Further than Before- Pathway to the Stars

by Matthew Opdyke

  The narrator, along with the amazing visual descriptions, explained in great detail what it meant to become fully read-in. The movie took them through a three-dimensional image of the large hadron colliders, the cold-fusion thermonuclear reactors, the bio-labs, the physics labs, the neurological optimization labs, the space elevator, and so much more.

  “We have a couple of options that will be new for many here when it comes to something called a smart suit, the clothes that you are wearing will be transformed into a smart suit once you enter your biopod. With this attire, you will be able to use a neural identification, which you will receive as you are optimized both physiologically and neurologically, to essentially chose any wardrobe you would like, from an array lying within a compartmentalized area of your mind, and don it for wear, instantaneously. This will provide you hygiene, exercise, and even convert unwanted hair follicles to energy to give you an added boost through each day. We can also hand out a basic smart suit that you can change into the restrooms located on both sides of the room.”

  Before coming to a close, the narrator of the movie gave everyone a series of options for the next step of their training. Their primary choices would be to either become fully read-in, with a series of missions, journeys, breaks, and sabbaticals, or to stay on Earth but to agree to confidentiality, and a temporary and partial mind wipe, until these advancements became public, with explicit assurances that they would not permanently lose those memories, but they would be returned once all of these advancements became public. They also had an option for transfer to any one of twenty-thousand tech cities of their choosing where they would have complete access to anything needed within them, including a personal or family domicile. Of course, each person’s or families’ private domain would be theirs to call their own, but all of this was contingent upon abiding what was called Universal Ethics. Education, employment, and good will were very much promoted. Violations of ethical behavior would result in virtual correction, which would not harm the individual, rather it would send an individual into a Virtual Universe with simulated trainers, individuals, and populations all designed to give them the ideal set of experiences necessary to increase clarity on how to contribute to the advancement of civilization, using kindness and compassion, respecting personal consent, and appreciating the efforts of others.

  For any immigrant who preferred to take the pathway to citizenship, they would be taught English, US History, and then enrolled into a series of courses that would provide them a high-quality education and certification to qualify as US citizens to work in public to help humanity advance in one way or another. They would return every few months for additional training.

  For those who wished to be fully read-in, they would be escorted to their living quarters, and then a room full of biopods, which looked similar to white and glowing tanning beds, but were much more comfortable and plush, where they would interface with the Virtual Universe to receive further training—the details of which would not be discussed during this brief. After their training, they would become Pathway LLC Citizens as well as scientists, field engineers, or even field operatives, with field-specific missions on Earth or anywhere within the solar system.

  Finally, for those who wished to only be partially read-in and live in a tech city as a Pathway LLC citizen, they would be shown the various sanctuaries, able to choose which one they preferred, and then be transferred via the jump gate to that city, wherein they would be trained further and contribute to the specific missions of their location, the moon, planet, or spheroid they lived on.

  It was obvious that a majority of people preferred to become fully read-in, but a few people opted to have partial read-ins followed by an opportunity to live on another planet within the solar system. There was one family that chose to stay on Earth, who agreed to the temporary and partial mind wipe, swore to confidentiality with regard to the technologies of Pathway LLC, to learn English, and to follow the pathway to becoming US Citizens, and once that was done they would assimilate productively into society, and visit every few months or so for training.

  Amber, chose to be fully read-in. “What happens to those whose minds are wiped? Is that even ethical? Why do that?” she asked Eliza.

  “I’ll answer that for you since I see Yesha looking at me, and the reason is mine to describe,” explained Eliza. “We have no desire to engage in entrapment, which this very much seems like, yet we also had to figure out a way to create a safety and security mechanism to prevent some of these technologies from getting into the hands of those that would unleash some of the worst into society. The only memories they will temporarily lose are those directly relating to the details of our technologies and advancements that aren’t yet ready for release to the Public. Essentially, unless read-in or optimized, they will not be able to see our advancements in space or on Earth, nor will they recall the technologies used for the advancements. However, they will not lose any personal memories, such as relationships established, the sense of trust built between them and other members of Pathway, and they will have a quickening of all of their memories, once everything has gone public during my “great reveal.” Everything that we have worked on, developed, created, and expanded upon is amazing and intended to help humanity will be revealed when the time is right.

  “These advancements are intended to help people to have clarity on what it is that can be done to preserve the heritage, the legacy, the romances, the history, the art, and the sciences that have made humanity such a wonderful part of the history of the Universe itself. With the laws of chaos, the laws of entropy, and the laws of thermodynamics, we understand that technology can go one of many ways, two of which are most prominent: either all of humanity can stay its current course and become completely destroyed by its own negligence or overt intentions of destruction, or humanity can be shown beauty in science, the beauty in kindness, the amazing sense of compassion, and through that we can harness chaos, control it, and ensure that it leads us toward the discovery of how to reign in the chaos that could decimate our Universe.

  “We can very well be around for a long, long time, and it is worth it to have every unique, brilliant, and special soul with us along the way. There is no sane reason for death, for carnage, or for misery other than to test our grace. Instead of wars and unforeseen challenges, we can reach the same growth through unchartered innovations and dare to understand our Universe and the laws that bind it. We can preserve it, beautify it, and make it even stronger. While traveling from one end to the next, we can still have the ability to meet with each other, sharing stories with each other, and even taking each other to the many amazing places we will have inevitably found by then on our journeys.

  “Wouldn’t it be nice to have family and friends around when we return from planets within galaxies more than one-hundred-billion light-years away? We’re all interested in and care about making that possible. However, people are free to go their own way. We simply must strive to provide clarity and health, while protecting our technologies from those that would use them to destroy others. That is what physiological and neurological optimization is all about, life and enlightenment. To preserve life is the ultimate equation for ethics. To take it away or to let our minds squander away through negligence, is the enemy of life, freedom, and even joy, and thereby maliciously unethical. Ethics and death do not belong together.”

  Eliza could see Amber’s intrigue, so she paused.

  Amber thought about what Eliza had said, and it had appeared that Eliza had given her pause to explain her understanding of what she had said. “So, everything that we are doing and everything that you have done represents or embodies ethics. That makes sense. Preserving life, all of life, is where ethics resides. Causing undue strife is what leads to or creates misery, suffering, and ultimately the chaos that will allow our Universe to fade away.

  “If we destroy our World, and with it, our humanity, all of our history would be mute. Everything that everyone has ever done would become pointless fr
om a standpoint of looking at things realistically from future or distant civilizations. Lost would be everything beautiful that all of the wonderful people throughout our history has ever done or accomplished. Therefore, to preserve life, to preserve the history and the legacy of humankind and all of our friends, and to merely begin with kindness, we will each be involved in specific tasks and missions leading to the preservation of our Universe. That is why we have to protect all of this from those who would seek to bring the demise of humanity. Negligence, giving up on life, or actually fighting against advancement will cause humanity and Earth itself to fail. It is not our duty to hasten death and glory in destruction, rather preserve life and beautify it throughout the Universe, all the while finding ways to overcome its expansion to a big freeze of all of life and history.”

  “Precisely,” said Eliza. “Also, please keep in mind that we have created a partition of the Virtual Universe to allow people to work out the wiggles. In the Entertainment Matrix, people will be able to go to different worlds and create or even join in on stories to live out, create or join in on games of all varieties with environmental and person versus person situations and missions. In those games or entertainment venues, people will find that their imagination is the limit. Before leaving, memories will be stored in an encoded and compartmentalized section of their own brain and backed up in our databases with the privacy of their neural identification. Each artificial memory will have a unique mental flavor that will indicate clearly the experiences had been through a specific Entertainment Matrix venue, and their physiology and neurology will be optimized, and they will return to the real world, refreshed and revitalized, and filled again with compassion and empathy. There is so much more, but what do you think about this thus far?”

  “Wow that idea is quite sound, and the Entertainment Matrix sounds quite fun! I’m with you both, Eliza and Yesha, and I truly appreciate what you are doing,” said Amber.

  Amber followed Eliza and Yesha to the next room filled with the biopods. “We created these biopods to provide physical protection and sensory response to the Virtual Universe activity had while at the same time our bodies are physiologically and neurologically optimized or fine-tuned. During that process, we will each neurologically integrate with the digital world as we interface with the Twelve Database Satellite moons, which are capable of providing a visceral experience with everything around the Earth and everything else throughout our observable Universe, all within in close range and with high clarity. Anywhere and anything these satellites can detect, we can go. While here, you will learn more quickly. Five minutes in the real world could equate to twenty minutes, or a few seconds, or even a few centuries in the Virtual Universe.

  “This is a place for education, for entertainment, for experience, and even for correction; although, if someone was sent here for correctional purposes they would no longer be linked to anyone else directly. This is designed to prevent scheming while promoting coaching, learning, and continued clarity toward contribution in the advancement of civilization.”

  After Amber was satisfied with the questions had, she followed Eliza and Yesha to the group biopod room, and the biopod they had assigned to her. It had her name on it, so there was no confusion. It happened to be right next to Yesha’s and Eliza’s biopods.

  ~ Amber Blythe – Journey Through the Virtual Universe ~

  Eliza, Yesha, and Amber climbed into their assigned biopods. The rest of those who had accompanied them in training, who, with their delegates, consisted of one-hundred people, many of whom had immigrated to escape violence and brutality, all jumped into their assigned biopods. As they did, Eliza and Yesha taught everyone to mentally think, “Link, 1, 2, 3, 5 Minutes, 20 Years.” Like that, in unison, everyone did so, and each person felt a twinge, then they felt as though every cell in their bodies was resisting, until euphoria set in. All of a sudden, one-hundred-three people were gathered around a pond with a statue of an angel overlooking it. Everyone who had ever been to and visited Eliza’s estate home recognized where they were. Suddenly, they connected with each other for the first time with crystal clear clarity, appreciated each other for who they were, and everyone spoke and understood the same language as if it were their own.

  “We’re in a digital representation of my backyard at my home, Amber. Now that we have all melded minds, everyone else will have their own journeys, to a degree, with their assigned delegates. They’ll mostly follow us but cluster with their delegates. Yesha and I are your assigned delegates, to allow for ease of the journey and optimal training. Please, follow me,” said Eliza.

  Yesha, who was not too far behind, waived her hands and pointed toward Eliza. Everyone then followed Eliza as she took them through several portals, she identified as matrix entry points, where they witnessed small portions of the histories of civilization, their brutality, the heroic efforts of the few to change things that were considered by far too many others as “a part of life,” yet were obviously a form of injustice, and quite a few epochs of peace and prosperity. Everyone learned similarly, that people throughout history who allowed horrible things happen to others, in doing so, or in settling for things because that was the way things were, settled for a mediocre reality until other generations arose and took their place, making the changes desired by the few, eventually possible.

  In many other cases, within these many matrices, they witnessed with sorrow as benevolent societies were destroyed by a more cantankerous one, because they became weak and oblivious to the cruel intentions of malevolent minds, and thus were destroyed by those with no vision but of violence, gore, power, jealousy, pretentiousness, and greed. They also learned that for this reason physiological optimizations accentuated our strength, our agility, our ability to defend ourselves, and at the same time the neurological optimizations integrated with them and increased our compassion for others, our empathy, our wisdom, and our ability to communicate clearly and persuasively with one another, our respect for person consent, and our passion toward innovation that would increase the quality of life and the well-being of the entirety of humanity.

  Eliza then led them through the twenty-thousand tech cities, showed them the Twelve Database Moons, and the infrastructure on Earth that made it all possible. She showed them the shields protecting every planet and the sphere protecting and regenerating the solar system’s star itself. The Sun would last indefinitely, so long as humanity continued to maintain or upgrade the technology. She showed them each asteroid, where it was captured, their biopsies, the history learned, and which cities each asteroid helped to create. Finally, she had them all follow her to some of the most beautiful places on Earth itself, and then she paused and spoke again.

  “This is what we should always strive to preserve. Our home world. No matter where we go, no matter what we become or what we develop, we still need to protect our home world from anyone or anything that would seek to destroy the life within it.

  “This is the place where we began, and no matter where we go, where colonies will form throughout the rest of the Universe, we will teach and remind the new generations that life began here on Earth, and that they arrived at where they are due to compassion, kindness, and ingenuity.

  “We need to always take care of each other, appreciate each other, and celebrate our differences rather than tear each other apart because of them. There is so much to enjoy and appreciate, and we will have so many opportunities along the way to do so. We have a lot of promise and a legacy to preserve, so let’s do that. Together.”

  After speaking, after witnessing all of known history through scientific revelation, learning each of the sciences in their totality, and after having gained experience in and cross-queued each of them, they were filled with centuries of enriching perspective and wisdom, and awoke within their biopods, and each person felt an indescribable glow and unity about them. They also felt awake for the first time, unlike they had been at any other point in their lives. Each person felt a unique sense of what they could d
o to contribute to the advancement of civilization, and a special link between themselves and everyone else in the room. As they adjusted and mentally practiced their new skills, they arose from their biopods, they felt their left shoulders, and then the left side of their bodies, and then their left legs tingle.

  Eliza continued, “What you are feeling right now, is your right mind demonstrating its unique artistry through a mural, kaleidoscope, and mandala-like videography within a set pattern on your bodies. It is sort of a tattoo, but it can move with your thoughts and express the most beautiful aspects of what you have within. Please also note, that now you can eat anything you would like, drink anything you would like, have protection throughout life’s journeys, and when you are hurt, you will glow as your nanos help you heal.

  “You are for all sakes and purposes capable of living for trillions of years and more. We will have updates and you will receive upgrades as time goes by. You will be able to age from childhood, if you are a child, as a child would age until you are eighteen. From there you can choose to age from twenty to thirty-five as slow or as rapidly as you choose. If you are already an adult, you will be able to physiologically reduce your age to twenty through thirty-five, likewise. If you desire to walk among old friends on Earth, you will automatically be seen by those who have not been read-in as the age that you would be, but you will be protected at all times due to optimized physiology. These same individuals who see you who have not been read-in will witness you becoming younger and healthier in such a way as to avoid suspicion, but enough to appreciate the advice for a better and healthier lifestyle you may have to impart.