Mickey and Beth Unite In Marriage: (A Story Dedicated To All 911 Victims)

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Mickey and Beth Unite In Marriage: (A Story Dedicated To All 911 Victims)

By: Mr. George D. Patnoe., Jr.'s Ambidextrous Brain + Spiritual Mind.

The married life seemed like a far away dream, until the day Mickey was prepared to propose marriage to Beth. He had requested her presence for a simple dinner date at the Windows On The World on top of the North Tower of the World Trade Towers. Mickey had met Beth at an official business dinner meeting at the Windows On The World Restaurant. As business meetings sometimes go, after the official business is finished, the business meetings sometimes turn into pleasure meetings. You know the kind, the wine and the soft music and the laughs.

Mickey was talking normally with a few business associates when he had caught sight of Beth’s long solid bright red dress in the corner of his eye. His attention turned to her instead of the business conversation he had been engaged in. Profits, money, and business politics was the everyday talk. Romantic love talk never entered any business conversation. Nevertheless, Mickey turned his head to glare straight forward through the invisible beam of fuzzy air. There were people crowded around on both sides of that invisible beam of fuzzy air; as if a new time dimension opened up for two human souls. It was there, like a different time zone had just entered the business room, just so Mickey’s and Beth’s eyes would meet. Mickey felt the room’s space around him turn into a ocean of chattering bees, as he stared down to Beth; a Beth who seemed from a different dimension altogether, even though she was standing in a room of money hungry and politically powerful people. She seemed a woman from another world, as her eyes told the whole story. Mickey was frozen for a few seconds as he looked towards the lady in red.

Beth looked at Mickey and she too, felt a strange change in Mickey’s direction. She noticed that he was frozen in time, if only for a few strange seconds. She stopped in her tracks, as she wondered why the room’s air had changed into a frozen moment of stillness, while the people continued with their business conversations. She noticed his dark business suit, with his pure white shirt and red power tie. His gold watch also plainly stuck out as he held the gold rimmed wine glass that was half filled with very expensive white wine. Mickey had been standing as still as a statue, as Megan glared down to him. Beth took the first move to escape the fuzzy path, of the invisible connection between two lonely hearts. She was bumped into by another lady, so the fuzzy path of connecting hearts had been broken.

Mickey returned his attention to the business conversation. But soon, he was walking around the crowd at the Windows On The World, mingling with the other business friends and strangers who were talking and laughing, drinking wine and eating expensive food. Mickey had walked around the slightly darkened room, just waiting for something to happen. And it did. He turned around and nudge the lady in red.

‘Well Hello. My name is Mickey. I believe that we have met in a different universe.’

‘My name is Beth. Was that a joke? Or do you believe in different universes.’

‘Lets grab a table.’

‘Ok. Lets.’

The two business people sat down at a window table on the 107th story window of the World Trade Center’s World On The World Restaurant. The view was grand. How could it be better?

The tiny dots of lights along the bridge’s edges sent a message to all onlookers. The moving headlight beams of moving cars lit up the road’s nighttime darkness; a darkness that hid the people and their secrets from all who lived and worked and played in New York City. Hundreds and thousands of strangers who see hundreds and thousands of other strangers everyday of the week. Mickey and Beth knew it too, as they had lived in New York City for so long. Most of New York’s Manhattan’s strangers would never visit the Windows On The World Restaurant on the 107th story of the World Trade Center. Mickey and Beth knew that too. That made it even more special. A special meeting of two souls who were on top of the world and on top of their professional games.

They were on top of the world, but they were now closer than ever to holding hands on top of the world. Their business affairs were very successful; but all work and no romance leaves the richest of Manhattanites somewhat bored creatures, at times anyway. The band played soft romantic music as the two made the normal soft talk After a few glasses of wine and much small talk, it was announced that closing time had arrived for everyone. Proper business etiquette dictated that the two leave the 107th story floor with some professionalism. So they walked out with their business partners, even as they knew something special had transpired between them.

Mickey loved to read and he loved visiting the New York City Public Library. He had just sat down in a chair when he opened up the New York Times newspaper to read it. He started to read the entertainment section because he also loved watching movies. Mickey always thought that movies, especially foreign films showed him and taught him about other people’s cultures and other peoples stories that he would never experience. Movies like the "English Patient" which was famous in America, only proved his point. A movie about love and adventure. Movies provided Mickey with a legal form of escapism. He had just decided to spend a weekend night at a small tiny theater that specializes in foreign films, so he had put the paper down when he then noticed her. There she was, as comfortable as a lady could in a library chair; next to a man she had just met a few weeks ago.

Beth had sat down next to him as he was reading the New York Times newspaper. ‘I did not want to disturb you.’ Beth stated plainly. Mickey looked over to her and he realized she had made herself comfortable with him that she decided to sit down next to him without saying a single word. Mickey felt like he was already married to this lady in red. ‘Oh, you could never disturb me.’ laughed Mickey. Beth smiled as she started to read her own newspaper. Mickey started to read the business section as he peeked over at Beth, as he thought to himself. "She is just sitting here reading her newspaper with me as if she has known me all of her life. How odd!" He knew that something extraordinary was happening, but he could not figure it out. The new romantic experience seemed a bit to magical for people who usually lived for money and the world’s value of a human’s worth.

‘Do you like movies?’ asked Mickey.

‘Sure I do. Just pick one and we will make it a movie date.’ replied Beth.

So it was a date. They had made their movie plans later on in the week. The movie started in time and ended on time. Mickey held her hand as he asked her, ‘How about some coffee or tea?’

Beth held onto his hand as they walked across the street to a night dinner. Talking as they slipped the coffee away, they finished their coffee, to walk through Center Park. They sat down on a bench to hang out and relax. A full moon slowly crawled across the sky as Mickey blurted out, ‘What do you say we get married?’ Beth gently rolled her head onto Mickey’s shoulder before she answered, ‘Ok. Whenever. I thought it was a done deal when we first met. Just inform me of the wedding plans and we will make it a wedding.’

Daily life was not the same for either of them, to say the least. Finding love in the business world of this and that business deal, is a special event for any human. But still, Mickey thought that Beth knew something or felt something that he did not yet understand. Like maybe they had met in a different lifetime or something supernatural like that. He could not put his mental finger on it.

One day, Beth informed Mickey that she needed to fly out to Boston, Massachusetts and then to Los Angeles, California. Of course, Mickey knew that business was business, so he had no say in her business affairs. She was a grown and experienced business lady. Beth flew out to Boston to close one business deal before she flew out to Los Angeles, California. She had stayed in a hotel for the night before boarding United Airlines Flight 11 early in the morning. Beth had boarded many airplanes throughout her business career, but she knew that this flight was going to be a very different. After she boarded the plane, it lifted off for Los Angeles International Airport. She felt the need to call Mickey after she realized how different Flight 11 was going to be for them.

Mickey was just sitting down at his office in the North Tower. He was on the phone with the managers of the Windows On The World Restaurant. Mickey was arranging the wedding plans for their very big wedding. They had plenty of money to spend, so he thought it would be very cool if they would be married where they had met. Mickey had just called the management on his regular business phone when his cell phone buzzed. He excused himself before he answered the cell phone call. Once he realized it was Beth, he stood up and walked towards the widow. He wanted to give Beth his undivided attention.

‘What is up Beth?’

‘Something is wrong Mickey. The plane has been highjacked and we are heading towards New York instead of Los Angeles.’

Mickey stopped dead in his tracks. He informed the managers of the restaurant that Beth’s plane had been highjacked and that it was headed towards New York. Mickey then hung up his business phone so he could talk to Beth. Mickey turned on his office’s television, but the news stations had not begin covering the unknown highjacking of Flight 11 or of 175.

Mickey told his fiancee, ‘I am sure everything will be ok.’

‘I am not sure everything will be ok humanly. But I know everything in the end will be ok.’ said Beth.

Mickey thought about the window where they had first sat. He finished walking over to his office window and he sat down in the another leather chair that was closer to the window. Mickey looked out the window at the clear blue sky. His mind began racing around in circles and circles. Mickey was concerned for his would be wife, and concerned for all of the people that were all now dealing with a highjacked airplane. The uncertainty of a highjacking is bad enough, but one with your fiancee in the airplane is even worse. Mickey knew that many people would be in a state of confusion, but he was used to confusion. He had lived with confusion in many stock markets and some of his business dealings. But this was very different. He began to be stressed out.

‘Beth, how are you doing?’ he asked on his cell phone.

‘I am fine. But our airplane is still headed towards New York. It looks as if the highjackers have hurt some people.’

As Mickey looked outside his business office windows, he knew something was wrong. He asked himself why would a terrorist highjack a plane from Boston to New York? It did not make any sense. He suddenly realized that the highjacked airplanes could be used as weapons by another nation or by suicide terrorists. But why a plane and why in New York? His love filed heart was breaking as he knew that the lady he was going to marry might die in a highjacked airplane. On the other hand, maybe it was just some crazy guys who wanted a free ride to New York.

‘Beth. I am at my office and I just got off the phone with the management of the Windows On The World Restaurant. I was beginning to talk with management about our wedding and the party afterwards. No matter what happens, we will be married as soon as you arrive in New York. We can have a big wedding later and a bigger celebration too. Is that ok with you?’ asked Mickey.

‘It is ok Mickey. Everything will be ok. We have no choice. This is the way it is going to be, but I think we will be arriving in New York in about 10-15 minutes. Oh Mickey.’

‘I am not leaving Beth. I wanted to start a family and watch our grandchildren grow up in a good world. It looks like the world is changing. At least our part of the world.’

‘Oh Mickey. There are guys waving knifes or something.’

Mickey banged the table as hard as he could without breaking his hand. Mickey knew that something did not add up, but he could not figure out what it was. He knew his future wife was going to die, even though he could not put it into words. He began living in fear of the future. He had never lived in fear of life before this moment. He felt as if his whole life was about to change, although he could not figure it out. It was just a feeling, an intuition. He knew it and he knew Beth knew it.

‘Well Beth, I have never been a religious man. Do you believe in an afterlife?’asked Mickey.

‘Beth, I am looking at your picture, so stay with me. Do not hang up. I want to hear your voice talking to me.’ He tense up in his large leather chair as he looked out the window. He turned one of his computers to send out a few messages to his lawyers and friends. His fingers were moving faster than he could ever believe he could type.

‘Hey Beth. Do you believe in an afterlife?’

‘Yes Mickey, I do.’

‘So what do you think really happens when we die?’ asked Mickey.

‘Oh Mickey. Do we have to talk about this now? asked Beth.

‘What else are we going to talk about. You seem so calm Beth. Are you not afraid of dying?’

‘No. I am not afraid of dying Mickey. Because I know that there are other universes all around us. Universes that we can not see with our brain’s neurons or with our brain’s limited vision of the universe.’ said Beth.

‘What the heck are you talking about Beth?’

‘I am talking about how the whole universe seems to be solid physical of space and time to one mind, but totally spiritual to another mind. But the universe is not a physical object of material stuff. It only seems that way on earth because we are bound by earth’s gravity. Mickey, I never told you this, but I have had out of body experiences. I know that I am not going to die Mickey.’

‘What the heck is an out of body experience?’ asked a confused Mickey. Mickey’s mind was no longer thinking about the highjacked planes or even about dying.

‘Out of body experiences are when you leave your body and float in another zone of space and time. While your body remains very still, one of your other immaterial selves exits the skin and bone body to fly around this universe and other universes, only in a different form than matter.’

‘Wow Beth. I did not know you were into this supernatural stuff. What else do you know?’

‘The New Testament states that flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God. So once we become aware of this, we can become more aware of our immaterial body because we value the skin and bones body less and less. Older people experience the devaluation of skin and bones more than the young people. The young people think their skin and bones are great stuff, but older people know differently. Even Jesus had to overcome his concept of a material body.’

‘So Beth, are you telling me that you are not going to die when the plane crashes?’

‘Well Mickey, the skin and bones will burn up in smoke, but the other me will live on; even though I do not know where I will go to after the transition. Mickey, I can see the New York, but I do not think that we are not headed towards an airport. Oh Mickey, this really sucks even though I know I will live on in another universe.’

Mickey kept looking out of his office’s window to find the plane. He took at a telescope he had in the office for viewing the stars at night. But he decided on using the binoculars. He picked them up and he started to visually scan the clear blue sky. Mickey moved the binoculars from side to the other side as he kept on talking to Beth on his speaker phone.

‘Hey Beth. Do you see any landmarks?'

Beth looked out the window of the airplane. She noticed the a thin dirt roads with deep forest on both sides of the dirt roads. ‘Mickey, I think that we Adirondack Mountains. You will not be able to see us yet. Mickey put down the binoculars. ‘So Beth, tell me more about what you think about death and the afterlife.’

‘Oh Mickey, do we have to do this now?’

‘Well Beth, what else are we going to do. You are in a highjacked airplane and we do not know what is going to happen. We really do not know. So I want to know what will happen just in case the worst scenario happens.’

‘Oh Mickey. I hope everything will workout, but this highjacking seems odd. They are not acting like they want to go somewhere. They are acting as if they are going to do something bad. But you know, it might help if I tell you what I know, just in case something truly bad does happen.

We live in a multi-dimensional universe, even though it is really one universe. Every dimension is connected by invisible strings and other stuff. We can not see most of the real universe with our brain, but that does not matter because our real minds are not these limited material brains we have inside our skulls. It is all a matter of perception and understanding of levels.

Our real Mind is a spiritual unlimited infinite Intelligence which is not trapped within a skull. If we think that we are just limited minds that are trapped inside a bony skull, we limit our unlimited abilities of unlimited and infinite intelligence. Our real Mind is totally spiritual and deathless, but it can connect with the brain and human mind if we humans are open to higher levels of spiritual consciousness. Our real spiritual selfhood is of the nature of a spiritual idea.

Our true spiritual selfhood is of the nature of Spirit. It is totally and only spiritual and not a material entity at all. Jesus understood this, so he could transform his body from a material body to an immaterial bodily form.

Our true spiritual selfhood is of the nature of Soul; an unchanging spiritual identity which is immortal and sinless and unchangeable. It does not need a body or sex to for pleasure, nor does it need sin for pain. That is why Jesus could forgive the prostitute. Jesus divinely saw Mary’s true spiritual and sinless selfhood instead of seeing a sexual sinner. Because our true spiritual selfhood is identical with the Infinite Principle called God, it is at-one with the whole of Being, called Life.

Since God is not a person, either in outer space nor on planet earth, it has to be a Infinite Principle with rules and laws and their demonstration. (Science and Health: by Mary Barker Eddy.) That means that limited mortal and human egos, along with our personal egotistical minds with human theories about god have nothing to do with the real God which is Life, Truth, Love. Principle demonstrates Life Truth Love; not death, evil, hate and fear. Jesus knew that he was not God, but he understood his divine Christ selfhood. His Christ-selfhood never died.

So our true spiritual selfhood is of the nature of Life; a state of isness and nowness, not living in the limited concept of space and time. Our true spiritual selfhood is eternal and could never die.

Our true spiritual selfhood is a state of divine Truth; of a divine and perfect consciousness, individual, yet always at one with the whole of Being. That destroys all mortal states of consciousness by destroying the false consciousness; by transforming and translating the false consciousness into the true spiritual consciousness. And it all goes on in the realm of mental understanding.

Our true spiritual selfhood is of the nature of Love. It is perfect and fulfilled, and at rest too. It is not hateful and fearful, nor is it a state of nothingness.

‘Wow, Beth. That is really amazing. But what has that to do with the highjacked airplane?’

‘Well Mickey. To make it quick. No matter what happens humanly, there really is more to life than what meets the eye. But I see New York now. We are not headed towards New York’s airports. The plane is headed towards Manhattan.

Mickey swung the binoculars around and he started to look northward. He saw a tiny black dot that seemed to be moving, but he did not know if it was a plane. As he kept the binoculars on the little dot, it slowly became bigger and bigger. Mickey had a gut feeling that it was the plane, but he could not be sure. Yet, he started to think about what Beth had just stated about his true spiritual selfhood. Maybe that was why he started to have different experiences in life as he grew older.

The plane started to become bigger and bigger, almost like the spiritual idea that was developing inside his consciousness. The spiritual idea was winning over the plane. ‘Beth, what are they doing?’

‘Mickey, I do not know what they are doing. They kept repeating these rambling statements that do not make sense. It looks as if it was headed towards lower Manhattan, but why would it be doing that? I do not think that they are going to land the airplane on an airfield. Mickey, are you thinking what I am thinking. Could they? No! No! No! cried Beth.

Mickey saw the black dot become an airplane, but it was too late. He laid down his binoculars as he softly whispered to Beth, ‘I love you Beth.’

‘I love you too Mickey. I hope to see you on the other side. Here is the password for us to recognize each other in the different forms. The Red Jack.’

Mickey watched as the plane turned towards the Twin Towers. He realized that he had a good life. So he raised his coffee mug up towards the sky while he said, ‘God, thanks for a good life, and for me meeting Beth. He looked towards the airplane as it flew straight towards him. It grew bigger and bigger; as if it was a giant comet from earth, instead of from the cosmic sky. Mickey quickly realized that he was going to die a very unique death. ‘Well this should be fun.’ as he watched the plane fly faster and faster towards him. Mickey’s body sweated a strange sweat as it began to became colder and colder. As the plane’s nose shattered the window glass, Mickey could feel a pull from his body.

Just a nanosecond before his skin and bones body disappeared into nothingness, Mickey felt himself floating above the World Trade Towers in a different form. He heard the words, ‘Lucky for you that you heard Beth’s mini-speech and that you died loving her more than loving money and gold.’

Mickey heard the password, ‘The Red Jack.’ as his new body bumped into Beth. He silently repeated the words, ‘The Red Jack.’ as he felt his own consciousness become lit up with a new sense of love. He saw himself turn into a shiny yellow and white light. He saw Beth turn into a shiny yellow and white light too. In a another nanosecond, the two unmarried love birds became married in their new universe; a universe of pure spiritual love.

September 11, 2001 was a not normal day for Mickey and Beth or for anyone else. I hope this story helps anyone who has to deal with the big issues of life.