Awake the Future

by Steven Lalevich

  “Honestly,” I said, “I don’t know. In some ways it makes me feel more comfortable in the situation we find ourselves, but if we ever were to settle down into a normal life, I may have a different perspective.”

  She nodded.

  “It doesn’t change how I feel about you though,” I said. “The sense of connection I have with you goes much deeper than whether or not you kill people for a living.

  “How do you feel about being an assassin?” I asked.

  “I’m good at what I do,” she said, “but I have to carry the burden that goes along with it. That’s the hard part,” she explained.

  She said she had killed people while she worked for the CIA, but working for the Corporation was different. She said that to prepare for her assignments, she had to get to know every detail about her targets. Sometimes what she found out would make it easier to kill them, but most of the time it did the opposite. The people she killed weren’t terrorists or criminals. They were often just regular people who happened to know things that threatened the Corporation’s power.

  She said she doesn’t know why she kept doing it. She knew it would have been difficult to get out, but she could have found a way. She said something just kept pulling her in that direction despite the emotional burden it placed on her, and despite the lives it cost.

  I told her, “Even if you hadn’t killed those people, they would have found someone else to do it.”

  She shrugged. “But that doesn’t make it any less wrong,” she said. “Even if this is part of some divine plan, does that make it right to have killed dozens of innocent people?”

  It’s something I can’t wrap my head around either. Is this a situation where the ends justify the means, or could another path have brought Adrienne and me together? Or maybe Adrienne having killed those people served some greater purpose that fits within the multi-life storylines of everyone involved. Perhaps the souls of the people Adrienne killed had planned for that to take place in their lives, perhaps even collaborating with Adrienne’s soul between lives to facilitate that circumstance. Perhaps it was a karmic sacrifice, or part of a lesson their soul needed to learn—a lesson that carried over into the surviving friends and family of the deceased. Perhaps for them to achieve what they were meant to achieve in this life, they needed to endure the hardship of tragically losing someone close to them. There are too many moving parts to make sense of it all.

  “Maybe in the time between our next lives, we’ll learn what it all means,” I said.

  “Maybe,” she said, “But until then, I have to do whatever it takes to bring down the Corporation, not only to help save humanity, but to avenge the deaths of those I killed.”

  Adrienne often has sleepless nights as she wrestles with these truths, but last night was a little different. During the night, she awoke when she saw me get out of bed around 2:00 a.m. She said she followed me out to the living room, where I sat down and started to write on the back page of one of the documents she had acquired from the Corporation. She asked me what I was doing, and to her surprise it wasn’t me who responded. It was Edgar.

  She said it was very different talking to Edgar than myself. She said he had an accent that she couldn’t place, and his mannerisms were not at all like mine. Even though it was the same body, there was clearly someone else inside.

  Adrienne said Edgar wasn’t surprised to see her there—that he had been expecting this part of the story to unfold. He told her about his time between lives in which Adrienne’s soul had been present and participating in the planning of the new version of my life.

  Adrienne asked him about his current life. He told her, as you will hear in his letter, that he was happily married in his new world. She asked him whether or not he thinks his wife is her reincarnated soul. He said he thinks so, as the same soul that planned to be with me in my life had also planned to be with him in his. However, the beings of light intentionally didn’t share many of those details with him, so he wasn’t certain. With all the changes in his life lately, he said he couldn’t be certain of anything really. “It’s a moving target,” he told Adrienne.

  He did confirm, though, that she is the person I need to help practice the rituals. He said she would have an important role in the transformation of humanity. Adrienne asked him what exactly it was that she would have to do, but he said he wasn’t given any details about that part of the plan. He only told her that she would know when it presented itself. Until then, it was important for her to practice the rituals, so that she would be ready when the time comes.

  Adrienne said she wasn’t able to talk with Edgar as long as she wanted. He told her he needed to finish writing the letter before I woke up. He didn’t want to interfere with this reality any more than necessary because he wasn’t sure what unintended consequences could manifest if he stuck around any longer than was planned. He was clearly a man on a mission, and he wasn’t going to let even his soulmate in a past life keep him from following through. I don’t know if I would have had the same resolve.

  Adrienne let me sleep through the remainder of the night, and I read the letter after I awoke this morning. This is what it said:

  Dear Adam,

  I am happy to see that you have found Adrienne and that you both are safe. I can now tell you about what else transpired in my journey between our lives. Adrienne’s soul was also present in the planning of the new path for your life, and hers. She is indeed your soulmate, and you have shared many lives together in the past. In some of these lives, you have been lovers, and in others, family members or close friends. Both of your present lives have changed significantly from their original version. In the version of your life in which you didn’t receive these letters, you still would have met each other but in entirely different circumstances.

  In case you haven’t realized it yet, Adrienne is the person with whom you must share the rituals. You must help her to bring the rituals into her daily life, as she will play a pivotal role in setting the course of humanity back on track. She can only do this if she practices the rituals and finds the balance that the rituals will bring her. It is up to you to help her achieve that balance.

  Another of the reasons you were chosen to share the rituals with the world is because of your soulmate relationship with Adrienne. Your two souls complement and bring out the best in each other. You can help her achieve what she is meant to achieve in this life, and she can do the same for you.

  I should also let you know that soulmate relationships can have profound effects on the development of the soul, and because of this, they often challenge us on a deep level. These relationships push us outside our comfort zones and help our souls avoid stagnation. Our soulmates often help us to learn the hardest lessons in life. I tell you this so that you know your relationship with Adrienne will not be without struggle, but it will help each of you become the person you are meant to become.

  I am already deeply indebted to you for what you have done to change the course of humanity, as it affects my world on both a global and personal level. In the world in which I lived prior to the first letter, I never would have imagined being able to fall in love and have a family, but when I returned to my life after my last letter, I was overwhelmed with positive emotion as I had a wife and two children waiting for me. I also had new memories of the years we shared together.

  My wife, Rhona, is an amazing woman and works as a psychiatrist at the organization where we are both employed. We met nine years ago, and I’ve been falling in love with her more and more ever since. Our twin children, Zack and Zara, are six years old, and I’m brought to tears thinking about how blessed I am to have such a beautiful family.

  I told Rhona about you and the work we are doing. She understands the importance of our mission, but she struggled when it came time for me to leave to write another letter. She told me that she would never truly see me again after I left, and she’s right. We’ll each be a completely different version of ourselves when I retu
rn. But I told her that we must have faith that the new world I return to will be even better than the last.

  I would be lying if I said it was easy for me to leave her. Even though I have only been with my wife and children for a few months since my last letter, my new memories make it feel like I have been in this version of the world my whole life. I can only hope that Rhona and my children will be there in the next version as well.

  Not only is my personal world so amazingly different, so is the world outside. Individuals all across the globe are now striving to lead meaningful lives, as humanity is motivated by a sense of purpose toward working together to make the world a better place. I have gone from a world of mindless existence, to a world of conflict, and now to a world of compassion and hope.

  When humanity acts in this manner, nothing can stand in its way. People are asking difficult questions of themselves and each other in an attempt to derive meaning from their lives and the work they do. They are holding each other accountable out of a sense of mutual respect that I have not seen in previous versions of my world.

  As for my own work, I am still with the same organization that I described in my last letter, only now our work focuses on learning more about a unique subset of individuals in our world. We call these individuals “Awakened Beings,” and I can only assume they are the start of the conscious awakening I learned about in my time between lives. They look like normal human beings, but their consciousness operates at a higher level. You can immediately perceive this when interacting with them, and their brain waves confirm it, as they produce completely different frequencies of thought compared to ordinary people.

  Much like my previous life’s work with psychedelics, these individuals can see and experience the substructure of reality. The difference is that they can do this at will, without the use of mind-altering substances. They frequently express how all things are connected as one, and this perspective makes them tremendously empathic and compassionate toward others. They also have a special ability to communicate with anyone without verbally speaking to them. It’s a kind of mind reading or telepathy, but they only use this ability for good and don’t do it with anyone who doesn’t want to communicate this way.

  However, as you might expect, this ability has the potential to be used maliciously. Even though my world is far improved, it’s not a perfect world by any means. There continues to exist a powerful group of people who are likely the remnants of what you and Adrienne have identified as “The Corporation.” This group continues to attempt to regain power and control over the world’s population. They view Awakened Beings as both a threat and a potential weapon. They have abducted many of them, attempted to turn them, and when that fails, they have executed them. In addition to our research, my organization works to protect Awakened Beings from the Corporation.

  There’s something else. I haven’t shared this with you yet, but each time I return to the future, we are both becoming increasingly famous. It seems that the first letters and podcast episodes affected the future in more indirect ways, which rippled into more profound effects over time. Now, the podcast is having a more direct effect, as it is well known throughout my world. People are beginning to know who I am, as well as who you are. This puts my safety at risk, as the Corporation may try to either stop me or attempt to steal my technology for traveling back through consciousness.

  So, much like you, I now live with my family in a secret location. If they find me, our ability to carry out our mission will be threatened. Because of this, I have decided to share the details of the mission with my wife, Rhona. I suspect she is the reincarnation of Adrienne’s consciousness, so if anything happens to me, my hope is that she can use the device and travel back into Adrienne’s consciousness to relay the next letters and perhaps also bring about a new future in which I am back at home with her. It’s a very unpredictable thing, and while I’m tempted to just write all the remaining letters to you now, I distinctly remember that my instructions were to write each ritual in a separate letter. I don’t think I should start improvising at this point. There are too many unknowns in both of our realities to think that we can start messing with fate.

  In case Rhona does go back, and it’s not into Adrienne’s consciousness, it is important that she be able to find you. Adrienne has given me the location of where you are staying, and I will share this information with Rhona so that she knows where to find you if she needs to.

  I have also determined that after the last letter is written, whether by me or Rhona, we will destroy the device. If the device falls into the wrong hands, everything we have done could be undone, and perhaps made worse. It is too powerful a technology, and there is no way to ensure it won’t fall into the wrong hands. Even without that potential, I see no reason for myself or anyone else to ever use the device again, considering that even with the best intentions, it presents tremendous potential for unintended consequences.

  I’ll share with you now the next ritual.

  The third ritual is the air ritual. This ritual is about the invisible energy fields that blanket the air all around you. Some of these fields are natural and beneficial, but most of them in your world are artificial fields. These include radiofrequency fields from cells phones and other wireless devices, as well as electric and magnetic fields from the power grid.

  The natural fields produced by the earth are synchronized to the same vibrational frequencies produced by the body. When the body’s frequencies are tuned to the earth’s frequencies, the body is able to achieve a state of coherence. This state of coherence is necessary for the mind to operate at its highest potential.

  However, the artificial fields present in your environment disrupt this coherence and alter the natural frequencies of the body and the mind. This drains the body’s battery that is fueled by the sun and water, making it difficult for the mind to function at its optimal level. This disruption and loss of energy has negative effects on the basic functions of the human brain, including difficulty thinking and impaired mood. The biggest effect, however, is that it prevents the more subtle functions of the mind from working at all. These subtle functions are those of intuition and instinct. They are the forces of the mind that go beyond reason and logic. They allow us to connect with a deeper reality, helping us to make better choices and decisions. When these subtle functions are blocked by artificial fields, it is much like trying to make wise choices while impaired by drugs or alcohol.

  There is no way to remove these artificial fields entirely from your life. Even if you stopped using them yourself, you’d still be exposed to the fields created by those around you. But you can exponentially reduce your exposure with some basic changes in how you use these technologies. It is especially important to reduce your exposure while you sleep, as sleep is the time when we rely on the subtle functions of the mind the most. These subtle functions are what create our dreams, and whether we realize it or not, it is our dreams that guide our waking life.

  You will find much about the effects of man-made fields in your scientific literature. As with the previous rituals, this knowledge has been suppressed by powerful individuals and organizations. Telecommunications and technology industries are extremely powerful in your time and have great control over your world’s population. Only by disconnecting from these technologies can you regain control over your own life and consciousness.

  The air ritual is to minimize your exposure to artificial fields so that you can achieve a state of coherence.

  I, or Rhona, will write again soon. Take care of Adrienne. She needs you. And, of course, take care of yourself.

  Yours,

  Edgar

  It’s really cool that Edgar got to meet Adrienne. It’s exciting enough to introduce someone you care about to your family or friends, but it’s another thing entirely to have them meet your reincarnated self in another life.

  I’m also happy for Edgar that he now has a wife and children. I hope he is reunited with them in the next ver
sion of his life. If Rhona is indeed Adrienne in her next life, it may work out to our advantage. Let’s just hope it doesn’t come to that.

  Edgar was right about there being much information already written about artificial fields. I’ve come across countless research studies demonstrating the biological effects of non-native, electromagnetic radiation. There is also a large amount of industry-funded research that tries to muddy the waters. When the independent research shows harmful effects, and the corporate research shows no effect, what conclusions do you think we should draw?

  It’s really amazing that, considering the amount of evidence compiled over decades of research, there is still the common belief that anyone who tries to limit their exposure to artificial fields is a tin-foil-hat-wearing lunatic. There is clearly a massive disconnect between the science and the mainstream perspective, and it’s no surprise that this has been caused by the propaganda machine of industry and government, which both view these technologies not only as a gold mine but also a perfect way to exert control over the world’s population. Essentially, almost every human on the planet carries with them a mind-control device in their pocket, and they do so willingly. The longer this happens, the less likely we’ll be able to perceive the effect these frequencies have on our consciousness. It is also becoming more difficult to do controlled research on the health effects of these frequencies since everyone has already been exposed at such high levels.

  Much of the research on exposure to artificial fields shows that it triggers both cellular and physiological stress responses in the body. There is evidence that it causes DNA damage, which may lead to the development of cancer. It also impairs heart rate variability, which indicates a stress response by the autonomic nervous system. Research also shows that exposure can alter brain function, resulting in impaired memory and mood, which Edgar mentioned in the letter. High exposure can also cause infertility, so you may want to think twice about carrying your cell phone in your pocket if you’re planning to have kids.