TheBanyanTree: A Walk with Joshua

[Roger Pye]

(A year has passed since Joshua met the SmileyPipe man and first heard 
about the Energy of the Universe. Now he is doing some research guided 
by his intuition, much of the time with difficulty.)

'The trouble is there just isn't enough stuff anywhere about it,' Joshua 
thought to himself as he wandered across the park which lay next to the 
library where he had spent a fruitless afternoon surfing the internet 
for information about earth energy. 'I know what I want to learn about 
but it's as if I am searching for a book that hasn't been written yet. 
Hello, what's going on over there?' He quickened his pace to reach a 
small crowd before it might disperse. His interest began to wane as he 
saw the people were being harangued by some old dude standing on the 
tray of a battered utility. Then their eyes met and his interest 
returned full force as the old man smiled in recognition before again 
concentrating on the crowd. "Here, help yourselves," he invited, 
emptying what looked like a gunny sack of small stones on to the tray 
before climbing down and making his way over to the latecomer.

"Rainwater rocks, they energise and clarify tapwater to make it taste 
better. How are you, Joshua? It seems like only yesterday when we last 
met. How's your mother?"

"She died." The boy wiped away a tear then smiled wanly. "But those last 
months she lived and died without pain - the nurses at the hospice were 
dumbfounded, there was no explanation short of miraculous, they said. 
But we know different, don't we? Do you have a name?"

"Charles Rogers, that's me. What did you do with the pipe?"

"Erected it in the hospice garden, it seemed the right thing to do. I 
added a canister of homemade flower essences, rose and marigold, they 
were mother's favourites.."

Charles looked at him approvingly for a moment then changed the subject. 
"Come with me, I have something special for you," he said, as though 
their 'chance' meeting had in fact been prearranged. Followed by the lad 
he went to the cab of the ute, leaned through a window, took something 
out and handed it over.

"What do think of this?"

"Not much, it's just a brightly coloured sports drink bottle. Empty, 
too." Joshua's response showed disappointment.

The man chuckled, took the bottle back, leaned in the cab and pulled out 
several more. The onlookers having gone, he lined the bottles up next to 
one another on the tray of the truck. "Look at them, Joshua, and tell me 
what you see."

"Ten empty coloured plastic bottles."

The tone was still truculent. Charles sighed. "You'd like a drink, is 
that it?" Out of the cab he drew a case, opened it and removed a dropper 
bottle marked 'seawater' and a teaspoon. Unscrewing the cap, he filled 
the dropper and squeezed a couple of drops on to the spoon. "Try that," 
he instructed, watched Joshua's face wrinkle in distaste as his tongue 
touched the liquid.

Charles produced a clear canister, squirted a dropper-full of seawater 
into it and topped it up with fresh water from a tank on the back of the 
ute. He selected and opened one of the lined-up bottles, capped the 
canister, dropped it in and closed the bottle. Taking a clear crystal 
pendulum from a pocket, he held it steady in front of the bottle with 
his right hand, lifted the other to waist height so the palm was facing 
down towards the bottle. "Raspberryade concentrate please," he said. 
With no apparent movements of the right hand the pendulum began to 
rotate in an anti-clockwise direction, speeded up for a few moments then 
slowed and stopped. The pendulum safely back in his pocket, Charles 
chose a clear bottle from the lineup, emptied the diluted seawater 
canister into it, half-filled it with water and capped it.

"Now try it." Inwardly unsure whether Joshua would trust him, he smiled 
reassuringly as the boy looked doubtfully at the bottle and then at him, 
shrugged, pulled the top of the cap up, lifted it to his mouth and 
sucked. Then, in typical small-boy fashion, Joshua grinned, set the 
bottle down, wiped the back of his hand across his mouth and said 
"Smashing! How did you do it? Are you a wizard now?"

Ignoring the questions, Charles replaced the now-empty bottle in the 
line and said again "Look at the bottles and tell me what you see."

"Nine plastic bottles, all different colours, with push-on lids, all empty."

The 'wizard' shook his head, it wasn't what he wanted. Silent, he waited 
for more.

Joshua lifted the soft drink as if to take another swig but then his 
hand stopped moving as though of its own accord and he peered at the 
bottle instead. "Pink," he exclaimed thoughtfully, "raspberryade is pink 
just like this is. The bottle you made it in is pink too but this bottle 
is clear. Colour! All different colours. The colours must be important. 
And you're into energy as well! Is colour energy too?"

The boy stared at the bottles. "Black," he said, starting from the left. 
"Red, Yellow, Orange, Pink, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet, White. Why is 
most of that equence familiar?"

"Look upwards," Charles answered, the pendulum magicly in his hand 
again. "What do you see?" The crystal spun.

"A RAINBOW - FANTASTIC!!"

Joshua gaped at the coloured bridge in the sky, almost solid enough to 
climb. "Of course, the rainbow - and chakras, the colours of the 
chakras. But why are you showing me, what are you trying to tell me?"

"Research project. Find out everything you can about colour, where it 
comes from, what it is, what it can do, what you could do with it. Take 
the bottles with you, study them often. When we meet again you will have 
the understanding."

"When? When will we meet?"

"I don't know the time, it isn't my decision, I just know it will 
happen." With that enigmatic reply, Charles climbed in the cab, started 
the motor, waved and drove away.

copyight Roger Pye
Canberra May 2004









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