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existence in the first place or at
the very least to engage them in battle and force them back to
where they came from. The Din as we call them used one of their
dark light portals to enter directly onto Thex’s ship and they also
used a variant of the same technology to trap Thex and his
surviving crew members in a form of matter from which they were
unable to use their mental powers to escape from.”
    “ So where do I come
in?”
    “ There’s a prophecy that
says that ‘the heart of stone by love be freed’.”
    “ So I have to fall in love
with him or something?”
    “ Not in the limited human
sense of love. Our love is one of total acceptance of another, an
acceptance so deep we do not try to change the other. We don’t try
and own, possess or control each other like most human spouses do.
We enjoy the outer personality and container of the person as a
unique and temporary expression of the all-spirit and honour it as
such. Although to be perfectly frank our lives are not quite as
temporary as yours. At the same time we acknowledge that the
eternal all-spirit within each of us is one and the same. Our true
love is when we love another person literally as part of ourselves
and we don’t necessarily limit it to one person as your kind often
do”.
    Tyra frowned “But why me? Couldn’t one
of you have done that? And let’s be honest here, the guy seems nice
but how am I going to make myself love him? Most of all, how is all
that going to free him from the stone?”
    “ To be perfectly honest we
don’t know why it needs a human although the development of
compassion is one the key lessons of this plane and we believe it's
what's needed to get him and the others free. Many of us have come
and tried to connect with the trapped but while we can love them it
doesn’t seem to be enough to reascend them out of their current
form back into their true form. I did the ritual of union with Thex
but to no avail, although our minds are now linked most of the time
and he has experienced much of this world through me. When I first
had the prophecy...”
    “ Whoa up there! You’re the
one who had the prophecy? You’re the boy in my dream?”
    Simon simply nodded, he wasn’t one to
spend time confirming the obvious. “Thex’s father asked me to do a
follow up prophecy. What I got was pictures instead of words. The
all-spirit showed me seven humans, on the brink of ascension from
their own plane of existence, who would learn our ways of love,
find enlightenment and liberate both themselves and the trapped. It
showed me a way. I’ve been waiting thousands upon thousands of
years for you humans to get your act together and reach the point
you could help us. Humans nearly evolved to that point twelve
thousand years ago when the last global culture reached its peak.
They were mostly coastal sea-going people, living throughout the
ice free tropics and subtropics. They all but got wiped out when
the climate warmed. All thanks to the enemy messing with this
planet’s ionosphere so that they could have a planet warmer to
their lizard liking. When the temperature reached a critical
threshold point a sudden mass melting of the glaciers flooded most
of the urban areas of the time under a couple of hundred feet of
water and silt. Human civilization only recently re-evolved to the
necessary stage, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, about the same
time most humans started realising that the planet’s resources were
running out and that both the biosphere and the world economy were
on borrowed time.”
    “ But Simon, or is it
Shimon, I’m just a soon to be retired librarian. If you wanted an
enlightened person you should have gone looking for a sage in India
or Tibet or maybe some new-ager in California. I wouldn’t have the
faintest idea of how to achieve what you want from me.”
    “ You can call me Simon,
it's a more modern name that your culture relates to easier. I was
named Shimon as I can at times hear the will of the