Drifting – Is It Real? Is It A Gift?

Son

Will these files be enough to tide you over till Tuesday? I might not be here until then. In fact, I might not be on the planet, or even in the general stellar vicinity. But expect to achieve planetfall again come Tuesday, about 3AM PST

Have a great weekend, BTW.

Regards,
Dad

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OK. I will tell you what I am talking about.

You will not believe me.

That’s OK too.

Even if you did, nobody would believe you either.

I have recently learned something new. So new that it is very hard to describe.

Stellar travel is so simple. I believe it’s within each of us to do it, if we can get away from everything long enough. I found the way to do it, by accident. It doesn’t require learning to think about it, or meditation, or any mental tricks at all. I don’t really know how to describe it. You just go, and you are going.

At first its rather scary. It’s like sitting in your car, driving down a road at great speed, but without having the use of your steering and brakes. Later, much later in your journey, you find that you do have some control over the process.

I call it Drifting, because that is exactly what you do.

Its something that you can do only with your mind. Being someplace and really, really wishing you were elsewhere is how you should start.

Perhaps it was that night in the desert, when all the stars above were so clear, and their light was so steady and radiant. I was quite unaware that the sudden sensation of moving upward toward them was real, and not my imagination. You can have such vertigo in the desert night, looking up at the glories above.

After reflecting on these experiences, I stand in awe at the power of the mind of Man. Sometimes I think there isn’t anything we cannot do, if we think we can do it.

Yet, for so many of us, we rarely even think at all, and our days are filled with incidentals. I don’t have to tell you that I have become addicted to Drifting. I must know what’s out there!

Since coming here, I have spent a lot of time in the desert, especially at night. I only go out at night. As you know, my heart is not so good, so I hide and sleep, far from the intense desert heat during the day, safe in my well sealed and air conditioned home.

But after 10 PM, the desert is transformed into a joyous place of sweet air and a totally calm landscape, full of dim colors and fragrances. Then, it is a wonderful place in which to walk.

If the sky is overcast, I do not go out, for without moonlight, or even the bright starlight above it all, the desert becomes an enigmatic and black tunnel, where only the far off city lights are visible, and it is so easy to lose your way. But any other night, only the sky lights the desert floor, and it is quite beautiful and surreal.

Do I travel with my body to these places when I Drift? I don’t know. Probably not. I cannot see how it would be possible to do so. There was once an Apostle, Paul, I think, who talked about Drifting, in his second letter to the Corinthians, around about chapter 12. Drifting sounds very similar to what he wrote.

Where do I travel? I honestly couldn’t say. I mean, I haven’t had an Astronomy class, so I don’t know many of the names of these stars. I know a few, and I do have “Starry Night” on my Macintosh, and I use it to watch the planets, and Orion. That’s my favorite constellation, and about the only one I know of besides the Big and Little Dipper.

But, you know, being out there is far different. How could anyone tell, without instruments, which star they were near? Out there, the constellations are gone. Nothing is recognizable.

All stars vary in brightness and color. Some are really hot, and there usually are no planets near them, except perhaps a gas giant or two. The dimmer stars, like our own, almost all have planets of some kind, and some of these stars also have earth-like planets, but only in a certain orbit and distance from their sun.

How long are my visits? I can’t say that I know. Usually I am back in an hour or two. At least, back in my desert here where I live. It could be a bit longer. I am not sure. Once, when I returned, the sky was beginning to lighten in the East, so it was eight hours.

What have I found out there? Its not hard to say, actually. A lot of nothing. Vast emptiness.

I think in the thousands of light years I have explored, (if that is a real measurement) there seems to be many thousands of worlds that are perfectly habitable. They are all empty of life. Completely. Empty.

Its all a vast emptiness, and I don’t know why.

Oh, how could I know about so many worlds? Actually, I have only visited about 50 of them. That number sounds about right.

Do I walk on them – on their surfaces? Actually, I sort of drift along over them, sometimes very high, and sometimes right along over the ground or the sea.

They are all beautiful. Each of them has breathtaking places of fantastic color and geologic shape. Sometimes their oceans are darker than ours. Sometimes their skies are a bit odd. But as I said, they are all devoid of life. Not a blade of grass. Not a tree. Not any moss or lichens. Not a fish in the sea, or even seaweed. Empty. All empty.

So? What about the rest? The other worlds? Its actually very easy to see these from close orbit or a close pass. That is, when I even find such a planet like our own with open land and oceans. You can see from only a couple of hundred miles above, that they are indeed empty of life too.

Besides, each night I Drift, I can visits hundreds of stars and star systems, and find a many of these kinds of worlds in a single Drift. At least that seems to be about how many I have been able to find each night, during these last five months. They come popping out of space right behind their Suns. You just know after a while in what part of their planetary plane to look, and how close in to find them.

Most of them don’t have a moon. The few that do, have no such grand moon such as ours. It seems that most of them are captured asteroids, or other small planetary debris.

Of course, all this was impossible to do at first. I still remember my first Drift. It was fascinating! I could scarcely believe it was possible. I recall thinking to myself, trying to recollect if I had had any mushrooms in my salad that day. If this was a ‘trip’ I was on, I wanted to know its cause!

Yet, somehow I knew that it was all real. I didn’t go far my first Drift. Barely to the next star. By then, I found I could go really fast, and be close to something I wanted to look at, almost instantaneously.

But then, after I got there, I saw no worlds. It was a binary system with two stars. One was very bright and hard to look at. The other was very dim and far away, but perhaps larger than the bright one. There were no planets anywhere I could see.

However, when I decided to turn around and go back, I was literally scared sh**less. Pardon the term, but it was true. I could not see my way back! Among all the stars I looked at, which one was mine?

The problem resolved itself quite suddenly. In the very act of becoming terrified, I found I was back on Terra Firma, and my feet, just as suddenly, went out from under me, and I discovered I was laying on the cool desert sand. I cannot describe either my exhilaration at the journey, nor the sweetness of knowing I was home safe again.

Believe me, it was a long time before I thought about Drifting again. It was only after a month that I decided to find out if it was all a dream or just my overactive imagination. Determined, I went back into the desert at night, and again spent some major part of an hour trying to Drift. It was difficult indeed!

Only after giving up and walking around, did I find myself again traveling at amazing speed through space. I was not even conscious of leaving our planetary system. In fact I was somewhat disappointed that I had not come close to seeing our large and very beautiful outer planets. Just a glimpse would have satisfied me, but apparently my speed was too great, or my journey began far out of the solar system altogether.

So, this is how I Drift. I have no explanation for it. Nor could I easily tell you how it works. I am certain it is nothing I could teach you. There are just no words for it.

Wish I could say more, but, who knows?

Mostly, I wish there were someone who has similar experiences, and who could validate my own visits out there.

I once met someone who thought they could travel anywhere on earth at any time, but it was soon apparent that they were only imagining these things – their recollection of places and events was obviously erroneous to what is already well known of history. It was rather sad, but I didn’t burst his bubble. What would be the point?

Do I have any proof of my journeys? Nope. Sorry. Only what I have observed. (Yeah, I’ve tried taking a camera with me. I never find them again, once I’ve left earth. Who knows what happened to them?)

Son, you are welcome to consider me just another crackpot – an old man who’s lost his marbles out here in the desert. That’s fine with me.

How did I get on this subject?

Oh yeah. I was hoping to travel really, really far this time. Perhaps to the center of it all, if there is such a place.

Wish me luck, son. I’ll let you know how it went, if and when I get back next week.

Love,
Dad

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See? I told you, you wouldn’t believe me!

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