A Light in the Darkness, Chapter 1

The intention of this novel is to convey the nature and techniques of advanced telepathy.

I have ascended the 39 steps and found each wanting...

Attributed to the Holy Spirit in John Wesley (founder of the Methodist Church).

Note: the Methodist Faith Path developed herein plans to form a "new police" group under its wings. Please don't assume the Chapters are anti-police until you read all the Chapters and appreciate the technique being used to develop the Faith Path.

And if you are a police officer, then from a Holy Spirit point of view - things like Ego, wealth, regular paychecks, and of course a police gun and the fact you are part of a powerful organization, can obscure the gentle nature of the soul in many a police officer. The aim of a spiritual tale such as this is to help the "seeker" find their Soul and a Path of Enlightment, however, the human subconscious has so many negatives buried in it, that the only known way to touch the spirit is to somehow agitate the subconscious and while its "revolting" and in turmoil the spirit might be able to find a way to connect with the soul and conscious. (But, from a certain point of view, the perceptions conveyed are probably "spot on" about somethings.)

During the many years of wandering in the spirit Darth and Helen and the combined Life in the Spirit group knew they had touched at least one Methodist. Such interactions brief, sporadic.

The first sign of a stronger interaction was a single thought in Darth's head, "Epistle". The thought bugged him for a few hours because he felt this was a word but he had no idea what it meant, until he looked it up in the dictionary. The word refers to documents, and the letters of the Apostles can be called such.

Typically, when a new "way of the cross" comes online (i.e. any typically Christian group), the combined Life in the Spirit quickly comes online and "listens" to the best way to isolate such a group from other "frequencies" across the telepathic plane, so the uniqueness of a particular Life in the Spirit can be understood and a "walk in the spirit" in accordance with the rules and methods, or dogma, or teaching, of a particular Life in the Spirit can be enjoyed.

While the awareness was lifting, Darth recalled a Methodist Minister (at least Darth assumed that is what he was, a Minister as distinct from Pastor, Reverend, etc.). The man was old at that stage but when younger devoted much of his life to helping lost souls who telephoned a service called Lifeline.

Then faint imagery formed in Darth's imagination - a faint figure of a man as if walking down steps from a height, and when on the ground walking with Darth the man flowed, "why do men speak of the will of God? Surely Jesus was the will of God?"

While the imagery faint and non-distinct, the flow was crystal clear. Darth flowed back, "the words of Jesus, men who take these to heart in the right spirit, and practice some of his good works and thoughts, surely are as much the will of Jesus as the man himself, hence by definition if the will of Jesus, also the will of God. Those who accept this precept, have a right to think and feel in the context of the will of God."

"You have answered wisely", came the reply except there was a sense of "wit" in the flow and the thought "wise" seem rather curiously flowed. Darth silenced his thoughts more to clearly work out if he head "wise" or another word. After a while his brain deciphered the flow again, this time as "you have answered like a Wesley."

At much the same time Amanda, Darth's and Helen's telepathic daughter, aged just over fifteen, and an Australian and a daughter of a policeman, locked her will with Helen and imagined herself standing in field with Helen, in Amanda's arms a baby in white, she swaying with it.

"No, you don't know how to sway properly yet, the sway conveys the type of flow...oh, give her to me", Helen took the child from Amanda, "and what are you doing with a child anyway? At your age."

Amanda, sensing well, understood the reason and explained, "I am much to young to give birth in the spirit...yak...bad taste in my mouth...but...I sense a woman, a Methodist, also an American, also a policewoman. Because she is a police woman, I suspect that is the reason, and I a daughter of one in ordinary life, I think her spirit flowed to my womb."

"All right, I understand, I forgive you", Helen replied as she swayed and smiled at the baby in her arms.

"Mum!", Amanda put her hands on her hip in protest, "I have not done anything!"

"Never mind, and don't argue", Helen replied, "use your force....bring the woman online...Sharon is her name I came across her before...name among us...and be her will, form her mental image with me, be her will until she needs your will no more."

"Yes, mum", Amanda replied and did exactly that using a technique, a secret technique, she knew how to use. Within minutes a woman image in a knee long blue skirt and a white shirt and a blue jacket imagined herself with Helen and Amanda. Helen flowed quickly to Sharon, "don't mention you are a police woman in ordinary life...Natural Telepaths have a problem with anyone who enforces their will on natural life...they love army people, because such often have a sense of order similar to the Natural Telepaths, but as for police, no."

"I understand", Sharon replied, "no need for me to boast...not something I am particularly proud of when in the spirit I might add."

Helen locked will with Amy. This was Amy's show really, she the proper "mother in the spirit" of the new Methodist group coming online. Amy was still not skilled enough in these types of telepathy techniques to manage on her own, so for a time Helen assisted. Helen blended with Amy, which meant in the mental imagery that followed for a while Helen and Amy were aware of the same imagery as if each woman alone manipulated that mental image, was the person in the mental image.

The setting which formed was in Darth's and Helen's number 1 telepathy house setting. Darth imagined sitting on the carpet, next to him on his right a Rabbi, on his left a Catholic theologian called Theo. Sharon imagined sitting on the sofa. Amanda also imagined being in the room sitting on the carpet by the coffee table. Not realizing Helen was entwining with Amy, Amanda only seeing Amy's mental image, Amanda flowed to Darth, "dad, mum is not in a good mood."

As Amanda flowed this, she could suddenly see Helen's image superimposed on Amy's, and Amanda put her hand to her mouth saying "oops...they are blending together."

"I am not in a happy mood", Amy (but really Helen at this point in time) replied, "because by this time Amy ought to know how to do this on her own, but she locks will with me so often."

Helen silenced her thoughts and her input into the image, and Amy imagined being alone sitting on the carpet with Darth. She put her hand on his upper arm and leant against him, flowing softly, "dear...I am sorry...you were hoping that I, as an Anglican Reverend, could focus thoughts on the truth in faith that I believe, and maintain focus while we develop an Anglican Faith Path. Well, yes, in time I will be able to do this, at the moment I am not that skilled with this telepathy style. I know Anglican Life in the Spirit but that is not the same or as complex as the interaction among mixed people."

The visual of the setting became stronger. Sharon imagined sitting down by the coffee table. Amanda was on the end of the coffee table, she sitting on her legs, her elbows on table, her hands around her face - the impression of how she sat was that she was supporting her head. Amanda was a pretty fifteen year old with longish quite light brown hair - but she lacked confidence and Darth and sometimes Helen sometimes went out of their way to persuade Amanda she was just as pretty as any of their telepathic daughters.

A male Methodist image formed. An older man, he imagined himself sitting on the carpet. Sharon walked to him, sat by him, pointed to him and explained, "I and you, Padre, let me call you this, are the Methodist..in time, we will be able to link into a methodist Life in the Spirit."

"Is there such a group?", the Padre asked.

"Oh yes", Sharon nodded. "Not as advanced as this group", she motioned with her hands at those present, "but it is there. I have even given birth a number of times, a birth in the spirit - a common principle as I learned among the faiths, even Buddhists as I understand have a Life in the Spirit, well, not sure what they call it, perhaps a Life of Enlightenment or something."

The two seemed to exchange a private 'happy flow", as if content with one another's subtle humor.

Amanda stood up and walked to Darth, she reproducing this imagery as if it was real-life, and literally sat herself down on Darth's leg and imagined a book in her hand and opened a page, "what does this picture say father?"

Sharon, thinking Amanda was too old to sit like that - especially since Amanda wore a knee long bluish skirt but the way she sat, her knees up, the skirt fell down a fair way - could not block her thoughts and they flowed to all.

Amanda moved and now sat by Darth, rather neatly this time, with her head lowered she flowed to Sharon in a rather "embarrassed" flow, "yes, I know I am too old, but I don't think about it unless someone points it out."

"Sorry, I could not block my thought, none of my business", Sharon apologized.

Lisa-1 imagined being in the setting. She wore dark clothes, elegant long skirt, she sat neatly near Amanda. Amanda could see a silver cross pinned to her lapel.

"You are a Catholic Sister!", Sharon said in surprise at the revelation she just experienced. It was not the silver cross, but a deep deep feeling of faith that flowed in the setting as Lisa-1 imagined herself in the setting.

"Yes, I am", Lisa-1 smiled, "and a celibate...and if not a celibate only my husband of the faith", she pointed at Darth, "knows that and to the spirit I am still a virgin. But, what made me focus on this interaction was what you said...you said you had given birth in the spirit before...how, may I ask? You have like marriages in Methodist Life in the Spirit."

Sharon felt awkward and leant and whispered a private thought to the Padre who in turn shook his head, "no, no need, you have a right to a private life even in Life in the Spirit, that is my opinion."

Sharon turned to Lisa-1, "do you really have to know the truth?", she asked rather awkwardly.

"Not at all", Lisa-1 smiled, "but any woman of faith who locks onto my husband of the faith", she pointed at Darth, "and who is a virgin in the Life in the Spirit sense, is automatically a danger to me as a wife...I am now confident you are not a marriage breaker so to speak, and leave you at peace."

Lisa-1 smiled and faded quickly out of the setting.

Amy leant forward a touch and explained t; Sharon, "in principle, by heaven's will, I too am a wife...the fourth wife in the spirit...but the existing three wives are extremely possessive...Helen is the main wife, Lisa-1 the wife of the faith in Catholic jargon, and Lana an Islamic wife in Islamic jargon. Which of the three is the most important?"

Sharon shrugged, indicating she did not understand this well, Amy also shrugged and flowed, "I have no idea! Ultimately, it was Helen and Darth who began their spiritual journey then marriage together, and for a long time it was just those too, so I suspect Helen probably has the ethical right to claim she is the wife and the most important wife...she is also the proper mother to the telepathic children, Lisa-1 and Lana tend to avoid acting as mothers too often, neither can manage well when too many of the telepathic children come online at the same time."

"Until Helen says otherwise, Lisa-1 and Lana and Amy are to be treated as equal to her by me", Darth said.

Amy moved aside from him, turned to him, "really? I wonder who wears the trousers in your marriage? But", Amy leant against Darth again, "from what I have observed - your love for Helen is deep, too deep for words, and hers for you. You both love one another. Your faith in Lisa-1 and hers in you, as servants of Jesus called to a Faith Marriage, is complete and I marvel. You love her faith dearly, as she yours. Lana, the submissive one, is the most proper Servant of God, always keeping a watchful eye on that which is holy among Life in the Spirit interactions. On that basis, you being perhaps God's servant number 1, she is surely servant number 2, and on that basis Allah meant you both to be husband and wife."

Amanda was back at the coffee table, listening, her head again supported by her hands. She turned to Sharon, "in other words, no one in the world can seriously work out which of the three women, Helen, Lisa-1, or Lana, is the holy wife."

"I get the picture", Sharon replied then turned to Amy and was about to speak but hesitated, turned to Amanda, "sweetheart....are you old enough to listen to an adult talk, or do you have to go to your room or have your ears covered."

"I am old enough!", Amanda flowed in an amused way, "you have a sense of humor."

Amanda turned to the Padre and whispered in his ear, "I was actually being very serious on that occasion."

Amanda then turned to Amy who was sitting now with the book of illustrations that Amanda had tried to show Darth. Problem was Darth was not good at what was called "white paper ESP" technique and barely could see words or pictures using such a technique. Amy was better, and now and then privately flowed to him some "slogans" that Amanda invented. Darth felt most of these were brilliant slogans - about all sorts of things, Amanda seemed to have a passion, she perhaps a future advertising genius, of coming up with slogans and banners.

Amy closed the book and lifted herself and put the book on the table, "you are very clever, Amanda."

"Thanks, Amy", Amanda said, "oops", she covered her mouth, "am I supposed to call you mother too?"

Amy smiled, lowered her head, turned to Darth. "Not yet...let it come naturally if you want", Darth said to Amanda.

"Okay", Amanda stood up then imagined sitting next to the Rabbi - but again the way she sat on the carpet with legs crossed, her skirt high, cause Sharon to look at her.

"What now?", Amanda stretched out her hands as she glanced at her skirt, even bent to look to see that nothing wa exposed, then looked fiercely at Sharon.

"I am sorry, I can not help this, but the way you just sat reminded me of...of...never mind", Sharon said.

Amy explained to Sharon, "Amanda likes superimposing memories of ordinary life...she sits rather casually, even in class, its a Catholic High School she goes too, even when she has a rather brief skirt...and the reason when she superimposes such a recall to enhance the imagery in the setting, she may seem to sit rather...unlady like."

"What a word, unlady like - is there even such a word", Amanda adjusted her mental image so she sat with legs to the side and her skirt to her knees. To Sharon Amanda flowed, "hate for you to be my telepathic mother."

"I believe, Sharon", the Rabbi flowed - and his flow mellow, soft, like from a lovely old man to his grandchildren - "you wanted to discuss a delicate subject?"

"Oh yes, I forgot", Sharon imagined coming over to Theo, the Roman Catholic Theogian in the image much like priests were dressed often in their black clothes with a white collar, "Father...I believe you are a Priest? Let me confess a delicate issue. Because I am a police office in ordinary life, but I don't intend to spread this around among groups, and because I do know of Methodist Life in the Spirit, years ago I found a Jewish telepathy group - a Noble House they called themselves. Fantastic mental imagery and fantastic romance in that group! But, I was with child, in the spirit sense, and a natural instinct told me that telepathic sex will somehow speed up the long and ardous process of spiritual birth - so I, well, experimented, and it worked. Since then, I did it about three time...mind you, each time because of the child in my womb. Is this a sin?"

Theo reflected, considered, compared in his thoughts some complex Gospel passages, and nodded as he imagined touching Sharon's hand gently with his, "yes, I would say so, but only a tiny sin, the sort of sin I would say requires no more than three prayers to frogive."

"Thank you, Father", Sharon was pleased to hear that, leant, gave the man a kiss on his forehead, and walked back to sit on the sofa.

Amy looked puzzled at Darth, then Sharon, then walked to the sofa and sat down next to her, "I am sorry...did I miss something...why did you have this urge to confess, to admit, to this, in my new husband's presence?", Amy pointed to Darth.

"Because I am not a fool", Sharon replied, "only an idiot would fail to sense and see the spirit of God in that man and ever so strong. Just in case, in future, I need to give spiritual birth again among my Methodist Life in the Spirit, I want that man to assist", she pointed at Darth.

"Don't you wish you were this popular with women in high school, dad!", Amanda flowed from where she was once again sitting, on the side of the coffee-table with her head supported by her arms and hands.

"I thought this once or twice myself", Darth mused.

Amy locked Sharon's will strongly, forming an image of a church and in the church she and Sharon before a picture of a Catholic Saint. Amy pointed to the picture, "this is a Catholic Church...that's a Catholic Saint...this is Darth's personal memory and a setting he first formed in me...but that is not funny...you know he is married to me now", Amy pointed to herself, "but you so blatantly are suggesting you would love to make love to another woman's husband."

Sharon turned and imagined sitting down in church, pondering. Amy sat down beside her. Sharon turned to Amy and explained sincerely, "it is either me or that teenager...there is something about police officers...or their children...a unique brain pattern of some kind...the Jewish Holy Ways seem to be experts on this...but...as I understand...the spirit forming in a police officer flows to either another police officer already party to Life in the Spirit, or a child in Life in the Spirit whose parent is a police officer. I Feel quite a few police flows to me...I also sense its either me or that girl Amanda...but she is only young, spare her the burden of seriously considering...you know what...she seems to have a happy relationship with Darth as his daughter of the faith and in telepathy."

"She does", Amy nodded as she touched Sharon's hand, "all right...for the reason you explained, and only for that reason, would I give you permission."

"Thanks", Sharon gave Amy, to Amy's embarrassment, a kiss on the forehead and the setting faded, and the visual setting of their number one house formed.

As the other setting reformed, with Sharon sitting on the sofa, Sharon again was astonished at Amanda. As the setting formed Amanda was by the fireplace, stretched out, legs slightly bent, her skirt rather high revealing much of her legs, and she with head slightly to the side as if she was "flirting" with her audience.

"Child, why do you do that?", Sharon could not help herself and the thought flowed.

Amanda shook her head, and walked back to sit by the coffee table in that "head support" position, and winked at the Rabbi as she explained to Sharon, "I was not doing anything...I was thinking about a slogan...and wanted an impression from the Rabbi what sort of mode pose would be appropriate for the slogan."

The Rabbi stood up and slowly walked to Sharon, sat down by her. He sat down like an old man might, taking his time, as if checking it was safe to sit down in that spot. When settled, he explained to Sharon using that soft mellow old flow, "it is my fault....I still blame myself...long ago...about a year after Darth and Helen married in the spirit..they decided to document some Life in the Spirit interactions...they came upon a stumbling block...on the one hand they wanted to explain correctly and truthfully...to the best of their ability you understand, it is such a complex topic...on the other hand they did not want to mention that there are marriages in the spirit and a husband and wife tend to have telepathic sex regularly and also for the purpose of speeding up a spiritual birth...I don't know, I was feeling jolly at the time, had a glass or two of wine with dinner that night...and said what came to me "we all know that sex sells". Well, perhaps but I hope not to my eternal regret, from that time on, taking my simple and casual remark as Gospel, they decided they would not only explain this, they would narrate their tales in a rather sexy way when an opportunity arose."

"All right, I understand", Sharon said softly and touched the Rabbi's hand gently, "and I was not trying to be judgemental...the thoughts just slipped from me, I could not block them."

Amanda pointed to Sharon as she flowed to Darth, "father...why is that woman acting like she was my mother in the spirit?"

"A good question?", Amy turned to Sharon.

Sharon imagined sitting next to Amanda and explained softly, "love...I am a police officer in ordinary life...you as I understand are a child of a police officer...common sense tells me that, somehow, through some mystery, I am also your mother in the spirit...that's why I may seem...commanding with you. To a methodist like me..I don't know how true this is of other Methodists...but..I feel like the will of Christ in people, in myself, and I feel it now with regards to you."

Amanda turned to the elder Methodist, "Padre...I thought you and she", she pointed to Sharon, "are about getting us, this group, to get to know a Methodist Life in the Spirit group?

"I am", the Padre flowed sincerely and even raised his hand as if making an oath in this regard, "but I am no longer so certain what Sharon's intent is."

"Mine too", Sharon stood up and walked back to sit by the Rabbi, "I just lost focus." She turned to the Rabbi, smiled ever so nicely and sincerely, and explained, "Father, I know that is an honorary title for a Rabbi in Life in the Spirit, but I love your soft mellow flow...wish you were my grandfather." She leant against him briefly.

"Thank you", the Rabbi nodded, pleased hearing this. Then a toubling dark memory came to haunt him, and the Rabbi leant to Theo, "Theo, if you don't mind, hear my burden and grief."

Theo, surprised, he himself considered the Rabbi as perhaps the most holy and honorable men among them, nodded and tuned his ear to the Rabbi's flow.

"Well, I will explain simply but I hope clearly", the Rabbi took out an old watch, on a chain, from his pocket and glanced at it, "Darth is a Natural Telepath but Life in the Spirit telepathy he had to learn. Unusual it was that he first connected to a woman who was not Catholic, Helen, but that happens from time to time among us. I also was online because that is part of Jewish Life in the Spirit mystery, when a man, or woman, first connect in the spirit with another, a Rabbi from the Holy Ways also comes online. Jewish telepathy is complex, vertical Ways and horizontal Ways, a Way being a telepathy group. At the top are Holy Ways, beneath what are known as "accreddited Rabbi's", below what are known as Noble Ways of which there are a great many, but beneath this are "riff-raff", ordinary people, Jews mainly, who touched the telepathic plane but they have no interest or desire in knowing God or the mystery of Jewish traditions in Life in the Spirit. Darth first connected to the riff-raff telepathy channels and I had to assist him to pass these. As we began a flow, the riff-raff kept interferring something awful. Darth, out of desperation, had this brilliant idea...but rather vulgar in hindsight...he suggested we invent a code...so the word "shit" was our code for the "holy"...I don't want to go into details of other thoughts in this code, eek, I shudder to recall...anyway, this worked beautifully...the riff-raff that were spying on us two did not understand a word...and that meant in a matter of hours we managed to clear a telepathy channel between us...and the story began...I introduced the man to Helen. Was it a sin, to use such shocking words in the context of God and that which is holy, Theo, because it still burdens my soul to think about this."

Theo took a long time, pondering, reflecting, especially reflecting on some of the Prophets of Old such as Isiah, and finally touched the old Rabbi's hand, "no, because you both did it for the right reason and in the right spirit - as ellusive as the right spirit might have seemed to be."

"Thank you, my friend, and the grace of God upon you", the Rabbi nodded and blessed Theo. The Rabbi then explained to Amy, "I may well be an old wise Rabbi, at least others say I am wise, myself not so certain, but I still like an opinion now and then about matters that burden my soul, an opinion from those of good heart who are not Jews."

The Rabbi turned to Sharon who seemed to understand and appreciate why he told this story. Sharon even had a tear in her eye. The Rabbi explained, "my Catholic scholar, not sure Theo is actually a Priest, I think he is a Brother, a Franciscan Brother or Monk, but sometimes his opinion and mine differs, so I tested him with you in mind. You also did what you did three times for the right reason and in the right spirit, this would not be a blasphemy in my book...I know, the word "blasphemy" sounds a harsh word in modern times but its traditional and it really means sin in Catholic sense."

"Thank you", Amanda said ever so softly, touching the old man's arm, feeling a great depth of respect - even love for the truth - for the old wise Rabbi. Her feelings moved her deeply, so deeply in her thoughts she imagined leaning against the Rabbi and crying.

"That is such a lovely story, grandfather", Amanda too felt something so "holy" in the story the Rabbi told.

"Oh, I forgot, cursed be the memory of an old man", the Rabbi muttered as he reached with his hand into his pocket, took out a gift, a present, nicely wrapped, and gave it to Amanda who jumped up quickly and came to the Rabbi and took the present, went to sit as she did before, and placed the present on the coffee table.

"It was your birthday not long ago", the Rabbi said to Amanda, "and I meant to give it to you then...a special wish", and sensing curiousity on the part of Sharon and the Padre, the Rabbi explained, "a child adopted into a family unit in Life in the Spirit likes to bond with her new telepathic or in the spirit parents...hard this is the older the child...Amanda was fourteen, relatively new, when she was born to Helen and Darth in the spirit...she told me her wish, she told me this in the spirit before her birthday, to find a way to bond better with Darth and Helen..so I interested a few Jewish friends from a Noble Way to help me find a path of reconciliation really...and they came up with a lovely imaginary experience which begins when in her heart and mind and soul Amanda opens the present."

"I will do it this night, when I am ready to fall asleep", Amanda patted the lovely wrapped present, "it may keep me awake all night as in my fantasy a fantastic world opens in my imagination, but I don't feel tired in the morning when this happens."

Amy, perplexed and overwhelmed by all this, imagined being with Darth in that particular Catholic Church setting - but suddenly Darth imagined being in a Methodist Church, a place he had passed but had not beein inside. With him Amy who looked about, "wow! Fantastic reproduction and I sense this is a Wesley Church."

Sharon also imagined being with them, she sitting at first, then she walked to the back to be with the two. To Amy she said softly but firmly, "don't be naive...every woman of faith who touches the spirit in him", she pointed to Darth, "and understands the nature of spiritual birth, will want to mate with him...the result a child, a spirit, spreading across a Life in the Spirit group, a child of the Holy Spirit. Why can't I, seeing I am blameless before the Rabbi, also be a wife in the spirit to Darth?"

Amy glared at Darth, took him aside, whispered in his ear, "dear...telepathic love-making with one woman is special...but with many wives at much the same time it would be pain not pleasure...you better find a way to stop this..this...foolishness...you are a man of God, sure, of faith, yes, but as for the Holy Spirit, seems to me only God alone can know that."

"I have not satisfied myself it is foolishness", Darth said softly, "I am inclined to believe if a woman believes that in me there is the Holy Spirit - even if I am nothing more than a Devil in disguise - what she believes influences the spiritual birth she has, and the result is fine, that I have witnessed."

Amy looked down, swayed, punched his torso softly as she glared at him, "yes, you are right again...I don't know then...in a way this jealousy is a touch immature, because we are talking about what can be faint sexual imagery...on the other hand it is the principle of the thing, a married couple should copulate only with one another, that is what I believe."

Amy paced about in this Wesley Church setting. It was an old church, Darth had in fact passed it in an Australian outback town called Broken Hill. He was not sure what it was like inside but it looked rather fine, but very old, on the outside. As she paced she decided she had no right to refuse a woman who truly believed in her husband, as Amy was more and more thinking and relating to Darth, was the Holy Spirit.

Lisa-1, aware of Darth seeking her oppinion on the matter, also imagined being in this church setting. She too sensed this was a Wesley Church. She turned to Darth, touched his chest, flowed, "I don't know how you manage this! Another Lifein the Spirit group connects to the cmbined Life in the Spirit group."

"I honestly don't think it is me doing anything, I feel it is God", Darth replied softly, "the only problematic aspect is this...this..me having so many wives in the spirit, not sure God intended that...the men I have come across, many single, the men in the spirit, many are much better men than me."

"But you also have deep masculine charm and charisma when you use your flows", Lisa-1 explained quietly, "I am not surprised women are attracted to you in the spirit. The sense of your physical body that comes to me, I know this is true of Helen and Lana, is very...very..sexually interesting to a woman."

"Are you blaming me for this side-effect?", Darth asked.

Lisa-1, she wearing ordinary casual perhaps winter type clothes, around her arm a handbag, imagined Darth in a business suit and fixed his tie up as she explained quietly and lovingly, "no, dear, I am not blaming you...just a nusiance this side-effect..nuisance for me, Helen, Lana, already starting to be a nuisance to Amy whom I will in time accept as a fourth wife if you do fall in love with her in however a small way...at the moment you are charmed by her, and you feel it is your, shall we say professional, obligation to cooperate...but I can tell, she is growing on you, and she is a woman, a woman plans to catch a man often enough...she is planning to be a proper and sound wife in the spirit to you."

Lisa-1 turned and took Sharon aside, explaining, "its like this", she pointed to the golden cross on her woolen open cardigan, "you found a man in the darkness, in him you saw the light of faith, that faith brought you to me, I am like a Missionary of Charity in ordinary life, I have a dedication and commitment, and a vision from the Virgin Mary that made me what to become a celibate Catholic Sister...in time, all such combined to give me what us Catholic Religious with a dedication refer to as golden faith - the faith of Jesus almost. That faith will be in you, as you interact with me, it will form an image of me in you. Do you want this? To become his wife in the spirit, you need golden faith to form the required Sacrament, and you become a wife of his faith which means a Catholic in the spirit, but a Methodist in ordinary life and you remain true to what you are."

Sharon considered, looked shy, uncertain, glanced at Amy a few times, but then said, "yes, I believe, I do want to."

Lisa-1 glanced at Amy who in turn shook her hands, threw her hands up, "I don't know what to say."

Amy walked to and sat down in one of the pews. Lisa-1 sat next to her and asked Sharon to also sit down with them and Lisa-1 explained. "That's a problem only Helen can understand completely...because she is a Jew, not a Rabbi in ordinary life but is a proper Rabbi in their Life in the Spirit, a Rabbi in their Holy Ways, she has access to depths of wisdom that can cope with a woman who wants to share her husband for a time, in particular to give spiritual birth. Ultimately, it is Helen alone who makes a decision if she allows another woman to become wife in the spirit - but even if she says yes, she can change her mind anytime because, in the end, only Darth and Helen are married in the spirit in such a deep and powerful way, only they are the Servants of God in this generation, and they walk among Life in the Spirit groups. I have had the privildge of seeing the two in a very private discussion, both standing on the mountain of God, their tongue that of angels, and they talk more like a God and Goddess, or some advanced aliens beyond our conception, and clarify issues together. You both ought to decide the step, if you will, that you wish to advance Anglican and Methodist Life in the Spirit...to touch God directly is impossible except for the rare few called to this. To learn to think like God is unlikely to assist any man or woman to live a life of quality - on the contrary, it might drive them insane. Find the balance, the human side of the coin."

Amy took Lisa-1 aside and asked, "why do I sense, feel, you are the only wife in that sense, not Helen?"

"Because I belong to the Father...Helen belongs to the Jews, in her a true Jewish spirit in bloom", Lisa-1 replied, "the Jews have massive Life in the Spirit groups...it is their sacred mystery..no Christian Life in the Spirit group, or Islamic one, even if all came together, can come anywhere near the numbers of Jews in the spirit. It is a massive telepathic plane they use and claim they own. The Natural Telepaths are unique, strongest in telepathy, but most are not religious and don't try to compete with Jes in the Spirit - in any case, their first-born is married to a Jew, in a marriage they accept as legal among them, and Jewish telepathy is completely female dominant, all this means that in this generation the border between Jews and Natural Telepaths is not so clear. You see what I am getting at Amy? I belong to Jesus, you also I guess, but Helen belongs to the Jews and the Jews in this generation in Life in the Spirit adore the first-born among the Natural Telepaths."

"What point are you trying to make?", Sharon heard this and also came over.

Lisa-1 sat down on a chair. "Well...I am a believer...so are you", she pointed to Amy, "and so are you", she pointed to Sharon, "but...is there a God?...think about this...if there is no God, all this is from human intelligence...and the wife to that man", Lisa-1 pointed at Darth, "is the woman who has the stongest force on her side, and that is the Jews in the spirit. She is kind enough to allow me to be wife of the faith...note the word I used, "allow"...she also allowed Lana to be an Islamic wife...again I use the word "allowed"...think clearly...for whose benefit are you prepared to give birth in the spirit and mate with a man you believe has the grace of God directly...for God's benefit?...or for the benefit of your congregation and flock."

Amy and Sharon glanced at one another, sat down, both at much the same time flowed to Lisa-1, "you are very wise for one I sense so young."

"I am not that young, I wish", Lisa-1 sat down by them.

Helen now also formed in the back of the church. In her arms a baby in white which she put down on the floor and began to change a nappy. The three women in the setting imagined standing around, watching, waiting for Helen to explain or clarify issues.

"For the right reason", Helen said as she was changing the baby, "and that is spiritual birth, then if a woman of faith n the spirit is pregnant with child in the spirit, and wants to use my husband", Helen pointed to Darth standing quietly, "to assist...then I give permission...but its a once off...the other aspect I do not mind if he treats a woman who accepts to be his wife, as hiw wife..but sex is not part of this, that's basically only once...sometimes a woman is pregnant more than once of course."

"Ladies", Darth used a deep divine like flow, "think clearly...you are Servants of God in your way...what is God asking of you? To be my wife in the spirit? I don't think so, that's a stage you might be going through - your heart, your brain, your child-spirit, is focusing on me in the manner Catholics focus on Jesus...nothing wrong with that, but there is much more to reflect and consider before the matter becomes clearer. When in doubt, in ordinary life, look up into a lovely blue sky..when angry, look as you flush the toilet. Simple tricks that balance the brain better than any psychologist can."

"I love you already, for what you just said and tried to do", Sharon said as she walked to Darth, gave him a kiss on the cheek, and imagined sitting on a chair on his right.

Lisa-1 imagined swaying with a baby in yellow in her arms, "there, golden faith to both my new daughters...that is what Amy and Sharon are. This is where I have a problem because my daughters of the faith who are adult women share my Catholic Vow...that Vow makes it impossible for Darth to know if the woman he is with, is me. My daughters alone can fool him if they so want...for whatever reason they want...I find them blameless before me when they do. At the Catholic will level, the most sacred level to women of faith party to Life in the Spirit, I alone am Darth's wife of the faith. I share my will with my daughters of the faith, because I have no choice, I don't know how not to share it."

Helen had finished changing the baby and stood up, smiling at the child, rocking it, and flowing to Amy and Sharon, "there...you now ought to reflect and understand the condition under which I give permission for you know what...and when Lisa-1 gives permission, she only to her daughters of the faith...you also need it from Lana."

Lana, now also aware, formed in the image, as elegant as she usually was, with that pristine figure and waist long black hair as she often had it styled in t he settings. Her gown dark cream with a pattern, and a silver ribbon across her gown from the left shoulder to the right ankle, on her head the magical Crown of Andromeda. She imagined a baby in her arms and swayed with it as she explained to Amy and Sharon. "Pigs might fly, but not on Earth. I am the Telepathic Wife, that is a special relationship and friendship, Helen or Lisa-1 can claim this too but in reality I am. I am a Queen...I don't mind if my husband slept with a new woman every night as long as his love for me did not dim...but I also an Islamic Wife, similar principle to the Catholic Faith Marriage but based on submission to the will of Allah...if both of you feel in that man", Lana pointed to Darth, "rests the Holy Spirit...then surely if you have faith, you don't need telepathic sex to give birth, that is not the issue...yes, sure, you both want to be wives in the spirit but not for the specia reason of spiritual birth, but because both of you sense and feel something very useful will come about it. Now, for me to give either of you permission, I want you to explain to me very clearly what you feel will be useful that comes from....a night of love with one man....it has to be very useful...it is a question of what you feel and believe that is important to the Holy Spirit, not so much what you think a mechanical act will achieve."

"But Lana", Amy imagined looking into a small mirror, "surely you admit and acknowledge it is a fact of Life in the Spirit that a woman with a child in the spirit, can use telepathic sex to shorten the process, to make it less painful and embarrassing."

"Yes, I do admit this, a fact of life among Life in the Spirit groups", Lana said.

Sharon stepped over to Lana, gave her a look up and down. "Don't you look exotic! Playboy would pay a fortune to have you as a centrefold. If I can talk a Queen into allowing me to make love to a King, why should I not have a go?"

"You may try to talk me into such an indiscretion", Lana smiled, she liked the way Sharon said this.

Amy used all the power of her will, a massive force, to cause herself and Darth to be in that special Catholic Church setting. "Listen", she put her arms around her, "something holy is emerging from the combined Life in the Spirit...i want to be part of this...I want to...have the same agreement with you as you have with your three wives...when with me, we don't talk about Helen or Lisa-1 or Lana much, you forget as best you can you have other wives and female fans."

"All right", Darth replied, "but it will take me time, it is not that easy to adjust to that way of thinking and relating."

"Take your time, no rush", Amy smiled and gave him a kiss.

Sharon, also aware of the imagery but she herself not in the imagery, forced her will to the Wesley Church setting. She stood facing Darth, "and me? Same arrangement please...I don't have any need for telepathic sex except when a birth is due in the spirit...but I will find a positive technique to make sure I get permission from Helen...you ask Lisa-1 and Lana as a curtsy to them, not because you feel compelled to ask...but that one", Sharon pointed to Helen who was changing a baby on the floor again, "that's the proper wife all right, the only one that can say yes or no."

"Not exactly", Helen looked up at Sharon, "you must want to, my husband must not mind, and I must not mind and see something useful in that...if you make him content for a while that is a good reason to me...with almost twenty telepathic children, often I do not have the time I would like to be more of a woman and less of a mother and wife."

"I understand you", Sharon squatted down to be at Helen's level, Helen sitting on the floor changing the baby, "and I respect you enormously."

"I am not sure I trust you", Amy confessed to Helen, "but I trust your husband in the spirit, Darth, and in him I do see evidence of God."

"Bless you, and you may be wife number four", Helen looked up and smiled at Amy, "if my husband does not mind."

"He does not mind, he finds me interesting", Amy mused, herself certain she had sufficient telepathy time with Darth to interest him in her.

Helen fixed those deep blue eyes on Darth, he in turn smiled to Amy, "I do not mind...as long as our marriage in the spirit is very useful to my Lord, remain my wife...at the end of your days in this world...when the angel of life and death stands by your bed and asks if you want life or death...if you choose life, then the new Anglican Faith Path retains its direct link to the Holy Spirit, else it does not. Your Anglican Faith Path must satisfy you now, and when you are a grandmother, and it must satisfy young ones, especially girls which will come online in greater numbers than boys."

Darth turned to Sharon, "same for you, my Lady, you become an angel among Methodist Life in the Spirit. You will form a new Methodist Faith Path. Each Faith Path must provide an interface to other Faith Paths or Life in the Spirit groups."

"Yes, your Majesty", Sharon gave a delicate curtsy and her flow ever so polite bordering on submissive. Darth knew Lana was helping Sharon, he did not know the reason, but that technique Sharon was using was the same Lana used, such a special submissive flow and approach that overwhelmed him in the end.

As the imagery began to fade, a new imagery formed. At first all heard a flow like from a song, then the thought "burning bridges", and then the Padre with Amy, and Darth with Sharon, and a few others - images real-life or close to real-life but perhaps ideal - imagined standing on a bridge in London. A few other men and women imagined standing with them, some men taking notes. Darth, in the image of a man, asked the old Padre, "what do you think, Minister is it? I am not sure how Methodist refer to their preachers and instructors. I would prefer to call you Padre."

"You may", the old man nodded and imagined in his hand a squashed note and passed it to Darth, "and yes, I am satisfied a new Methodist Faith Path can form and I found the right team to develop it...men and women among us are even prepared to...to...explore some...delicate...issues...I don't feel that is bad, but might confuse the learner."

"Ultimately", Darth said, "there are, and perhaps always will be, far more women than men in Life in the Spirit...with Islam an exception at this point in time...women can be very intelligent and highly calculating when something is very important to them...I think one wife will accept more wives because it is fair in many ways. Some women do not want a marriage in Life in the Spirit, but many do. It is the women themselves, if you seriously talk to Helen, Lisa-1, Lana, and even Amy I feel, who decided that a man who can cope and love more than one wife, is acceptable as a man with more than one wife."

"That I approve of", the Padre replied as he imagined a pipe he put into his mouth and began to puff out light smoke rings.