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highly placed electrical engineer from Sorata, Bolivia. In 1956 while ona hunting trip, Neruda's father discovered a crashed UFO; and with his electronics expertise and government clout, he successfully finessed his find into a berth with the ACIO in America. He was a widower, and Jamisson, aged four, was his only son, so the boy grew up under the wing of the super-secret agency.* Jamisson Neruda is gifted with lan- guages and became a language and cryp- tography specialist in the ACIO, graduating into its highest ranks of leadership. At the time the story opens, he was being quietly groomed, unbeknownst to himself, for its top position, occupied at present by an individual identified only as "Fifteen". There are 15 levels of security within the ACIO, higher security levels (SLs) having access to information not available to lower SLs. Fifteen, the sole SL-15 in the organi- sation, has access to every part of it. At SL-12, Neruda was among the Directors, Labyrinth Group members all, and headed up the project code-named Ancient Arrow. An important peculiarity of the ACIO is its collaborative relationship with a race of extraterrestrials known as "the Corteum". What they collaborate on is "exotic tech- nology" of ET origin, with significant mili- tary, intelligence or possibly commercial applicability. The ACIO preserves the "pure technology" for its own use, and by extremely subtle and devious means it fil- ters "dilute versions" of these exotic tech- nologies into circulation among other gov- ernment and industrial agencies. It is by means of these pure technologies, available exclusively to the Labyrinth Group and no one else, that they are so successful in securing their position of invulnerability in relation to all other agencies and entities on Earth. The dramatic tension of much of the story orbits around the awareness—derived in part, I gather, from the Corteum and in part from mythological sources—that the Earth is predicted to be overtaken in the year 2011 by a race of synthetic and highly predatory ETs who will conquer and enslave the entire planet and probably do much mischief besides. Fifteen, whom Neruda respects as the most intelligent and powerful man on Earth, has long been convinced that the only technology powerful enough to defeat this predicted invasion is so-called "Blank Slate Technology" (BST), or interactive time travel, the wielder of which has the power to alter events selectively in times other than "the present”. To Fifteen, BST is the "Holy Grail", the apex of all technologies, and securing it is the core agenda of the Labyrinth Group. The master of BST is truly "free" of all threats and dangers—and Fifteen sees the mission of perfecting this technology prior to the predicted invasion as vital, for it pro- vides the means whereby the invading race can be diverted and never even become aware of the Earth's existence. As the story develops, it becomes evi- dent to Neruda and Fifteen that the WingMakers, the unseen and unknown entities who created the Ancient Arrow site, may be representatives of the "Central Race", the "gods" who are the prototypical source and creators of all human races in the universe including, naturally, ourselves. The philosophy of the WingMakers, incidentally, is very much in harmony with the writings in "The New Paradigm", and their expressed interest is in the evolution— spiritual and otherwise—of humanity on Earth as well as that of the entire planet and all life-forms on it. Read "Life Principles of the Sovereign Integral" and "The Shifting Models of Existence" to get a thorough sense of the "flavour" of the WingMakers' stated philosophy and purpose.* I think it important here to underline the sense conveyed by the story that Fifteen and the Labyrinth Group are not cast as "bad guys", for all their exclusive power and carefully guarded secrets. They are, in their way, highly developed visionaries of high purpose and high ideals. Although the story is primarily about them and how they marshal their technological, analytical and intuitive resources to solve the inscrutable, multifold mysteries of the WingMakers, and although very little is said directly about the WingMakers themselves, never- theless an almost subliminal "stark con- trast" emerges between their mentality and that of the WingMakers. There is a plot twist in the midst of the story in which it develops that the University of New Mexico students—who originally discovered the mysterious arti- fact in the desert canyon, which got the whole episode going in the first place— represent a "potential" significant breach of security that could "possibly" compromise the secrecy of the project and draw the attention of rival government agencies to the clandestine activities of the Labyrinth Group. The only solution to this dilemma, which these highly developed visionaries of grand purpose and ideals are able to come up with, is to "rub the students out". "There are days when I think our mission objectives collide with morality so violent- ly that every atom in my body recoils from the impact," moans Fifteen. "This is one of those days."* He signs the order nevertheless, and it is executed; the students are murdered in their apartment. Then there is the sub-plot of Samantha, the most gifted remote viewer (RV) the ACIO has ever had in the organisation. She is young, innocent, hon- est, loyal and pro- foundly adept at psy- chic projection and observation of remote locations in time and Ds ele - 66 = NEXUS APRIL — MAY 2001 www.nexusmagazine.com