, and welcome to Thiaoouba."
Outside the spacecraft, we walked along a very
short walkway.
Immediately, I felt lighter. The sensation was
very pleasant, although somewhat disconcerting,
since several times I lost balance and Thao had
to steady me.
We saw no one, a fact that surprised me. Earthly
perspective had led me to expect to be welcomed
by a crowd of re****ters, cameras fla****ng ... or
something similar - perhaps a red carpet! Why
not the head of state in person? For heaven's
sake, these people wouldn't be visited by an
extra-planetarian every day! But nothing...
After a short distance, we arrived at a round
platform, to the side of the walkway. Thao sat
down on a circular seat inside the platform [6]
and signalled that I should sit down opposite
her.
my idea from this planet on the highest
pfyscal level as she later told
She took out an object the size of a
walkie-talkie and immediately I felt myself
pinned to the seat, just as I had been in the
space****p, by an invisible force field. Then,
quite gently and with a barely perceptible hum,
the platform rose by several meters and moved
off rapidly towards the "eggs", about 800
meters away. The thin and slightly perfumed
air was la****ng the exposed area of my face
below my nose, which was very nice, its
temperature being around 26 degrees Celsius.
In just seconds, we arrived, and passed
through the walls of one of the "eggs", as
if we'd passed through a cloud. The platform
stopped and came to rest gently on the floor
of the "building". I looked around me in all
directions.
It seemed absurd, but the "egg" had
disappeared. We had indeed, entered the "egg"
and yet around us, as far as the eye could see,
stretched the countryside. We could see the
landing ground and the docked space****ps just
as though we were outside...
"I understand your reaction, Michel," said
Thao who knew what I was thinking, "I'll
explain the mystery to you later."
Not far from us, were gathered twenty or
thirty people, all busy to some extent, in
front of desks and screens which flashed with
colored lights - similar to inside the
spacecraft. A type of music played very
softly, elevating me to a state of euphoria.
Thao signalled me to follow her and we
headed towards one of the smaller "eggs"
situated near the "supposed inside walls"
of this larger one. As we went, we were
greeted with happiness by all we passed.
I must mention here, that Thao and I
made an odd couple as we moved across the
room. The great difference in our heights
meant that, as we walked side by side, she
was obliged to move slowly so that I didn/t
have to run to keep up - my movements were
more like ungainly jumps, for each time I
tried to hurry, I exacerbated the problem.
I had the task of coordinating muscles that
were accustomed to moving a weight of 70
kilograms and now had only to move 47
kilograms - you can imagine the effect we
created.
We headed for a light that was ****ning on
the wall of the small "egg". In spite of my
mask, I was very conscious of its brilliance.
We passed beneath the light and went through
the wall into a room that I immediately
recognized as the one featured on the screen
in the space****p. The faces too, were
familiar to me. I realizzed I was in the
intergalactic center.
Thao took off my mask. "It's all right
for now, Michel, you won't need it here."
She introduced me personally to each of
the dozen people there. They all exclaimed
something and put a hand on my shoulder as
a gesture of welcome.
Their faces wore expressions of sincere joy
and goodness and I was deeply touched by the
warmth of their reception. It was as if they
considered me one of them.
Thao explained that their principal question
was: why is he so sad - is he ill?
"I am not sad!" I protested.
"I know, but they are not accustomed to the
facial expressions of the people of Earth.
Faces here, as you can see, reflect a perpetual
happiness."
It was true. They looked as though every
second, they received excellent news.
I had been aware that something was strange
about these people and suddenly it hit me:
Everyone I had seen, seemed to be of the same
age!
chapter 5
Learning to live on another planet
It seemed that Thao was also very popular
here and she found herself answering numerous
questions - always with her natural, broad
smile.
Before long, however, several of our hosts
were required to resume their duties and we
took this as our cue to leave. My mask was
put on again and we left these people, as
well as those in the larger room, amidst many
gestures of friend****p and goodwill.
We rejoined our vehicle and immediately
accelerated away in the direction of a forest,
which could be seen in the distance. We flew
at a height of approximately five or six
metres and at a speed I would have estimated to
be 70 or 80 kilometres per hour. The air was
warm and fragrant and I again felt euphoric, in
a way I had never experienced on Earth.
We arrived at the edge of the forest and I
remember having been greatly impressed by the
size of the largest trees. They looked to rise
about 200 metres into the sky.
"The tallest is 240 of your meters, Michel."
Thao explained without me having to ask, "and
between 20 and 30 metres in diameter at the
base.
"Some of these are 8000 of our years old.
Our year consists of 333 days of 26 karses. A
karse is a period of 55 lorse, a lorse
comprising 70 kasios, and a kasio being almost
equivalent to one of your seconds.
(Now there's a sum for you...) Would you
like to go to your "apartment" or to have a
look at the forest first?"
"Let’s visit the forest first, Thao."
The vehicle greatly reduced its speed and
we were able to glide between, or indeed,
stop and observe more closely, the trees at
heights that ranged from almost ground level
to 10 metres above the ground.
(page 60 in the book)
Thao was able to guide our "flying platform"
with amazing precision and expertise. Our
vehicle, and Thao's manner of driving it, put
me in mind of a flying carpet, which was taking
me on a magical tour of this magnificent forest
floor.
Thao leaned towards me and removed my mask.
The undergrowth was luminous and softly golden
but I found it quite tolerable.
"It is a good time to begin accustoming
yourself to the light and color, Michel. Look!"
Following her gaze, I spotted, very high
among the branches, three butterflies, vividly
colored and of enormous size.
These lepidoptera, which must have had one
meter wingspans, fluttered high in the foliage,
but we were lucky to see them fly closer and
closer to us, on wings of blue, green and
orange. It is as clear to me as if it were
yesterday. They brushed against us with their
wings that were strangely fringed, to create
the most beautiful and breathtaking effect.
One of them came to rest on a leaf just a few
metres from us and I was able to admire its
body, ringed with silver and gold, and its
jade-green antennae. Its proboscis was golden
and the tops of its wings were green with
streaks of bright blue alternated with dark
orange diamond shapes.
The under-sides were dark blue, but luminous,
as though they had been illuminated from
above by a projector.
For the duration of time this giant insect
remained on the leaf, it seemed to emit a
soft whistling sound and I was quite surprised
by this.
I had certainly not heard a lepidopteran on
Earth make any sound at all.
Of course, we were no longer on Earth but on
Thiaoouba, and this was only the beginning of
a long series of surprises for me.
On the forest floor, grew an incredible
variety of plants, each one stranger than the
next. They covered the ground completely, but I
noticed very few bushes among them. I imagine
the forest's giants prevented them from
developing.
In size, these plants varied from a
ground-covering moss-like plant, to one the
size of a large rose bush. One kind, with
leaves as thick as a hand in various shapes -
sometimes heart-shaped or circular, sometimes
very long and thin - was of a color tending
much more towards blue than to green.
Flowers of every shape and color, even of
the purest black, entwined each other. From
our altitude of several metres, the effect was
absolutely glorious.
We rose till we were up among the highest
branches and I put my mask back on according
to Thao's direction. We emerged from the canopy
and moved slowly, just above the foliage of
those enormous trees.
Above the forest the light was, once again,
incredibly intense and I had the impression of
travelling through a landscape of pure crystal.
Marvellous birds were perched on the tops of
the taller trees, watching us pass, without
fear. Their colors, varied and rich, were a
veritable feast for my eyes in spite of the
subduing effect of my mask.
Part 4.
John Winston. johnfw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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