Chapter XL
The Clairvoyant Dreamer
Duncan, the archeologist, floats in his subliminal mind and overlooks the devastation of Atlantis. His conscious mind starts battling his subconscious. He does not know if he wants to go back to reality or to remain in this dream world. In a vision, something catches his attention. He sees inert corpses of Atlantean women and children with swords clutched in their hands. Many on the peninsula died for their empire.
Duncan floats like a feather to where Persephone and Quentoris died for their beliefs. The archeologist’s mind cries for their deaths, hovering over their bodies, and praying for their souls.
After witnessing the devastation of Atlantis, Duncan travels forward in time, seeing things as if he is looking into a crystal ball. Millions of men are dead on both sides of the peninsula.
Duncan mind is thrown to another vision where he sees the Ladoneans and Sabatheans leaving Atlantis. As Atlantean scientists predicted, disease strikes mankind, and humanity nears extinction. Most of the people on the continent die from microorganisms after the Second Great War. Dead bodies on the battlefield started the epidemic. No one is able to avoid the sickness. To the archeologist, all technologies of that time seemed to have been forgotten, and mankind had to begin again.
As if someone is turning the page in a book for Duncan, he starts seeing a civilization building the Sphinx in Egypt. He is not sure if it is the work of the Atlanteans, but he can feel their presence. He sees a woman’s face on the structure.
In the next segment of the archeologist’s dream world, he is at the entrance of the Atlantean Great East Wall. Duncan observes a barricade for keeping people out of the old Atlantean Empire. The Continental Alliance has seen the peninsula as evil, and so the entrance into Atlantis is capped off from the rest of the world.
Duncan is becoming more aware of his surroundings. He feels as if ants are crawling over his body. The archeologist knows his journey is almost over and feels as if he is cheated from understanding the full story.
Duncan moves forward five-hundred years, and sees the Atlantean buildings void of people. The earth’s tectonic plates shifts and every building is leveled. Because the glaciers from the Ice Age are melting, Duncan becomes cold and sees the entire peninsula plunging into the sea. Even the East and Great West Walls are submerged. Every aspect of Atlantis vanishes from the face of the earth. In far off lands, Duncan sees Atlanteans praying to God, and teachers instructing children in the ways of their culture.
Suddenly, Duncan is awake and in a hospital. He looks around as he hears the French language. Rachael is by his side, waiting. She rushes quickly out the door to inform a nurse, then walks toward Duncan and says, “You had us scared. No one knew if you were going to wake up.”
As a doctor enters the room, Duncan tries to move inquiring, “How long was I out?”
The doctor looks at the instruments by Duncan’s bed and replies, “About four days.”
Duncan asks, “Will I be okay? What happened?”
The doctor replies, “Having put you through every known test, we cannot determine why you went into a coma. During that time, your brain patterns were showing that you were in deep sleep. Most people enter that state of rest twice nightly. You just did a marathon of four days.”
After being examined, Duncan asks, “Doctor, can you please give me a moment with Rachael?”
The doctor leaves and Rachael asks, “What is going on?”
Duncan replies. “I have been reading a book that has yet to be written. If you put every emotion a person could have in their lifetime inside a dream, that’s what I’ve experienced. God’s presence was in my dream. Oh, wait, there was a person that was very important to the people I was envisioning: a man named Edicus, who lived five-hundred years before this civilization’s demise. Everything is in pieces inside my head. The more I think about my dream, the more I get confused. Give me time, and I will tell you all.”
The next day, Rachael and Kyle visit Duncan in his hospital room. Kyle was flown in by helicopter by Mister Callaway. Duncan’s team tells him of the excavation finds. Rachael talks of her working on the alphabet of writings found inside the mountain. She cannot make sentences yet, but thinks it should only take months, not years to decipher. Duncan relates what he saw in his unconscious travels, but asks his colleagues to keep the dreams to them selves.
A month later, Duncan is feeling better and returns home to recuperate. Home is a small city in Texas, where he is asked to speak to a group of student archeologists. He walks to the pedestal, thinking on what to say. The crowd is silent. On the wall behind Duncan is a large screen, showing pictures of the newly found city inside a mountain. Over five-hundred students are waiting for him to say something. He smiles and clears his throat.
Duncan says, “My archeological group has found a civilization which has been lost in time, until now. Following the Ice Age, inhabitants of the city were strong and powerful. After evaluating our findings, my team and I realized that they had to be from a far-off land, and we have found no reason for this civilization to be where we found them. I believe they were in hiding. Civilizations around that time lacked equal levels of technology. The inhabitants of this city were far more advanced than any other culture. At some point, this city was overtaken by an overwhelming number of warriors. We have found their written tablets and will strive to solve this riddle. Being an archeologist, I can tell you that history has to be resolved and rewritten every day. This find is a chapter into man’s forgotten past.”
Duncan clears his throat again and says, “Now, we as a nation think we can’t be conquered, but we can. No nation or empire should think they are the strongest in the world. Rome was brought down. The Greek states were destroyed. In our recent history, Hitler thought Germany would rule the world for one-thousand years. Where does it stop? In our past, we have been imperialistic, and we still are. Past empires and nations use other nations for their resources. Today, we do the same with oil, and play the wrong politics to acquire it. We manipulate the world to get what we want. Our mistakes will haunt us in the future. We as a nation should be better leaders to the world, or we will end up like the civilization we recently found. I think the city inside the mountain is a reminder to us of how we can be destroyed by brotherhoods from other nations. We need to reach the next step of development, improving mankind. The site we found is not only a discovery as archeologists know it, but is a reminder to nations of what can happen.”
The crowd is stunned by Duncan’s comments. They stand and clap for the archeologist, not because of his find, but because of his perspective. Duncan fears that the story of Atlantis will happen again, but he wonders where and when. Through this discovery, he hopes to unite mankind. The archeologist does not know if he was viewing a dream, or a gift from God. Duncan Edwards feels he is going to make an impact on the world, but many puzzle pieces on the board are not yet in the right place.
After Duncan exits the stage, people shake his hand. In the crowd, Mr. Callaway is waiting. Smiling, the archeologist strides toward the tycoon and asks, “What did you think of the speech?”
Callaway returns the smile and says, “Very good. How are you feeling?”
Duncan replies, “Good, and ready to go back to find answers.”
Callaway says, “Things need your attention in Spain. I feel this is a stepping stone to another find. From my perspective, you are the only one who can find what we all have been looking for. What you find will change history and mankind’s future.”
Duncan looks searchingly at the tycoon and replies, “I’ll be on the next flight.”
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