Ancient Voyager Book 3 Secret of Our World

By Brian Afton

This is the continuing story of four students who have entered the workaday world and find themselves unhappy with what they are doing and where that path is leading.  Once again they seek the help of Tenzin the Tibetan and, in the process, learn the terrifying truth about timeships.   Together they take a journey which reveals far more about themselves and the history of earth than they had suspected or been taught. They are also about to learn the secret of this world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brian Afton
• Release date: Feb 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223493204

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Ancient Voyager

Book 3

Secret of Our World

by

Brian Afton

Copyright © 2023

All Rights Reserved  Brian Afton

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Tenzin:

Chapter 2 Medical Treatments:

Chapter 3 The Mission:

Chapter 4 A Man Called Blackie:

Chapter 5 Mission to Mershak:

Chapter 6 Back in the Timeship:

Chapter 7 The Students:

Chapter 8 Back to the Annex:

Chapter 9 Checking History:

Chapter 10 Back to Mershak:

Chapter 11 Ashram on Mershak:

Chapter 12 Reunion:

Chapter 13 Another Timeship:

Chapter 14 Using the Churches:

Chapter 15 New Languages:

Chapter 16 Settling in:

Chapter 17 Who Built Timeship2:

Chapter 18 More Reflections:

Chapter 19 Return to the Mind Model Machine:

Chapter 20 Enemy Timeship Found:

Chapter 22 New Beginnings:

Chapter 1 Tenzin:

The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion Albert Einstein.

Tenzin began his adult education as a science major at a large university.  What he really learned, after several years and three degrees, was that humanity lived in an almost complete state of ignorance about both themselves and the universe at large.  At that point he did not want to stay in the university any longer though a number of his acquaintances became academic lifers and took employment there. 

This did not suit Tenzin and he took employment doing research projects with several large corporations.  However, life there was not very good either.  He quickly became dissatisfied with it and the absolute refusal of those corporations to consider and pursue anything but short term bottom line profit.  Likewise, the men and women he had met in school and later in the corporate world seemed to be totally caught up in a materialistic existence centered on possessions and status.  This meant that it was time to start looking elsewhere for a different life with different companions.

He already knew by then, despite the prevailing liberal notion to the contrary, that people were not basically the same everywhere and that the boys were quite different from the girls right down to the DNA in their individual cells.  They had different bodies, different mentalities and engaged the world in very different ways.  Both men and women had different interests and different abilities and they both changed with age.  No way in hell they were the same nor were all the males like all the other males or all the females like all the other females.

More discouraging was the fact that he eventually realized the human population's minds were essentially being programmed by their parents, their schools and societies starting on the day they were born.  And, sadly that much of this programming was quite destructive.

Tenzin also ultimately realized people had different levels of consciousness which had very little to do with their intelligence.  One could be quite intelligent and also quite evil. 

Ultimately this knowledge and the desire to engage the higher mind he suspected had created and drove a universe which absolutely screamed intelligent design everywhere lead him to an ashram setting high in the snow-capped mountains.

The ashram was a self-sustaining facility much older than the military base and town located miles below and their nearest contact with the rest of civilization.  Tenzin eagerly took up yogic studies there and made new friends he could actually identify with unlike those in the business world.  Also, like the other students there, he avoided contact with the town and military personnel from the installation situated on the valley floor almost 20 miles away.  Avoiding them was not a problem because those people rarely came to the ashram.

The military people did not like the students and could not tolerate the cold thin air or the fact that there were no bars, drugs, gambling or sex houses there.  They only came when they were forced to climb the mountain as a punishment.  That meant the ashram generally got stuck with treating their injuries, dealing with medical problems and feeding them before sending them back down the mountain.

The ashram had been there for a very long time but the tiny settlement itself had not always been called an ashram.  It had begun as a village of indigenous people who fled there to escape the prejudice and genocide that flourished in the civilization below.  Its students now followed a yogic tradition which eschewed what most of the planet regarded as being civilization and progress.  The result of this was that these people radiated love and the students in the ashram, male and female, had stronger bodies, developed psychic powers and lived much longer contented lives.

After a good many years Tenzin was no exception to this but he had studied there longer than most of the other students.  He had also come there with industrial and electronic knowledge none of the others possessed.  This was why the class master chose him for an upcoming dangerous and deadly task.

Tenzin was setting at the edge of a small pasture in front of the temple watching the sun rise and feeling the energy of life both in him and the surroundings.  He often came there after finishing his exercises and meditation at the beginning of the day.  Later he planned to help round up the goats and do his morning chores but his peace and tranquility was not to continue.  Today the ashram's master interrupted him by appearing from out of nowhere as a psychic projection.  A bystander would have believed the master was actually there but he was not and most people could not have seen him anyway.

Tenzin, said the Master, I'm afraid we are going to have real trouble with the military today, within the hour in fact.

Instantly these words caused revulsion within him.  This immediately brought to mind the corrupt government which had allowed and facilitated the creation of a military industrial complex.  This, in turn, had spawned a war machine now turned loose on much of the rest of the world for the profit of big money and many of those in the corrupt government itself.

The top secret military installation below was only a small part of this cancer but this was far more than Tenzin wanted to deal with on a peaceful morning.  All he could be sure of was that it would be bad.

What on earth would they want with us? asked Tenzin.

They don't want us Tenzin.  But they are going to need one of us very soon and I'm afraid that it can't be me.  I am near the end of this earthly cycle and will pass through transition long before this matter is settled.  That will take years.  I had hoped you could start to assume my place here soon but, you are going to have to go with them instead and clean up the mess they are about to make.  No one else here has a chance.

You're sure they intend to come to the ashram?  Tenzin inquired.

Well, not on purpose, answered the master.  One of their top secret large saucer warships is going to crash land here within the hour.

Another casualty of their most recent war? asked Tenzin.

It's much worse than that Tenzin, said the class master sadly.  They have been testing an experimental weapons system on one of their enemies, and this time they have outdone themselves!  What they have been doing is far, far more dangerous than their previous development of tactical nuclear weapons and stealth drones.  They have a timeship Tenzin!  A timeship!  That would have been bad enough, but on top of that, they have used genetic engineering and animal DNA to create living computers.  Those computers have already gotten away from them and have plans of their own.  Unfortunately, their creators do not know this.

Are they going to hit the temple? asked Tenzin, fearing the worst.

No, as things stand it appears their ship will come down hard in the pasture in front of you.  The ship is already badly damaged so there will be several casualties aboard needing immediate medical attention.  The timeship is on fire and half of the crew is already dead.

I can't stand being around those people, said Tenzin.

You have no choice if the world is to survive Tenzin, cautioned the master.  This situation is more serious than you can possibly imagine.

After you patch up their commander, continued the class master, who will have broken bones and be bleeding to death they will want you to stay with him to continue treatment.  That will give you the perfect opportunity to get on board their ship.  It will still fly.  It is only going to crash land here because the captain is sick, spaced out and will become unconscious just before clearing the mountain.  He is basically going to fly it into ground.  Fortunately, it will be going relatively slowly by then because they were in the process of landing."

The survivors will flee the ship because it is already on fire. Their onboard medic was killed during the battle so they will need you and the others here to patch up their captain and wounded.  Then they will try to complete their descent to the military base for resupply, getting a new crew and then making repairs.  When they leave the military base and go back to their senseless war, you need to be with them.  It is very, very important that you go with them.

I have to be in their war? demanded Tenzin.

I don't expect you to do any shooting or killing Tenzin, answered the class master.  As far as they are concerned, you will be there to give medical treatments but your real purpose is to be in that ship when they all die later on, and they are all going to die later on.

They don't know that they cannot control the timeship or its robots anymore.  They believe they are still in charge.  Nor do they have the slightest idea of what forces tampering with the time stream is going to set loose, to say nothing of the problems associated with creating robots made using genetically engineered animal DNA, said the class master in disgust.

The military industrial complex which created the top secret base below has sucked their nation into endless wars having no other real purpose than to fuel the economy and fatten the pockets of the ruling class, the class master continued.  They actually believe they are smart enough to control the outcome of the most recent war, the next war and the economy itself by meddling with the time stream like some gambler planning to cash in on a jackpot by visiting tomorrow.  Unfortunately, they are not capable of winning that kind of game.  They don't even know what the game is let alone how to play it!

I'm sorry to subject you to this Tenzin, added the master, but this must be done and because of your profession and education before you took the mystic path, you are the only student here with the mechanical skills required to work on that craft and those damned robots.  The robots can walk and are only about 6 feet tall weighing three hundred pounds.  By themselves they are bad enough but they are also integrated into the ship.  Do not underestimate them.  They are incredibly dangerous.

I have to work on their ship? asked Tenzin, thinking he had no idea how a timeship was put together or how it worked.

Well, this is all still in flux, answered the class master, but, at this point but I am absolutely certain the crew will die during their next mission.  Additionally they don't even realize yet that simply living in that ship will slowly tear their bodies apart and eventually kill them.  They would die even if they stayed in it on the ground at the military base for any extended period.  They simply cannot live in that thing.  Even without going into combat, they will die from mental poisoning eventually.  They don't know about mental poisoning and how the mind can change the body or how this has already changed theirs.

The ship will take over their consciousness and brains making them engage in fatal habits, virtual sex and virtual living in imaginary realms for example, continued the class master.  They will be so busy and so engrossed in pleasure and the virtual world that they will stop eating, sleeping, and keep believing they can fix their crumbling bodies later.  Of course they will never get around to fixing their crumbling bodies which at a certain point will be unable to survive further extreme metabolic demands of fear, sex and violence. You can live in the ship because you are a mystic with a different mentality and way of engaging the world but they cannot.

Frankly, our problem would be solved if their enemy vaporized them in the next battle or they crashed and destroyed the ship entirely, said the class master.  "Only, that ship is so advanced and built with so much redundancy that its total destruction is very uncertain, perhaps even unlikely.  Much of the timeship is self-repairing and it could also send out robots to get what is not aboard.  So it will probably repair itself eventually