Maddie the Monk

52 Stories in 52 Weeks: 2007 ##5 Maddie the Monk; (see note on bottom of #5)

By: Mr. George Patnoe Jr.'s Ambidextrous Writing Brain + Mind

Maddie the Monk sat alone, on a large cold rock, located on the edge of a inlet of a large lake, in a tensely populated forest of redwood and pine trees, from a mile or so distance from the monastery from which she then live, worked, studied, and thought about God and the many different universes of Life. Maddie sat alone to ponder to remember the past, to think about the present moment, and to wonder about the future, both for herself and for all mankind. Maddie the Monk sat as a gray haired old lady, but her spirit was that of a young child who had been reborn into and by her new life of long ago, along with her ageless and timeless soul which reflected her individual being as a spiritual thought of an Infinite God. Maddie the Monk curiously starred into the white glare of the fish’s eyes for the first time, just as she had starred into the white spots in the dark sky late at night.

Worldly Maddie never bothered to stare into the sky’s white spots, late in the night because she was to busy dancing the night away to band or jazz music, or she was to busy sweating and moaning underneath a sweating male lover, or she was to busy drinking wine as she talked about the stock market or discussing international politics. Worldly Maddie stepped into the world every morning with a dry cleaned dress or suit, polished shoes in one color or another, her blond hair shiny from the best hair shampoos, and she carried an expensive briefcase with her paperwork in it. Busy, busy, busy, with hard work and hard playtime. Little sleep for dreams of flying to other realms.

Maddie the Monk sat still near the water’s edge, wondering what the first humans must have thought about water and those creatures in them. Maddie the Monk tried to envision the human forms trying to talk to each other with primitive sounds, as they pointed to the creatures in the water below, swimming around like the birds that fly in the sky. Then they probably pointed up to the sky and tried to talk about the birds as they tried to survive day to day. The old cave people trying to survive day to day, just as Worldly Maddie tried to survive day to day, among so many other worldly people. Worldly Maddie loved being a big shot in the field of biogenesis, the hypothesis that living matter arises only from other living matter, or the synthesis of substances by living organisms.

Maddie the Monk now knew better, because she saw the bigger picture as a cosmic observer compared to being a miro-observer who only starred down a microscope all day long. As Maddie the Monk, Maddie had began to observe the universe from many different points of view or frames of reference. Maddie the Monk looked down onto the fish who was starring back, and Maddie the Monk saw a fish of many different levels. Maddie the Monk’s eyes saw the meat and bones fish, her scientific mind saw the DNA part of the fish and the brain inside the fish, and then the metaphysical mind of Maddie the Monk saw the consciousness of the fish, and even the spiritual selfhood side of the fish. Maddie the Monk no longer saw the fish that she used to eat in fancy restaurants after a long day at her office.

Maddie the Monk wondered how the Worldly Maddie had never given thanks for the fish she was about to eat in those fancy restaurants. Maddie the Monk realized that most people actually look upon the lifeless and seemingly simple fish that they are about to eat with some sort of contempt, as if humans were better than the fish. On some level, humans of course had evolved into higher life forms, but some scientists believed that the human race had began their accent skyward by first jumping out of the water, by the first fish that grew tiny legs and lungs when they first walked the earth as lizards and other reptiles. Strange how some and all fish never evolved, as if some were meant to stay behind to be just fish food for other creatures, just as some humans never evolved into higher life forms above and beyond the worldly humans that kept the earth populated with humans, evolving or devolving whatever the case may be.

Even so, when the Worldly Maddie looked into the eyes of a single fish or even a group of fish, she only saw a material creature with no soul, unconnected to the world or the universe, even though that same fish might end up in her tummy, thereby becoming one with her, even though it was dead, yet feeding her with fishy proteins and stuff. Now, every time Maddie the Monk looks into the eyes of any fish, she sees a creature with at one with its own universe and in some connected to the whole universe, a creature with an invisible connection to life, somehow.

As Maddie the Monk sat on the rock, looking into the eyes of that single fish, she thought to herself that maybe when the fish looked into the eyes of each human it ever saw, that the fish saw a soul within each human being that he saw. Maybe Maddie the Monk was the first human that first fish ever saw, so what would it see within the soul of Maddie the Monk. Would the fish see the Maddie the Monk and part of the old Worldly Maddie, or just transformed Maddie the Monk. Even Maddie the Monk remembered some of her old days as Worldly Maddie.

Once in a lonely moment, Maddie the Monk’s mind would revert back, some might state descend, back to her old consciousness where her body was more important the her soul, where her disconnected selfish mind was seemingly separated from the universe, not to mention multi-universes, but after a few memories of sexual love, or of dancing to passionate music, or even watching movies of afar places and times located either in the past or even in the future, or of drinking fine wine, enough to carry a mental buzz around as she walked through the city.

Now, Maddie the Monk had long ago learned to try away from the every changing clothes of fashion for a simple red robe, with golden yellow fishes and white flying birds embroidered onto the red robe, with a blue stripes on the yellow fish. The fish represented life in the lower level called water and the white flying birds represented the higher life in the sky. Next to the fishes and birds were multi-colored angels with silver wings. The angels represented those creatures which we can not see, but who we know are all around us. Maddie the Monk learned that turning to higher ideals such as living in peace was far better, even as a single human, than living for war. Maddie the Monk felt sorry for all of the soldiers the world over who were living each day just to kill or be killed. Their souls must have to carry the burden of memories of soldiers killing either to survive in a war, or to kill for governmental people who mostly never saw a gun, not to mention a dead soldier’s blood and guts on the battlefield.

Even Worldly Maddie did not like the concept of killing, even for self-defense, but she had been trained in various martial arts because of the dangerous places and late night hours that she would sometimes attend. Maddie the Monk remembered how the Worldly Maddie once attended a funeral for a friend who was kill in some way. Maddie the Monk remembered how the Worldly Maddie wondered about her friend’s soul and where did it go if there was an after life. But when Maddie the Monk remembered how Worldly Maddie had almost permanently escaped from her earthly body, she just knew that even worldly people might have a chance at an afterlife, but maybe not, for she did not know all of the answers.

Maddie the Monk thought that maybe even dying soldiers unexpectedly experienced the afterlife when their last breathes were being extinguished. But what would they think then? Maybe that they had spent their whole lives learning how to kill people when in fact all dead people leave one realm to go to another realm, even as some people still on earth had learned before they had given up their last breath.

As Maddie the Monk looked into the fish’s eyes, she begin to wonder if the fish’s soul goes to some kind of fish afterlife, even one that human people can not see. The fish seemed to blink at Maddie the Monk, as if it was minding reading Maddie the Monk’s mind. A mind reading fish who starred back at Maddie the Monk. Maybe the fish received fishy thoughts from fishy angels, thought Maddie the Monk. Maddie the Monk then looked up to the sky, to see a few big black birds flying overhead.

Maddie the Monk began to compare the different realms of water and air and the airless afterlife she experienced. The fish float through the water, the birds fly through the air, and seemingly dead people cruse through the airless afterlife, to go wherever they go once they are totally free of earth’s bounds.

The fish might see the human creatures who looked at them, but the fish may also see the birds flying above the human creatures. Can the fish wonder about life beyond its own water realm. Maddie the Monk could look into the fish’s life in the water, just as she could look up to the birds and even beyond to the night stars? Can Maddie the Monk wonder about life beyond her realm of earthly life? The birds fly above the earth, as they look down upon the humans life and the fish’s water life. Can the birds wonder about other possibilities of flight, flight beyond their feather flight?

Maddie the Monk prayed over such possibilities, and sometimes, in the stillness and quietness of the night, she would hear and see the voices from far beyond the earth. Once Maddie the Monk realized that when Worldly Maddie had escaped her body to travel beyond this space-time zone, both Worldly Maddie and Maddie the Monk began to mentally connect to other realms beyond earth’s space-time zone. Worldly Maddie transformed into Maddie the Monk to leave behind all of the unbelievers so she could begin to transform her mind from the world’s concept of life, to a more peaceful concept of life. Worldly Maddie became Maddie the Monk just so she could live in total silence, just to tune into other realms which Worldly Maddie had started to believe where all around her, in one form or another form.

As Maddie the Monk sat next to the water’s edge, Maddie the Monk thought to herself, that if other less advanced human creatures had escaped their bodies after their earthly death, they then knew something about life after life. But if these same individuals wanted to communicate to time advanced earth dwellers who understood the multi-dimensional aspects of the whole universe; so Worldly Maddie had changed her goals in life from making a ton of money, and having sex, and drinking wine, and watching movies, to leave all of that behind do develop Maddie the Monk’s mental energy and skills to higher goals in life, before another life overtook her.

Worldly Maddie reasoned that it would be cool to prove that there was no death before she died, so she would know that she did not die, even though the humans that were looking on her lifeless body would probably not believe that either the Worldly Maddie or the Monk Maddie was still alive in another realm, beyond most earthling’s limited mental concept of life. Maddie the Monk also knew that a few earthlings had began to understand the mental nature of the universe, and that all communicate on a higher level was all mental, even if machines were needed to transform words into wire particles and the back to words.

Maddie the Monk looked up into the sky and through the sky as her mind drifted pass the visions of blue sky, to the other realm past the blue sky; the realm which is there, but not there simultaneously. And all of a sudden, Maddie the Monk’s human soul creature left the her body, just as her body kept on breathing and thinking automatically, just as she floated up and above the tree tops to fly with the seagulls and eagles and other birds. She then floated past the clouds, past even the moon, past the sun, and far into the universe which seems to be solid matter. And for and instant, Maddie the Space Traveler seem to tough another invisible creature in the airless universe.

Maddie the Space Traveler then found herself back into Maddie the Monk’s body, looking at the fish’s eyes. The fish quickly swam up to the lake’s surface and jumped out of the water to splash Maddie the Monk with water. The fish splashed back into the water, did a u-turn to stare back into Maddie the Monk’s eyes. Somehow, the fish and Maddie the Monk became a single creature of the multi-dimensional universe. Jumping into and back again seemed to be a trick of the cosmic travelers trade or bag of tricks.

Though Maddie the Monk starred back up to the sky, she was glad to feel her hungry tummy. Instead of eating fish, she remembered the fruit back at the monastery where she lived, ate, slept, and prayed. As Maddie the Monk stood up to walk the dirt path back to the monastery, she looked at the fish and smiled. The fish again jumped out of the water and splash back into the water, but as Maddie the Monk walked away, she somehow knew that her new fish friend would still be there tomorrow, for more adventures of cosmic communication.

(PS.) This is the second story of Maddie the Monk. The first story was deleted by mistake.)