Further than Before- Pathway to the Stars

by Matthew Opdyke

  Joanne also noticed a physical change and she looked into a nearby mirror at Eliza’s and Yesha’s request and appreciated every aspect of how her mind translated its creativity into her appearance, and she even saw the movie- and mural-like artwork resembling a mandala-like kaleidoscope of thought and feelings, covering her left side. Eliza and Yesha showed her how to compartmentalize her mind to store a series of wardrobes that would complement her appearance in every way and adjust based upon each unique situation she might run into. “This could come in handy on-stage!” she thought. Furthermore, she could now connect with over two-billion people, and the numbers continued to grow, and she could share experiences with them at any given time using her neural identification, as trained in the Virtual Universe. Anyone who had ever been there before, who had shared an experience, who had become an expert in anything of any sort, and who had unique qualities, was always available when needed simply by using her neural link.

  After having gone on her jaunt from New York to Massachusetts and having met with Eliza, she had found herself visiting more often and returning home with a crystal-clear clarity of what to do and the roles she would play in the advancement of civilization. She knew there were many other things she could do to add to what she was already doing, one step at a time. Eliza was truly that one in a billion of people who she had hoped to meet, and with a clarity, she became a member of Pathway that day.

  James had visited her in the Virtual Universe and had shown her what he too had done to help Eliza and Yesha, and then he showed her what he recommended for her to begin with as a member of Pathway, based on her talents. He was the perfect gentleman in every way, his insight was spot on in as well, and she was impressed with his ability to see into her mind and give her that helpful nudge in the right direction. Not to mention, he was strikingly handsome.

  Joanne wanted to lead the way to improvement using her talents and skills to help others since it was evidenced on a daily basis through the conditions throughout the world that a lot could still be done. She wanted to help Eliza on her mission to nurture civilization so that it could go further than before. Even in her own country, the US, she had noticed how there were many amazing individuals who did wonderful things and were wonderful to others regularly. Yet, even still, the majority of humanity, including many within this place of freedom and of bravery, as well as the environment influenced by toxicity throughout the world was growing increasingly devoid of politeness, kindness, and creativity toward quality of life, good sportsmanship, compassion, ingenuity, and humanity.

  Joanne noticed how most charities outside of those not linked to Pathway seemed to easily lose their funds with little to show for it, other than the sad truth that they had maintained expensive litigation teams that were increasingly necessary to win battles in court. They spent a lot of their funding to fight those who would wish to take them down. In the end, many of these well-intended charities were left with very little to try to positively market that which was helpful in purpose in the first place. They continued their missions with what little there was left to do so.

  Most businesses and industries outside of Pathway seemed, to those who were astute enough, to operate in a very backward manner. Joanne began to increasingly see a theme that centered on greed—using automated systems to replace people, common sense, and psychological health. It frustrated her that this was a common choice over increasing ingenuity by training and keeping people, while lightening the burden of too many workplace hours and decreasing their stress, or while affording more time with family and exploration of the world or the Universe itself.

  The poisonousness of ill-will in society wasn’t right, nor would it ever be. It was interesting to Joanne how clearly Eliza had understood so much when it came to all that could be done to bring substance to the missions of businesses, for example, that professed higher quality of life and charities intent on doing all that they could to promote an increase in joy in life—much of it could be accomplished with finely-tuned efficiency through the often neglected tools of science, of effort, and of genuine consideration for others, as well as through proper mentorship and innovation. A company, instead of replacing their workers with robots, could give their workers an opportunity for a share of the profits of these automated systems, by maintaining them and overseeing quality control. This would also provide more time for the workers to spend with their families, their children, and exploring their world.

  Joanne certainly loved more than music. Her love of nature, for example, was no stranger to the masses. As appreciative of all that nature had provided that she was, she also realized that the minds of humanity had evolved to the point to which we could evolve ourselves by increasing nurture over brutality. We no longer needed to wait painfully for mixed results. Instead, we could labor diligently for desired results. There were a few cases where nurture wrought negative results, in contrast to the idea of “nature” and its brutality. If a person could show affection to their children, mentor them to identify and build upon skills that would bring them joy and happiness, coach them, love them, and be there for them, what kind of innovation would we have tomorrow or in following generations? A nurturing kind of environment, to Joanne, seemed to be a healthy one, and in every way helpful to the advancement of civilization, one that was robust and with a legacy worthy of sharing through the Cosmos.

  When she visited the Pathway Melrose Campus, she had been introduced to some of Eliza’s sentient creatures, and while they couldn’t speak like we do, they were linked neurologically, and as such, they had the ability to communicate as they would usually, but their intent, the meaning of their communication, and what they were, in essence, trying to say was clearly translated within a neurologically-linked mind. Eliza, Yesha, and their crews had been able to put communications together bit by bit, every word, every click, clack, gobble, chirp, and every sound into a very large database identifying so many aspects of each species, its sounds, or tones, or frequencies and translating them into every known human language, to where automatic translation within the hearing region of the brain would take place instantaneously, and read-in Pathway citizens could understand whatever we focused on or desired to listen to.

  Over time, in the Virtual Universe, Eliza, Yesha, and a large team of linguists helped to create language translation algorithms for each of the creatures they had nurtured into sentience, allowing neural links and communication between human and creature as well as between creature and human. The various other creatures throughout the solar system were linked to the Twelve Database Moons and the very large mainframes throughout the twenty-thousand tech cities. In the most intriguing of ways, this helped Joanne’s ideas for music, video, and lyrics to flourish.

  Chapter 35: Joanne Gallant, Section 3

  Joanne, thus inspired, began to develop music similar to vocal trance with lyrics and videos featuring people in general with stories of them and of the many creatures throughout the world doing things never thought imaginable. One video showed a synchronized swimming team with a group of synchronized flying flamingos flying above them in concert to what the swimmers were doing. She also featured many creatures and humanity itself struggling and suffering in unhealthy environments, yet each time in the spirit of true concern, she would then show how the positive examples of wonderful people provided a turn-around of care in their lives—no longer struggling from the hands of inhumanity or toxic environments, and much more, they were now productive and involved in one way or another, in any way, to raise the quality of life overall. She was careful, as always, to ensure she didn’t do or show what she could not plausibly explain to her fans who hadn’t been read-in to Pathway. The typical explanation when asked had been, “A lot of training. It required a lot of training.”

  Now, with a full clarity, she knew there was something that was actually being done behind the scenes to mitigate so many unfortunate issues, and she was ever so grateful. She also realized that nature had done so much already to bring human
ity to where it was today, so it in-turn deserved some attention. Conversely, there was much more we could still do through science and healthy behavior to create a place where preservation of life, an increase to life’s longevity, the expansion of life’s quality, the restructuring of a winning and cohesive purpose for each member of the ecosystem was evolved to a more interdependent state and became second nature, without the need for predation and desiccation, and it was humanity’s gift to realize this ideal and our responsibility to bare. Now and in the future, this responsibility could be shared.

  Eliza’s long-term plan would essentially afford the Earth to heal from the wounds caused by unwittingly gutting its natural biome. Eliza had begun the process of transitioning humanity to once arid, unlivable, and desolate locations and still found a way to provide each individual with all of the necessary details for survival, enjoyment in life, and provisions for further advancements. The forests, the jungles, the ice caps, the weather patterns and seismic activity would eventually be able to run their course and bring a lush biome back to Earth over time. Those who chose to live in a completely natural, tribal, and even Darwinist manner for healing would be allowed to live in these jungles, forests, and places of bounty allowing nature to guide their way and their evolution, while the rest of humanity would eventually span the solar system, travel the stars and explore the Universe, and do so in safety after having evolved ourselves.

  After meeting with Eliza and her friends, she went home and began to write:

  ~ Love ~

  Love the life we’ve been given

  Feel the strength of shared meaning as we’re living

  Give back through love for those around you

  Love others no matter what they do

  What is love

  It is more than a primal urge

  Harken not to those who sell their dirge

  Love is an eternal connection for shared purpose and life

  Love is a way to overcome misery and strife

  ~ Above ~

  Above our hearts that pulsate a rhythm for life are our minds

  Our minds tell that rhythm to continue in art of all kinds

  Let’s push our ideals up with our hearts and we’ll each be one who finds

  Our connection is intense, and we’re driven higher even through life’s grinds

  Let’s raise the quality of life in all that we do

  The creatures, the animals, and the people too

  ~ Longevity ~

  Let’s work for longevity in the things we create

  And the things we make, we only need so much of each for Heaven’s sake!

  Things should last trillions of years, updating with breakthroughs

  Dude, you only need one or two pairs of shoes!

  A printer, a car

  A house, and a star…

  The things we see

  What could happen to me?

  From one end of the Universe to the other, tranquility

  Always cling to those who are driven by purpose and well-being

  Misery assists those who are not, and uncontrolled chaos brings a sting

  ~ Brevity ~

  Brevity in sorrow, learning from the past while setting our troubles free

  Let’s learn from our hard times, but do so briefly, holding treasured moments with glee

  We can briefly think back, but as far as I know

  Forward is the only place we can return from and go

  We can linger on distant and sweet memories

  We can remember the lovely jaunts of love in the breeze

  We can learn from the past, even from gifts from above

  But we must plan for the future; there’s promise through love

  ~ Loneliness ~

  Loneliness hits us when sweet memories arise

  Of long gone heroes and friends who have since graced the skies

  Loneliness hits many during Seasons of giving

  So while sorrow ensues, make time for those we’ve loved and the living

  Winter’s winds and snow may be cold with its weather

  Let’s be inclusive for those special days that bring us together

  Not everyone has a “someone,” and maybe struggling alone

  So lead efforts if possible to bring warmth to their home

  ~ Multiply the Power of Our Minds ~

  We may not have money, we may not have time

  Teach others to fish, show love, compassion, and please be sublime!

  Postulating, engaging in talks of solutions

  To problems of life, while mitigating pollutions

  The talents we’re blessed with are many, yet the greatest is our mind

  Its wisdom can be multiplied with longevity, as we obtain this we’ll find

  Not everything takes forever, or a long time we’ll need to take

  If working together, converging our knowledge-sets, oh the strides we will make!

  When building material things for longevity and quality of life

  Compassion should drive us to preserve our Earth, love others, and reduce strife!

  ~ Personal Guidance ~

  We can go to church one day of each week

  Or we can make every day that special day, where no days are bleak!

  Remember consent; don’t force others against their will

  Choice comes from within when clarity of mind awakens the thrill

  Think, Love, Feel, Engage

  Life opens your eyes—note, we’re on the same page

  People muddle through this journey of life

  Many don’t know what they want, they don’t know why

  They praise the heavens if something goes well

  This exclusive club of the “blessed” makes their hearts swell

  Please don’t forget to ask for guidance and mercy

  Companionship and love, for those in controversy

  When there are those who are suffering

  Graciousness is great, but we all need some buffering

  From toil, and sorrow, and lament, and fear

  People everywhere we go, know sadness each year

  No matter who you are or where you are from

  Challenges arise that cause even the kindest to go glum

  Good things happen and challenges too

  Even if we aren’t battling in life, there’s still something we can do

  You, my friend, are worth more than anything, you, your sister, your brother

  Your mind may have answers to centuries of questions unlike any other

  Think, Love, Feel, and Engage

  Let life open your eyes—we’re all on the same page

  This page is our legacy; will we preserve it?

  If we do what we plan to, will we deserve it?

  I believe we do, and you included can be there

  Through innovation, compassion, and a desire to share

  Remember consent; don’t force others against their will

  Choice comes from within when clarity of mind awakens the thrill

  Think, Love, Feel, Engage

  Life opens your eyes—note, we’re on the same page

  If we’re driven by compassion, then deserve longevity we will

  Advancement, prosperity, journeys Universe-wide will be our thrill

  Think, Love, Feel, and Engage

  Think, Love, Feel, and Engage

  The legacy is ours, so let’s open the stage!

  We can briefly think back, but as far as I know

  Forward is the only place we can return from and go [to]

  “We can linger on distant and sweet memories

  We can remember the jaunts of love and the wisp of the breeze

  We can learn from the past, the gifts from above

  But plan for the future, there’s promise through love”

  Joanna wrote and wrote, and finally had her fifth album, with six songs ready to go. This was written to be one song, but it was a long one and it filled the album in several segments, and when
people requested it, it was played in full and became the longest hit ever to play in its entirety on the radio waves and broadcast by all of the satellite and online radio stations—everyone seemed to memorize each line.

  Throughout the next three years Joanne would frequent the stage among the masses throughout the world, and then she would go to Virtual Universe through her biopod each night to work out the details of what she would do next. She felt that she had now inherited a calling and carried out the task of imbuing her music to the mission of integrating further neurological development among the masses via those same systems. Her work was known and lauded by many throughout the world as well as those within Pathway, yet her source of inspiration was unknown throughout the public and real-world environment.

  Regardless, she went on tour and people felt a new sense of depth they had never felt before. Joanne’s audience learned over time that she had become a member of the UP and many of them joined it as well. The crowds of approving fans who knew better appreciated her even more. Through it all, Joanne managed to maintain her previous work schedule and had contributed many additional labors of importance to Pathway throughout the solar system and while working with Yesha, Amber, Erin, and Vesha. Even still, there was a sense of confidentiality surrounding the specifics of each detail of just how much she was doing to help the worldwide public. Nonetheless, she kept singing and touring throughout the world, and the public crowds would sing along knowing they weren’t alone, they were loved. Their favorite lines resonated:

  We can briefly think back, but as far as I know

  Forward is the only place we can return from and go

  We can linger on distant and sweet memories

  We can remember the jaunts of love and the wisp of the breeze