3. Return to Vista

“Let’s return to Vista,” thought Duke.

Duke gently turned his trusty craft toward the San Diego area. God always has good things in store. Let’s see what appears in front of Duke.

The air flow was near perfect for the return trip. However, Duke’s glider was fully equipped with an electromagnetic flight system. There were electromagnetic energy fields surrounding the earth. So Duke could utilize them to help power his glider for the return trip.

Duke himself has the ability to tune into electromagnetic energies. So he opened his perceptions and allowed his sensory system and internal computer to tune the system for the proper course. Finding the optimal settings, Duke adjusted his craft’s controls to fully utilize the correct combination of air winds and electromagnetic currents.

“Life is good.”

“No, life is great.”

Thinking it would be fun to take a look at the Palm Springs windmills, Duke set the course.

The trip was joyous. The buoyancy of the updrafts was reminiscent of the comfort of mother’s womb. It was so safe and supporting, just like surrender to God’s Will.

The balmy air caressed Duke’s grateful skin. The electromagnetic energies were joyous.

Duke’s kundalini was fully open and optimized for the greatest life experience. But that’s another flashback.

The air over the 10 Freeway was clear. In the old days mankind’s greed had led to chewable air pollution.

Now there is only clean air. The traffic below was flowing smoothly because of the reduced need for travel. You don’t need to travel much when everybody has money and it’s easy to make a living. And you don’t have to travel much when there is no requirement for stress relieving vacations.

Modern days were more joyous for everyone with the phasing in of The Abundance Economy.

The Palm Springs windmills appeared as faint specs in the distance. There was a growing feeling of appreciation and pleasure with the possibility of seeing windmills again. They are such a tribute to the marriage of science and nature.

These windmills are somewhat historic since most of the population has homes powered by a combination of solar energy and mini home windmills. It is common for people to sell power back to the grid. However, the grid doesn’t need that much power.

Coal power, oil power, and nuclear power are distant memories.

Duke and a team of his friends had recovered some of Tesla’s lost work in extracting energy from the environment. After years of wrangling, the oil companies relented and financed energy production through environmental energy utilization.

Such energy was multi-faceted with multiple sources.

The trip was mostly silent as Duke’s craft had no engines. As the windmills drew closer, Duke opened his sense of hearing to enjoy the hum of the windmills.

Duke had learned selective hearing in his old days of communicating with Morse Code over ham radio. He could pick one signal out of twenty and fully copy the transmitted message. A similar ability applied when picking out the sound of the windmills from the near white noise of the society below.

As the windmills drew near, Duke remembered his first tour. He went into the control tower and saw first hand what was happening. He learned about wind power and utilizing the forces of nature to serve mankind’s needs. There was little waste.

The ancient power stations hummed with a sense of beauty. Instead of resisting the sounds, Duke had long since learned to perceive everything with a sense of appreciation.

There was a certain beauty to the roar of the giant windmills. Perhaps the din was too much for the people who lived nearby. However, these windmills were preserved and maintained as historic monuments.

Duke felt a wonderful sense of appreciation as he passed over these monuments to mankind’s progress. How wonderful was the creativity of God’s children. This was quite amazing and a beauty to behold.

The air smelled brisk and clean as it whizzed by Duke’s radiant face. He truly appreciated the heightened senses that he had gained in recent years. In spite of his senior age, Duke enjoyed all the radiance and buoyancy of youth.

His vigor had returned once Duke learned about the two aspects of surrendering to God. The conventional aspect is to let go of things in spite of the prevalent idea that surrender to God means that we might end up lacking things.

Duke knows this and lives a life of abundance.

Duke also knows that the second aspect of surrender to God is allowing. This means that Duke accepts God’s gifts without resistance.

Duke Blisser banked the plane a bit to the left and headed towards North County San Diego.

The mountain passes were absolutely breathtaking. Duke flew high above the 215 freeway. His keen vision picked out the cars far below. He felt the life from the vegetation and the shimmering of the distant waters .

Duke noticed a slowing of the traffic in Escondido. Heading toward the Palomar Airport, Duke found clear sailing and the perfect wind – a slow headwind to optimize his landing.

It was a pleasure to feel the gentle touchdown of the wheels on the concrete runway. The three point landing was totally textbook.

Duke remembered flying with his father in a small Cessna airplane. His father used to say “Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.” Well this was an excellent landing.

Duke taxied his light craft over to the nearest hanger, a very familiar sight. The old structures were made to last forever. This one had been standing for nearly sixty years. It required little maintenance.

The shelter was very economical, made with aluminum and steel.

As Duke taxied towards the haven of safety, a smiling man motioned Duke toward a specific spot in the hanger. It was Duke’s usual place for parking his craft while in San Diego.

Carl, the smiling traffic director approached Duke as the plane came to a comfortable stop.

“Duke, that glider is a beauty.”

“Thanks, Carl,” responded Duke.

Duke and his friends designed the metal alloy that comprised the plane’s fuselage. It was one of the toughest, lightest, and most pliable metals outside of the space program. And it was built for a tiny fraction of the cost.

The metal reflected just enough light so others could see it without being blinded by the light. Several earlier designs had been rejected because of excessive reflectivity. This one turned out perfect.

In the design process, Duke used his creative imagination much like he did with other inventions. He visualized the entire production process, and the final result, in his imagination. There he made several corrections so that everything turned out perfectly.

Although a prototype was made for testing purposes, that test was not really necessary.

“I knew you were coming, so I called Carol,” said Carl in his loving tone.

“Carl is one of the most helpful people alive,” thought Duke.

“Thank you so much,” responded the gratified Duke.

“Duke Blisser, it’s really great to see you. We’ve been waiting for your return so that we can throw a shindig in your honor.”

“Well I don’t know,” replied Duke waiting for bait.

“You old teaser!”, laughed Carl. “We’ll have some hoedown music there.”

“Well in that case …” laughed Duke.

The twosome skipped over to the control tower with Duke’s luggage in their possession.

As they reached the control tower they saw Carol pulling up in her jeep. The vehicle, aptly named “King of the Road” had more character than luxury.

Duke shouted out to Carol, “I see that you brought the limo.”