Chapter 1
It’s a bright sunny morning with magpies singing. There’s a run down old suburban boarding house, in a quite street in South Melbourne.
Alex Turner, age 35, is sitting on top of his bed reading a book titled Self Hypnosis. The room is poorly lit.
While reading he thinks back to when he was much younger and still at university.
He remembers laughing and joking with friends about a night out they had at a live stage hypnotist’s show.
Alex didn’t attend that particular show but was still fascinated by what his friends had told him.
He also remembers more recently when he was sitting in a barbers shop reading a magazine and an advertisement for a book on Self Hypnosis. He tore the ad out when no one was watching him.
There’s a sudden knock on the door, which breaks the silence.
It’s the landlady, Mrs Stewart, widow. Alex is her only tenant.
Alex looks a bit nerdy and he wears heavy rimmed glasses.
Alex! Its time to go to work dear..
Alex...!
Yes Mrs Stewart! Thank you!
Alex gets off his bed and places the book in a bedside draw.
He grabs his briefcase and opens the door.
What were you doing dear? You’d better hurry or you’ll miss the tram and be late.
Mrs Stewart being an old retired pensioner with an inquisitive and over bearing nature. She can be a real sticky beak. She usually speaks before Alex gets a chance to answer. She’s like an old mother hen.
I was just reading an interesting book and got a bit involved.
What’s the book called Alex?
It’s called Self Hypnosis. I’d better make a run for the tram Mrs Stewart or I’ll be late. Goodbye!
Don’t forget your lunch dear, it’s on the kitchen table! Don’t take too much notice of all that foolishness in that book Alex.
Mrs Stewart says out loud to herself.
I’ll never understand how the young people of today can read so much rubbish.
Alex is running to the tram stop and jumps on just as the tram is leaving.
He works in the city as a computer terminal operator.
He usually keeps to himself and is quiet in nature. As he works during the day he continually watches the clock on and off.
He is anxious for the time to reach 5.30pm so he can go home.
At last its 5.30.
He grabs his briefcase, walks out in a hurry, saying goodnight to some of his work companions as he rushes towards the lift, to take him down to ground level.
A work companion yells out to him. Got a hot date Alex?
Not exactly, see ya!
Alex exits the lift and building and waits at the tram stop,
watching his number 12 tram approach. He can only think about his book on self hypnosis. There seems to be an obsession.
Are you coming or not?
The tram conductor yells out.
Sorry..., yes. I was just day dreaming.
Since receiving the book in the mail, Alex hasn’t been able to take his mind off it.
The memory of the stories his school friends told him, seemed to haunt his memory. With visual fantasies coming up in his mind.
It is as if he is possessed with the thoughts.
The tram has arrived at his stop, but being in such a daydream he misses it and has to get off at the next stop.
Damm! I missed my stop
Alex jogs a mile through various back streets to the boarding house where he lives. (Wearing a suit and tie.)
Hello Alex, been running?
You seem a bit puffed!
Alex is gasping for air.
Ya.. Ya.., Yes. I missed my stop and thought I’d better make the time up by jogging home.
Mrs Stewart looks at him a bit strange, but says nothing in reply.
Dinner will be ready soon Alex dear.
Okay, I’ll just wash up.
They sit together at the table with Alex gorging through his dinner, so he can get back to reading his book.
Slow down dear, there’s no need to hurry.
I’m sorry Mrs Stewart, its just that I’ve got some things to do.
The dinner was lovely. Would you like me to help you with the dishes?
No dear, you go about your business, there’s only a few things to clean up
Thanks Mrs Stewart, I’ll go straight away then.
Alex goes to his room and locks the door after him. Grabs his book and continues reading the book while laying on his bed.
It wasn’t long and he had finished reading the book.
Alex decided to try some of the basic relaxation methods covered
in the book.
Alex says quietly to himself.
I can’t wait to see what its like to be able to control my mind and body.
He finds the relaxation methods to be easy and progresses through various levels of consciousness.
He lays there experimenting with different things. First his breathing and then controlling his heart beat.
Alex is becoming more and more confident; he is changing from his old quiet self.
On his left hand he has about 100 small flat type warts.
As he stares at them he says to himself:
I’ve had you little aggravating pricks on my hand for years now, burning and chemicals didn’t work, so I’ll try hypnosis on ya’s….
Alex places himself in his deepest hypnotic trance. His subconscious thoughts are saying warts disappear; warts disappear, over and over.
In the end he falls asleep.
There’s a sudden knock at the door. Alex sits straight up in bed from shock.
Alex would you like breakfast?
I’ll grab some on the way to work thanks Mrs Stewart.
Its Saturday dear, you don’t have to work today.
I forgot Mrs Stewart; I’ll be up in a minute.
Alex is still dressed from the previous night in his work suit. He gets off his bed and changes his clothes into his pajamas and dressing gown.
In a rush to get changed he stubs his toe badly on a leg of
the bed. It’s bleeding quite a bit.
He sits on the edge of the bed to check his bleeding toe. While bending he remembers what he was trying to do the night before. He looks at his left hand with amazement. All his warts are gone, with no scares or trace left behind.
He looks down at his toe now bleeding profusely and stares at it placing himself in a deep trance. His eyes and forehead show strong concentration. The bleeding stops.
His glasses have been left on the bedside table. He hasn’t realized he can now see perfectly without them.
Again a knock on the door.
Coming Mrs Stewart, I just stubbed my toe and I’m cleaning up some blood
Are you alright Alex? Would you like me to take a look at it?
I’m fine thanks Mrs Stewart; I’ll take care of it.
Alex gets up and says:
I’ll deal with you later toe.
Alex has breakfast and Mrs Stewart insists at looking at his toe.
That’s nasty Alex; I’ll put a bandage on it after you’ve had your shower.
Alex knows there’s no point in saying no, because she likes to mother him.
Thanks Mrs Stewart that will be good.
Alex goes to the bathroom after breakfast and sits on the edge of the bath. He stares at his cut toe and places himself in a trance, willing the cut to disappear.
The cut is healing before his eyes, leaving no trace.
He stands up and takes a razor blade from his shaving kit.
Alex makes a deep cut on his left hand. Again he concentrates on the cut and watches it heal before his eyes. It just heals in seconds. No pain, blood or scars remain.
He looks into the mirror and feels around his eyes rubbing them and thinking about his glasses.
How much further can I go with this, it’s already beyond reality.
This can’t be just normal hypnosis?
I can see perfectly! Cuts heal in seconds!
He has his shower and gets dressed. He combs his hair differently creating a new look, a more positive Alex.
I’ll bandage up that toe now Alex.
A look of surprise on Alex’s face. He couldn’t let her see his healed toe.
Ahhh….. Its okay Mrs Stewart, it wasn’t as bad as we thought.
It was more blood than cut. It’s okay really….
She gives him a look of disbelief and continues with her dishes.
I’ll be in my room all day today Mrs Stewart, working on some job projects.
He says to himself:
I know she doesn’t believe me and probably thinks I’m some sort of queer.
Alex goes to his room and locks the door. He is anxious to try more.
He lies on the bed, relaxes and goes into a deep trance. He sits up and picks up a dictionary, glances at a page and closes the book.
He releases his mind and clearly recites the passages from the page he had glanced at. He does the same thing over and over again. Just a one second glance is all it takes for him to retain all the information at will.
I can control my mind at will, what’s happening to me?
The room seems to be spinning in his mind.
Alex goes to the local library hungry for knowledge. He flicks through complicated books in minutes. He feels his mind control powers becoming even stronger. He can no longer control the powerful urge to find out more. It’s become an obsession. Alex picks up a book on dreams, but hesitates before opening it.
As if it was a warning.
He reads the book and then walks home with a disturbed look on his face. When he gets home he locks himself in his room.
I’m going to try to retain my thoughts within my dreams…
Alex gets a tape recorder and pushes the record button so he can dictate to it as he progresses.
These are my thoughts while dreaming.
He falls asleep but at the same time his mind is controlling his subconscious thought patterns which enable him to dictate what he experiences while dreaming.
This is great I can visualize my dreams as I see them.
I suppose most of us can only remember portions of our dreams, wait.... wait... there’s more, …. deeper in my mind.
I must go deeper into my dream cycle.
Alex has a glowing aura surrounding his body. The room is full of a strange atmosphere. Time seems to be standing still around him.
I have found the E.S.P. portion of my mind. I will call it “void”. “Mind Void”.
It’s fascinating, everything is so clear. I can visualize future happenings, it’s so clear to me. I believe I’ve gone beyond human understanding, I feel a new inner power. A power which has become part of my life and my inner soul.
Alex can see visions from the past.
I can see people from the past who had explored their minds. All those miracles and prophets in the bible through to all those discoveries made through history, all made by people like myself who were somehow chosen to perform their piece of history
Alex is being drawn even further into the mind void. The glowing aura around his body is increasing and he is being levitated a metre above his bed.
My powers are increasing, but I’m in total control. I feel myself being drawn further into my mind void.
Energy forms, souls of people are circulating through his mind void. Mysterious effects are flying around his body.
Something is trying to communicate with me…
Who or what are you?
I’m a soul from your mind void. We can communicate once you are in this level of your mind.
What do you mean by soul? Do you mean like from a dead person?
Yes. I’m a soul from a dead person. I entered your mind void when your dreams interacted with your open subconscious thoughts.
Do you have a name and are you a ghost or do all dead people end up in other people’s mind voids?
Yes Alex, all dead people end up in mind voids. We no longer need names and we travel through mind voids, through time and space. We keep our personalities and occasionally our thoughts come out in people. So not all peoples thoughts are their own, some are coming from their mind voids.
Is this really happening or am I going crazy?
You’re not going crazy Alexander. Further more, this was all planned from your birth. Some souls have a purpose in life, mine is to guide you and provide you with any knowledge you may require.
I can see now why my fascination for self hypnosis was so strong. It was just a draw card to get me to this stage.
That’s right Alex. And now for the purpose of it all.
As you know there are good people and there are bad people.
Which means there are good souls and bad souls?
Most souls are happy to travel through mind voids on an infinite journey. But their are some exceptions.
I don’t understand.
It’s rather horrifying to explain. Some are vicious souls are materializing back into human form. When they physically die these vicious souls search through time and space to be reborn as either male or female, by reincarnating themselves into an unborn fetus. They stay in that body till what ever form of death takes them away again.
What happens after that?
After being reborn they have total control of that body and grow with their original personality to create havoc in society. It’s been going on for decades. But it’s the vicious souls which are of most concern, as they are the ones that have been making the use of future technology and have formed secret organizations.
Like Nazi’s!
No much worse. They are those U.F.O.’s which no one can ever seem to trace. These people are too advanced for this time zone. As the world population grows, so do their numbers. If their growth is not slowed down, the world will change as we know it. Its no accident there are wars, famine and so much violence in the world, it’s all been planned.
The mind void conversation lasted most of the day and it was time for Alex to make his nightly dinner table appearance or Mrs Stewart would be banging on his door.
Alex slowly releases himself from the mind void and returns from his levitated position to his bed. The glowing has almost stopped and is gradually fading away.
Alex is quiet exhausted from the mind void experience. He gets off the bed and falls through his knees to the ground.
He gathers his composure and walks out of his room to the bathroom, where he crouches down and puts his head under the bath tap. He then dries himself off and heads towards the living room, turns on the T.V. and watches a world news program.
His attention seems to focus on all the various forms of violence going on around the world.
The T.V. becomes blurred vision and he foresees horrific future happenings. He see’s the U.F.O.’s being built in flashes of foresight. He can see them flying over major cities and the wave of destruction which followed. They are using powerful destructive beams of light and sound. Their flying ships are surrounded by impenetrable force-fields.
Nothing can stop them.
Alex can see people in their thousands being murdered and the ones lucky enough to have survived, turned into slave driven communities. Their only purpose in life being to serve the growing number of super intelligent vicious soul beings.
It is they to which man will eventually evolve into. They have found ways to clone their reproduction to form a dominating race of their own.
The front door is opened and banged shut. Mrs Stewart walks in and discovers Alex with his head back and his eye lids fibrillating. She is distressed by what she see’s and grabs hold of his hand.
Alex... Alex..., are you alright?
Alex shakes his head suddenly and recovers.
Mrs Stewart... I’m alright... I’m alright....
I thought you were having some sought of fit or seizure…
Alex decides its time to confide in her. He knows deep down he can trust her and she would do anything for him.
He recognized her as the closest thing to family he had. And she treated him the same way.
Mrs Stewart I have some things to tell you. It won’t be easy for you to understand.
I’m only beginning to understand myself.
You’re not sick are you Alex?
Oh no, I’m not sick, but can you remember sometime ago when I was reading a book on self hypnosis.
Yes I remember Alex. Is that what caused this?
No, but it’s related and it’s from when all this started.
Mrs Stewart is looking rather puzzled not knowing what he’d say next.
The T.V. is still turned on. She turns it off and sits next to Alex on the sofa.
You probably won’t believe at first so I’ll give you an idea of what has happened by showing you some things.
Alex gets up and goes to the bathroom and returns with a razor blade.
Don’t be afraid of what I’m going to do, just watch
Alex holds the blade over his left hand and makes a long gash diagonally over the palm of his hand.
Mrs Stewart gasps and turns her head away.
Mrs Stewart.... Mrs Stewart....Look!
Alex stands and forces her to look at his hand. The cut is closing up and not bleeding, as she watches.
But that’s not possible! What’s happened to you Alex?
Wait there’s more, don’t be afraid.
Alex turns on the T.V. and flicks through the channels until he finds a news program.
Watch the T.V. and listen to me at the same time.
I don’t understand all this Alex.
Just watch. In one minutes time, the news reader will report that there has been a mid air collision over Tokyo. There will be no survivors and it was due to pilot error. It was between a passenger plane and a cargo plane.364 people will have lost their lives.
Suddenly the news reader receives a news flash which interrupts the normal program.
We have just received a report from a shocking mid air collision over Tokyo. It is reported there were no survivors and 364 people perished.
The disaster was apparently due to pilot error and was reported to have collided with a cargo plane.
Alex turns the television off.
How is this all possible Alex? You couldn’t have known that was to happen.
The self hypnosis I taught myself brought out of me a deep seated power from within me. I was somehow chosen at this stage of my life to have use of these special powers.
Within my mind there is a driving force guiding me to perform some special tasks. I need your understanding at this stage. You’re the only one who knows of my powers.
I’ll do my best Alex, but it’s just so unbelievable it’s hard to accept. If I didn’t see what has happened before my eyes I wouldn’t have believed it. It’s like a miracle.
You know you can trust me Alex.
Alex gives Mrs Stewart a hug.
Thanks Mrs Stewart, I knew I could count on you. At least now you know why I’ve been spending so much time in my room.
A lot of weird things have been happening to me and at least now I know you won’t be afraid if you see or hear strange things that go on here.
Do you know when these things are going to happen to you Alex?
Oh yes, I have total control within my mind, which lets me access these powers whenever I need them. But there not to be used like a fortune teller, they’ve been given to me to perform a special task in life. I’m afraid I can’t tell you about that at the moment.
I’m sure you’ll tell me when you’re ready Alex, I trust you.
At least I’ll have you to talk to now. I’ve been bottling it up within myself for too long.
Whenever you want a friendly ear Alex you know I’m here for you.
Alex walks down the hall and to his room and opens the door to his room.
He closes the door and puts his hand on the key but doesn’t turn it.
He then lies on his bed and prepares to find out more from within the mind void.
The aura begins to appear around his body and its getting brighter and brighter.
His body is slowly beginning to levitate.
Alex, you’re back!
Yes I’m ready to find out more.
As you know now Alex vicious souls have been reincarnating themselves into new lives. Many of them have been storing themselves in the mind voids of insane people, waiting for the right time to enter a host fetus.
But what can I do about that?
Nothing Alex. You could never kill off all the sources from where the vicious souls could escape from.
But what then? What point is there of having these powers if I can’t use them.
You will be using your powers Alex. They will be used in conjunction with others.
Do you mean there are other mind controllers like myself?
Yes, there are five others with different powers. You will be their leader and have the most power. When your minds are all joined together in the mind void, the joint power will be immense and not a thing on this Earth can harm you.
But listen Alex, this is important. On your own you will be in extreme danger.
There is one head mind controller of the vicious soul.
By now your existence would have been sensed.
What sort of power does this controller have and where can he or she be found?
That’s the problem Alex, we don’t know. Mind controllers like you can only access other controllers mind voids if they are willing. Perhaps as a joint effort it may be possible.
How will I know who to trust and who not to?
Use your mind Alex; you can scan people’s minds in seconds to find out if they are of the vicious souls. You will sense a different sensation. You have the ability to do that from any location in the world.
You will find the vicious souls are everywhere, but it’s only the ones controlled by your adversary that will be of danger to you.
You’ll be able to sense them differently from the others.
Then I should leave here and find a suitable location from where we will be safest.
When and where can I make contact with the other mind controllers?
Just send out your thoughts Alex, when their mind voids are open they will get them.
They know their purpose and when you have found a suitable location they will meet you there.
Alex knows now what to do, and exits the mind void. He goes out of his room and calls out to Mrs Stewart. He meets her in the kitchen.
Mrs Stewart…….
Yes Alex, what is it dear?
I’m going to have to leave. As long as I stay here I’ll be placing you in great deal of danger.
But why Alex, who would want to harm you?
