Tutoring Jimmy was proving much harder than Avril expected. Their mutual attraction was a constant distraction, but Jimmy's obsession with learning levitation was the real hurdle—completely overshadowing the foundational laws he needed to understand first.
"So, all this study about the laws, they lead to levitation?" Jimmy asked. The same question he had asked each time she began delving into the new study of a particular principle.
"Eventually," Avril said patiently. The buzzing excitement of Jimmy's vibration made it easy to overlook his constant questions. Perhaps they would find smoother sailing once he mastered the vibrations of movement, but he first had to understand the complexities of each law before he could manipulate energy to shift objects. He also needed to realize that levitation was not a form of entertainment—at least, not for this purpose.
How nice it would have been to simply say, because I said so. Instead, she patiently tethered each of his questions back to the applicable laws. Avril was determined to teach Jimmy how to wield his own powers without relying on the physical crutches that had become popular millennia ago. With the prospect of future children, it was vital he learn to use innate power that their offspring could inherit without needing instruments of any kind.
Many people in the last millennium had learned to access the old ways by using precious stones or external items to harness power, using them to bridge the gap in their minds to bend energy to their bidding. But Jimmy's tutelage had to come from manipulating pure energy alone.
"Today we start Law of Attraction," Avril said, her sigh cutting through the quiet room. Her lover moved past her, his near-magnetic energy radiating as he stopped before the scaled-down teaching model of the solar system suspended in perfect proportion.
"What makes them stay like that?" Jimmy asked. He was mystified by the replica of the solar system hanging in the air unaided.
"Many years ago," Avril explained, "great Sages...oh, at time of great experiment, when Earth very young...create humans. This for teachers to teach, the planets here, they always in air."
"Why?" Jimmy asked.
"I do not know. It made by people from other world."
"No. Why did others come to our planet?"
"It was not our planet then," she answered. "There was none like us, no humans for thinking. Today people discover new creatures, like hairy people and animals extinct from us now. We find in past, many mighty peoples here for million years. Visitors from sky create humans to help and live together with them."
"What was wrong with their planet that they had to come here?"
"Planet of their home to lose sky. They come for gold."
"Gold? Why?" he asked, it was the first time since her lessons began that Avril remembered having his full attention and she relished the moment.
"It conductor. To move healing to sky on far away planet."
"Isn't that part of the Gilgamesh stuff you like reading?"
"No, is from information at crystal caves and crystals below Sphinx," Avril corrected. "Information from crystals decoded. Tell of first civilizations on earth."
"I thought those crystals were only under the Sierra de Naica Mountain," he asked, furrowing his brows.
"Library is same information as other part of world and Under Sphinx," said Avril. "Crystals easier to give information. Hieroglyphics grow old. Meaning of information in crystal evolve beside human understanding."
"Ah," he said as he touched the orbs in orbit. He was surprised to find that they were not holograms. He looked under and around for any clue of how they hovered in place.
"Never mind this," Avril said, trying to reclaim his attention.
"Is there something like this showing the planets the aliens came from?" He asked, allowing her to pull at him for his attention.
"Yes," she answered. "But it not our solar system, we have Egypt star maps at Nile we call pyramids. They show in sky place of home for visitors who worked and lived here many ages ago."
"How are things coming along?" Yeshua asked as he entered the Essenes' classroom. He felt the slight frustration in Avril's vibration. "It is good that he asks questions. We shall answer them all."
"Yes," she said with a long breath. "I be patient."
"Cool," Jimmy said. His attention remained on the model.
"Have you made arrangements to sit with Emaniel?" Yeshua asked Jimmy.
"Not really," he answered, turning to face him. "I do a lot of the patrols. But I have a lot of help from Avril."
"She is not a teacher," Yeshua reminded the both of them. "The Essenes become teachers after their two hundredth year in the physical. Avril has yet to master energy to her will."
"Wow," Jimmy said with the impact of the revelation. "I guess if you don't get it after two hundred years you never will." Avril laid her hand on his arm and gave him a look of displeasure. This was hardly a joking matter.
"That was quite amusing," Yeshua said as he nodded in relation to the humor. Avril cocked her head as she looked at her teacher. That was the closest she had ever seen him come to a smile.
"I am helping with laws," said Avril. "That he learn root of lessons to master energy."
"Very good," her teacher said. "And to include the solar system that interests him. Earth, in particular." Jimmy raised his eyebrows, but kept his reaction to himself until after Yeshua left the room.
"Do all of them read minds?" he asked her.
"This is not discussed with me," Avril said thinking for a moment. "I think possible. But I never ask."
"It doesn't bother you that someone is roaming around in your head?" he asked curiously. "It freaks me out."
"I am not Essene," she quickly reminded him when she realized her own limited ability to read minds. "My gift will be gone.
"I'm not talking about you," he said, smiling at his sweetheart. "I don't mind you in my head. While I've got you there, I feel like we connect like...well, I like that you know how I feel about you."
"I feel from you," Avril teased. "Much sex."
"Well, yeah," he said with slight embarrassment. "But you do feel how much I love you? You do hear that in your head, right?"
"Yes, always," she cooed back at him. His gaze met her eyes and both smiled lovingly. But it was time to get back to studying, she didn't want him to lose focus.
"We discuss earth?" she asked, referring to Yeshua's comment.
"Yeah," Jimmy said reluctantly. He would rather discuss the topic of sex, but Earth will do, at least while they were in the public eye. "Sixty years ago there was a thing that went around about how global warming was going to cook the earth and it was all the doing of people. Some of that idea still lingers. Is it true?"
"Earth heal itself," she answered. She turned her attention to the mock solar system and pointed at Earth. "Our planet, Earth, lay on axis. It turn to face sun and get very hot, but equally, it turn away from sun and get very cold. This clean everything on planet again and again."
"Hmm," he said, looking at his home planet. "So...we're always going to have an ice age and global warming happening whether man helps it out or not."
"Yes," Avril was pleased to find an interest he liked. "All things work out for good."
"Not all things," he disagreed. "People die, and sometimes they die horrible deaths."
"It is part of good," Avril said softly. "Even to die."
"I wouldn't say that," Jimmy said turning to her. "My life would not be good without you in it."
"You would heal," she smiled. "And learn...become stronger."
"Enough of this," the thought of not having her in his life made him uncomfortable. "I don't want to talk about death. At least not about you. I wish I never said anything about it."
"We have long life together," said Avril, hoping to lift his spirit.
"Are you telling the future?" he asked, hopefully.
"No," she answered. "I know, in here." she said, putting her hand on her heart. "I feel here about it." He smiled and took her hand from her heart and kissed it. For a moment they stood in appreciation of each other.
"You said you are not Essene?" He asked when they both turned back to the orbs. "How do you do all that stuff like them?"
"Essene are human," she explained, "like you and me. They only teach power to us to return mankind to normal. Normal like million years ago when all wielded power of laws"
"But they live to be hundreds of years old," he protested. They had to be a special kind of people. No ordinary human could live that long.
"And you live long too," said Avril. "You learn laws, you use laws, you live long too."
"Me?" he said doubtfully. "Live to be over two hundred years old?"
"Yes," she answered firmly. "We control energy, energy not control us. Unless allow."
"So we're allowing ourselves to grow old?"
"Yes. It is law of attraction," she answered plainly. "We believe we grow old, we grow old how we believe."
"Does anyone live to be older than the Essenes?"
"I not sure," Avril answered him. She wanted to sit down and talk now that she had his attention and it looked as if she could breach the subject of the Law of Attraction with him. Walking to a row of seats they found chairs beside each other to sit. "It is what we planned before physical."
"What plan?"
"Not discuss now," Avril wanted to get back to the study of the law. "We must talk law of attraction."
"Let me see if I've understood what you've told me about it already," said Jimmy. "You think about what you want and you get it."
"Not exactly like that," she responded, wondering if she could explain it in a way he could appreciate the context. "It finds focus. What you think and feel is focus. That what attracts."
"Okay, then, if I want something I just focus on it and I get it."
"Yes and no," Avril sighed. "Mostly, no."
"I'm not sure I will ever understand this," he huffed. "Wouldn't it be either yes or no, not both, or more no than yes?"
"It is to know focus," she answered. She kept a bead on his vibration, but tried not to read his mind. The confusion from his thoughts was more than she cared to deal with than that of his vibration. "What is biggest focus in thought?" She meant it to be a rhetorical question, but Jimmy answered.
"Confusion."
"Confusion is good," she smiled. "It lead to solve problem."
"Or more confusion," he added exasperated.
"To focus, it sometimes gives to believe," she wasn't sure this was going to help, but felt she had to try to explain the pull in focus that goes on when a person wants something but is tied to a belief that prohibits what it is the person wants to come to them.
"When you meet me," she tried to use their relationship as an example, "you doubt this together of us?"
"Naw," he said plainly, "I usually get what I want."
"That is belief," she said, not showing him the indignation that nearly crept in on her with his answer. Cocky bastard. She quieted her mind and continued. "You KNOW this us possible, it become so."
"Oh," he said, it was as if a light came on in his mind. "Knowing without doubt. I get it."
"Yes, belief," she said happily. "You desire this, us, you have belief, and us, we, happen." She moved her hand in a circle between them to accentuate her words.
"Well, a lot of people are going to have trouble with that," Jimmy said seriously, "Us normal people have been programmed since we were kids that things in our lives are dictated to us, and as children were expected to believe what was told us. That's a hard wall to knock down."
"Understanding is key," said Avril. "All people can learn new thinking."
"It's not that they can learn," he said, "it's the question of being able to relearn. I've seen a lot of people argue a point to their downfall on a subject that was taught to them by their family," he continued.
"There sometimes people who cannot change thought," she agreed. "They find secure in belief. Even wrong belief."
"Damn straight," he muttered. "How do you suppose those people can be reached?"
"Not for us to reach," she cautioned him. It was the main reason Orthodox Judaism did not convert openly to the outside world when it came to their religion. "Person to want help."
"Surely there is an easy way to help ignorant people to understand this?"
"This life, in physical, is belong to..." she struggled for the best word to use without confusing him. "Individual. No to make people believe what is right. People choose what is right, even if wrong."
"So, figuratively speaking, if you see a man drowning in quicksand and you ask him if he needs help, and he says no. You leave him there to die?"
"Quicksand only one and a half meters deep," she said after a thought. "Only very small people die in quicksand." Avril's confusion made Jimmy laugh heartily.
"I meant people in trouble that you think you can help," he tried to clarify when he finally stopped laughing. "You want to help them."
"If help wanted," she said, realizing what it was he was saying. "You help and they not believe. You no help."
When Avril tied their conversation to the Law of Attraction, she introduced a sobering truth: a person's underlying beliefs are what ultimately manifest—or stifle—their desires. Jimmy leaned in, fascinated by the unfairness of it all. Even a negative focus could alter reality, bringing about the exact scenarios a person dreaded most. Why didn't the energy that built the universe distinguish between good and bad intentions? Avril offered one silver lining: positive energy vibrated at a higher frequency. To Jimmy, that vibrational edge should have made positive energy dominant. When he pressed her on why the scales weren't tipped in their favor, Avril explained that the universe demanded a strict balance. "There are different strengths, yes," she conceded, "but the attraction is born from where you place focus along the polarity of positive and negative." It was the ultimate yin and yang. One end of the pole could not exist without the relation to its opposite. Between them lay a vast obscurity, a tension she likened to Zeno's Paradox. As positive and negative rushed toward the center, an unyielding, equal measure of distance kept them apart, serving as the cosmic buffer that kept reality from collapsing into itself.
Avril did her best to explain the polarity of alignment. If a mind fixates on the negative, it pulls negative outcomes into its orbit; if it anchors in the positive, abundance follows. But a person had to gauge both the direction and the intensity of their focus—not to mention the deep-seated friction of their own doubts. Jimmy finally saw the light. Manifestation wasn't just about wishing; it required anchoring your attention to the desired end of the pole, truly believing the goal was attainable, and ensuring your core beliefs vibrated in perfect harmony with your desires.
"Okay then," Jimmy asked her. His mind was locked in on figuring out how to use this law to his advantage, "how then do I keep my focus positive?"
"Be happy," she said plainly. "Choose happy."
"That doesn't make any sense at all," he said, annoyed. "If it's that easy then why doesn't it work all the time. I'm happy a lot, especially now that I've met you, and I still find myself running into some shit-show or another."
"Be happy in...shit...show," she said, not really understanding his metaphor, but still using it. "Don't think...shit...show. Just focus happy."
"It's not that easy to come through a bad situation trying to be happy." He said, his voice heavy with doubt. "That old axiom, misery loves company, makes it really hard to adjust to a happy disposition."
"That is old belief," she said, glad to have another reference from which she could try and explain. "Change old belief. Find happy over old belief and make focus positive."
"I understand what you are saying," he said with a nod. "But that may be easier said than done. Even for me."
"Practice change," she said matter-of-factly. "Then change come."
"Kind of like doing something for twenty one days and it becomes a habit?" He asked.
"I believe it is right," Avril answered. "It happen like magic...but not fast magic."
"I can respect that," he said, nodding again. He was beginning to get the gist of attraction and the law that governed it. Surely he would have more questions, he thought, but for now, he wanted to try out the concept of the idea and experience its use. He just wasn't sure how he was going to be able to manipulate his way through his belief system. He had beliefs ingrained into his brain by his parents, grandparents, siblings, teachers and anyone else who felt they had a right to load on him all the predispositions of their own realities. He wondered if he could just scrap all the things that were rattling around in his mind to it all being wrong, and he just started all over with his own beliefs. Maybe it was important that he really paid attention to what Avril was sharing with him. She could help him reassess the paradigms of his belief system.
"But I am learning too," she said. Reminding him of her ability to read his mind for the time being.
"Okay," he said, somewhat rattled by her power, "can you turn off that mind thing?"
"Sometimes," she said, taken back by his comment. "I will try to always make it off when I be with you." He could see she was hurt by his candor.
"Oh, baby," he said when he saw her countenance fall. "I'm sorry I said that. Please forgive me. I can get used to it, don't worry about it." He put his arm around her chair and leaned in on her.
"I am to try to keep off for you," she said, trying to cheer up some.
"Tell me more about the Law of Attraction," said Jimmy, leaning in to look into her downcast face. "It's really interesting."
"I show to you something," she said as she suddenly had an idea. Standing straight up, she looked at him with glee. "We have box of vibration. You listen with me."
"Vibration in a box," he said with a half smile. "Now that's something I want to see." Avril hopped over to a cabinet across the room and took out a metal box. She hurried back to her seat.
"We listen together, but not long," she cautioned. "It take time to adjust brain."
"Wait, what?" he asked, not sure if he wanted his brain adjusted.
"It make positive vibration into ear and into body," she explained as she set the box on the floor between them and opened it. She pulled out four slim earbuds and handed two of them to him. He watched as she put one into each ear and then he did the same with the two she gave to him.
Inside the box, Jimmy could see what looked like controls that were not in any language that he recognized, more like advanced hieroglyphics to him. Watching closely as she put her hand over the open part of the box and then with her other hand took his hand and placed it in the air beside hers, releasing him and letting his hand hover with hers, without either touching. Suddenly the ear buds began to make a sound that began as a low hum and increased slightly. The hum changed to evenly measured thrusts of sound that reverberated in his ears and spread through his whole body. It started in the hand he held over the box. Soon, he could feel it connect with Avril's hand over the box even without connecting physically. He didn't move as he allowed the vibration to flow through his body. Every fiber of his being came to life and seemed to dance with the sound produced from the quavering waves. The best way he could think to explain the feeling was with that which he felt when he was feeling happy and joyous. The same as it felt when he made love with Avril.
"Hey," he tapped her arm with his free hand. She had closed her eyes to focus on the vibrations that swam through her own body. Opening her eyes she looked at him, knowing he was about to ask her if they could use the box when they made love. She smiled and took out her earbuds. He removed his as well. But before he could ask her she spoke.
"There is other box for that," she said and then replaced her earbuds. He bit his lip and kept his gaze on her. Surely they would be trying that puppy out tonight, he thought. He replaced his earbuds and joined her in appreciation of the sounds that washed over their bodies, closing his eyes just as she did.
After an hour of indulging in the positive vibration of sound, Avril pulled her hand from above the opening of the box. It quickly brought Jimmy back to reality as well and he removed his hand and then his earbuds.
"That was awesome," he said with gusto. "Why did we stop?"
"One hour only."
"We were here for an hour?" He said surprised. It didn't feel like an hour, it felt like, maybe four or five minutes. But his whole body and mind felt rejuvenated. It was as if he slept for two days and woke totally refreshed. He definitely wanted to do that again.
"Where did you get that?" He asked, even as he felt as if it came from the same place the solar system model originated from.
"It is also from other world," she answered. Nailed it, he thought to himself with the confirmation. What other treasures were left behind? He was really going to like learning about these laws if they came with such cool playthings.
"So, can we take that box you were talking about to our room?" He asked, referring to the use of vibration with their next sexual episode.
"Yes," she said with a shy smile. Although she had never tried it for herself, the teachers did explain how it worked. It was always encouraged to get to know how to use the items left behind by the cosmic people before them.
Avril returned the empty box to the cabinet and searched for its twin. She easily identified the private stash by its unique wavy lines. Just as she pulled it out, Emaniel walked in and noticed her selection.
"You are going to have to levitate to use that box," he informed the couple as gracefully as he could. He knew the purpose of the box, and wanted them to be aware of a major requirement before they tried to make use of it. "You have to be above the box."
"What?" said Jimmy. But he didn't let the small problem sway him. He was determined to find a way to make it work. Before she could replace the box back into the cabinet, Emaniel gave a smile and closed the doors to prevent her.
"I suppose you could try something else," he said to the embarrassed woman. "Come." Hesitantly, the couple followed him out of the room, box in hand. As they walked down the hall, Avril wrapped her arms around the container, shielding the top from view; anyone who recognized it would instantly know what she was carting off—and why. When they reached her room, the lovers watched as Emaniel used his levitation powers to carefully lift the mattress off Avril's bed, easing it onto the floor to keep the neatly made bedding intact. He took the box from Avril, centered it beneath the exposed bed frame, and stepped back. Before anyone could speak, a sharp knock drew their attention to the door as Lynn and Griff walked in.
"Get out," said Jimmy immediately. "We're about to have sex." The vibration of the others who entered the room were felt clearly by Emaniel as they looked at him in surprise.
"I am leaving as well," he said with a start, and walked to the door. Lynn and Griff followed him out. Emaniel slowed his pace and turned to his companions. "So that's what it feels like to be embarrassed. I've never been on the receiving end of that emotion." Griff laughed and put his hand on the man's shoulder.
"It's okay," he said to the Essene, "I'll buy you a cup of coffee." And laughed again when Emaniel looked at him, knowing they did not exchange currency on the base. "It's just something people say," Griff laughed again. He liked the man even more than he respected him. His life in a world that he now shared with others so unfamiliar to him made it evident he had much to learn about normal human reality. But he was willing to learn and Griff found that impressive.