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a star-forming region, but there’s more to it than that. We believe that at certain long intervals, it opens up to allow the energy out into our region of the galaxy. If we’re right and we have many indications to show we are, then we’re on the verge of a civilization transforming event.”
    “But we’ve got to be ready to receive the energy and that’s where you and Ted come in,” Aliester added.
    “Who would think that a place so far away could have any impact on our lives, let alone such a big impact,” Ellie said.
    “Consider how our ancestors regarded the sun as somewhat incidental to their lives. It took science to figure out how truly pivotal it is. You know 99.9% of the solar system is the sun and you can’t learn that from casual observation. What we’re finding out is how important other stars are to our existence. We’re groping our way towards a sense of ourselves as creatures of the galaxy. We’re linked, not just to one star, but to others nearby. In the distant future, we will extend that no doubt to include the whole galaxy, but we have to proceed step by step. Recognizing our nearest neighbors’ contributions is a step in that direction.”
    “Why wasn’t this known before, especially if something in the distant past carved on stones gave you an idea of how to work it all out?”
    “We think it was known, and then forgotten. Now we’ve found it out again.”
    “We don’t know how much was known or if it was known in the same way. Information always has to be worked through the prevailing paradigm. A pre-literate society might stumble onto information, use it and not even know what it was. There’s a fairly universal idea of Orion as a hunter. We think this might be a clue as to how they used the force that can be accessed from there.”
    “It would have allowed them to procure things from great distances perhaps. It might answer some of the mysteries surrounding the transport of blocks of stone to places like Stonehenge and the pyramids at Giza. The latter are particularly interesting since they seem to have been built to link awareness back to Orion’s belt. They were telling us for years where the force came from for their construction, but we didn’t understand the language. I’m sure you’ve heard how the three Giza pyramids are laid out to mirror the Orion belt stars.”
    “You’re not talking about ‘pyramid power’ or anything like that, right?”
    “No although the belt of Orion is really a triangular shape, the middle star extends farther back in space and the other two are approximately about the same distance apart. So if you looked at it from a different perspective, you could see that. We think that is related to how it connects to our star. All four stars would make the sign of the cross, if you could ever see them all together from the right angle.”
    “You mean the Christian cross?”
    “Like the central chamber in Newgrange in Ireland,” Ted said.
    “I thought you agreed with the theory that it represented the swan constellation or something like that,” Ellie said.
    “Now I believe that the ancients knew somehow that we would come into tremendous knowledge in the Christian era. That’s true, of course even without this event. Now here’s something else to consider.” Ted said. He bent over his laptop, pushed some keys and suddenly the back wall was filled with the image of a carved rock.
    “Isn’t that the entrance stone to Newgrange?” Ellie asked.
    “Yes, now watch this,” he pushed some more buttons and the image of the stone was overlaid with another. “This is the nebula in Orion’s sword, notice how it fits over the carving on the left side of the stone. The wavy lines below we think represent the Milky Way.”
    “Yes Orion lies near there so again the ancients in Ireland like those in Egypt were drawing attention to that area of the sky.”
    “We think those lines in the triple spiral carving refer to how the energy will flow at the