Jim could see Nomi's face reflected in the
polythermo window. Suddenly It was like one of those special moments when you
could feel a heightened importance, like before a major examination at the
academy or arriving for an ultra important meeting. Jim couldn't quite define
the sensation. He thought about what she
was experiencing and he thought about how far away they were from anything
familiar. "We're lucky they let us go." Jim said and turned to her.
"I know", she returned. "It's a tough situation, but we'll get
out of it." Jim was reassuring and Nomi appreciated his effort.
What they didn't quite understand was that they
had just experienced a primary recognition node. Like an eclipse of the sun across
a planet, millions and more persons had moved through a sort of spiritual
refection point, a punctuation, not unlike an alignment of planets or the sweep
of comets around a star in an unusually symmetrical pattern. It could have been
some great astronomer hundreds of years ago, a Newton or a Galileo or even
someone thousands of years before or more, watching the stars and understanding
their motions, whose enlightenment echoed through time and touched the human
spirit.
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