Realms

Coleman (“Cole” to his friends) had spent his entire career in high-end medical research labs. In fact, he’d labored in famous labs around the world and was cited in multiple clinical trials throughout Europe and the U.S. His two pals, Harold and Rodney were reasonably new to medical research, so they typically mimicked Cole’s lead.

But Cole wasn’t just a success in the lab. He possessed the gifts that most males covet. He was smart. He was athletic. He was attractive in a “tall, dark, and handsome” manner. Moreover, he was exceedingly virile and emitted some sort of invisible hormone that captivated every female who ventured within his sphere of influence. That’s another reason Harold and Rodney were like Cole’s twin shadows — they were hoping to meet some of the second-string females that orbited Cole.

In general, Cole’s life was as good as it gets — a productive career and exciting social life with lots of friends. But when he lay alone at night in the darkness of his personal space, studying the patterns on his ceiling, he couldn’t help but think there was more to life than all the physical and psychological niceties. In fact, Cole was almost certain that unseen forces were influencing his daily journey. He just couldn’t see or hear them. Was he losing his mind?

Cole even joined a support group of like-minded individuals who sought to understand their life-experience. They had deep, serious discussions about what they should be doing with their time on Earth, and they began to form negative opinions about those who failed to embrace their thinking. Cole noticed that after a while, members of the group began to institute subtle changes in their wardrobes until they were all dressing in a similar fashion.

Despite the group’d prodding, Cole continued to struggle with the sense that someone or something was influencing his days — sometimes for the good and sometimes for the bad. Some days he was cheerful, and other days spawned bitterness. He couldn’t help but be angry when things failed to go well because he secretly believed all the good he’d done with his life should have merited some favor with the universe. Conversely, he couldn’t shake the thought that there was more to life than his own personal peace and affluence.

The primary obstacle was that Cole couldn’t see or hear these influences the way he experienced everything in his daily environmemt. In the end, it was no surprise that Cole couldn’t see or hear, or even feel those influences because he was blind and deaf.

In fact, Cole didn’t even have eyes to see or ears to hear. Cole was a benign form e-coli bacteria which had been instrumental in creating drugs like artificial insulin as well as hundreds of vaccines and antibiotics. He had saved lives around the world in a realm he couldn’t even experience.

Cole’s challenge was that he simply didn’t possess the sensory faculties to experience anything outside the realm of his Petri dish. And yet, he sensed something, or someone was there and that they took an interest in him. He just needed a bridge between realms….

A meeting of great minds who think alike