Mythic Warriors (MW) is a serialized, sci-fi novel. You can read it in the correct order by beginning with MW1, then MW2, MW3, and so on.
Warriors One Unite
Hope arrived late for the group meditation. Before taking her place, she looked at her six colleagues. She felt respect for Justice, brotherhood for Canter, uncertainty towards Prophet, sisterhood for Kelly, and even after years on the same squad she didn’t really know much about Darren. When her eyes became fixated on Pierce her admiration for the alpha male warmed into a love projecting from the center of her chest. She had brought an extra meditation shawl and she placed it over Pierce’s shoulders before she sat. The seven members of Warrior One meditated deeply.
Pasco, Mary, and Hanley silently appeared. Their arrival was not noticed. They found open space to take a seat. They joined with Warriors One in deep meditation.
Once the three became still, Pierce and Justice fell into the marvelous abyss of past life reconciliation. Receptive to expansion and ready to receive a higher wisdom, Pierce and Justice reviewed their own stories from the beginning of creation to the present moment through the end of creation. It was similar to the review the former members of Force Five experienced in the cave. Since the two Gurubhais were already advanced, there were fewer veils to be parted for the final steps in their enlightenment.
Hope, Canter, Prophet, Kelly, and Darren each received a deeper experience but the many veils between their individual consciousnesses and the sole Truth were not ready to be torn asunder.
Hope received a clear understanding of the unique roles of males and females in the physical universe. Only in the material universe the consciousness of unity was bifurcated into two genders. Souls are without gender. The male and female forms reflected the soul’s extreme desire to be individuals different and unique. Hope saw that women were given responsibility for building a more perfect universe. Only a biological woman could give birth to the god-human in perpetuation of the original birth of humankind. Women created homes through emotional strength, they formed the familial networks within communities, and raised children by imbuing them with both positive and negative behaviors.
Hope saw the role of men. Physically stronger than women, men were natural protectors and providers for the family. Men fought the elements, built physical homes, and sometimes disciplined their sons and daughters when they grew stronger than their mothers. Overall, men were called to a more esoteric role than women. Men were genetically programmed to seek universal understanding compared to women who sought practical knowledge. To learn and apply the subtle laws of creation to create a more perfect human expression through better behaviors. In short, women built the world and men built the spirit. The division between the genders was set into motion from the opening act of humanity.
Canter’s expansion was a sudden understanding of the story of the evolution of consciousness. Creation was consciousness applied to energy. Evolution in the strictest sense doesn’t exist. The framework of progression was for god-children to learn humility and respect for the show taking place on the stage of earth. Consciousness doesn’t evolve, it awakens. When consciousness begins to awaken in a form that cannot support a greater expression, that form dies. In other words, the consciousness behind living forms from plants and animals to humanity is largely asleep. It doesn’t evolve through these forms it awakens and creates a form necessary for current self-expression.
Prophet, as his name suggests, became aware of the play of men in their spiritual leadership role. He saw the feminine energy moving down the left side of his spine while the masculine energy rose up the right side. With natural qualities of self-control and emotional steadiness, men were to reunite the feminine energy with the masculine to open a central canal of balanced and steady expression. As Prophet practiced the subtle combination of masculine and feminine energies, he became more aware of his image as the genderless soul.
Kelly had recently been obsessed with resolving some of her intractable behaviors. She wondered why she could not seem to dislodge basic issues, like her propensity to cry. She often burst out in tears. No specific reason prompted the reaction cry. It was her most common response to emotional stimulus. Good news, bad news, indifferent observations and the tears flowed. During this meditation, Kelly traced the history of crying through hundreds of lifetimes. She found in some she encouraged that reaction, in others it was a natural response to unusually high amounts of stress. Deep set behaviors from many experiences over countless lifetimes had led to her being a cry-baby in this life.
Darren was a born-again Christian. Most of his fellow warriors didn’t know much about him because he kept his beliefs to himself. Darren could quote the entire Bible from memory. While the changes in himself and in those around him were undeniable, he doubted if these could be positive. Too often in the solitude of silence, Darren wondered if he had been left behind, in a hell where his soul had almost no opportunity for redemption. Perhaps the theology of the rapture which included a period of a forsaken earth was correct. Was he forsaken?
In the worst moments of self-doubt, Darren wondered if he had become an instrument of the evil one. In this deep meditation prompted by the presence of Mary, Hanley, and Pasco, Darren met Christ Jesus face to face. The healing love was undeniable. Jesus answered Darren’s questions without being asked. Darren doubts were reconciled with the Truth.
When Gurubhai Justice opened his eyes, he focused on Pasco who sat across from him. Slowly the rest of the squad came back to normal consciousness. Not one of the Warriors One reacted negatively to the presence of Pasco, Hanley and Mary.
Justice smiled and said, “Now we are a Warriors One squad of ten.”
Pierce smiled as he glanced around their new team, “And we have work to do.”
The Leaders of Anarchy
In the nation of anarchists, leaders became inevitable. Even in small groups, family elders took the lead and had final decision-making responsibility. In a large community with thousands of families and hundreds of small groups, structure was needed.
When the Force Five attacked and murdered dozens of small groups of anarchists, it forced the disparate and independent communities to unite. Even though Gambles and Brianna sat in prison and Force Five appeared to be dissolved, the unification of anarchists continued.
Gambles and Brianna were correct in their assessment that these were the most dangerous groups in the new humanity. The anarchists had been small wandering groups focused on a few phenomenal powers. They cast out any who didn’t align with their skills and goals, including children and any who had a sudden onset of new powers.
One example of the cast outs included the young men who arrived at the New Homesteaders. Their powers of mind control exceeded the powers of their parents and the community leadership. They were asked to leave the only family they had known. It created a certain resentment in their hearts to be loved until they became their full selves and were then rejected.
The outcasts from any community of anarchists were considered dangerous. It was common knowledge that once forced to leave their family and community, these individuals distrusted all others.
The anarchists who remained within the small groups became exceptionally skilled in their application of a limited set of powers. Now that the small communities were being drawn together, it was apparent that not all anarchists were alike. Their only commonality was a live and let live philosophy.
The leaders of the new Anarchist Nation identified four clear divisions in post-war humanity.
Pre-War Humanity
A disappearing class was dying off faster than similar individuals were born. These were the Pre-War Humans. This group gained no new phenomenal powers. Their understanding and their self-expression never changed. They were obsessed with physical experiences and attached to their own emotions. As the higher classes of consciousness were born across the population, pre-war humanity presented more like animals and less like humans. They were short in stature and were easily led by anyone with a plan.
Intellectually Driven Humanity
The largest and fastest growing division in humanity appeared to be the group who had some of the new phenomenal powers but were attached to an idea of personal responsibility. Based on personal experience and observation, this class pursued a “Do something to get something” lifestyle. By the numbers alone, intellectually driven humanity was the dominant group in the post-war earth.
God-Men
Some in the anarchist leadership, the Warriors One squad, the former members of Force Five and a few others expressed most of the new phenomenal powers. Emotionally, these god-men were limited to a similar development as intellectually driven humanity. Until they achieved supreme enlightenment like Hanley, Mary, Pasco, Pierce, and Justice had recently completed, the god-men acted capriciously. Their power was only exceeded by their unpredictable behaviors. When Mary inadvertently killed the family dog that was one example of a result when power mixed with emotional immaturity that exists in all before they are enlightened.
Aloof but Present
A few new arrivals to the human race seemed completely at peace and joyful on the rare occasion that they interacted with others. They enjoyed all experiences both those seemingly good and those seemingly bad with the same passion. Overall this small group was unconcerned with humanity at large, except when they were forced to participate.
A Way Forward
Initially reluctant to organize a polity, the Anarchist Nation now realized that something must be done to defend their way of life. An activist group of unenlightened god-men within the anarchists decided that all of humanity should adopt their way of community organization.
The anarchists transitioned quickly from the ‘live and let live’ practice to a ‘live our way’ global goal. Most anarchists were pacifists. They debated who would make the tough decisions about how to implement a global plan. If any thing was certain, it was that humanity at large resisted change and structure unless forced. With some reluctance, the anarchist leadership decided to seek an alliance with those who had experience in pursuing a one world government.