'Yes, you, madam.'
'I'm
a schoolteacher and I must say that as a Government employee, Dr Karpathian should
be ashamed of himself. He has done a great deal of damage to our reputation in
his condemnation of our system of education in the newspapers. How many of our impressionable
pupils and third-level students will have read it? You are a PhD, are you not,
Dr Karpathian? And yet you have nothing but contempt for the title which has
enabled you to land a well-paid, secure and pensionable position you now hold at
the QSA. Is this not the epitome of hypocrisy? '
'Well,
Jordan?' added Bardo. 'The lady has a point. Isn't your criticism of education and
all its benefits a case of double standards, the pot calling the kettle black?'
'I stand over everything I said in that interview.
As a matter of fact, madam, you and your impressionable pupils should have read
the unedited version.'
Loud laughter from the
audience.
'You sir, in the middle. With the blue
jacket.'
'These Lemurians claim
to have no army. Do you believe them?'
'Yes.'
'Is that not what they
want you to believe? In the hope, maybe, that we might cut back on our weapons
upgrades and expansion plans? In the
hope that we would be left vulnerable and open to a pre-emptive attack?'
'The
Lemurians don't need an army. They have learned from the lessons of history,
not only on this planet but on other planets and in other galaxies.'
'I'm
sorry for cutting across you, Jordan,' intervened Bardo, 'but how do you know
that they have been in touch with beings form other planets?'
'Obviously, I can't prove it,' I replied. 'I just have their
word for it. But in response to the defence question, where you have an army, sir,
you will have a reason to use that army, sooner or later, whether in defence or
attack. The same principle applies to the manufacture of weapons and all their
components.'
'Basically,
what you're saying here, Dr Kap...Karp...'
'Karpathian,' intervened
Bardo.
'What you're saying here, sir, is
that people should not defend themselves at all. Am I right?'
'People should never have to reach
that critical stage in which they need to defend themselves, but if they do, if
they do find themselves under attack, to respond with violence is to
acknowledge, and even fuel, the violence of the attacker.'
'So you wouldn't defend your family if they were attacked by,
say, some raving lunatic with an axe?'
'Of course I would defend my family.
I would defend anybody or any sentient being from mindless violence or any kind
of violence.'
'Even if you had to kill the attacker?'
'If lethal force were
inevitable in order to survive or ensure the survival of those I need to
protect, yes, of course I would use it.'
'Aren't you contradicting
yourself?'
'I
don't see any contradiction here at all. Survival and the protection of life,
when threatened, is a natural response. It is clear, even natural, that if the only
recourse a person has when faced with violence is to respond with force, then
your line of questioning is rhetorical and unnecessary. For the awakened
person, that response to force is not pre-meditated, it is not visceral, not
passionate, not ego-driven, and although it may be lethal, it is carried out reluctantly
and with compassion. Sadly, the unawakened, egocentric, dysfunctional behaviour
we witness only too often here in Atlantis precludes such compassion and
creates and sustains a stone-age mindset which thrives on the anxiety of insecurity
and the fear of attack.'
There was a boo and a few hostile
remarks from the back of the audience.
The
man in the blue jacket shook his head and addressed Bardo.
'You know something, Bardo? I
think your guest is a double agent. I
also think the Lemurians want to colonise us again. That's why he's here
tonight. They sent him here to disarm us!'
The
audience reacted noisily, a few of them shouting, Lock him up! Deport him! Send him back to the aliens! Bardo was lapping it up. He stood in a mock gesture
of appeal to the audience, pretending to appease them by saying that I was a loyal
and dedicated public servant with a young family and no further agenda than to
promote a healthy and peaceful society in Atlantis. East is east and west is west, he said, but
nevertheless, the world was getting smaller every day. His guest was a patriotic
Atlantean and was to be commended for his efforts to bring the East and the
West together in the best interests of us all.
Then he turned to me and jokingly asked me
if I was a double agent.
'No, Bardo' I answered, smiling. 'I'm a single
agent. An Atlantean spy who has returned from Lemuria with a message of hope.'
'And that message of hope is my final
question, Jordan. Given your largely
negative evaluation of our society and your warning that we may be on a
collision course with disaster, as you put it, what hopes do you have for us? Are
we a lost cause?'
'Certainly not. We just
need to be open to change. Open to the unknown. Change is never
comfortable. In essence, there is no
difference at all between us and the Lemurians. We are all on earth for the
same purpose.'
'Which is?'
'Which is to experience, to enhance our awareness and interface
with the experiences of life as they are presented to us, second by second, to
experience being, other beings, all beings, all things, to joyfully metabolise
these experiences, to creatively respond to all the infinite variety of
experiences presented to us here on Earth.'
'Could you simplify that a little?
Summarise it maybe, in a soundbite we could take away with us?'
'My understanding is that between
lives, we didn't choose to come to Earth in order to achieve anything. We
didn't come here to be comfortable or to get rich or famous. We certainly
didn't come here to compete, to work hard or to suffer. And we didn't come here
to be good or to receive a reward when we die.
As spiritual beings undergoing a human experience, we came here firstly to
discover that we are spiritual beings undergoing a human experience and with
that knowledge, to witness all the wonders of life, moment by moment. Joy is our natural state. We came here to
experience the uniqueness and the joy of our infinite, dynamic, ever-changing co-creation and to share that joy with one another. In that sense, we are no different at all from
the Lemurians. The only difference is that we are not aware of it yet.'
I could see that Bardo wasn't
listening. He was already preparing to display to the camera the other side of his large,
red flash-card for the second part of the show, the Movers. The camera focused on the card. The audience bleated
out the words:
ALL HERESIES END IN
TRUTH.
'Thank you, thank you, ladies and
gentlemen! Coming up in Part Two, our Mover
this week is a surprise guest who needs no introduction at all and who will
be with us shortly after the commercial break. But right now, please offer a big round
of applause for our Shaker of the week, Jordan Karpathian!
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