A Story That May Begin Tomorrow
- Pathways of Possibility
- Apr 10
- 5 min read
No matter what we may think we know, we never really know what the future may bring until it arrives. In this allegorical story from Lilach Grimminger, she envisions one possible future.
The first visible messages appeared on January 20, 2029 but no one noticed.
Similar messages have been conveyed many times throughout history. In books and fables, by messengers who traveled from place to place giving lessons and telling stories—all of them offering alternative ways for human conduct. Some of the messengers have become more famous than their messages, some were only known in the eternal worlds from which they had come and for which they worked while here on Earth.
And when time began to run out and the noise increased along with fear and suspicion, the messages became louder and more audible, but fewer people listened.
On that cold day in January, for the first time in recorded human history, the messages became visible - urgent and intense. Only people were busy and distracted so they didn’t see them. Some had their eyes glued to square, mobile devices to see how other people sing and dance and jump from towers. Others were arguing or fighting with neighbors and friends to prove a point, and some simply stared at TV shows to distract them from the one question that seemed to niggle in the back of everyone’s mind: “What, in fact, am I doing here?” The more educated and well-to-do were ensconced in their huge homes, some planning how to take advantage of yet another legal loophole and make even more money; few were looking at old books, the language of which they still remembered but whose meaning they had long forgotten.
Therefore, the first to notice the messages that appeared as signs in the sky were babies lying on their backs in baby carriages and taken out for a daily walk, and young toddlers in strollers. The children were too young to read but they laughed at the flashing lights and waved their arms happily, instinctively knowing that the time for which they were born had arrived.
Their caregivers saw the babies and toddlers in their care wave their arms many times and were sure that the babies were just happy to see them. Only after the joy and smiles became more intense than ever before, and when some of the babies began to cry because they couldn’t contain the energy that flooded in, did the adults begin to look around for the cause of such excitement.
And then they saw. The messages - in all languages, in pink on a backdrop of dark storm clouds, in smoke signs under blue skies, in flashing lights wherever it was night:
People looked at each other, awestruck.
“What’s that? Ads in the sky?”
“Seriously, what new gimmicks are these?”
“Wow! What are they advertising now?”
Some people even called the police or the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office to report seeing UFOs transmitting strange messages.
Slowly, gradually, like popcorn that starts to pop in heat, first a woman who just walked out of a grocery store, then a man with a briefcase outside Starbucks, then another one who just stepped off a bus, and more and more people started to perceive that the messages were real, not advertisements. Unthinkable as it was, there were indeed messages in the sky.
No country or organization claimed responsibility for the messages. No technology, as far as anyone knew, existed yet for creating messages in the sky in so many places all at once. And since the messages presented more questions than answers, media interest quickly subsided, leaving people to think for themselves about the meaning of the messages as well as the meaning of their appearance.
And strangely, after the initial fear eased, people all over the world felt drawn to return to the mysterious questions that were of great importance to them when they were children:
“Why are we here?” “What is a human being?” “What is the planet?” “Why is the world built like that?” “Where do new ideas come from?” “Who created it all, and why?”
But it didn’t stop there. People found that while going on with their daily life they stopped often to think and communicate at a level of sincerity that was unfamiliar, not yet experienced. Just being able to occupy that space gave them the courage to try to find the new words that belonged with this type of communication and to ease up, even momentarily, on cynicism, criticism, and pretense.
As people turned their attention inward, a vast new quiet space began to open up. And into this space the Recognition of Sameness appeared.
Centuries ago, when people’s lives depended on being able to work together, the Recognition of Sameness used to live with them. It helped them feel close and understand each other. Then, the need for differentiation took over and people quickly forgot that they were not only an island but also a part of a whole.
The Recognition of Sameness had been waiting for millennia for a quiet space that would enable it to reside again with people and help them achieve their next step, so that it too could continue growing towards its purpose. In recent centuries it had sometimes been thought that this might never happen. Yet, here, at long last, a place was found where importances were contemplated again and the Recognition of Sameness felt invited to stay, perhaps forever.
The Recognition of Sameness in its unfathomable gentleness changed everything it touched. It loosened up dogmatic positions if they were baseless and provided strength and courage to justified views that were difficult to put into words. It shone light into dark corners so people could examine what was there and it put new and useful ideas in the heads of young inventors who wanted to help progress.
Under its blessed influence the shackles of exploitation and greed that had bound humanity for so long were thrown off. Abuses that had become tolerable and almost non-issue became unthinkable. Old conundrums of whether Man was born evil received their obvious answers and no one seemed to want to spend any time on disconnected abstracts that led nowhere.
Shortly thereafter, crimes dwindled to a stop not because law enforcement improved but because no one could remember the reason for using force to take what was not theirs.
The Recognition of Sameness melted away everything that choked and limited and prevented humans from moving on to their next stage of evolution.
And then the time came… humans and the planet were ready…
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