SATURDAY SESSIONS # .38

'Tell us about your private tour in Lemuria, Jordan. The Lemurians don't get good press, as you know. But maybe we've got it all wrong. Maybe we misunderstand them. They are, after all, different. Have we got it wrong? Tell us your version. What are they really like?'                                                 

'The Lemurians are beautiful people, Bardo. They are gentle, kind, compassionate, and they care a great deal about all living beings, including us.'                             

'Including us?'

Bardo cleared his throat and looked around him, playing to the gallery.

'If the Lemurians are as advanced as people say they are,' he went on, 'why don't they reach out a bit and help us? Even talk to us? After all, we share the same planet, don't we?'

'I asked them that very same question. Their answer was that they would have to be invited first to do so.'

'Invited?  What, should we send them a gilt-edged invitation card?  Can we have a chat sometime, please? We promise we won't bite. RSVP.'

Laughter from the audience.

'Seriously, though, ladies and gentlemen,' Bardo addressed the audience, 'satellite, wireless, landline connectivity, in fact all communications systems are blocked by these people. Come to think of it, even snail-mail! Our gilt-edged invitation card would have to be delivered by carrier-pigeon!'

I laughed along with the audience at that and continued to answer his question.

'Their Prime Directive, as they call it, is not to interfere. Just that. I suppose that goes both ways. They helped us once, a long time ago, but I'm afraid we did bite; we bit the hand that fed us!'

I got a chuckle from the audience for that remark.

'You are referring to the colonisation period, I presume.'

'Yes, although I believe that particular term would hardly be appropriate in this case. Colonisation has a very negative connotation, implying occupation, subjugation, theft, exploitation and the abuse of power.'

'Very well. Let's call it the visitation. Because it certainly wasn't an invitation!'

Laughter.

'Don't forget, Bardo, that a substantial percentage of our population in Atlantis descended from the Lemurians, going back to those early days many thousands of years ago.' 

'Quite. They may have, indeed, outstayed their welcome as our uninvited guests.'

The audience laughed again.

'But as you say,' he continued, 'they're in our DNA now, a number of us, we're neighbours, living together on the same planet. We're all in the same boat. Which means we're also sharing the same future, aren't we?'

'I'm glad you put it that way. Believe me, there will be no future for us or for our children without the Lemurians.'

The audience didn't seem to like that at all. I could hear the words nonsense and get real amongst the  mutterings.

'Lemuria is a secretive society, Jordan. As I said, they've blocked all contact with the rest of the world, notwithstanding the occasional QSA junket, if I may add.'

Bardo glanced wryly at the laughing audience.

'They don't speak,' he continued, 'they don't eat anything that moves - but what am I saying? They don't eat at all, the poor devils!'

Laughter.

'Nobody can decipher what they write, their children don't go to school, they don't live and behave like we do, they don't believe in God and they share none of our values. And yet, you tell us that they actually care about us and that our world has no future without them? How can you be so sure?'

'That they care about us? I have no doubt whatsoever.  But they also care about how we care - or don't care, as it happens - about the planet they have the misfortune of sharing with us.' 

'Surely that's a bit overstated, no? We could say the very same thing about them, could we not?  We have the misfortune of living on the same planet as an isolationist, secretive, and for all we know, hostile society such as theirs.'

The audience applauded.

'If they had reason to believe,' I continued, 'that we actually cared about the world we live in, they would make all the necessary diplomatic moves to encourage open communication between us. But we have given them no reason to believe that.' 

'We all want to survive. We all want to leave behind us a world for our children that is better and easier to live in. We would happily welcome any meaningful assistance that would help us reach that goal!'

'On the contrary, Bardo. The Lemurians believe we would resist any attempt by them to offer support of any kind, because they regard us as an insecure, fear-ridden, aggressive and belligerent society.' 

I ignored the boos from the audience.

'We need to carry out a radical, root and branch examination of everything that sustains us. We need to revise our whole relationship with nature and with the world at large. Even though we may already be on a collision course with disaster.'

'You mean climate change?'

'Climate change is one of the more obvious symptoms of the disease.'

'You mentioned somewhere in the media that you and your family had become vegetarian recently. A Lemurian directive? Good thing they didn't prescribe Breatharianism.'

He turned to the audience again with a blank, childish expression of pathetic subservience to a command and elicited another burst of laughter. 

'The Lemurians started out a very long time ago as vegans. It took them many generations to be able to do without any food at all. Breatharianism is the key to their longevity.'

'In one of your interviews, you mentioned the fact that the Lemurians actually talk to their vegetables, the ones they grow for visitors like you. Is that correct?'

'Yes.'

'And do the vegetables respond?'

I had to wait for the laughter to die down.

'In the old days, Bardo, the Lemurians would communicate their gratitude to the vegetables before they consumed them. Silently, of course. They don't speak, as you know. It's a wonderful, spiritual practice, if you want my opinion on the matter. You don't actually have to say thanks or even think about it. You show your gratitude by being aware.'

'Aware? Aware of what?'

'Aware of the fact that we are all interdependent and ultimately dependent on the sun, that without sunlight, plants would not grow. And if the plants didn't grow, you wouldn't be sitting here right now talking about it, whether you are a vegetarian or an omnivore. Awareness is a form of gratitude.'

'Let's have some opinions from the audience at this juncture, shall we?'                                               

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SATURDAY SESSIONS # 37

'Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Saturday night's nationwide broadcast, Movers & Shakers, our weekly programme, beamed live into your homes across the continent, where we chat with the people who make our great country even greater. Such people are the Movers and the Shakers of Atlantis. The Movers, our sources of inspiration, moving us onwards and upwards; the Shakers, our critics and bootcamp coaches, shaking off the remnants of our past and all those things that fail to serve us any more! As always, Part One of our programme begins with the Shakers!'                                       

Bardo showed the back of one his large, blue flashcards to the camera.                                           

'Our slogan for the Shakers?'                                                                                                     

Like schoolchildren, the audience bleated out the words on the card: 

ALL TRUTH BEGINS AS HERESY.                                                                                           

'Thank you, thank you, ladies and gentlemen! Tonight, we kick off with this week's Shaker, Dr Jordan Karpathian, recently returned from a controversial trip to the forbidden continent of Lemuria, that impenetrable culture less than eight hours' flight from here, steeped in mystery, silence and a thousand rumours, and visited only occasionally by the select few! Jordan, welcome to Movers & Shakers! So, tell us a little about yourself first. What do you do?'                                                         

'I head up the Health & Safety division of the QSA, that's the Government-appointed Quality Standards Authority, the Advisory Body responsible for Quality Control Regulation across the continent.'

'But don't companies and institutions have their internal quality control mechanisms in place?' 

'Yes, of course. QC is a mandatory requirement throughout the whole of our economy and society at large. You might say that the QSA is the last line of defence.'                                                          

'You guard the guards! So the buck stops with you, right?'                                                              

'That is correct.'                                                                                                                     

'Meaning, if you don't like what you see, if the product or service does not pass muster or meet the required standards of excellence, you can demand its removal from distribution?'                       

'Well, yes and no. We make recommendations based on our assessment. We might alternatively recommend certain modifications and even removal from distribution, or cessation of service, for example.'                                                                                                                     

'Now, it's an open secret, of course, that since your return from Lemuria a short while ago, you've been causing quite a stir in the media and social networks. Your harsh criticism of the quality of our food and water supplies, for example, has been particularly controversial, even though it is not exactly within the parameters of the Health & Safety Division of the QSA. Would you care to comment on that first?'                                                                                                                   

'I hope you are not implying, Bardo, that proper nutrition and the quality of our drinking water have nothing to do with health?'                                                                                                               

'Food Technology and Water Quality are separate divisions of the QSA, are they not? The head of the Water division, Dr Solpethio, is quoted as having said that basically, and I quote, my esteemed colleague, the group-leader of the Health Division at the QSA, should kindly mind his own business, as I mind mine.'                                                                                                 

Bardo turned blandly to the audience, which responded with an outburst of laughter.                    

'You have been quoted in the press as referring to the Department of Sickness, your employers at Government Buildings, not the Department of Health. Can you explain what you mean by that?'     

'I mean that the Department of Health is focused exclusively on sickness, not on health.'                

The applause from the audience was a great relief, although it was still hard to know whose side they were on.                                                                                                            

'But surely our general practices, hospitals and pharmacies are focused on health, are they not?'

'Natural, non-toxic food, good nutrition, clean, untampered water and clear, oxygen-rich air are all vital to our health and longevity. The reason why sickness and chronic diseases have increased exponentially over the years is because we have turned our backs on nature and abandoned the basic essentials required for our everyday survival and health.'                                                              

Bardo checked his prompt-card.                                                                                                        

'Last Tuesday, the CEOs of nine out of ten of our major pharmaceutical industries in Atlantis, that's ninety per-cent of the industry, wrote an open letter to the Government in the Atlantis Broadsheet calling for your resignation, based on what they describe as your incompetence and naiveté. You are quoted as having denied the validity of allopathic medicine in the treatment of chronic illness. They describe such a statement coming from the head of Health QC at the QSA as, and I quote, outrageous and utterly irresponsible, criminally negligent quackery. Pretty strong stuff, eh? In an interview on this channel on Wednesday, one of the CEO signatories of that letter, a psychiatrist by training, went on to suggest that you should consider psychiatric evaluation in the wake of your ill-advised and extended contact with the Lemurians.'                                                                                         

'Yes, I saw that interview. Dr Rilopak, wasn't it?  No doubt the good doctor has in mind a well-known brand of expensive, brightly-coloured capsules he can prescribe to cure my psychosis.'      

Mercifully, the audience laughed again. It offered me a moment to reflect. Croescia and Jarok were at home looking in. I smiled faintly into the camera lens.  I was doing this for them. It was high time I stood up for myself, Croescia reassured me. I wouldn't have been able to do it without her. She's taking it all so well. Although she hasn't been herself since the story hit the papers. The other mothers seem to be avoiding her at the school.  Even Jarok himself told me this morning at breakfast that everyone in his class hated the Lemurians. When I asked him why, he said they just hated them, that's all.                                                                            

'Clearly,' I continued, when the laughter died down, 'there's a role for allopathic medicine in acute medical situations; only a fool with sepsis or a broken leg will deny that. But medicine, as we know it, tends to focus on the symptoms rather than the cause, especially in chronic illness. Furthermore, in treating the symptoms, the cause is pushed further into obscurity.'                                                   

'So, are you suggesting that the pharmaceutical industry is not interested in the cause? Your training was in chemistry, was it not?'                                                                                                            

'No, I'm not suggesting that at all. What I'm saying is simply, if the cause of chronic illness is non-physical, the treatment has to be non-physical. '    

'So, how do you know if the cause is non-physical?'                                                                         

'The cause is always non-physical.'                                                                                                 

There was a murmur of disapproval throughout the audience.                                    

'Of course there are triggers, but the energy body will succumb to the triggers if the cause is not addressed.'                                                                                                                    

When I glanced around, I saw people shaking their heads in perplexity and disbelief. Oops. I think I've lost them. Can't turn back now. Might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.                            

'All healing must be based on spirituality; otherwise there is no healing. If you don't like the word spiritual, call it the energy field, the energy body template, where all diseases originate and have their blueprint. Symptoms may become less apparent with medical intervention, of course, but true healing must be energetic, spiritual, in tune with nature. Nature only wants us to be well, to be whole, to return to our natural state of homeostasis.'                                                                          

'Meaning?'                                                                                                             

'Equilibrium. Self-regulation. The body's internal balance, based on co-operation between the organs of the whole body and the cells within the organs. True healing addresses the whole body, not just a part of it. To address just one part of the body and ignore the rest, above all the energy body, is like trying to solve a flooding problem downstream while ignoring the knock-on effect upstream.'    

'Yes, you have stated in one of your interviews that the body is less like a car and more like a river. Did I get that right?'                                                                                                             

'A river of energy and information, yes.'                                                                                

'And that we take better care of our cars than of our bodies, is that correct?'                         

Laughter. It was the way he said it.                                                                                   

'Yes.'                                                                                                                                  

'So the cause of illnesses, you claim, is due to a block in the energy flow? '                                   

'Yes, Bardo, that would be more or less correct.'                                                            

'And what might cause this blockage?'                                                                 

'Everything negative, like fear, for example, or any negativity brought on by the illusion of separation. Separation of any kind is an illusion. There is no separation whatsoever in the infinite web of existence. Everybody, everything, everywhere, is interdependent.'                                           

There were a few moments of uncomfortable silence as Bardo took a strategic breath designed for the camera, more like a sigh, and moved on to the next prompt-card in his hands.          

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