Personal Mechanic

By William Thomas

Personal Mechanic is another book by novice writer and expert salesman Thomas Bour. His other work is entitled She Left Me for Her Sister.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 26, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543446180

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Copyright © 2017 by William Thomas Bour.

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1 Boring Life

Chapter 2 Meditation

Chapter 3 New friend Kim

Chapter 4 Work woes

Chapter 5 Marital awareness

Chapter 6 Surprise visitor

Chapter 7 By by old wife

Chapter 8 Pushy girl

Chapter 9 The Job

Chapter 10 Moving in

Chapter 11 Joint Meditation

Chapter 12 Betsy wants me

Chapter 13 Music and promotions

Chapter 14 Keyboard player

Chapter 15 Jam time

Chapter 16 New Truck

Chapter 17 Training time

Chapter 18 Restructure time

Chapter 19 New job

Chapter 20 Going home

Chapter 21 Necklace nymphomania

Chapter 22 Job offers

Chapter 23 Music room

Chapter 24 Office space

Chapter 25 Engagement?

Chapter 26 Rocker girl Jane

Chapter 27 Personal mechanic

Chapter 28 Rock and Roll wildness

Chapter 29 Meditation training

CHAPTER 1

Boring Life

I WOKE UP ONE morning thinking there must be more to life, than I was getting out of it. Every day the same things happened, and I was getting tired of the minutia that was drowning me. I have nothing to really complain about, but I think midlife boredom was setting in on me. I would go to work, easily do everything they wanted me too. I got accommodations for a job well done every month including incentive bonus money. My customers asked for me by name, every time they came to the shop I worked in. My boss jokes that I’m never moving to another location as long as he’s in charge. I seem to be the guy who instills a desirable working atmosphere around the employees, or something like that.

I get home from work every day, knowing my wife will be there waiting for me. She is there, but seems tired of me after three decades of seemingly thrilless companionship. I grab a beer and watch television after diner many nights, only to find there are more commercials on the set than there are shows to watch. I can grab my guitar, or bass to play during the commercials if I want too. The music I play does not seem to give me much pleasure any more either. Betsey does not like the same kind of television we used to watch together. She would rather talk on the phone to her sister than to me in the family room any more.

I stay in good physical health with several different activities that allow diversity, but only minor contentment as of late. I lift dumbbells, or ride my health rider machine in the comfort of my bedroom, when the weather’s bad. We have several mountain bikes in the house that work very well for different types of riding. We have wooded single track technical trails around the house to ride on for convenience. There are local park trails to ride on if we feel adventurous too. In the winter we build an outdoor ice rink to play hockey on for fun and fitness. Winter ice hockey provides excellent cardio and strength workouts for me and the entire neighborhood. I also have quads and dirt bikes to ride when feeling more adventurous and daring. They provide good overall strength and balance benefits for us. I can’t figure out why I am not a happy guy anymore.

I have the luxury of a bedroom music room area for jamming if I need to get creative. I wright and compose original music for fun. I also have the ability to record songs when we feel like it for prosperity’s sake. I used to get a great natural high when jamming with my band on good nights, when we would play the songs well. Tight execution by the band, would lend itself to a really exhilarating experience for all involved musicians, and spectators alike. I have written around a hundred songs since we started to play together thirty years ago. We could all write and sing, and each play different instruments primarily. All of us could also play a secondary instrument that allowed us to mix it up once in a while. Recently I put the musical equipment in a closet for storage, I just did not want to play the music any more.

My wife and I have been together for over thirty years. We have had more than twenty very good years of being married and in love with each other. Not bad for a couple these day, in this era. We have a nice house we rent together to save on property taxes. Most of our friends think we are the ideal couple. I get a kick out of that, knowing we have our moments, like everyone else on the planet. The kids are adults and pretty much do their own thing. They moved out years ago leaving us alone in the nice little house.

It just seems like I have been going through the motions every day with nothing new to look forward too. The days run together, with Fridays meaning nothing special any more. When I was a younger man, Friday was really something to look forward to. I can remember getting fired up as early as Thursday afternoons, looking forward to Friday nights out with my friends. The gang would get together for what every reason, to basically have fun. We would talk about nothing important, but usually laugh most of the night together doing it. Looking back it seems that the stories we told, or even generated Friday nights made the weeks better and a lot more fun.

Maybe I am just in the midst of my mid-life crisis or something like that. I have been looking to add something more to my life, to fill this growing void of discontentment. I know many men just have an affair with a beautiful young woman to spice things up for a while. Others go out and spend a lot of money on some fantasy toy, or exotic vacation somewhere.

I am unable to do either of these kind of things for two reasons. My marriage vows prohibit the young girl affair fantasy dream, which I think all men have at some point in time. To be honest my wife is not very adventurous in the bedroom, so I have not developed any really good fantasies in that area either. I have grown accustomed to very little real intimacy in my life with Betsy. Time seems to have allowed us to grow apart in many different aspects of our lives.

The expensive vacation is out of the question due to the money requirement involved. Betsy would consider it a waste of money to sit on a beach for a week together. I’m also not the kind of guy that could rob a bank to acquire the necessary cash for an exotic endeavor like that. I’m more of a basic, or simple kind of guy at this point in my life. I hear my friends talk about the exotic vacations they have been on in the past. Many times they would remark that they wish they had not spent so much money in one week, that is now gone. They seem to question the actual value of the trips, afterwards. Others complain that the weather was horrendous, and ruined the entire vacation, with no recourse from the travel agency, that set up the trip.

I’m not really sure what I am looking for, or expecting life to afford me with respect to my recent discontentment. I have been doing martial arts most of my life. I play and compose music, ride bikes, dirt bikes, ice skate and play hockey, build woodworking projects, kayak, canoe, go hiking, skiing, and attend occasional parties with our friends. I have a decent love life with my wife here and there, and see my kids on a regular holiday basis. I am good at my job, and have ample friends around me, and a sort of loving family. Maybe it’s all in my head, but how do you really know? I need to find a new hobby, or interest to reignite my boring life.

I accidently saw a television commercial late the other night for something called Eckankar, some kind of meditation or spiritual awareness exercise. I looked into it on line to see what was going on with it, out of curiosity. I was able to access some of the information immediately on the web. I watched a few short web seminars, their lead guy was giving out for the public’s benefit. He spoke about spirituality, dreams, soul travel, health healing, past lives, and connecting with the divine in his short videos. He seemed to be a generalist to me, covering many topics in a short time frame on the web site. He spoke in a very slow methodic trancelike voice, which seemed very relaxing to watch at first. Then after a couple of his four minute videos, I began to realize he was offering the information up so slow, that I was unable to remain focused on him any longer. I am used to moving at a much faster pace in my daily deeds, chores, and especially at work. I found myself daydreaming instead of digesting his information stream.

I backed out of that web site with the big blue arrow key in the upper left corner of the screen, we have all used before. I tried the second web site that was advertised on the same topic that I had originally typed in. That sight read Pleiadians, The light, a message from Anica. This caught my eye, and curiosity enough to have a look see. The site presentation was a fifteen minute video with really cool graphics on a U-Tube format.

I was mesmerized by the very well-produced informational instructional presentation. The video played itself through leaving me in a kind of meditative, and relaxed state of mind. There was no sales pitch or religious theme to the presentation. It seemed to be focused on allowing the mind to free itself from the world around it for a while. That is the best description I am able to provide for the experience that I witnessed on that Pleiadians web site. The initial presentation really blew my mind. This information seemed to be just what the doctor might order for my situation, I thought. The presentation seemed to have put me into a hypnotic trance, or meditative state of mind while watching it. I had a sense of contentment after the presentation that lasted the rest of my day.

I was hypnotized by a doctor in the past for some grief counseling issues, which I was attempting to get behind me. The hypnotic trance was the closest thing to this experience I can relate to in my life. It was very similar, but I believe that this video took me deeper into myself than the doctor did. I remember feeling content for the remainder of the day, after my little trip without leaving the farm experience. I was completely sober during the episode, excluding a suggestive drug induced prognosis for the consciousness divergence that I witnessed.

Reflecting back on this experience allowed me to wonder if this was what I have been looking for to stave off my apparent boredom, or lack of enthusiasm lately. It was kind of strange that sitting there doing absolutely nothing could bring about that kind of anti-dramatic mental reaction. I would surely have to look into this Pleiadians web site informational stuff again.

CHAPTER 2

Meditation

T WO DAYS LATER I looked up the Pleiadians web site again to see what else they had to offer. I found a general descriptive video that was twenty five minutes long, called Pleiadians A message of light. The video again mesmerized me into a trance like state, which lasted until the show was over for ten minutes or so. No real sales pitch or religious flavor to this video either. It gave a strange account of earth’s very early history including the seeding of the planet with respect to DNA diversity of our living library, on the planet earth. It told tales of many other intelligent civilizations from our galaxy that are, and have been involved with the earth in an indirect way. If you are any kind of a science buff, you would surely find this story better than any old star trek epis odes.

The main focus of the instructions seemed to be, to allow the conscious mind to relax itself into a body detached state. The female narrator speaks in a very soothing, and relaxing format. They focus your mind on seeing light in your mind to start with, nothing else really. They break the universe down into the most basic conscious format that I was able to understand. They then instruct the mind to visualize light throughout the entire spectrum of its being. I’m not sure what they did to me, but both times that I witnessed their messages, I went off into a really desirable state of mental wellbeing. Total body and mind relaxation, with only good thoughts and feelings in myself, until well after it was done playing on my laptop computer. It seemed like a daydream that was under control, filled with vivid images, and feelings.

Hours after the second session was over, my mind and body were very content to just be alive. My stress and discontentment were down to almost non-existent levels for the first time in recent memory. I was happy and more enthusiastic about just being here. I then decide to check my blood pressure to see where it was at. I strapped on the sleeve and hit the test button to see if I could measure the results of the meditation sessions. The test verified that my blood pressure was down ten points below my normal daily numbers. I usually test it five times a week in my bedroom, since the condition it runs in my family. This made two good discoveries for me, in the same week.

Have I been looking in the wrong place all this time, for my happiness? With no money down, I have found a way to become content and healthier at the same time. The fascinating part for me, is that I have achieved all this with no real effort. I am amazed that my new found contentment is being extracted from actually doing nothing. I will have to try this again tomorrow to make sure it does not wear off after a couple of uses. There seems to be a plethora of different videos under the same platform, to keep me from running into saturation problems with this topic of study.

When I looked in the mirror after this discovery, it seemed like five years had melted away from my face. I’m not sure if it was from the new moisturizer my sister got me last week or not. I did feel more relaxed and mentally energized at the same time. I know when I feel better that I usually look better, in the mirror anyways.

My old friend commented yesterday on how I seemed to be more relaxed this week, when compared to before. I told her about the web site, and the meditation I was able to achieve while just sitting there watching the videos. She was curious and asked for the site name to check it out. She is a single lady in a retail shop, with her own household to look after. Her life is extremely busy, and filled with unexpected stress at times. She has always used exercise as her primary stress relief tool, as I have too. I figure if doing nothing can help her in any way like it is doing for me, all the better. It would seem that anyone can do nothing for fifteen minutes or so, a couple times a week.

Three days later I found myself looking for another video to watch before bed time. I had been good for a couple days not even thinking to watch another one until now. Everything was going the way it should, without a hitch so far. Betsy was complaining about having hot flashes again, and wanted to be left alone. I was having a tough evening with stress, and some body aliments this particular night on top of that. I found a video with a different narrator or speaker which ever one you like, on the same web site. This particular video was more of a background information presentation, describing the Pleiadians league of lights platform of intent. Pleiadians claim to be alien spirits of light, that present information to allow consciousness enlightenment for anyone who wants it on the earth. They claim to use certain individuals to act a medium to communicate through.

The video I watched this time was done by a female called Asket, with an even more soothing sounding soft voice, than Anica’s. The theme was focused on visualizing light from behind our sun, as feeding energy for the spirit, to feed off of information wise. As she continued to speak I was drawn into her intent. My body felt like it disappeared, and left only imagination engrams during most of the video presentation. The visual aspect of the presentation was hypnotic in itself, along with her lovely vocal delivery, and soft musical backing tracks. I’m not sure how long the information stream was, but I was under longer that the presentation took to run its course. I woke up three hours after I started watching it, to turn off the laptop and put it away for the night. I slept straight through the night, and felt great the next morning before work.

My old friend reported the next day that she had looked at one of the videos on the web site I had been using. Kim said that the message was very cool, and she looked at it more from the direction of fantastic science fiction, than a self-help instructional video. I responded that I could see her point of view concerning the entertainment witnessed. Kim commented that she was looking forward to viewing other videos on this site in the near future, when she has time. She was in an enthusiastic mood when discussing the topic with me. I had a good feeling after our talk with respect to my recommendation to her. I did find it curious that she called me out of the blue, just to talk about a web video.

I was then at work going through the motions watching the jobs getting done. Three guys at work asked me if I was doing something differently lately, and that I looked a little younger these days. Two more wanted to know if I had a girlfriend or something. They were teasing me that getting young tail makes old men look younger right away. I seemed more relaxed to the work crew, all of a sudden. Being the most senior person in the crew, I just dismissed their query for the mean time. My job at work was to motivate the crew, while remaining productive and positive at all times. I turned their curiosity into a reverse phycology pep talk for the day. It apparently worked as we had a very good day on the books with no customer, or technician problems reported.

About a week went by before I decided to find another video to meditate along with. I was feeling a little pent up after work that day. It had been a very busy, and one of the shop machines broke down during the midafternoon cycle. The crew started to stress out when the breakdown looked critical. I was able to calm the guys down, and get them working together to resolve the problem. In an hour the equipment was repaired and we were back on schedule within another two hours. The company would have us call a repair man to solve the problem in about three days. We repaired the machine in house to save time, money and customer complaints.

The crew was appreciative for the encouragement when things were looking bad. I knew they could resolve the problem if they worked as a team, and not allow panic to take over. The team looks to me whenever things go wrong for guidance and encouragement. I have always been good at problem solving, and being resourceful when it counts.

I got home from work to an empty house again, tired and stressed from the hard day. I got a little dinner and watched the news by myself. I found a different web site video to watch to stave off my boredom that night. Before bed seems like a good time to watch these for me. I look forward to slipping into the meditative state of mind, knowing I will feel content during and after the exercise. That night’s video topic was the consciousness altered dimensional state, and its own message to the self. It talked about the human consciousness, and its planetary intent as a collective in itself. I found myself immersed into the concept, before realizing I was in the meditative state of total relaxation, and its freedom from bodily restraints again.

The descriptive instruction spoke of the conscious of each individual with respect to its intent of well-being and love for one another. The purpose of the video seemed to be to increase the number of the conscious individuals who were focused on love and well-being to outweigh the number of conscious individuals focused on politics, war and greed. The instruction implied that the planets life force was starting to tip in favor of love and well-being over politics and profits. This was partially due to the intent of many newly refocused individuals around the world. The presentation insisted that the Earth itself was pushing for improved consciousness intent, to improve the overall planetary situation. In the trance state with my mind’s eye, the instruction seemed to make perfect sense, and be more real than I could have imagined being awake. I had a great sense of well-being and comfort during and after the video had run its course.

After the session I just laid there in my bed thinking about the message that had been relayed to me. I had a new outlook on the ability of the intent of thought, to actually change things that were in my life. My mind reasoned that before most things occurs, something must be planned out. Before planning something, out we must first decide to do it in the first place. So backtracking it makes sense that all things happen from a thought or its intent. It is easy to see that humanity puts forth great effort to control its inhabitants with oversized governments. Those governments seem hell bent on continuous wars, and killing of innocent individuals. They are largely fed by cooperation’s that manufacture many items needed to sustain a war effort.

The track record of war seems pretty bleak when we break it down. I really cannot think of any country that has really won a war. It would be hard to prove that even a winner of a war had done any good things for humanity, or the planet as a whole. The United States alone spends one half of its total tax revenues on the military budget. Fighting in at least five wars presently, in what they call peace time. We have killed more than forty thousand of our own young people, and wounded four times that many again, in the past ten years alone. With that said how many people have we killed, and wounded on the so called enemies side. Now I need to wonder how many people’s lives could have been saved, by not fighting in these wars, just from the United States perspective.

I have to believe that the worlds’ mass population is growing tired of this losing scenario. Everybody involved on both sides loses family members, tax money, property, economic wealth, and government trust itself throughout the war proceedings. Many soldiers return home from active duty requiring mental health treatments for decades, to deal with post traumatic syndrome.

It is said that there is power in numbers, and people do exist in great numbers. Thought or an initial idea, is the first step in any engineering project. The thoughts intent directs the project design parameters. The world consists of almost seven billion people at this time. I find it hard to believe that more than half of earth’s people want wars to continue. The people pay for their respective governments to exist through taxation. The governments should be working for the people, not the people working for the governments. The governments are the ones ordering soldiers to kill each other. The governments are ordering soldiers to kill innocent people that happen to be standing in the wrong place at the wrong time. Why order soldiers to kill people if there is no solution or reason to do so. Why kill the people that pay your salery, to work for them? What is really going on around here anyway?

What would happen if all the military money was used to improve the planet? Improve the infrastructures in the cities. To improve the quality of life for the people. To improve the medical technologies, and sciences. How many new jobs could be created without having to kill people to justify governmental existence? My mind was still halfway into the meditative trance when I realized what was going on in my head. My imagination was able to fix the world in an hour or so, without killing people or spending extra money, how cool. Nearing the conclusion of the meditative presentation I was able to witness the altered state of mind and that I was tranced out simultaneously, for the first time.

Back to reality, and time for bed. As I attempted to fall asleep, my mind tried to recall the scope of what had just happened in the trance state. I just laid there attempting to wrap my head around the whole thing, but could not do it. I was amazed at how much information my mind was able to process in that other state of consciousness.

It seemed like time was altered to allow additional information processing to occur while I was meditating. My mind seemed to be a hundred times more effective at picturing the abstract, while encompassing the entire solution to an extremely complex worldly situation. I must have then fallen asleep after taxing my brain over the inability to comprehend the meditative dreaming process, or trip I was in that night.

I woke up the next morning all jazzed up trying to remember all of it, in as much detail as possible. It was a losing battle, as I could not visualize nearly as much of the dream as I wanted to. The small amount I could remember was what is written down in my notes here. It is about one tenth of the actual information that I was privileged to during the time in the meditation zone. Again I am amazed that this has happened to me, just when I was looking for something to spice up my boring life.

At work the next day everything seemed to be going in slow motion. I was able to handle every issue that presented itself without any problems. It seemed easy to keep the guys motivated throughout the day. We had a very productive and profitable twelve hours with no complaints that we knew of. I had plenty of energy after work to lift weights and do a cardio workout too. I engaged in a big healthy snack after the workout, to feed my body as well. I found the same video that I liked the other night, to visit again tonight. I was hoping to get to the same dream, and ideas in my head again. I wanted more details on saving the world with just a thought.

I got the video cued up and the lights out, no distraction in the room. The video started to play, and I worked to relax all the different parts of my body one by one. I was focused on the words, and the changing pictures on the laptop screen. My mind focused on the words very intently, allowing my body to fade away into the meditative trance state, I have come to love. The only thoughts and images I remember were of light and loving this state of being. I was caught up in a nowhere place that felt great to be in. There did not seem to be any time or space around me, and all I remember seeing was different light that was changing somehow.

I woke up three hours later to turn off the laptop, and put it away. I felt refreshed, and like I did not need any more sleep for the night. It was only one o’clock in the morning at this time. I decided too much sleep is better than not enough. As soon as I closed my eyes again it seemed like I was waking up at six am. I felt great and was ready for the day in front of me.

At a local breakfast stop I frequent, my friend Kim was having her morning meal also. She invited me to join her at the table, and then informed me that she had gotten on that web site again two more times since her initial try. She said that on the third time around she fell asleep watching one of the videos on using light as a focal point for meditation. She said how cool it was to just float away into dreaming sleep. She did not wake up until the morning after the trance took her away. She reported that it was different than just sleeping. She really like the feeling she got during the video presentation once she felt herself relaxing into the sleeping daydream. That night after work she called and thanked me again for the tip on the relaxation stuff as she put it. She felt calm and in control at work all day, while being really productive. Kim liked the fact that we had stumbled onto this new found gem without any money out of our pockets. We parted ways and then were off to work. I found it reassuring that another person saw the value in this experiment, like I did.

A week later I found another new video to watch again on the same web site. It was a longer one lasting almost an hour. It started out with a number of television celebrities reviewing information with respect to physics and metaphysical information. It then went into a brief history of the earth’s development from three hundred thousand years ago, up until now. The next phase of the presentation was to elicit the meditative state of mind with respect to gaining extraterrestrial information from light transmissions embedded into the universe by Pleiadians spirits, or something like that.

Before I knew it, I was into the realm of imagination or something like it again. It almost seemed like I was able to leave my body and travel away from the planet with the instructions. My imagination took me out and away from the galaxy to look back on it from very far away. I made the journey in no time at all, knowing it is really about a sixty thousand light year trek, to where I saw myself then. I could sense the galaxy spinning and the vastness of its actual size, which you never understand when looking at a picture in a book. Each star was so bright that it blew my mind just seeing them like that. I had an understanding of traveling on a completely different level than we now understand with vehicles, or ships. It was almost like I understood how to ride on a light wave to another place, without really being there. The video spoke of something called a way portal, that allows instantaneous travel over extreme distances, used by many extraterrestrial species. Being a science buff my mind was blown, as I was witness to this experience. It was a very cool imagination trip to say the least.

I awoke suddenly, then was back to being a human with a body again as usual. It was now hard to remember the details of the dream state. It seemed like I was brain deficient as compared to a minute ago, when I thought I could travel on the light waves. In the dream state my mind seemed to be far superior with respect to its abilities of comprehension, and depth of knowledge, even my sight was much better. In the dream it seemed like I could put a days’ worth of reasoning and thought into an instant, with full mental comprehension. I find it difficult to describe some of the aspects of the meditative state I have been going into recently.

It may be difficult to describe but it is really nice to be there. I am fifty five years old and cannot believe it took me this long to find this something, which appears to be part of our natural abilities. This may be the easiest thing to obtain that I have ever come a crossed. The best part of it seems to be, that you can get something for nothing. We are all taught in life that, that is just not possible. But then again not everything we are taught in life is based on factual information.

When I woke up I felt relaxed, but also jazzed up by the images I just witnessed inside. I thought how can this be a part of my consciousness, while hiding under the thin vail all this time? Is society so wound up in following the status quo, and making money that we can’t take a minute to really see what is meant to be witnessed.

This has to be a part of the higher consciousness, or a gateway to higher dimensions of some sort. I know the scientific community is looking for additional dimensions for their String Theory models to be worked out on paper. Do they consider this kind of thing, or place another dimension for their experimental data? Can they use something they cannot touch, or measure with proof in their formulas?

Looking out the kitchen window I see that it has snowed several inches, and the driveway needs cleared to go to work this morning. Looks like I have got my work cut out for me. I know Betsy would never offer to help with snow removal duties. I better get moving there will likely be some snow removal at work too. At least I got a good night’s sleep before going at it with a shovel this morning. The exercise would invigorate me for the day at work.

At work today one of the guys asked me what was up with my new found energy and attitude. I explained what I had found on the internet with respect to the new website, which I have been using for meditation exercises. He just looked at me funny at first, as to say really. I told him to check out the web site and just watch a short video segment then make up his own mind. The sales pitch was that it would cost him no money, and only take up a couple minutes of his time.

CHAPTER 3

New friend Kim

I GOT A CALL from Kim that night to let me know she had passed the meditation website info on to three of her girlfriends, who really liked it too. That night I was wiped out from a hard day’s work, and the snow removal exercise, on top of everything else. I found another new relaxation video to watch that focused on the salvation of the consciousness of the planet, which is linked together by all life on it. The soundtrack was very soothing, and the words melted my body and mind into tranquility state of being before long. I just laid there looking at the video screen as is rolled pictorial, to pictorial of angelic images nonstop for about fifteen minutes. The video ran itself again somehow while I was in the dreamlike state. I did not see any fantastic scenes or witness any fantastic images this time. I did have a great feeling of oneness with my surroundings and the rest of the conscious energy around me. It felt like I was able to stretch some part of me out very far away from my body, and even the h ouse.

Then it seemed like it was over as fast as it started, even though over a half hour had passed. When I came to, I felt refreshed like a good night’s sleep had occurred again. I got up and had a big snack before going to bed with Betsy. I thought it was a good idea due to the physical exertion caused by the extra physical work I did today. After the snack I was able to fall asleep within minutes of my head hitting the pillow.

My dreams that night were vivid and memorable, while almost seeming like they were in high definition. The one was great, I had a new girlfriend who was basically doing what I wanted her to do. In the dream she would do whatever I thought she should to me, while getting intimate in the bedroom. I could see her in great detail, including tasting her skin when we kissed. I remember smelling her as we enjoyed each other in the dream. The depth of the details made the dream really cool to experience. I have to wonder if the meditation exercises are helping me to be more alert in the unconscious state. Maybe the meditation makes the dreams come to the forefront more noticeably. I only hope it happened again, and that I am able to remember it like last night’s dream fest. My wife just ignores me and my interests every chance she gets, as we grow older together. It seems that Betsy is just going through the motions of life without extracting much enjoyment any more.

If this was not happening to me personally I would not believe it could happen. There must be a physiological reason for the heightened sense of awareness that is developing inside of me lately. I know it’s not super powers or alien abduction, that’s for sure. I am still just Tom, the guy who goes to work every day to pay his bills. I just feel more relaxed, confident and rested these days. There is also the elusive sense of a lot more around me, than meets the eye. You know how the old mystical sages claim to be connected to the universe in mind and spirit. I am starting to think they may have something there. If so, it sure is intangible and elusive for a regular person to identify with on a realistic level. There may be no way to prove any of this, if I needed to for some reason.

At work today we had a surprise field audit, which did not go as well as the manager might have wanted it too. That made for a stressful day for most of the crew, including me. The auditor found enough inventory shrinkage to worry the shop manager noticeably. We would not get the official results from the audit for a week or so. I noticed that my manager went home right after the auditor left the building. I am starting to wonder if something was going down that I was unaware of. Right after the manager left one of the technicians reported that he was ill, and left for the day also. This made for a little additional stress at the end of the day being two key guys down. I humbly asked the guys to pick it up since we were now short staffed. The rest of the crew stepped up, and got the work done before we closed up for the night. We were able to get every car finished by working a little late, avoiding any customer complaints.

I got home an hour late due to the excitement at work today. After dinner, a good workout with the weights should help me to sleep better. I could not get the audit out of my head for the remainder of the evening. Two of our guys were acting stressed before we even had results from the company visitor. We have a well-oiled machine with our current crew that could easily be disrupted with any change in the current lineup. Time will tell, it always does in this kind of fluid situation.

It was a rough night with little sleep on my part. My wife did not come home again from her job. I wonderd what reason she will come up with this time around. I kept thinking about the work audit and the guy’s reaction to it. It’s been a while since work has gotten to me, keeping me awake at night. Around midnight I got up and made a peanut butter sandwich, and a glass of milk to help me sleep. Afterwards I was able to doze off for three hours, to wake up with the same concerns as before. I just tossed and turned until it was time to get up for work again. While I was in the shower, it dawned on me that I should have done a meditation session last night before turning in. That would have surely allowed me to refocus my thoughts to more productive areas, than the work audit that I had no control over.

When I got to work a few days later we had corporate visitors in the building again. They were conducting an investigation concerning the audit done the other day. We were each interviewed in private by a team of audit people with laptops, and expensive suites. During my session with this team it became apparent that personal changes were now occurring at out location. We were working short staffed as it was, without the investigative interviews. The guys on the floor were now struggling to keep up with the workload that was in front of us. The business was not concerned about the audit or staffing issues we had incurred today. The remaining crew worked four hours late to get everything finished before locking it down for the night. Everyone was exhausted from a very long day in the shop.

Employee rumors were sailing around the crew during day as each of us was questioned at length about numerous topics. Each employee was concerned that they might be tied into the conspiracy that obviously had taken place over the past months in the building. Each tech was nervous in the interview, while also falling behind on their assigned work. They were worried about the unknown being part of the investigative process. The only thing that we knew for sure was that the manager, and his buddy were no longer employed with the company. We were informed that the district manager would be running the show tomorrow, as the temporary location manager. The auditors were very cold and dry in their investigation tactics, causing additional stress for all of us.

I got home around midnight completely worn out mentally and physically. Betsy was in the other room reading a novel, ignoring me as usual. My mind was too excited to go to bed at that time, despite the clock time showing. I ate a light dinner then turned on the television set to watch any action movie that was on the cable. Scrolling through the endless channels on the network, I was unable to find anything acceptable. I was getting a little pent up and stressed out, that cable costs me around a hundred dollars a month and there was nothing to watch. It was then that I noticed my laptop sitting in the corner of the room.

I decided to fire it up and look for a new Pleiadians relaxation video to decompress with. Logging on and scrolling around for a couple minutes I was able to find a few new videos that were created more recently. Before starting the session I got in a comfortable padded chair, and spent a couple minutes relaxing and breathing. I wanted to make sure I would be able to relax, while focusing on the video. It has been a while since I watched one of these, and successfully meditated while doing so.

The video started with a very nice soft female voice talking in a slow and hypnotic manner. She was directing me to relax myself into a lightened state of mind. Directing me to use my inner eyes to focus my consciousness towards itself. I was to raise the feeling of weightlessness in my body. The laptop visual scenes were fading one to the next with highlighted human forms looking like angles of light, with their chakra centers glowing like different colors globes, which transcended colors and densities as they morphed into other forms during the narration. It did not take long for my mind, and body to melt into the desired state of mind, which I have grown to yearn for lately.

The narrator was instructing the consciousness to raise its feeling of connectedness, with the energy that the planet radiates to all life forms on it. She asked the participant to focus on listening to the all-knowing intellect that gives useful information to creative individuals on the earth. We were instructed to feel it, while just letting go of ambition and worries in our day to day lives. Release all thoughts and just relax into the consciousness of our minds eye. Allow it to direct our divine insight, where ever it wanted to take us. We were directed to focus on love and wellbeing as a beam of light that emanates from inside of our selves. That was all that I can remember from that session. It was a seventeen minute video according to the label on the U-Tube site. The next thing I knew it was six o’clock in the morning the next day, and time to get up for work again.

I felt ready to go, and very relaxed about the work day ahead of me. I did a little Kung Fu Tiger form before breakfast to help stretch my body before the day got going. Couple of eggs and toast for breakfast is one of my all-time favorites. It was snowing out again so I had to get moving to keep up with the clock. I was feeling good and everything else was falling into place making for a good start to my day. I was able to get to work ten minutes before normal to make sure everything was going to be ready at the location for today’s workload. I had the work audits’ residual damage still in the back of my mind as I got things going. Good planning always help the days go better I thought.

CHAPTER 4

Work woes

T HE DISTRICT MANAGER was already in the building for two hours when I arrived. He was doing another inventory check, which is never a real good sign. He said hi as I walked in the door. He then remarked that he needed to speak with me when everything was rolling smoothly later on this morning. I looked over the schedule and orders for the day, to find we might be getting off easy today. We had a light workload on the books. The crew was on edge and working almost double speed to impress the district manager early on today. This made it appear that I was running the show in a top notch manner to him.

Later that morning I asked him during the inventory count work, if now was a good time to have that chat? He put down the clipboard and scan tool and said, do you want this location? Its open and you’re the best man that I have for the job, do you want it? He told me that I would be doing him a big favor if he got a fast answer, and the answer needed to be a yes. He understood that I have passed on similar offers under the premise that I enjoy being number two, without the stress of the number one slot.

I asked him about the package that would accompany the promotion. He replied that the quick and easy answer was about forty percent more that I was getting now, plus possible bonus money up to fifty percent more than that. I told him, I was his man, and asked, when should I be expected to assume control? He told me the location was mine at the conclusion of the inventory procedure tomorrow morning. We would discuss the necessary details next week when time would allow. He told me to hire a replacement technician for the former manager’s buddy as soon as possible. We discussed pay rate for the new hire, and possible candidates from other locations that could spare a person. He recommended that I conduct a location meeting Friday, and buy the crew pizza after work for the get together. He wanted a team meeting to rally the crew after the recent disruption event last week. He told me to bait the crew for one of them to step it up, for a promotion to assistant manager to take over my former position. That should get the associate moral back on track to ensure sustained customer service in this location moving forward.

I could not help thinking how fast everything just happened today. I did not expect to be moving into the manager’s slot at this time. It was not even on the horizon of my plans. I was content in the number two spot over the years, even though I usually ran the location behind the senesce anyway. The extra pay would be very well welcomed by my checking account. I figured four additional hours a week should cover the bases for the new job duties. I was sure my family and friends will be happy for my new position.

After work at home that day I sat