Jupiter's Pillow
by
 Dominic Arena Daley

A work of fiction about our present time. The Age of Light for Humanity began in 1899 A.D. The reality of our Consciousness Soul is now the pilgrim's progress to 7th Heaven.

Theseus - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name. (12)
 

William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream - 1595

Love will stream forth from all things, and it is the mission of the Earth evolution to develop this love  (4)

Like an air born spore this rise of consciousness greeted the New World of North America in the year 1776. First spreading its waves of change in France, then this powerful Idea carried Freedom's fire, a fecund cloud, unbridled, then checked and unchecked, spreading to many parts of Europe. Like seeds of a bountiful harvest change began to happen in the staid, war torn, Old World of Europe. In some places it landed, took and became as new life spawned from above. Freedom's rings rise to light our way, swelling to the farthest stars of our solar system, the great planet Jupiter and going clear out to embrace the Milky Way Galaxy.

John 'Jup' Colter teaches part time at Cabrillo Trade Tech, a small, coast town, trade school. He teaches three classes a week. An Astronomy class, a Celestial Mechanics and Navigation class and a Technology for the twenty-first century class. He is married, his wife is Mari Rosa Colter and they have two children. Io their son is nine years old, their daughter Europa is twelve years old, both named after moons of Jupiter. John Colter was a fanatic for his study and research of the great and distant gas giant, hence his nickname 'Jup', short for Jupiter.

Mari Rosa Colter grows much of their food she prepares for meals in the gardens they planted in their back yard. She has an asparagus bed that is in now twenty years old. Break off a spear and a new one grows back in a week depending on the time of year. The Colter's have come to call it the 'gas- giants patch' because over the years it spread its root system over much of the garden, growing like weeds. Their house had been in her family for over forty years. She met Jup at the big rock of Point Mugu up the Pacific Coast Highway just out of Oxnard. That afternoon she was watching large schools of dolphin swimming up the coast line just at the time that Jup drove up. Getting out of his car he walked over to to the overhanging ledge to have a look as the locals liked to do back then. When he saw the dolphins, looking at them very carefully, his first thought was how small they looked, then how slowly they were making their way north against the prevailing southerly currents. His attention then wandered to the woman fixed on the large schools, watching them for minutes without taking her eye's off of them,.. until he spoke to her. They were married nine months later.

On a warm June night the Colter family is sitting outside watching a meteor shower. Jup set up an observation station with some outdoor patio furniture out in their garden, a pitcher of home made grape juice sits on a small table beside him. Each has their own seat set in favorite viewing spots for the night's show. Together the Colter's have been watching meteor showers with the Associate Professor John 'Jup' Colter for as long as any of them could remember. It was a family tradition. Suddenly about eleven that night while they were looking up at the sky dome they see passing before them a comet as big as Jup's extended fist, which he held up to its passing arc judging it's size. The falling comet was fixed in all their gazing as it passes slowly by. The comet's color is light and dark browns, colors so rich that none of them had ever seen them before. The texture was an amalgam of molten metal, sharp and rounded rocks mixed with ice giving it the appearance of some ancient life form. The evaporation it left behind in it's passing vapor tail filled the air in a perfectly boxed column of smoky mist of ice vapors and fluorescent gas, shimmering in the air.

"Did you guys see that?" Jup asked his family still looking through his binoculars as he turned to them. His children laugh at his childish antics.

"Sure did dad, that thing was humongous awesome, could see the star dust in its tail... it sparkled!" Io yells.

"I saw that too, Io."

"I saw it too, mom, Io!"

"That was so strange, ... so very beautifully strange wasn't it ..." Jup says turning to look back into the night sky.

They sat quiet for a moment, as meteors, small, faint distant flashes fell every few minutes. Then Jup broke the silence.

"That my trusted collegues was a comet. The evaporated mist seemed to glow, looked like the entrance to some dark theater of the...universe" then he sat quiet, thinking, reflecting upon what they had just seen, holding the memory of the comets fresh passage firmly fixed in his mind's eye. Tumbling the fresh experience like a stone for future edifying reflections upon, this jewel of an observation they had just shared together.

"Looked like a cloudy floor didn't it" Mari shares, "that meteor's tail left a trail of glory behind it, just for a long moment I felt like I could just step right into it and go into the next dimension, then like fairy dust it just evaporated."

"Dad maybe we just saw the aliens landing a probe."

"Another probability Europa, sooo I guess it could be a possibility, but I think it was a close encounter with a comet."

They laugh as Io yells out into the starry night, "a close encounter with a comet!"

"Close enough to touch, it seemed to me. I don't think I have ever seen a comet that close before, did you see the glow coming from that thing, bright orange and that dark red, looked like ..well hell."

The others smiled at Europa assuring her it was a thing of beauty and not to be afraid. Soon after they turned in for the night.

The next day Associate Professor John 'Jup' Colter drives his white 1975 four- door Dodge Dart sedan to Cabrillo Trade Tech. His car has a slant-six engine fitted with a Fisher carburetor allowing him to get fifty miles to the gallon of gas. He purchased it a few years ago from his friend Freeman Ports who owns a used car lot in Venice Beach. Jup is also a bicycle enthusiast, a three-wheeler, and waves to the 'slow glows' bikers as he drives north past them along the Pacific Coast Highway. They are the distinct individuals of the road seen riding along the streets or up and down the coast highway on their sometimes flower draped, always brightly painted, old three-wheeler bikes. Jup rides his own three-wheeler along the wide public beach sidewalks on warm evenings through out the year.

Jup walked around his Astronomy classroom this morning at Carrillo Trade Tech. passing out some reference material for the class this morning while asking,

"Did anyone catch the meteor shower last night?" A few students reply yes and still others ask if it will continue that night so they might catch some of it before it passes by Earth. "Did anyone see the comet that passed by last night as well?" No one saw it. Jup continues with his class.

"A scientist named Robert Foot from the University of Melbourne speculates that many comets might be made of a matter he calls "mirror matter". It is a new matter not yet discovered and it does not give off light. He theorizes that comets contain very little ordinary matter. He speculates that they evaporate after passing by the Sun, leaving an invisible core of this "mirror matter". I have it referenced in your notes I passed out today. Has a book out, it's mentioned in there."

Referring to the image up on the overhead screen, "this is a picture of Jupiter's Northern Lights aurora good students."

The colors were soft pinks and watery blues and gave the aurora a soft water bed appearance.

"Your assignment was to read the chapter on Jupiter in your textbook. I would like to hear now what you gleaned from your reading."

Sara Chen raised her hand and said: "Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and is a gas giant. It is twice as big as all the other planets in our solar system combined."

"Thank you Sara. What else?" Tycho of Trancus raised his hand sharing the following:

"The orbit of Jupiter is 778,330,000 km around the Sun or 483,426,788 miles. The diameter of Jupiter is 142,984 km at the equator or 88.793938 miles.

"Good Tycho. Anyone else?"

Adam Waters raised his hand. Jup called on him.

"Jupiter has a very distinguishing feature that is called 'The Great Red Spot'. It is caused by a great windstorm that has continued for centuries and does not seem to be dying down. Another thing I learned is that Jupiter is ninety-five percent gas and has about a five percent hard rocky material core, similar to a meteor and is about ten to fifteen times the size of Earth."

"Good Adam's Ale, ... a rocky material core similar to a comet, five percent of its mass, now that's interesting, isn't it." Jup liked the nick name he gave Adam. Always brought a smile to Adam's face.

Another student Wendy Willsun raised her hand then shared.

"Jupiter's gravity in it's upper atmosphere is about 2.5 times greater than the Earth's gravity at it's surface."

Ric Ens shared some history about Jupiter.

"In 1610 Galileo Galilei was the first person to study Jupiter with a telescope. Up until that time the view of the universe was the eleventh century theory of Ptolemy who lived in Alexandria. His model or theory of the solar system was that all the stars and planets moved around the Earth. Then Galileo made his discovery of four moons that revolved around Jupiter and this discovery agreed with the Copernican heliosentric theory of the universe. That theory of the Polish astronomer in the 1500's stated that the planets revolved around the Sun. Galileo advanced this Copernican theory and created the modern world view we now hold about our solar system today. The four largest moons of Jupiter are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Calisto. They are named after him and called the Galilean satellites. Today the total number of satellites discovered around the gas giant is forty according to the International Astronomical Union."

Then he told the class about the weather of Jupiter.

"Jupiter's internal heat source is hot hydrogen- and helium-rich air. It rises up from the depths of the planet then condenses to form wet clouds and rain. It creates clear, cool air up in the atmosphere's upper layers."

Another student spoke some more about the clouds of Jupiter:

"The gas and clouds of Jupiter travel at high speeds due to Jupiter's high rotation rate. And that these gases and clouds travel at faster rates at the equator than at Jupiter's higher latitudes."

Jup smiled at the students, acknowledging their many contributions, then asked for any other comments.

Once again another student raised her hand and explained to the class that "Three distinct layers of clouds are found on Jupiter. They consist of ammonia ice, ammonium hydrosulfide and a mixture of ice and water."

"Jupiter radiates out more energy into space than it receives from the Sun and the interior of Jupiter is very hot with the core temperatures reaching about 20,000 K. Also Jupiter's magnetic field is the biggest thing in our solar system -- larger even than the Sun. It's effects are neutralized in our upper atmosphere. But it is largest, ubiquitous phenomenon in our solar system by far."

The class was silent as Jup looked around the classroom at his students this late morning then in a serious tone, with gravity seemingly beyond the significance of the information, he shared his impressions about this fact.

"That's something isn't it. Jupiter's magnetic field is the biggest thing in the solar system, greater than even the Suns. Good, I can see we have learned some things from our reading assignment, some interest in the 'gaaas...giiiant'... I see," whiffing his nose as he said it.

"Jupiter with it's now discovered sixty moons is an astronomical "mini solar system" controlling comets and even asteroids called Trojans." (21) (22)

Any other contributions from anyone?"

Another student raised her hand. Barbara shared that Jupiter had one ring. Jup thanked the student for her contribution asking for any other comments. When none were forthcoming he continued with his class lecture. He used the classroom overhead to project a NASA photo of Jupiter on on the overhead screen at the front of the class room.

"This is a x-ray photo showing us an electrical pulse, coming from the north pole of Jupiter."

Showing the class the NASA photo from the Science at NASA website the class gasped as the picture came up on the screen. It was the aurora borealis of Jupiter's north pole projected up on the screen, one animated gif on the page would pulse an x-ray lighting the sky. He walked to the back of the room then said,

"Our Sun, Earth, Jupiter, and comets are the only known sources of x-rays in our solar system. The moon shines by fluoresced sunlight and so is not really a source of x-rays. Cosmically speaking these x-rays are very weak. Back in 1979 NASA's Einstein x-ray satellite first detected Jupiter's x-ray glow. Now we are seeing its north pole pulsing every forty-five minutes varing by a few degrees with every cycle. It's the regularity of this very mysterious phenomenon that our NASA scientists are attempting to understand. Now we are seeing the shock waves from outbursts on the Sun brighten the auroras on Jupiter even more." as the animated aurora pulsed on the overhead screen.

Tycho of Trancus raised his hand. Professor 'Jup' Colter called on the eighteen-year-old student.

"The 'Sun reflecting back Jupiter's pulsations' is what the article online says. My questions are what if this 'excess energy run-off' as referred to has been going on for say 25,000 years. I agree it is significant what the Hubble Space Telescope and all the world's other satellites are letting us see in outer space now. Still it does not mean that these phenomenon are something new. We are just seeing them for the first time, do you agree?"

"Yes I do Tycho, your point is well taken." Jup allowed the class to discuss amongst themselves for a few minutes what they were seeing on the overhead screen. The class began expressing different ideas, even joking a bit about the x-ray photos, this pulsing beacon they were looking at.

The students looked at the x-ray pulsing beacon for a few more moments then a student said: ' it's a line of magnetic force'. Then again another said: 'it's just excess energy run-off like the NASA report says here on the overhead.. 'I got it, it's Jupiter's aura' the class again laughs. Then again another student says: 'yes that's it, it's Jupiter's consciousness' to again more laughter. Quiet now Jup walks around the classroom waiting for some more responses to the animated gif up on the overhead projector.

'How about a gel cell for the incubation of a new world's consciousness' the class laughed again.

It's a quantum code for quanta man'; Tycho of Trancus shared once again. Then the class was quiet until Iroquois Sun spoke up.

'It's a materialization of a conscious solar system's celestial mechanics awakening, opening like a flower at the cosmic center of our universe. Waves carried along through the Cosmos to our Milky Way Galaxy right on through to the poles of our own solar system's gas giant Jupiter and on into the earth's own electro-magnetic fields and poles. The ancient Egyptians measured the beginning of the winter solstice by the suns rising position in relation to the morning star of the east - Sirius- the star of Bethlehem. The fixed star's position at sunrise allowed the Egyptians to learn about the Nile river's flooding cycles as well as our Mother Earth's fields of force. Life to the ancient Egyptians was like poetry,.. reading the stars, building the great pyramids, understanding the Nile's seasonal flooding patterns, all from the wisdom of the stars then used here on earth. Think about that. Maybe that's all this is...spirit's nature knowledge."

Now the class grew very quiet thinking about what Iroquois Sun had just shared with them. Jup shook his head in agreement with these observations and smiled at the taciturn Native American before looking at the other class members for any more contributions before he continued with his class lecture. A student raised his hand, when called on he said.

'I know what it is, it's Jupiter getting excited...' The class laughed loudly now as though relieved from the strain of trying to figure out just what they were looking at. Then a student yelled out: 'it's the gas giant's way of relieving pressure' class laughing as another joked: 'it's our solar system's birth canal."

The class laughed real loud then it grew very quit. Martin Porres the fourteen year old wiz kid raised his hand. Jup smiled at him then calling him asked : what do you think it is Martin'?

'Dogan Sirius dude, serious as blue diamonds!' that was real good Iroquois Sun, I liked that, 'like a flower opening up at the center of our universe',...nature's knowledge,... very good!"

The class agreed and grew quiet, curious what Martin thought of the overhead projection of Jupiter's x-ray glow.

"I think 'it's the Galactic Federation's beacon' announcing the Aquarian age. It's the sub atomic world of particles, electro magnetic geometry and our universe all turning in this Creation's urn. I think this is the 'astrophysics of the imaginable world'. The constellation of Aquarius is aligning in the sky now with our Sun and Earth. We are witnessing the world of quantum physics, the world of the small, and as the big-macro world of the gas giant Jupiter evolves life in the small- micro waves world of the quanta world, filling with life at it's small five percent rock and comet snowball core, we are about to discover that humans play an important part of the micro/macro worlds unfolding. We are caught in the net of Aquarius now and if we want, we can communicate and participate with this 'world of the fleeting small' 'in the unfolding expanding universe. This Galactic Federation is 'in potential' happening now, we just have to imagine it. And like Aquarius it can bring us water for a New Age here on planet Earth for all the people to drink of and...yep, like Iroquois Sun says, flower in."

Martin sat down and did not say another word for the rest of the class. Having said his peace he sat there quietly smiling. His smile seemed to ray out a calming effect that the others could feel.

"Martin... Dogan Sirius" (17) Tycho of Trancus calls out, the others laughed. Martin was unique and everyone liked the guy. The entire class chimed in now, "Dogan Sirius,.. serious as blue diamonds and stars!"

The possibilities lacked only in time to think them up, bubbling to the surface, so many ideas, no lacking for imaginations ....someone yelling: 'it just is what it is, that's all, nothing more!' and like a pack of English fox hounds on the scent they had to be called off so that Professor John 'Jup' Colter could continue.

"Our imaginations run havoc I know" Jup calls out, waving his arms flaying at the air above his head as to contain the many snakes swirling about his many 'ideaed' head, the students laugh at his animated gestures then go quite. It seemed few of the student's were fooled into thinking it meant nothing at all or reduced to trivial with: 'it just is what it is, that's all, nothing more!'.

Jup spoke up saying: "by the way I must agree with Iroquois Sun and Martin Porres that: ''it's a materialization of a conscious solar system's celestial mechanics awakening, with a line of magnetic force running all the way from the cosmic center of the universe through the galactic center on through our solar system by route of the North and South poles of Jupiter now and coming into alignment with the Earth as the procession of the equinoxes occurs." Now that is good and my favorite hypotheses, just ahead of 'a warm gel cell for the incubation of a new world's consciousness' that too has a warm ring to it."

The class took his comments seriously as it was his ability to see things from a slightly different angle and cast in a different light that made John 'Jup' Colter provocative and one of Cabrillo Trade Tech's most popular teachers. Slowly he continued with his now more serious lecture

"As weather changes continue to occur on Earth we can see them as a barometer for our planet's health. A 'becoming self evident' phenomenon of our planets stasis or balance. Clearly our planet and possibly even our solar system are more responsive to humans than we could have imagined just ten years ago. Look at our Sun" he says going to the NASA - Current Solar Images site observed from the SOHO satellite. He projects up on the overhead screen the Extreme ultraviolet imaging Telescope image of the Sun. The class looks at the image of the burning solar flares on the sun then he changes the image and puts up on the monitor a Solar Terrestrial Activity Report.'

Solar Terrestrial Activity Report

Last update June 29, 2002 at 04:45 UTC.

"Our Sun is now coming out of a double-peaked solar cycle as El Niño's warming trend returns to our ocean's currents. The last Ice Age occurred twenty-five thousand years ago, ending just twelve to ten thousand years ago. The Earth's rotation axis is not fixed but is more like a spinning top, slowing, it wobbles like a slowing wheel turning through the twelve astronomical wheels of constellations seen in our nights galactic sky dome. The Earth transits the entire 360 degrees of the celestial pantheon, the twelve signs of the zodiac, in about 25,920 years. So the Earth about 2,160 years ago moved out from under the constellation of Aries into which constellation class?" waiting for the answer a few students called out,

"Pisces" to which Jup replied "correct".

"Our Sun rises the first day of the spring equinox in the constellation of Pisces visible overhead in the night sky, so it is called the Piscean Age. And how long would the Earth be in the starry constellation of Pisces' light before passing under the star light of the next constellation" looking to the class for an answer.

A student answered, "2,160 years passing into the constellation of Aquarius." "Correct... The last Ice age occurred twenty-five thousand years ago. The Earth passes through the full 360 degree procession of the equinoxes passing through the twelve signs of the zodiac under their corresponding constellations overhead every 25,920 years."

"Again the Earth's orbit around our sun is not static but wobbles. And the tilt of the planet is currently decreasing, moving from an elliptical orbit to a more circular orbit by about 0.00013o per year. The dates during the year when the equinoxes occur also varies and gets about one day later every seventy years due to this wobble in earth's orbit. A scientist named Milankovitch in the Thirties wrote that these variations as if cyclic brought on changes in sunlight by season and latitude on the Earth and gave rise to the cycle of glacials and interglacials." (16) Jup stopped his lecture for a moment and looked at his students before starting to speak again.

"Atmospheric scientists have been arguing his work ever since. Some argue that the energy fluctuations are not enough to bring on ice ages. Still others argue that 'positive feedbacks loops like carbon dioxide and volcanic aerosols' can trigger ice ages and that changes in the sun's radiation can upset the apple cart- so to speak. Cause or effect these variations are looked to for answers.... 'If the root causes of ice ages then we are clearly heading back to the next glacial period, in fact we are sort of over due!' (16) (direct quote- refer to references below)

"For your information the largest of the four solar flares occurred at 4:57 a.m. eastern time on Thursday, March 29, 2002, rated as an X-class flare, the most potent designation and as it turned out they were the largest Coronal Mass Ejection we have seen in the last ten years. The eruption sent a cloud of electrified, magnetic gas towards the Earth causing some great auroral displays when it struck earth's upper atmosphere that following Friday night, lit the night sky up for the rest of the weekend, it was spectacular."

"I have a graph up now with a Solar Terrestrial Activity Report that charts the sunspot number and the solar flux activity of this just passed double peaked solar max Cycle 23. We can see that it peaked on May 5 of 2002. Double-peaked solar cycles have been recorded to periodically precede both the shorter interglacial periods as occurred between l645 and 1715 in Europe, called the "Maunder Minimum" and the much longer glacial periods of 25,000 years or the ten or twelve thousand year interglacial cycles. Both happening many times in the Earth's four-and-a-half-plus + billion year geological history. During this last 'little ice age' six straight solar cycles passed with very little sun spot activity reported. Are we about to see this pattern repeat itself again? Would reducing the carbons in our atmosphere be a good idea, to be on the safe side?"

The class sat real quiet as he walked slowly around the class, you could have heard a pen drop. Then he spoke in a serious, very low voice,

"Would some study of the Earth, our Sun and our planets, like 'the gas giant' Jupiter,"....

smiling wide as he said 'the gas giant' moving his hand slowly past his nose and making a slightly sour expression as he continued with his lecture, the class sat quiet, smiling, even laughing at his gestures.

"possibly provide us with the opportunity to learn something that would allow us to better navigate the terrestrial and celestial times ahead for our planet Earth. Are the relatively mild climes of the last eight thousand years here on 'God's green Earth' about to come to a close with a climate flip occurring sometime during our own life times?...and just happens to correspond with the procession of the equinoxes into the constellation of Aquarius from the constellation Pisces interestingly enough? We will be fully into the constellation of Aquarius, one degree, around the year 2013. Again just coincidence that the Mayan Calendar ends in the year... 2012 and the next solar maximum is 2012-13. Is there more to this time we live in now then we might have ever suspected or even dared to think?" He was quiet for a minute then said,

Sooo... once again I say..." Jup looked at every student in the classroom for a moment before he slowly, softly said along with the class,

"Evolution = Rise of consciousness, Rise of consciousness = Union effected."

"Good, that's it."

Not a word was heard from the class as they smiled at their beloved teacher. To a student they just looked at Professor Jup Colter. He was a unique teacher and his long hair and big smile made him look like Albert Einstein. His students loved his class lectures.

"Look at this graph of the past solar maximums over the last fifty or so years. Study it for a minute and tell us all what springs out at you."

The class was quiet for a few moments before Tycho of Trancus raised his hand saying

"The double solar max Cycle 23 is the biggest sign wave on the graph, can even see it's double peek in fact.."

"Correct Sir Tycho of Trancus. A good observation is made by the young scientist today. All take note of what the good young scientist has just shared" running his pencil along the out line of the red line, over both humps of the double solar max portrayed up on the screen.

"Look at the two first humps of the double solar max, right here." His pencils outline tracing the undulations of the double solar max twenty-three cycle for the class to see.

As he was doing this he noticed the red line as it progressed showed a second hump that appeared to show the Sun attempted a double-double solar max cycle. He could see it just fell short of that astronomical feat. But it was clearly the case here.

"It has happened on rare occasions during the history of our Sun and our solar system, but it was generally agreed that a double-double solar max is a very rare phenomenon indeed. They occurred and will occur again is about all anyone really knows about them. Cycle 23 came very close to being just that" he thought to himself as he marveled at the graph.

Tycho asked Jup

"Does this mean that you think the earth might be heading into a climate flip like we have discussed. And that our intuition might be our best guide to understanding what's going on here on the Earth today."

"Yes using research coupled to an informed intuition is really the only way out from here with the dilemmas we face on the planet today. It is to big an issue for our six o'clock news cycles to get their minds around in three minute reports. The news print mediums are about selling papers, so grim and grimmer are duly represented there but not solutions for these perplexing problems we face on the planet now. So we become perplexed about our world or the corporate motivations we see around us today? Who isn't? Our research allows us an informed intuition leading us to the conclusion that our planet is in a significant cycle of biospheric and atmospheric declines and that world governments and corporations seem helpless to respond to these impending collapses."

Tycho of Trancus raised his hand again. When called, he spoke up impassioned.

"I think the significance of all this is the role that our Sun plays in our lives. Size alone would dictate that. If the Sun is the size of a small orange then Jupiter by comparison is the size of a cherry pit. I understand that Jupiter's electro magnetic field is the biggest thing in the solar system as you point out. But face it our atmosphere catches most of it like you also said and the x-rays amount to a visit to the dentist. How much of an effect is that? Now the Sun on the other hand is like a powerful reflecting cosmic jewel set out there in space and the great giver of life for us here on Earth."

Jup smiled at Tycho as he said the word "the great giver of life for us here on Earth" as he looked sky ward, acting as if he was basking in the sun's rays as Tycho continued.

"Look at what we have learned here today. It is our Sun's position at the spring equinox that tells us we have moved into a new constellation of the zodiac. And that the Sun is actually a reflector of Jupiter's x-ray energy pulses, reflecting it back to Jupiter and able to even illuminate the giant planet's north pole auroras. Those facts alone and that the Sun reflects back light from all our planets makes the Sun like a huge mirror. I wonder what the significance of that is, our sun a huge reflector in our solar system?" Tycho sat quiet now, the rest of the class looked at Jup waiting for his response.

"Yes Tycho is correct. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system yet it is still second to the sun regards it's influence in our solar system."

Joan raised her hand replying to the comments just made about the sun.

"From an individual point of view does not the moon have even a greater role to play in our lives than even the sun? Reflecting the sun's light at night, effecting our tides at full moon and even the moon as a metaphor for our own minds which are made visible by the light of our self awareness like in our dreams."

Jup smiled at Joan and said "yes thank you Joan, you make some very good points about our moon and it's affect on our earth and our minds. Full moons and madness are inextricably linked in both the records of medicine and law enforcement. Some even believe that full moons and the sun can effect the earth's tides, adding or removing water, subsequently effecting pressure on the earth's tectonic plates bringing on earthquakes. So your point is well taken Joan."

Ric Ens raised his hand and when called upon spoke about the Age of Aquarius and the period of a Consciousness Soul dawning on the Earth.

"Maybe that's the awareness our planet's people need to open up to, then like a brilliant diamond caught in the sun, or the moon illumined by the sun's light, we will discover our place as members along with the extraterrestrials of both Mars and Jupiter in a greater solar community that then hooks up with this even greater Galactic Federation."

Jup responded immediately.

"Extraterrestrials on both" emphasizing 'both' as he spoke, "Mars and Jupiter our young scientist Ric Ens theorizes. Then branching out from the interplanetary species of our solar system we join up with interstellar species." He went quiet looking at the class, then smiled at them.

The class smiled back but were silent, looking at Jup. His hair graying, scraggily, hanging down his head to cover his ears, giving him all the appearance of a younger Albert Einstein. After a long pause Jup said,

"sounds reasonable with what we have learned over the course of the year about our solar system and the greater universe eighty-eight constellations large... The wonders of a star nations community."

The class laughed at his slow infection 'wooonders' . They got the drift of his sentiments and understood the facts he presented them with during the lecture. That the universe could be self aware with intelligent life was enough to make anyone pay attention. They listened intently to what he was about to say to them.

"To think that our own body, our hearts and minds can reflect star light out, back to the stars.... like a diamond caught in the sun's light is...uplifting. Like the Sun, that reflects stars light back to their source still burning or gases gone cold, the Ages will come and go, constellations long passed through in earths rounds of 25,920 years, do once more return again. Like eternal flames, these burning returning reflections of life's lights call out to us for a response."

The class was still, still as young deer caught in the headlights glare. Not sure what he had just said, they all sat perfectly still. Then a voice called out from the back of the class room.

"Son of the Sun or Sun of the Son, either one works for me. Mine is a far ranging faith" Iroquois Sun says this while stretching his arms over his head like the arc of a diver then fans them out opening up like the tail of a peacock.

The students laugh at his gestures, finding his thoughts deep, probing for meaning. Smiling at his student Jup then from the graph of the double solar max twenty-three cycle he switched the picture on the overhead back to the aurora borealis of Jupiter's north pole. Continuing with his class lecture:

"What you are looking at on the screen good students is... evolution. Our solar system is not unique in our galaxy and is subject to the same laws as the rest of the universe. Sure there may only be one planet or world out there with life as we know it in our entire Milky Way galaxy but in the great expanses of the Universe the odds are good that intelligent life does exist elsewhere. It's just to big to be otherwise. What the laws of physics are beyond our world's Newtonian physics we are just now learning about. Einstein's world of quantum mechanics added to by the world of super- string theory has us moving into 'new world views' and thinking about our physical universe. Japanese-American Astrophysics pioneer Dr. Michio Kaku has calculated that there are other intelligent life forms in our universe and he thinks possibly even in our own galaxy. Currently we are classified as a Type Zero civilization. He calculates we are about 100 to 200 years away from being a Type One civilization according to his theory of species evolution. It is only my opinion here but I think our solar system is getting ready for one of two...inevitabilities."

"The two inevitabilities that I see clearly taking shape for us here on Earth are 1) utopia, or 2) catastrophe."

"Either we step up to the physical materializations of a Type One civilization as exemplified by the f hydrogen economy like Iceland is now unfolding, cancer research downsizing with the recognition of the immune system of the human being being the first line of defense against most if not all illness with renewed emphasis directed at diet, water, sunlight and a thankful attitude those gifts of our hearts and minds. All biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction are destroyed, banned from the planet. All war is out-lawed. A cashless society is established. " Jup was quiet for a moment looking at the class then continued.

"The second inevitability - failing to maneuver the Earth into these quantum leaps of a civilized and a unified planet this Age of Aquarius will arrive and like water come to bear on a dry planet our collective consciousness will have missed this opportunity and we will have learned nothing of the meaning of life or what a community is. Just a failed spiritual, electrical, biological experiment."

He walked around the classroom looking at the NASA photo of Jupiter's aurora at it's north pole from different vantage points in the classroom. They had the Science at NASA site up on the overhead screen clicking on the story about the 'Puzzling x-rays from Jupiter' then Jup logged off the website keeping the story up on the screen for the students review.

"Let's all of us observe Jupiter for a few more minutes on the projection screen up front." The students are quiet as they read the sites article and observe the animated gif of Jupiter's north poles aurora lighting up. Jup had taught his science classes over the years at Cabrillo Tech the Goethean mode of observation. These periods of quiet reflection were part of this learned observation technique. Five minutes later Jup breaks the quiet.

"It is so strange" he continues. "The notion that something is being communicated here with regularity, a record of an event, clear as a bell, visible to us,.. is really a gift, a jewel for the study of science and humankind."

Mr. John 'Jup' Colter asked if any of his students had some observations, questions or comments that they would like to share with the others.

"I have a question sir. Clarify for us the differences between a Type Zero and a Type One civilization." It was Tycho of Trancas asking the question.

Jup answered saying, "According to Dr. Michio Kaku a Type Zero civilization is harnessed to the wheel of oil and dead plant life for it's energy needs while a Type One civilization has harnessed the power of the planet for it's energy needs. Using the wind and windmills producing energy, while also running hydrogen processing plants and using the pure water by product for a thirsty planet's needs, using the sun's energy as well. They can control the weather and oceans while even keeping earthquakes and volcanoes in check."

"Is there a Type Two civilization and if so what are it's distinguishing features?" another student asked.

"Yes there is a Type Two civilization and a Type Three civilization as well. A Type Two civilization has learned to harness the power of it's sun or a star. A Type Three civilization is a member of the galactic federation and has colonized stars in their galaxy. Possibly their is a Type Three civilization in our own Milky Way Galaxy."

Another student raised his hand asking, "Is their any difference between Jupiter's aurora and Earth's aurora?"

"Good question. On Earth the electrons and ions are part of the solar wind or from our ionosphere. On Jupiter they are produced from volcanoes. Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active moon in the solar system. It can fill the planet's magnetosphere in ionized sulfur and oxygen. Then particles, ions from the moon Io are speeded up in the local electric fields and expand geometrically towards Jupiter's aurora zone."(1)

"Anything else?" "O.K. read up on Wormholes in your text. It there are no more questions then this class is dismissed." He put his books and papers into his large school bag then walked out of the classroom saying goodbye to his students as he left.

Once outside he walked to his car, got in and started to drive home. Leaving the college parking lot to get onto the coast highway he saw the 'slow glows' biking their way north up the highway. As he watched them he thought to himself how small they looked, like specks of dust caught in the shimmering waves of heat floating off the highway. He recalled a poem from his childhood, 'Three Gypsies' by Lenau. As he drove onto the highway he recited the poem aloud.

Three Gypsies

Three old gypsies once I found
Under a willow - tree - weeping;
When my wagon in sandy ground
Over the moorland was creeping.

Held the one for his own delight
Fiddle-bow in his fingers,
Played in the evening's rosy light
Many a song that lingers.

Held the second a pipe in his hand,
Watching the smoke that receded,
Happy as if in the whole wide land
Nothing at all were needed.

And the third contentedly slept,
While his guitar lay near him;
Over its strings a wind's breath crept,
Dreams were sufficient to cheer him.

And in their clothing carried the three
Holes and bright-colored patches.
But they scorned, so fiery and free,
All earth's destiny - scratches.

Gypsies three showed me this that day:
Is life dark? Do not mourn it!
Well, one can play, smoke, sleep it away,
Thrice can despise and scorn it!

Driving onward, I long looked back,
Musing on Gypsy races,
Long wild locks, unkempt and black,
Dark brown eyes and faces.

Soon he reached the ramp to Santa Monica Bl. passing under the great native Sycamore trees lining the streets soon he arrived at his small, three-bedroom stucco house in the beautiful coast town. His front yard gardens were filled with yellow and orange California Poppies and a small scrub Oak tree grew just off the front porch. He greeted his wife and children as he walked into the house.

That night the Colter family ate dinner together and talked about the days happenings. Io and Europa attended Franklin Middle School the local public school just down the street from their house. They were busy this year, Io with a fun Botany class that was growing garden plots and Europa with her Biology class building a terrarium for a pair of green tree frogs. They asked if Martin Porres their friend was taking his Astronomy Class this semester.

"Yes Martin Porres is taking the class this semester" to which his children cheered. They loved their friend very much, and called out:

"Dogan Sirius.. Martin Porres!"

"Alright children time to eat your asparagus.

"You mean from the "gas- giant's patch to our pants' asparagus, the more you eat the more you..."

"That's enough Europa. It's very good for you and it's from our garden, so just be thankful for the gifts of Mother Nature and don't complain."

Io called out laughing: "about gas in your pants Europa."

"Now that's enough Io." The children in fact liked the asparagus but their embarrassment with their occasional gastric reactions to it was a souse of some embarrassment for them. They coped with humor and Mari understood that.

After dinner the children finished their homework and Jup did some research in his study. At nine o'clock the children went to bed. Soon after Mari and Jup turned in for the night as well. They both fell into a deep sleep soon after laying down.

Jup dreamed he was with his wife and children celebrating Mari's birthday just a few weeks before, amid much laughter, kissing her warm round face with cheeks warm as goose down pillows. Then the dream scene changes with the children running in the gardens asparagus patch which was as tall as them, farting and laughing to their heart's content. They call out: 'the gas giant's patch in our pants' 'smells like gas but so good for you mother says.' Then Jup is sitting by his fireplace with his family feeling that there is 'no fireside like your own fireside'. Sitting in the fires glow the dream ends.

At eleven that night Jup got up and went to the bathroom. He poured himself a glass of water then walking back to his bedroom he remembered a technique that a friend of his wife named Adrian had shared with them for remembering out of the body experiences. As he sat on the bed he decided to try the technique. While drinking the water Jup looked up at the bedroom ceiling with only his eyes moving, his head remained fixed straight ahead facing the bedroom wall. His eyes however now at a ninety-degree angle looked at the spray painted ceiling of Jupiter's gray clouds, blue oceans and ice fields reflecting back into his uplifted gaze. He drinks half the glass of water then as instructed he sets the glass on the night stand next to their bed, all while his eyes remain fixed on the bedroom's ceiling and Jupiter's image. Then switching off the small night light he gets back under his covers, laying there thinking about his beloved planet Jupiter.

Asleep in about fifteen minutes he is immediately out of his body looking at himself and his wife Mari, both of them sleeping soundly. He looks at the celestial ceiling painting and then in an instant is moving into Jupiter's world set out before him this night like a huge park fit for exploration and now a point of destination. He smiled and said to himself,

"I'm going to Jupiiter" looking back one last time at their sleeping forms, as he was carried along in his drop of dream experience into world's of potential. He saw a sleeping Jup smiling wide as he turned his gaze to gray thick air rolling in clouds over huge waterfalls deep in the Congo world of this Garden of Eden. Elephants, lions and the native inhabitants of this place moved in and out of the thick jungles. Then he became aware of Martin Porres standing before him. Somewhat relieved to see Martin he called out to him,

"Yo - Dogan Sirius... Martin it's you!"...

Martin his student from Cabrillo Trade Tech laughed as he looked at Jup. The fourteen year old African-American, his hair in dread locks, dressed in a brown frock up to his thighs and barefoot. He wore a string of shells around his neck. Together they walked in this dark, great forest in the Earth's past some fifty thousand years ago. From the caves many fires illumined the figures of the Cro-Magnon walking in the shadows, the lights flickering shadows and forms passing in and out of the bright fires light. Modern human and it's many civilizations to follow moved about.

"See Jup, here is the spiritual world, free from the gravity of Earth, this is the 'conscious sub-atomic world'. Here is the dream bark of our D.N.A. code Professor. You can feel the stuff of this place, the fineness of it brushing your face as we walk along the river. Feel it Jup? we are made of that fine waterfalls mist rising into the warm astral lights of the comet's tail sparkling the mirror matter into the 'invisible world' of 'dark matter and energy'.. Remember Professor Foot of Australia, this is his 'dark matter universe of mirror matter'. It's real Professor and you are here now." (15)

Standing beside this great waterfall I catch a large meteor falling overhead that seemed to look a lot like the meteor I had seen with my family just the night before. As by reflex I hold my hand up to the falling body closing my fist to judge the objects size. The meteor was as large as my fist as it moved slowly overhead. It was the dark rich brown, and misshapen metal object with that eerie orange red glow seething from it's core that so scared Europa the night before. Behind it the column of billowy evaporated gases and white ice water clouds sparkled like mica and silicon chips caught in the light of the meteor's gas glow. Then I heard Martin speaking to me.

"As you step through the waterfalls mist and the meteor's mirror matter into the dark matter of these 'invisible micro-sub-small' worlds Professor, you will see nothing but dark matters glowing outlines of this 'invisible world' at first. Your vision will adjust to this 'invisible world' then you will see the new Earth Jupiter the world of our futures Professor. Progressing all the way from our Creation through our evolution here on the Earth to finally find that shared meaning of life in the multi-verse of Creation."

"Yo - Dogan Sirius... serious as blue diamonds and stars!,.. see ya Professor. Stay real small in there, helps with your navigation."

I turned away from him and walked into the fog of the waterfalls. Mixed in the mist of the meteor's dust clouds swirling like irregularly spinning tops around me in a boiling froth. I looked down to a singular still point just a step away at my feet that was illumined like a spot light and about three feet wide. As I stepped into this still spot of light a huge beautiful world opened before me. It was just as Martin had told me. Dark with just faint outlines of lights, the dark energy strung out like moisture drops caught on the spider's wet morning web. Like flacks of mica sparkling, flying floating in this sea all around me I understood what Martin meant by 'stay small'.

As my vision adapted to the darkness I could see great wet clouds of this meteor dust mingling in the rain filling the air, sparkling like billions of fish scales swimming along in this wide river of air and water. There I was, as incased in a drop of clear rain water, sailing in the great clouds of this 'invisible' world. It was so cool in this new Earth Jupiter world's upper layer's of atmosphere that I was actually cold at first. Then I could see for the first time the giant planet. It looked like our own solar system but with many more bodies circling it, controlled by its gravity. Comets and asteroids filled the great spaces with the great billowing clouds rising, swelling like the waves of a great ocean. As I fell through the sky deeper into this world, the clouds seemed to move even faster carrying me along into a great descent. The distinct order of ammonia that had at first filled the air was now replaced with the fresh scented atmosphere of cool ice, water and hydrogen.

Falling like a drop of rain I had not the slightest sensation of fear but rather began seeing intelligent life forms working all around me in this world. At first they were mostly invisible to me but I could feel that something was going on all around me. A feeling of good will or even...love streamed from and through this atmosphere of water and ice, this immense fluid world of hydrogen, oxygen and gases.

Aerial photograph © 2002 by Lucy Pringle located Aug 15, 2002 over the hill from the great cathedral in Winchester, south of England - alien carrying a digitally coded dish

They looked like the 'g forces' had shaped their features, angled, small slits for nostrils, yet their heads big, rounded with chiseled chins and brows. Their stature from what I could make out was running about four to five feet tall, most thin, yet a few were as plump as honey bees. Shape shifting forms first out of focus moving around my bubble then came into clear view before me. Small individual hominid shapes, fixed expressions on their faces, great big, seemingly emotionless black eyes, looked almost like 'skinny telle tubys' in their shape as they floated by me in this new Earth Jupiter. All around us it was dark, yet sparkling gray clouds full of this meteor dust was allowing me to see into the world's invisible darkness. I could see a vast world unfolding before me now. It was full of life forms, bees, dragon flies, sparkling, glowing in the comets dust that filled the clouds. Floating and flying through the atmosphere flashing on and off, anti- matter, matter, visible then invisible, the insects seemed to do the labor in this world. And nothing seemed fixed, or not exactly fixed, rather it was a gray, fuzzy kind of fixed as these insect clouds would move off and in great swarms of activity go about building huge electric webs in the sky. The outlines of these great forms were like irregular halos I could see but what they did I did not know. I observed that individuality was present in these beings and that the animal kingdom of the insects seemed condensed into a collective consciousness that communicated with and worked for these beings and like a single great wave of new matter they surged to (5) the task at hand, then returning back to a stillness or pause, clustering again around the conscious 'tele tubby' beings who seemed to run this world and were not in the least bit threatening. Then again as the beings of this world had an idea, the insects like wild animals would surge into a collective activity, pulsing into collective mass action once again.

This was the new Earth Jupiter that Martin Porres had led me to, this-new world of robust life in what I could only describe as a world of 'astralized fluids', 'comet dust'. Caught in this comet's dust were these mirror worlds, I could see the intelligent life forms moving around in these gray clouds. An incredible array of colors in the light spectrum were apparently used as healing tools by these beings. Set beside huge pools of a blue green algae the rising gases were trapped in huge domes that used the hydrogen mists to power entire complexes, waterfalls filled the air with ozone smelling odors as the water run was caught in great catches that looked like great calm reflecting lakes. Then I began to observe that these: "aren't like the solids, liquids and gases that we learned about in school. Odd as it seemed now they were not even vaporous, not hard, not fluid. Indeed, there are no ordinary words to describe them because they come from another world. More a phenomenon of physics than any resemblance to earthly life forms." (5)

"And the odor in this world 'pouring out of them something that I could only identify as 'the fragrance of blissful love' mixed in ozone saturating even the rain drop bubbles mist I was sailing in. (4) It was mingled in the physical aspects of this world, along with the hydrogen and sulfuric acids, all of it mixing in great billowy clouds all around me. Then the fragrance seemed strangely familiar to me, I thought of Mari for a moment. Then I stood on a clearing upon a great snow plateau, great brown rocks with beautiful colorful bands running through them covered the hill sides. Terraced gardens were being maintained by what seemed to me a hundred or more of these beings. They looked at me and communicated amongst themselves about my presence as they continued working. I noticed that the plant life grew at a much faster rate than on earth and their leaf structures had a far greater variety with fruits and vegetables of every color found in the rainbow. The air was full of this fine mica like comets dust, I saw bees and dragon flies swarming all about. The wind was blowing like a gale high up above, yet it seemed very still here in this clearing where I stood with all this activity going on around me. These conscious beings then seemed to be studying me. I saw one of them, with a thin, sharp featured face like a bee stepping forward. It was holding what looked like a round shield, or a dish. As he came closer I could see that it had a circular digital code engraved on it. It carried the disc on it's left shoulder. When it was ten feet from me it stopped and in what sounded like a mechanized voice spoke to me in English saying:

"The future success of Earth's mission was dependent upon the following circumstances occurring. That love will stream forth from all things and it is the mission of the Earth evolution to develop this love and that love will flow through everything just as wisdom now reigns in everything upon the Earth" (4)

As if pulled from a whirlpool, Jup awoke.

As the rays of sunrise poured into the Colter's house, the morning light filled Jup's eyes as he looked out the bedroom window. He repeated the technique he started the night before, finishing the glass of water that sat beside his bed. Then turning to his now stirring wife he said gently,

"I was there last night, I remember being there."

Sleepily she replied, "where?"

"Jupiter. It's beautiful Mari...beautiful... I used Adrian's technique for remembering out of the body experiences during our sleep just before going to bed last night. Then I saw the 'Dogan Sirius' Martin Porres standing at the gate to this world of ...mist or astral fluids, mingled in the dust of a meteor's dust. As I entered this world there were intelligent beings that I could hardly make out at first but were full of this fragrance... like a fragrance of blissful love is the only way I can describe it Mari."

"Really! I can't seem to remember anything when I do that technique. Astral mist made from meteor dust? sounds possible, who is this 'dog star' by the way? You really think you were on Jupiter last night and communicated with intelligent beings there? The reek of sulfuric acid was," smiling as Mari said it, 'blissful love'. All in your dreams, right?"

"Not exactly but yes. I think I actually astral traveled somewhere between here and there, a new Earth Jupiter world full of gardens and water surrounded in this... astral mist of meteor dust is the only way I can explain it Mari." They lay in bed for a moment, neither saying a word before Mari spoke again.

'Gardens and water, astral mist made from meteor dust, and a dog star communicated with you'? Jup just shook his head to his wife's question.

"Don't tell the kids just yet, I think we need some growing into this first."

"I understand."

Turning to his wife in the early morning light Jup puts his arm around Mari's shoulder kissing her cheek gently. Slowly he moves his warm body towards her until they become as one. Held in each other's embrace they begin to make love as only lovers can. Jup's mind once again is filled with the scent of his nocturnal journey. Ten minutes later 'the fragrance of blissful love' fills the air enlivening their senses and hot beating hearts. Together they experience world's beyond coming into focus, then opening like the lotus lily releasing a fragrance that fills the air with the unmistakable scent of 'blissful love'...they lay still holding each other for long moments afterwards. Then begin gently rubbing their warm cheeks together, felt 'soft as goose feather pillows' Jup thought. Finally Mari, breathing deep, says to Jup: 'now that is the fragrance of blissful love', as they both laughed loud. Jup got up to take a shower. Once in the bathroom he hears a knock on the door. 'Come in'. It was his son Io.

As he walks in he looks at his father and says, "Dad I saw Jupiter last night in my dreams." Jup smiled at his son then said, " beautiful Io, very beautiful."

As he walked into the kitchen his twelve year old daughter Europa asked: "Good night's sleep Dad?"

Jup looked at Europa and for a moment flashed to his journey last night, then replied, "just fine Europa and you, was your sleep sound?"

"Yes father."

As Jup drove to Carrillo Trade Tech in his white 1975 Dodge Dart for his Celestial Mechanics and Navigation class he thought about his dreams last night. Martin, the great waterfalls and volcanoes and Jupiter, he had seen them all, sure as he was now driving to his teaching job. Seemed so real, the conscious beings swarming together seemed like a bee hive of life to him. Driving down the ramp to the coast highway he spotted Davey Crocket an actor driving up the ramp, age seemed his mistress. Then he saw the producer with his ''Star' plates, love it. As he continued driving up the coast he saw Bo slowly flash by as he drifted in and out of his nocturne journey visiting new Earth Jupiter last night. As he pulled into the parking lot he noticed a school of Bobwhite quail running into the chaparral thicket and sage brush disappearing, squeaking softly.

When everyone was in the class room he passed out an Introduction to a theory by a Russian Scientist Dr. Alexey N. Dmitriev. The title of the paper was Planetophysical State of The Earth and Life, it was published in Russian ten years ago originally. It had recently been translated into the English just a few year earlier. The students take the next twenty minutes to read the document quietly, questions were taken at the front of the class with Jup answering them quietly while sitting at his lab table.

Planetophysical State of The Earth and Life, Dr. Alexey N. Dmitriev

Alterations of the Earth are becoming irreversible. Strong evidence exists that these transformations are being caused by highly charged material and energetic non-uniformity's in anisotropic interstellar space which have broken into the interplanetary area of our Solar System. This "donation" of energy is producing hybrid processes and excited energy states in all planets, as well as the Sun. Effects here on Earth are to be found in the acceleration of the magnetic pole shift, in the vertical and horizontal ozone content distribution, and in the increased frequency and magnitude of significant catastrophic climatic events. There is growing probability that we are moving into a rapid temperature instability period similar to the one that took place 10,000 years ago. The adaptive responses of the biosphere, and humanity, to these new conditions may lead to a total global revision of the range of species and life on Earth. It is only through a deep understanding of the fundamental changes taking place in the natural environment surrounding us that politicians, and citizens a like, will be able to achieve balance with the renewing flow of PlanetoPhysical states and processes.

Introduction

Current, in process, geological, geophysical, and climatical alterations of the Earth are becoming more, and more, irreversible. At the present time researchers are revealing some of the causes which are leading to a general reorganization of the electro-magnetosphere (the electromagnetic skeleton) of our planet, and of its climatic machinery. A greater number of specialists in climatology, geophysics, planetophysics, and heliophysics are tending towards a cosmic causative sequence version for what is happening. Indeed, events of the last decade give strong evidence of unusually significant heliospheric and planetophysic transformations [1,2]. Given the quality, quantity, and scale of these transformations we may say that:

The climatic and biosphere processes here on Earth (through a tightly connected feedback system) are directly impacted by, and linked back to, the general overall transformational processes taking place in our Solar System. We must begin to organize our attention and thinking to understand that climatic changes on Earth are only one part, or link, in a whole chain of events taking place in our Heliosphere.

These deep physical processes, these new qualities of our physical and geological environment, will impose special adaptive challenges and requirements for all life forms on Earth. Considering the problems of adaptation our biosphere will have with these new physical conditions on Earth, we need to distinguish the general tendency and nature of the changes. As we will show below, these tendencies may be traced in the direction of planet energy capacity growth (capacitance), which is leading to a highly excited or charged state of some of Earth's systems. The most intense transformations are taking place in the planetary gas-plasma envelopes to which the productive possibilities of our biosphere are timed. Currently this new scenario of excess energy run-off is being formed, and observed:

In the ionosphere by plasma generation.
In the magnetosphere by magnetic storms.
In the atmosphere by cyclones.

This high-energy atmospheric phenomena, which was rare in the past, is now becoming more frequent, intense, and changed in its nature. The material composition of the gas-plasma envelope is also being transformed. End of Introduction.

After the class reads the paper's Introduction Jup begins his lecture for the day.

"1.0 - Transformation of Our Solar System- has the following observations about our sun's twenty-third solar cycle and the 'interplanetary environment' with the 'growth of Jupiter's systems heliospheric function'.(2) From his paper section 1.3.3 'Concerning the energy of solar cosmic rays', Dr. Alexey N. Dmitriev writes," the very beginning of this cycle provided evidence of the large-scale events to come; especially in relation to an increase in the frequency of super-flashes. The situation has become extremely serious due to the growth in the transmitting qualities of the interplanetary environment and the growth of Jupiter's systems heliospheric function." After pausing a moment he asked his students,

"What does this mean to the average person driving up and down the coast now? Not very much, right?.. wrong! We are, all of us, being changed molecularly and biologically everyday now with "a growth in the velocity, quality, quantity, and energetic power of our Solar System's Heliospheric processes."(2) These charged particles streaming from our sun, the stars and planets of our solar system, even the universe itself, all are changing and having their way with our planet Earth now,... and us." He was quiet as he walked around the room.

"I had you read the Introduction of Dr. Alexey N. Dmitriev's paper 'Planetophysical State of The Earth and Life' to give you some background for this idea. In my Astronomy class several days ago which some of you take I showed this NASA photo of Jupiter" he got the site online and showed the x-ray photo of Jupiter's auroas again for those who did not take his Astronomy call. "I stated that I think we are looking at evolution here with this picture of Jupiter... and I do believe it is just that my good friends,... and we are all part of it.... know it or not." The class was quite as his facial expressions now queried his students seeking out questions or comments. A student finally raised his hand then asked Jup,

"So is this good news or bad news, you know the Dr. Alexey N. Dmitriev's paper 'Planetophysical State of The Earth and this beacon from Jupiter?"

"Civilization can now move up to the next level of cooperation as we catch this wave of transformation or humanity can lose this great opportunity and may not be had again for a very long time into our collective futures. One school of thinking says that we might just roll back, devolution rather than evolution, to a more primitive state of affairs here on Earth in the future."

Adam Waters raised his hand then said, "So what this paper says and the phenomenon of Jupiter's north pole lighting up every forty-five minutes, you think that maybe this is some sort of evolutionary beacon alerting us about something that is happening in our solar system now and has been since at least 1979 when it was first detected by NASA?"

"Yes I do Mr. Adam's Ale" smiling as he said it, then continuing. "It is our medium sized sun, the four-and-a-half billion year old star  (3) and Jupiter's north pole pulsing, illumined by the suns solar flares that has caught my attention." He looked at the class, his expression begins to get serious as he begins his lecture again.

"The earth's electro magnetic field which has been getting weaker now for the last thirty years. Our compass needles fixed on the north polestar's position by the iron in our own rocks and the volcanic magma found in the oceans. As this magma cools and fixes lines of the magnetic field of Earth in the lava beds of the oceans, it is here that scientists have seen the magnetic pole flip recorded in the ocean floor of hardened lava rocks. What happens to our aircraft and the pilots flying those planes? Pole flips have happened many times. In fact every 500 thousand years here on Earth it occurs. What happens with militaries, mariners and fishermen, pilots, satellite techs, G.P.S. monitors, those manning EMP [Electromagnetic Pulse] missile sites aimed at other countries satellites, etc.. when the pole shift in the electro magnetic field of the Earth' happens? Are we prepared for such an event? And the cancer rates that go up due to increased radiation exposure, would a heads up be of benefit for us?" He looked at the class long and hard. He was bone chilling serious now.

"Yo - Dogan Sirius, serious as blue diamonds Professor!" someone finally called out to him. He smiled continuing with his lecture.

"Is life protected from the solar bursts that are raining in on us everyday now? If we don't have an electro magnetic field for three days for our protection what might happen? Cancer rates will increase, and we will we find ourselves in harms way if we work outdoors? These are the questions being asked now in the scientific community and found in the literature. You, as hands on technicians in this bold new technology that the world is evolving to, will have to think about these natural phenomenon happening on your watch. Your livelihood and company or government might depend upon your understanding, and handling them effectively in time as they are occurring" looking around the classroom as he said this.

"Let me read the quote from Dr. Alexey N. Dmitriev's Introduction to you once again."

"It is only through a deep understanding of the fundamental changes taking place in the natural environment surrounding us that politicians, and citizens a like, will be able to achieve balance with the renewing flow of PlanetoPhysical states and processes." The class was quiet for a minute. Then Jup spoke again.

"The renewing flow of PlanetoPhysical states and processes,' and 'the adaptive responses of the biosphere, and humanity, to these new conditions may lead to a total global revision of the range of species and life on Earth'.

"Those my friends are the challenges we face now and for the foreseeable future here on the planet Earth. These are the changes from our slower material physical world vibrations into the faster electro-magnetic frequencies that are occurring now in our solar system. We are moving from a physical-chemical world into an electro-magnetic world. Just look at all the technology we are enmeshed in, couple that with the activity of the sun and the effects it has on the planet's ubiquitous electronic webs of technology and our own health and you better understand what we are facing as a planet."

"Any other questions or comments about what we have discussed today? If not then let me close class early with the following quote."

"Evolution=Rise of consciousness, Rise of consciousness=Union effected", it is from the now passed Jesuit priest and scientist Pierre Teilhard De Chardin in his book "The Human Phenomenon".

He was quiet for a moment then dismissed the class..

"You all have a nice weekend and enjoy this great weather. Any of you in my Technology for the twenty-first century class next week please read Chapter Twelve in your textbook on Alternative Energy with emphasis on 'Windmills, Electricity production to hydrogen power production'. If you are in my Astronomy class please read Chapter Eight on Wormholes for class next week... 'surf's up!' ". He figured reading Dmitriev's writing was enough for a days class work and being Friday catching the two o'clock ride out at Malibu was good for class moral.

As he drove home that warm afternoon he noticed once again how beautiful it was. The great Sycamore trees towered above the streets, chrysanthemums and geraniums filled the many planter boxes. The vegetation seemed animated, alive to being appreciated. Buildings, trees, gardens and lawns all sharp, clean like a dream world, sparkling as a wind blown day. Then he thought of new Earth Jupiter... seeing the massive volcanoes and the great water falls of the Congo, the sulfuric gases swirling like great rivers... the rolling, returning cells of light, pouring out from the volcanoes... He then noticed how beautiful the passing buildings colors were. He wondered how any one could get complacent in such a place, seemed beyond the scope of Jup's mind that afternoon as he drove home to be with his family.

At dinner that night Jup asked his children what they had learned at school this week. The twelve year old Europa speaks up saying,'

'El Niño's warm waters are replacing La Niña's cold waters now in the world's ocean currents. That's what I learned in Science this week Dad."

Jup was quite for a minute thinking about what Europa had just said to him. Mari smiled at Europa then said to the children;

"alright let's get that asparagus, fresh out of the garden, eaten please."

Io yelled: "fresh out of the 'gas- giant's patch' " They all laughed at this old family joke.

The children get to eating while Jup sits quietly eating, thinking a loud to himself.

"This last solar maximum cycle was double peaked and only now beginning to burn out. The Earth's weather patterns are changing rapidly as winter did not know it was spring in the northern hemisphere and where it did heat records were being set. All while world governments still pushed for nineteenth century energy solutions with out a word of mention given to hydrogen production, ethanol corn fuels or even windmills. Algae ponds was a Berkley day dream and the water solution with hydrogen production just idle speculation. It seemed to him that children's minds were fluid enough to grasp both the changes happening on the planet now and the relatively simple solutions for fixing these immense problems now facing the planet."

Sometimes Jup felt like a small baby squid floating in some great foam of a celestial volcanoes eruption, bubbling up, swimming along with billions of conscious white light cells in a river of life.

"Yes Europa El Niño's warming currents are returning again. You are correct El Niño is the result of warming ocean currents. Very good young lady, I think we have a scientist in the making here. Keep up the good work Europa."

Io the younger brother had noting to add, just smiling at his older sister affectionately as he ate his pasta and asparagus.

After dinner the children finished their homework and Jup did some research in his study. At nine o'clock the children went to bed. Soon after Mari and Jup turned in for the night as well. They both fell into a deep sleep soon after laying down.

Jup dreamed he was with his wife and children celebrating Mari's birthday just a few weeks before, amid much laughter, kissing her warm round face with cheeks warm as goose down pillows. Then the dream scene changes with the children running in the gardens asparagus patch which was as tall as them, farting and laughing to their heart's content. They call out: 'the gas giant's patch in our pants' 'smells like gas but so good for you mother says.' Then Jup is sitting by his fireplace with his family feeling that there is 'no fireside like your own fireside'. Sitting in the fires glow the dream ends.

Saturday morning

That morning as the family was eating breakfast Europa noticed that Poncho their dachshund was confused running around in the living room in circles and then did something it had not done since it was a puppy, it peed on the carpet. Io laughed as Europa called out,

'gross Poncho what is wrong with you dog?"

The old dachshund, gray around the muzzle did not seem to respond to Europa's disgust, in fact it did not seem to know who was even talking to him. But what it did next was really what caught everyone's attention. Poncho the family pet for twelve years ran into the back door completely missing the doggy door that was set into the back door for his use. He miscalculated the doggy door entirely and now lay flat on his stomach barking at the door.

"Something is wrong with Poncho dad, can't seem to keep his balance either" Europa said.

Io spoke up now and said better take him to the Porres dad, let them fix him."

Jup called the dog, "Poncho, come her boy, come here Poncho." The dog lay on the floor not moving, just staring at the door. "Poncho, come here" but the dog just laid there not moving a muscle and ignoring all the prompting from Jup to come to him. Then Poncho finally got up and walked to the corner of the kitchen and seemed to get stuck in the corner unable to walk to the table where the Colter's were sitting or even remove himself from the corner. He was in fact stuck in the corner now, boxed in, unable to figure his dilemma out.

"Look dad Poncho is stuck" Io called out to his parents.

Mari turned to Jup and said I think Europa is right Jup I think we better take Poncho to see the Porres I think he is sick."

"I think you are right Mari" he called out to the dog once again "Poncho, come here boy" but the dog did not respond to his call and in fact did not even seem to recognize Jup or the others.

"Alright maybe Martin will be there today, it's Saturday and sometimes he helps his dad at the office" Io said. "Martin might be there" Europa said excited as Io with this possibility.

After breakfast they climbed in their white 1975 Dodge Dart and drove down to the veterinarian office of Dr. Luther Porres an African- American who has been the Colter's vet for Poncho's entire life. He was seventy years old, a tall man with gray hair, many thought he looked like an actor. It was a small office with a lab and operating room in the back of the building. As they walked in Martin Porres was sweeping the floor and preparing the office for the days business.. He was fourteen years old and helped his father at the clinic on Saturdays. He knew the Colters and greeted them warmly. Then turned to the old dachshund.

"Poncho you dog you," Poncho did not respond to his salutations. "Dog you must be sick." "Let me get my dad. Martin walks back to the back of the pet clinic and calls his father Dr.Luther Porres. They return back to the front of the office together and find Poncho standing at the front door of the clinic, hinge side, scratching at the door to get out.

"Well what do we have here Poncho, let's have a look here" Dr Luther Porres says gently. He calls the dog but no response, still standing at the hinge side of the door Poncho continues scratching, trying to get out.

Martin Porres calls, "Poncho what's up dog, you don't like us anymore, someone hurt your feelings, you hiding in the shadows of your mind now dog?"

"Oh no, look dad, Poncho is peeing on the floor" Io said with a smile on his face. Something about Poncho's standing at the wrong side of the door, peeing on the clinic floor struck nine-year-old Io as funny... but it was really more sad and Io knew that. The little gray dachshund was not it's self today.

Dr. Porres turned to the family and said Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome (CDS) or what we call Alzheimer's with humans. What Poncho is going through now is a failing of his brain and nervous system. It is brought on by physical changes in their brains, a chemical imbalance."

Jup looked at the Martins and said, "you mean Poncho is suffering from Alzheimer's disease like many of our seniors in the country today?"

"He shows all the symptoms Jup. I presume he has been house broken for a long time now correct?"

"Yes that's right, but this morning he urinated in the house for the first time in I can't remember how long."

"Sleeping more during the day, ignoring you when you call him, not recognizing you or the family when he looks at you, not sucking up for petting or snacks?"

"That's right Luther, do you really think he has Alzheimer's disease? I would have never thought dogs could come down with that."

"Man's best friend can come down with anything that his master can contract unfortunately" Dr. Porres replied." Can you leave him with us for the weekend and I will give him some blood and urine tests and a physical to see if we have a correct diagnosis but from the looks of it I'm pretty sure that is the problem."

"Sure Doc whatever you think is best" Jup replied.

"Martin, clean up Poncho's mess and put her in the examination room would you son."

"O.K. dad" Martin quickly went to the utility closet and retrieved a mop. As he mopped up the floor he was singing under his breath a song he had written. He bent down to pet Poncho and for the first time the dog recognized someone. He barked at Martin and began wagging his tail, then Poncho looked at the Colter's and recognizing them ran up to Io and jumped up on his leg, wagging his tail quickly now and looked him right in the eye.

"Look dad Poncho knows who we are now."

"Well I be" Jup said, "seems Martin has healed our little friend for the time being."

"I will prescribe a drug for Poncho that will increase the dopamine in his brain. It will not hurt him and will help if the symptoms return."

"Happens all the time" little Martin said, "I have a way with the animals don't I dad?"

"Yes you do son, yes you do."

"Oh Mr. Coulter I was wondering if you could make a donation to a charity that I collect money for. It's the 'Teach a Child to Read Foundation' a very good cause and does help a lot of inner city children who have reading disabilities."

"Sure miracle worker, you helped old Poncho, so fair is fair, I will gladly help with your reading drive."

"Thank you sir, I appreciate it very much." Martin smiled at the Colter's and then turned to Poncho saying," come here Poncho" the dog ran over to Martin and rubbed up against his legs. "See he's all better, just needed some attention and the 'light of love' right dad.

"Right you are Martin."

Europa and Io called Poncho and he quickly ran over to them and barked. Martin continued with his tasks happy that Poncho was well again as Jup fished some money out of his wallet and put it in a jar that sat on the counter. The sign in front of the jar reads, 'Reading is feeding minds for life'

As the Colters were driving home when Tycho of Trancus pulled into the parking lot. He got out walking into the clinic, he was concerned about his Sun Conyer pet bird. As he entered the clinic he immediately met Martin Porres. He was sweeping when they greeted each other warmly. Tyco immediately said,

"Maritin you got to heal Picas here. His skull is bruised, caught him in the dumb as doors car door if you can picture that, gland I didn't chop his head off.."

Handing the bird gently to Martin he stepped right up to his friend and closely watched what he had seen so many times before. Martin would heal the animal. He had a knack, a gift for these things, it was well known through out the local community. It first came to peoples attention when the animals that stayed at the Porres Vet Clinic over night seemed to have a high rate of cure, seemingly miraculous. Martin Porres was the fourteen year old healer of animals who worked at his fathers Vet Clinic and a fellow classmate at Cabrillo Trade Tech.

"Picas has a contusion running along both sides of his skull just above his hearing lobes, lucky there, probably where he got banged by the door when flying the coop." He was quiet and held the birds head in his hands. He went into a prayerful state, being quiet for three minutes, slowly massaging the birds head. Tycho was quiet and watched his friend proceed to heal his very injured bird.

The bird began to move slowly in his hands. It slowly raised his head and looked at Martin. Martin rubbed his head and handed him back to Tycho of Trancus. The bird jumped up on his shoulder as Tycho hugged his young friend shouting out loud,

'St Francis got nothing on you, Dogan Sirius serious a blue diamond stars! Martin pointed to the fund jar smiling at his old friend.

"No problem man I will make a donation right now" Putting ten dollars in the jar he said to his friend while he was leaving, "thanks Martin,

"Yo - Dogan Sirius, serious as blue diamond stars!" Tycho says as he leaves the Porres's clinic with his pet Sun Conyer bird.

Martin smiled at his friend as he closed the door behind him, then he started sweeping the floors again. Seemed that's usually what you saw him doing when ever you went there, that or holding, petting or holding his hands over animals. Martin had the gift of healing animals, someday he would even raise a dead man back to life.

As the Colters ate dinner that night Europa asked Jup to tell them a story about his childhood growing up in Hollywood and in particularly his memories about Albert Einstein. Her father liked to tell of his childhood growing up in Hollywood during the Fifties. He grew up across the street from Walt Disney's business manager and just down the street from Albert Einstein's financial advisor. As a result they were in the neighborhood occasionally.

"I remember one day walking home from St. Ambrose school. I was ten yrs old walking the three blocks to school now with my friends. On the way home one afternoon just around the corner from my house I stopped to look at some robins pulling worms out of the neighbor's front yard. They were so active, pulling the worms up from their wormholes by the bucket it seemed to me. As I was watching them this elderly gentlemen joined me, standing at the fence to watch the hungry robins.

"Unable to hold my excitement I said to him, 'they are so hungry!' "

As I lived around the corner I was comfortable speaking to the old man knowing he was probably not going to catch me if I had to run from him. In this beautifully landscaped neighborhood of pomegranate, fig, date and lemon trees running through yards that had front yards full of Birds of Paradise and sweet flowering gardenia bushes my father told me and my three younger brothers to be cautious around strangers. In a minute or two it was apparent that he was a kind person

"Yes the sun is warming the ground up and the worms are coming up to have a look and when they stick their skinny little heads out of their wormholes they become easy food for our friends" he said to me.

"Looks like the robins are hungry" I said back laughing.

"Yes like strings of spaghetti." He was quiet for a moment then he said to me, "the Sun is so nice today John."

"I was surprised that he knew my name as I answered him."

"Yes the Sun is wonderful, I lay in it at the beach when my parents take me to the ocean or when we go to a swimming pool.... I love to play and lay in the Sun"

"I watched the robins, watching their every rubbery seizure." The children laughed.

"I had a little rhyme I used to say as I watched the robins pull up the worms from their wormholes, can't remember it now. But I remember the robins pulling up big, fat worms, like I could not believe. I was surprised by the robins complete success with their hunt catching the fat squirming worms pulled from the bright, well tended, green lawn. The robin's red chests announced that spring had arrived so summer was not far behind."

"Then I remember he said to me:

"Yes I too love the Sun John. It warms the earth feeding the red chested robins their worms they pulled from the worms holes."

"He would say this to me many times over the next couple of years whenever I would see him. I was always happy to respond that I too loved the sun, its warmth and especially loved seeing the bright robins catching their worms."

Europa asked Jup "did you ever think he might be the scientist Albert Einstein dad?"

"No Europa, I had no idea who he was at the time. When I was ten my father told me that he was Albert Einstein. I think he talked to my mom once and told her that I was very bright....and I think she hated me from that day forward" he said laughing. "She never mentioned his comments to my father, just kept them as her own little secret I guess."

They laughed, eating quietly now. Io spoke up after a few minutes. "Dad tell about the pine trees."

Jup smiled at his son and said sure Io. "I was walking home one day and there he was I could see him standing there a long ways away. Blue sweater and great head of gray hair looked like a lamp post standing at the corner of Orange Grove and Selma. As I approached he greeted me."

"Hello John, how was school?" he said. "I was familiar now with his question as he asked it whenever I saw him. Answering quickly I said: "Fine sir" then asked "you looking at the robins too?"

'Oh yes John and the beautiful trees' "he said this excitedly and smiled at me looking back down the tree lined street as he smiled. Then he said to me,"

"It looks like the Apian Way John, such pretty old Pine trees you have along the road here. These trees could be older than me John."

"He smiled at me, his long gray hair moving gently in the breeze. Turning again he looked down the street at the four large pine trees. They had thick trunks and great limbs that over the years had grown to hang over the sidewalk."

"I smiled and looked at the trees with him for a few minutes before continuing on my walk home. Eight years later I would visit Rome, Italy with my family on a summer vacation. Together we would drive out of the Eternal City passing its small, wind bent pines of all shapes, tall old cypress and huge cedar trees lining the ancient Apian Way riding in our rented van driving to Naples in the south of Italy."

"Does your family like music John?"

"Oh yes, my father listens to Nat King Cole, Ella, Jelly Rolls Morton, Louie Armstrong, Fats Waller, Big Spidersback, all that jazz stuff."

"Ask them if then have any classical music to play. I can recommend a record for you John."

"What's that sir?"

"The Planets by Gustav Holst. It is classical music, so beautiful. Do you think you can remember that name John?"

"Sure 'The Planets' by Gus Holds right?"

"Almost John, 'The Planets' is right, the composers name, the man who wrote this music is Gustav Holst. He pronounced the name several times until I could repeat it back to him." The Colter's sat at the table listening to Jup as if he had told the story for the first time. Then Io spoke up.

"And we listen to it now, don't we dad!" Io yelled out as he had many times before when he heard the story. He never tired of it

The Planets by Gustav Holst would become Jup's favorite symphony and Jupiter was his favorite piece from the work. It would become Io's favorite piece as well. Io could play it over and over never tiring of the tone poems expansive quality feeling like he was sailing to the great gas giant as he listened to the music. Mari monitored the record player like a conductor. Usually his third attempt at listening to the Jupiter composition would be foiled and the symphony would be silenced for the day. This went on for years in the Coulter's household.

That night as Jup was sitting on the edge of his bed drinking a glass of water, he looked up at his ceiling. The ceiling art of Jupiter pulled his vision up as he faced the bedroom wall. He drank half the glass of water putting the glass on the nightstand before turning the light out and getting into bed with Mari. They were asleep soon after.

Jup was dreaming. He was aged, gray haired and the landscape was dry and looked like Mexico. Missing where many of the tall trees and ornamental shrubbery replaced by sprawling sage brush and a heat chocked dust. It was his Southern California home thirty years in the future. Then he was in the mid-west caught in a draught, barren land with many empty farm houses. Then he saw the rivers on the East Coast at their lowest levels ever recorded. He saw the far North of Canada and it was rich in wheat and prosperous in what appeared to be a fair clime. He saw great glaciers forming along the East Coast and the Great Lakes regions. Humanity for all our creativity and ingenuity had not solved the conditions that brought on these global weather changes. The North American continent was 'rewrit' and he could see the inhabitants migrating like flocks of birds seeking better land. Then he was back in the present early dawn of the twenty-first century in the lush Southern California coastline town of Santa Monica. He was awakened in the early morning by the crows harsh cawing from the small oak tree outside their bedroom window. He sat at the edge of his bed, turned to the nightstand and drank the remaining half glass of water while he stared up at his ceilings painting of Jupiter. It was seven A.M. as he walked to the bathroom to take a shower. He was the first up this morning.

'Everyday should be Saturday' he thought to himself as he stood in the warm shower.

Sunday morning

That morning the Colters went to St Dennis Cathedral for eleven o'clock Mass. The priest Father Ernest Frank was a very sincere thoughtful speaker. Jup and Mari liked his sermons, even discussed them after mass occasionally. They both grew up going to Sunday service, continuing the practice was not out of the ordinary for either of them. To boot 'something to talk about' that alone made it worth going and contributed to keeping these family shared activities going as a desired continuum.

Father Ernest Frank walked up to the pulpit and looked out over the congregation smiling then began his sermon. His voice could of charmed wild ponies Jup often thought when he heard him speak.

"Why are we not living life to the full? All of us, peace to all of good will. Remember we humans are an organism that is four-and-a-half billion years young as our Earth, the stuff of stars headed out into a thirteen to fourteen billion year old universe. The journey of life in the world's of the living animals began for us just five million years ago. Climbing down from the trees and slowly walking out of the jungles of Africa just a short eighty thousand years ago. You could argue we have only been conscious about as long as we have had chins to take punches from those who disagreed with us or hold in our hands while deep in thought, and that is about eighty thousand years ago. Facts still hold, through toil, trial and error we have come to a point in our lives from the Neanderthal to the Cro-Magnon to the Homo Sapien-Sapien, that today we can live free and have some fun enjoying just being alive. That is a unique experience and concept, 'having fun', for our species evolution, I think all discerning minds would agree. So do it now my friends we have earned our freedom from the vicissitudes and sadness of life. Enjoy life just being alive as a conscious personality. Creation needs to see us enjoying our lives and reaching out to life. Our world needs to see this."

He paused pointedly then continued. "If not now my friends, soon. Don't worry though because we all have lots of time to do it, don't worry about that. Life is not 'winnowing down to a precious few days,' in fact 'life is spiraling out to eternity' now. This realization is depressing for the Cosmologists but very 'good news' for those in humanity today who believe they are souls. Do you get what I'm saying here good parishioners? We are immortal souls and life is a long wondrous journey. So put your stepping out shoes on and get with it. Life is the long haul as walls fall away replaced by spaces of the face of the Creator and it's many creations. In closing I say, long live, the long lived phenomenon we call human beings. God bless us all in the Sun light of Christos."

Father Frank stepped back to the alter to continue saying the mass.

After mass as they were driving home Europa says, "I liked Father Frank's sermon. 'Four and half billion years young and headed out into a thirteen to fourteen billion year old universe' now that is good."

"I see you been doing some talking about the Milky Way and the universe while playing cards with the good Father and the guys Jup" Mari said. They laughed but before Jup could say anything Io was screeching at the top of his voice,

'Four-and-a-half billion years young, now we can really have some fun. I can hardly tell you how good that sounds."

Mari looked at Jup and they both laughed at Io's enthusiasm for the sermon that morning. They drove home in their fifty miles to the gallon, Fisher carburetor fitted, white 1975 Dodge Dart sedan. His friend Freeman Port's car lot down at Venice Beach sold nothing but vehicles with slant-six engines that his mechanic partner Luis Carbon fit with Fisher's if the customer desired. Word spread over the years about fifty, seventy-five miles to the gallon of gas because of Luis Carbon's magic so usually the Fisher's were part of the package for most buyers. Freeman had Arrows, Aspens, Belvederes, Coronets, Darts, Diplomats that could be bought for cheap, Dusters, Swingers of course, Twisters, Valiants and Volares. Anything with a flat head six block, they were all as gold to Luis and Freeman.

That afternoon Jup decided to take a bike ride. The 'slow glows' were getting together for a barbeque in a small park overlooking the coastline that evening. He thought he would take a bike ride down there and see them. Visit, enjoy the nice weather and get a little exercise, all in an afternoon's outing. He was in the garage pumping some air into his back tire. When he finished pumping up the tire for the five-mile bike ride to the park he heard someone enter the garage. It was Mari.

"Say hi to Gypsy and the guys. Any particular time you think you might be home?"

"Sometime tomorrow morning. I don't have any classes Monday just a few student meetings in the afternoon, so I just might sleep out there tonight."

"Be careful, not like it was twenty even ten years ago out there now Jup. You don't want to get stabbed by some crazy out there I don't think."

"No, our health care plan might not even cover it, moral reasons, we would be hurting for certain then."

They laugh while Mari hugs her husband. "You be real careful 'Jup' I'd hate to have to go to Jupiter to bring you back." As she said this she noticed that Jup was hooking up the wagon to his bike. She then noticed that he had one of his many telescopes out.

"Are you taking a telescope out to the park with you tonight."

"Yes I thought I would show the guys the setting Sun, the Moon, some stars.. Jupiter tonight."

"That's nice. They will love it. Don't let Silver look to long at the moon, he just might have a travel episode and not come back, know what I mean."

"I do Mari, Silver's time will be real limited."

Jup rode his three wheeler down Santa Monica Bl. to the seaside park. The traffic was backed up so his presence was not minded in the afternoon's maddening herky-jerky traffic mix. His bright colored cart was painted in red, white and blue stars. Children who rode by waved to him while smiling and pointing to his cart. His bike was day glow orange with a silicon coat that gave it a bright shine. No one minded, even noticed with some curiosity the telescope in it's case carried on his wagon. Figured he was just another eccentric from the V.A. hospital just up the road. Or an eccentric with a passion for the stars with a very fixed income. Or even a 'star', not unusual for the area really. As a result he biked to the rendezvous site without a single person flipping him off or yelling at him. Slow traffic or get caught out there while riding the three wheeler could incur the wrath of road rage in it's most justified and virulent form. As he pulled into the circular drive overlooking the Pacific Ocean he saw the 'slow glows' bikes parked together at the far end of the drive. The four bikes were all colorful and decked out in mementos from their coastal travels riding from Mexico up into the Oregon coast. A small outdoor barbeque pit was being used to prepare some chickens cooking now on the grill. Baked potatoes were baking in the coals of the fire.

"Living it up I see" Jup says as he pulls his bike up to the camp site.

"Oh yes professor we do 'style our times' keeps those blues away, somewhere way out there" pointing to the ocean. Everyone laughs real loud, they all seemed to like to laugh and laugh loudly.

'We do 'style our times' just look at us Jup. Holes in our clothes overlooking this beautiful coastline getting ready to eat some good American-Mexican fried chicken while talking to our own professor." They cheer their good fortune to a man and Jup joins in the cheering. As the cheering died down Jup spoke up.

"Live and have some fun gentlemen of the 'Gypsy three-wheelers society'. In honor of the event I have brought my eight-inch lens telescope for some magic tonight."

They drew around Jup's trailer, standing quiet, they all looked at the telescope. Finally Silver looked at Jup and asked, "does that work for land as well Jup?"

"Sure does Silver, got something you want to look at?"

Until sunset they looked at the swimmers, bathers, soakers of rays with undying interest. As the evening twilight set in and the sun worshipers were long gone Jup set the telescopes sights on the horizon of the evening sky.

Knowing that the solar winds from the coronal hole on the Sun were streaming through the high-altitude of the planet now Jup knew that the the auroras might be visible this night. The 'slow glows' had probably seen their share of Northern Lights in their time but the telescope would allow them a close up view. He put an ultraviolet filter on the telescope and then got the Sun in its sights as it was about to set. Bringing the sun into focus he then turned the telescope over to Gypsy.

As he looked at the setting sun he said, "Oh my lands that is the Sun. My oh my, Jup what is that big dark crack at the top of the Sun. Looks like the thing is splitting or something?"

"That's a coronal hole in the surface of the sun from solar flare eruptions that exploded there. Solar flares are the source of the solar winds that are hitting our upper atmosphere right now Gypsy. These solar winds produce the Northern Lights which I know you all have seen." They all laugh in agreement as Jup continues. "These dark coronal holes have been visible on the Sun now for the last four consecutive twenty-seven-day solar rotations, the last 108 days."

"Now that's something, holes in the Sun. Wonder if the Sun has a headache Jup?" they laugh at the childish thought.

"No just a mid-life crises probably," Jup says. They laugh real loud as they liked to do while enjoying the professor's company. Silver the camp cook for the night serves Jup some chicken and a plain baked potato- no butter, no anything, just a baked potato. Each of the five 'slow glows' got repeated turns to look through the telescope at the setting Sun and then the full Moon, that really got them going. The roar of the pounding coastline covered their loud laughter as the night drew on.

"How is it Jup that we can see the Moon so clearly, it is dark out there you know and last I heard the Moon was not a luminous orb."

"We can see the Moon and planets in our solar system because the suns light shines on them, reflecting it's light on the celestial bodies" he replied.

"Luminous orbs, celestial bodies, well I do believe I know what you mean" Sparky said smiling at the others, they all laughed loudly.

"Look at all the satellites up there now Jup, looks like spiders spinning their webs. You can see them with the naked eye." The others giggled at the very word. Gypsy continued. "In another lifetime I was a new accounts representative for an internet provider. When ever anyone wanted to be disconnected from our online provider service we were instructed to give them one month's free service. After the free month's service if the customer still wished to be disconnected we were instructed to ignore their wishes rather just sell them products that had nothing to do with our online service. In the end I figured the business model this company was using amounted to 'once in never out', with no one getting disconnected. Just could not take lying to one more old lady or hapless internet surfer any longer. Took my forty pieces of silver, bought my three-wheeler and never looked back."

"Churn and learn mate. Guess you offered them the options package they just could not refuse." Silver, a one time stock broker said this then laughed loudly. "Like 'out of the money' expired options that are sold anew months later until they finally finish 'in the money'. Only problem is that it's the executives of the company and in a few cases the employees that make out financially. The share holders of the company gain nothing as the options cipher sucks their profits away up to as much as four percent of the stock's value for the business year."

"All while the Cheshire cat dined on herring and lapped up Napa valley wine I suppose," Jup added then infectiously laughed loudly..

That night beautiful auroras filled the Southern California sky. Though rarely seen this far south, tonight the sky glowed emerald green. The six men watched the light show as it ebbed and flowed across the sky like the ocean tides below them. The stars were bright as diamonds then a bright blue star caught their attention. It was not a star at all but Jupiter named after the Greek god of the sky. As Jup focused in on the giant planet the others listened to Drummer as he talked about his life before he became a 'slow glow'.

"I used to work for a record company years ago. Jupiter's Sounds, we called it 'rain maker records'. Never met an artist they did not use. We would record them, press them, sending the product from the loading docks to the warehouses. Here fortunes fires covered our tracks making everybody rich. If not by fire then by water, whether the the records and c.d.'s were loaded into furnaces or on to the back decks of merchant ships in cargo containers meeting the deep six marketplace, they served their purpose. Either way the art took on creative book keeping qualities. My job as an accountant was to keep the books looking right. Product out, laundered money in, cash deposited into the accounts with so many units accounted for. Worked like a charm until the artists wised up, then they started using us, filling up their own warehouses, hiring arsonists to do the dirty work, knowing something stank to hell with our whole accounting system so why not play the game too."

They each took turns looking at the waning Moon. This early April night the Moon was just receding from a full Moon allowing them to view most of the Earth's satellite through Jup's telescope. Jup explained to them a few things about the cratered surface of the Moon.

"The bright area's are the ancient crust of the Moon's highlands and the dark regions are the newer area's made from lava after asteroid impacts. Near the southern limb of the Moon you can see the young bright crater Tycho. The light area is ejected material from an asteroid impact that occurred over a hundred million years ago. Now look to the right and near the center of the Moon, that is the Sea of Tranquility. The dark plain was once filled with molten lava from an asteroid impact that occurred billions of years ago. At the edge of this formation is where the Apollo 11 astronauts landed."

As Silver looked at the Moon he said to the others, "it's so close, lets go, I'm ready to explore." He steps away from the telescope and heads towards the edge of the cliff, the others catch him before he walked over the ledge.

"That's a big step up or down Silver. What looks so close through the telescope is really