We live in a complex rational world and also in a world of unexplained paranormal realities. The transit of our selves, our souls and our minds through the passage of time is a metaphysical process that remains, as it has been throughout history, an ongoing mystery. We are truly suspended in a mystical process that men, over the centuries, have tried to make into some kind of sense and yield a solution or explanation.

Questions, such as who we are, where we came from, where we ultimately go as well as what is the meaning of what we experience in life, are the sum and substance of the essentials questions that we, as mortals, ultimately face.

In these tales, an approach that probes our instinct to imagine resolution to esoteric questions is placed before the reader. You will find your ability to expand your consciousness tested and hopefully you will learn from these provocative protagonists, how their answers were found.

Some believe that a New Age is before mankind if we can avert our tragically destructive instincts and mechanisms. Perhaps in that New Age, we all have to dream of and fight for positive changes and hope that the reality of life on Earth will blossom positively. This collection of novellas describes a utopian view of our experience as a positive metaphysical race and attempts to push the envelope of reality.

The fifty-year old Norwegian born author has experienced a complex life that informs the fiction. The author, who is still a confirmed bachelor, has lived in the New York City vicinity over his lifetime. This experience lays down the hard realities, which comprise the platform on which these fictional tales are constructed. The author has received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems. The author has been professionally engaged in the weaving trade, teaching, and programming. Christian by faith, the author is also a disciple of the late Indian mystic Sant Kirpal Singh of New Delhi and has studied mysticism and meditation under this influence.

PART ONE

Month : October Year : 1986 Place : New York, New York

1. Silvano Greco appears in a luggage store and purchases a plain black briefcase. He is discretely but most definitely armed by virtue of a licensed German made 38 caliber Luger semi-automatic with a twelve clip, the weapon strapped cleanly in position in a holster beneath the left flap of his black leather jacket. The short wiry Italian man then proceeds to a safety deposit box at Morgan Guaranty Trust seven blocks away. Entering the central vault, he removes high security container number 478 into a private booth and transfers $2,500,000.00 of the $12,000,000.00 contained in the container neatly into the briefcase. Moving decisively but quite nonchalantly, he packs the briefcase back into the original carton and seals it with high strength tape that he had taken in with him. He then returns the container to the vault, locks it, watches the bank officer co-lock it, and exits the bank proceeding to the Main Post Office at 33rd Street and Seventh Avenue and mails the nondescript package to an address in Colorado by regular mail without insurance. Enclosed in the briefcase with the money are the instructions -

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