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Bernard Werber

The Thanatonautes .Man has explored everything: the world of space, the underwater world, the underworld, yet it lacks the knowledge a world, the continent of the dead. This is the next frontier. Michael Pinson and his friend Raoul Razorbak, two young researchers without complex and want to meet this challenge, using the techniques medicine but also the most modern of Astronautics, leave to the discovery of paradise. Their name? The Thanatonautes. The Greek Thanatos (god death) and communities (browser). Their guide? The Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Egyptian Book of the Dead but the great myths and sacred texts of virtually all religions that seem to always have knew what the last trip and the “true” paradise. Little Thanatonautes little stand at the map of the world unknown and discover the vast and fabulous scenery. Ministry word terra incognita back together, day after day, learn what happens to us after releasing our last breath. Bernard Werber, a young French novelist reflects the world world, is known for The Day The Ants and Ants (Price of readers of Elle, Readers’ Choice Award of the paperback). SA specialty: philosophical tales tinged adventure and humor. In modern Dante, we took this time in a breathtaking journey many of us will come back “changed”.

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MANUAL OF HISTORY

DATES TO REMEMBER 1492 Started in the Americas 1969 First steps on the Moon 2062 Started on the continent of the dead First 2068 ads on their way to the Queen

carnation Handbook of elementary classrooms second year.

FIRST TIME: TIME-yourselfers

1 - MANUAL OF HISTORY

Formerly, all men were afraid of death. She was as a permanent background noise that no one forgot second. Everyone knew that after all his actions are was his own demise. And all this anxiety spoiled pleasures. Woody Allen, an American philosopher of the late twentieth century, had a phrase to describe the state of mind prevailed in those days ia: “As long as man is mortal, he can not be really relaxed. “ History textbook, second year elementary course. 2 - DIARY OF MICHAEL FINCH Am I allowed to tell everything? Even now, in retrospect, I can not believe that what

happened really happened. I can not I believe that participated in this great epic. And I hard to believe that I survived to testify. Of course, nobody could imagine that everything would and so far so fast. Nobody. What pushed us into this madness? I do not know no. Maybe something stupid called the curiosity. The same curiosity that makes us want to We lean over the canyons to see us

how our fall would be horrible if we did not have a more. Perhaps the need for adventure in a world of increasingly idle and dispassionate. Some say: “It was registered, it had to happen as well. “But I do not believe in pre-written destiny. I believe that men make choices and that they take. This These are the choices that shape the destinies and these choices men may draw the universe. I remember everything, every episode of every word, every expression of this great adventure.

Am I allowed to tell you everything? Battery: I tell. Front: I keep the secret.

Stack If I had to seek the origins of all events that are chained, I would have to go back far, far later in my own past. 3 - FACT POLICE

Demand for basic descriptive information Name: Pinson Name: Michael Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown Size: 75 1 m Distinguishing features: None Comment: A pioneer of the movement Thanatonautes Weakness: Lack of confidence

4 - AT DUPONT’S ALL GOOD

Like all children, there was the day for me M, the discovery of death. My first death was just a man accustomed to living among the dead. It was Mr. Smith, our butcher. His motto was registered large print in his window: “At Dupont’s all good. ” One morning my mother told me we could not buy filet mignon at home tomorrow because Sunday

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Mr. Smith was dead. He was crushed by a carcass Charolais beef that had unexpectedly stalled. I was about four years. At point-blank, I asked my mother what it meant the word “DEATH” My mother was as embarrassed as the

day I asked him if her birth control pills could cure my cough. She lowered her eyes. - Well, uh, being dead, it means “no longer there.” - As you leave the room? - Not just a room. It is also leaving the home, city, country. - Travelling far, then? Like when you hand in holidays? - Uh … no, not exactly. Because when one is death, it does not move. - It does not move and it goes away? It’s great! How is this possible? It is perhaps this clumsy attempt to explain the death of the butcher Dupont was born in me ground of curiosity which, much later, Raoul Razorbak able to germinate his delusions. Finally at least that’s what it seems. Three months later, when I was told that my arrièregrandAglaia mother was dead, too, I said, paraîtil “Even Aglaia is dead? So there, I’d be surprised she is able! “Furious, my great-grandfather rolled his eyes and uttered this terrible sentence I never forget: - But you do not know that death is the thing most horrible that can happen! No. I didn’t know the answer. - Oh … I thought … I stammered. - Do not mess with these things! added to it drive the point home. If there is something with which we were not kidding, it’s death! My father took over. Everyone wanted me to understand that

death was an absolute taboo. We do not talk about no, it does not mention it, if you pronounce his name, it is with

fear and respect. Under no circumstances we can not pronounce the word in vain, it is bad luck. It shook me. - Your great-grandmother died Aglaia. It’s horrible. And if you were not heartless … you cry! It must be said that since the dawn, my brother Conrad, he, flowed like a mop bathrooms that drained. Oh, when people die, we must cry? We do I said nothing. Things that go without saying are better by saying. To help me cry, my father, exasperated by my arrogance juvenile, also gave me a pair of slaps. That way, he hoped, I remember: one, the sentence “Death is the most horrible thing that can happen” and two, that “we do not mess with these things.” - Why did not you cry? I insisted again father returning from the funeral of great-mother Aglaia. - Leave him alone, Michael was only five years, he knows not even what death is, I defended my softly mother. - He knows very well but he thinks only of himself, then the indifferent to the death of others. You’ll see, when we die, He will not cry either! There, I began to understand that no good not Mess with death. After that, once you told me a passage from life to

death, I forced myself to think very something very very sad … of spinach leaves boiled, for example. Tears came easily and it was nice to everyone. Then I had a more direct contact with death. In fact: to seven years, it was me who died. The event occurred in February, on a beautiful clear day. It must be said that we had had previously a very mild January and is very common that a mild January succeeding February 1 very sunny. 5 - WHERE THE HERO DIES IN A ROW Look out! - Woe … - “My God!” - Beware! Do not you see that it will … - Noooo !!!!!! Long screech of brakes. And muffled thud. I run. after my ball that had rolled on the floor and bumper of the sports car I picked green just below knees where the skin is more tender. My feet took off the ground. I was catapulted into the sky. The air whistled in my ears. I flew above the ground. A fresh wind blew through my mouth open. Down there, further down, the onlookers peered me, terrified. A woman screamed when she saw me raise me. Blood escaped from my pants, forming a puddle on the asphalt. Everything happened in slow motion. I was flying at the roof, watching the silhouettes flapping in the attic. For the first time, then arises the question in my mind which obsessed me so often afterwards: “But what I’m doing here? “

Yes, at that moment, suspended in a fraction of the sky time, I realized that I did not understand. Who I am ? Where am I? Where i am going? Eternal questions. Everyone puts them one day. I I placed them in that moment when I died. I went up very high. I went down very quickly. My shoulder struck the hood of the green sports car. Th bounce and my head went up against the curb. Cra

cally. Thud. Frightened faces bent over for me? I wanted to talk, but I could not do anything, or say, or move. Sunlight began to decline slowly. In February, the sun is still shy. We feels that April Showers will not be long. The sky

gradually died out. Soon I was in the dark, the with silence. More smell, more feeling, nothing. Curtain I was just seven years and I came to die for the first

first time. 6 - ADVERTISING “Life is beautiful. Do not listen to gossip. Life is Beautiful. Life is a product tested and approved by more seventy billion humans from three million years. This is proof of its quality irreplaceable. “ This is a message from the ANPV, National Agency for the promotion of life. 7 - MANUAL OF HISTORY Until the advent of Thanatonautes, death was considered a major taboo of mankind. To better fight against the image, the men had use of mental processes might be labeled superstitions. Some believed, for example, that metal medal with the effigy of Saint Christopher, hanging a dashboard, allowing to avoid fatal accidents of cars. Before the twenty-first century, and commonly joked: “In Car accident is the driver with the most large St. Christopher

who has the better chance of escape. “ History textbook, second year elementary course. 8 - WHERE THE HERO DIES UNDER WE COULD BELIEVE Standby Nothing horrible happened. Great-great-grandfather was wrong. Dying was not so awful than that. There was nothing going on and that was it. The dark and silence lasted a long time.

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Finally, I opened my eyes. A slender figure appeared in a halo of light opaque. An angel, surely. The angel leaned over me. The angel looked strangely a woman but a beautiful woman as never see on earth. She was blonde, with eyes browns. Her perfume smelled of apricots. Around us, everything was white and serene.

I must be in heaven because the angel smiled at me. - Wow … udéen … Eatua … uh. The angels had to speak a language to them. Jargon Angel incomprehensible to nonangels. - Fou … Nafha … ludéhen … éatuheu. She repeated this chant with patience and handed me his hands soft and fresh on my forehead smooth rough child. - You … do … more … temperature. I looked around, somewhat dazed. What’s up? Do you understand me? There are no more Truck Temperature Where am I? Paradise? No! In the ICU of the hospital Saint-Louis. The angel reassured me. - You are not dead. You have just a few contusions. You’re lucky that the hood of the car have amortized your fall. You do a big slash the knees. - I fainted? - Yes, for three hours. I lost consciousness for three hours and I do had no memory! Not the slightest idea or scrap of sensation. During these three hours, nothing happened. The nurse placed the pillow under my kidneys for I can sit more comfortably. Maybe I was death for three hours but that does me neither hot nor cold. What caused me to heated headache, however, this was

the arrival of my family. They were all very friendly and sobbing like I really gave up the ghost. They claimed to have made a lot of concern for me. “We

We did a blood ink, “they said exactly. I felt that they regretted a little that I me am from. If I were dead, they would have so much regret. Suddenly, I acquired all the virtues. 9 - FACT POLICE Subject: Psychological Inquiry

on a Michael Pinson The subject to be studied seem generally normal. However, we detect home some psychological fragility caused by a family circle too stuffy. The subject lives permanently in the doubt. For him, the last speaker is always right. He does not know what will. He does not understand his time. Slight paranoid tendencies.

Please note that the parents never saw fit to reveal about above named he was an adopted child. 10 - A VULTURE This first trip out of life had taught me nothing of really interesting about the death, if it was remain for a long time source of trouble with my family. Later, to my eight, nine, I’m more interested to death, but this time of others. Mus exhibited clear that television every night to News of the dead in twenty hours do you want in here. It First there was the dead of wars. Those were green and red uniforms. Then there was the deceased road vacation: colorful clothes. Had finally the dead famous dress with sequins. On television, everything was simpler than in life. We immediately understood that death was sad because the

images were accompanied by funeral music. The television, even children and the weak could Understanding The dead of war were entitled to Beethoven symphony, the deceased vacation “to a

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concertino Vivaldi and stars to the victims of overdose Mozart slow cello. I did not fail to note that once a star died, his record sales soared, his films came and went on television and everyone spoke well of the deceased. As if death had erased all his sins. Even stronger: their death did not prevent artists to work. The best records of John Lennon, Jimmy Hendrix or Jim Morrison were appeared on the market long after their death. My next was the funeral of Uncle Norbert. A great guy, it was said in the funeral procession. This is there also I heard for the first time the famous expression: “It is always best to leave the first. “I was only eight years, but I could not help to think, “So there, all around, leaving only the bad? “ At the funeral it, I showed impeccable. From the departure of the convoy, I concentrated on spinach branches boiled. I

sobbed louder than ever in adding to anchovies. Even my brother Conrad was unable to raise the height of my tears. Arriving at the cemetery of Pere-Lachaise, I added in addition to the menu of my tears broccoli and brains raw lamb. Berk. I almost fainted with disgust. In the small crowd, someone whispered, “I did not know Michael was so tied to Uncle Norbert. “My mother noticed that the fact was all the more surprising that I had, in a word, never met. Nevertheless, I discovered the recipe for successful burial: spinach branches, anchovies, broccoli and lamb brains. Memorable day it was because, in addition, I met for the first time Razorbak Raoul. We were gathered at the grave of my late uncle Norbert when I noticed a little further what first appeared to me like a vulture sitting on a sepulcher

ture. It was not a bird of prey. It was Raoul. Taking advantage of a moment of inattention - after all I provided my quota of tears - I went to the dark

silhouette. A kind of big stakes sat alone on a tombstone, staring at the sky. - Hello, I say politely. What are you doing? Silence Up close, the vulture seemed a kid. He was thin, gaunt cheekbones jut left in horn-rimmed glasses. His hands were slender and refined put on his pants as two spiders quiet awaiting the orders of their master. The boy hung his head and looked at me with a calmness and a depth that I had never met in someone just about my age. I repeated my question: - So, what are you doing here? A hand-spider went up as fast as the North Slope his coat to file in a long straight nose. - You can tu me, he said solemnly. He explained at last - I am the grave of my father. I try to receive if he has things to say. I giggled. He hesitated before bursting out laughing in turn. It There was nothing else to do than make fun of a child lean spent hours on a grave to wait while scroll watching the clouds. What is your name? - Raoul Razorbak. You can call me Raoul. And you? - Michael Pinson. You can call me Michael. I gauge. - Pinson? For a lark, you seem a strange a bird. I tried to keep composure. There was a phrase

passepartout I had been taught in such a situation delicate. - He who says that is. He burst out laughing again. 11 FACT POLICE

Demand for basic descriptive information Name: Razorbak Name: Raoul Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown Size: 90 1 m Distinguishing features: Safety glasses Comments: A pioneer of the movement Thanatonautes Weakness: Too much self-confidence 12 - FRIENDSHIP Subsequently, Raoul and I took the habit of found in the cemetery of Pere-Lachaise every Wednesday afternoon. I liked walking along its long lean silhouette. In addition, there were always stories fantastic to tell me. - We were born too late, Michael. - Why? - Because everything has already been invented, everything has already been explored. My dream was to be the first man to invent the powder or electricity, if only to make the first a bow and arrow. I would merely nothing. “But everything has

already been discovered. The reality goes faster that science-fiction. There is more inventors, as followers. People who perfected what some have discovered long ago. The last to have known this fantastic impression of deflowering a new world, it has to be Einstein. You imagine the giddiness in the head when he understood that one could calculate the speed of light! No, I had imagined it. Raoul looked at me, sorry.

- You should read more books, Michael. The world is divided into two categories of people: those who read books and those who listen to those who have read books. Better is belong to the first category, believe me. I replied that he spoke just like a book and we laughed together. To each his own role: Raoul recited

truths, I was joking, and then we esclaffer together. In fact, we laughed about anything like hunchbacks. Still, Raoul had read Razorbak quantities of books. It was he also who gave me the love of reading let me know the authors, in his words, “No razors” Rabelais, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, HG Wells, Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Philip

K. Dick. - The writers’ no razors, “there is not much, Raoul explained. Most authors found that more they are incomprehensible, the more they seem intelligent. So they stretch their sentences of twenty lines. They get then literary prizes, and then people buy their books to decorate their living room and to convince people coming home they are able to read things as sophisticated. I even look at books where nothing was happening. Absolutely nothing. A fellow comes, sees a woman, the dredge. She tells him she does not know if she lies or not sleep with him. After eight hundred pages, she finally decides to announce that decidedly it is not. - But what interest is there to write books in which he does absolutely nothing happens? I inquired. Lack of ideas. Poverty of imagination. Hence biographies and autobiographies, biographies and autobiographies romanticized … Writers unable to invent a world can only describe their world, so poor it is. Same literature, there are more inventors. So, for lack of substance authors lick their style, fignolent form. Described on ten long pages with your troubles and get a boil good chance of winning the Goncourt. Shared giggles. - Believe me, if Homer’s Odyssey was published for the first time today, not even appear in the lists of best sellers. It would be classified with the books of fantasy and horror. There would be kids like us who would read for the stories of Cyclops, the sorceress, siren and other monsters. Raoul was born with the rare ability to judge for himself

the same. He did not repeat learnedly made ideas serinées on television or in newspapers. I think that’s what attracted me as a home, this freedom of spirit, resistance to all influences. Gave thanks to him his father. He was professor of philosophy, he pointed out, and had taught him a love of books. Raoul read about a day. Mostly fantasy books or science fiction. - The secret of freedom is the library, he liked to say. 13 - IT IS NEVER ENOUGH SLEEP In her womb A Wednesday afternoon when sitting on a bench, we consider silence in the clouds above the fray cemetery, Raoul pulled out a thick book of his satchel. The opening, he showed me a page he had to cut in a book on ancient mythology before Paste There was a picture of an Egyptian boat and different characters. He commented: - In the center of the nave is Ra, the sun god. A deceased kneels before him. From both sides, stand two other deities: Isis and Nephthys. Of his hand left, Isis and indicates a direction in his right hand, she brandishing an ankh, the symbol of eternity that awaits the traveling the afterlife. - The Egyptians believed in an afterlife? Of course! There, on the far left of the image, it is recognized Anubis

with the head of a jackal. He is the guide accompany the deceased, who is holding a urn containing his stomach and intestines. I held a start-core. Raoul adopted a professorial tone:

- “Any death must ensure that one steals his point guts, “says a proverb of ancient Egypt. He turned the page from other images.

- Here the death climbing turn into the boat. It is is hosted by Ra in person or by a pig. Pork devours the souls of the damned in hell he led the curses rife cruel executioners that they will suffer a thousand torments through their crooked fingers terminated by long nails to a point. - What a horror! Raoul advised me early in my show less judgments. - If it is Ra himself who agrees to receive the death everything will be better. The deceased will move up alongside the gods, and the boat starts to slip, hauled along the shore by a long rope which is actually a living boa. Sweet. Raoul looked up to heaven. With my enthusiasm and my disgust alternating, I began to

exasperate him. It continued, however. After all, I was his only audience. - This is a nice boa snake away enemies of light. He did his best but it is another reptile, wicked one, Apophis, the incarnation of Seth, the god of Mali, It revolves around the boat to capsize. Sometimes it leaves the water and spits fire. He twirls the boat and jumped out of the water in the hope of the soul swallow terrified of the deceased. If this is correct, the nave of death moves on and slides along the underground river which crosses the twelve lower worlds. There are many pitfalls to avoid. We must enter the gates of Hell, around the aquatic monsters, demons to protect flywheels. But if the dead passes all his tests, he … To my dismay, Raoul stopped. - Will continue next week. It is already seven hours, my mother will worry. My frustration amused him. - All in good time. Do not be impatient. The next night, for the first time I dreamed that I flew, piercing the clouds. I was like a bird. No, I was a bird. And I flew, I flew … And then suddenly, at the turn of a cumulus cloud I saw a woman dressed in white. She was sitting on a cloud and was very beautiful. His body was young and slender. I approached and saw that she held a mask in his hand. I m’appro

cellar again and then I had a start of terror. The mask was only a skeleton, skull, death, with empty eye sockets, a mouth without lips frozen grin. I woke up perspiration. With one bound, I rushed to the bathroom, put my head under the tap for cold water to wash away this nightmare. The next morning at breakfast, I asked my mother: - Mom, you think you can fly like birds? My accident would have it a little disturbed? It gave me a look weird. - Stop talking nonsense and eat your cereal. 14 Mesopotamian mythology “Where are you, Gilgamesh? The life you are looking for You will not find When the gods created men They destinèrent their death And for them they kept Eternal life. “ The Epic of Gilgamesh. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 15 - Raoul is Maboul Every time we met at the cemetery Père-Lachaise, Raoul and I were talking about death. Come on .. Raoul spoke of death, and I listened. Nothing morbid dirty or macabre in these discussions. We discussing death as an interesting phenomenon, the same way that we could talk about aliens

or motorcycles. - I have a dream, ‘I said. I wanted to tell the story of the woman in satin white skeleton mask sitting in the sky but it does left me no time. From the outset, he interrupted me: - I too had a dream. I used to make a trolley fire. I climbed and horses of fire led me to the sun. I had to go through circles of fire get closer to the star and I crossed circles, better I seemed to understand things. I learned later that it was not by chance that Raoul was interested in death. One evening while returning from school, He came straight to the bathroom and there he discovered his father hanging from the toilet. Francis had Razorbak Professor of philosophy at the Lycee Jean Jaures in Paris. Francis Razorbak he had discovered something so interesting about the afterlife that he wanted to leave this world? Raoul was convinced. His father would not have killed by sadness or anger. He was dead for a better understanding Mystery… My friend was even more certain that, since several months, his father had set about writing a This thesis entitled Death unknown. No doubt he had discovered something essential because,

just before hanging himself, he had set fire to his work. Leaves still fluttered in the calcined chimney when Raoul had found the body. One hundred were still legible. There was talk of mythologies and ancient cults of the dead. Since then, Raoul had not stopped thinking about it. What that his father had found so important? What had gone search the dead? Raoul did not cry the day of the funeral. But he no one had scolded. No one had addressed the reproach. He had just heard: “Poor kid is so traumatized by the hanging of his father he is unable to cry. “If I had known more earlier, I would have passed on my recipe based boiled spinach and lamb brains and it would have spared him this kind of reflections. The father just buried, the behavior of the mother Raoul’s changed completely. She gave him all his caprices. She bought all the toys, all books, all newspapers claimed. He was free of his time. Tu mother said to me he was a spoiled child because the only son of his father and an orphan. Even if give up some of my family, me too I would have enjoyed being a spoiled child. At home, I can not do anything. - What you have to still hang out with this little Razorbak?

my father asked, lighting a cigar in his that stinks to thirty feet around. I protested fervently. - He is my best friend. - So you do not know choose your friends, I said father. This kid is not normal, obviously. What can’t we take anymore ? - Do not play the innocent. His father was a depressive point of suicide. With similar heredity, any What kid would have a lot to be cinoque. In addition, his mother not work and merely his pension. All that is unhealthy. You should attend more normal people. Raoul is normal, I assured him with force. Always treacherous brother Conrad thought when the time comes to add his two cents. - Suicide is a hereditary disease. Children suicides are tempted by suicide as children divorced do everything for their wedding dark. Everyone pretended not to have heard remarks of my idiot brother. My mother did not take it less over. - You judge normal to spend hours sitting in a cemetery, as it appears Raoul? - Look, Mom, he is free to do what he wants time. As long as it does not bother anyone … Defend it! Birds of a feather. The proof we saw you talking with him among the tombs! - While it’s true, so what? - So it is unlucky to disturb the dead. Mus let them rest in peace, declared peremptorily Conrad, always ready to plunge head when I was already in water. - Conrad, moron! Conrad, you moron! I cried, and I fired a punch. We drove

down. My father waited Conrad

has responded to separate us. However, not long enough to give me time to take my revenge. - Calm down, the kids, or else it is I who will take charge distributing slaps. Conrad is right. It is misfortune to hang out in cemeteries. In a cavernous cough, spit it in the form liquid smoke from his cigar before adding: - There are places to discuss. Cafes, gardens, sports clubs. Cemeteries are for dead, not for the living. - But, Dad … - Michael, you bother me in the end. Cease to do evil otherwise I will not miss it. I was entitled to a new pair of slaps and I began whining immediately to avoid another. - You see that you know when you want to cry, noticed my father, sardonic. Conrad was radiant. My mother ordered me to earn my bedroom. Thus I began to learn how to work the world. We must mourn the dead. We must obey his parents. It should support Conrad. Do not make the malignant. Do not hang around in cemeteries. We must choose his friends among the socalled normal people. Suicide is a inherited disease and possibly contagious. In the darkness of my room, with, again in my mouth, the salty taste of my tears of pain I felt suddenly very alone. That night, a slap on yet printed my burning cheek, I regretted

being born into a world, if binding. 16 - THE WEIGHT OF A FEATHER - The deceased must pass the gates of hell, avoid aquatic monsters, demons flying protect themselves. If there succeeds, he will find himself facing Osiris, the supreme Judge, and that a court made up of forty-two divine assessors. It will then prove the purity of her soul by a negative confession in which he declared to have 26

never committed a sin or serious offenses during the life he just quit. He will say: I have not committed iniquity against men I ‘m not mistreated people I did not hide the truth I don ‘t have blasphemed God I have not depleted the poor I have not done what is abominable to the gods I have not served a slave to his master

I have not fornicated in the holy places of my city I ‘m not hungry

I did not cry I ‘m not killed I did not order to kill - He can say what he wants, even lie? I asked Raoul. - “Yes. He has the right to lie. The gods ask him questions, to deceive the deceased. But his task is not easy for the gods know a lot. Normally, they are gods. - Then what? - If winner in this test, it will face second part of the trial, this time in the presence of new gods. Raoul paused to better maintain the suspense. - There will Ma’at, the goddess of justice, and the god Thoth of wisdom and study-headed ibis. He will record the testimony of the deceased on a shelf. Then will come Anubis, the jackal-headed god, armed with a large balance to be used in the weighing of the soul. - How do you weigh a soul? Raoul ignored something as obvious, knitted eyebrows, turned a page and continued: - Anubis deposited on a platter the heart of the deceased and a feather on the other. If the heart is lighter than the feather, the death is declared innocent. If the heart is heavier than pen, it will be given as food to a god body of a lion and a crocodile head, responsible for devouring the souls of unworthy Eternity.

- And what is the fate of the … winner? - Freed from the weight of his life, he will join the light of rising sun. Sweet. … Hence the wait Khepri, the scarab-headed god of gold. There will conclude his way. The soul will know the justified eternal bliss. To her to sing when the anthem of the winners successful their journey on earth and in the hereafter. Listen to this song. Raoul stood on a tombstone, faced a acne and moon, in a clear voice, began to declaim the ancient words: The link is settled I knocked down all the evil in me 0 Osiris powerful I finally born Look at me, I have been born. Raoul had finished reading the great book of mythology antique. He had accomplished his feat. Of sweat beaded his forehead. He smiled as if Anubis had just declare the winner of his own life. - Beautiful story! I exclaimed. You think up there, for the dead, it really happens like that? f). I dont truly know! It is an allegory. These Egyptians had obviously acquired a great knowledge of the issue but as they did not want to reveal it to abused, they have resorted to metaphors and poetic terms. A writer would have been unable to invent it all by one day of inspiration. These myths their origin in a kind of universal sense. Proof, all religions tell much the same story as this one, by using different terms. All religions claim that there is a world beyond death. There are tests, and after,

the reincarnation or release. More than two thirds of humanity believe in reincarnation. - But you really think that there is a boat with gods … Raoul motioned me to keep quiet. - Hush! We come from. It was nine o’clock already, and the cemetery had naturally closed its gates. So who could come and disturb His peace? And how others had they crossed the gates closed? We, we had found a passage by climbing the large plane tree in the northwest corner of the branches leaned over the wall. We were believe to be the only way to know this. We crept stealthily towards a muffled sound. We saw a group in black capes passing through a grid trompe-l’oeil. 17 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS Our ancestors believed that death is a passage from the state any state of nothing. To further support this idea, they invented religions (set of rituals based on myths). Most assured that there was another world beyond it but nobody really believed. The religions were used mainly for signs of rallying for specific ethnic groups. History textbook, second year elementary course. 18 - FROM FOOL The band stopped in front of a tomb, lighted

torches, began to file all sorts of things straight

clits on a tombstone. I could see pictures, books and even statuettes. Raoul and I dissimulâmes behind a burial occupied by the late actor-rocker-Playboy, a victim of fishbone swallowed wrong. For the record, the star coughed more than an hour, trying to free themselves of this strange invasion of his glottis. No one thought of

help him in a crowded restaurant yet. All world imagined that the idol was in the process of engaging in a wild happenings, inventing new dances and a new way of singing. We applauded wildly his final burst of agony.

Anyway, from where we stood, we were able to follow the whole scene. The encaps donned black hoods and chanting strange now incantations. - They say prayers backwards, whispered Raoul. I understood that “sed Segna Erem, Eiram Eulas suov ej” actually meant “Hail Mary, Mother of the angels.” - Surely a Satanic cult, said my friend. Following the litany proved him right. 0 Great Beelzebub, give us some of your power O Great Beelzebub, let us glimpse your world 0 Great Beelzebub, teach us to be invisible 0 Great Beelzebub, teach us to be as fast the wind O Great Beelzebub, teach us to revive the dead I shuddered, but Raoul Razorbak remained impassive. His calm and courage were contagious. We rapprochâmes group. Up close, fans were still more impressive. Some were tattooed on their front evil symbols: goats smiling devils twirling, snake biting its tail. After many prayers and incantations yet, they lit candles disposed in their five-pointed star. They did burn bone meal which is calcined in a purple cloud of smoke. Finally, a bag, they left a cock black struggled his best, not without leaving

some plumes. - This black cock, Grand Beelzebub, we sacrifice to you. A soul of a cock against soul amok! In chorus, all resumed: - A soul for a soul to cock amok! The poultry was slaughtered and its blood scattered to five branches of the star. They then exhibèrent a white hen. - This white hen, Great Beelzebub, we give you the sacrifice. A Soul chicken against a soul ghoul. In Unison: - A chicken soul for a soul ghoul. A soul Bird for a soul executioner. - Are you afraid? Raoul whispered in his ear. I tried to stay at its height, but just could more to control the tremor that was invading my members It was especially important to avoid chattering teeth. Ministry noise would alert the fans black mass. - When you have fear in life is because you never know not what decision to take, I said quietly young companion. I shook my head in incomprehension. Raoul took a two-franc piece.

- In life, he continued, there is always a choice. Act or escape. Forgive or take revenge. Love or hate. Was this

the time to philosophize? He remained imperturbable. - We are afraid when we do not know which party take because so many factors come into account we end up not understanding what is really happening around us. How to choose when the world is so complex? What ? With a room. Nothing can influence a coin. It is insensitive to illusions, she does not hear the fallacious arguments, it fear nothing. It can give you the courage that you is missing. Having said this, he threw the piece in the highest two. I fell tails. Raoul posted a winning smile. Stack Stack, this means: Yes. Let’s go. Forward Ho! ” Stack it means “Green Light”. Come on. You and me against the fools, he told me. Nearby, the grim ceremony continued. On a larger bag, and pulled a small Belzébuthiens white goat who bleated sadly blinded by the candles. - We will sacrifice the white goat to you we opens a window of the land of the dead. A soul goat for a soul … A guttural voice heard in the cemetery. - A soul for a goat band vapid. The knife, already raised to decapitate the beast stopped. Raoul was erected next to me screaming with the assurance given him by the simple act of falling tails. - Out of my sight, servants of Beelzebub! Beelzebub has

been dead a long time. Those who is worshiped be damned. I Astaroth, prince of the ninth Darkness and I will curse. Do not come never sully unclean animal blood sacred tombs. You wake up in the dead and the gods get upset! The Belzébuthiens had frozen, dumbfounded. They are expensive

chaient the source of the message, but saw nothing. Raoul had the voice. His voice was as the room currency had assured him of the action to be taken. Everything was become clear. For him, for me and “them” too. Raoul was the strength. They were just annoying. Raoul was a child but he was their master. Faced with this worrying burst, the masked men preferred to get out. The little goat spun in the opposite direction. It was easy to win a battle. Stack, I would the strongest. Face, I’d be a coward. Coin, decides to my place of my behavior.

Raoul shook my shoulder and told me the play by two Francs, - I will supply. Now, you no longer afraid of anything you will know and take the right choice. You will be with a friend that never fail. In the palm of my hand, the room radiated. 19 - FACT POLICE

Psychological inquiry Raoul on Razorbak. It seems that the child is said Raoul Razorbak struck delusions psychotic. On several occasions, he went into violent anger and endangered the lives of those around him. His mother refuses

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Yet while interned in a psychiatric clinic. Asked by a specialist, she said that her son was very affected by the death of his father. “It just needs to compensate, “she said. The young Raoul Razorbak not having at present engaged in any crime and did not seem about to fall into delinquency, estimated active service proceedings premature. 20 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS THE DEATH OF OUR GREAT FATHER Leading causes of death in France in 1965 (to end of the second millennium), ranked in descending order the

number of victims. You will notice that some of diseases of the time are, nowadays, eradicated. Heart disease 98,392 Cancers 93834 Cerebrovascular lesions 62746 32,723 car accidents Liver cirrhosis 16325 Respiratory 16274 Pneumonia 11 166 9008 flu Diabetes 8118 Suicides 7156 Crimes and 361 murders Unknown causes 87,201 History textbook, second year elementary course. 21 - I-MR-SEC DELIRIUM In the years after our first meeting in Père-Lachaise, our friendship became more more closely. Raoul taught me so much! - You’re so naive, Michael! You think the world So that is nice and the best way to put you there is to make yourself be nice. But you’re wrong. Just your brain active. The future does not belong to 33

gentiïs but innovators, adventurous, those who not afraid of anything. - You’re afraid of nothing, you? Don’t mention it. - Not even

physical suffering? - Just to want to avoid feeling it. To better prove it to me, he pulled out his lighter and plunged his index finger in the flame until the air is impregnated the smell of burnt horn. I was both disgusted and fascinated. - Wow! How are you doing? - I am making the first blank in my mind, and then I tell me that someone else suffers this pain and she does not concern me at all. - Are not you afraid of fire? - Neither the water nor land, nor the metal. He who does fears nothing is almighty and nothing will be denied. As was my lesson number two. The first was a piece two francs will be your best advisor. The second is that the fear is that if you allow him to exist. - Your father taught you that? - He said to never look back climbing a mountain. If you look, you may be dizzy, to panic and fall. But if you climb right to the top, you will always be safe. - If you are not afraid of anything, what leads you to forward? The mystery. The need to unravel the mystery of death of my father and that of death in general. As he pronounced these words, his right hand still so similar to a spider came covering his face as to contain an indescribable torment. His eyes s’exorbitèrent as if his head was corroded from within. I was worried: - You do not feel well? It took a long time to answer me. Then, as showing breathing and minds:

- Only a migraine. It will pass, he said harshly. It was the only time I saw him facing a crisis. For I, Raoul was a superman. He was a master. Raoul impressed me. As it was my senior a year, I gave a push to skip a class and find me on the same bench as him. Then all became easy. It allowed me to copy his homework and, outside of course, he continued to tell me wonderful stories.

Everyone in the class, did not share my enthusiasm. The French teacher had called the student Razorbak “Mr. I-secdelusion.” - Hold on tight. Today, “Mr.-Jedélire-dry “we send a copy to your sides laughing. Ministry subject that I gave you was, I want to remind you “Tell your ideal vacation. “Ah! Ndiaye, Isec-delusion “did not go for a walk on the side of Le Touquet, Saint-Tropez, La Baule, Barcelona or even of London. No, he was downright spun land of the dead. Et .. we shall send postcards. General chuckle. - I quote: “While my boat was heading towards the light, I clung to the boa, as a fiery serpent had arisen the front of the ship. The goddess Nephthys advised me to do not drove me wild and stay the course. Princess Isis, her, me extended his ankh to repel the monster. ” The students

laughed in while nudging concluded that the teacher, PhD: - “Mr. I-sec-delusion,” I can not you advise to use the care of a good psychoanalyst, or a psychiatrist. In the meantime, know that you escaped the zero points. I have a set of 20, only for making me laugh as much by reading. Besides, I still looking for your first copy as I am sure have a good time with you. Continue thus, Mr. Razorbak, and I laugh for a long time because you redouble no doubt that class. Raoul did not blink. He was impervious to this type of remarks, especially from a man like this teacher French for whom he felt no esteem. The problem came from elsewhere. The class itself. As in most schools, students in our high school adolescents were cruel, and it was enough that they

pointed to a socalled “marginal” for they give the death. In our class, the gang leader was a cocky kid named Martinez. With his associates, they We continued to the exit and surrounded us. - Isis Princess, Princess Isis, they chanted. Want ankh in my face? I was very scared. To free myself, I threw a blow kick in the shin of the large Martinez and, in turn, it made me break the nose of a punch. My face was in blood. We were two against six but the problem was Raoul, however,

much larger and stronger than I seemed to have given up defending themselves. He fought no. He received the blows without returning them! I yelped. - Come on, Raoul! We will have them as the Belzébuthiens. You and me against the fools, Raoul! He did not move. We were not long for us to collapse under a barrage of punches and kicks. Faced with this lack of resistance, the band finally the big Martinez get tired and went with the V for victory. I got up when I massage bumps. - Were you afraid? I asked him. - No, he said. - Why did you not fight then? - What for? I do not have to waste energy for trifles. Anyway, I can not fight against the primitive minds, he added, picking up his glasses broken. - But you have been able to escape the Belzébuthiens! - It was a game And then they may have been bad but they were much more subtle than these morons. Face to cavemen, I am powerless. We soutînmes each other. - You and me against the fools, you said. - Sorry to disappoint you. It is also necessary for the fools have a minimum of intelligence so that I can go to war against them. I was terrified: - But then types the likes of Martinez us will break all the time the mouth. - Possible, he said soberly. But they will tire

before for me? - And if they kill you? He shrugged his shoulders. - Bah! Life is but a passage. I was overcome with a dark premonition. Fools were capable of winning. Raoul was not always the a lot stronger. He had even be a height of weakness. I sighed. - Whatever happens, you can still always count on me to help in hard times. That night I dreamed that I flew back to in the clouds to meet a woman in white satin skeleton mask. 22 - Pascal PHILOSOPHY “The immortality of the soul is important to us so hard we touch so deeply that we must have lost all feeling for be indifferent to know what it is. Our first interest and our first duty is to clarification on the subject on which depends all our conduct. And so, between those who are not convinced I am extremely unlike those who work every effort to educate them, to those who live without them to trouble, and without thinking. This neglect of a case where it is themselves, their identity, their all, irritates me more than it m’atten

DRIT. It amazes me and frightens me: it’s a monster for me? I do not say this by the pious zeal of devotion spiritual. I hear the contrary they must have felt this

ment by a principle of human interest. “

Blaise Pascal Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

23 - DEVELOPMENT I was fourteen when Raoul came to me at the house ordered me to hurry. My parents bad

gréèrent. Not only was the lunch hour but persisted to believe that Raoul Razorbak exercised over me a very bad influence. I like them time received excellent grades in math, copying my friend, of course, they hesitated to deprive me out. Yet they ordered me to take care and stay on the alert. While tying my scarf, my father whispered that it was our best friends were always our worst problems. My mother adds, treacherous:

- Me, that’s how I define a “friend”: it is whose betrayal caused the greatest surprise. Raoul took me to the hospital Saint-Louis, explaining we had to create a service involving dying and coma. “Service of the dying,” had they euphemistically called. It was installed in the left wing of an annex building. I asked what he intended to do in such a place. He replied bluntly that visit would be for us an excellent opportunity to learn more. - More? And on what? - On the death, of course! The idea of ​entering a hospital not excited me not. The place is filled with adults and I would be seriously surprised they let us play. Razorbak Raoul, however, was never short of arguments. He told me to read in newspapers coma after people woke up and told extraordinary stories. These survivors claimed to have attended performances strange. They had not seen snake boats or fire-eaters but attractive lights. - You speak of experience at the frontiers of death, the Americans call the NDE to “Near Death Experiences “? That’s it. Of NDE. 38

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fashionable for a while. There had been several bestsellers on the subject. Had made the weekly on the cover. And like all fashions, this one also had eventually fade. After all, we did not have no evidence, no evidence of tangible, just a few nice stories collected bits and pieces. Raoul believe it to such fables? He spread before me several newspaper clippings and we We knelt down to look better. These excerpts were not taken from magazines known for their serious or the severity of their investigations. Titles in bold Slimy and the tone: “Travel beyond the death “,” Testimony of post-coma “,” Life After life, ”” I came back and I like it “,” Death and then After: For Raoul, these words seemed haloed with poetry Particular. After all, his father was there … To illustrate, there were only blurry photos superimposed with auras or reproductions of paintings Hieronymus Bosch. In the texts, Raoul had highlighted in yellow fluorescent some passages he considered essential: “A sound

DAGE of the American Institute Gallup, eight million of

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Rican claim to have experienced an NDE. ” “A survey performed in a hospital shows that 37% of coma

teux claim to have floated out of their bodies, 23% view a tunnel, 16% were caught up in a beneficial light. “ I shrugged my shoulders. - I do not want to remove yourself your illusions, but … - But what? - I had a car accident. I have him flying in air and I knocked by falling. Three hours without knowledge. A true coma. And I did not notice the shadow a tunnel or any beneficial light. He seemed surprised. - You saw what then? - Nothing, exactly. Nothing at all. My friend looked at me like I was struck by a rare disease caused by a virus not yet identified.

- You said he was in a coma and did not have retained no memory? - Affirmative. Raoul thoughtfully scratched his chin

and his face lit up - I know why! He spared its effects before imposing a sentence I meditated long: - You do not see anything because … you were not “enough” death. 24 - THE LAND OF THE WHITE MONKS An hour later we were at the hospital Saint-Louis. The entrance was lit. A uniformed guard watching the comings and goings. Taking advantage of his height, Raoul was wearing an overcoat worn in the hope of old. He took my hand. He hoped that together we would pass for a father and a son going to the bedside of a grandmother recovering. Las, the guard was not fooled. - Tell the brats, are better playgrounds in the corner. - We come to visit our grandmother, was Raoul, tearful voice. What is the name she? Raoul did not hesitate. - Madame Saliapino. It is in a coma. She was put in the new support service for the dying. What a genius of improvisation! It would have launched or Dupuis During this would have been immediately suspect, but “Saliapino “It was just weird to seem true. The guard passed a wealth of circumstance. “Support the dying, “the term immediately caused the discomfort. He was certainly aware of the creation of this service had had

to talk in hallways. He changed his mind, motioned us to go, apologizing almost to have slowed our progress. We went into a glittering maze. The horn

40€ ridors, still corridors … We pushed several doors to discovering As an extraordinary world. It was the second time I entered a hospital but the effect was just as confusing. It was like to be broken into a temple where whiteness restless witches dressed in white and young priestesses naked under their blouse immaculate. Everything was set as an ancient dance. Of ambulance deposited offerings packed in of soiled linen. Young priestesses the unpacked before transport them in rooms where large tiled priests, recognizable by their square mask and the gloves transparencies, fiddling as if weighing them were able to read the omens. From this vision sprang the beginnings of my vocation medical attention. The smell of ether, nurses, tinsel white, the ability to dig my own way the bowels of my contemporaries, that was really interesting. There lay the real power! I too am a wizard white:

Ravi as a gangster who has finally found the room safes, Raoul whispered in my ear: - Psst … This way! We pushed a glass door. And we nearly beat a retreat before the show. The Most patients hosted by the escort service the dying were really in bad shape. Our right, a toothless old man, frozen speechless, stinks the air ten feet around. Nearby, an emaciated to be indefinite sex stared unblinkingly a brown stain on the ceiling. A transparent snot dripping down his nose without he thinks of the wipe. On the left, a bald woman had more than a tuft of hair dyed blond on his forehead wrinkled. She tried to suppress the tremor of his incessant compressing the right hand with his left hand. Obviously. she did not succeed and the member insulted rebel in an incomprehensible language made by his dentures off. Death, no offense to Raoul, this was not the gods,

goddesses, monsters, rivers full of snakes. The death was this: people rotting slowly. My parents were right: the death was awful. I decamped on the spot if Raoul had not led to lady with the blond tuft. - Sorry to bother you, ma’am. - Bb .. … oon day, she stammered, trembling mind as the body. - We are both students at a journalism school. We would like to interview

you. - To … Why me? she said with difficulty. - Because we are interested in your case. - I … do … am … not … interesting. … By Tez! The brat, we obtained no response. We So our way to the grandfather stinking we considered these two pesky little mosquitoes. He got angry as if it bothered him in pressing occupations: - What, what, what do you want? Raoul continued his spiel: - Hello, we are a school of journalism and we do a story on people who survived a coma. The old man stood up, very proud: - Of course I survived a coma. Five days in coma and see, I’m still here! A glimmer lit up in the eye of Raoul. - And how was it? he asked, as if addressing a tourist returning from China. The man looked at him, puzzled: - What do you mean? - Well, what you felt while you were in a coma? Obviously, the other did not see where he was going. - I was in a coma for five days, I tell you. Coma, it is precisely when one does not feel anything! Raoul insisted: - You do not have a hallucination? You do not remember a light, a corridor of any thing? The dying man lost his temper: - No, but the coma is not cinema. First, we is very bad. Then you wake up and there suffer from everywhere. It’s not

a cakewalk. You write what ??? A nurse comes out of nowhere and immediately began to scream: Who are you? You have not to annoy my sick? Who gave you permission to enter here? You can not read? You did not see the sign: “Entry forbidden to anyone outside the service”? - You and me against the idiots! Raoul launched. And together, we went at a gallop. We lost in a maze of corridors tiled. We crossed a room reserved for severe burns, another aimed at handicapped eventually leading precisely where it should not. At the funeral home. Of naked corpses were lined up in twenty chrome trays, his face contorted in an ultimate pain. Some still had their eyes open. Armed with a clip, a young student was busy removing their rings or wedding rings. One of them did not sliding. The skin was swollen around the metal. So, without hesitation, the student’s finger jammed between the blades of the pliers and squeezed. Clack. It fell to the ground by a noise metal and meat. I almost fainted. Raoul dragged me out. We were both exhausted. My friend was wrong. My parents were right. Death was something disgusting. You should not look at it, not approach it, not talk about it and not even thinking about it.

25 - MYTHOLOGY Lapland For the Sami, life is a soft covering the skeletons. The soul is in the bones of the skeleton. So when they sin fish, they take much care to remove the flesh without breaking any edge. They reject Then the bony rods in the place where they sin live fish. They believe that nature be responsible for the replenishing and that when they return,

few days, weeks or months later, a new fresh food will be waiting there. For them, the flesh is pure decoration around the bones imbued with the true soul. This same respect for the skeleton among the Mongols and Yakuts who strive to reconstitute intact, standing, they bear were killed. And not to risk breaking the delicate bones of the skull, they deprive themselves from eating the brains, yet food of choice. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 26 - Separation Shortly after our trip to the hospital Saint-Louis, the mother

Raoul moved to province and many years passed before we met again. My father died the same year of lung cancer. Cigars at ten francs had not missed. Spinach broccoli and anchovies, I poured a flood of tears to his funeral but no one seemed to care. As soon return of the funeral, my mother turned into a shrew tyrannical. She began to want to get involved any at all want to monitor and dictate my life. Without embarrassment, she was rummaging through my things and found my diary and I thought, however well hidden under my mattress. She immediately began to read high voice the best passages in front of my brother Conrad, delighted with this supreme humiliation. I took some time to get over this injury. My

newspaper had always been for me as a friend to whom I told me without fear of being judged. This was perhaps not his fault but that friend now, he had actually much betrayed. Conrad commented, always smart: - Well, I do not know you has a crush on this minx of Beatrice. It is downright ugly with duvets and all buttons on the face. You’re really Vicious. I tried to look good but my mother knew per

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tinent she had deprived me of an ally. She does I did not want friends. Not even objects friends. She considered it sufficient to meet all my needs communication with the outside. - Tell me everything, she said. I know keep all your secrets, remain silent as a tomb. Your notebook, anyone could find it. Fortunately again he did not fall into foreign hands! I preferred to avoid controversy. Retorted I do not that apart

from his, zero foreign hands would not Flood allowed to rummage under my bed. Can not increased the sneers of revenge Conrad by exhibiting her diary to him. But it was no. He did not need it. It had nothing to say to anyone and no more to himself. He was happy like that, to cross life without even trying to understand it. Having lost my confidant, the absence of Raoul became even more burdensome. No one else at school, did the slightest interest in ancient mythology. For my classmates, the word “death” did not have the any magic, and when I spoke of corpses, they tended to tap the front of the hand. “You gnognottes the mat, man, fuck you psychoanalyze the Greeks! “ - You’re still young for the death t’obnubiler me lectured Beatrice. Wait sixty years. It is too early now. I told him tit for tat: - Okay, so talking about love! That’s a subject that suitable for young, right? She recoiled in horror. I tried to coax: - But I ask nothing better than to marry you? She runs away. She cried then all echoes that I was a sex maniac and I had the same attempted to rape her. In addition, I was probably a meurtriercriminel-assassin-persistent offender, if not why I am interested both death and corpses?

More journal confident, more friends, no girlfriend no atom hooked with my family, life seemed good

bland. Raoul did not write. I was really alone on this planet. Fortunately, I had books. Raoul had not not mistaken in saying that the books, they were friends who will never betray. The books were familiar with ancient mythologies. They were not afraid to talk about death or love. But every time my eyes were reading the word “death” I thought of Raoul. I knew that the death of his father this obsession caused him. He wanted to know what could have told him before dying. My own father had said everything in life: “Do not be silly,” “Stand Right, that’s your mother, ”” Beware of those who claim you want good, ”” Take example of Conrad, ”” You do not can not eat properly? Towels are not made for dogs, ”” Keep it up and you will take thee, ”” Give me my box of cigars, ”” Put not your fingers in the nose, ”” Do not cure teeth with metro tickets, ”” Cache your money well, ”” What you got to read a book yet? You better help your mother clear the table. ” The great spiritual heritage. Thank you, Dad. Raoul was still wrong to simply focus on death. Death need not be rocket scientist to understand: it was just the end of life. End of story. As a film that stops when you turned off

the television … In the evening, yet I dreamed that I still often and flew up there, I still believe the lady in satin white skeleton mask. This nightmare then, I had not written in my notebook. 27 - Hindu Mythology “Those who know well and those who, in the forest, know that faith is the truth, those entering the flame, the flame in the day, the day in the bright fortnight of the fortnight in the six months during which the sun rises north of months in the world of the gods, the world Gods in the sun, the sun flashes in the region.

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Arrived in the area of ​lightning, a spiritual being occurs which transports them into the worlds of Brahman: in these worlds they inhabit distant unfathomable. For them, point back down here. “ (Brhaddranyaka Upanisad) Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

28 - RAOUL IS BACK At the age of eighteen years, I decided to become a doctor. I began studies as appropriate, and, was it really a coincidence? I choose specialties like anesthesia and resuscitation. I found myself in the heart of the temple, head of lives concerned about human survival. Maybe I had also wanted spawn of these priestesses were said in their bare white coat. Anyway, I was quick to check that was a myth. Nurses are often in a T-shirt. I was thirty-two when Raoul came without warning in my life. He telephoned and gave me obviously go to the cemetery of Pere-Lachaise. It was even bigger, skinny, skinnier than in my memory. He was back in Paris. After so long years of absence, I was very flattered that his first gesture was to renew contact with me. He had the delicacy not to talk to me right away death. Like me, he had matured. No question of laughter all, indiscriminately. More stupid puns, of puns or spoonerisms. He was now a researcher in biology at the CNRS, with title of professor. Yet he began his talk by Mistresses …” Women were only happen in his life because they did not

understand. They deemed it too … morbid. He raged: - Why are the prettiest girls they always more stupid? - Why do you not dredge the ugly? answered I We should have esclaffer but childhood had passed. He only smiled. - And you, Michael, you go out a lot? Uh. No. Not really. He gave me a big pat on the back. - Too shy, eh? - Too much imagination, perhaps. Sometimes I dream that there somewhere a charming princess and she waits for me, me and nobody else. - You believe in Sleeping Beauty? But if you go out with a girl before meeting her, it’s as if you wrong in advance. Exactly! That is the impression that I feel every a time; Arachnéides hands fluttered around Raoul me, enveloping me in their protective presence. What/how? could I have lived so long away from him and his madness? - … Ah, he sighed. You’re too prude, Michael. This world is too hard for dreamers like you. You have arm yourself to learn how to fight. We évoquâmes skirmish with our nostalgic the Belzébuthiens. He then spoke of his research. It currently working on hibernating marmots. Like many other animals, marmots were able to remain three months, the heart slowed to 90%, breathing, without food, without moving, without sleep. Raoul had pushed away the phenomenon. After sleep, he wanted graze the limbo of death. To induce hibernation Artificial even deeper in a

groundhog, it was enough the plunge in a bath cooled to 0 ° C. The temperature Internal fell rapidly, the heartbeat slowed to the point of full stop but the beast did not die either. It was possible to revive a half-hour later, just by rubbing.

I suspected my friend to describe what hibernation We, doctors, called “coma”. However, his experiences were successful, and in Congress international, some have called him “the awakener marmot frozen. “ Point blank, I asked him if he had discovered other ancient texts of the afterlife. It soon became animated. It had not dared hope that I would approach her about so fast predilection. - The Greeks! he exclaimed with relish. The Greeks believed in the universe and concentric circles. Each universe contained a universe smaller than him, then another even smaller, like a target. In the center of it was the Greek world, one where people lived. Raoul was launched. - So, in the center, the Greeks in the first world. Then around, circling, the barbarians of the second world they are themselves surrounded by a third, the world monsters, including among others ugly creatures boreal land. I

summarize: - Men, barbarians, monsters, three layers, right? - No, he corrected much, much more. After world of monsters, just the sea is the island of Blessed, a paradise where the immortals live. There is also Island Dream, crossed by a river that flows only the IGHT It is covered with lotus flowers. At its center is located at the four city gates. Let in the two nightmares, dreams to open two more delicious. Hypnos, the god of dreams, the four control issues. - Ouaah! - After the sea continued Raoul, there is again a earth. It is the shore of the continent from the dead. The trees there are as dried fruit. This is where all the vessels fail and end all. There was a silence, furnished in turn sets paradise or hell. Raoul broke the spell in wondering about my job as anesthesiologist-intensivist. He multiplied the technical issues. He wanted to know what products I used for my people, saying they could both serve him for his marmots.

29 - NOTICE OF DR PINSON A. Comas According to my friend Dr. Michael Pinson, there are three common forms of coma: A Coma: Coma vigil. Consciousness is abolished but the patient reacts to external stimuli. It can last from thirty seconds to three days.

Coma 2: The patient does not respond to stimuli outside, like it or clip it a picnic. It can last up to a week. 3 Coma: Coma deep. Cessation of all forms ) Decerebration movements. Limbs are higher as paralyzed. The heartbeat become irregular (defibrillation). According to Michael, he can not get out of this type of coma. B. External effects 1) Mydriasis (full dilatation of the pupil). 2) Paralysis. 3) Deviation of the mouth. C. How to take a patient’s coma? Methods used by Michael: 1) cardiac massage. 2) upper airway intubation. 3) Electric shock from 200 to 300 joules. 4) intracardiac injections of adrenaline. D. How to cause a coma? Used by Michael: 1) Sodium. 2) Thiopental (plan agitation on awakening), Propofol (Fast asleep, wake up with no problems).

3) Droperidol (less powerful effects, transient analgesia, sense of disconnection with a duration of one hour after waking up, risk of sudden cardiac arrest). Mus adjust the dose to patient weight. 4) Potassium chloride (causes heart disease and ventricular fibrillation).

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E. Heart rate in humans Normal: 65 to 80 beats minute.p> To lowest: 40 beats minute.p> Some yogis down to 38 but these cases exceptional. Minimum: below 40 heartbeats minute, lower net cerebral

blood flow, risk of syncope (Brief loss of consciousness lasting less than two minutes). The subject usually keeps no memory of the incident.p> Maximum: 220 beats minute under the age of the

subject.p> Working notes for research Thanatonautes. Raoul

Razorbak. 30 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS The Thanatonautes was born of a chance incident. Most historians date from the day of the attack against President Lucinda. History textbook, second year elementary course. 31 - THE PRESIDENT LUCINDA Standing in his black limousine, President Lucinda greeted the crowd, smiling apologetically. In fact, he was in agony as he suffered from an ingrown toenail on his toe. It was no consolation to think that Julius Caesar had no probably also been tormented by such vicissitudes in its large military parades. And Alexander the Great with his syphilis? In addition, at the time, it was not the care … Julius Caesar was always behind him a slave in charge both brandishing his laurel wreath, and to repeat regularly in his ear: “Remember that you are a Male “Lucinda did not have to slave to the Remember, there’s enough ingrown toenail. He greeted the crowd that cheered the while wondering

how to get rid of. Her doctor advised a operation, but so far the leader of the Nation did never lie on a pool table. He did not like the idea to be asleep while hidden under unknown gauze masks and armed with pointed blades fiddling his palpitating flesh. Of course, he could also use his pedicure particular. The latter promised to come to overcome the problem without going through the operating room but it would have to cut the toe raw, without anesthesia. Nothing to write home about. What causes problems that the human cast-offs! Always something wrong somewhere. Rheumatism, caries, conjunctivitis … Last week, Lucinda had been tormented by an awakening of his ulcer. - Do not worry, Jean, had advised her wife. You are upset because of South America. You’ll ‘ll feel better tomorrow. There is a saying from my home, “being means to be healthy every day a patient different place. ” Very funny! Still, she had served a little milk hot and the pain had subsided. The ingrown toenail proved tougher. “Long live Lucinda! “They cried around. “Lucinda, President ! “Chanted a group. Ah, the new term! It would have to worry about it soon. The election was close. Without this cursed toe, Lucinda had had a good time under these cheers. He loved the walkabouts. It kissed a girl with rosy cheeks a woman brandishing under his nose.

The girl handed him a bouquet of flowers one to cause every time an allergy. The car restarted. He tried to shake her a little toes trapped in her new shoes when a rigid tall man in three-piece suit rushed toward him, revolver in hand. Shots rang in his ears. - Here is murdering me! thought the President calmly. This was the first and the last, surely. Blood warm running down her navel. Lucinda smiled. It was a good way to go down in history with a capital H. His predecessor, President CONGOMA, had seen his mandate prematurely shortened by a prostate cancer. What fun to posterity. He was lucky, with its technocratic revolver black. The presidents were assassinated always entitled to honors textbooks. It boasted their visions grandiose audacity of their projects. Children recite his praise in schools. There was no other immortality. Lucinda saw her assassin who was based in the crowd. And his bodyguards who stood idly by! What lesson! You should not rely on these professionals the nuts. Who hated him and to the point of organizing his death? Well, he did not care now. Nothing was more important, including its cursed ingrown toenail. The death was the best remedy against all the little ills of life.

- A doctor! Quick, a doctor! shouted someone close to in front of him. These people are silent … There was no doctor able to help. It was too late. A bullet had pierced the heart. It was not a doctor need to fetch, rather a new president to replace him while he would join Caesar, Abraham Lincoln and Kennedy in the sky of great statesmen assassinated. Arms do not hoisted Lucinda least a bran-card. The locked him in an ambulance to unbearable sirens wailing. Invisible specialists placed a mirror on his mouth, massed his lungs. There were even a rather unceremonious to venture a word-of-mouth. He did not die less. Memories marched to any speed in his mind. Four years: his first blow undeserved first and aggressiveness. Seven years: the first honor roll by a neighbor who had left his copy composition. Seventeen years: his first daughter (he had seen since; it had been a mistake: it was awful). Twenty-one years: degree in history, without cheating this time. Twenty-three years: mastery of ancient philosophy. Twenty-five years: PhD of ancient history. Twenty-seven years came to the party Social Democratic relations with his father and already a

slogan for his future career: “Those familiar with the past

are better able to build the future. “ Twenty-eight years: marriage to the first “chick” (a actress he had forgotten the name). Twenty-nine years: first shots and first betrayals down to $ within the party apparatus. Thirty-two years: election mayor of Toulouse, fortune built on land sales municipal early paintings master, first ancient sculptures, mistresses galore. Trentecinq years in the National Assembly election, the first castle in Lozère. Thirtysix years with the divorce and remarriage second “chick” (German supermodel, chickpea for brains but damn a saint legs). Thirty-seven years: Mouflets outbreak in every corner. Thirty-eight years: short crossing of the desert caused by the case of bribery of wine on the sale of aircraft in Pakistan. Thirty-nine: dazzling return to the political scene with new wedding (the daughter of President CONGOMA, a good choice this time). Appointment to the Department Foreign Affairs and the first real action repulsive: the organization of the assassination of President of Peru, replaced by a puppet. Forty-five years: death of President CONGOMA. Campaign Lucinda President of the beautiful Republic French thanks to a campaign entirely financed by the in New slogan: “Lucinda has studied history at now he writes. ” Failure. Fifty-two years: new election. Victory: Power. Finally the Elysee Palace. Hold on the Secret Service.

Private museum of antiquities quietly “Recovered” abroad. Caviar with a ladle. Fifty-five: Threat of nuclear war. The enemy gets scared, back, and Lucinda misses its first opportunity to enter history. Fifty-six years of the mistresses of younger and younger. Fifty-seven years meeting with his first real friend, Vercingetorix, a black Labrador, suspicion, he, careerism.

Finally, fifty-eight years and concluded at the moment, this fine biography of the great man murdered in a walkabout in Versailles. More bubble mirrors. Life, even as President, this not more than that. Dust to dust you return. Ash, you return to ashes. Maggot, you end up in stomach maggots. If only he was allowed to die in peace! Same maggots are entitled to final peace. But no, we he raises his eyes, placed on a pool table … It is fiddles, we undressed, it connects to the device complicated and around him, it chatters, it chatters. “All do to save the President, “they repeat. Fools! What good is all this effort? He felt a great fatigue invade. It was as if life gradually left him. Exactly that. It came out. He felt that it came out. Not possible! Jean Lucinda felt … he left. He went out of his body. Yikes! He really went out of his

body. in front of him. Finally it or what else? There was something else … how can you call it? His soul? His body heritage? Its ectoplasm? His thought materialized? It was he in clear and light. It is separated, it is scrub, it was split. What a feeling! He took off, left his skin, like an old garment Used. It rose, rose, rose again. He did not suffer more toes. It was so light! His … new “me” lingered a moment on the ceiling. Of there, he gazed at the corpse lying and all the experts full aggressive therapy. No respect for his remains. They opened his chest, he broke the coast, planted electrodes directly into the muscle heart! Needless to stay longer here, it was called elsewhere. A string transparent kind of umbilical cord, connecting still in its human carcass. She stretched, silver cord and elastic, as and as he walked away from it. He crossed the ceiling, passed through several floors filled of patients. Finally, it was the roof and then the sky. A light kindly called off. Fantastic! Other people, many other people, fluttered around him, like him stretching their silver cord. He felt to participate a great party. But suddenly his own silver cord stopped

to stretch, it hardens, tensed, pulled it from below! He wanted to shout it: “Close the door, there are currents had to go to the obvious: Lucinda did not die more. The air. ” ectoplasm other looked at him without understanding: for He was in pain, so bad in all his nerves. What does he continued further forward? Pulled the cord, the elastic Te So here again, my aching body. policy abruptly retracted. He recrossed the roof, | He opened one eyelid, there were plenty of people around ceilings, he returned to the operating room and saw the nurses who released her discharge several hundred volts directly into the heart. “It is forbidden to do that! “He had passed a law that, two years before, to limit aggressive therapy. The result remember, it was section 676: “When cardiac activity ceases, it will not perform any manipulation, abuse or operation that may force the failing heart to restart. “But as he was president, we obviously felt that his life was above the law. Ha! the bastards! Ah, the little manure! Once again he found the inconvenience of being the most important man of Country : .. In the second he had only one desire: to be a bum which no one cared. Tramp, beggar, worker, housewife, anything, but that he record the peace. That he be granted the peace of death. This is the first right of a citizen: to die in peace. “Let me die! Let me die! “He yelled to loudly. But his ectoplasm had no voice. The cord money dragged lower

and lower. He could not back. Floup, he returned to his former body. What a feeling unpleasant! Ouch, he felt again the already ingrown toenail! And we had broken his ribs for reach the heart. In addition he dropped a new landfill power, this time it was very, very badly. He opened his eyes. Of course the doctors and nurses shouted for joy and congratulating the each other. Fools … - We did it, we did it! - His heart is beating again, he breathes, he is saved! Saved? Who saved, saved from what? Not one of them, at any cases He suffered, he suffered. He stammered in a grimace something incomprehensible. “Stop landfills close the chest! “ his bed. It was bad, so bad. All his nerves were raw. He closed eyes to enjoy a moment of respite and remember the great country light up there in the heaven. 32 - FACT POLICE

Demand for basic descriptive information Name: Lucinda Name: Jean Hair: Black Eyes: Gray Size: 78 1 m Distinguishing features: None Comment: A pioneer of the movement Thanatonautes Weakness: President of the Republic 33 - MINISTER MERCASSIER Fully furnished in Louis XV style, the Presidential Office was very broad. The room was dimly lit, but enough to discern and famous paintings naughty Greek sculptures. Art was a good way to impress the philistines. Benedict Mercassier, Minister Research, not ignorant. He also knew that even he could not see his face, President Lucinda was sitting there in front of him. The desk lamp that illuminated his hands, but the thick silhouette was familiar, the black labrador at his feet, too.

It was the first meeting between the two men since the attack that had nearly cost his head to the nation. Why the President had he contacted him, specifically, when there were so many issues of domestic policy or

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foreign to regulate much more urgent problems researchers always looking for grants? As Mercassier could no longer silence the dragged on, he dared to break it first. He hesitated and chose few banalities of circumstances: - How are you, Mr. Speaker? It seems you’re recovering well from your operation. These Doctors have performed miracles. Lucinda thought he would gladly have such of miracles. He came into the light. Gray eyes, particularly brilliant landed on the speaker curled a chair of red brocade. - Mercassier, I have called because I need the advice an expert. Only you can help me. - I’d be delighted, Mr. Speaker. Which ? is it? Leaning back, Lucinda plunged into the penumbra. It was strange, his every move exuded a strange majesty. As for his face, he seemed becoming

suddenly more … (Mercassier surprised by the adjective which came to mind) more human. - You have training in biology, is not it? Lucinda issued. Tell me, what is your experience post-comatose? Mercassier stared at him, puzzled. President annoyed: - The NDE, Near the Deaîh experience, these people in last moment out of their body and then return to Because, finally, thanks to medical advances? Benedict Mercassier could not believe his ears. Behold Lucinda, so realistic usually interested in this to mystical phenomena. What it was like to have known death! He hesitated. - I think it is a fashion, a phenomenon company will like so many others before him. People need to believe in the marvelous, the supernatural, he are anything other than the material world down here. So… some writers, gurus, charlatans benefit into their business by telling nonsense. This need is always rooted in man. Religions are the proof. Just promise paradise in an imaginary future for people to swallow more easily the bitter pill now. Credulity, stupidity and naive. - That’s really what you think? Of course! What better than a dream beyond paradise? What more “fake” dream? Lucinda coughed: - And yet, if there was any truth in these … gossip? The

scientist chuckled: - Since the time, there are proofs. This is the story of the man who saw the man who saw the man who saw the man who saw the bear. Nowadays, everything works in reverse. It is the skeptics to prove that their doubts are founded. Just as anyone announces the end of the world tomorrow that requires specialists they prove it will not happen. Lucinda tried to impartiality. - No evidence, you say? Perhaps there are not because no one has tried? Are there only a formal study on the subject? - Uh, not to my knowledge, made Mercassier, troubled. So far, we stuck to record doubtful accounts. What’s going on? Interested in this topic there? “Oh! Yes, Benedict! exclaimed Lucinda. many Also, because the man who saw the bear, as you say, and even directly, well, that’s me. The Minister of Research looked at the President with unbelief. He wondered if, after all, the attack had not left to his vis-àvis irreversible sequelae. Its heart has been reached, the brain had not been irrigated for several minutes. Some areas they would necrotic? Is it now a victim of psychotic delusions ? - Stop and stare, Benedict! exclaimed harshly Lucinda. I just tell you that I lived a NDE, I will not establish a communist state! - I do not think so, replied the scientist by instinct. The President shrugged. - I would not have believed it myself if I was not

arrival: But then it happened to me. I glimpsed a continent wonderful and I would like to learn more about it. Qualitative Interviews Your own eyes? Off course ! Always rational, Mercassier offered an explanation: - Before his death, the body often produces morphine natural abundance. What the dying drunk before the departure, as a small indulgence chemical as an ultimate fireworks … Surely there is enough to cause some fantastic hallucinations, “Great continent” and others. This is probably what You arrived on the operating table. In the halo of the desk lamp, Lucinda had not hallucinatory air. On the contrary. His brain is it when even damaged? Was it necessary to alert other ministers, press, to the President out of harm’s way before he commits the country in any transaction insane? Benedict Mercassier wrung her hands under his seat. Corn in front, the speaker resumed already, very quiet: - I know the effects of the drug, Benedict. I already addicted and I know the difference between an early overdose and the real. How many times did you not reiterated that, in any scientific field, it Simply invest in abundance to reach early results? - Yes, but … - One percent of the budget of Veterans Affairs awarded in soft, okay? Mercassier was in agony. - I refuse. I am a true scientist and I can not lead to such a farce. - I insist. - In this case. I prefer to resign. Really? 34 -

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The death of our ancestors Classified by socio-professional categories (of time) Here is a table comparing the number of people exceeding the age of 50 on a thousand men each category. Statistics 1970 (end of the second millennium).

- Teachers: 732 - Senior Managers and professionals: 719 - Engineers: 700 - Catholic Clergy: 692 - Farmers: 653 Entrepreneurs and traders: 631 - Office workers: 623 Middle management: 616 - Workers: 590 - Agricultural workers: 565 History textbook, second year elementary course. 35 - NEW AUSTRALIA The empty mind, Benedict wandered long Mercassier on the Champs-Elysées. He was convinced of the absence of NDE and now he was commissioned to prove conclusively reality. Much to ask an atheist to demonstrate the existence of God or a publicist vegetarian boast the merits of the meat. He knew exactly why Lucinda had elected to this task. The President loved to force his men to practice paradox. He forced ministers from right to implement policies on the left, environmentalists for rent the all-nuclear, protectionist advocate free trade …

He had still to allocate two hundred thousand francs to her scarf “Project Paradise”. There he was no longer ignore. But to prove that flew out of his body at the time of his death to win a “wonderful continent “… 61

Lucinda was not the first head of state to engage in projects cranks. Mercassier remembered that There was already a long time in the seventies, a whimsical name of U.S. President Jimmy Carter had made up his mind to come into contact with UFOs. To UFOs, he thought as hard as iron. It launched a program cutting across all the accounts of the famous “Objects Unidentified Flying. ” Imagine the wealth of austere scientists forced to listen to the enlightened and hallucinated chain! He had squandered taxpayers’ money in building a gigantic transceiver supposed to capture messages and possible extraterrestrial intelligences communicate with them. And then he was not surprised not be reelected! Lucinda also ran his Berezina, but for his hand, Mercassier had no choice. It was either stroke the whims of the

President in the grain or abandon portfolio and, naturally, he held his little bit of power. Too bad for the Veterans! He would find how to use the famous two hundred thousand Francs, and? As always he was in doubt, Mercassier immediately thought to call her best and closest adviser: his wife, Jill. To his amazement, it seemed no surprise when, at dinner, he explained his problem NDE. All by sharing their plates with mashed broccoli it reflects: - What you need to get started is to invent a experimental protocol. Inventing a test meeting the question: “Yes or no, is there something after death? ” What did you like data as a starting point? - One, he sighed, but size. The President is convinced he had a NDE! As always, she comforted him: - Be positive. To succeed, we must be ahead confident of victory. - But, lamented there, we can not require me I believe the NDE. It would be to ignore everything that I taught at the Faculty of Science! She cut short her jeremiads: - You’re not a scientist, you’re a politician. Think therefore politician, otherwise we would never manage. That says it, then, your President? - He claims to have glimpsed a “great continent” … - A “great continent”? Jill frowned. - It’s funny, these are the exact words What employees the first

European navigators by discovering the continent I was born: Australia! - What relationship? he asked, pouring himself a glass of wine. - We gave you a new continent to explore. You have therefore adopt the spirit of the pioneers of the sixteenth century. They unaware that there was a land east of Indonesia. Those who would have said would have gone for friendly crazy as you treat the statements of nonsense the President. - Still, there was a palpable continent, with meadows, trees, animals, aborigines! Easy to say, the twenty-first century, but at the time imagine yourself a little? Speaking of southern lands was equally strange to mention that today a continent beyond death. As if he had not wanted to keep the mind clear, Mercassier would gladly have emptied the whole bottle of Bourgueil. A good year, too. Jill continued his reasoning :

- Put yourself in the shoes of a minister of that time. In during a sea voyage, your king and sank has featured a glimpse of “wonderful continent.” It was rescued by another vessel of his squadron before he could it forward, but on his return to his capital, he ordered his Minister of Transport to take steps to learn more about the mysterious island. From this perspective, of course … Jill Mercassier insisted: - You just baptize your land of the dead “New Australia “and

then adopt a mindset of an explorer. The challenge is worthy of our modernity. You imagine, in xxxf century, people sneer: “And to think that these arrears unaware of the continent from the dead! “In the year 3000, there will still look for a president to go further in back in time maybe. And Minister responsible for Mission Mercassier the envy of the past who received him, a term much easier to complete: just visit the country the dead … His wife was so convincing that Benedict could not help to ask: - But you believe, you, to this continent from the dead? Does it matter? What I know is that if I was the wife of the Minister of Transport in the sixteenth century, I have advised to charter ships and to check whether There was an Australian. In any case, you will be the man who discovered this unknown continent, namely which has proved its nonexistence. In either case, you go winner. In turn, Jill grabbed the bottle. Fixing the green mashed potatoes, her husband grumbled:

- Okay, but what a ship sent in such a place? Suddenly, she emptied her glass: - It comes back to the problem of experimental protocol. Do you want a salad? No. It was no longer hungry. Worries him

cut the appetite. It was not the case that Jill fetched cooking a bowl of lettuce and tomatoes. All his business, She sat down in a synopsis: - Well, we already decided to call your new continent “New Australia”. And we shipped to colonize Australia? Convicts, prisoners of law, thugs of the worst kind. And why them specifically? There Mercassier found himself in his element. - Because we thought that Australia might be a dangerous place and it was better not to send People whose loss would be a shortage for the company. Her face brightened as and as he spoke. As usual, Jill had not failed. She had provided a solution. - Benedict, you found what sailors storming your new continent. Now, we must pledge a Captain. The Minister of Research smiled, reassured: - With that, I have an idea! 36 - Aztec mythology Among the Aztecs, it is not the merits acquired during earthly life that determine the existence in the beyond but the circumstances surrounding the death. The best way to die is to die in combat. She led the Quantec (companions of the Eagle) to Tonatiuhichan, oriental paradise where the deceased will sit alongside the god of war.

Death by drowning or water-related disease (such as leprosy) induces a journey to the Tlalocan, paradise Tlaloc, the god of rain. Those who were not recognized by any god go to Mictlan, the place of hell where they undergo four years test before the final dissolution. This is the area of ​Mictlantecuhtli, the underworld. It enters the caves. The soul must cross eight stays underground before reaching the ninth world. First obstacle: the Chicnahuapan, a stream that the dead must cross by clinging to the tail of a dog Red previously sacrificed on his grave. Animals sacrificed at the funeral psychopomps serve, that is that they guide the soul through the land of the dead. Second obstacle: two mountains clashing with irregular intervals. The third hurdle to climb a mountain trail Steep covered with sharp stones. Fourth obstacle stand obsidian wind, storm cold sliced ​carting stones. Fifth obstacle passing between flags giants flapping in the wind out of sight. Sixth hurdle: under fire arrows seeking to pierce the deceased. Seventh obstacle: massive attack of wild animals willing to swallow his heart.

Eighth hurdle: a narrow defile where the risk of death get lost. He finally won access to the dissolution. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 37 - ABOUT Raoul Razorbak reminded me a few weeks later. He was eager to see me. His voice was strange and it seemed experiencing an emotion. For once, I stared go not to the Père-Lachaise, but at home, in his apartment. It was hardly recognized him when I opened the door. He was still thin and wore an expression I learned to recognize in schizophrenics in the hospital. - “Ah!” Michael, at last! He pointed to a chair in advising me to wedge myself comfortably. His presentation would surprise me. Would he obtained unexpected results in its research on the hibernation of marmots? But what they affect me? I was a doctor, not a biologist. - Have you heard of the attack suffered by the President Lucinda? Of course I had heard. No one in the country could not escape. The press, television, radio had their headlines. Our head of state was shot at close range during a walkabout in Versailles. The best specialists had fared in extremis. What this incident was it related to the bustle of my friend?

- The next day, President Lucinda asked its Minister of Research … He stopped and grabbed me: Follow me. 38 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS The first xenografts were established in the mid twentieth century, specifically in the years 1960-1970. Therefore, the sick man became like a car with it was enough to change the defective parts. As a result, the Death took mechanical figure of mere accident. If there was Death was due to lack of proper replacement parts. Of researchers conceived of pig hearts with characters DNA corresponding to the receptacles in which human they would operate. Techniques to support foreign bodies were constantly improved. Everything was replaceable, except the brain. And again! It became logical to think that someday we would be able to overcome all failures, including failure supreme death. It was only a matter of technology. At the same time, life fell. Having the appearance old age was synonymous with negligence. In each to properly maintain its biological mechanisms. We hid the old shriveled or unsavory aspect to better show off those who practiced, radiant, the tennis or running. At the time, it was thought that best way to fight against death was to hide the warning signs.

History textbook, second year elementary course. 39 - AMANDINE My friend Raoul pushed me in his old Renault 20 convertible and drove off with a bang. - Where are you taking me? - Where it all happens. I could not get more out of him. The wind blew my questions as answers. Whatever it was, we went out of Paris. I shudder when it finally slows to an ominous sign, “Fleury-Merogis Penitentiary.” From the outside, the place looked more like a small city ​or in a hospital and a prison. Raoul parked in the parking adjacent to the entrance and led me. He presented a

authorization me my ID card. We passed a sas, drove through a long corridor, knocked at a door. A man already upset we opened. His face frowned at the sight of Razorbak, for his part very a smile. - Greetings, Mr. Director. I wanted to you presented Dr. Michael Pinson. You will need to provide a pass in the shortest possible time. Thank you in advance. Before the director could answer, we were in new corridors. I felt that guards as we passed we saw in one eye bad.

We found ourselves in a courtyard. We were in the center of the town-prison. It was immense. Five blocks buildings stretched out of sight. Each harbored in the center of a football field. Raoul explained that inmates practicing the sport a lot, but at that hours they were still recorded in their cells. Fortunately, as many seemed to me very angry our presence. Clinging to the bars of the first floors, they roared: - Garbage, bastards, you will have your skin! Apparently, the guards did not put any zeal to to silence. A voice stood out: - We know what you make in the D2. Of People like you do not deserve to live! I was getting worried. What had been my friend Raoul, he went on his way recklessly to put these men in such a state of rage? I knew as passions could lead to the far, far away, beyond any reason. Building D2. I followed the reprobate, less desire to learn more than not to be alone, between angry prisoners and guards equally hostile. Still corridors, reinforced doors and unlocking. The stairs. Other stairs. Printing a descent into hell. From below came the laughter fat mixed with many complaints. Do we shut the crazy around here?

Lower, ever lower. Darker, ever more dark. I thought of the method invented by Aesculapius for treatment of madness. There was this more than three thousand years, care facility called Esclapion and which can be still see the ruins in Turkey, this pioneer of psychiatry had set up a maze of dark tunnels. After a long wait during which they had been conditioned Hopefully the supreme pleasure, there’s insane driving. Chants were heard at the entrance and it sank in the dark labyrinth, they became more melodious. When enchanted, stop the insane in the darkest place, is poured over him a barrel full of sticky snakes under which struggled while the poor, surprised at the height of bliss. Either he died on the spot fear, it appeared to be healed. In fact, Asclepius was invented the electric shock. Me, adrift in the basement of Fleury-Merogis, I wondering when I get my barrel of reptiles frozen. It was then that Raoul exhibited a rusty key that opened a big studded door. I found behind a large hangar-like disorder as Capernaum there was Grand There were three men in a tracksuit and a young blonde woman wearing a black blouse that gave me a déjà vu. The men rose and bowed respectfully my friend. -I present Dr. Michael Pinson, I have already mentioned. Thanks for coming, Doctor, they exclaimed in chorus. Miss Ballus, our nurse, continued Raoul. I bowed to the girl

and noticed it the look me up. The place had to be abandoned a lazaretto. On my right, a laboratory bench was littered with bottles smoking, probably liquid nitrogen. In the center of the room, sat an old dentist’s chair, in some places broken, and surrounded by

electrical machinery overcrowded son of twisted and screens turn signals. The set looked like a garage tinkerer’s Sunday. To see the status of devices, controllers and levers rusted, I wonder if Raoul had not made garbage universities. The screens of oscilloscopes were cracked, the electrodes of the cardiographs blackened by age. However, I myself had used enough laboratories to determine the vision and impeccable immaculate in movies always give is generally wrong. In reality, no benches or nickel blouses just out of the laundry instead of the types mittees in sweaters in makeshift premises. A friend working on a subject just as important that the trajectory of thought through the complexities of brain had for shelter in a car park located basement of the hospital where all colliding at Bichat each passage of noisy subway. For lack of credits, he could gain support for its metal brain

wave receiver and had resolved to tinker thing of wood, glued with tape and consolidated with bedbugs. Yes, even in France, the search is over what it was. - My dear Michael, are performed the most daring experiences of our generation, said pompously Raoul, pulling me from my thoughts. Once, you remember, we were talking about death when we meet the FatherLachaise. I mentioned then as an unexplored continent. Now here we are trying to plant flags. It was there. The barrel of snakes fell on me head. Raoul, Raoul Razorbak, my best and oldest friend, had gone mad. Now he was engaged in experiments the death! As I stood bewildered, he explained: - President Lucinda experienced a NDE at the time of his recent attack on Versailles. He therefore charged Benedict Mercassier, the Minister of Research, to launch a program Studies on beyond the coma. It turns out that he had read my articles on “put in hibernation Artificial surges marmots’ in international journals. He contacted me and asked if I could reproduce such experiments on humans. I jumped the occasion. My marmots may have been parties to a another world, but they were unable to tell me what they had seen. The men themselves would know. Yes, my dear, I have the green light for government Research on NDE, using volunteers, also common-law prisoners. These gentlemen are our pilots of the afterlife. These are, um …

He thought for a moment as if searching for inspiration. - They are … Then his face lit up: - … of tha-na-tonauts. Of Greek thanatos, death, and communities, browser. Of Thanatonautes. Nice word indeed. Thanatonautes. - He repeated again. - Thanatonautes: a word of the same family, therefore, that cosmonaut or astronaut. This will become the generic reference. Finally we have coined the term. We use Thanatonautes to make tha-na-to-water. He listened to himself, to his own delight. - Consequently, our hangar is a thanatodrome, since by taking off our … Thanatonautes. A new vocabulary was born in these depths of Fleury-Merogis. Raoul beamed. The blonde girl produced a bottle of sparkling wine and biscuits. Everyone aims to baptism. great whole. I remained dark and pushed the flute that Raoul handed me. “Excuse me.” I do not play spoilsport but I understand, here, we play with life. These gentlemen have mission to conquer the land of the dead, ca - Yes, Michael. Fabulous, no? Raoul raised his hand, pointing to a stained ceiling Tasks: - And what a tremendous challenge for our generation and future generations: the exploration of the afterlife. I freed myself. - Raoul, Madame, gentlemen, I said very calmly, I see myself obliged to leave you. I do not need

crazy suicidal or not they enjoy the support of their government. With that, I salute you. I walked quickly toward the exit when the nurse grabbed my arm. For the first time I heard the sound of his voice. - Wait, we need you. She did not beg, she had worn in a cold almost indifferent. That it should be used in the exercise of his profession to demand cotton wool or scalpel to-end chrome. I met his gaze. She had eyes of a color rare: navy blue with a little beige in the center, an iris like a lost island in an ocean. I immediately plunged like a black abyss. She continued to stare at me, smile without me, without really amenity. As if the mere spoken to me was already the largest concessions. I drew back. I could not wait to escape this place mortal. 40 - FACT POLICE

Demand for basic descriptive information Name: Ballus Name: Amanda Hair: Blond Eyes: Black Size: 69 1 m Distinguishing features: None Comment: A pioneer of the movement Thanatonautes Weakness: Very focused on sex 41 - MYTHOLOGY AMAZON Principle creator of the world once decided to make immortal men. He ordered them: “Go on banks of the river. You will cycle through three canoes. Do not stop certainly not the first two. Wait for the third and embrace the spirit is there. “

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covered with vermin and odors exhaling, the Indians retreated, disgusted. But when there appeared the second, they saw a dead human form and they rushed to comfort him. It was too late when occurred the spirit of creative Principle in the third vessel. It noted with dismay that the men had embraced the death. So they had made their choice. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 42 - gradual shift towards CRIME For two weeks, I had no new my ex-friend Professor Razorbak and its thanatomachin. I admit, I was very disappointed. Raoul, the idol of my youth had managed to make his fantasies and I was revulsion. I thought even to report to the police. If conducting experiments “fatal” in guinea pigs humans, it had to be put out of harm’s way. On behalf of our old friendship, I did not though. I repeated to myself that if he had received, as he claimed, the

Support the Head of State was that he was able to provide adequate safeguards. “We need you,” said the young nurse and the phrase haunted me. What would they need me to kill people? A little cyanide or mortal-rats, and presto! Me, I had taken the Hippocratic Oath and one of the major rules of my job was to save lives, not to shorten. When Raoul reminded me, I wanted to tell him that I wanted never heard of him and his experiences but something held me back, perhaps our old friends, perhaps the words of the nurse who rang in my ears. He visited me in my studio. He seemed to have old and still read his nervousness in his eyes, h probably had not slept for several days. He lit the chain of fine cigarettes eucalyptus say “Bidder” he breathed into a few puffs. - Michael, do not judge me. - I do not judge you. I try to understand you and I will not not understand. - No matter the individual Razorbak. Only the project account. He transcends being. It is a challenge to live up to our generation. I will shock, but all the precursors were deemed objectionable by their contemporaries. Rabelais, the jovial writer Rabelais, was traveling at night in cemeteries dig up the corpses and studied anatomy in order to advance medicine. At the time, such actions

constitute a crime. But thanks to him we understood by following the bloodstream and it has saved lives through transfusions. Michael, if you had lived Rabelais and if so asked you to help him on his expeditions night, what would you say? I weighed the matter. - I said okay, I said finally. Okay, since its … patients were already dead. But your guinea pigs, Raoul, because your famous Thanatonautes are just guinea pigs, they are living them! And do all your manipulations purpose than to pass from life to death, I right? Yes or no? Raoul fiddled with his lighter from his long rough hands. No flame springs. Either he was shaking too much for activate the mechanism, or the stone was worn. - You are not mistaken, he says, is controlling. At first, we had five and two are already Thanatonautes died. They died stupidly, because I am not a doctor and I have not been able to revive him. I know how to place and hibernating marmots back to life, but in terms of human beings, I can not. I do not know how accurate dosing the anesthetics. Also, to stop this mess, I called in to help, you and your mind to both imaginative and resourceful. I handed him the matches. - Anesthetize people, it is certainly my job. The put in a coma, is another matter. He rose and paced the room.

- Think. Innove! I need you, Michael. I missed said one day that I could always count on you. - Eh! Well, that day has come. I need you, Michael, and I will request your help. Of course I wanted to help. Like old time! He and I against the fools. But this time, it there were no fools in the face. It was facing something cold and unknown called death. At the mere mention, people crossed themselves. And sent him ad patres the poor unfortunate who trusted him. By pure curiosity. To solve problems with his father. For satisfy his pride as an explorer of a new world. Raoul, “my friend Raoul,” coldly murdering people that he had interfered in any way … He killed them in the name of science. Everything in me screamed “In crazy! “. He looked at me with a great affection for his brother cadet. - Do you know the Chinese proverb: “He who asks a five minutes of question may seem silly, the one who does not question remains stupid all his life “? I remained on his land. - There is a phrase best known Hebrew one: “Thou shalt not kill thy neighbor.” This is one of the Ten Commandments. It is found written in the Bible. He interrupted his wanderings to grip firmly my wrists. His hands were warm and spider moist. He plunged his eyes into mine to help me convince.

- We should have added an eleventh commandment: “You shall not die in ignorance. “Five, ten, fifty people may have to spend, I admit. But what challenge! If we succeed, we finally know what death and people will stop being afraid of dying. All of these type in a tracksuit that you saw in our laboratory are prisoners, you know, and they are all volunteers. I’ve picked. They all have one thing in common: have been sentenced to life imprisonment and writing the President to demand the reinstatement of the death of death rather than life to rot in their jail. I interviewed fifty of these exceeded. I retained those who seemed sincere in their desire to give up their lives as their fate was reluctant. I told them about Project “Paradise”. They immediately ignited. - Because thou hast deceived, I say, shrugging shoulders. They are not scientists. They know they have 99.999% chances to let their skin in your little experiences. They also fear death, even if they provide the opposite. At the last moment, everyone is afraid! He grabbed me even more firmly. It hurt me but he ignored my efforts to free myself. - I have not deceived. never. They know all the risks. They know that many will die before a day someone manages to come back after an NDE voluntarily provoked. This one is a true pioneer. It will have completed the first step in conquering the world the dead. Basically, it’s like a lottery, many losers for only one winner … He sat down, took the

bottle of whiskey I filed with the glasses on my coffee table and poured himself a swig of alcohol. With my matches, he revived one of its thin cigarettes bidder. - Michael, even you and me, we will die one day, and Then, just before he died, we ask that we have made our lives. So many try something original! Frayons a track. If we fail, other will continue. The Thanatonautes is still in its infancy. Appalled me so much stubbornness. - You’ve set an impossible task, I sighed. - Impossible, this is said to Christopher Columbus when he asserted able to take an egg right. I had a bitter smile. - In this case, it was easy. It was enough to tap the base of the egg. - Yes, but he had discovered the first. Here, I will you submit a problem that seems likely as not that of the egg of Columbus in his time. He went out of his pocket a notebook and a pencil. - Will you draw a circle and the center point of its axis without lifting your pen? To better show me the figure to obtain, he traced luimême a circle with a dot in the middle. - Do the same, but without lifting your pen, should order-it. - It’s impossible and you know it! - No more than one egg to fit right. No more than to conquer the continent of the dead. Looking at the round point, I had a dubious frown.

- You possess really a solution? - Yes, and I’ll prove it right away. This is the moment chosen for my dear brother Conrad occur without warning in my apartment. The door was open and he had obviously not bothered to knock. - Hi, the company! he shouted cheerfully. I did not want to continue this conversation my idiot brother. I tried to put a definitive end to this debate scabrous. - Sorry, Raoul, but the case that you propose does not interest me. As for your problem, unless you cheat, there is no way to solve it. - Men of little faith! he exclaimed, very sure of himself. Launching a business card on the table, he added: - You will find me at this number if you change your mind. On this final arrow, he disappeared without a goodbye. - I think I know this person, noticed my brother. Much to change the subject: - So, Conrad, I said, jovial and happy as if I seen, then, Conrad, what have you been? It would be endless and bored to about in advance. I knew perfectly well what had become of Conrad. It was in the import and export of “all you can cram in containers. ” He had enriched. He was married. It had two children. He had a beautiful sports car Korean. He played tennis. He frequented the salons where one because his partner and he had a mistress. Conrad spread out to enjoy the latest episodes of its successful existence. He had acquired a master paintings

ridiculous price, bought a house on the coast of Brittany and I would be welcome in case I want to help the

retapisser. Her children excelled in school. I display a nice smile, but a couple of good news in this genre and I could not hold my growing desire send him my fist in the face. Nothing is more annoying than the happiness of others. Especially when it is Gauge your own demise … Three, four times a week, my mother called me: - Hey, Michael, when do I get you too something good to tell me? It is time you’re thinking about starting a family. Conrad looks like it is pleased him. But my mother was satisfied, moreover, not to make me to marriage. She acted. I had surprised one day by train write a matrimonial ad for a newspaper: “Great doctor, rich, intelligent, beautiful and spiritual seeking women the same level. “Finally, this was about the spirit of the text. I pricked one of those tantrums! While I m’obnubilais on the enigma of the circle and its axis, Conrad continued to expose all the details of its happiness. It detailed every room in his mansion and Breton explained how he had driven to get the native a quarter of its price. Ah, that smile above! The more he talked the more I

discerned pity in her voice. “Poor Michael, he thought, so many years of study to reach this solitary life, sad and miserable. “ It’s true that at that time my life was not terrible. I was living alone, single, in my little studio Rue Reaumur. Most of all, loneliness weighed me, and I longer found any satisfaction in my work. I arrived morning at the hospital. I examined the records of future operations. I was preparing my products, syringes planted, watched the screens. Luckily I had never experienced an accident as but my anesthetist existence of high priest in white coat was far from meeting all the promises My short stay in hospital of old St. Louis. The nurses were not naked under their work clothes. Some were easy but they certainly s’aban

gave in the hope of marrying a doctor in order to finally stop working. My job does finally brought me that disappointments.

I did not enjoy the esteem of my superiors, or one of my subordinates and my equals ignored me. Th

was just a patch, a cog with a function

tion precise. It brings you a patient, you hypnotize me, I and operates the following. No hello and no goodnight. Conrad chattered, chattered forever, and I thought it there was something other than my current life and his socalled happiness. There were certainly some alternative !

And how to draw a circle and its axis without lifting the pen? Impossible, not necessarily. I was unhappy and Raoul had left, taking with him his madness, passion, adventure, leaving me to my solitude and my dislikes. On the coffee table, card shone like a mirage. A circle and its axis … Impossible! 43 - BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY “What do you think, O disciples, that is the greatest: The waters of the vast ocean or the tears that you have paid

while in the long pilgrimage Erri you, you precipitating new birth into new dead States that you hated, Separated from what you love? Thus, for many ages, you have suffered the punishment, misfortune, pain, and stuffed the ground cemeteries, Long enough to be tired of life, Long enough to wish to escape from it all. “

Discourse of the Buddha Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

44 - This is done It took several weeks of little exasperation, small humiliations and immeasurable boredom so I decided to switch on the side of Raoul and his madness. Persistent phone calls from my mother and visits unannounced to my brother played for many in this for. Add a slight disappointment in love (a colleague work that had refused to leave me eventually stomatitis with a moron), not even a good book for comfort me and you will understand that I was ready for Fleury-Merogis. It was not, however, the accumulation of shabby setbacks that determined my choice, but an old lady all shriveled awaiting a crucial operation. I was there, anesthetic injection in hand, when an assistant came to tell me that the surgeon was not ready. Th knew what that meant. That fool was in the process to engage, just to relax, to part of leg in the air with his nurse in the dressing room. Once they would have done with their antics, I could sleep my patient so that he takes away his

tumor to the bladder, with a two chance that she wakes up. It was so … no! Five thousand years of civilization to get to wait until a surgeon well wishes we are trying to ejaculate five minutes later to save the life of a sick! - Why are you laughing? inquired the old lady. - It’s nothing. Is nervous. - Your laugh reminds me of my husband before his death. I liked to hear him laugh. It was won by a break aneurysm. He was lucky, him. He did not have time of being decrepit. He died … in good health. Her laughter, her, rang like a bell fatal. - With this, I’m finally going to join him. - What are you saying! Dr. Leveau is an ace. The grandmother shook her head. - But is that I intend to stay there. I have more 80

enough to live alone. I want to find my husband. There. In Paradise. - You believe that there is a heaven? Of course! It would be too awful if everything stopped with this life. There must be

an “after” somewhere. I get my Andrew, here or in another life, I do not equal. We loved each other so much and for so long! Don’t talk like that. Dr. Leveau you will treat your little bobo. I exclaimed with even less conviction that I had many times witnessed the incompetence of this practitioner. She looked at me with eyes of loving faithful dog. - And then I would return to live alone with my memories in my apartment too … What horror ! - But life is still … - A damn way, eh? Without love, life is really a valley of tears. - But it’s not just love, there is also … - There are what? Flowers, small birds? What nonsense! Me in my life, there was Andrew and I lived only for him. So this story to my bladder, what chance! - You do not have children? I asked. - They expect Si legacy in stamping. After the operation, Surely they will call you doctor to see immediately if they can order their new car or if they will have to wait a little longer. Our eyes met. In themselves, the words formed on my lips. - Do you know how to draw a circle and its center point without lifting the pen? She giggled. - What a question! We learn all this in kindergarten. On a used tissue, she showed me how to proceed. I rave. It was so obvious that was natural that I do not think ale.

The old woman gave me a wink fun. She was

one to understand how I could attach importance to such trifles. - It was enough to think about it, she said. Having finally understood, I thought that was really Raoul a genius. A genius who can make a circle and its center without lifting the pen could perhaps defy death … Thereupon, two strong orderlies entered Caribbean pushing a cart of instruments followed by the surgeon perky. Five hours later she had passed from life to death. Leveau viciously threw his gloves transparent rubber. He cursed. Blame the obsolete equipment at the patient who had waited too long, the fault of bad luck … - Let’s go have a beer? offered me there. The phone rang. As expected, children were the little old lady. I hung up on them. My hand already searched my pocket in search of the business card Raoul. 45 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS It is unclear how the movement began Thanatonautes.

According to some historians, originally there was a group friends who want to try a new experience. According to other sources, the first that had Thanatonautes purely economic motivations. They wanted to get rich quickly with a new mode. History textbook, second year elementary course. 46 - Let’s go I was aware that Raoul offered me to become the accomplice to his crimes in the future. Crimes in the name of the science or I did not know what dreams of conquest the afterlife. The idea of ​sending people to death by curiosity always shocked me as much but at the same time, while I longed for a little spice in my life.

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To my mind, I still use three parts two francs. I improved the method of Raoul now using not one, but three coins. I had and a more nuanced view. Cell-cell battery meant: absolutely yes. Cell-cell-face: rather yes. Face-face-stack: rather not. Face-face-face: absolutely not.

The pieces flew to go ask the sky. Then they landed one after the other. Cell-cell-face: rather yes. I picked up my phone. That evening, a Raoul Enchanted spoke at length of the project. In my studio, his hands flew over his head like two pigeons happy. He was intoxicated with words. - We will be the first! We will conquer this “Wonderful continent.” Wonderful continent against the Hippocratic oath. Th tried one final last stand. Later, when occurred the worse, and I could always convince me that Raoul had forced the hand. He used new arguments: - Galileo also was called a fool. After Columbus, Galileo! Certainly, poor Galileo has served as an alibi for the number of delusional fantasies. Well practice, the scope of Galilee … - Okay, Galileo was called a fool and he was perfectly of sound mind. But for Galileo, unfairly accused, how many real insane? - The death … began there. - Death, I see daily in the hospital. The burst type and they do not seem to Thanatonautes. After a few hours, they begin to stink,

members take a rigor mortis. Death, it stinks. It’s a lot of meat that is necrosis. - The body rots the soul off, spoke philosophically my friend. - You know I had a coma and I did not off. He seemed sorry. - Poor Michael, you’ve never had a chance. I should remind Raoul I knew very well why he was interested in death. Always his father and suicide. He had more need of a good psychoanalysis as its “Paradise”. But cell-cell-face, I already chosen. - Well, let’s get to the point. You already told me I missed the two first flights due to bad mix anesthetic substances. But what did you used to cause coma? His face lit up with a big smile. He took me in her arms as before. He laughed. He knew he had won. 47 - CHINESE PHILOSOPHY “Do you want to learn to live well? Learn first die. ” Confucius Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 48 - Amandine is so pretty The eyelids of the pretty nurse lowered its blue eyes but his silence seemed to me this time a deaf congratulations.

I seemed to know her as long she looked like Grace Kelly in the Hitchcock movie, Rear Window. In much more beautiful, of course. In the hangar Fleury-Merogis, everyone seemed glad to see me. The presence of a physician, anesthesiologist moreover, had to reassure both the crew and the can

didates suicide. Raoul made the introductions. The nurse responded to name of Amandine, future Thanatonautes were key

ment, Marcellin and Hugh. - Initially, we had five Thanatonautes me reminded our captain. Two have died, victims of 84

medication error. One does not become anesthesiologist. So welcome among us! The three prisoners in tracksuits greeted me when I mark with suspicion. Raoul took me to the laboratory bench and vial. - You will learn along with us. All Overall, we enter uncharted territory. We have no predecessors. We are like those first men who once rested their feet in America or Australia. To us to discover our “New Australia “And to plant our flag! Professor Razorbak had regained all its seriousness. In his eyes, passion for work well done was replaced madness. - Let’s show Dr. Pinson way we conduct a coma, he said. Without hesitation, Marcellin, the smallest of the volunteers moved the antiquated dentist’s chair. The nurse busied him to place electrodes on the chest and forehead, more all kinds of heat detectors, humidity, speed the pulse. Son all these were connected to monitors or scrolling green lines. I examined the scene. - Remove me all this stuff! It was there. I was involved in their fantasies. I studied the contents of the bench, shelves above, decipher labels, reflecting on the best mix can cause a coma. Saline to dilate the veins of thiopental to anesthetize and potassium chloride to slow cardiac movements … Some U.S. states once the preferred method cyanide or

the electric chair to eliminate their sentenced to death. For my part, I was hoping that thinner more potassium chloride, the heartbeat without ceasing to decrease, allowing and slowly poured into a coma, possibly controllable by the brain. And me …

With the help of Raoul and the three other candidates Thanatonautes, I built a device clever enough: a small plastic stem eight inches high at which I suspended the saline in his great bottle and thiopental in a smaller and finally chloride potassium. I tied an electrical system timer pipes with taps so that each substance to be delivered at the time considered by me as the most suitable. Thiopental is powered twenty-five seconds after injection of saline and potassium chloride, three minutes later. All this would be administered through a single pipe, terminal precedent, leading to a single hollow needle. I called boost the whole system chemical. Ministry Thanatonautes himself by pressing a trigger electrical switch pear shaped which operates the timer. Without realizing it, I had to invent first “death machine” to win official the land of the dead. I believe it is now the Smithsonian Institute in Washington.

My address and my insurance impressed the audience. Raoul was right. Every technical problem, its technical solution. I was mostly happy with my switch. I would not have a button to operate. So no direct responsibility. I do not want to be an executioner. The individual decides himself to the moment of his departure and, if unsuccessful, it would be a suicide again. I asked Amanda to drive the needle into the vein Marcellin arm. With a gesture sure she pinched inside Thanatonautes the elbow, pulled the big needle or beading was a tiny drop of blood. Man not even winced. I put the bulb while the electric switch in the Marcellin’s sweaty hand and told him: - When you press this button, it will trigger the electric pump. For a moment I almost said “it will trigger your death,” Marcellin displays a knowing look, as if I spoke mechanics for a car engine. Everything is fine. asked Raoul. - At the hair. I totally trust the doctor. I tried not to let me win this frenzy Raoul, which made so nervous. What comes next? he asked. I stared at the child clinging to naive any cost to the existence of Santa Claus, the sandman and the possibility of reaching the top three in

order. I m’empêtrai. - Well, uh … - Do not worry, Doc. After, I improvised. He gave me a wink. Nice guy. He wanted to avoid me even guilt. It knew he was going to meet insurmountable obstacles and wanted to relieve me of all the seeds that could occur. For a moment I wanted to tell him “go away quickly, while there is still time. ” But Raoul, seeing my embarrassment, cut with a … - Bravo! Bravo, Marcellin, well said! Everyone applauds, including me. We applauded what? I do not know … Maybe my device “Boost to the afterlife,” perhaps the courage to Marcellin, perhaps the beauty that had nothing to Amandine to do here. True, a doll like that should be mannequin. “Accomplice to murder” is not really a profession of the future. - We will now proceed to launch a … soul, Raoul declaimed. And he put out his cigarette. Marcellin was smiling like a mountain climber Sunday tackling Everest with new dress shoes. He made a little hello that had nothing to do with the salvation of a convicted. All, we replied with a smile and encouraging it.

- Go, bon voyage! Amandine our tourists covered with a blanket cooling while I make the final adjustments computers. Loan Loan Amanda set off the video camera filming the scene. Marcellin crossed himself. Closing his eyes, he undertook the Slow count: - Six … five … four … three … two … a … Off! Then he pressed hard switch. 49 - THE MAYAN MYTHOLOGY Among the Maya, death signified the start to Hell hell named Mitnal. There the demons tortured soul by cold, hunger, thirst and misery. The Maya had established nine lords of the night, probably corresponding to the nine stays underground Aztecs. The soul of the dead had to cross five rivers of blood, dust and thorns. Reached a crossroads, she faced Then the test houses: the house of amber, house of knives, home of the cold, the house of jaguars and the house of vampires. Extract from the thesis coat Death Unknown by Francis Razorbak. 50 - MARCELLIN human guinea pigs, AMANDINE DIVINE WOMAN

All eyes fixed intently screens -Monitoring Marcellin’s heart beat may be weakly but it was still beating. His pulse was staying with well below that of a person diving into a sleep in-depth His temperature had fallen by nearly four degrees. - He has been gone for how long? asked a detained. Amanda looked at her watch. I knew myself, there was more than half an hour that Marcellin had made great jumping. For more than twenty minutes, he was in a deep coma. His face was that of a sleeping man. - I hope he succeeds, provided it succeeds! psalmo88

dierent Hugh and Clement, the other two Thanatonautes future. I wanted to feel better Marcellin realize the state of his body but kept me Raoul: - Do not touch him again. Do not wake up too before. - But how will we know if it was successful? - If he opens his eyes, he will have succeeded, soberly told the Head Project “Paradise”. Every ten seconds, the ping of the electrocardiogram sounded like the sonar of a submarine atomic Road to unfathomable depths. The body of

Marcellin was still sprawled on the dentist’s chair. Corn which could well be his soul? 51 - AND A For over an hour, I struggled to carry a cardiac massage. As soon as the ping of the electrocardiogram had stopped, it had been the general panic. Amanda rubbed her arms and legs Marcellin, while Raoul himself donned an oxygen mask. Total we had “one, two, three,” and I pressed the cage chest, both hands on the area of ​the heart. Then Raoul air breathed into the nostrils to revive the pump respirator. The application of electroshock had no other result that make him at once open the eyes and mouth. Empty eyes and a mouth silent. By dint of our fencing on the lifeless body of Marcellin we were swimming. I repressed in my mind the question “What do I doing here? “. But the more I watched it I had to call corpse interrogation became more obsessive. “What am I doing here?” Yes, what was I doing here? I wanted to be somewhere else, doing something else. Have never participated in this operation.

It was too late to bring to life Marcellin. He was

too late and we all knew, but we refused to admit it. Especially me. In my case, it was my first “murder” and I can swear that you moves the guts to hear a guy tell you alive see you! “And to contemplate a little later as stiff as a dry tree! Raoul disengaged. - This has gone too far, he muttered angrily. There is gone too far and he has been able to come back. Amandine had exhausted rub Marcellin. Of drops of sweat on his forehead smooth, flowing all Throughout his cheeks dotted with freckles, slipped Finally, in her blouse too modest. The moment was dramatic and yet I knew, perhaps, the moment the most erotic of my life. What is the vision that beautiful young woman struggling against death, armed with his only soft hands! Always close to Eros Thanatos! Th then realized where I had this impression of known for a long time. It was not like just Grace Kelly, but also the nurse at my present clock, after the car accident of my childhood. Same appearance of an angel, even skin texture, even scent of apricot. A guy had just died, and I ogled a nurse. I sickens me.

- What shall we do with the body? I cried. Raoul did not answer right away. He lingered first Marcellin to contemplate an improbable hope. Then with detachment, he explained: - President we cover. Each prison is experiencing a suicide rate of 4%. Marcellin will be part of the lot, that’s all. - It’s criminal insanity! I shouted. What/how? I allowed myself to embark on this adventure disaster? Thou hast deceived me, Raoul, you have deceived me, you have betrayed our friendship to melt in your dementia. You disgust me every one of you. A guy is dead because of your unconsciousness. You have deceived me and you did wrong. Raoul stood up, very dignified, and suddenly he grabbed me by the neck. His eyes flashed fire, I postillion face. - No, I did not deceive you. But the stakes are so huge it is mandatory that we knew before the failure success. Rome was not built in a day. We are more children, Michael. This is not a game We have to pay a high price. Everything has a price, otherwise it would be too easy. If it were easy, others are already come before us. This is because it is hard as we have the merit of success. I protested feebly. - If we succeed one day. And it seems more increasingly unlikely. Raoul released me. He considered Marcellin whose mouth was still wide open. The gaping was unbearable to see, so he placed a screw clamp between

Marcellin jaw, squeezed and screwed to force them to closer to closure, and then being able to close accusing the mouth, he turned to the other. - Maybe you also think like Michael. If you want to give up, there is still time. Raoul faced each waiting for a response. We looked at the corpse of Marcellin and it impressed us because, due to the clamp jaw, his mouth like Now a bird’s beak, lost in her cheeks Hollow. - I give up! exclaimed Clement. I thought with the doctor, everything would be safer but he too is not strong enough to fight against death. If you need to kill ten thousand poor guys before they succeed, I prefer not not find me among them. No need to remember our AGREEMENT I promise never to speak to anyone your project “Paradise”. I am too afraid. - And you, Hugh? Raoul asked an equal voice. - I remain, proudly launched the volunteer. - You want to be our next Thanatonautes? - “Yes. I’d rather die than go back to my which Chin, he pointed to the body of Marcellin. - At least he is no longer locked in a cell pathetic! - Very well, ‘said Raoul. And you, Amanda? - I remain, she announced without showing the slightest emotion. I could not believe my ears. - But you are all crazy, I swear! Clement Reasons It may kill ten thousand people before getting any results. In any case,

count on me. I took off my white coat and threw it on the bench, thus breaking a few bottles left, who immediately exhale the smell of ether. Then I left, slamming the door hard. 52 - ADMINISTRATIVE NOTE From: Benoît Mercassier To: President Lucinda

In accordance with your instructions, the experiments started. The research team consists of Professor Raoul Razorbak, a biologist specializing in the development hibernating rodents, and Dr. Michael Pinson, anesthetist, nurse-assisted Amandine Ballus. Five prisoners were brought guinea pigs volunteers. The project: “Paradise” is launched. 53 - STATE OF SOUL I returned to my apartment quite shaken. great whole. home, I screamed as the coyotes howl in the night full moon, but failed so far to deliver me from the stress caused by the death of Marcellin. What should be done? Continue was wrong, give the next Thanatonautes was poorly find So I yelled. Neighbors clapped with brushes against my walls. They obtained the desired result. I tus but calmed myself

not to say. I was torn. I was unable to waive review Amandine. I did not want to send more people in a coma. Raoul’s ideas fascinated me. I refused

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to have other bodies on his conscience. I did live in eternal solitude. Return to the routine my work in the hospital discouraged me. Raoul was right least one point: the project may have been terrible, but How great adventure! He was mad and obsessed with the suicide of his father. Corn Amanda, what he could push a creature lovely to embark in this mess? Perhaps étaitelle also believes to be a pioneer of a world New Raoul was so slick. I swallowed glass of white port on a small glass of port white to be drunk. I tried to sleep in reading a novel. Once again, I was alone in my bed and, to boot, with a death on

his conscience. My sheets were frozen as a cooling blanket.

Taking my little cream the next morning to the pub the corner, I thought that maybe it was an excess of chloride potassium which caused the death of Marcellin. The product was highly toxic, it was necessary to reduce dose. Unless this is a problem of anesthetic. Normally, we use three kinds of anesthetic. Narcotics, morphine and muscle relaxants. I preferred narcotics habit. But for a “good death, “it was better a curare. Hum. No. I would continue with a narcotic. Gradually, I was no longer obsessed by problems . My reflexes are triggered professionals After sending the image, the data will be stored automatically. My chemistry class came back to me memory. Hum. Maybe I should have used propofol, I thought. This is a new drug with a better alarm clock. Normally the alarm is done in five minutes and is very Bright. No, surely Propofol interact poorly with the chloride. So as to keep the thiopental. But what quantity? Usually, it takes five milligrams per kilo. Five milligrams lowest ten milligram dose. I have given 850 milligrams

Marcellin who weighed 85 pounds. It should perhaps be lowered the dose … At 14 hours, I called Raoul. At 16 hours, we were all together again in our thanatodrome Fleury-Mérogis. As usual, we had inmates copiously insulted in the process. To them, no need to make them believe that Marcellin had voluntarily committed suicide. The Director We crossed the penitentiary not greet us, avoiding even look at us. However, Hughes welcomed us with kindness. - Do not worry, Doctor, we’ll do it! It was not for me that I was concerned, it was more For him . I lower my doses. 600 milligrams for Hughes which weighed 80 kilos. This should be enough. Raoul wrote down any of my manipulations. Th suppose he wanted to be able to reproduce them in case I decide for good to abandon. Amanda handed her a glass of cool water to Hugh. - The glass of the condemned? he quipped. - No, she replied seriously. The Thanatonautes took place in the dentist’s chair. We proceeded with the formalities: setting up the sensors taken pulse, temperature measurement, cover cooling.

Loan Loan - Ready! adds Amandine by connecting the camera of video Hugh muttered a prayer. Then he made a great sign cross and pronounced at high speed as to get rid of :

- Six, four, five, three, two, one, liftoff! He winced as if he swallowed a bitter pill and pressed the switch. 54 - NIPPON MYTHOLOGY The Japanese Yomi called the land of the dead. We said that the god Izanagi went one day to the land of Yomi to search Izanami, his sister, who was also his wife. When he recovered, he begged her to return to the world of alive. “Oh, my husband, why are you so late? said the goddess. I tasted the dish of baked gods of Yomi and I belong to them now. However, I will try to convince them to release me. Pray for that time and especially do not look at me. “ But Izanagi wished to see his sister-wife. Violation his order, he took his comb, used it as a tool to break a tooth and the tooth turned into a torch it inflamed. He was then able to discern Izanami. He discovered a corpse eaten by worms, including the eight deities of the Thunder had taken possession. Frightened, he ran away screaming accidentally falling into a place of horror and decay. Furious

that he evicted without the wait, Izanami is said humiliated. She sent the hideous harpies of Yomi in pursuit of Izanagi, but he managed to escape. Izanami plunged itself in pursuit. The Izanagi trapped in a cave. When the two deities had to pronounce the sentence of divorce, Izanami said: “Every day I strangle one thousand people in your country make you pay for your package. And I, I will be born every day 1500 people, “replied Izanagi without disconcerting.

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 55 - and ten Hughes never returned. He stood midway between the continent of the dead and the living. He did not die, emerged from the coma but prostrate, staring, the encephalogram almost flat and very spaced electrocardiogram. He had become a vegetable. His heart and brain functioning, yes, but he was unable to move or speak.

I did admit to the escort service dying in my hospital. He fitted out a room special. Several years later, Hughes was

transported with all possible precautions at the Smithsonian Institute Washington Museum section of death. Everyone could See what happens to those who remained trapped between two worlds. Looking back at the second attempt at takeoff I think it could very well succeed. The experience was In any case, valuable as it allowed me to determine the amount of thiopental and potassium chloride in a reasonable range. Anyway, we had exhausted our five guinea pigs. Three dead, one resigned, one vegetable. Nice review! Raoul immediately began lobbying the Minister Mercassier to provide us with a new topic. Ministry Minister obtained a second ahead of President Lucinda. Began a ruthless selection. We wanted prisoners for life, desperate to escape the prison. They could feel the desires of suicide, but not too much. We had men sane or drugged or alcoholics. Above all, it was essential they are in good Health to support the potassium chloride. We do died although in good health, it was obvious. By the merest chance, most Martinez, the head of the gang of thugs who attack us at once out of high school, came to us. We do recognize him. I thought the sentence of Lao Tzu: “If anyone offended thee, do not seek to take revenge. Sit

on the banks of the river and Soon you will see his body move. “ Martinez had led to jail after a dark history of bank robbery. As it became almost obese, it does not run away as fast as his accomplices. He was good at boxing but nobody in the race. The police officer who caught up with him as he gasped, breathless, had to be better than him in the gym. Alas, two people were killed on the occasion of this sad news item. The jurors recognized no mitigating circumstances. Life for Martinez. He passed the tests brilliantly selection thanato

nauts. He appeared very much interested to participate in a experience that could bring him fame. He believed in his lucky star that would allow him to survive to our manipulations, so dangerous they are. - You know, gentlemen of the doctors, he yelled, Martinez, there is nothing that scares him. I remembered that, indeed, when he threw on us with his associates to five against two, it did not seem fear my little fists. Raoul said felt no grudge against Martinez and he would

make a good guinea pig. For my part, I preferred scratch from the list of our candidates. I remembered enough of his beatings for not being afraid of getting lost with him in my sensitive assays. Martinez, I reserved a dog of my dog. Unable to keep the mind cold I preferred to exclude it. The gangster flunked bellowed that we agree that pistons, which denied him any chance to get rich and famous. We insulted. Fortunately though it we had not recognized! In his fury, he was able to file complaints favoritism and arbitrary treatment. Martinez therefore not included among our next five guinea pigs. Or rather, I should say, our next five died. The death had ceased to move me. My sensitivity was blunt. I felt like ship rockets in space. If they exploded on takeoff, to us to make the necessary adjustments for the firing following a success. Third series of guinea pigs. Among them, one named Marc. Sensors, taking pulse, temperature measurement, cover refrigerant. Raoul launched: Loan We answered in chorus. Loan - Ready! Provided that the man does not die of fear. He was sweating and shivering at a time. He kept making sign of the cross.

- Six … five … four … three … two … one and a half … a and quart … a … of … off? Well, took off … ge! balbutiat-it, not really convinced. And it took two times to press the switch which his finger sweat had slipped. 56 - Mesopotamian mythology In Mesopotamian mythology, the land of the dead called the “land of no return.” Song: Those who enter will receive more light. Dust and earth are their only food. They are dressed in the manner of birds. Dust covers everything, doors and locks.

One day, the lovely Ishtar, goddess of love, went to Underworld. Queen Ereshkigal ordered the guard to treat according to ancient usages. Each time the goddess cross one of the seven gates of hell, it would turn stripped first of his robe and his crown, then her earrings, her necklaces, her breastplate, from his belt, his bracelets, his rings ankle and finally his underwear. Ishtar came to pass naked before Ereshkigal who inflicted sixty torture on different parts of his body. Yet it was the humans who suffered the consequences This captivity because without Ishtar, the earth had lost its fertility. Song:

Since that Ishtar descended into the land of no return The bull does not fruitful over the cow, man mates more with women. The men despatched a eunuch to Ereshkigal. When asked for permission to drink in addition to contains the water of life, she curses him. Song:

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You dwell on the doorsteps And drunkards and thirst strike your cheek. It seems that the eunuch was sent to Hell to be exchanged against Ishtar. In this place, sterility could be exchanged against fertility. In fact, Some time later, Ereshkigal ordered Ishtar is sprayed with water of life, and then escorted to the gates of Hell. As and when it crosses the seven gates in the sense Conversely, all his possessions were returned. Thus, on Earth, things returned to normal. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 57 - ERROR MANIP Frictions. Warming. Electric shock. Mark opened his eyes and we écarquillâmes ours. Is it that we finally managed? Our hero we drew from our stupor, rising to a sudden, waving, breaking all around him and pushing screams. - I saw them! Here they are…. They are everywhere. Not possible to escape them, they are everywhere! - Who? But

who then? asked Raoul’s tone firmer. - The devils! There are devils everywhere and they want me grow in a large pot and put me to cook. I not want to die. I never want to see them again. They are too horrible. He stared at me from his eyes opaque and shouted: - You also are a devil. The devils are everywhere. He gave me a bottle in his face. He continued Amandine with syringes and him stuck one in the buttocks. It I cut on the forehead of a surgeon’s knife when I tried to interject. I still has the scar. This behavior began a little enthusiasm. After the vegetable, a lunatic! Even Raoul was

impressed by the violence of Mark. At the same time, we we asked. And if we succeed? If Marc Us brought a real testimony to the hereafter? It was not his fault that he only reflected the horror. We do not destroyed them not least the video and Marc was locked in an insane asylum. Yet it was our first guinea pig to experiment a NDE. He did may not be brought back fond memories of corridor lighting but it was nevertheless returned the body, otherwise the mind free. That night, I was driving Amanda to her in my car The nurse kept crossing and uncrossing his nice legs. Injury to his

buttocks was benign. Me? I needed twenty-five stitches. The black dress Amandine - she was always dressed in Black - emitted screeching very sensual. She had not wanted to take the RER after session eventful and, moreover, neither she nor I wanted after that to spend the evening alone. While driving, I murmured: - Maybe we should stop there? Amanda and her perpetual silence. I always said, “She must think of the wonderful things so it is beautiful and so she said nothing. “But now I was tired of his silence. It was not an object decorative. She had seen like me the people who died or went crazy for an experience of more random. I insisted: - So many unnecessary deaths! And for which poor results … What do you think of t I’ve never heard speak any sentence of more than three words since we know. We work together. We need to talk. We need your help to stop Raoul. This case has gone on long enough. Without you, I do not convince again. She finally consented to look at me. She looked at me long, intensely. His mouth opened. It was finally Speak? On the contrary. - What, on the contrary? - Instead, we have

an obligation to continue. Exactly for all these deaths were not useless. Our Thanatonautes all knew what they risked. They all knew that their death would give the following somewhat more likely to succeed. - It’s like a poker game where they would build ever to recover its losses! I exclaimed. Thus it runs to ruin. Fifteen victims! No research project, a shooting, yes! - We are pioneers, replied she, icy. - I know a good proverb about it: “It is easy to recognize the true pioneer. He who lies in the middle the plains of the Wild West with an arrow in his back. ” She got angry even more: - You believe that all these dead to me not undermine me, find All Thanatonautes were wonderful people, with so much courage … Her voice broke. But it was her first time fielded two sentences in a row. Much benefit from the windfall. I cause: - It was not courage, it was a behavior suicidal. - Suicidal behavior! And Columbus, it was not completely suicidal to go so far in a nutshell? And Yuri Gagarin, with its box sheet in his rocket, it was not suicide? Without the suicide, the world would not advance … Ah! Galileo, Columbus, and now Gagarin, the previous do they not fail to justify the slaughter! Amandine was now launched. She persisted to me Vou

voyer. - I think you do not understand, Dr. Pinson. Can not find it strange that is so easily volunteers? The detainees are all aware of our setbacks, so why do they come? Let me tell you. me because, in our thanatodrome, this waste of society have suddenly felt to become a hero! - If so, why the other we spit they over each time? - Paradox. They resent the death of their friends, and yet they too are ready to die. And one day, one of them will succeed, I’m sure. While Amanda fascinated me. His coldness, his silence, mystery and now his fervor … The blonde in black was like a burning presence in my car is so distressing to complete my senses. “Maybe! that by attending the death, my life instincts had exacerbated! For once I was alone with Amandine, Amandine and a moving and emotional. I tried everything for the whole. The opportunity was unique. My hand left the shifter and took advantage of a bump and landed on his the knee. Her skin was silky and smooth off a incredible. She pushed my palm as an object unhealthy. - Sorry, Michael, but really you’re not my kind of man. And what was his type of man?

58 - still nothing On Thursday, August 25, the Minister of Research made us incognito visit our thanatodrome Fleury-Merogis. Benedict Mercassier was to attend in person at a “takeoff “. He had the worried face of a man who asks if he is not committing the folly of century. In this case, was there still time to save furniture before an inevitable interpellation in the House? He shook my hand, congratulated me with no real conviction and especially encouraged Thanatonautes five of the new Team He asked quietly Raoul on the number of our failures and jumped when it slipped to the number the ear. He then returned to me and took me away in a corner of the room: - Maybe you are too toxic boosters? No! I also thought it first. But the problem is not there. - Where is he? - Well, after so many experiences, I now 102.

the impression that once in a coma, they are faced, how to say in front of a … choice. Leave or return. And they

prefer all go away. Mercassier frowned. - In this case, you can not recover them by force, with more powerful electric shocks by For instance: You know, they have not taken gloves President Lucinda back down here. They told him bluntly planted electrodes in the heart! I’m thinking. We discussed among scientists who include a mutual esteem. I weighed my words. - It’s not that simple. Should be able to determine exactly when they are “pretty party” but not yet “Too many parties.” It is also a timing issue. These types have been lucky with Lucinda, they had to bring it back just the second minute when everything was still possible. Surely a chance. The minister sought to show in an intelligent area where, in fact, he did not know much. - Try anyway to increase the voltage, reducing the amount of narcotic, to lower the dose of chloride potassium. To wake up earlier, maybe. We had already tried everything, but I nodded as if he had finally revealed to me the recipe. Th But do not want to deceive, so I added: - Should they choose to return voluntarily when they still can. I’ve been thinking, you know. We know nothing of what keeps them going on the way to death. What they are offered, up there? If we knew the carrot, we can propose

more attractive! - Your Thanatonautes remind me of those sailors sixteenth century who preferred to stay on the paradise islands Pacific, with beautiful women and fruits fragrant, rather than returning to their painfully Europe home! It was true that the situation had many points common with the Mutiny on the Bounty, for example. Our Thanatonautes were ex-convicts as sailors

of the time and just as eager as they to escape to the new lands. - How to remember the dead? Mercassier questioned. What causes people to fight, the sick wish their healing? The taste of happiness, I sighed. - Yes, but what makes you happy? What/how? influence your people when they are faced with the dilemma “Leave or return”? The motivations are so different! I had already seen at the hospital, that the human will was speaking to a large extent in cases of healing spontaneous. Some simply refused to die and they managed to stay alive. In a study of community Chinese in Los Angeles, I read that the rate of mortality dropped to almost zero the day of festival New Year and dying elders is programmed to stay alive and still enjoy that day. The Day After! the number of dead was again normal. The capacity of human thought are endless. MySelf, I had a little fun to develop opportunities my brain opens the

program to the eyes eight hours, without using an alarm clock. It worked at all the blows. I also knew that I had stored quantities information in the meanders of my brain and I Simply open the drawers in my head for disposal. There would certainly exciting research to perform on its own system of self-programming nervous. So why not come back from coma due to its single will? The Thanatonautes the day, at least, does not opt ​for Back Frightened by his convulsive movements when of his death, his four companions renounced in unison. We decided to do now count the effects of emulation group. Now our pioneers take off one by one and in our presence. But perhaps it was too late. Even Fleury-Mérogis, it became increasingly difficult to recruit of volunteers. 59 - TIBETAN MYTHOLOGY According to the Tibetans, the Buddhist pantheon is populated nine groups of demons: 1. The God-sbyin: Guardians of the temples. At the origin of major epidemics. 2. The bDud: Demons of the highest levels. They can take the form of fish, birds, grass or stones. Their leader is housed in a castle high nine black storeys. 3. The Srin-po: Ogres giants. 4. The Klu: Gods of the underworld in the form of a serpent. 5. The btsan: Living

Gods in heaven, forests, mountains and glaciers. 6. The Lha: white celestial deities. Benevolent and supposed to reside on the shoulders of everyone 7. The DMU: Poor devils. 8. The Dré: Messengers of death, often held responsible for deadly diseases. Everything that happens to bad men is caused by ERD. 9. The Gan-Dre Group malevolent deities. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 60 - FELIX KERBOZ Strictly speaking, Felix was not someone Kerboz we would like to have as a neighbor. But he could be given the benefit of some extenuating circumstances. First, it was not a wanted child. When the consumer magazine We test for You had shown that brand of condoms used his father was only 96% reliable, Felix could not have doubt that would be part of the 4% failure. His father not more. The fact that he had left thirty-five years purchase cigarettes shows how this betrayal had disconcerted.

From the outset, Suzette, the mother sought to have an abortion but, just fetuses, Felix already clung to life as a moth on the hairs of a dog. Repeated efforts of

makers of angels had no other result than only damage the face of the unborn baby. Twice thereafter, his mother tried to drown him. Under Rinse the pretense of shampooing, she had pressed head under the water in the bathtub. She had miscalculated his stroke and had gone up too soon. Later, she gave in the river the toddler who was barely on his feet. Corn Felix already had the gift to get out of the worst situations. He narrowly avoided the propeller of the barge, which had caused a large scar on the cheek, and he managed to regain the bank with the help of the umbrella that her mother handed her awkwardly in the lid on his head. His youth, Felix wondered why Kerboz Everyone wanted him so much. Because he was ugly? Because that he envied his mother beautiful? He clenched his teeth a long time but when Suzette died he burst out. He found he had lost the only person he love on this planet. Now it was hate. It first manifested by the attack of the tires in good standing of an innocent car that bacon with a knife. Not enough to appease! He teams up with a gang of thugs and proceeded to extort money from the rich kids who had mothers alive, lucky! He killed three who were reluctant to pay and thus became the executor of the dirty work of his

band. But when, about six years, his friends began to show some interest in sex Conversely, Felix refused to participate in the rape. What excited him, it was to land in the bourgeois and their plant the Superintendent in the ribs. It was his way of avenging his beloved mother who had always worked so hard to raise him. When, at twenty-five years, he appeared before a court Assize, he failed to convince the jury of fun unspeakable it is to drive a good knife long and sharp in the soft underbelly of his neighbor. His passion for blows to the pretty knife was not communicable. According to the indictment of the attorney general, was sentenced to two hundred eighty-four years in prison crime, reduced to two hundred and fifty-six years in for good conduct. Felix’s lawyer explained that this amounted to a life sentence, “unless the Advances in medicine will prolong the life human beyond the current average of four-vingtdix yrs Working all day to make hair brushes Wild boar is not enough for happiness of the prisoner. He had sworn legally released from prison. Already good behavior earned him the report two hundred and fifty-six. How to further accelerate the process? The institutional head was no lack of ideas. Of Nowadays, everything was for sale. That was the modern society. Releasing his years, had only Kerboz the “buy”.

- But with what money? worried about the poor. - Who is talking about money here? Have a good healthy body, for a big guy like you, it’s already a great Equity Then began a terrible accounting. To win the years, Felix was testing of pharmaceuticals not yet approved, which was not known the side effects. Since, under pressure from animal lovers, experiences the animals had been banned, industrial had no recourse other than prisoners. He received three years and remission for testing of a cardiac defibrillator, which gave him arrhythmias and let insomniac. Fluoride toothpastes him too deteriorated the liver (five years of remission). Soaps too much detergent it took away fragments of skin joints (three years of remission). An overactive aspirin caused an ulcer (two years reduction of sentence). A special lotion corrosive to the left half bald (four-year reduction trouble). Felix Kerboz kept morale and even surprised sometimes that some products were actually perfectly harmless! When mutinies, he made the punch alongside guards (two years of remission). He denounced the drug dealers who were operating inside the prison (Three years of remission at the cost of the aggressiveness of Many inmates in need). - What you got to always beans like that, Felix?

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- Not bother me. I’m not fayot or barge, guys. I ambitions, me. I want to get out of here head held high. We were wrong! Continue with all those crap chemicals and you come out feet first. Every Saturday, he gave his blood (one week remission quarter-liter). On Thursday, he smoked ten packs of unfiltered cigarettes for the purposes of a study Ministry of Health on the dangers of smoking (one day remission inhaled per pack). Monday and Tuesday, he underwent tests of sensory deprivation. It spent all day in a white room soundproof, without moving or eating. At night, men in blouses white checked how the test was concussed.

Misery after misery, Felix was able to reduce its hardly a period of one hundred forty-eight years. He had no Valid only one kidney. An anti-inflammatory effects particularly evil had made him deaf in one ear. It eyes blinked constantly due to contact lenses so flexible and so adhesive that once they had registered proved impossible to remove. Still, he was convinced one day he would come out. When the director told him about the project “Paradise” and eighty years of remission that led it

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mation. We never offered him so beautiful gift. Of course, a rumor ran that the prison Hundreds of detainees have left their skin in the room in the cellars where they attended the experiment. Felix did cure. After all he had swallowed without dying, he had confidence in his star. The others had failed to Luckily, that’s all! After all, there are no free lunches and eighty years of remission, it was you claim a solid effort. He settled voluntarily in the chair. He held out his chest to the electrodes. He pressed against him cover cooling. Loan - Ben, I’m at your orders, said Kerboz. Loan - Ready! No prayer. No sign of the cross. No fingers crossed. Felix merely stalling though he kept chewing still in his right cheek. Anyway, he had nothing included in all scientific and roll he did not care completely, only focused on the

stupendous premium that would follow. Eighty-year reduction worth it! As we had ordered, he counted slowly. - Six … five … four … three … two … a … off. Then he pressed the switch innocently. 61 - CHIPPEWA INDIAN MYTHOLOGY Chippewa Indians, who live in Wisconsin while near Lake Superior, think life after death continue exactly as before, without end and without any progress in one direction or another. It is always the same film that is repeated, with no goal, no morality, no sense. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 62 - FACT POLICE

Message to the services concerned Raoul Razorbak helped a team of scientists is currently engaged experiments on death. Over a hundred people have already been victims. Is it necessary to react quickly?

Response services affected No. Not yet. - NEW ATTEMPT Raoul, Amanda and I had made the usual array recovery post-comatose. We did not believe anymore. Only Raoul stared closely at the body become an object

by repeating a prayer: “Wake up, please, Wake up! ” We started réanimatoires manipulation, scanning vaguely electrocardiogram and electroencephalogram F.

- Wake up, wake up! Raoul chanted. Mechanically, I performed all the gestures of use. It was a loud cry to get out of my torpor. - He moved a finger! Raoul yelled. Step back, Stand back everyone! He moved! I did not want any illusions, but I drew back. Suddenly, F electrocardiogram whined. A small table shy at first. Then a ping, ping. Finally a ping, ping, ping resolved. Rebougea finger. Then all fingers. On the chair, after the hand was the arm, shoulder and that moved. As long as we have not yet deal a lunatic. In

anticipation of a new misadventure like this, I wore constantly in my pocket a small rubber baton. The cilia vibrated. The eyes were opened. The mouth twisted into a grimace which turned into a smile. Ping, ping, ping, brain and heart had found their rhythm normal, Our guinea pig seemed neither vegetable nor denies. And he was safe. The Thanatonautes had regained thanatodrome safe and sound! - Yaaaaaaaaahouuuuuuuuhhhhhhk! We have re-u-ssi! roars Raoul. The hangar resounded with cries of joy. Amandine, and Raoul We hugged me frantically. Naturally, the first Raoul pulled himself together: - So how was it? he asked, leaning to Felix. We watched eagerly the first word that would arise from the traveler extraordinary. Whatever word, it was likely to enter the history books, one of the first man who passed a return to the country the dead. All of a sudden, complete silence reigned in the room. We were so waiting for this moment. Until then we had always failed, and it was this madman-like of Pithecanthropus that held the answers the world always dreamed.

He opened his mouth. He was about to speak. No, he closed the word. Then her mouth opened for a second attempt of issue. He blinked. Hoarsely articulated difficulty: - Oh … fucking. We set for ourselves in surprise. He rubbed his forehead. - Wow, damn, the trick! Then he looked at us as if he was surprised that he gives equal attention. - So I j’ies, my eighty-year remission sentence? We would have rocked our patient to congratulate but we understood the need to give him time to regain his senses. Raoul insisted anyway: - What was it like? The man rubbed his wrists, blinked. Ben, how do you say? I’m out of my barbaque. At first, I was spun the chips. I was like a Little zosieau. Damn! I flew out of my body … I went up up there with all the stiffs fresh daily. There’s that had these cum! Stolen a time like this, and then we got a great ring of light. ca resembled those hoops of fire in which we blew Tigers, like the circus Pinder on television. He took a breath. We listened avidly each word out of his mouth. Delighted so much attention, it continued: - It was unbelievable. In the middle, as there was a flashlight. A circle with a neon light the middle, and the light, looked as if it caused me. She told me to come near me. So I’m coming, I’m entering the ring of fire like a tiger circus. I approached the light of the flashlight … Raoul could not help cut:

- So a circle of fire and light in the center? - That’s it. As a target. I do not know if I told you it spoke directly to my brain. It told me to move forward again. That all was well. - And you have suggested? inquired Amanda, passionate. - Yeah. I saw then as a kind of cone or funnel with things that were running. - What things? - Ben, stuff, whatever! Stars, vapors, spurts of weird stuff swirling to form this damn funnel large as a hundred houses stacked. Raoul tapped his right fist against his left palm. - The continent of the dead! he exclaimed. He saw the continent the dead! - Go on, please, I begged. - Ben, I still advanced and I advanced, the more light bothering me so much that I felt that I could never turn back. It would have been good looks, me and my remission! And light serine in my head that it did not matter, that at the bottom was only futility and stupidity … Ha! that, she spoke well. In addition, it was like a cave of Ali Baba, full of treasures, at least not for gold and silver, but filled with good feelings. It was good and hot and sweet and soft. Like I found my mom. Z’avez not a glass of water? My mouth is all dry. Amandine fetched a cup. He drained it before to resume: - J’pouvais no choice but to go forward, damn! But then I saw a kind of transparent wall. Not a brick wall, not a wall of buttock skin. As gelatin. I even thought I am an asshole

translucent. I realized that it got dicey. If I through the wall, I could never go back and farewell My eighty-year reduction. I put the brakes. This was happened to solve my problem “Choice”. He had found reasons to stay alive. I do not believe it. He sighed: - It was not easy, know. The I had to really take on me to turn around with my soul. Then after a time, there was a kind of long string silvery white, which at once brought me here and I opened my peepers. It was as if we were three, Raoul, Amandine and I, who had visited the seventh heaven. Thus, all these sacrifices were not in vain. Our efforts were finally off. A man had crossed the barrier of death and he returned to tell us about the afterlife. And what was there even further than this world bright and intangible? After the cool water, Felix demanded a swig of rum. Amanda ran again. My turn-ons: - We must organize a press conference. People need to know … Raoul quickly calmed me. - Too soon, he said. For now, our project must remain what it is top secret. 64 - Lucinda President Lucinda patted the neck of Vercingetorix. It

exulted. - They have managed, Mercassier? - “Yes. I saw with my own eyes, the videotape showing launch and réatterrissage this … Thanatonautes. - Thanatonautes? - That’s the word they invented to describe their guinea pigs. It means “traveler of death” or some something like that, in Greek. President screwed up his eyes and smiled - Very pretty, very poetic. Finally, I like that name. A bit technical, sure, but some serious night does not our experience. In fact, Lucinda was jubilant. Any designation would have enchanted macchabophiles, mortopilotes, visitors of paradise … He would esbaudi well. Mercassier sought to bring his attention to him. After: all, he was the organizer of the project, and it was legitimate

he is proud of its success. Always faithful to the line drawn by his wife, he ventured: - In short, they are like pioneers exploring a New Australia. Yes, Mercassier. You finally understand my thought. The Minister would seek to ensure the merit of this discovery but it would be him, the President at the grand vision, who would enter the history books. Lucinda thought he had won immortality. He would have his statue in squares, streets bearing his name … He had took risks. He had paid the

price: dozens of dead, a hundred, so it seemed … But he it! Mercassier interrupted his dreams of glory: - Now, what do you, Mr. Speaker? 65 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS From the first launches Thanatonautes the results exceeded all expectations. First volunteer, Felix Kerboz reached immediately take off and land. The pioneers were surprised to have reached as quickly to success. History textbook, second year elementary course. 66 - Celtic mythology According to Celtic mythology, the afterlife is an area mys

térieux that knows no death, nor work, nor the winter. It is inhabited by gods, spirits and people to eternal Thurs

ness. The Welsh call this country Annwn. There is hole

Wind the cauldron of the resurrection and the cauldron of abundance

dance. The cauldron of the resurrection gives life to dead warriors and the abundance provides the substance which will forever those who consume it. For the Welsh and Irish, the Annwn, the afterlife, is with the same reality as the material world. A few

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secret triumph. Plastic cups had flown too high. - What a fantastic time we lived! As I want to be the first man, first Thanatonautes to have set foot on the continent and to be supreme Income! Oh yes, I want to be like Felix! I tried to hand down to earth. - Not so simple. You have to be motivated. You have heard, himself was attracted to the light. He was reluctant to return. It there has come because he had first planned to obtain the remission of sentence in this world. I accelerated. Behind the glass, a dreary landscape of suburban marched in the dark. I cast a look of Amandine side on which the nose carefully repoudrait despite the bumps. I began to know it better. Raoul told me about her. The pretty woman was a nurse very conscientiously. Too careful, even. She had bear to see her die in hospital patients entrusted to it. At school now, she could not bear bad marks. At the hospital, for each death was She pointed to another zero. When his patient died on the operating table, she felt responsible for it. Colleagues constantly ask him that it was not his fault, but she did not believe it. It remained convinced that each death was further evidence of his incompetence. Amandine imagined that people were dying for lack

of love. For her, even someone with terminal a generalized cancer had chosen. And if he had done what choice was that his entourage had been unable to him to enjoy life. As a result, she had tried to love even stronger each patient. And as they were dying anyway, she reproached herself for not not have been able to pour over them enough affection. Needless to say, under these conditions, Amandine Ballus would have been better to change jobs. But, as Raoul, failures always urged him to recommend

dementia, to perfection or self-destruction. When? she read an ad by accident on a draft associated with the dying and in need of motivated nurse, she hastened to reply. Only Raoul Razorbak had he spoken of the project “Paradise” she had already decided to devote himself body and soul to this business of bringing the dead to the world of

alive. And as surprising as it may seem, that victims the project are first so many do not scruple. Amanda did have a strange logic: it was all willing to kill a few people away in the hope to save many others in the indefinite future. - I would be Felix, she repeated. He is so brave and even beautiful. I made a face. It does still had not exaggerated. Brave, perhaps, but beautiful, this Pithecanthropus? - He has faced terrible trials up there. It was she who was beautiful when she spoke of Felix. - What we do now? I asked for change the subject. - We will increase the number of takeoffs. Raoul already announced the good news to the Minister Mercassier. Ministry He wished to congratulate us personally. It has already contacted the director of the penitentiary that he selects one hundred new candidates Thanatonautes. She was as happy as if it were to organize nice surprise parties. - We won, she muttered, holding his bliss. 68 - FACT POLICE

Demand for basic descriptive information Name: Kerboz Name: Felix Hair: Blond and rare Size: 95 1 m Characteristics: tall, scarred face Comments: First Thanatonautes to have regained the world

the living Weakness: low IQ 69 - READ IN THE PRESS SCANDAL: THE PRESIDENT LUCINDA sacrificed PRI

Prisoners of LAW for alleged EXPE

SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE We had many inquiries for us Lucinda convince the president was none other than the one the greatest criminals of our time. More perverse than Landru or a Petiot, President Lucinda, our chief of State, elected by a majority of the French, was murdered coolness of the men he did not even know. Its victims: the common law prisoners who asked to serve their sentences in all serenity. His excuse or rather mobile, as you will: the study of death! 7aR, indeed, our president loves a particular hobby: not golf, cooking in butter or numismatics, but death! Assisted by a few accomplices related to its cause, the Minister Research Mercassier, Professor Raoul Razorbak, crazy biologist, Dr. Michael Pinson, médecinanesthétiste crooked, Amandine Ballus nurse pushy, President killed with a vengeance. An estimated one hundred twenty to three the number of prisoners already passed to death thanks to the care of this “commando programmed death “and that just to satisfy the morbid curiosity of a head of state despot. It’s like back to the Dark Ages where Roman emperors had power of life and death over of powerless slaves. Some were killed one after

of the other fellows at random to see if the tunic Jesus Christ came to revive them. However, nowadays there is no longer an emperor (even If Lucinda is taken sometimes for a Caesar!), there is no of slaves. Or so we thought until now. We believed to be headed by a president democratically elected by his fellow citizens. A president who Its first duty to ensure the good health of its administered and not to slay! Only the director of the prison of Fleury-Merogis, revolted by all the corpses accumulate every day the cellars, he had revealed the terrible truth exclusively to our editorial, the opposition was quick to claim the lifting of presidential immunity. Parliament immediately appointed a commission of inquiry to ascertain the facts. Most of the ministers interviewed refused to surrender clearly but some already announcing that if the Committee would provide evidence of these serial murders, soon they will offer their resignations. For its part, the minister did not wait for Mercassier results of this additional information in order to escape Australia with his wife and thus escape prosecution Judiciary. 70 - APPOINTMENT with the pack

In the euphoria, followed bitterness. We had soared with the success of Kerboz, we fall back from the shovelfuls of insults and pursued by the opprobrium. The Director of Fleury had managed its effect. the project was every day more important. The newspapers outdid in the offensive. Editorialists suggested that make us suffer our own experiences. Surveys revealed that 78% of the population we wanted set as soon as possible out of harm’s way behind solid bars. A judge opened an investigation. We called in turn. He promised favorable treatment If I load my accomplices. I suppose it began

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the same for others. When in doubt, I preferred to stay coi. The judge ordered a search and police probe

rent my apartment, my floor batten by removing latte like I could hide the bodies under there! The meeting of owners I summoned kindly to clear out before the end of the quarter. The concierge told me that my presence in the building was lower the price per square meter. I hardly dared to leave my house. In the streets, children run after me, shouting: “The butcher Fleury-Merogis, the butcher of Fleury-Merogis! “Us keep warm each other, we took the habit, with Amandine, to get together regularly at Raoul. in front of him. seemed to take things nonchalantly. These cons

time passengers would not impede the march of history, he thought.

However, he deserves to remain as the serene. It was fired from his job as a researcher at the CNRS. Its Renault 20 convertible exploded in an attack claimed by a “Committee of the surviving prisoners’ unknown to this day. On the door of his building was bulging in big red letters: “This remains the deadliest 123 innocent people. “ As we went up another morale reminding us of the rise of Kerboz, a man in the hat pulled down over his eyes rang the doorbell. President Lucinda in person. It was the first time I saw. After quick introductions, we passed the latest information on our business. It was not very encouraging. Planting himself at the table as if it was meeting, he declaimed: - My friends, are preparing us to weather the storm. This we have experienced so far is nothing compared to what waiting for us. Friends and political enemies have conspired to I set up my account. They do not care to some prisoners shipped ad patres but many would like become Caliph instead of the caliph. I am wary especially my friends, they know how to reach me. I regret you have dragged into the turmoil, but after all we knew the risks we take. If only this ungrateful Mercassier and that idiot director of Fleury-Mérogis we were missing betrayed! President to give up. I was on the verge of panic. Raoul,

true to himself, did not blink, even when came a stone smash a window of the salon. He served whiskey around. - You are all mistaken. Circumstances do not have been better, he said. Without these leaks unexpected, we would still be tinkering in the basement the prison. Now we will work in the open. President, the world will bow to your courage and your genius. Lucinda seemed skeptical. - Come, come, I am nothing. It is no longer trouble to flatter. - But if my friend insisted. Michael was right when he said he had to disclose as soon as our results to the campaigns Felix is ​a hero. He deserves fame and recognition. The President did not understand where Razorbak wanted come. Me, I seized immediately. In its place, I threw - We must tackle instead of confining the defense. All together, united against the idiots! At first we had the impression of being a group of conspirators about to be trapped. Then little by little, we looked at. We were few, but we had guts. We were not specifically gifted, yet we tried all change the world. You should not give up. Amandine, Raoul, Felix, Lucinda. Never had I felt so accessory to other humans. 71 - Greek Mythology Left for dead on a battlefield, Er the Pamphylian found

himself in a room pledged four openings: two out of the sky, two on Earth. The virtuous souls ascended to heaven. The shadows down to Earth.

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Criminal souls to descend through a slit, and the other souls went back covered with dust. Er saw the punishment inflicted on the wicked. He succeeded in the wonderful place where stands the column that is the axis of world. Accompanied by souls, he went to CETH which flows Amelia River, whose waters provide oblivion. There was a rumble and Er revived at the stake funeral to the chagrin of humans around him. It described how he had seen the land of the dead and was free income. Nobody believed his story. He turned back angrily. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 72 - AS BEFORE The scandal took proportions senseless. Photos of what

they called our “laboratory of the programmed death “Were displayed on the cover of every newspaper. At the bright light flashes, the play seemed a sinister room of torture. Journalists malicious had even added at the forefront of scalpels bloody and clamps still covered with sticky hairs. Then came the discovery of “mass grave presidential”. In fact, the crematorium of the prison in Fleury-Merogis. As there was no trace of the bodies of our Thanatonautes unlucky, the journalists had imagined fixtures with models reddened. They were photographed so blurred to give a side even more dramatic and more realistic. As if these photographs were taken by a spy in our business. One reporter even had the luck to shoot a real suicide Fleury-Merogis. The guy had hung himself well after we were denied access to thanatodrome. This does not changed nothing. His portrait swollen, protruding tongue and eyes bulging, quickly made the cover of every magazine. “They have dared! “Was soberly registered under the picture of this unfortunate that we had never seen. Just below popped our portraits to us: the killers. We carried her for defamation but to no avail.

Like rats leaving the ship, the ministers resigned one after the other. A government crisis was formed. President Lucinda was removed from office at the head of the state

until more information. From Australia, Mercassier accused Lucinda of have forced him to act without regard to its refusal. He did However, no reference to our successful experience. Lucinda took care to replicate piecemeal. It content to a television appearance in a program popular to declare that all the pioneers were maligned in their time. He spoke of unimaginable progress, conquest of the afterlife, of an unexplored continent. The journalist who questioned remained unmoved. It rap

pela that even common-law prisoners were men, not guinea pigs, even a President violated law by allowing deadly experiments. Jean Lucinda ignored his remarks. As a conclusion

sion, he faced the camera and announced bluntly: - Dear viewers, fellow citizens, yes, I confess that we killed in the name of knowledge, to overcome our human

condition. And we did it! One of our volunteers went to the afterlife and returned unscathed. His name is Felix Kerboz. It’s sort of a pilot a traveler of death. We call a Thanatonautes. We are ready to start over with him the experience Yeah right now ! If it fails, I am ready to submit for your decision and I understand very well its hardness. Tomorrow, at Tomorrow, I suggest you start with my team an attempt to take off for the afterlife. All television of the Hexagon and the world will be present, Event will be held at the Palais des Congrès in 16 hours. 73 - MYTHOLOGY Amazonian Indians Traditionally men did not die. One day, however, a young girl met the god of Old age. He exchanged his skin wrinkled and hoary against the his, which was soft and supple.

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Razorbak. 74 - ALL FOR EVERYTHING 16 hours. The Palais des Congres, Paris, teeming with world. Spectators exchanged newspapers and how new overwhelming evidence, EMA

ing of the tireless and relentless Mercassier Director Fleury-Merogis, becoming a star. Front row, two members did not hide their impressions: - Poor Lucinda, it is finished. He wanted to know the land of the dead, it will be served! His death is political Anyway irreversible. - Still, said the other dubiously, the whole set scene … He must stay a few biscuits. This is an old fox. Do you? This is his swan song. It does more than 0.5% favorable opinion! Normal Surely there 0.5% of the population crazy to believe in supernatural and NDE. They shrugged their shoulders. Brightly lit by two spotlights, a beautiful journalist red face speaking to a camera:

- Eight scientists are in the room to monitor all the operations and avoid special effects. Some experts have expressed concern that the President Lucinda uses twin brothers, killing one to help revive the other. It’s an old conjuring trick well-known. But with so many looks and targets fixed on the scene, such scrambles will impossible. It is hard to imagine a head of state, already battered in the opinion, willing to try! In anticipation of the “spectacle” of groups formed. We discussed, we wondered: - You read the article in the Morning? A scientist there explains very well why it is impossible to survive death. “When a brain ceases to be irrigated, it necrosis. Once a nerve cell dies, it loses its physiological faculties, so his powers of representation and memory. “ - And this Faribole overdose of liquid natural endocrine that would cause hallucinations travel, you believe it? There were chuckles. - I do not see why a body would use the agony his last energy to produce images! exclaimed someone. The two deputies calèrent in chairs in the first Rank - Lucinda wanted to go down in history with a large H, ‘said one. He no longer has to worry. He will return. And the front door, again! One hundred twenty-three murders on arms, it’s not every day a head of state is a this hat. - Beau trial in

perspective! The spotlight lit. On the stage sat a simple dentist’s chair. There were also lots of son electrically connected to giant screens flashed as many blind eye. The event will be broadcast in sixty duplex of countries. A president is ridiculed Live, the show was as good a rock and roll concert or a football game! Of Machinists settled eight chairs around the fau

Auteuil dentist. There sit the eight experts appointed by the committee. Four doctors, three biological

gists, and even a magician. They emerged to applause. The hall was unleashed. She cheered the old beards of the Academy like so many matadors down together the arena to overcome a big bull twisted. They had a little nervous. They had never been so popular in their previous work. Some held out even their hands to the crowd. If they could promise the ears and tail of the President, they would not lose it. credit As a banderillas, they drew their pens and comments

Cerent note on notebooks rigid variety observations of actual hardware.

A famous TV presenter hair slicked mounted in turn on the stage, accompanied by a cameraman and a soundman. After some tests tests voice and image, the red light of the camera flashed. - Ladies and gentlemen, good evening and thank you for watching RTV1, the string that shows you more. Here in this hall of the Palais des Congrès, the atmosphere is supercharged. Ministry President Lucinda prepares to play his entire career on a great gamble: show the world that it is possible to visit the afterlife as if it were only a continent away. In the audience, the excitement is at its Attic Will we watch helplessly as a new killing online? Or, conversely, the experience of century? The suspense is intense … 75 MYTHOLOGY GREENLANDIC To the people of Greenland, paradise is at bottom of the ocean. Y reigns perpetual summer of the midnight sun. Those who have toiled in this world can finally relax and enjoy the fruits of their efforts. There is a realm of abundance, where lack neither dogs nor deer, nor fish, nor the bears. The seals are there all cooked and ready to be eaten. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

76 - FAMILY It was first my mother called me: - My son, do not go! Conrad, He advised me to steer quickly in Argentina. All right-thinking people who wanted my property sickened me and strengthened my will to the contrary bury myself in my marginality. I assured them there was no question for me to abandon

to my friends in trouble. I had my share of responsibility in current events. I would assume. - Well, if you go I will go too, ‘said my mother. I will defend still my son, tooth and nail, no matter what! And that’s what she did. Indicated by the journalist RTV1 which sought to fill the air in anticipation of the great moment, my heart progenitor emptied his live before millions of voyeurs. - You see, Michael has always been too nice and ready to be of service to everyone. It certainly has its flaws, but this is not a criminal. If the President of the Republic got carried away by these enlightened, why not my son? It is because of loneliness if my boy found involved in this story. Living alone all the time, it gone to your head! If only he had listened to me, if only he had married, we would not be there! My little Michael has never had much control. He

always thank you to those who speak loudly and clearly. As this Razorbak. (Then, below:) Oh, tell me, I a question. Do you think I can make it send packages in his prison cell? The reporter recognized slicked his ignorance on this subject and politely thanked my mother. 77 - biblical mythology According to the Bible, Adam’s life comes down to twelve steps: In the first hour, gathered dust. In the second hour, the dust turned into a shapeless mass. At the third hour, members were shaped. At the fourth hour, a soul was infused. At the fifth hour, he stood. At the sixth hour, he was able to describe his surroundings. At the seventh hour, he received Eve for a companion. At the eighth hour, two on a bed they went to four they descended.

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At the tenth hour, he made the mistake. At the eleventh hour, he was tried. At the twelfth hour, he was driven from the Garden of Eden. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 78 - TO BE OR NOT TO BE First to enter the arena - comprising: a mount scene - I did not was leading off. The expert committee refused to shake hands with me and behind me, I guessed Amandine, steeped in fear. Assistance burst into boos. A man in jacket and cap, stood out: - Crapule! You killed my son! My best, I clung to the

microphone: - We have murdered someone! I cried myself to break the throat. Nobody! All inmates who participated in project “Paradise” had volunteered for the experiment. They knew the risks and they each themselves pressed the button triggering the process of flight. - On the fly? Death, yes! Who can volunteer to die? There is a voluntary here? yelled someone. - Death to the killers in white coats! Death to the killers in white coats! chanted the audience unleashed. The whistles were redoubled when President Lucinda in turn approached the microphone. Tomatoes landed at his feet. The police cordon placed in front of the stage enlarged by emergency reinforcements. Of his hands, the President made gestures of appeasement. SA long accustomed to political meetings had disrupted learned to hold sway over a rough room. - Ladies and gentlemen, my friends, he said, calm down! The experience we will try before you has already successful, but in the absence of any official expert may to testify. Now, I submit to the ruling the nation, the planet itself. If the man we send to you in the afterlife can not believe I agree to appear before any court proper to answer for my failures. Some insults were heard yet but very soon a heavy silence replaced the tumult. Felix had Kerboz to appear. The

spotlight soon braquèrent on him and who was his impeccable tuxedo new uniform of Thanatonautes. His head bandit contrasted with clothing dandy. He arrived between two gendarmes. In tormented figure of Felix, I realized that something was wrong. The TV host rushed: - And here is Felix Kerboz, one man, according to President Lucinda, having accomplished the impossible return between world of the living and the dead. This feat, it will attempt it a second time before the cameras of the world full and exclusive national RTV1, the chain shows you more! Our team exchanged worried glances. All we know enough to perceive his agitation Felix. Was it the crowd intimidated? The President gave him a big pat on the back. - In form, Felix? A face disfigured further the face of Felix. Viewers who joined the program in progress Road wondered if they had not zapped by mistake a horror film. - Well, it could get better, our Thanatonautes murmured. Stage fright? - Ah, that’s not it, Felix yelled. I have an ingrown toenail that bothers me, and damn, I have not slept a wink all night. Lucinda started.

- An ingrown toenail? Why do not you tell us more early! Lucinda was the yelling but it was not the time. - An ingrown toenail? I know that. It is very painful but can be treated easily. - I have taken aspirin but it hurts when the same. What crap! I suggested to postpone the operation later. If Felix suffered, he sucked the light rather than return to his aching frame. The President implored him: - You will come back to life, Felix, you promise me? I have already signed your amnesty decree. If you succeed, you will be free, finally free. Do you understand? Felix? You will now be a respectable citizen. The man did not seem convinced. Assistance was hesitating between new insults or applause but still retained his breath. The facilitator explained that the President encouraged his foal like a coach before a boxing match. We, the gloomy, we prepared our instruments. Now, Lucinda shook Felix bluntly: - You will be free! We will call you Mr. Kerboz and you will be rich and famous! We will put you in a open car and people will applaud you and you launch confetti as Neil

Armstrong after his first steps on the moon! - Yeah, I ‘m pleased if there were not that damn nail incarnate. - Damn, after all the toxic potions you have ingested, your ulcer, your blisters and skin gap, it is still not an unfortunate painful toe that will make you give up your hopes of a life better! - But it’s so up there, it feels so light, are more no worries … Lucinda grew angry: - Felix, the life,. is still not the blank! - I was wondering c’qui is good in this life. Ministry problem is that j’m’en remember. - Money, women, perfumes, sunsets sun on the sea, cars, palaces, enumerated Lucinda. Then put in the end politics, in the skin of his guinea pigs, he added: - And if you like alcohol, drugs, violence, proper speed. Come on, Felix! We need you. You have friends now, a president, scholars remark remarkable, the most delightful of nurses! So many people have your chance! And we are all counting on you. Felix looked down and blushed like a guilty child: - Yeah, I know all that. But the top, they m’veulent of well, too. I have not been so lucky in this world and the ingrown nail and more people hostile before … In this world I have not had much satisfaction. I’ve never had to think twice. Lucinda looked with amazement the Colossus: - No satisfaction, Felix? You mean … never. You never …

Our wardrobe was now scarlet. - Yeah. I’ve never liked to share my mother, and my mother, in fact, it is up there. The crowd was growing impatient. - Death to the monkey! launched a joker. The host furnished after a fashion: - Felix Kerboz measuring 1.95 m and weighs 100 kg, measurements rather smooth for a man of his age. According to the press, the weight and size n’influent not affect the quality of the passage from life to death but it is better yet the subject is in good physical condition. Amanda had lost none of the conversations between Felix and the President. It went: - You are a virgin, Felix? Is that it? He turned to burgundy. The blonde nurse hesitated, thought for a moment, then she whispered something into the ear of the patient. All of a sudden, the face of Felix passed through several colors Arcen-heaven. He stretched his lips into a caricature of a smile. Coast by side, they looked like Quasimodo and Esmeralda. A Quasimodo about to go on the rack … He never left eye Amandine. He said. - Well, let’s go. My fucking nail is telling me left alone for a moment. Lucinda suggested that I add to my pain medication boosters for Felix no longer feels his toe. But I refused. This was not the time to experiment with new blends. 800 milligrams of thiopental would

my dose and there would be no other medication apart the usual potions. President Lucinda unhooked the bow tie of smoking of Kerboz. He lifted his sleeve and put the electrodes. It could have sworn he had done this all his life. - Lucinda, go and get dressed, you’re a murderer! I came to give him a hand. After all, now, we were all in the same boat. Amanda was busy with diligence. She felt all the jokes like so many spears. But she preferred to play all out. It regulates ECG, EEG and me dedicated a knowing smile thin while the insults continued to rain. - Assassins! Assassins! The motto was taken over by the whole room who chanted in rhythm. Felix Kerboz breathed slowly, more slowly, as Raoul had taught him to do so. He inspired with the nose, blowing with the mouth. This method of artificial respiration had been invented, it seems to help women to give birth without pain. - For me, everything is ready! said President Lucinda, who had finished with a final electrode the hairy chest of Thanatonautes. - Ready too, said Raoul tightening sensors

pulse. Loan I said. - Ready! Amanda adds. The scientific committee came to better examine the whole system. They checked the electrodes were consistent with the standards. They took also the pulse of Felix. The magician gave of his heel into the floor of the stage, the looking for a door or any device toggle. He stuck a needle into the foam of the chair, which delighted the audience discovers that he expected perhaps a secret corridor in our dental chair. When had finished, he nodded to the others. They noted with rush all kinds of information. Then they flush

Sirente, satisfied for now, and we made a gesture that meant that we could proceed. Silence In the vastness of the convention center, we could have hear a soul to steal. - Let’s go! Raoul growled, somewhat annoyed by this hostile crowd. - Ben, ciao, friends! Felix said, waving his fat fingers Twisted. Amanda stroked her hair and placed his few small kissing on the corner of his lips, just as he was close her eyes. - Come back! she murmured. Felix smiled with: - Six … five … four … three … two … a … Off! And quickly he pressed the switch and is propelled out of this life. 79 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS

Towards the end of the twentieth century dictionaries and encyclopedias

pédies death gave the following definitions: DEATH: termination of life. Current definition: We say that someone has died when his heart stopped beating and he stopped breathing. American definition, adopted in 1981: An individual is declared dead after irreversible cessation of all brain function. Medical definition: Stop irreversible contraction as

cardiac. Of artificial respiration maintained by lung mechanics. Total abolition of reflexes. Dispa

pearance of any electroencephalographic signal.

Destruction Total brain structures. Formalities in case of death: Notify the death the local city office. The medical examiner district verify the death and will prepare a statement that it will deliver to family of the deceased or funeral attendant. Accompanied by the family book of the deceased, this finding should be submitted to the register office of the town hall will issue in sharing a burial permit and authorization of farm

ture of the coffin. In case of violent or suspicious death, the

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medical examiner notifies the public prosecutor can require an autopsy. The family is not obliged to make public the cause of death. It is mandatory to wait twenty-four hours at least before the funeral.

Price of the concession: Variable, depending on the length, the reputation the cemetery and the land price. The square meter is obviously

ment more expensive in cities than in rural areas. 3000 F for an ordinary coffin of white wood. Count supplements ebony, mahogany, upholstered integrated

Procedure. 1800 F for the funeral, over by the number of undertakers available. 3000 F for hire of the hearse.

4800 F for morticians, flowers and decorations varied situations. 700 F for marble. F 1000 a year for cleaning and restoring the burial. 200 F for announcements. Plus postage. 1000 F VAT. F 1300 municipal tax. 200 F for religious service (additional fee depending confessions and the services requested: Mass choir etc… A total of 17,000 F minimum, not lease included. History textbook, second year elementary course. 80 - HOLD For the past ten minutes, a continuous scrolling electrocardiogram and still no any ping! As usual, Raoul Razorbak noted on his notebook all the parameters: time, temperature, activity heart, brain, electrical, personal impressions, etc…

Raoul returned, looking concerned. “So what?” I ventured. He shrugged his shoulders. The crowd was silent, staring at the man lying in the spotlight. Revolving around the chair like flies around a corpse, experts also took their notes, their pen crunching loudly on the graph paper. They always had to consider a new dial. They were this mainly to stretch the legs but took the air heard suggesting the worst. The magician was the best actor, he had all sorts of dubious expressions. The presenter did not know how RTV1 furnish time vacant. He spoke of the weather is conducive to such experience and history that the Congress had seen to take place under one roof so many striking events.

Clasped hands and face of Madonna, Amanda prayed with silence. Me, too. 81 - Scandinavian mythology Balder was a benevolent god Scandinavian. Son of Odin, He was renowned for his compassion and beauty. One night he dreamed of his own death. The gods conceived in

a large concern and his mother, the goddess Frigg, virtually forced everything and everyone never to harm her son. She swore of good will to the earth, iron, stone, trees, diseases, birds, fish, snakes, all animals. Noting that Balder was invulnerable now, the gods amused themselves by launching him on all kinds of items dangerous does not hurt yet. It happened, however, jealous of the power of Balder, the evil god Loki disguised himself as a woman and went to Frigg to wrest from him his secret. He learned that the Goddess had failed to swear in a plant Mistilteinn called because it considered too frail and too fragile in order to cause any harm to her son. Loki then convinced Hödr, the blind god of seize the plant and hit Balder. Guided by

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Loki, Balder Hödr mortally wounded because the plant had transformed into a spear. Loki then announced to all that we can not escape death, even when you are blessed by the gods. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 82 - at the convention center The plainclothes officers who had slipped into the room on the request of the judge hearing the case approached Gradually the scene. They did not want us to run away after the failure of our representation. It was now five minutes we rubbing Felix and electrocution without result. The silent crowd became increasingly less silent.

Scientific experts stretching knowing smiles after each shock, approached learnedly to caress the wrist of Felix and check his pulse. They were very satisfied because we do not perceive.

I took off my white coat, and vest, dripping with sweat, I continued to practice massage heart. We had all “one, two, three,” I pressed on the chest with my hands flat in the area of ​the heart, and Raoul blowing air into the nostrils with a hand pump to boost the activity respirator. The police approached again. - One, two, three! Come on, you believe, you believe, repeated my friend. He ava; t right. We had to believe it. Hand in the fire can stay if believed invulnerable. I had shown. We jostling without any consideration for of our maneuvers. And the more pessimistic we gained more we rushed. They did not seem to pay attention. It is normal that the bull is trying to hurt the matadors prior to his death. In the room, the slight background noise, had succeeded in

gossip and rumors. Were perceived even laughs content. A moment, and it would be the kill. Other officers took faction behind us so to deny us a leak behind the scenes. Faith moves mountains, why would it not capable of

reproducing a small miracle of nothing, only make life in this big bag of skin filled with blood and viscera? - If a living cell in the meat must be it responds to my call, said Raoul. What is it?” What is it?” we there, we wait. One, two, three, one, two, three. And he urged the chest of Felix. - Damn, wake up, Felix. No kidding! I cried to myself. A policeman came up on stage. It would appear to dangerous lunatics let off steam in a body for all viewers according to our deeds. - One, two, three! Wake up, Felix, damn! A policeman came out of the handcuffs. - One, two, three! Felix, God, do not leave us up! The eight experts came to see the death with the air heard. Flies on a crushed fruit. A police officer grabbed my wrist. I heard a snap sec of handcuffs and a voice said: “On behalf of the law, I arrest you for murder by poisoning. “ Already Raoul and Amanda were also handcuffed. We dared not touch Lucinda, who crowned his status of the President of the French Republic, was untouchable.

- Death! At death Thanatonautes! screamed the room too happy to see his boss in trouble. Nothing is more enjoyable for people to see its masters dragged through the mud.

- The death penalty for Thanatonautes! Front row, my brother shouted: “I had you well said. “My mother tried to calm itself throughout the room. It began with its immediate neighbors. Then she spread in the aisles. - My son has nothing to do, stop, you are mistaken, my son has nothing to do, he got carried away. She had already thought of everything. Later, at trial, it apparent good points of my book from kindergarten to prove that I had been a good boy. She had also bought a dress in advance of the hearing. The police took us by the arms to take us across the room fevered. Already people approaching to insult us and we spit. What a horrible feeling of having her hands cuffed while people You booed. Someone threw a rotten egg, which came crashing on my forehead. Amanda received a tomato. Raoul was also entitled to its egg, greener and stinking the mine. President Lucinda sat down again, collapsed. He did not help us or help Felix, he thought only that was wrong, he had a delusion and regretted it. in front of him. who wanted to be famous, now it was over. He did not able to achieve victory at Alesia, like Caesar. The last time of death, supreme bastion, had proved impregnable.

The journalist RTV1 motioned to his cameraman multiply the close-ups on the impassive face of Felix. He stuck the torch a few inches of the face and is filming his every pore still, the slightest of hair under the grilling too much light. Goodbye, Felix. The police pulled me by the handcuffs. It happened then something unexpected. There was a resounding “Ouch.” All breathing stopped. We all stayed frozen. I recognized the voice that said “Ouch.” This voice, that voice … The man responsible for the light and had stumbled dropped his flashlight on the eye of Felix. Already presenter exulted. - It’s amazing, ladies and gentlemen, just incredible, amazing and huge. The man, the one can be called from now on “the first man to officially putting the feet in the afterlife and to be income “is … alive. Felix Kerboz is alive! Order of the experts, the police took away dazed us quickly handcuffed. The room had become silent. We heard only the inexhaustible host of the television which delivers the

meter’s comments, too happy to have Finally, in the spectacular show. He knew he was playing career and he did not intend to leave Missed opportunity as rare. He too had now have his name inscribed in the history books, the worst in the history books of journalism. - I can tell you that emotion is universal. Once the first table began to ring in the electroencephalogram, First there was a moment of disbelief and then a clamor rose in the room. A shout of terror, ladies and gentlemen, as we all aware that it was a death that came back from the alive. RTV1, the string that shows you more, you will board of a slow first movement of eyelids Felix Kerboz. Eye movement occurred long after stopping his heart. And a movement of eyelids occurred, it must be said, thanks to us, thanks to … RTV1 the TV that revives even the dead. I’ll try immediately to have an exclusive interview with Felix, and just after we pass an advertising page. We However, remember that the whole evening was sponsored Black Dragon by waxing. Waxing Black Dragon, the only you out of coltar. Lucinda, Amanda, Raoul and I were between laughter and the tears. We ran to get back on stage. The show must go on. Doctors and scientists received

laient stunned and shook their heads as if they n’arri

Vaienti not believe their own eyes, their own ears, their sense of touch. They continued to feel Felix, check the machines of control. There was even a scientist to look at under the chair. If you would still be substituted a twin brother’s corpse. I took the pulse of Felix, listened to his heart, examined its retina, his teeth. But everyone knew, saw, was forced to recognize

birth to irrefutable. We succeeded. Raoul, Felix, Aman

dine, Lucinda and me against the fools. Felix mumbled. - Damn, the trip, shit, I never had it like that. A… then I and I not, my amnesty? Amanda hurried and whispered

something to the ear. As soon as his eyes took eureka. He leaned toward the microphone and journalist RTV1 fully articulated: - It’s one small step for my soul, but a big step for humanity. All of a sudden the tension fell. Standing ovation on the hero. It is impossible to overstate the importance of a good slogan. Applause rang out. No one was holding his cheers. - RTV1 Dear viewers, this is a historic moment and a historic phrase that comes to deliver us our Thanatonautes national. One small step for my soul, but a giant leap for mankind. The nod to history is superb. This man has managed a Near Death Experience Live in front of us. What has traveled? For lack of best, Felix has appointed this his “soul.” The image is poetic. It remains to find the scientific explanation. It is with great … We hugged Felix Kerboz fervently. - All right, here? Uh … and for my pardon, it is still OK? You did. You did, you’re free now! announced the President Lucinda. - Not too soon. Damn, you have to give a lot of our days to be bourgeois! Amanda never left him. - You are there! You are here: alive. - Ben … yeah, you see I came back. Chuis income friends. This time, I have watched, I have everything looked at. If you want I can draw you a picture for show you how it is. Damn, it’s not croyab ‘I can tell you. Raoul Razorbak approached nervous.

- A map! We will draw a map of the continent death and every time we move, we will defer new details on this card. The room was unleashed. The presenter RTV1 we continued by claiming:

Hep! Mr. Kerboz is for RTV1. Our viewers have a right to know what it was like up there! Ndiaye, Kerboz, you are the hero of the century, Mr. Kerboz! Felix stopped, looked and then uttered his words: Beni I can tell you that death, damn it Incredibly, not at all what one believes are plenty of color, full of scenery, full of … it moves A LOT! Oh, and I do not know how cause is too much. The journalist RTV1 we stuck to skirts. He must fill a quota of time for the waxing and he did not yet fully achieved. He begged the least Comment Raoul gave me a blow in the ribs. - Come on, Michael, do them a speech! Without even thinking I stepped on the podium. All m’illuminèrent flashes. - Ladies and gentlemen, we had the best rewards. We managed to send and retrieve a Thanatonautes. There was a silence. A reporter asked me a Question

- Dr. Pinson, you are one of the greatest craftsmen of victory today. What do you do now? I went a little microphone. - Today is a great day. Everyone listened. - We have conquered death. As of today, nothing not the same. We must completely change our points of view. We just switch to a new world There will always be a before and after today. Me? I even find it difficult to believe. Yet we have to prove that … That’s when the phrase reappeared again only curse tific. (But, in fact, what am I doing here?) - We have to prove that … Suddenly I became aware of being in the here and now having accomplished something historic. Once this weird thoughts in my head, nothing could hunt. The crowd continued to listen, television zoomed on my face. Millions of people watching me Live, open mouth and saying nothing. - Dr. Pinson? I could not utter a syllable. Ministry journalist, very embarrassed, tried to move on. - Hum … And you, Mr. Speaker … you able to prove your good faith, is that this will change your policy before the next general election? President Lucinda did not pay attention. We murmured:

- Come, my friends, we do not deal with the mob. We are now out of the woods, continuing the effort. Will draw the foreground of the continent from the dead. Where?” - In thanatodrome Fleury-Merogis. Only where we will have peace. Our little group became more and more welded. 83 - Persian mythology “The fish said to the duck in the pan: “Do you think the water will rise one day during the river? “ The duck said, “When we roasted No matter that the world sea mirage “? From the Earth to Saturn, I solved all the problems, I avoided the traps and ambushes, I have defeated every node, except that of death. “ Omar Khayyam (1050-1123), Rubai Yat. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

84 - A MAP A clamor of praise ascended cells. The Prisoners had followed live on RTV1 the “traveling” Félix. Our Thanatonautes hailed around and his eyes blinking, this time as if to say “I knew it, I told you so. “ In the lazaretto turned into thanatodrome, Raoul picked up a card stock and colored pens. We FIMES circle around him while trying to describe Felix accurate visions of the afterlife. It was touching to behold the brute, dear

singing his words, searching his mind in search of the term accurate, so keen to satisfy us, we, his first friends. He scratched his head, he scratched his back, he scratched his armpits. He frowned. The cartographer grew impatient: - So how was it? - Well, first there is the funnel with the edges a sort of crown of foam or cotton, something just like

that. Raoul began a sketch: - No, ‘said Felix. Wider the funnel. He closed his eyes to see the magical image. - As a tire neon scattered in Filoche lace. Something liquid … How to tell? Of great waves of powder blue stars, bursts of light water. We really feel to be suspended in the air in the open ocean, an ocean turn on itself to form a ring Light and sparks. The Pithecanthropus became a poet. Amandine was touched. Raoul erased, began a pattern that resembled a slightly thinned lettuce: - It’s better, Felix approved. Understand? It floats in a kind of frozen fire, yet we feel a feeling fresh marine. It really recalled the first time I saw the sea - What color exactly, all this? 142 - Ben, white and blue … But in addition to fluorescent and turning as a carousel. It sucked a lot of other stiffs around for me? They all had white son clinging to their navel which broke when they were racing net farther inside the cone. Who broke net? Lucinda was surprised. - Well, yeah. So they were released from below and they could further accelerate a good shot. - Who were these people? Amanda asked. - The stiffs in all countries, all races, young, old, big, small … Raoul intima us to keep quiet. Questions we might to decentralize the explorer. We provide the latest

details we wanted. - Continue with your white-blue funnel. - Well, it narrows a little to become a gigantic tube. There, the colors of the walls and then darken turn turquoise. The turquoise, I did not go far but I saw where it took this color. - The funnel is running all the time? - Yeah, very slowly at the edges and more As soon as we advance. Then it narrows and becomes brighter. There in the crowd corridor turquoise, and even I changed shape. - You were what? Felix stood up proudly. - I still have my body but it was Thanatonautes become transparent, so transparent that I saw through of myself. It was great fun. I had completely Forgot my body. I felt even my fingernail incarnate. I was like … - … A pen? I suggested, thinking of the Book of the Dead Egyptian city that had Raoul. - Yeah. Or a current of air a little hardened. Raoul was busy on his paper. Its design took shape. The funnel, the corridor, people cutting their transparent long umbilical cords … Death she finally revealed her appearance? It looked like from afar a large head disheveled.

- It was great? I asked. - Immense. The narrowest point I saw was well have a diameter of several tens of kilometers! Think of all the stiffs of the world engulfed at sixty miles an hour in there! And, oh

yes! There was no high and there was no bottom. We could have walked on p’t’être walls but it was not worth it, since we flew. - There were animals? Amandine inquired. - Nah, no cattle. That of humans. But there were complete in herds. Must be a war somewhere which provides a lot of barbaque. And all slipped into the hall quietly, without crashing, despite the speed. We were all attracted to light like moths. Raoul raised his pencil. - All these deaths will therefore necessarily transparent collide at some point, I remarked. - Where did you order exactly? asked Lucinda. On paper, Felix pointed to a location on the flared edge of the funnel white-blue. - Here. Precision as we stunned. - J’pouvais not go any further, explained Felix. One centimeter over and my silver cord is cut too and was “ciao the company.” - But you said that the cord was elastic to infinity, remarked the President. - It is in the head as it happens. The more one is magnetized by light, the cord becomes more dry and brittle, the more weakens. Damn, one more inch and I had more than just want to see this world. This point, it was my limit. He put his finger in one place. In black felt, Raoul Razorbak be traced a long dotted line: “Wall comatose “He wrote below. - And that means what? I said. - I think that’s the sound barrier in his time. This is a limitation that we can for the moment pass without Potential Danger Now that we have

the beginning of the map, we also have a goal beyond this line. So wrote Raoul behind the line marking the wall comatose, in thick letters: Terra incognita. Unknown land. We considered the paper with respect. And was beginningis exploring a new continent. A first contact, the first beach, and then at progressively the pioneers in advancing the land, mountains, meadows, lakes took place on the map Terra incognita receded ever further towards the edges the paper. Thus was he went to Africa, America, Australia. Gradually, the men had cleared the two words, a label of ignorance. Terra incognita … Witnesses to the experience of the Palace Congress had hoped to attend the culmination of a political-science project. We four, Lucinda, Amanda, Raoul and I knew that, on the contrary, was not an end but a beginning. We had to explore this tunnel which became purple turquoise. We had to complete the map and reduce the two words: Terra incognita. Raoul joined his hands.

- All right, straight into the unknown, he muttered, not repress a smile of glorious conqueror. It was a new slogan to motivate us. We looked at all with the same light in the

LAYLA. The adventure was just beginning. Forward towards the unknown.

SECOND PERIOD: The Pioneers

85 - PRESS Journal de Paris: FEELING THE CONVENTION CENTRE: A FRENCH PUT THE FOOT ON THE CONTINENT OF THE DEAD The first man to officially set foot in the afterlife is French and is called Felix Kerboz. We has long argued in our editorials, our confidence in the ambitious projects of our president Lucinda. Thanks to his efforts is a national team has trumped all of our global competitors, advancing pioneer on the mainland of the dead. Our magazine decrees already Kerboz Felix Man of the Year, and launched a petition that he be awarded at the earliest Legion of Honor.

London Journal: A EUROPEAN IN THE BEYOND Death can be visited. A team of researchers Europe has managed to put a man in the afterlife and bring back safe and sound. As too often, alas! success has been preceded by many failed attempts. It is estimated that hundreds of human guinea pigs have suffered in France casts of this unconventional project. Felix Kerboz, He survived this massacre gloriously despite sarcasm of French opinion, unanimous in condemning this she described as “laboratory of the programmed death.” A British team is about to launch its

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turn in this adventure. A case to follow, therefore, in our columns. Journal of Tokyo: IN SEARCH OF HIS ANCESTORS A man wanted at all costs from seeking his ancestors. A Westerner named Felix tried to Kerboz join his ancestors by committing suicide in potassium chloride, particularly toxic product. He woke up twenty minutes later, absolutely free. Researchers Japan is now trying to answer the most

daring Question: Can we visit the land of our ancestors (And possibly shoot) as well as any What other country tourism in the Earth? New York newspaper: FRENCH SACRED A small team of French researchers has craft embarked on a bizarre experience: poisoned to visit the afterlife. In recent weeks, the French informed of the project, spat their president, Jean Lucinda, accusing him of being a murderer in series, the project carried out under his patronage that caused a hundred victims to complete. As for inventive researchers, they were threatened with legal action As is common in France that scientists have the wings clipped by red tape. (It also the reason why the best scientists French have become accustomed to emigrate to the United States where they can work in peace for their future Nobel Prize.) This time, four brave citizens were able to prove the value their work to a nation and even hostile to experts, and this before the cameras of international television, present to testify that Felix left for Kerboz continent of the dead and returned without damage. T a former criminal, sentenced to life imprisonment and pardoned in reward for this feat and is now entering a career of my self-made. Several U.S. companies it have already offered large sums of money so that he interprets herself in a big budget film. It has not yet given its response but is already thinking about Carol Turkson for the role of the nurse Amanda and Fred

O’Bannon for the French President Lucinda. Soon on your screens. Journal of Rome: POPE FURIOUS The French, having made up his mind to conquer the continent the dead, the Pope expressed his indignation that science seeks to exceed his rights. “Death belongs to God and God speaks through the voice of the Vatican, “recalled the Holy Father, adding: “We can not encourage these shipments of people in the afterlife. We urge the French authorities to contact the Archdiocese of Paris before any new shipment of this type. “A papal bull is expected from one moment to another. Journal of Madrid: IF LUCINDA The President of the French Republic Jean Lucinda spent several weeks in his country for a perfect madman. But now it turns out to be a particularly enlightened mind we should perhaps follow the example. Certainly, Lucinda has often failed of humor and never showed much compassion with respect to nations in need. Moreover, we already criticized in our columns the protectionist policy and short-sighted. We do not bear witness so that more admiration for the great purpose he maintained in the greatest secret: the conquest of the continent from the dead! Against all odds, the guinea pig is French Felix Kerboz managed to visit the Continent and ultimate return. Our government thinks launch

a program of study who seek to better understand this phenomenon. Journal of Berlin: a diversion The French are certainly resourceful. While that their economy is in trouble, that strikes succeed with hostile demonstrations, they seek in vain to stem the spread of drugs and immigration waves illegal, their president, Jean Lucinda tries to divert the minds of the crisis by engaging in experiments of death. It would come, they say, to send a

man in the afterlife. A team of German experts will check soon this dubious experiment. Journal of Beijing: DEATH LAST COLONY Green light for the conquest of the continent from the dead. As at the time of gunboat diplomacy, great powers do not hide their colonial appetites. in the past .. ” few days and despite the discretion and denials surrounding their operations, U.S. experts, English, German, Italian and Japanese have begun to thanatodromes build. Reliably, we learned that the French Kerboz Felix has already reached a kind of zero, invisible and impossible to cross. This boundary-limit would be located in coma more than twenty minutes.

86 - AFTER THE VICTORY More doubt. The scientific community, the public and the press hailed the success of the project “Paradise”. The expert panel came to the convention center to overwhelm us, gave a report to Parliament recognizing On the contrary our merit and our seriousness. No one dared to mention the “laboratory of death programmed “or” mass grave presidential “. “What is death? What is death? What is death? What is death? What than death? What is death ?…» I could write this sentence in twenty pages. It fau

drait to restore at least that degree of eagerness to know within me. When we do not know, we do not ask too many questions, but when you start to have a beginning of explanation

tion is desperate to know everything, understand everything.

Death became a mystery within range of my my brain neurons and demanded more information

tion. The fact of having approached, almost controlled, should have reassure me. “Death, this is it. A country that can make a round trip! “Hercules, precursor, was

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already made in hell to deal with Cerberus. Why not? we? Raoul had pulled it off, I was now tormented by the desire to know what happened to people after they Death. What happen to me, to me, when all was over? After all, if life were a soap opera, as knowing when would end the last episode. For my part, I was still in shock. Questions multiplied in my

head. The iiomme could he, by dint imagination and conviction, winning all dimensions? What were its limitations? Above all, What was death, death, death …? President Lucinda We met in conference the Elysee Palace. He received us in his work room, a place packed computers and monitors, almost austere, very in any case far from the splendid ceremonial office where he usually received its official visitors in a luxury Louis XV. The Head of State told us that we should now into overdrive. We had finished with the Skeptics. We were now faced with new opponents copiers. Indeed, as the price of our fame throughout the world were built of thanatodromes.

- No way to let the Americans doubled or the Japanese. It has already been in aviation, he railed. The Wright brothers claimed to have made the first plane as we all know that the first to have a set point was Clement Ader! You have successfully completed a off, beware, there will certainly claim have gone before you in the afterlife. After our victory at the convention center, found by a large audience, I can not imagine some obscure team foreign presenting for us to challenge the primacy of the research. I protested. - We have the chemical formula accurate booster a

“champion” to present to the whole world, We even invented the vocabulary of travel between the two worlds. Our historical precedent is indisputable table and our lead so great that the other will time to catch up. Lucinda raised her arms to heaven. - Do you? While our members on chipotent our credits, American universities are the sums considerable available to researchers. And they work not in the shallows of a prison, them! With a dentist’s chair more worthy of a museum room as a place of experimentation! No, they will swim in the luxury, with all the most modern equipment in the world! Moreover, we will also pass to the next level. I see only one way to meet your needs: Razorbak professor, Dr. Pinson, miss Ballus and Mr. Felix Kerboz, you are now directly attached to the Presidency. I called senior of State. It was Conrad who would make a head when I announce it. It was perfect. We can improve our lab is congratulated Raoul. Lucinda interrupted

- Oh no, Razorbak over yourself! It’s competition it is international. Our country has its place in take over the world. In addition, we have no reason to hide. On the contrary, we must operate in big day. So we will build a new

thanatodrome, more modern and spacious. We must build a be “historic.” A new triumphal arch. The arc of triumph of the conqueror of death. Like many politicians, Lucinda would

vrait his own words. At the same time, he took pleasure to galvanize a company that he considered his own. We Constitutions his elite troops, a commando personnel explorers do anything to help him get into the His

tory. However, we do not share the same ambitions. Yes he was in search of immortality, we, we were looking adventure and wanted to pierce a mystery as old as humanity itself. A bailiff, golden necklace around her neck, opened the door to

loud noise. The hearing was over. Other Business called the President. It was time for us to clear out. - Our specialized services will keep me informed of progress of our opponents, he says (and, in parting, he added:) And now, miss, gentlemen, trust and at work! 87 Jewish philosophy “The life we ​are accustomed to death by sleep Life tells us that there is another life in the dream. “ Eliphas Levi. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 88 - FAMILY AFFAIR After the excitement of the convention center, I spent one week alone in my apartment. I found that the Loneliness is more bearable than in the euphoria defeat, but yet I do not suffer less. Sum: all, I expected what? With hordes of fans watching my comings and goings at the bottom of the building? I always was Michael Pinson, and man alone, photo in the press or not, Michael Pinson, lonely man I stayed. As an epitaph, I imagined very well on my stone tombstone: “Here lies Michael Pinson, simple, and only as to everyone. “

I consoled myself with white port and spend hours rereading old books of mythology. Tired of these texts often tedious, I leafed through the some random magazines. All of these were filled articles on the happiness of players so beautiful and smiling who marry and make mistakes as I snapped his fingers. Each page spread out the obscene image of a beaming couple the happiness of marriage or childbirth. The scribblers ensured they were great, unique, award-winning small still, relaxed and friendly at all times. They often

kept the fight against polio, they adopted children third world, they spoke of love as the only irreplaceable value, they presented their new friends, great and smiling too. The Thanatonautes were all happy now. Felix was a star. Raoul found the path of his father, President Lucinda was famous, Amanda thought he could save men, and for me? Me, I was idle. One to talk to, nobody to to give my pain and my joy mixed. Again, I want to scream at the moon as coyotes in the desert. Aouuuuuu! I stopped as soon as neighbors showed. I forced myself to read each rabies articles speaking of the happiness of actors, artists, Politicians

We had to take. I was too impatient. He was 30 and 10 h, at that moment, I could not help to issue a wish. That of being surrounded by people with whom discuss it. - Hi, the company! No luck, it was my mother and brother. They threw me. - My boy, my toddler, I am so proud of you. I always knew you would succeed! A mother feels that … - Bravo, brother, for a good shot it was a good time! They took possession of my couch as if they were home and my brother laid hands on what I had white port. Conrad then proceeded to tell me about my interests Financial now that I would manage with the help of a advice. My mother pointed out that with the reputation that was now mine, I could probably marry a beautiful actress or an heiress of high flying. She had articles cut from magazines on several char-praying young people who might suit me. - All women will fall at your feet, Declarat-her greedy eye. But is … I have a girlfriend, I said to Just in case, just my desire to protect its cumbersome solicitude. My mother was indignant at once: - “What? How? she belched. You have a girlfriend and you

hide it from your mother! - Because … - I guess that is, jubilant Conrad. The friend Michael is the nurse! The beautiful little blonde chick eyed Marine who was with you on the set of the Palace Congress! Hat, bro, it looks like Grace Kelly but better. It’s funny, though. By the way it threw herself into the arms of your guinea pig, I would have thought she was in love! As usual, my damn brother had put his finger on my most egregious weakness and he took pleasure in driving the knife in the wound. My mother stopped him: - A nurse? Why not? Don’t worry. Job When you marry her? I’d be really happy see you married. You really need to put a woman order in your life. Looks like you’re bundle! You’ll catch a cold if you do not cover enough. In addition, you probably eat all the time at the restaurant. Restaurants, they save as much as possible about customers, they serve only the remains and product category. I hope you never eat meat? - I know, Mom, I know, I admitted in an effort to contain the avalanche. - So much the better. Your nurse will teach you to feed and clothe you. Listen to me, at least. Begins not to play the proud pretext that saw you on TV! No, Mom, I said. - No, what? - No, I do not play the proud. Ah, I warn you, you will not begin to snub because you have become an international star! None of that with us, huh? Rather surrendering that entering an empty discussion! Conrad sneered, mocking face that it took for the bid. Leafing through the books placed on my coffee table, it exclaimed:

- Hey, you give in mystical literature, now? - I read what I like and I have to be accountable to person, I got on my nerves. I was willing to bow to bow, but my mother to Conrad, it was too ask. This colt: - The Popol Vuh or Book of events is a grimoire a sorcerer? I snatched the precious work of the hands. - This is the bible of the Mayan Quiches Mexican spat I face. Really? And this: I Ching, The Book of Changes, and then that, the Bardo Thödol, The Book of the Dead. And this, Ramayana. Hey, there is everything here. It does you lack more than the Kama Sutra! - Conrad, if you came to provoke me, the hell before I break your face! Returns show off with your money, your cars and your wives and leave me in peace! - The peace of the graveyard! Conrad sang. I rushed, fists up, when my mother intervened. - Do not talk to your brother in that tone. Him, he brought me that satisfaction. Him, he got married, he gave me grandchildren. He did nothing wrong! Him, he does not play the proud because he went on television. What tear his hair with an oyster knife! I breathed slowly to regain my composure. - If you are from as exasperating me, I prefer not keep you any longer. You were afraid I be happy? You want me to spoil my fun? My mother had noticed that, as is my habit, I had left open the top button of my shirt be more comfortable

and, as usual, she quickly to close, pinching my neck in the process. She took advantage of I was suffocating to take over the monopoly of conversation. - How dare you talk in that tone? indignant-her We thee always encouraged. Even when you spend your time hanging out in cemeteries with Razorbak, I’ve never been to blame, and yet I know many mothers who have not allowed their children to attend small nuts. - Raoul is not crazy! - It is still a bit special, you admit it and … - They talk about me? One of these days, I would have thought to put strong locks on my door. We came here as in a mill. Locks, a peephole, a bell, and hello privacy! Meanwhile, never mind if Raoul had heard about disparaging of my mother! He too did not arise unannounced. - Hello, Raoul, ‘I said coldly. - Yes, Professor Razorbak, admitted my brother’s full respect for the voice, we were just talking about you. We believe, as you are now rich and famous, you need a financial adviser to look your interests. After all, you two and the girl, you form like a rock band. You need an impresario, someone who manages your image, which takes care of your contracts, which … I expected that Raoul dry fly that wag. Not at all, he listened attentively. - It’s your brother? asked he. - Yes, I admitted ruefully. - And I’m his mother! trumpeted proudly said progenitor. Raoul

had landed one of his hands on his chin. - He has ideas, your brother, he admitted, yes it will We have to manage our new thanatodrome at the end. Conrad is bridled, saying his plans: - Exactly, I thought it would be interesting to open a gift shop next to your new thanatodrome. We could sell Tshirts as it. “Dying is our business” could be read on that he drew from his pocket. I was appalled. Not Raoul. He examined the fabric. - Good idea! It shrinks in the wash? No! It is guaranteed colorfast, I checked, my mother said. Raoul, willing to sell off our projects sacred merchants Temple? I could not. - “But …” He imposed his silence. - Your brother is right, Michael. A shop would increase awareness of our work to establish our image brand to the general public. - And I’d be your press agent! exclaimed My loving mother. And like that, I could see Michael more often about her. I’ll take care better of him. I rubbed my eyes. No, I was not dreaming. We started by wanting to unravel the mysteries of death and So change life, change the world, change humanity … And now we find ourselves in the process of organizing opening a store “memories thanas.” We live a really wonderful time! Maybe if Jesus Christ returned to earth, also would have to popularize his message, “Love one another” on tshirts purple. And

“Blessed are the pure of mind, the kingdom of heaven belongs to them, “on sweatshirts White 70% cotton 30% acrylic wash with warm water. It should perfectly Conrad. I imagined the same Lao Tzu popularized in a shop for gadgets. “He who knows does not speak. Which speaks does not know. “A bikini string of thunder! Finally, if Raoul, my friend Professor Raoul Razorbak, there was nothing wrong, who was I to oppose it? My brother would open the store, would command the Tat and cheap wholesale to Taiwan and my mother would take the boutique. I shrugged, repeating to myself that at least the ridicule him, did not kill anyone. - And your nurse, when will you me this? took my mother to finish me off. 89 - MYTHOLOGY AUSTRALIAN The mythology of Australian Aborigines suggests Numbakulla, the “Ever-Existent,” from scratch. Numbakulla is coming out of nowhere that suddenly appeared on earth naked. He heads to the north and mountains, rivers, ancillary plants and animals are born on their passage.

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While walking, he spreads the spirit children who are all of immortal souls from their bodies. In a cave, he serious sacred signs, called Tjurunga, with the power to radiate. The First Ancestor was born of the union a Tjurunga and child-mind. Other ancestors were generated later in the same way and are responsible for educating the first men. One day Numbakulla planted a pole in the middle of a Field He smeared his blood before climb and then made signed to the First Ancestor to join him. But the blood has given the post too slippery, the grandfather fell on the ground. Numbakulla was therefore only reach the sky and pulled the pole behind him. Plus we never saw him again.

Men have known that immortality them escaped forever. The sacred pole is the axis around which running order of this world as the wanted Numbakulla. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 90 - THE THANATODROME Buttes-Chaumont

Thanks to the special funds of the Presidency of the Republic, We modern building, a beautiful thanatodrome. It was not an arch but a small building aspect modern, in a quiet neighborhood. We chose site thoroughly. It was in the Rue Botzaris, at the top of the Buttes-Chaumont. Raoul had thought it amusing to study the death near the site where once stood the gibbet of Montfaucon, of evil memory. There were hanged in the name of the king, innocent and robbers the Middle Ages. In two months, everything was ready. We had seven floors overlooking the park ButtesChaumont. The top four floors included twelve apartments, three increments. We Cassam walls at higher levels. We set and a laboratory of 220 square meters in the fifth and a

room off of the same dimensions, in the sixth. Ministry

seventh floor was converted into a penthouse, fully enclosed by a glass translucent in winter, outdoor terrace in summer. Amandine accommodate with a lot of green plants a reception room for his taste. In this colonial decor, it added a Steinway piano white and a black bar. The place was really the biggest chic! At the bottom of the building, a plaque sober was “Thanatodrome de Paris “and, in smaller type,” Access personnel only. ” Raoul had proposed the addition also: “Attention, flight of Thanatonautes” as it says: “Attention runways” in the vicinity of airports. The idea we had lots of fun. President Lucinda opened typically the building by smashing a bottle on his door. The true Champagne, This time, not fluffy. We do not skimp more. A presentation evening was held in the penthouse, for the press. The head of state pro

nounced a short speech welcoming of our efforts and we encouraging them to maintain the lead in the race to conquer the “Ultimate Continent.” Standing on a platform surrounded by succulents, he enumerated sadly lost colonies by France, Canada, India, West Africa, only

ment because she had not kept his lead. - This time, we remain the first, he concluded with force. Then, under the flash of reporters, we all decorated four of a distinction he had specifically devised for us: the Legion of Honor Thanatonautes. The medal was a man with angel wings rushing to a circle of fire. Perhaps, at this very moment where we warmed Heat the success and fame, she was dead now we look from above, like piranhas fun to see from the river muddy children a lakeside village in the process of making a diving board fortune patched with boards. I drove these thoughts and returned to the noisy environment of our reception. The journalist RTV1 was still there, Amanda asked questions but it seemed little inclined to answer him. Amandine’s dumb. It had to be look,

that’s all. But the reporter did not know look at. He asked questions and did not listen to answers, he was filming without seeing. By dint of using the senses artificial micro and camera, he had atrophied senses : However, Amanda was so beautiful. She wore what evening a black lamé sheath but I avoided his eyes blue marine attracted me as two sinkholes. My mother took advantage of a respite from the reporter RTV1 for the watering of answers to questions that had not thought to ask. “Yes, a store Thanatonautes would open “,” Yes, this store would offer Tshirts and gadgets recalling experiences Thanatonautes ”” No, there would be no balances before the summer. “ The President continued his spiel on the platform, gargling its own findings. - The badge, uttered Lucinda, brandishing his medal is to reward those who contribute to Thanatonautes progress, including our colleagues foreigners who come here will work with us. Bonne luck to all! Sacred Lucinda. He was really ready for anything to have his name in history books. Be president who had encouraged experiments on death enough for him. To make sure you make an impression in time and space, he also had to invent his Medal, the “Medal Lucinda” and thanatodrome. A place which, no doubt, would one day name Lucinda thanatodrome as airports JFK or Roissy-Charles de Gaulle.

As for his idea to come here every Thanatonautes victorious, she would never be exceeded by foreigners. Well played. I gave him a toast. 91 - TIBETAN MYTHOLOGY “Know more: Outside of your hallucinations

There is no judge of the dead Lord And Monsters No winners of death, Majusri. Understand it and be released. “

Bardo Thodol, The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 92 - WORK The day after the official opening, we sat with arms and baggage in our palace death. The President had planned for private apartments all of us. Plus a laboratory multiple access so that we can work at night. Indeed, as All we had problems in neighborhood the

smear campaign that preceded the meeting of Convention center, we moved in with jubilation this environment new. I opted for a home on the third floor. Then I joined the lab a very tormented Raoul by the desire to go for the President Lucinda. - Americans, Japanese, English … It has only these words in his mouth. He understands nothing. This is a long-term task. We can not argue that step, and we are surrounded by the greatest precautions, Moreover. I was surprised to see my friend take on such a suit moderator, he who had always encouraged to go forward in spite of all hazards. - Do not confuse speed with haste. First calm the Felix who wanted to increase the flights. Our Thanatonautes had changed since his victory the convention center. He gave interview on interview. He was constantly invited on television to games or debate and, whatever the issue, he loved it. After thirty years he had been treated as a

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plastic surgeon had reshaped her face scarred. A renowned ophthalmologist had managed to get rid of these contact lenses that forced him to blink. For his bald head, he had used the implants. The most covering the couture clothing as advertising. Beautiful and elegant, Felix Kerboz embodied the perfect hero of death. He was seen everywhere. He was first of all, of all openings, all major parties in the nightclubs in fashion. Invite the world’s only Thanatonautes at his table was a privilege fought the teachers house the most exclusive. Felix had also entered in the Guinness Book of Records as a man known for having advanced the farthest in the world post-vital. Among the most powerful spitting cherry pits and biggest beer drinker, there appeared dressed as Superman, alongside a beautiful supermodel wielding a scythe. Felix was really become very fashionable. On the one hand, we were delighted, as this would encourage the return this world rather than be dragged up there by who knew what a temptation too. On the other, we annoyed of perpetual delays inevitably engendered its sleepless nights. He sometimes spent whole days to recover in bed instead of coming to thanatodrome his office in a way. In addition, he was so used the admiration he lent an ear more distracted our advice and our work.

Still, Felix Kerboz preserved a remnant of conscientiousness. The first week of our installing the Buttes-Chaumont, he managed two other back and forth. He confirmed the existence of a wall “coma over twenty one minute. ” A kind of hazy that membrane compared to a transparent and thin lips. “After the wall, the silver cord that holds the world broken and will no longer want to turn back, “thought-it. All the newspapers took up the phrase “Wall comatose. ” Some also called “wall of death”

or even “a Moloch” or “Moch a” parallel with the sound barrier, Mach 1. Moloch, it reminded me of Baal, the Phoenician god Carthage. On a trip to Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, I saw its representation. A large statue of hollow metal. We lit a fire in his belly. Were thrown in children and sacrifice virgins in his gaping mouth. Just down on the ground floor, my mother had opened her shop and sold as agreed tee-shirts, key chains and caps. His shop was modestly called “In conquerors of death. “ There were all sorts of miscellaneous items: the beer mugs on which was written: “Death is our Job An inscription in

bold letters was part of all other gadgets, “Ash, you return to the ashes” on ashtrays, “The last kills” on watches, “Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed “on paper hygienic “I am dying and I like it” on the candles “The Heaven will not wait “on kites. There were also Felix the array of small, videotapes of off the convention center, the perfect little boxes anesthetist Thanatonautes with my photo. It was a taste … Finally … we choose our friends, we do not choose your family.

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Message to the services concerned The movement Thanatonautes is poised to take proportions impossible to suppress the normal channels of intervention. The Thanatonautes has become a fact of life. Failure to possibility of action on the movement itself, we can But its main bench players (see identification cards) Razorbak including Raoul, Michael and Amanda Pinson Ballus. Consider dangerous to leave it longer. They may give rise to serious disorders. Ask permission to act.

Response services affected Advised to wait and see. Too early to intervene.

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94 - theological problems - It’s fine, your “wall coma,” but if you do not offer a logical explanation to the public, it will soon take you to the charlatans and me too by the bargain! In his office filled with computers and screens control, the President Lucinda was very excited. He had right: discourse resulting experience is often more important than the experience itself. Pasteur was also not private time to interpret its results before they have really checked. We made a fantastic discovery. To us to explain the concept to the public. The long hands of Raoul lit one of his cigarettes bidder. He blew smoke thoughtfully before report: - I may be interpreted to suggest to your public. The President himself comfortable in his chair with wheels. It triggered a small automatic massage system back. - Go ahead, he said sympathetically. Raoul inhaling and

exhaling with pleasure to a smoke ring eucalyptus. - There is a first explanation would be: death is a biological regression. In a “classic death “After the neocortex is blown, the conscience falls into the rhinencephalon and at that time can be observe an NDE. There are still chemical relations between the neocortex and rhinencephalon, which makes that people can remember this tunnel. Then the awareness falls into the reptilian brain. There are still relations between the neocortex and rhinencephalon, but more between the neocortex and the reptilian brain. It does not store no longer. Nobody told this phase. On the other hand, were stimulated this reptilian brain, which caused dreams, hallucinations, outdoor shows at home with Lilliputian characters. Consciousness is then the reptilian brain cells and cells to the nucleus of DNA. DNA is made up since the beginning of the world So this time we perceive, in a kind of state second conscience, the original world. Lucinda raised her hand and turned to me. - I did not understand. And you, Michael, you have a interpretation? - A recent theory speaks of “tachyons”. They are any new particles that have just been discovered in atomic accelerator in Saclay. The tachyons are extraordinary property: they are faster than light. This could be what is in the field of - onsciousness - When the morning

is a bit vasouillard it Apparently it is the tachyons of consciousness that are not yet returned to our skin. Theorists tachyon think it is a particle that has no past or future. It could be tachyons that make up “the matter “of the soul. Lucinda stroked his dog. - It’s attractive, your history of particles conscience, but the word “tachyon” does not seem very the media. And enough of this scientific mumbo jumbo. What’s up? shave all. You, Raoul, I think you interested in the mystical. What is the mystique that gives to the most “credible”? - Well, according to the Bardo Thodol, The Book of the Dead Tibetan, we would actually consist of three bodies. - Are you kidding? You want me to tell this to my constituents? gasped the head of state. - I repeat the assertions of the Bardo. So we have three bodies. The first is “physical body “. It is made of matter, solid, physical and gas, all make up our body. Connected to the five senses, we provide all our visual perceptions, auditory, sensory, etc.. In our death, matter rots and falls to dust. The second body would be the “Vital body”. It is a magnetic envelope that surrounds the physical body and which determines the lines of force and lines of weakness. Here are the meridians energy mentioned by the Chinese and the chakras indicated by Indian yogis. Here our natural energy flows, that we issue and that we receive from outside. This energy, the Indians call it Prana and Chinese Ki. Vercingetorix yawned by releasing a trickle of drool. I

noticed Only when he was at least curious that President who thought he was Caesar has named his dog Vercingetorix. Dominate a labrador, poor victory! Faced with the mystical-scientific discourse my friend pragmatic elected by the people seemed uncomfortable. Continue intima there though. - From our “vital body” depend on our outreach, our vibration, our charism. Everything that we like or they dislike people for no apparent reason. In addition, the disease is after all an imbalance between our physical body and our body vital. Where acupuncture Chinese releases energy and makes some points movement in other … Physical body, vital body … I guessed the thoughts of Lucinda. Should we get rid of as soon as this scientist crazy that this was through with the dirty work and replace any more leading scientists “Presentable”? For a moment the eyes of the President got lost on me as on a possible successor. After all, I was in on it from the beginning and my mind still seemed healthy. All his explanations, Raoul does not doubt perceived of his interlocutor. Undaunted, he continued: - Descartes, however, did not something else stating: “The difference between the body and the soul is that the body is divisible, while the soul is indivisible. ” As if everything fits

together … Okay, so it may happen that vital body and physical body from separating. - Under what circumstances? - Hum, under the influence of drugs, for example, or when it vanishes, we experience an orgasm, or that psychological trauma suffered very strong. - Or if you find yourself immersed in a coma? Exactly! My father, who worked on the lot question, felt that some mystics and psychics are perfectly able to separate voluntarily vital body of their physical body. He was professor of philosophy, but he had a very scientific approach things … He said it would be like getting rid of a glove transparent stuck to our skin. The President patted his dog. - I also found writings by a teacher Rupert Sheldrake at the end of the twentieth century. The physicist ensured that the objects had independent forms their field. The tree was already registered to come in seed, the old man was buried in the fetus and forms circulating such mobile databases. Sheldrake had provided evidence of the existence of such intangible forms without giving a convincing explanation so far. An electromagnetic phenomenon, perhaps? After: all, we all have our own electromagnetic fingerprint. This energy is only if we feel by bringing the palms of our hands. Yet it is there, small ball sometimes we perceive as a small sun in us taking the hands from the front, or by touching the skin of a stranger

suddenly and receiving like an electric shock. We toyed with a shell invisible. In fact, maybe we have touched a soul! Lucinda grew impatient: - And the third body? he asked. 95 - INTERVIEW Read in the women’s magazine. MF: The soul, you say? KERBOZ: Yes. It’s like an invisible glove to us covers and removed. MF: Be more specific. KERBOZ: There, my body looks like a transparent cloud, filled with reflections of different colors. He married the normal contour of my body but it has neither consistency or weight and it moves as fast as he wants. It can through the objects as objects can pass through.

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MF: It’s an ectoplasm? KERBOZ: I do not know what an ectoplasm. I speak my body became transparent. Humans can to see him, he can not communicate with them. credit However, it can capture the thoughts of the living. What a feeling strange! MF: What about travel? KERBOZ: It travels at the speed of

thought. When I ‘m transparent [mimicking a swimming motion], I Can you pass that way. I remain, however, connected to my physical body by a silver cord, a kind of lifeline light and elastic. MF: And it’s nice to fly with his “transparent body “? KERBOZ: Yes. It feels not to have Limitations We no longer afraid of injury or fatigue. There is only one thought in suspension, capable of travel at the speed of ideas. MF: We do have a lot of courage to return Then his body in pain! KERBOZ: Right. Especially when you have an ingrown toenail! 96 - Japanese philosophy “Death is the Way of the Samurai. If you have to choose between death and life, without hesitation opt for death. Nothing is simpler. Gather your courage and do it. Are to believe Some die without having accomplished his mission would be futile. This is an infringement of ethics samurai, who betrays Calculator arrogant spirit merchants of Osaka. In such a situation, it becomes almost impossible to make the right choice. We all prefer to live. Nothing more natural than to seek a reason for survive. But he who chooses to continue living while he has failed in its mission, this one will incur the contempt deserve the cowardly and miserable. “

Hagakure, the samurai code of honor, seventeenth century. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

97 - The mental body President Lucinda focused on what the Professor Razorbak. Myself, I was once again impressed with my friend. Raoul knew so much! How many volumes had he stored in his skull? When you listen to Raoul, we say that a good library worth all the gurus and all the sages of the East world! - Three bodies, you say, ‘said Lucinda. The physical body, the vital body, and then? - The mental body. It provides us with our thoughts, ideas, our consciousness. Somatization and the mental body imbalance at the energies of the vital body. He makes me talk to you right now. It analyzes and summarizes all information from our senses and gives meaning intellectual. It is the mental body which falls love, laughing and crying. The head of state was now fascinated. - Physical body, vital body, mental body. Not that simple ….

yes, but that’s would explain why we won the beyond while pretending to sleep! 98 - DINNER BY CANDLELIGHT We discovered in front of a small restaurant thanatodrome Thai gradually became our canteen. He was held by Mr. Lambert, a pure Thai Chiang Mai, a specialist noodles sauteed with basil. As we discussed with Amanda and Felix of our conversation with President, and new objectives Thanatonautes, a boy stuck to our table. - You are Mr Felix Kerboz? asked it to Félix. Our hero nodded, smug, always happy to be recognized. The child asked for an autograph and we were immediately

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ment surrounded by a body of admirers, all swearing that Felix was even more beautiful in reality than on television. I paid the bill in a hurry and we fought a retreat. Felix, He would have gladly lingered. It shone in the sun compliments. He signed his name on menus, paper towels, tickets, restaurants and his eyes sparkled of happiness. He finally felt loved.

99 - MYTHOLOGY KENYAN For the Bantu, the origin of man was immortal. To confirm it, God first sent a chameleon. Then, on reflection, God changed his mind and appointed a second messenger, a bird this time, to inform him that, not at all, man had to die. The chameleon had happened long before the bird. Unfortunately, it stuttered and had not yet finished its message to men. The bird had no difficulty in make known his: men die and never return to Earth in a form similar to that taken during a previous life. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 100 - FELIX goes too far A month after the inauguration of the Buttes-thanatodrome Chaumont, Amandine solemnly announced his engagement with Felix. I, poor fool that I was, I did not see anything or I did not want to see. But we talked about Amandine, Raoul and me. We had agreed that, to please this girl was the only way to die. There was only Thanatonautes to interest. Still, what could she find this brute of Felix? Okay, it was famous, and after? In any case, once again our mysterious Amandine escaped me completely.

When the couple moved in, I admit I felt a

small twinge of regret. I tried not to let the jealousy dominate my friendship. Side work, Felix had great shout throughout the press Soon he would cross a Moch, there still could no. Worse, he hesitated more to take off. Now it Amanda was and had become the darling of All-Paris, he had little desire to venture back into artificial coma. We could not let sit longer our hopes on this one and capricious Thanatonautes. We be reconstructed as soon as a stable. Felix was the first conviction. Just in case, we passed a small advertisement in newspapers, “the Paris Thanatodrome looking for volunteers. “ We thought that candidates for the big jump to count on the fingers of one hand. Surprise: more than one thousand hotheads appeared. The selection was draconian. Raoul, Amandine, Felix and I spent the literally on the grill. All of us, Felix was the most ferocious reviewer. Of course, he knew the risks and he preferred to cool the enthusiasm rather than their Counselor: “Go ahead! Do you send in the air! You will see breath away like that! “ The top athletes and movie stunt proved to be best equipped to pass our test of selection. These boys were

familiar with their bodies and, moreover, they knew what it was like to take risk until close to death. Daredevil, but not too much! For the second official Thanatonautes, we chose Jean Bresson. This stunt took off and landed with experienced ease. It comes close to that of a Moch far, but according the description he gave, Felix himself admitted that he had successful. Reached Bresson “coma over eighteen minutes.” three Other Thanatonautes then stopped “coma over seventeen minutes “. We still had not pushed the limits of Terra incognita, placed “over twenty-coma one minute, “but we knew now perfectly what was around: a large multicolored gas corridor and swirling. For these four relative success, we knew twenty-three failures. We stepped up precautions and yet young and too impatient boiling had passed between mesh of our net. We further affinâmes Our test battery selection. It was important to retain that people are mature enough and have a strength of character large enough to resist the lure of the light lethal. Outside the show-off saw, who sought only to impress their boyfriends or girlfriends entering our noble brotherhood! Outside the desperate, who considered Thanatonautes as the latest in suicide! Out the evil-in-their-skin, who wanted

whether there was better than here! A good Thanatonautes is a happy man, healthy in body and mind, and that would everything to lose by dying. We finally selected preferably fathers family! By dint of experience, we have still to present several certainties: 1. The body remained. Only the soul traveling. 2. In escaping, the soul took the form of an ectoplasm white, able to pass through all materials and fly at least at the speed of light. 3. At the time of death, was in the ectoplasm sky until you reach a blue funnel ending in a Bright. 4. The ectoplasm was connected to the mortal coil by a silver cord. 5. If the cord was cut, any return to life was impossible. 6. In “coma over twenty-one minutes,” there was a wall. Science journalists divulguèrent few information and we began to count thousands of DIYers who attempted takeoff boosters by using more or less craft. Some shoots for thiopental, other chloride. But they did not know the correct dose. Each week brings a lot of accident victims Thanatonautes. Some send each in the hereafter with

barbiturates, and even weeding. Of erotomaniacs were using orgasm. Everything was good as a fuel: red wine, mushrooms hallucinogens, vodka, cocaine, jump elastic seafood

adulterated, electric shock … In short, everything that could be a disconnect human reality! Nothing was more fashionable than “Thanatonautes.” “You’re not even done for you in decorporation “Became the most trivial insults. It will involve consultation that the individual was a physical body. It was not even able to let his body speak vital or mental body. To stop the slaughter, President Lucinda passed a law punishing prison sentences who seek to practice in Thanatonautes outside the confines of official Thanatodrome Paris. After a period of green, Felix decided to return to attack its own record. On several occasions he summoned reporters and cameras, but despite attempts repeated he was unable to cross a Moch. In strength, Press tired. In each of his return among the living, Felix saw shrink the crowd of his admirers. Not to it is quite discouraging, Amandine, Raoul and I went to pay for extras to fill the forum the press. Felix was not fooled: he had learned to know

who who was in the media. As it became increasingly sad and melancholy, We advised him to retire. After all, it had already done enough for the growth of Thanatonautes. But he does not swerve, he would retire after Moch exceeded 1. It turned home at the obsession. 101 - Vedic mythology Advance advance by the ancient paths where it went to my first fathers! The two kings, and the Yoma 174.

god Varuna, who delight in the funeral rite, thou ‘ll see. Rig-Veda X, 14 Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 102 - A LITTLE REST

Suddenly everything went wrong. Felix became more more irascible. He put his marriage to Amanda indefinitely. Suspicious bruises we learned he beat her. Moreover, in the evening, the shards of their domestic squabbles resounded in the apartments neighbors. Lending him his own greed, Felix accused Amandine of not wanting to pay for. It was true that he enjoyed excellent income, especially since President Lucinda had allocated a grant in thanatology. Its interviews are still negotiating a good price. He had hired a literary agent to sell souvenirs to the editor the highest bidder, lucrative contract to boot. My brother was willing a percentage of all Tshirts bearing his image. In fact, there was enough food for a big account banking Amanda wiped the blows and insults but clenched teeth. His admiration for the Thanatonautes was the strongest. It was only when Felix began to appear with women of easy virtue that its veneer of stoicism cracked. She came crying on my shoulder. I comforted my best. From the first moment I was madly in love, but I avoided, however, to issue any dubious about her fiancé. She would have no not forgiven the derogatory remarks she poured Yet in abundance in the Thai restaurant of Mr. Lambert.

Two glasses of rice wine, mineral water flowed sinkholes navy. - Pull yourself. - It is so unfair. He seems to blame myself for me to be unable to get past the first wall of death. I do not mind help, but it would still tell me to consent to HOW: - We must understand, I said. She would not talk. Amandine was all a world of things learned, hidden things. The day this girl would open the closets of his brain, one discovers probably quite a mess. For now, she preferred to accumulate and show nothing. Only this crisis and these tears showed a moment of weakness. I offered to walk a little. An hour later, we found ourselves in the cemetery of Pere-Lachaise. - This is where I met Raoul. - You are real friends, it’s beautiful, Amanda sighed. - When we were little, one was beaten up by the Huskies in the class. She went imperceptibly me. - I think I do not want to marry Felix she said. - Are you kidding, it will never recover. - Do not worry. He has a court females revolve around him. It will not long remain alone. Felix was a virgin, I told him what a woman. He visited the love and death together. Now he can stand on its own. I

have been an initiator. - Do you regret it? No! But I know that we are not made to Living together - You are mistaken. While Felix runs left and right, there than you he really likes. You’re so audessus other. You have a class that … She laughed a little miserable. - Hey, what do. would not you who would be telling me dredge? My turn to close the lips of my secrets. She pressed herself against me, confident, and we stayed there, in the cold garden graves, not far from the grave Nerval, to contemplate the stars. His warm little heart beat against my chest. A breath sweet singing in my ears. I would gladly have spent my life well, my nose buried in the golden fur of her hair. From a brutal blow torch, a guard in search of vandals we drew me from my enchantment, it’s torpor. She shook herself: - You are right, Michael. He must not let myself impressed by some disputes or by transient one-night stands. I am unfair to Felix and I will marry her when he wants. In the taxi back, we did not want to talk neither one nor the other. 103 - mayhem

The next day at thanatodrome Buttes-Chaumont, the atmosphere was stormy. Felix was drunk as back end usual, and with a prostitute over the Farmer’s Market They had slept on the carpet after it had vomited on the throne of launch. Arriving at dawn, Raoul had driven the girl before Amandine does surprise which was cleaned and cleaned, assisted by Jean Bresson. Despite several cups of hot coffee, Felix had always the hangover. - Me not make the moral mess! You know who I I? The first Thanatonautes the world. World Village. Cram you that much in the skull. The other, they are as assistants, subdrivers junk. Pure chance, I survins along Amandine. Felix once we settled on one finger. - And these are our two lovebirds! If you believe that I not understand your little game is that you take me for the king idiots! Raoul gave a sigh of exasperation. - The farm, Felix! I have bad news for us all. A fax has fallen this morning, the British were able to Moch join one. They are “coma over nineteen minutes.” So, Felix, you stop your nonsense and we went back to work with the rigor of the beginning. Up, seven o’clock. Lunch: fruits and cereals. Check-up before each takeoff. Discipline

and more discipline, only then that we will avoid being overtaken by these types. - On behalf of roasts, I’d be surprised, stammered Felix. Tomorrow, I get a “coma more than twenty-three” to small onions. “Oh, really…” Meanwhile, the first Thanatonautes the world, you fit in you sober up, curtly Raoul. When he took and his tone of command, even Felix stopped playing and the stars obeyed the undisputed leader team. Bending the spine, he made off on a final rot. That evening, we convened Raoul, Amanda and I in the penthouse. In this tropical setting, among the plants fat, our problems often seem trivial. But here, Raoul was serious: - Felix wrong, he says immediately. Look out! both of them. I know perfectly well that there is nothing between you but he has put ideas in mind and it disturbs him! I did not get into a debate painful for Amandine, I was eager to create a diversion. - It’s true what thou hast told this morning? Of English has really touched Moch 1? - It is quite formal. A Bill Graham heels Felix with his “coma over nineteen minutes.” You you understand that the situation is serious. He lit one of his thin cigarette and continued: - The stakes are too high. We are in a global race. There is no room for errors. So, Amanda, you will do me the

pleasure of having a frank explanation with Felix. Show him you support him and that, even if it is drunk, it disgusts you not. The applicant began by defending themselves. - But … but … - Do that for Thanatonautes, if you do not do it by passionate love. The young nurse accepted with resignation. The Day After! morning at dawn, the couple explained. This was especially Felix, who apologized for his behavior the night before. They decided to maintain the marriage and we resumed the flight procedures. While Felix was on the throne of launch, Raoul begged to be careful. - Do not worry, brother. As you say, “All right, straight into the unknown. ” He settled himself boosters in the veins. Then the count shatter. - Six … five … four … three … two … one. Off. Before closing his eyes, he threw another little phrase towards Amanda. - Forgive me. 104 - Chinese mythology “In the distant island of Ku-chee, live men transparent, white as snow, fresh as children. They do not consume any kind of food but suck the wind and drink dew. They walk around space, clouds serve as their tanks and dragons mounts. They do not care or disease monsoons. They are indifferent to everything. A Flood do not overwhelm it. Fire

world’s avoid. They have risen above it all. They go up in the air as if they were climbing the stairs and extend the empty as on a bed. The theft of their soul is everywhere. “

Chuang Tzu Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 105 - period Felix never returned in this world. He never married not and never told what he had seen behind Moch 1. The Grim Reaper had not allowed to ask new banderillas. Cerberus had devoured. Baal had snapped up. The death … killed him. Up there, he removed the mask of the Gorgon. He had

may have seen the face behind the face of skeleton Women in white satin. He had seen and had not returned to tell us what he saw. This had not been possible, or he did not perhaps sufficiently desired. The light attracts the bottom of the blue hall had been stronger our friendship. She was stronger than the celebrity, stronger than the love of Amandine, stronger than alcohol, prostitutes, adventure Thanatonautes. Death kept its mystery. There was some scandal sheet to imply I manipulated the boosters to get rid of a troublesome rival. I’m madly in love with our nurse, I would never have been able so far to kill voluntarily anyone, especially not Felix.

However, I wondered if Felix had not voluntarily missing. He knew he had died the pitfalls of fame and he destroyed little by little. More than anything, I think mainly he feared losing Amandine. Despite her sleeping around, he really loved, its first and only woman. In the end, he felt unworthy of her. With prostitutes, He was at ease. He found himself in poor environment of origin. The so beautiful and cultured Amandine impressed. Felix thought not worthy wife as gentle and kind. “Forgive me. “These were his terrible past words to Amanda. The man of the year and even decade was entitled to a state funeral. His mortal coil was buried the cemetery of Pere-Lachaise in a sumptuous marble mausoleum. A stele was engraved: “Here lies the first Thanatonautes the world. “ 106 - Native mythological The Trickster, or god Coyote, is one of the characters the most curious of Indian mythology of America North. Both clown cynical and god lecherous and murderous is often represented with a huge penis and intestines wrapped around the body.

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In the jokes Indian god Coyote is often wind fall guy. The Great Spirit allows generally to commit all the follies and evil that wishes and intervenes to fix things. Most often Trickster thinks he is being hurt, but in fact, his actions raise exactly opposite effects to those he had planned. So, Trickster, the little devil rival of the Great Spirit, which is far less evil would have thought. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 107 - BILL GRAHAM Jean Bresson was the second major Thanatonautes French. After the death of Felix Kerboz he inspired procedures security he had developed for its cascades film before attempting a new plunge. He had the idea to bring the chair off a timer electronics for instant feedback. It worked in the manner of a seat belt. Before off, the program for example its Thanatonautes Timer “coma more than twenty minutes.” It triggered Then at the appointed time a small electric shock that forced to retract the cord quickly and thus reducing Thanatonautes the earth.

Jean Bresson was a true professional. He stated on map precisely the area that was then brought us highly accurate sketches of his observations. I took advantage of reliable drivers try to improve the makes boosters. I tested a new process. Instead of dumping the narcotic of a sudden, it was sent at a lower dose and continuously. I used the Propofol (100 micrograms per kilogram per minute) associated with the morphine and a gas (desflurane, between 5 and 10% at the beginning, but I got better results with isoflurane between 5 and 15%). Finally, to stabilize the organic activity, a derivative of Valium: the Hypnovel (0.01 mg kg). These new

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We were now convinced that anyone could out of his body and engage in a decorporation. Matter of dosage. But Jean Bresson cashed well all my concoctions. He advanced at different rates. He explored “coma over eighteen minutes and twenty seconds, ”” coma over eighteen minutes and thirty-eight seconds, ”” coma over nineteen minutes and ten seconds. ” He treated his fitness, nutrition and studied its biological rhythms. It took into account all factors that may affect a decorporation, y including room temperature. (The best takeoffs

s’effectuèrent to a heat of 21 ° C, with humidity below the average.) His takeoffs were spotless. He carefully checked its boosters and focused for long minutes of the objective, in accordance with our maps. - Six … five … four … three … two … one. Off! We were waiting his return eyes on the dials electrocardiograms and electroencephalograms. Then put the timer on and gear Control warned us of its imminent arrival. - Six, five, four, three, two, one! Landing. Jean Bresson was meticulous and methodical. Step by step with rigor and discipline, he progressed on the continent dead. He refused any interviews to the press. He had given any love life to devote himself entirely to his professional activities. Every day, he recorded his progress in a notebook, and a small calculator decided a reasonable goal for the next day. Across the Channel, Bill Graham appeared with a same kind. He had already reached “over nineteen coma minutes and twenty-three seconds. “ The two men were now embedded in a terrible and dangerous race. Any misstep could their be fatal and they were aware. A satirical magazine London Bresson and Graham represented in the form of two little birds trying to clean out the teeth of a crocodile. “Hey, Bill, you think he will

keep the mouth open much longer? “, asked the French. And English replied, “No. And to you I give up. “ But inch by inch, every day two chicks sank deeper into the throat of the formidable reptile. “Coma over nineteen minutes and twenty-three seconds” for Graham. “Coma over nineteen minutes and thirty-five seconds” for Bresson. “Coma more than twenty minutes and one second” for Graham. The British had now reached the same level as Félix. He was facing the wall. Moch 1. And hard as it was, no doubt, to its next flight, it would exceed the first door. Raoul was furious: - We will be doubled by the British on the line arrival, we, the pioneers! It’s too stupid. His fears were well founded. Bill Graham was not anyone. For Thanatonautes, he had experienced good school, that of the circus. Former trapeze artist, he knew how to programmed to go into the air without a net. Interview The Sun had also learned that he attributed his talent a good control of drug taken. Himself a former addict, he believed in itself, the drugs were not good nor bad but simply generating a Energy it was enough to control.

Graham explained in an article: “Why not enter the correct use of marijuana, hashish or heroin on the agenda of universities? In societies called primitive, each drug with plants in ceremonies to give a sanctity to the absorption of drugs. In the West, are drug addicts destroyed by drugs because they use any HOW: Now there are rules to follow: never use drugs to overcome depression by simple idleness or to escape reality. Always require a ceremony! Then study the effects of each product on his body and the dose according to his expectations. Ultimately, we could imagine a permit to take drugs available to insiders. “ I gathered that the former British trapeze artist must surely a decoction is tinkering with its position before each

off. The hypothesis exasperated Jean Bresson who regretted Thanatonautes that is not declared an Olympic sport. One would then exclude Graham for doping. Amanda ran a tender arm around the shoulders of Jean. - If there is doping, you’re the most talented. You’re only twenty-six seconds of Bill and no prohibited substance! Twenty-six seconds, you know what it is, twenty-six second, the stuntman replied, annoyed. Raoul always displayed the map of the line marked Terra incognito, with the large funnel.

- Twenty-six seconds at the top, it must mean a territory the size of France. Geography of the continent Ultimate is surely ahead of ours! Amanda pressed against Bresson. Suddenly, my eyes dessillèrent. Amanda loved Thanatonautes all Thanatonautes and nothing but the Thanatonautes. Personalities Felix Kerboz own or Jean Bresson did not interest no. Only quality of the pioneers of Death passionate about. While I would not get myself Thanatonautes, it does not lift his eyes on me. I had a score to settle with death and it reserved its Love her brave fighters. Stimulated by the soft contact Amandine, the stuntman announced: - Tomorrow I’ll go to “coma more than twenty minutes.” Only if you are confident enough of you … Raoul corrected. The British magazine had gone to a new cartoon. The two chicks still in the busy teeth of the crocodile. “What will happen to me if I plunge too deeply into her throat? ” asked John the bird. “You’re going to reincarnate,” replied the bird Cenetrline “No, it swallow me and I turn into a big turd. Exactly, John. This is a … reincarnation !“

The design gave me an idea. The outcome of the duel was

not necessarily fatal. - Why engage in a competition at all costs mortal? If this is so Fortich Graham, regardless of the means it uses, we have only to invite here. President Lucinda did not he wished that we welcome the foreign Thanatonautes to share our knowledge

knowledge? Raoul’s face lit up: - Great idea, Michael! That evening, Amanda Jean accompanied her to my place. alone. in my apartment, I struggled on my computer to develop a new chemical formula booster. We all guessed that the English were on the point we comb the post. And indeed, the next day we learned that Bill Graham had passed a Moch. According to the morning papers, he had accomplished this prowess in the night, just when we consider to invite our thanatodrome. The problem was Bill Graham had failed to brake in time. Moch one had swallowed. 108 - MYTHOLOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA

At a time when all animals were still human beings humans, there was once a little hare crying death of his mother. The moon came down to comfort: “Do not worry, your mother will return. See, myself, I appear, I disappear, I believed dead but I always reappear. It will be the same for your mother. “ The little hare did not believe her. He even went so far as to fight with the moon crying for her to leave in peace. It the scratched so hard that she still bears the trace. Then the moon became angry and split his lip: That being the case, and Hare does not believe me, it does not like me reborn moon, but it will remain dead. “ As for the hare, in fact, was a human being, she turned into a frightened animal only fit to be hunted. But we should not eat a specific area because of the hare this piece points out that it was once a person human. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

109 - 1 MOCH Bill Graham gone, we remain always at the top of the Thanatonautes world. But behind, while a platoon brought

together to catch up and perhaps overtake us. Jean Bresson toiled against the first wall. If what he There was still behind the Terra incognita, corolla the funnel, however, was better known. The Thanatonautes the world in the clawing walls inch by inch as sperm a hurry. The magazine went on to represent London pioneers of death as the little birds pecking jaws of a crocodile lessor. “Come, little, I’m always hungry, “said the legend of a third drawing, showing the reptile, mouth open, some covered with scales of blood and feathers meant to represent the poor Cenetrline Jean Bresson did not lose his cool so far. As Raoul, he thought it was only gradually that we would come to nibble on the wall comatose. Advertising or desire to encourage science, President Lucinda created a trophy together with payment important: cut “Moch 1” and 500 000 F for the champion cross the first free and would tell his trip.

Vocations were born. Time for “sports” had arrived. These were young people convinced of the hopelessness and the futility of thana

todromes officials too timid. And they proposed leave and return as they saw fit. After all, rewarded with a cut, resembled Thanatonautes now in pole vaulting or hurdles. We then went into what I call phase “gymnastics

policy “. Clubs, private companies worked out their own runways, with boosters copied ours. A ingenious mind conceived the idea of ​a newspaper, Le Petit Thanato

Naute illustrated, providing practical advice and offering the latest plans of the continent from the dead. Fans samples

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geaient revenue from ads to better off, selling vials of Propofol or chloride potassium stolen from hospitals, and even chairs dentist. There were obviously included the most famous posters Thanatonautes Felix Kerboz, Bill Graham and Jean Bresson. And every day the monster snapped his dose of “sports” unwary. The activity was not Thanatonautes like everybody else. It fell only once. We rehearsed in every key in our interviews, but it was precisely the risk that excited youth. For them it was the ultimate thrill. A bit like This Japanese martial art, the Yai, where both wrestlers are placed face to face cross-legged, the winner being the first to arrive to draw his sword and split into two of his skull opponent.

Accidents do not deter the pioneers in grass. As for the bonus, it attracted many crooks. We received a multitude of phone calls. A man claimed to have spent a Moch and saw a corridor blue which continued in the direction of white light. But when we convoquâmes and it was examined under truth serum, he acknowledged to have invented this story the reward. Many other jokers tried to simulate a successful flight. In the stories the most crazy that we received, there was the case of one who lives Moch behind a stepmother, who discovered that other Jesus Christ without a beard, the Apollo 13, a junction with the Bermuda Triangle, aliens, and even … no. It made us laugh a lot. “Behind the death there a… nothing he said. - And what’s not? - Well, nothing it’s nothing, “he replied boldly … Many honest people are left as their lives. For his part, Jean Bresson, without making waves, progressing second by second and millimeter by millimeter. He was now “coma over twenty minutes and one second.” His departure was more impeccable. His heart I slowed down and gradually developed a for-mule boost much softer, which allowed a best action of the will (with a new product:

vecuronium, but not bore you with the formulas chemical, know that Vecuronium 0.01 mg per kilogram is still not bad). - Today I will try to pass a Moch, announced Jean Bresson seriously when he settled for umpteenth time on the chair off. - No, no, do not do that! Amanda replied that longer concealed his affection for the young stuntman. She took her hand. They kissed at length. He grabbed by the shoulders. Don’t be afraid. I am well prepared, I know my case, I know now I can do it. His voice was calm and determined. Nothing in his behavior betrayed not the slightest hesitation. That night he made love to loudly Amandine and the next morning, he seemed in good shape. He planted himself in the veins and needles control displays as a pilot engaged in a check-up of the cockpit before takeoff. - Wait, I say, if you succeed, and I think you’re going Success requires that the press is there. Jean Bresson reflects. He did not care and projectors the glory. He had seen that these illusions led the poor Félix. Yet he was aware that without advertising, our credits were dwindling and that, anyway, in concerned the future of Thanatonautes, it was important have a maximum of witnesses.

So he removed the needles and waited. At eight o’clock, all the international press pressed on the launch area on the sixth floor. We installed barriers between the throne and the launch zone “Visitors”, complete with cinema seats for comfort of our guests. Some had come for assist firsthand the death of a Thanatonautes. In a second here, someone was going to shed its mortal coil to perhaps never to find her! Excitement reigned in the bays. Since the time immemorial, death has always fascinated people. I recognized very agitated, the facilitator who RTV1 officiated at the convention center and more serene, Villain, the journalist representing the Little Thanatonautes shown. Raoul, Jean and I had put on the tuxedo of the great occasions. With Amanda, we cleaned throughout fills our thanatodrome beginning to take gaits garage neglected. On his throne, Jean Bresson seemed very focused. All breathed in him the strength, confidence and determination. We was placed above him a map of the Continent Ultimate and the fixed length as if to save his Moch a goal. Moch a cross. He clenched his teeth. “Moch 1, I will pierce” escaped his lips.

He blew several more times. He adjusted the timer to “coma exceeding twenty-five minutes “and then he sat on the dentist’s chair and always calm, plunged the needle into the hollow of elbow. All cameras marched while reporters were whispering their comments so as not to interfere Jean Bresson in its concentration. “… yes, ladies and gentlemen, Jean Bresson will try the impossible, through the first wall comatose. If there succeeds, he will receive the cup plus the premium of 500 000 F. For several days the athlete is prepared and its concentration is intense … “ - OK, ready, Jean announced in a dry tone. We vérifiâmes last time all screens -Monitoring - Ready for me, I said. - Ready, Amanda continued. Ready, said Raoul. He held his thumb as a pilot ready for takeoff. - All right, straight into the unknown, whispered Raoul. Jean Bresson ginned slowly - Six … five (eyelid closure) … four … three (Head tilt back) … two (closed fists) … one. Off! We passed the fingers. Good luck, John. “Plague! I said, this lucky will finally discover what’s behind

death. He will experience the greatest of all secrets. Ministry great mystery, one we will all face. It will find it and it will say: “Death is this,” or rather “The death that was it.” Lucky. Amandine the swallows her eyes. Lucky. I might have to leave in its place. Yes. I should have, “thought I, while the cameras rolled to high speed to avoid losing a millisecond of scene. 110 - police files Name: Bresson Name: Jean Hair: Brown Size: 78 1 m Distinguishing features: None Comment: Pioneer of Thanatonautes Weakness: No weakness 111 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS Once the path opened by Felix Kerboz, flights to the land of the dead continued unabated. The rate failure had fallen to

insignificant levels because the path the afterlife was now direct and safe. History textbook, Basic Course 2 years. 112 - Beyond a MOCH

Standby I looked at my watch: Jean took off for twenty minutes and forty-five seconds. Now it should be there, to see what was happening beyond a Moch. He had successful, it had crossed the barrier, and it was in the process of accu

formulate a completely new knowledge. He saw it knew, he discovered. We look forward to seeing everyone back for he tells. What could well exist after the wall comatose? Who or what is death?

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Coma more than twenty-one minutes. He was always there, the cord was not cut and he was still recoverable. it was so great!

Coma more than twenty-one minutes and fifteen seconds. It information was gorging splendid. Happy type. Coma more than twenty-one minutes and sixteen seconds. The earthly body was shaken by a jolt. Reflex nervous - “No . Coma more than twenty-four minutes and thirty-six seconds. The jolts were increasing. It was as if the body whole was shaken with electric shocks. The face until you do not have winced a horrible grin pain - He wakes up? asked one journalist. The electrocardiogram showed me that the Thanatonautes was still there. He had passed through the first wall of the death. The activity of his brain had increased while that his heart was always at least. It must have been surprised by so much mystery unveiled. Because he always walked in the door. He had always just including He was possibly going to die of pleasure of who was the Grim Reaper. Death, he knew necessarily all. Had he been surprised by the revelation of the mystery?

Coma more than twenty-four minutes and forty to two seconds He twitched and grimaced like a nightmare.

Hands clenched the arms of the chair. Lifts, the tuxedo shirt sleeves unveiled one goose bumps. It was little things dry. As if mimicking a fight with a ferocious monster. He pushed the rails, the slime moss dripping from his mouth, he gave shots hand, hip shots. Fortunately a belt Security kept him off the chair, if not with all these gestures, it would have fallen, winning the same time pipes and electrical which linked him son to Earth. Journalists saw the scene in amazement. All dévirginiser suspected that the continent was the dead risky, but there seemed to face the Thanatonautes

terrifying phenomena. His face was more horror Fully responsible: Coma more than twenty-four minutes and fifty to two seconds He struggled less. We all had declined to avoid his hands. This agitation did not seem very positive. Raoul was biting his lower lip. Amandine wrinkled mouth and eyes. I rushed to the machine control. Coma more than twenty-four minutes and fifty to six seconds The electrocardiograph was transformed into a seismograph in full eruption. In a moment I Jean realized

that Bresson would soon die if we do doing anything. The lights flickered. The machines whined. But already his electric timer was activated and a high discharge him back sharply his body. He started again. Then everything returned to normal. The electroencephalogram softened. The LEDs went out. The machines subsided. Bresson was saved. We had recovered from the alive. It was like a man hanging over vacuum, we would be able to raise a blow to the solid cliff. Recall his rope, in fact the cord ectoplasmic, as luck had held out. He had spent the wall of the spell. Slowly we approached. - He did it! shouted the man behind RTV1 who had to take advantage of waiting to write his report. First-run, the string that shows you more did you watch the takeoff and landing of the first Thanatonautes to have exceeded 1 Moch. Live, you witnessed a historic moment which, upon awakening, Jean Bresson will deliver the sensational story. Normal pulse. Almost normal nerve activity. Truck Temperature depreciation charge, Normal electrical activity. Jean Bresson opened one eye, then the other. Nothing on his face reflected the normality which testimony

gnaient screens. Where was the quiet legendary stuntman? His nostrils quivered, his face was covered sweat, its expression was only terror. In a snap, he undid his seat belt and we consider in turn as so many foreigners. The first, dominated Raoul: Are you ok ? Bresson was trembling in every limb. It did not at all. - I spent a Moch … The room fills with applause slowed much quickly to the man whirled on itself, distraught. - I spent a … Moch, he continued. But what I saw next is … terrible! More ovations. Nothing but silence. Jean hustled us to rush to a microphone. Taking possession, he groaned: - It … It … do not die. Up there, after the first wall is despicable. Despicable. You can not know what extent. I beg you all, please: do not die more! 113 - Italian poetry “Cerberus, the cruel and monstrous beast Barking and barking out of his triple head Against the poor plunged into this hell.

The eye on fire, the mane foul and bloody, Having trouble

wearing her throat gasping, It is the tearing of his irons.

They howl in the rain, and all allegiance, They present a side then the other suffering. The poor often turn sinners!

When Cerberus saw us come in dark asylum He showed us his fangs, the snake! Rage and fury all his limbs trembled. “

Dante: The Divine Comedy, “Hell” Song sixth Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

114 - a step too far Needless to say, this funny “success” cast a cold Thanatonautes all our activities. John always haunted terror, told reporters that behind the first wall, was a country of pure terror. The total terror. - Is this hell? asked one journalist. - No, hell has to be more

sympathetic, he said with a cynical despair. President Lucinda organized as planned a small party to put its prices to John F 500 000 and its cut, but it did not come looking for them. It spread in interviews booing us. We had baptized “birds of evil.” He said he had stop to explore the continent of the dead, we had a not too many. He advised all to never die. He himself confessed terror of having to return one day there. - I know what death is and nothing makes me more afraid than to die. Ha! if I could avoid this. He shut himself up in a small house he transformed into bunker. He no longer wished to meet anyone. He wear a bulletproof vest. Twice weeks, he went to the doctor just in case. For avoid all sexually transmitted diseases, it abandoned women. Because deaths from accidents were so numerous on the roads, he abandoned his car in a vacant lot. For fear of a disaster air, he renounced any conference abroad. Amandine hammered in vain at his door armored. When Raoul begged him by telephone to provide at least some pointers for his card, he launched “It’s black, very dark and there is suffering terribly, “then hung up dryly. The episode was unfortunate consequences. So far, the public was fascinated enough to conquer beyond our

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Mission Project “Paradise”. The human race had convinced that after the blue hall of ecstasy, we find the light of wisdom. But if the corridor wonderful leading only to the pain … About the desperate Bresson produced quickly their effect. The anxiety became general. Physicians vaccinating with a vengeance. Arms sales climbed steeply. The thanatodromes were deserted. Before, death was certain simple termination life, a lights out, in fact. For others, it was the promise of hope. All now knew it was the ultimate punishment. The existence became ephemeral paradise which we should all pay one day the heavy bill. Life was a party. In addition, there was only darkness! Great success as the achievement of Bresson! Our experiences confirmed the two terrible truths I had serinées father: “Death is the most horrible thing” and “we do not

mess with these things “… 115 - Mesopotamian mythology “I traveled tous.les countries I crossed the steep mountains. I crossed the seas And I found nothing happy • I am condemned to a life of misery And I filled my whole body pain. ” The Epic of Gilgamesh. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 116 - THANATOPHOBIE After the case Bresson, we crossed a large and long period of stagnation. Everyone feared the death and unspeakable nightmares which John had spoken. There was, however other Thanatonautes to cross the

wall. But their stories were not more reassuring. Some spoke of their encounter with the Grim Reaper, a skeleton wielding a scythe that was his whistle weapon to cut the umbilical cords of reckless who had ventured too far. A Thanatonautes-African witch doctor reported to have avoided a giant snake that spat fire. A shaman Icelandic

claimed to have encountered a grinning dragon teeth smeared with blood. - What is strange is that the vision of death varies different cultures, merely muttering Raoul, and he pretend to engage in calculations with the scissors. But I knew that his remark did not even reassured. The testimony became the new Thanatonautes more and more frightening. They spoke of hundreds giant spider venom spitting putrid rat Flying with long sharp incisors. It was like in full story of Lovecraft. The descriptions of monsters accumulating ever more demented. A Thanatonautes Portuguese still bewildered by his landing recounted having crossed a bat whose head was adorned with a necklace of human skulls. The stories became most horrible day. Myself I began to fear death. I won by what he had to call the “thanatophobie” ambient. The Little Thanatonautes illustrated with representative

tions hyper-realistic, adding in the bloody and reputation

Gnant. Death, really, it was you die a again for fear of your death! Where was the rest hard earned eternal, if we had to face as soon as deceased, all these monsters lurking behind Moch 1? Because, according to the testimony of the International Thanatonautes they sem

blaient all there, hidden, waiting for us after Moch 1, which called the Devil’s cloven feet, Chtulu vaporous, Dragon sticky Griffon flaming Chimaera sneering, Incubus, Succubus, Minotaur, devourer of souls. Death is a trap. The light attracts us and demons arise from its first curtain. Needless to say, the number of suicides fell the day the next day. All Sports deemed dangerous - race automobile, boxing, skydiving, motorcycling, jumping horseback, skiing or bungee - were gradually abandoned by thrill seekers less number The dealers could no longer

peddle their cam. The tobacco merchants closed their doors. The pharmacies prospered. For added security, power sockets was lowered. Many balconies were screened. Multiple lightning bristling roofs. The designers put in fashionable clothes stuffed that gave the look puppets of their holders, but proved to be protective a fall. Were built along the rails Breton cliffs. In the laboratory, Raoul, who was trying to remain calm in this storm, drew on the map behind the first a corridor wall adorned with a black question mark. - What may well be behind that has so frightened Bresson and others? Our experiments were suspended for the time being, for lack of lower Thanatonautes voluntary. We meet regularly to the Père-Lachaise, just to get some fresh air and to think together. - What is Lucinda? Amanda asked. - It simply repeats “what if Bresson was right? ” said Raoul. He was delighted with the afterlife from a distance. He now says that, up close, it could be much less interesting. - But all the people who were flying around him seemed eager to rush out there, I insisted. - Smoke and mirrors! When it is close we understand that we should never have to go. Lucinda not at all convinced that death is part of pleasure. Amandine, Raoul and I were in disarray. We we worked so hard to

uncover a horror should have remained forever the most ultimate surprises. All our actions, good or bad, does driving at this final abomination. Perhaps it was inevitable that this Hell, this zoo teeming with snakes and tortuous

grinning vampire that all religions of the world had sought to conceal? What a Pandora’s box did we open? What adverse forces had we paid with our curiosity unhealthy? We wanted to know the mystery of death … it gave us a hell of a lesson. - Lucinda wants to give up everything, said Raoul. He thinks even resign. He would prefer that history books avoid mentioning its small incursions creepy. And you? Raoul was equally at home on a tombstone on a couch. He leaned against a pillar. - It would be too easy to give up the first seed. credit landing in Africa, Australia or Indonesia, Early explorers faced cannibal tribes, hostile to forests full of scorpions and deadly other wild animals and unknown. They have not fallen so far. Each operation has its share of danger. This is not going to walk in a garden of roses, with the side swings for children. Adventure is synonymous with danger! The fertile mind of Raoul had forged reasons to persevere. He

did not abandon the Thanatonautes. He waved the birds that served as his hands. - All these visions of the post-Moch a mismatch not them, and that all evidence be negative does not mean much. Jean Bresson remains in the vague. He who had accustomed us seriously and method, There is accumulating adjectives: awful, awful, vile … Accuracy with only that everything is black! Conclusion He lit a cigarette of his bidder, got up, stretched his long legs and exhaled smoke eucalyptus: - Conclusion: we can allow some cowards to stop our work. - John is not a coward and is incapable of lying, declared the Amanda always fair. - His senses were able to abuse, Raoul noticed. “Maybe! also that a phase of seduction succeeds another of repulsion … - I also believe sincere, but what bothers me, what are all these different visions. It seems that after the first wall, the afterlife is personalized. Do you remember the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Michael? He told that the dead had to face the monsters but if he succeeded in the win, then he went his way quietly. A initiation test, in fact, that John was unable to overcome! Hence his deductions rather simple that all was one horror after Moch. I considered Amandine. His vision was my paradise, its blue eyes my journey. Why look far. It hides the gaze frozen by me under thick opaque glasses. - So, Raoul? - So we put our work on hold and we let pass

the time. Another after another. The People forget the thanatophobie. And we will continue to love of science! Meanwhile, Lucinda abolished the law prohibiting the hard therapeutics. No longer wanted to risk disconnecting a patient for the ship to no one knew where. Before: to enter an operating room, patients left large checks guaranteeing the longest maintenance vegetable in the state of failure. Amanda never saw Jean Bresson. No one saw him, too. He had finally cashed premium Lucinda he had used to build a shelter fallout. He was buried there between shelves full cans and mineral water reserves and no never heard of him. 117 - TEACHING YOGI Four behaviors define the dark interior and human suffering: - The sense of individuality. Due to the success: “I am smart “… Given the failure: “I’ll never. ” - Attachment to pleasure: the search for perpetual contentment as a single objective. - Complacency in depression: the obsession unhappy memories that incites revenge and to oppose his entourage - The fear of death: the craving to cling its existence, proof of his individuality. Rather than to accept to live until death and enjoy life here below to better develop his being. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by

Francis Razorbak. 118 - STEFANIA The thanatophobie lasted nearly six months. Six months of idleness forced discussion and questions to hackneyed Thai restaurant of Mr. Lambert, wanderings of the FatherLachaise, dust accumulated in our thanatodrome. In the penthouse, plants invaded the piano. We almost could not see Lucinda. Even Vercingetorix, the dog, was gloomy. Amanda began to cook and tried to comfort us as we prepare spicy dishes. We played cards. No bridge, because no wanted to do … death. The glimmer of hope that arises from watching Raoul where we the least expected. Not the United States where we knew that NASA was engaged in top secret research, or Britain where Bill Graham had yet left behind emulated willing to follow his traces. Our salvation came from Italy. We were aware of the existence, in Padua, a thanatodrome very powerful but we thought that, like ours, it was now dormant. Now, if the Italians put their program on hold, they do had not abandoned completely their takeoffs. On April 27, they announced that they too were managed to send someone beyond the first wall comatose and that they had regained its envelope Thanatonautes carnal bringing a much more reassuring testimony that of Jean Bresson.

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milking skeptical of the exuberance and optimism of Italians. The Thanatonautes Italian was actually a thanatonautesse. Her name was Stefania Chichele. Raoul looked at length his portrait on the front of Corriere della Sera. The smiling young woman explained in article devoted to him after she had an Moch discovered a large black moor dark and she had struggled against bubbles of memories especially Aggressive. Surprised his colleagues had made him repeat his About as truth serum, and the story remained the same.

- It does not lie not, I say. - Of course not! Raoul jumped.

What she said is perfectly consistent. I remained pensive. - Thus, Bresson has just faced its past and found it so terrible that he could not stand it. Amanda knew that we had never experienced stuntman of psychoanalysis. At times, she thought it needed it as he seemed reticent about his past. We decided to investigate and discovered that indeed Jean had experienced a particularly traumatic childhood. It had buried under a blanket of silence, but all protections were detonated in a Moch. As horrible memories of him that he had returned in memory could not take the shock. Amanda wanted to comfort him. But, once for all, Bresson had renounced the world. He did not answer the repeated drumming on the door of his fortress and he finally picked up his phone. Curious, we invited the Italian to come to receive Paris medal of the Legion of Honor Thanatonautes created by Lucinda. The ceremony took place without drum or trumpets. We preferred to avoid any time noise the media. Stefania Chichele was a plump little woman in the very chubby face. Long wavy black hair fell to him to the lower back. His jeans and his shirt appeared always about to burst, but it did not fail

of charm with its fresh round cheeks and smile Childish From the airport she hugged us, like we mean that we all belong to the same family, that of “who are not afraid Thanatonautes not death. ” Then she burst out laughing, and pest surprising. We entraînâmes the Thai restaurant. In expectation, Lucinda had preferred to be excused. Having lived several years in Montpellier, by Stefania-milk impeccable French, just a delicious sunny emphasis Alps. She began to engulf the plates of noodles with black mushrooms. Mouth full, she interspersed his sentences of his booming laugh. I had never Raoul saw as attentive. While listening to him, ignoring his own plate, he practically devoured the eyes. Stefania recapitulated. Behind the first wall, there was a dark and pestilential area where it was not good linger. Bubble memories assailed as you and as many devils trying to turn away from the beautiful Bright. However, as it was mounted with the firm intention to back down, Stefania did captivated

nor by the wonderful light nor by demons of the past. Always interested in the techniques of off - after while it was my part - I asked her what she used to fly. - Tibetan Meditation more light boosters chloride potassium. I do not want to m’esquinter liver! - Tibetan Meditation! exclaimed Raoul. He failed to choke, spit politely behind his hand three young yellow bean sprouts and asked: - You are … Mystical? - Of course, the burst thanatonautesse. Go to death is an act deeply religious, spiritual, while at least. A toxic product, but allows take off how to get far without discipline of the soul? What/how? off cleanly without faith in God? We remained speechless. So far we had come not to mix religion with our scientific experiments

cific. Raoul and I were interested in all natural ancient mythologies and beliefs of various world but, in practice, we did not want add to superstitions, whatever their origins.

Moreover, fundamentally, Raoul was an atheist. The result boasted, considering that atheism was the only attitude possible for a modern man want to keep in while a scientific attitude. For him, skepticism was an improvement over mysticism. God did not been demonstrated, so it did not exist. For my part, I was rather agnostic. In fact, I confessed my ignorance. Atheism seemed like a very religious behavior. Assert the nonexistence of God, is already profess an opinion on the matter. I never had so much pride. If ever a God deigned to appear with us miserable creatures earth, I would change probably attitude. Meanwhile, I remained in the expectation. My agnosticism correspond to my worldview, which was a huge question mark. Because if I had no opinion on God, I do not claim Nor have more about the world or men. I never understood the people around me, what was happening seemed always occur by chance. However, I sometimes feel that nature was endowed with an intelligence beyond me clean. Raoul pressed Stefania of questions: - What are you? - Tibetan Buddhist! - Buddhist? - And then it bothers you? - No, no, not really! he apologized, anxious not not irritate our opulent colleague. On the contrary, the Tibetan mythology fascinates me. But I never imagined

Tibetan Buddhists not like … like you! - I know nothing about Tibetan Buddhists. You are the first that I meet, Amanda said softly. Stefania stuffed full ranges of three chicken coconut milk and coriander.

- We, the Tibetan Buddhists, we do not have expected to care about death. It’s been more than five thousand years that focuses on the subject. The Bardo Thodol, Our Book of the Dead, is a perfect little manual engage in a Near Death Experience. I decorporation already into the next world that no one had heard of Your Kerboz Felix! Suddenly I heard some irritation under the mask Amandine suave. For the first time, in our small circle, it was not the center of attention. I was not the only woman among us, and jealous, she saw Raoul fall in love, captivated by the unusual About this Italo-Tibetan. The meal went on, however, in a good mood. Raoul Razorbak posted a joy that I did not know. He had finally found a woman who like him, had only one real subject of interest: death. 119 - police files Name: Chichele Name: Stefania

Hair color: Black Eyes: Black Size: 63 1 m Distinguishing features: None Comments: First woman Thanatonautes Weakness: overload weight 120 - Japanese philosophy The Naoshige said: “The Way of the Samurai is made of a passion for death. If a man is inhabited by such passion, ten men can not deal with them. You have to be taken fanaticism and passion for the death to perform exploits. If it is invaded by the discernment, it is too late to use that force.

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According to the Way of the Samurai, loyalty and filial piety are unnecessary, one has the passion of death. Loyalty and filial piety will then live for themselves. “ Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 121 - Stefania HISTORY Stefania loved to chat. She told us her happy History Small, it was proportionally thicker even now. His parents were restaurateurs and do not skimp on food. In the evening he had to finish the remains that could not be kept overnight. Matter of simple economics. Still, the seventh of fourteen children, she was the biggest and the laughing stock of his brothers and sisters. It is nicknamed “Pear Caramel.” His own mother did nothing to take away his complex. She bought her in advance of clothes that are too large. “In anticipation of future, “she said, fatalistic.

Further if these clothes, so vast, it floated there also for long. Soon, her body was conquering the Volume

At school, everyone was making fun of “pear caramel” and the more she laughed, the more she was hungry. It was, however, the impression of eating normally, merely pasta with bread, butter with his bread and sauce Bolognese with butter. But when anxiety to stay ugly and fat forever suddenly burst upon her, she did not even have time to warm plates. She swallowed its raw spaghetti, opened at full speed boxes sauerkraut or cassoulet swallowed it immediately. She represented her body like a giant trash she could never fill to the brim. In a phase of greater anxiety, she came to weigh more hundred and thirty pounds. Of course, she had begun at least a hundred times a diet, but his need to eat was stronger than that to please lean. At the period of “eating raw food,” was followed by a

time of trouble over the food. She ate it ate, and then she forced herself to vomit to empty his stomach. Simultaneously, she gorged laxatives. Including she put her health in danger, his parents tried to reason, but if the weight of their child’s unusual overwhelmed, they were in awe of his mind so agile. For the small Stefania had in kindergarten, shows real intellectual gifts. She jumped a class of two, obtained the highest marks in all subjects of

mathematics to philosophy through geography and history. The Chichele gave up a daughter to think clearly smarter than them, “If she behaves well, that it must have motivations that escape us, ” sighed his father after spitting out the surprise couscous raw sugar syrup grenadine. His obesity prevented Stefania course to move freely in space. Concerned at puberty, seduce the opposite sex despite her weight, she began to acquire a sensual approach. So far, she advanced legs spread in the manner of a duck to ensure a good grip on the ground without his extra pounds do do fall. It is therefore forced to keep his calves many parallels to be able to wear high heels heels without fear of losing his balance or twisting ankles. She thus acquired a swagger. The men began to regard with envy. While standing in the art of moving his body. After the march, she learned to sit with grace, to lie voluptuously half on a sofa, to keep the neck straight instead head back into the shoulders. No movement was anodyne. To better control his actions, Stefania acquired a kitten she imitated all the movements. She understood a good technique would allow it to better manage its disability. The cat knew not only beautifully moving but adopted a natural resting position

of great elegance. Stefania then devoted himself to yoga and sports Expense Claim

ming an important physical strength such as mountaineering. Certainly, his bones still bore one hundred pounds of fat but covered themselves powerful muscles and a skeleton now and with great flexibility. Compensate. She was going to compensate. Yoga was not enough. A Tibetan Buddhist arises timely and she knew it to a friend. It was not very difficult. The man liked the big ones. In many Third World countries, large are envied for their wealth allowing them to eat in abundance and considered as demigods. But as he also felt Stefania’s mind and he saw that the forms made unhappy, the Tibetan told him that the body was not a prison and was hermetically sealed easy to escape. Through meditation, we could leave and return at will this “envelope” ephemeral. He taught the girl some techniques of decorporation it assimilated more easily it was already accustomed to master a discipline Physics Finally, Stefania was released from fat! By allowing to

decorporation, meditation had saved. To avoid any expression of skepticism of our hand, she said laughing whether we believe or No We rassurâmes soon: what interested us really, it was mainly to understand how she was taking. With a laugh, she consented to enlighten us. At a time when the inhabitants of the peninsula are engaged usually nap, Stefania sat in position lotus and focused on flight. A large storm then invaded his room, tearing his ectoplasm and taking the outside. She usually went out the window, more rarely through the roof and not through the door. - The doors are designed for entry and exit of physical bodies, we explained it. It should not be any mix. At first, she felt some fears. Immediately taken the window, she went into effect in contact with all

kinds of spirits, flying too. But there were good and there were bad. It was important to distinguish between them. - In general, bad shave the ground, but if you do unable to remain high enough above the roofs, they can become threatening and attack you. From it loses altitude, we must quickly regain its body to escape. What exactly were these

evil spirits? Stefania declared himself unable to define. He had to think about speech. However, through meditation, she asserted able to travel the world at a prodigious rate. Well, his mind had become lighter but his body was still heavy. She fled her problem, she faced the no. She was, however, constrained by a terrible day of February. Resident, she found herself at school, stuck deep in a tub with an air bubble imprisoning her rolls of fat. She struggled like a turtle on its back. Encouraged by his bullying gym teacher

gymnastics, her friends took advantage of his pension inability to dump it on all kinds of im

mondices. When they finally get tired and leave it to his fate, shivering in the icy water now, its progress in meditation served to him at all. She was beautiful

struggle, his body was trapped in a shell of iron

White and his soul too distraught to rise. A housekeeper’s delivered several hours later. With the help of several colleagues, she used to brush as a lever to uncap Stefania’s bathtub. This marked the humiliation for life. Stefania decided it is revenge, and with his secret weapon: his ecto

plasm! If through the walls, it might as well cross flesh! Each night, so she began to hunt, determined to hitting all those who had mortified. She took advantage of their sleep to invade his victims, starting with their toes and then back to their head. They awoke experiencing excruciating migraines, after living in appalling nightmares. She saved the best for last. Finally, it would took his gym teacher, the only adult present at

of his ordeal, and who had joined her torturers in instead of hunting. Stefania penetrated the depths of his heart, leading to arrhythmias. At times, the muscle heart was beating very fast, in others it almost died out. The woman awoke in a sweat. She made vain she knew some exercises to calm the own pal

Pitate. Understanding that it occurred in a phenomenon

conducts strange, she knelt and prayed fervently strongly to be delivered from the ghost had possessed. Stefania went before a heart attack does terrassât permanently unhappy. She returned, however, regularly

rately persecute. She reveled in the power that gave him control

its ectoplasm. She used it for revenge and So for evil in many religions, it is called black magic. She boasted to his friend Tibetan begged to give up. Black magic, he said, you always end up snap and dominate you so that you can more under control. Stefania had to permanently waives revenge. Revenge against his enemies. Vengeance also against his own body. She persevered. All her classmates were on aspirin. The gym teacher had a miscarriage. And Stefania was under more and more black! No one left? dared to face. Obscurely, everyone felt she was the cause of mysterious facts. Once we would have been accused of witchcraft. Right in the twenty-first century, such a assertion would have covered its authors to ridicule. Some girls gave him an apology. Stefania’s rejected a shrug. And she continued to strike. Attacking the digestive system, it caused ulcers in the stomach hated. Ultimately, understanding that might Stefania permanently switch on the side of the “great anger”, the Tibetan Buddhist friend gave him the secret of reincarnation.

Religion ensured that everyone in his life

future, paid for the good and bad deeds accomplished during his present existence. Every life should used to teach us something. Love. Passion. Art. This is what we had to devote his energy to improve rather than destroy. Blame to others, it was really give them too much! Stefania stopped her ears. Then an event occurred which upset and forced him to listen. Its classmates all together attacked the woman household who had saved. They knew it was the only friend “Pear Caramel.” Although they had wanted a little upset, but the neck of the unfortunate hit the corner of a wall. Whiplash. Death was instantaneous.

- It’s your fault she died, said his friend Buddhist Tibetan. It’s your fault if their children are now orphans. You have damaged your karma. If you do not decide immediately to give up your vengeance, you will pay in thousand times the price! And on this final warning, exasperated, he left. Dismayed, Stefania realized it was time to wash the soul of all the darkness that had invaded. After the bulimia, anorexia occurred. She always hated her

body, even now that he founded in the famine. To find peace of mind, Stefania decided to move forward further in the Tibetan Buddhist wisdom. A Lama

series welcomed in Padua. She hoped that once the quark

ity found his friend reappear. But she never saw him again. And regrossir. She was married to please his family and fulfill Italian woman of his destiny. But she never would a woman like any other. She had gone too far on the path of meditation. Several years passed before she heard about of the French who invented the Thanatonautes. I wanted, too, to discover the continent of

dead. If only to find that the housekeeper who had saved. His friends knew his story lamas, knew as she had first given up to evil to return to Good. They gavèrent and polenta lasagna for him give the energy of the journey. And so she crossed Moch 1! We considérâmes with admiration. She examined in turn, then announced: - I see your perfect karma. To me, you are all like open books. Raoul, thou art a warrior. You find yourself in the middle of your cycle of reincarnation. You’re angry because you started in your previous life, something you do not have time to finish. Where your impatience to succeed in this lifeit. - You are right, recognized Raoul. But it is in this This life that I have something to settle. Stefania decreed that I was a young and pure soul, unable to do wrong because I could not see any interest. I was at the very beginning of my cycle of reincarnation and thus affecting ignorance. - You’re smart enough to have taken consciousness, she stressed. It’s a lot. Also did you chosen the path of knowledge and it is the right path. - Possible, I retorted,

annoyed that sums up my Personality in three sentences to the punch. Stefania people still felt a little too quickly. She turned to Amanda: - You, what you love most is to make love, indeed Amanda blushed to the ears. So what? She asked him. What you’re interested there? - I know, the calm Stefania. It only looks at you. Corn you see, you give to others too. Can you imagine not being able you fully realize that through physical love. What Error Sexual energy is the most powerful energy. If you’re not using that to orgasm, you will exhaust the avail. You must learn to manage the capital and to channel this energy. 122 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS The Thanatonautes people were strong, cold-blooded, to stare. They knew where they went. “All right, straight into the unknown, “was their motto, engraved on a medal that all wore around his neck. History textbook, Basic Course 2 years. 123 - TEACHING YOGI How to learn to think about: - By disciplining the body and exercising to stay still; - By disciplining his breath; - By disciplining the mind. Just to be

alone in a room, to take a comfortable and set his mind on a point between the two eyebrows. All negative thoughts will disappear then. Your mind will become vacant, listening to the world around. You can make the difference between what is and what you belongs to the world. Your “self” will only have to escape from your body to explore the universe. Rajaz meditation technique of Yoga. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 124 - ENCORE STEFANIA Stefania was like that. Raoul was silent, while his contemplation, sensitive single

ment to its presence. For the first time I saw my friend love. And the magic seemed to operate in two sens Their eyes were seeking and fleeing as a pair of doves in spring. On the other hand, Raoul’s hands did not show, though pressed

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ment for the Italian. She did not appreciate his allusions her sexuality. A stranger had no right to throw that kind of remark in figure and in the presence of others, still In his eyes narrowed, the ocean was blue engulfed the black abyss. In addition, Amanda has always been the only representative female in our group. She had accustomed to this exclusivity. Stefania represented labor taking a more dangerous competitor that it had crossed the first wall of death. And then, in addition Raoul, Raoul cold, let himself be seduced! We had left, satisfied, the Thai restaurant Mr. Lambert to make us in our penthouse we were more comfortable to talk. I asked Stefania to show us how she did it to meditate. She sat cross-legged, spine straight. His eyes closed and ten minutes in, she stood there, Still,

without the slightest movement. Finally she opened her the eyelids. Yes. she laughed. I interrupted the flow turbulent of my thoughts and I have been sucked into a column blank. I have not had to let me wear off the window. - How did you feel? - It is not defined, it is felt. It’s like ask me what is the taste of salt. I would be embarrassed to describe to someone who would know that the mellitus. What words used to define it? You must try to Salt to know what it is. We must meditate to learn about meditation. The answer was vague to say the least. - But in practice? I insisted. - You have seen me do. Me and take a take. To focus on an image and nothing else. You You can start by thinking only lead the flame of a candle. It waltz behind your eyes closed until you breath turn it off and leave. - And go where? - In heaven. The mainland of the dead. The problem, of course, is to accept the idea of ​dying. You hesitate to give your wife, your children, your friends. You think necessary, what a mistake and what pride! Such state of mind makes it unsuitable for meditation as meditation, is take a step towards death. But of course we must accept death since it is perhaps what is most interest in life. Raoul’s eyes sparkled.

- I do not understand a word you say, Amanda grumbled sullenly. Again, the infectious laugh of the Italian.

- In fact, it would be best to show you how we Tibetan Buddhists have learned to die. For us, and for millennia, death is a science and not a inevitability. I’ll take you tomorrow at the Tibetan temple Paris for a practical session. Fortunately we have almost all our local branch! 125 - CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY “Just as the spirit, fell under the bondage of flesh, flesh deserves to be called, so the body deserves rightly be called spiritual when obeyed perfectly the mind. “ Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 126 - ALWAYS STEFANIA A wake was held at the Tibetan temple in Paris. Among the wreaths of incense creamy, large statues obese mischievous look in watching us, Stefania, Raoul, Amanda and me. I understood how this faith had seduced our Italian: the Buddhist religion doomed worship big laugh. I learned later that I had delivered to reasoning overly

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Chinese. and non-Tibetan Buddhas. The Buddhas Tibetans are much leaner and more serious. This would be a mistake of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, but as Tibetans were not home, they had not dared challenge and had gradually accustomed to living among the Chinese Buddhas. The Buddhas of their terrifying invaders. Of their persecutors. Of those who had destroyed their people. The skull of bald men rough, like rubbed sandpaper, greeted us without knowing us. They were draped in saffron robes were spinning cylinders of woodcuts. They chanted texts I did not perceive its meaning. Then they gathered around a recumbent. Stefania we suggested to join them. A lama began to recite a poem that the Italian multilingual, we translated simultaneously. “O son, our son, what we call death is now arrival: You leave this world but you are not alone in this case, the Death comes to all. Does not remain attached to this life of weakness.

And even if, through weakness, you’ll stay attached, you do not have the power to stay down here. You’ll get nothing more than to wander in the Samsara. Not Be not attached, do not show low. Remember the valuable Trinity. O noble son! Any fear or terror that can Chonyid overcame you in the Bardo [Moch area after which a You assaulted bubble memories?], where you will meet reality, remember these words and keep them meaning in your heart: moving forward. In them is the secret life of Knowledge. Alas, when the experience of reality will weigh on me, all thoughts of fear, terror, fear of appearances denied, may I assume that any occurrence is only reflection of my own conscience, may I recognize appearances as the Bardo. When so essential to accomplish a great purpose

May I not fear the forces of peaceful deities and irritated that are my own thoughts. O noble son! If you do not recognize your own thoughts, despite the meditations and devotions that you’ve comes here, if you have not heard this teaching, the lights captivate you, sounds fill you with fear, rays terrify you. If you do not know the absolute key to all learning, unable to

recognize sounds, lights and rays, you wander in Samsara! “ Lama’s words provided a perfect explanation to what had happened to John and Stefania Bresson, after the first wall comatose. He had fallen into the Chonyid Bardo. She had learned to escape. A monk approached the dying man, and indulged in the curious touching. - It compresses his carotid until they stop beating and sleep occurs, please specify Stefania. When the breath was withdrawn from the central channel of the flow and he can not take the side channels, he is forced to rise and exit through the hole Brahma. - Clearly, this type is in the process of being murdered in our eyes! I exclaimed, bewildered. Amanda made a grimace of disgust. Stefania looked at me gently. I suddenly thought I, too, had served as the lama. On behalf of the Thanatonautes, I killed people for sending in the continent from the dead. Hundred twenty-three human subjects died by me brought me back to silence.

- What is the hole of Brahma? asked Raoul. - The hole of Brahma is the door through which the soul leaves our bodies. In fact it is a point at the top of the skull, eight fingers of the hairline, continued our guide. Raoul noted the location of a “hole of Brahma” on his little notebook. All in all, it was a port of departure for the Continent Ultimate. Faced with the dying, the lama spoke of the first Bardo, the first world of death where it would come soon. He he described as “the world of truth in itself.” - Now, in the interval between the cessation of external respiration and cessation of internal current that the breath rushes into the center channel, we whispered Stefania. There is more awareness in this body it. The more the subject is healthy, the phase is long. Fainting can last up to three and a half days in a man in good health. For this reason we n’enterrons nor dissect any corpse before to four days elapsed since his death. However, if the death is overwhelmed by sins, and that these subtle channels are impure, the moment will only last a second. - What are these four days? I asked. - To recognize the light gradually. Tibetan Buddhism was definitely an answer for everything. For my part, I remembered with horror stories of people who woke up, locked in their coffin buried deep under the ground. They were buried too soon! Some banged on the walls of a long, desperate, before succumbing to the lack of real air. Other had a chance to hear from their guardian or

calls and were regarded as miraculous. Some Some even demanded to be buried with a bell possibly to signal their wake. And if you woke up in the middle of the furnace of a crematorium? It would be really best to wait four days … Formerly, one poorly differentiated the death of the coma. This is why there were many buried alive. And As of today: I know firsthand that sometimes remained still in doubt. Heart failure, stop the brain, cessation of sense, what was the true sign of tipping complete in death? On leaving the Tibetan temple, we walked the cemetery of Père-Lachaise to relax. Raoul went before and Stefania jokingly. Amandine and I trailed behind. - This way to entice Raoul, it’s obscene! railed my pretty blonde. A married woman, and more! I do not know that her husband is over there in Italy, but he’d better watch his wife. I had never seen so displeased Amandine. Was like for her to conquer the afterlife had suddenly lost all its importance, as if there were only its only jealousy! She was out with Felix. She was out with John. In Now she wanted and Raoul told me, bluntly, to me who dreamed of her and she did not see! But my love was so strong that I tried to to reassure

- Do not worry, I said. Raoul has his head on his shoulders. She put her arm through mine. - Do you think he feels something for me or that do not consider myself as just a worker? Why is it that women always choose me as a confidant? And women that I want, and more! Of course, I uttered the worst phrase: - I think that deep down, Raoul … love you. You have to be stupid like me to say such insanities. Immediately she was exhilarated.

- Do you really think? she said in a cheerful air. I plunged further. At the point where I was, it was difficult to do worse. Yet I succeeded. - I am very confident. But … he does not dare you admit it. 127 - ADVERTISING “Sometimes life is a vale of tears. But I love it. Yesterday, I found that time with family letterbox. There was no interest in the program television. My wife was looking for me all the time argument. The contract had covered my car and a PV Vandals had removed the body with his keys. I almost a fit of nerves, and then I do not past. Because life is not that this accumulation of villainies. The life is the pleasure of breathing thin air, to discover

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landscapes to the infinite diversity, to meet all kinds of human friendly and intelligent. So I’m from of things. Life is still a quality product. Me, I take back every morning and all I ask for more night. Do as I do! Love life, the life you will! “ This is a message from the ANPV, National Agency for the promotion of life. 128 - HISTORY OF HEART I languished in my apartment thanatodrome ButtesChaumont, so alone in my tiny studio of yesteryear. Stefania had momentarily returned to the Peninsula. Amandine, Raoul and I took advantage of his absence to check our equipment and allow it to return the best possible booms. The common meal had become a serious test. Amanda slid steadily against any and Raoul fixed with more greed than his plate. Of course, Raoul was still under the spell of thanatonautesse Italian, but day by day, catteries Amandine prove to be paid.

To my dismay, both were eager to tell me constantly changing feelings. I was choking, boiling bitterness in my role man’s confidence. - Did you see, ‘said Raoul, I find Amandine dress better and better. - It is in black … He did not listen. - It becomes more and more beautiful, is not it? - I always found sublime, I replied sadly. That evening, I learned that they both dined in face-to-head. They did not return to sleep thanatodrome. I remained great whole. All alone in the sacred building. I sat on the throne of flight, and there, at the crossroads

all the energies of thanatodrome, I tried to Stefania practical advice. I wanted a successful meditation transcendental to leave my poor skin type unhappy. I closed my eyes, I tried to empty in me but my eyes just closed, the sweet face of Amandine appeared to me like a widescreen. She was an angelic beauty, she looked at me indulgently and her blond hair concealed her full lips. What I used it and found to be famous if I was not even able to have the woman of my desires? I was furious. Think Amandine slept easily except me who loved her, was too stupid. I opened her eyes. I imagined trying to make love in a Hotel … “Not to upset the poor

Michael” … I had a nervous little laugh. “Damn the Thanatonautes! ” Felix looked like. What a pity that Stefania is party alone could have prevented the couple from forming, while I … in fact, I had only to help committing the worst. Was it necessary for me to be unconscious my best friend to help out with the wife of my desires! No, I knew it would happen anyway, so I had said earlier this is done, the sooner I’d be set. From where I was in the chair, I could see the gallows where the vials were hung product boosters. What’s the point live? And if I tried myself to pass the second wall comatose? After all, I did not have much to afraid of my past. At worst I would find Felix. Th began to roll the sleeve of my shirt. One moment, I tell myself that I was killing myself for love like a common pimply teenager … It was so stupid. I pushed the needle into the large vein in my wrist throbbing like to try to avoid this ordeal. “Here, take this, large vein, that’ll teach you not to sending enough blood in my brain to find words that could seduce Amanda. “ I plugged all the equipment. I take the small bulb the switch.

Amandine Thanatonautes admired, she slept with the Thanatonautes, she wanted to know what death Thanatonautes approaching, it was necessary that I be tha

natonaute for more interest to him. Say that in this adventure, I had so little advantage

pated. I was probably like the Spanish sailors who saw the boats leave and return to America and were never parties themselves. We can not, however, know something by hearsay. You had to go there. Pear in the electric switch was sticky in the palm of my hand as she was drenched in sweat of anxiety. What was I doing? Tibetan priest’s words came back to me

in the ears as a childhood rhyme. “O son, O Noble son, what we call death is labor taking here! You leave this world but you are not the only one in this case, death comes for everyone. Does not remain attached to this life of weakness. “ Do not stay attached to this life of weakness … My Karma was very poor during this existence. In my next life, I would try to be licensed by a dredger crack all the girls. A lifetime to learn to control love, another to enjoy it. Yeah, I’m dying shy I shall be born playboy. I looked again the bulb of the switch. I swallowed and, without insurance, began the counting ritual: - Six … five … four … three … two … one. Deco … The room lit up. - He is there, Mom! cried Conrad. What are you doing in that chair? You’ve looked everywhere. - Leave your brother alone, said my mother. Surely it checks his stuff. Do not bother us, Michael, goes on. We just wanted to do with you an overview of the activity Economic shop. But that can wait. Conrad was being played all the buttons potentiometers. I usually could not stand

it touches on everything and I get angry quickly. That evening, I do not know why, Conrad, Conrad the detestable, suddenly appeared to me as the perfect example of the

good guy. Imperceptibly, my finger left the switch off.

- We would also like to have drawings of what is after the second wall to prepare for the new season of tee-shirts! precisely my brother. My mother came down on my forehead and a big wet kiss. - And if you have not taken the time to eat - you always forget to feed you - there’s home-Potau fire with a marrow bone, as you like. In force dinner at the restaurant, you t’esquintes health. They are the remains and products of last choice. It is worth not the kitchen of a mom! I had never felt much affection for these two. I had never been so glad to see them. Suddenly, I pulled the needle in my wrist. Blood perla they did not notice. I was no longer inhabited by only one anxiety: y Would it really hot enough marrow for spreading on a slice of fresh bread with lots of salt? And a little pepper. Not too much, otherwise it will spoil the taste. 129 - Christian mythology “Then the angel showed me the river of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and the Lamb. In the middle of the square of both sides of the river, there Tree of Life

which bear fruit twelve times, once a months, and their leaves can heal the nations. “ Apocalypse of John, 22. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 130 - THERE IS STEFANIA Forget my personal problems. The days that followed, I tried to ignore my individuality. Not desire, no suffering. I knew that my desire to Amanda could very well turn into obsession. Obsession even more dangerous now, it was out of reach. Stefania returned to Florence and I think that now Raoul was interested in another, we should perhaps put our solitudes together. Moreover, the Italian seemed I find its taste. It gave me great slaps on the back, giggling and calling me his “stupido Michaelese. ” A local compliment, no doubt. The problem is that I was wondering how to go take it. I’ve always been a flirt zero. I certainly had a dozen women so far but it was always they who were scrambling to train their bed and not vice versa. In addition, I knew that Stefania was married, even if it never failed to address this issue. Curiously, Raoul and Amandine left nothing reflected their

idyll. They never stood by the hand, did not exchange kisses stolen. Only a certain serenity in their behavior indicated they had temporarily found peace of mind, one from the other. Stefania noticed nothing. She continued to appear even provocative with Raoul. Normal, a man happy households still emerges a kind of aura that makes it even more attractive to other women. Me, with my constant anxiety and my perpetual solitude, I could not that push. I had the job. I threw myself headlong. For our thanatonautesse, I dreamed of all the exploits. Plus I missed my relationship with love, the more I wanted successful one with death. Besides my recurring dream of women in satin white skeleton mask was made for this even more this time. I was perhaps not reached Amandine strip, but I intend to deflower the Grim Reaper.

Death, I’ll know what’s behind your mask! Death, get ready to be your last secret. My backbone is also a woman, Stefania. Stefania, my ram down the door of the castle black.

I better still boosters, the throne of flight, I added new sensors. At the same time, I learned maps yogis chakras and meridians of acupuncture. I tried to trace the shape of the vital body which spoke Tibetan books around the human figure. In force to study the envelope, I found myself at the same flush around me. I studied some physiological phenomena related to meditation. I always had this concern to legitimize the mystique of science. Some books, brain emitted at different wavelengths depending on its activity. They could be picked up by a routine electroencephalogram.

When we reflect “common” for example, emits thirty to sixty vibrations per second, this is called being phase rate of beta waves. The more we are awake, more it is concentrated, the more vibrations are numerous. When you close your eyes, we get immediately a wave emission amplitude slower but sometimes more high It oscillates around twelve vibrations per second. We are then in alpha stage. In the phase of dreamless sleep, we are issuing delta waves. Between half and three vibrations per second. I check on Stefania, my guinea pig. I had filed

sensors on the forehead, occiput, the parietal and I spotted during the flight activity of alpha wave emission. This meant that the entire surface of the brain was in a quiet sleep state. But this discovery could be exploited. The fac to see Stefania in alpha waves just informed us it controlled perfectly meditation. During this period, our strengthened team worked wonders. Stefania divorced her distant husband and moved to Paris to better work with us. He found the third floor apartment next to mine. Every morning, she took off the penthouse deal falsely than simple meditation to recognize by far the places the result in the same evening meditation, assisted this time a little chemistry. She was beautiful, luscious and

concentrated among the green plants, near the piano. I watched from there and then I discussed at length with her before the ultimate map of the continent. I added erasures, coloring areas, playing with Terra incognito words, as if he itched to do back. Stefania done in two weeks three incursions beyond the first wall and we could well complement our map of the afterlife with some accuracy, although it was obvious that the bubble-memories of the past Stefania were not universal and that under no circumstances they could serve as a benchmark to another Thanatonautes. Pending reliable results, we now waived any advertising. In any case, since the revelations Jean Bresson terrifying, most thanatodromes the world had closed and we no longer had to fear their competition. - Six … five … four … three … two … one. Off. Little off the evening. The young Italian was lying on the red chair lined with black metal. Her long hair corrugated rolled down her blouse. She looked like a Renaissance painting by Titian. I drank strong coffee. Flights from Stefania were more and longer. For nearly thirty-four minutes, it was immersed in her coma-meditation. “What do we do now? I asked Raoul, who had just entering the laboratory, closing his shirt. He looked at the timer clock

electric saw she had planned for more coma thirty-eight minutes! He jumped. - This is pure madness! She never could wake up. I do not realize it was. He turned the switch on the timer to recover at once to zero. Immediately, the electric current triggered by small saccades increasingly supported as holding an appropriate braking system ABS.

- Go back, Stefania, you went too far! We were worried. Yet all went well. The return takes place gradually. Stefania at once opened his eyes, blinked as if she tore a dream. She looked at us, smiled and announced firmly: I did see him. - You saw what? - I was at the bottom. And I saw him. There is a second wall! Moch 2. Our thanatonautesse took a breath while Raoul took possession of the map of the continent Ultimate. - Tell, he said. She spoke. - At first, as usual, I ended up in a corridor black light bubbles when attacked me. In each bubble was a painful memory, things that I had incorrectly adjusted. If you want to know, I saw a girl who had stolen his briefcase, I saw my mother crying because I had bad grades, I saw a young man I had pushed and committed suicide in Despite. Obviously I saw when I was a turtle on the back and the day I learned of the death of wife cleans

the school. “I have to face all these bad memories and each I explained my actions. I stole the briefcase of the small girl because my parents were not rich enough buy me one, I had bad grades in school because my mother left me no time to work my homework, she always asked me to do the dishes or sweep, the man I had pushed me was dragging when I was already taken by another young man I liked. I was not responsible for the death the woman who cleans the school. “Around me I saw the rest of the dead to fight against their memories without coming to be justified. Then the memories gradually submerged, such as white blood cells attacking a microbe. Those killed were receiving shots from their victims, those who had been negligent received slaps. Sloths were thrown in the mud. The anger was washed away by the waves. This show reminded me also strangely Divine Comedy of Dante. “Those who sin by greed saw their eyes sewn. Those who had sinned by lust saw their burning flesh. Death is still terrible. “When I had overcome my demons and attended fights of my neighbors, I continued down the hall black which was now purple. All around me, evoked two words: fear and darkness. The walls had a powdery consistency and an

earthy smell that comes from plowing. She said the huge hall was reduced continuously but its diameter was still hundreds (perhaps thousands?) of kilometers. It was shaped like a bowl or a funnel. The people were fighting with their memories on ledges steep. It was like a “cliff cylindrical.” The light continued to throb at the bottom of the bowl. But there was neither high nor low. She took the card Raoul and bowed so the tip of the funnel is directed toward the floor. - The cone is not horizontal but vertical, certifiat-her The walls are reduced progressively as one down ledges sandy. She scribbled: 1. Off. 2. Off any sign of normal life. 3. Coma. 4. Out of the world. 5. Eighteen minutes into the flight into space. 6. Appearance of a large circle of light spinning on itself, the first image of the continent Ultimate. Diameter Approximate thousands of miles in its area clear. Limbo. Blue beach. 7. Landing on the beach of light. Arrival on the territory 1. AREA 1 - Location: coma over 18 minutes. - Color: blue. Turquoise veering gradually blue violet. - Sensations: irresistible, blue water. Zone Fresh and enjoyable. Light attractive. - Ends:

on Moch 1 (diameter slightly reduced). AREA 2 - Location: coma over 21 minutes. Black

- Sensations: darkness, fear, earth. Cold zone and terrifying where, on ledges increasingly steep, the deceased confronts her fears and memories more painful. The light is always present but the fear away Expectations - Ends on: Moch 2. - Leads to perhaps … Territory 3 (?). Stefania gomma a line, drew another, pushed the words Terra incognita. Our new frontier is called Moch 2. Now we could call the press. The announcement had an international impact. The thanatonautesse explained that Jean Bresson had no certainly been defeated by her past. For journalists tried to contact him for questioning, he refused all access. In his confinement, the poor man can never what had really happened up there. He still had to overcome thanatophobie he aroused. We looked for his family, friends of old. They told that in fact Jean had experienced childhood terrible in a boarding school run by a suspicious character who abused students. To prove that he had dominated his fears, Jean became the first stuntman and Thanatonautes. He had done everything possible to forget his early years but the first wall comatose arose for him to recall and the plunge into his hell. The director of the school was exposed, arrested, and the

establishment Closed But the fear of death had not completely disappeared so far. We knew now that death was not a Pure paradise or a total hell. It was “something else”. Ministry mystery persisted. Forward Ho! ” Straight ahead, straight into the unknown! Next goal: Moch 2. 131 - Jewish mythology When Adam appeared on earth, he was the first day, very surprised that the light changed. When the sun declined and darkness invaded the sky, Adam thought it was all over. His life and the world were coming to end. “Woe on me! cried he. No doubt I sin that the world gets dark as well. We will return Now the original chaos. Here’s death to which the Heaven condemn me. “He stopped eating and crying the night. When came the dawn, he exclaimed: “Such is therefore the world! He goes out then comes back. “So overjoyed to that all was not finished, he got up, prayed and made offerings to God. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

132 - DIY As we progressed slowly, inch by centimeter in the hemisphere Ultimate, around the world’s thanatodromes began to wake up. It pushing even like mushrooms. The subject was again in fashion. Once it was known as Stefania had the idea to combine the mystical science, is built the thanatodromes next to the temples and after the prisoners, after the stunt, emerges a new generation of Thanatonautes mainly composed of clerics and monks of all faiths. Meanwhile, after the skeptics and enthusiasts, we had to deal with the laity who saw this mixture of superstition and research as explosive.

They nicknamed the “conquistadores of faith” because we were going to conquer a territory in the name of principles spiritual predetermined. In fact, every priest who was the first wall claimed seeing the symbols of his religion. Was normal since in the territory black, Thanatonautes was assailed by his own memories. Benedictine monks claimed to have discovered the origin the halo of saints. They felt it was a representation of the ectoplasm in his early exit from the top of the skull. The

painters of the time would thus wanted to point out Faculty of Elect to decorporation. The anti-religious s’emportèrent, saying that all this was that advertising for the crown. There was so much interest, both sacred and so taboo Thurs Amandine, Stefania, Raoul and I knew we handling a bomb that could have exploded in the face. Already an “accident” John should have been for us a warning But curiosity was always the strongest. We wanted both know what he was after Moch 2. Stefania we spoke to each flight. She had affected, the famous second wall, but it did not feel currently able to cross it. Still lacked something she could not define. She was not alone. If other Tibetan Buddhists, then the Taoist monks and the whirling dervishes, the Zoroastrians, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Trappist the abbey of MontLouis, the Jesuits of the Abbey of Saint-Bertrand passed without too much difficulty the first wall coma, none could pass the second. We visited their various places of worship and learned many of their ceremonies. All religions have actually stored in their memory techniques off. What did it matter if their servants called them “eternal prayer “Or” contact with the divine world. “

133 - ASTROLOGY To change the fate of a man must go through the twelve signs of the zodiac. According to some traditions East, it must incarnate at least twelve times in each of these signs, one hundred forty-four times in all. This is a minimum. It will thus turn all ascending of each sign and know all the figures available during a human life. To deserve to become a pure mind, it is necessary to test all forms of nature, all forms of existence. But one hundred forty to four reincarnations are not enough to most people. The Buddha would have been five hundred before understanding the world and the vast majority of We are somewhere between our thousand and two thousand human reincarnation. Astrology provides that the twelve zodiacal signs are comparable to noon included in the face of a clock. The big hand points to this sign, that of minutes indicates our ascendancy. Together, they determine the contract to perform at our reincarnation present. What time are we of our lives “total”? Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 134 - Internationalization

Lucinda visited us and advised us not to complacency too fast. Many religious were in full effervescence. The Pope, as well as some communities fundamentalists saw a dim view of the interference Thanatonautes in the monastic life. Raoul protested when we were there for nothing, the President replied that, nevertheless, over a hundred clerics from all walks of life had already passed to death by trying to continue our experiments. My friend said they should focus more on decorporation of scientific conditions rather than to only rely on their faith. Lucinda accepted the argument but we felt ourselves preoccupied.

Could it be that full-xxi century he fears the power the church? In our thanatodrome Buttes-Chaumont, we oeuvrions for us to make takeoffs always more secure. Stefania had found that the flight was going better when she held her spine straight, the propped back, chin pressed against the chest and shoulders unobstructed. We therefore conçûmes a copy throne line seats Swedish imposing this ergonomic position.

We sat around a glass bubble chair sound insulation of the

outside world. In fact, many accident had occurred because someone had inadvertently disturbed a Thanatonautes in full flight. Ministry silver cord driver caught before he had broken could retract. A phone call untimely, a door slammed by a single draft, and it was sometimes death Insured One does not trifle with these things. To further promote the development, we put in place a polyphonic sound system, high quality so that the soul flies nicely to the sound of liturgical music and sacred. A fashion designer and a scholar electronics collaborated to develop a suit really comfortable. Now, the uniform of Thanatonautes no longer a tracksuit or a tuxedo. It would look like an outfit man-frog. In Paris, we chose a textile white: The idea was very successful. Fashion dress made entering the various thanatodromes the planet. The Japanese opted for black Americans purple, British red. The press photographers were thrilled: finally, they had a strong visual. It was logical that suit follows the crest. Ours represented a phoenix through circles of flame from in narrowing. Each thanatodrome, its special religious and Cultural. Africans went in ceremonial dress among beats of drums. They had to patch elephants, cheetahs, and parrots. The

Jamaicans prefer reggae and marijuana. The Russians appreciated the Orthodox chants and vodka. The Peruvians chewed coca leaves and flew in love with the panpipes. They had to shield the death mask of the Great Inca. The international champions were the headlines. Each had his favorite. The Paris were given free course bookmakers in London. Who would be the first to pass through the second wall comatose? The Spaniard (Bull’s head crest) was given to twelve against a to American (shield-headed eagle). The testimony the bubble-memories accumulated, all different, all exciting. Sales of Small Thanatonautes shown climbed sharply. In their shop, my mother and my brother commercialisèrent thrones flight made in Buttes-Chaumont and boosters (I had developed a very good formula placebo tolerated by the liver and kidneys) as well as combinations with electrical sensors. The money returned to sea. The Thanatonautes did not spread throughout the world, it also became more comfortable, more convenient, more accurate. Thanks to chair protective glass bubble and costume, seemed beyond the reach of any one each. 135 - Celtic mythology According to Celtic mythology, the Thuat De Danann, tribes dedicated to the goddess Dana, ran the islands of northern

World to invade Ireland. They also fought Fomoiré battle to the gods and demons with blind one member. They had to take refuge in the depths Lakes, sinkholes, well. They lived in the world from below, a parallel universe they called Si (peace) or Tir na nog (Land of Youth). From there, they helped humans to flourish. As a druid came to consult them, they gave the four magical talismans: the cauldron of Dagda that fills forever those who relish the lance of Lugh killing even if it only graze the enemy,

the sword of Nuada makes its holder invincible, and Finally, the stone of Fal which, through its “art,” says the royalty of anyone who places his feet. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 136 - SECOND WALL COMAT Despite attempts multiplied, Moch 2 was inviolable. Sukuma Yuka, Zen monk, however, managed to touch and claimed to have distinguished something behind red lights he described “similar to geishas. ” Strange words for a man dedicated to spirituality! He refused to provide further details, simply to repeat that he was eager to leave for find her! He did not have the opportunity to say more. His second

growth was the last. He lay in a pool of semen, body tense as a loving embrace, when her companions resolved to unplug it. The information was kept strictly secret. If people were found dead in the eternal pleasure sex, the cause still new Thanatonautes slaughter! We watched the pioneer who, for a first round trip, We bring in a more accurate testimony. It was a yogi India, Rajiv Bintou. He described what had occurred in a book that soon became an international bestseller, Closer to the end (editions of the New World). Like Felix of old, Rajiv Bintou fell into the trap of success. He could no longer focus on his abilities spiritual. To take off, he had to use herbs hallucinogens and, in return, he did not remember anything. Unfortunately, the thanatodrome of Paris never had the opportunity to welcome Rajiv Bintou. In a final experiment, his team waited in vain more than forty-five minutes before deciding to admit the loss of his soul. They entrusted his mortal coil at the Smithsonian Institute Washington where it is carefully preserved in formalin.

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comatose The beads of your enjoyment are like water lilies. They announce the erection of the Thanatonautes! Each flight will be like an orgasm in love. The conquest of the Dead will write the result of Kama-sutra. This book is the first chapter of a universe of pleasure that promises death one hundred volumes. O confusing world of the afterlife. Thus, our souls end up in ecstasy. It is only logical since we were born in pain. “ Three months later, the list of the dead lie down. All religions recruited monks and Thanatonautes sacrificed on the altar of the knowledge of the afterlife. While a matter of pride. It was important to prove that its interpretation of the world was only true. All means were good to surround the takeoffs of all the ceremonial required a religious act.

What action could be considered more religious off since it was precisely the approach beyond?

They entered the phase “mystical monumental” with departures from the Sacred Heart in Paris or the pyramid of Cheops in Egypt. And we, all we knew of country after Moch 2 was that it was “red and filled of pleasure. “ Stefania could no longer wait to get there. Many meditation exercises control breath and heartbeat and finally, to August 27 seventeen hours, hard work and determination, she succeeded.

With uncontrollable giggles, all scarlet and exciting, she awoke bathed in sweat in his chair. - Wow! she exclaimed, still exhilarated. As Raoul leaned to better hear his story, She grabbed him by the neck and kissed him full on the lips. My friend did not resist with little debate while storm blackened the eye of marine Amandine. - Well, tell us, ‘said Raoul, recovering himself with sentence. - Waw, waw, waw, she says, it was fabulous. After second wall is sex, pleasure, enjoyment, is the great foot, the big

foot, the great Roman orgy, fuck it Super It was hard to understand. She spoke only by impressions. The word “absolute pleasure” was the one who came back Most often: “Pleasure, enjoyment, ecstasy” and above all will almost obsessive to return to get laid. We tried to ask him more. She said it was like an orgasm power miles. A feeling of fullness. Even with the drug, even with his best lovers, she had never, it seems, never felt as much strength and diversity in the swoon. I blushed. That night again I dreamed of the woman in white satin with his skeleton mask. Death. She put the garter belt and promised me things not possible. Ministry pleasure beyond all imagination. 137 - STEFANIA get laid We were at the Thai restaurant and we had fine— helping to prevent ill Stefania always coaxing talking too loud and contain his excitement. It dega

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longer able to remain indifferent to the harsh accents, to ecstatic words of Stefania. She spoke only of fun! Fun! After all, what is our main motivation

vation here? What are we looking for in this life? For

how we work, we interested to others, what makes us run? Fun! It took several plates of basmati rice to calm the Italian and, back in our penthouse, she find a scientific attitude and

agrees to consider on our map. So after two Moch? Well, about “coma more twenty-four minutes, “invaded the ectoplasm was a pleasant sensations. After the blue and the black area, the area red. That of pleasure. Doped, the Thanatonautes accelerates flight towards the light. The tunnel walls are soft red like velvet. The soul feels to have regained mother’s womb and ready to be reborn. Wonderful! And suddenly, the most secret fantasies come true. The men who had dreamed Stefania without being able to appeal were there, holding out his arms and multiplying the proposals shameless. She had engaged with them in games erotic she had never even dared to imagine. Corn there was no than sex. She had tasted with delight foods that had always attempted but not was never allowed to touch. She had discovered that it desires to know no. Women, even, had occupied it with sweetest of caresses. He had to cling very its strong Tibetan prayers to renounce the delights and return to thanatodrome. She had had to resort to any his will. She had thought that we were waiting for know. But it was not that the most important. She had seen a new wall comatose Moch 3. She took the card, raya “may lead to Territory 3 (?) “Then,

stretching his tongue like a schoolgirl applied, wrote instead:

3 TERRITORY - Location: coma over 24 minutes. - Color: red. Sensations: pleasure, fire. Hot and humid area where you faces his wildest fantasies. Area as perverse, because it reveals the most of our unspoken desires. Mus face them and let them invade, otherwise it remains stuck to the sticky wall. The light is still there, as intimate for us to continue our way. - Ends on: Moch 3. After this interlude, life changed a thanatodrome little. Revenue of the country’s heightened senses purple, Stefania fell squarely on the head by Raoul. She had also not too much to the upset. From the first meeting, my friend did not hide his fascination with voluptuous curves the Italian. Unlike what happened with Amanda, he shows its connection to light. I dared not enter the toilet of the room off for fear of disturbing the couple in their antics. Amandine was in disarray and of course, as still, she came to me seeking solace and comfort. Leaving the restaurant Thai Lambert where we risked too much to fall on the two lovers entwined, she invited himself an evening at home without warning. There had some eggs in my fridge. I

improvised a scorched omelette with shallots. I’m not great and cook the omelette turned slightly overcooked but Amandine did not care. - You, Michael, you’re the only man who understands me Really? I hated this kind of sentence. Bowing his head, took off quietly a few pieces of eggshell that I had left inadvertently fall into the dish. I arranged two of my best dishes on the table the kitchen. Mechanically, she sat down. I shared the omelette carefully in half. Amandine stood there, staring without seeing his portion. - You do not eat? I asked. It is however if unsuccessful. - I believe it is delicious, it is not ca I am not hungry, she sighed. She took my hand and stared at me with sad puppy Wet abandoned. - Poor Michael … As I bore you with stories my heart … I looked at her, she was even more beautiful when she was sad. That evening, I had to listen in detail the whole story of his love affair with Raoul. As it was sweet as he was full of initiatives and attentive. I told me that he was the man of her life, and that she never been so in love. I replied that it should not to worry, Stefania was an adventure, he would up back at her. I did not understand how a man could not be madly in love

with this sweet doe-eyed blue Navy. Even for the Transalpine plump and too bold.

- You’re so nice to me, Michael. But there was nothing in his will that sounded in tune with mine. She regarded me as a friend asexual or as a colleague. Maybe it was my desire so exacerbated that was repugnant to him. Perhaps pressentaitelle niagaresque my passion and she feared the effects. - You’re so nice, Michael! Let me sleep with you tonight, please. I’m so scared to find myself alone between my cold sheets! I turned green, I blush, I coughed. - Okay, I stammered. I put a cotton pajamas that I buttoned up neck. It retained its combination of silk. I felt at me a satiny skin, a slender body releasing hints of moss and amber. I was in agony. Nothing woman had ever aroused in me such an upheaval. Trembling with emotion, I approached my hand his shoulder and grazed his skin finish. Amandine, blandly tucked in my sheets, was a emanation of pleasures promised. My brain was in full

boil. One-tenth of further movement and I Stefania would

know what had been up there. A strong explosion. It must have sent me that my pituitary this feeling of pain. My fingers went through yet walking on this dangerous road. She took my hand and pushed with a smile Sorry… - Do not spoil a beautiful friendship, she murmured. You’ll ‘re my only friend, I do not want to lose you. 138 EDUCATION YOGI The human body consists of seven chakras that are many points of energy. First Chakra: Located above the sexual organs, the coccyx and the anus. In good condition, it provides a vital energy. Second chakra: Located just below the navel. credit good condition, it gives the power to act. Third Chakra: Located at the bottom of the solar plexus. In good state, it allows energy to radiate terrestrial and cosmic the body. Fourth Chakra: Located in the center of the solar plexus.

credit good condition, it can feel good about yourself. Fifth Chakra: Located at the bottom of the gorge. In good condition, It provides excellent communication. Sixth Chakra: Located between the eyebrows. In good state, he can feel his inner energy and gives clairvoyance. Seventh Chakra: Located in the middle of the skull. In good condition, it can instantly perceive things essential. Precept’s teaching Hatha yoga. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 139 - STEFANIA OPEN PLEASURE So many journalists demanded an interview with Stefania My mother held a press conference in the room for this purpose, the thanatodrome Buttes-Chaumont. My spawning

took a malicious pleasure in flushing all representatives erotic or pornographic magazines and the hunt on the spot. “Missing is our small Stefania makes newspaper coverage pigs! ” she muttered, angry. Diva in the thanatonautesse sat on the dais and surprised the congregation who was waiting for a good quarter time by announcing it would tell the pleasures encountered after the second wall to those able to hear them. But she saw in front of her that reporters in the child mentality, unable to get rid of their taboos. - First, a good psychoanalysis for all. The we’ll talk! shouted her with his great laugh devastating reference assistance and the entire planet with their modesty hypocrites. There was a murmur of protest surprised. My mother was very upset to have upset so many people for nothing. Next time, no one would respond to his invitations and it was not good for trade! The discovery of an area dedicated to ecstasy, however, was an event too important to stay long secret. Rumors soon began to run, especially Hot it lacked accurate information. Parties reactionary and conservative movements or fundamentalists we covered it with anathemas. “Lair of witches,” bomba does one on the door of our

thanatodrome before which flocked continually demonstrators embittered waving banners of the type “Stop debauchery,” “Close the brothel,” or “Death is not a brothel. “ Stefania tried to apostropher these protesters. - I never said that death was a mess! lançat-it to a cohort hostile brandished fist. I simply stated that one of the areas of the continent Ultimate was a place of pleasure. I do not know what is after the third wall. We still have so much To discover… - Silence, cursed girl! shouted an old man very dignified decoration in his buttonhole. He wanted to slap the Explorer. Raoul and I interposâmes. The brawl escalated into street fight. “We two against the fools, “I whispered to encourage me, but I was bruised when the police decided to to respond. President Lucinda made us another visit. - I told you, kids! Discretion, always let the discretion of discretion. For live happily live in hiding. Apparently, we disturb many people. Pope sends bubbles against us and dignitaries of all faiths to overflow me curses. - All of pissing vinegar! Stefania exclaimed. The afraid of the truth, they fear to learn what really death, what’s behind these walls! You Imagine if the head of the Pope, at the end, it fell

upon a god who proclaim in favor of abortion and marriage priests? - Perhaps, Stefania, perhaps. But for now, remember that we have not met God and that the Vatican is an institution founded in 1377 when Thanatonautes that does only a few months of experience. The Italian rose, beautiful and generous, ready to friends and enemies to face. - Come, President, you’re not going to me believe that you are willing to kowtow to a handful of bigots! - In politics, you have to make concessions, find compromises and … - No concession, no compromise, Stefania cut. We are here to fight against ignorance and we will continue our explorations. The man knows no Limitations This is his first quality! The president’s eyes widened. Was the first time he faced Stefania Chichele. He understood better the quality of our results. He had an unshakeable for death and regularly rub this small plump wife possessed. No one, no authority public moral or religious, do not force it to back. He greeted her with respect. The presidential intervention was the only result of Stefania make more talkative with the media. Without more hesitation, she spoke of the delights it bluntly was known in this third area where all desires, all perversions materialize. The protests began again. The Holy See Thanatonautes prohibits all servants of the Church Catholic, Apostolic and

Roman under pain of excommunication. In a bubble called “mysterium And mortis sacrum, “the Pope officially decreed the death taboo. All journey of a lifetime to the land of the dead prior his death is now considered a sin Equity “Death to the heretics! “Do we chanted under the balconies of Vatican. “Croquons the apple of knowledge! “Answered our supporters. All the excitement we were equal, but the president Lucinda him, do not take lightly. The Church had still a major influence in the country and he needed of all eligible votes for its future reelection. “All the better if the death leads to orgasm, Stefania told Petit Thanatonautes illustrated, and too bad if so many pissevinaigre now regard it as a place of debauchery! “Our friend did not go around the bush. We were still not so sure of ourselves. People always fear what is new. A phenomenon of decline was irreversible. We had already fortunate to have been able to go so far without hindrance. 140 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS How to get rid of old In some cultures of ancient times, there were

practices to get rid of those too old, therefore unsuitable for economic or social life. Among the Eskimos, getting rid of the old grandmother by bringing far on the ice where it was eaten by Stuffed bear In general, she was of herself when she considered herself in excess in society. In some Norman families, we drove up the old scale and the last bars were sawn. They said the ritual phrase: “Come, Similarly, up to the attic. “In the attic … History textbook, Basic Course 2 years. 141 - Lucinda has an idea Next time, Lucinda chose to meet us his land. Considering that in him we would be more malleable, we summoned to the Elysee. In his office work, he was not alone. There was also a woman strict cross-legged. The Head of State told us he would not enter war against religion. - You are wrong to underestimate the powers old. Modernism can not be imposed in a cavalier. We need compose. Stefania did not hear it that way. - You do not know what I saw, I do not see on what one might call. Lucinda gave a little smile.

- Although we have not had the chance to land Red in the country, but let’s say, um, we are able to design what you have felt. - Pretentious! Who can claim to understand the desires a woman! Stefania cried. Amanda could not contain a small burst out laughing. Anyway, Lucinda did not want to leave have on the slope of the provocation. He said he served no face to face religions. These were neither good nor bad, they did trying to survive. Raoul remembered that Darwin had made an international reputation

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National just by attacking religions and that without this provocation, Darwinism would have emerged as

quickly. Lamarck, who had not understood, disappeared in the dustbin of history. Lucinda accepted the argument, but he stuck to to the extent of his ambition to bring everyone together, reactionary or modern. - There is a way to reconcile the left wing and the wing right. We must bring in Thanatonautes rationality. Respond to religion by science. It’s now or ever it takes to silence the skeptics last, where my idea to use Madame. We presented the woman breasted. - Professor Rose Solal is astrophysicist and astronomer, Lucinda explained. She works for a long time on a particular project, “Eden”. Project “Eden” project “Paradise”, you see that your research show some similarities, especially the goal of “Eden” is discover the exact location in space of … Paradis. Find Paradise in space, the goal seemed to us hardly conceivable. We obviously always spoke of a “continent of the dead”, but it was for us a figment of the imagination. We saw the afterlife as another dimension, a different reality which hosted the soul leaving the body. A parallel universe, in sort of. That was our assumption.

That this country can really exist in the sky star that we were overlooking does not come to the idea. Certainly, many ancient peoples had been believe but so many rockets, shuttles, missions Sputnik or Apollo sent into space we had proved that the sky was populated as galaxies and stars! President Lucinda was decidedly a man out the common, open to experience the more adventurous. The next day, Rose joined our team in Solal thanatodrome Buttes-Chaumont. We now five to work there.

142 - GEOGRAPHY HEAVENLY Genesis is the first text to provide a situation specific geographic Paradise: the confluence of sources Mesopotamian rivers Tigris and Euphrates. In 379, St. Basil is a pioneer in the field of astronomy placing it beyond the firmament of stars, in a universe older than the visible world. Dante, a poet, nevertheless believes that the Heaven must be in a very concrete place in in this case the “envelope” that surrounds him as stars. The German Jesuit Jeremie Drexel (1581-1638) is engages in complicated calculations to argue that the Chosen go to exactly 161884943 miles from Earth. Thomas Henri Martin (1813-1933) has a broad

vision: the Paradise, he says, is in all heavenly bodies. Jermain Porter (1853-1933), Director of the Cincinnati (Ohio) and former theology student, trying in his astronomical telescopes the location of Paradise. He believes that force to explore the vault of heaven, Scientists can not fail to discover the “Jerusalem heavenly. “ The Rev. Thomas Hamilton (1842-1925), using the Maedler work of astronomers and Proctor, ensures that the Paradise is on the star Alcyone, in the group of “Pleiades”, five hundred light years from us. The physical

sicien French Louis Figuier (1819-1863) had already placed what he called the “Palace of the Dead” in the sun. Logic to his time, he assured, “It can not be located further, if the elect would put too much time reach it. “ Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

143 - AMBUSH I was sleeping peacefully in my apartment for the third thanatodrome floor when suddenly something woke me up. A rustle, a sound imperceptible … Th sat up in bed, suddenly all my senses alert.

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In the dark, I tried my glasses on my nightstand. They were not there. What a bore! I had to leave them on my office! But if there was a burglar in the room I had to get up to go get them and the criminal surely not leave me no time. I would have knocked out before. What should be done? I thought about speed. The best defense is the attack. Man should not know I was unable to distinguish. Go away! There is nothing here that would interest you ! I cried in the dark. No answer. And if I could not see anything, I felt distinctly a presence. A stranger was in my room. - Get out! I repeated, seeking the light. I jumped out of my

sheets. Fortunately, I carry a pajamas, I thought, as if that was important in such a time. I knew by heart instead of the switch. Strongly lit. There was no one. Same Fuzzy, I discerned a figure. But here, no doubt: the room was empty. However, there was someone well and someone hostile and more, I was sure. It happened when something terrible. I received a shot in the chest. An uppercut unchecked by anything, or then by the invisible man! I finally find my glasses. ‘m Seizing, I up quickly on my nose. Still nothing. This time, Did I dream at the end of a nightmare from which I could not remember more but that would have awakened? Shaking me, I turned off and went back to bed retaining anyway my glasses. I lay down, pulled the sheets on my shoulders and waited … It was at that moment that the thing manifested itself really. Presence penetrated me, intruding in my toes and came over me body. Awful feeling! Any burglar would have been preferable in this ectoplasm that attacked me. And spoke! - Stop touching the forces that will exceed! I struggled but how to defend against a soul in ambush? Who are you? Who are you? I cried.

But I knew the nature of my enemy probably a religious anxious to force us to interrupt any experience Thanatonautes. I struggled but still advanced. The ectoplasm was in my knees, my stomach was feeling my intestines the inside. Thus, the mystical forces had decided to declare war. In our own way. In their own way. By Meditation, by decorporation, for the attack ectoplasmic. We underestimated our opponents. What/how? defend themselves against enemies that cross the walls and even our barriers of flesh? My body was not mine more. He was haunted by a fanatical mad furious our research on the heaven. If it was a priest, would flee if I knelt and prayed to the Virgin Mary? But kneeling is unworthy of a fighter. Strange what came to my mind at the moment of horror, it was the memory of a course of Archery Zen. For a successful shot, we must view the target in his mind. So it becomes arc, the center of the target, the arrow itself. And the arrow has appointment with the center of the target. I got up, passed the battle position and closed her eyes. Immediately, my opponent seemed to me. I was dealing with the ectoplasm of a monk small and puny. If I raised eyes, he disappeared. If I lowered them, he was there, in front of me, ready for a duel I did not know the rules. What a paradox of having to close their eyes to better View These

are children who do so to hunt danger, not adults! Eyes tightly closed, I visualize perfectly my opponent and made him shrink in my mind. Then I placed an arc transparent in my hands and adopt the position shooter’s drawing his weapon. The ectoplasm stopped laughing. We are two minds in one body. His and mine. He left also a crossbow and I took aim. Th pulled out. He pulled together. My arrow struck the ectoplasm right in front. I fell. 144 - Persian philosopher

“I do not know if the one who created me I intended to heaven or hell. A cup, a teenager, a lute on the edge of a field, I met the cash and let yourself be your heaven on credit.

Ignoring this material body is nothing, The cycle of the heavens, the face of the earth are nothing. Be careful in this fight between death and life, We are committed to a breath and that breath is nothing.

Do not pursue happiness, life is the time for a sigh. “

Omar Khayyam (1050-1123), Rubai Yat. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 145 - police files

Note to the services concerned Stir among the players in the movement Thanatonautes. We would like to uproot these experiences to their roots. The Thanatonautes is a danger to us all. Have already reported several times need to intervene. Asking for authorization to act.

Response services affected Must wait. Situation under control. Concerns premature.

146 - The race continues Black and silence. I opened his eyes. Light opaque. A silhouette charming and graceful appeared in the halo. An angel without doubt. He bent over me. The angel looked strangely a woman, but beautiful, as we never see on earth. She was blonde, with eyes blue. Her perfume smelled of apricots.

Around us, all was now white and serene. - EU … on … eo … I … I … had. The angels had to speak a language to them, an angel jargon incomprehensible to non-angels. - EU … I … ero … I tai … had. She repeated patiently for his chants and ran a hand soft and fresh on my forehead smooth.

- You are my hero. I love you. I looked around, somewhat dazed. Where am I? Paradise? No! In the ICU of the hospital Saint-Louis. The angel smiled, reassuring … I recognized that face. Th would have recognized among a thousand. Amandine. I jumped. All I remembered. I fought against an ectoplasm fundamentalist. - I fainted? - Yes, for three hours. Amandine propped a pillow against my back for me can sit more comfortably. I never had for so attentive to me. Next to her, Raoul, Stefania and astrophysicist watching my reactions. Raoul explained that Stefania had was awakened by my cries. She rushed into my apartment and she had attended the last moments of duel. - It was like in Gunfight at the OK Corral, sighed the Italian. I have not even had time intervention that you had already eliminated. - It … It … died? The famous laughing Stefania sounds in the room. - The ectoplasm do not die like that. Your type had to return post-haste his mortal coil. I bet that this curious already pointed to his friends that the house is well defended. Amanda kissed me. - My love! Think that we have so often been so close to each other and I’ve never suspected that you were the best. You did it a decorporation. Should I am blind not to appreciate what is within reach of my hand. It took this terrible story to I realize that you are a warrior. True!

She pressed herself against me and I felt the soft smooth of her breasts against my arm. Language eager made his way between my lips. That kiss left me obviously not indifferent. I waited so long this second … 147 - Jewish mythology GILGOULIM: The Zohar, “Book of Splendor”, book Reference Cabalists, gives several reasons for reincarnations. (Gilgoulim literally means “transformations “) These include: not having children, not getting married. Moreover, if someone gets married but died without having begotten, husband and wife go through a reincarnation before uniting again in two other lives. Because, for the Kabbalists, the union between a man and a woman embraces the three-dimensional, physical, emotional, spiritual, and is a way capital to infinity. Jewish tradition considers that, in general, it is common for spouses are already known in other lives. Childless woman: A man proved incapable to generate, says a text of Kabbalah. A sage explained that in fact his wife was not really his companion. He had received property when in fact it was not own. And as the soul of his wife was likely deeply masculine, it was natural that it has been able to give offspring.

MARRIAGE: According to the Zohar, marriage is an important field experience, essential to spiritual development. The spouses together to resolve conflicts harmful their domestic growth. In each, each, the other it deserves. RAISING A CHILD: Similarly, the experience of raising

a child is considered an indispensable of earthly existence. If you have not been able to raise correct a child for at least one of its lives, will continue to reincarnate until the complete success this exercise. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 148 - TOGETHER AT LAST The day after my fight, barely recovered from my contusions, Amanda invited me to supper with her, in his apartment on the second floor. She had prepared a table romantic floral and scented candles. - Do you think, Michael, that some people are destined to live together? I asked her to brûlepourpoint. I swallowed the wrong way a bite of toast salmon Norway and swallowed a glass of Champagne.

- Yes, definitely. She leaned toward me and our foreheads touched. - Do not you think that, despite many obstacles, those destined to meet always end up finding, because their fate is recorded somewhere in a large book? I agreed again while my sweetheart continued: - I am convinced that, up there, when Stefania crosses the last door, she discovers the grimoire containing complete list of all the couples past and future. I pondered the proposal: - Is it going to be really good? - Of course, we will lose more time in vain wanderings. Those used to love love one another right away. More marriages of convenience, more estimation errors, more deception, more divorces. Each key meet its single lock. I’m sure. “Maybe! A face lovely enrolled on his face gilded by the candles. - No, there is no maybe. Michael, our meeting 252

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She sat down on my knees and embraced me in his arms delicate. The moment that I dreamed had finally arrived. - You are shy, Michael, but I will heal you of your shyness, whispered it in my neck. 149 - FAIR WEDDING A week later, I got married. Everything went very quickly. I made my decision, Raoul find In the beautiful gardens of the Elysee kindly loaned by President Lucinda, we celebrated double wedding, attended by the who’s who of politics and show business invited to the ceremony. In his black tuxedo floating around his shoulders, Raoul was more than ever like a hawk about to pounce on its prey, Stefania in this case, little hen cackling on his arm in a minidress which showed further forms advantageous. Me, I was very relaxed in my tuxedo blue night Rental The woman in my life wore a long dress behind. Rose was bursting with happiness. Behind them, Amandine trying to look good. Everything happened so fast! - Congratulations, congratulations. Rose and I, Raoul and Stefania, we shook hands innumerable. I was obviously chosen for witnesses Raoul and Amanda, my companions

of the first hour. In addition, I had that right to Amandine. It took his impassioned statement that I make the error of my focus in love, the blindness of my desire. The woman that I had was called Rose.

150 - Jewish philosophy “The self is neither a particular point or an intersection of space. It is not the same for all men. It is not identical with the same man with different stages of development. In the early stages of life, the existence of the self is reduced almost to the life of the body, while the highest levels of intelligence and spirit not appear much, if not unconsciously. Growing up, every human being within its means, becomes increasingly aware of the transcendent essence of his soul. This increase is to climb from step to step the scale of life of the soul. We move from the animal soul to get to the area living that we all carry

in us. ” Adin Steinsaltz, The Rose to the thirteen petals. Cabal of Judaism. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis

Razorbak. 151 - AS A Sizzling The feast ended, the wedding nights consumed, we resumed the flights. In great shape, Stefania succeeds immediately three takeoffs. I transferred her information on a program computer that will reshape the continent Ultimate. Thanks to him, we could examine all angles each parcel of land of the dead. All looked a bit like a trumpet flared. Moch 1, Moch 2, Moch 3, Terra incognita, the information showing the progress already made. In thanatodromes the world, teams busy but the ectoplasm who managed to overcome their memories mired in the territory Red pleasure and often remained there. On land, in their armchairs, Thanatonautes deceased showed smiles blissful, so we began to consider Moch 3 was is the threshold outright death and that no one could never cross it and return. The Continent Ultimate retain its mystery, guarded by a halo of delight. We

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had so often called the orgasm “little death”, after all. As at every turn really essential, Raoul Us meet at the cemetery

of Pere-Lachaise. - My friends, this stop may experiences. Even our foreign competitors the most gifted remain nailed to Moch 3. He looked up at the starlight as if waiting for a new idea he falls from the sky. - I though my best, protested Stefania. Corn When I reach the third wall, my umbilical cord is so stretched that I feel it slam if I seek more. - We need a new idea, repeated my friend. Rose sank against me and whispered in my ear: - It may be a mistake, but I found one day a strange phenomenon. - What, dear? - I came to attend the launch of Stefania and I listened to the radio. - Yes, so what? - As her heartbeat slowed, there was suddenly like a crackling in the speaker. There you are. By chance that day, Rose had discovered the first detection system of the aura. 152 - police files Name: Solal Name: Rose Hair color: Black Eyes: Blue Size: 1 m 70

Distinguishing features: None Comments: A pioneer of the movement Thanatonautes. Astro

nome and astrophysicist. Wife and colleague Michael Pinson Weakness: Scientist

153 - Mesopotamian mythology “There is a plant as the spine It grows in the bottom waters His thorn prick you hands As is the rose If your hands tear this plant You will find new life. “ The Epic of Gilgamesh. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 154 - EUREKA! With the discovery of Rose, our work was relaunched. We started on a new path. We knew already that the brain emits waves, such as alpha or beta, during phases of sleep

or near sleep. It was therefore logical that a change in action radio brain intervene at the time of decorporation. The takeoff next Stefania effected close a transistor. They heard actually a low slash, leaving the body had indeed accompanied by the emitted

sion of waves. Raoul devised a system sensitive to high, low and medium frequencies, to identify on how long wave accurately ectoplasm emitted. Stefania is gave a short meditation, and again, the slash sound as one only. We examined this “trace” of the oscilloscope. It was a wavelength very low the ridges widely spaced. Raoul fiddled with several controllers. A line surmounted figures appeared on the screen of the oscilloscope. He turned the

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TV meter, radio waves and managed to beach “Brain waves”. He made a few adjustments. - We are dealing with waves extra long spaced more than one kilometer, announced he. This is a frequency radio low of about 86 kilohertz. We gave cries of jubilation. We have Finally, scientific proof, material, activity Extracorporeal of Thanatonautes. No one could now deny the reality of our experiences. Informed, Lucinda decided on the spot to award us

a supplementary budget that he took from the slush fund of Presidency. Through instruments more and more sophisticated we identified the precise footprint ectoplasmic of Stefania: 86.4 kHz. Raoul designed a detector off to know the exact second when the vital body Stefania dissociate himself from his physical body. Therefore, a question arises: where to locate geographically the Continent Ultimate? Indeed, if the ectoplasm traveling remaining detectable through a radio system, we must be able to follow his movements. So, Where was Paradise? Where was this continent intangible which we draw the maps so long as ignoring its location? At the height of thanatodrome, I set up a wide satellite dish, more like a radio telescope, five meters in diameter. A pretty daisy on our penthouse.

A new step in our conquest of the continent Dead opened to us. We entered the “era astronomical “.

Champagne 155 - MYTHOLOGY TIBETAN Vibration: All issues, everything vibrates. The vibration varies the genre. Mineral: 5000 vibrations per second. Plant: 10,000 vibrations per second.

Animal: 20 000 vibrations per second. Human: 35 000 vibrations per second. Soul: 49 000 vibrations per second. At the time of death, the astral body separates from the body physics because it can not support the lowering of vibrations of his body. Education Bardo Thödol Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 156 - PARADISE IS WHERE EVER?

Stefania sat in the lotus position on the throne of flight. She knew now the radio telescope would connected and, for the first time, we would try to follow the flight of his soul. I still wonder how we could discern something moving at the speed of thought. Amanda settled the measuring devices saline. Raoul plugged the system receiver. As for Rose and I, we deployed on a large table in terms of constellations surrounding the Earth. To think that one of them was perhaps the Garden … Was it an act of heresy? Disclose the physical location of the afterlife, that that would rage religions. They already reluctant to see us touching their main fund Commercial! Stefania lowered eyelids, it was his way of batten down the hatches before the dive. His nostrils quivered more slowly. When she felt that her concentration was sufficient to infuse the calm necessary for takeoff, it captures the pear switch boosters and mouth joints gently - Six … five … four … three … two … one. Off! The radio receiver connected to the frequency of 86.4 kHz issued a

kind of complaint. The sound of a “soul off! “ In the room, the nervousness was such that shook my Rose

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strong arm. Death could finally be followed to trace, Raoul would not invite the press, but proper operation of the video camera. We have at least one film of the first flight Follow up We waited. Stefania was traveling at the speed of thought But radio waves do not travel as fast. The more she away, the more we perceive late. After eight minutes, we obtained a specific issue to a good location in space. Now it was up to me to play. I approached the control panel of the radio telescope. It nicely picks up the signal of the soul of Stefania. I paid more for wheels locate its distance, direction, speed of progression. In next to me, Rose was engaged in his own observations. - That’s it. I also have the signal. It took two plastic rules and crossed in the area where she had spotted the issue, ranging from compared to the polar axis.

- Stefania heading toward the Big Dipper. She is coming from beyond Saturn. It goes so fast that it must traverse meteorites. It really was traveling at the speed of thought. Cent times faster than the speed of light! - Where is she now? Eyes glued to the screen, Raoul found: - It looks like it leaves the solar system. Rose was even more specific: - It has doubled Uranus. I - What’s going on? - It goes so fast! “Where is she?” - It comes out of our solar system. Its signal comes to us with a lot of delay now. - She left our galaxy? No! Instead, it even seems to darken center of the Milky Way. - The center of the Milky Way? But what does he mean? Rose explained to us by drawing a design in the shape of Spiral.

- Our galaxy is formed of a mass of arms spirals with a diameter of one hundred thousand light years. There are : all there: the planets, gas, satellite, meteorites. Our galaxy has one hundred billion stars. His soul might want to visit a particular … - What can she look? - Heaven, Hell … After all, the solar system is located at the outer periphery of an arm of the spiral of our galaxy. We were all listening to the instruments. The lower crackling was a trace of the fabulous journey of our friend. - Where is she now? Raoul worried. - She always file toward the center of our galaxy. - That is to say? Rose said

her period, crossed several lines. - She goes to the constellation Sagittarius. More specifically, to the west of this set. Paradise would be in the constellation Sagittarius? I helped Rose in its calculations. - Over there. She dubbed this star. It continues its launched. - It is far? - Somewhat, yes. At least fifty billion kilometers. Next to the soul of Stefania, all of our rockets and our crawl space shuttles really like snails. - Where is she now? - It goes to … - To where? Rose looked at the screen where all sorts of figures marching for several minutes. - She is gone. The signal disappeared. - What do you mean? Raoul panicked. there is no more waiting. Anxiety, Rose dropped its rules, which fell to the ground with a thud, in this confusing silence. Amandine, the nurse who kept calm in moments crucial, very professionally checked the physiological state Stefania. - She is still alive, she murmured. - How is it possible that the signal is cleared? I thought so long waves moved quickly and unlimited in the universe, I say. - It’s incomprehensible, recognized Rose. 157 - Trouble Stefania’s body did not move and we did not know which was now his soul. “What do we do now? We try to wake her up? Rose checked all devices. - Wait … There may be one

explanation for the disappearance the signal. Rose operates its rules and took his computer until his operations become complicated. She smiles. - I think … Flourishing more and more, she rushed The screen: - Yes, everything matches. “This is perfect! - What have you discovered? I asked. I had never seen Rose so excited. Stefania has not stopped broadcasting. - It’s a star? Uh. No. Not really. - A planet? no, sir - A supernova, a star cluster? - None of that. She pointed to a map of the Continent Ultimate. We looked at all the multicolored funnel narrowed. Together, we seized them what they told us: - A black hole! Rose nodded. That explained everything. It was easy, now, why radio signals had disappeared. The Black holes are giant vacuum cleaners that swallow everything what passes within their reach: matter, light, waves … And same souls, did we know now!

- A black hole … Raoul also seemed plagued by thousands of questions. He expressed one. - There are dozens of black holes already listed. Why, at the time of death, the souls were heading-them to it rather than another? - This black hole is not just any black hole. There is located at the exact location of the center of our

galaxy, Rose explained. 158 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS In 1932, that is to say in the early twentieth century astrophysicist Jan Oort studied the mass of the universe. To do this, he observed the rate of removal of the stars in the Way Milky Way, our galaxy formed by disk. He has deduced the the propelling force of gravity, then the overall mass. What was no surprise to find that the Milky Way was even up to half of visible matter! It was therefore in the sky something very “Heavy”, with as heavy as all the stars visible we could not detect or see. This strangeness, he called “phantom matter”. History textbook, second year elementary course. 159 - Jewish mythology “The center from which the origin of the light produced more secretive. It is a purity, a diaphanous, a delicacy which can not be understood. When it spreads, this is a palace of light that surrounds the center. He is also translucent. This palace, unseen source point, is less transparent than the original point. But this palace spreads the original light of the universe. And From there, layer upon layer, each garment form the previous one, like the membrane on the brain. “ Zohar, The Book of Splendor.

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160 - PATIENCE God was there lurking in the depths of a black hole? The above Was that a black hole? I looked one day photography a black hole in a science magazine. I was a ring with fiery orange in his center, a small spot of orange less bright. The picture reminded me of the enigma Raoul: How to draw a circle and its center without lifting his pencil. I knew this it was not a simple mind game. A circle and its center! Could it be the representation of God, the very face of death? Stefania learned stunned when he returned, she had crossed third of the diameter of our galaxy to rush into a black hole placed exactly in the center. Raoul drew a map to locate it. It was not him difficult. It was enough to draw with a compass the circle by the two arms of our Milky Way, then place a point in the middle. Rose helped him though. His knowledge Astronomer completed

our own medical knowledge, Biology and mystical of all backgrounds. She told us that black holes are considered as the final stage of a dead star and have densities extraordinary. The pressure is such that the Earth, if it were drawn, would be compressed to be turned into a ball of a cubic centimeter weighing the same weight as all our planet! - The power of black holes is staggering, said Rose. Nothing can escape, neither matter nor radiation. In addition, they are very difficult to spot. We do discern that when a star is swallow. At this time, it emits X-rays that can deduce the location of the black hole, the cemetery of the stars that this is the cry of agony. Or an X-ray source was noticed in the open center of our galaxy. Astrophysicists had called Sagittarius A West. They had calculated that the hole Black was a monster of a mass five million times higher than that of the Sun and estimated its diameter at seven

hundred million kilometers (2.5 light-hours, a diameter four times smaller than our solar). Sagittarius A West! This was perhaps the scientific name the continent from the dead! This corner of the universe was little known, even if it were the central hub.

We divulguâmes information, not make us account of emotion that would lead the world. Our previous experiments have had to serve as a warning but Raoul felt that we had homework vis-à-vis science and too bad for the risks we outstandings. In Akademgorodok, Siberia, a team of cosmonauts Russian space shuttle away to try to visit our black holeParadis. What folly, as if the soul a Thanatonautes could spin faster than light, was far from the case of a spacecraft even more advanced! These pirates of the sky would need a minimum five hundred years, even if only to leave the system solar, and at least one thousand years to reach the black hole the closest! And even if, by means of Survival previously unknown, they would have succeeded in becoming millennia, they disappear immediately swallowed, sprayed never in the vortex of the black hole. At the moment, the Russians still roam, sending from time to time localization signals that captures the small receiver installed on the roof of the Museum of Death Smithsonian Institute in Washington. And if they were the only ones to get laid and in the air without reflect further! In the only months after our discovery of the Continent Ultimate, one hundred and fifty Thanatonautes amateurs, who wish to join the Paradise, disappeared no return.

Seriously, despite all the prohibitions and of all curses, the clergy of all faiths repar

derive from best to attack Moch 3. They had the advantage

Days of flight techniques have already enrolled in their religious practice and operated rigorously, utilizing background all the recipes of their mythology. Everything was good to finally break the third wall comatose. Consolation again, the family shop at the bottom of our thanatodrome, never empty more. Rose was DEVE

bare our Chief Astronomer. That was his autograph were now the most popular. 161 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS

Men have long ignored what was at the center of their galaxy. They knew that the world around them rotated at a speed of 250 million years per turn, but they did not know about what. History textbook, second year elementary course. 162 - Mocha 4 To general astonishment, under the leadership of Rabbi Freddy Meyer, the team of liberal yeshiva in Strasbourg crosses, the first, the third wall comatose. The Thanatonautes Jews had a great idea: work not longer alone, but as a group. Rabbi Meyer had indeed found that most deaths were explorers caused by the stretching of their umbilical cord, too end, before slamming the approach of Moch 3. Question what is stronger than a single thread? Answer: three son braided. Therefore, it had only go up in tying together several cords ectoplasmic. Method: a first round of three rabbis emissions and protects the umbilical cord of two others who, themselves, protect one of their chief, Meyer, who can come forward deaths on the continent without any risk of rupture. Meyer’s reasoning was pragmatic: six elastic welded are firmer one. It would So even with the umbilical cord. Obviously there was a risk: a single failure and all the cake collapsed! The Strasbourg however, had succeeded.

Live U.S. television, the Rabbi Meyer announced that beyond lay a 3 Moch vast plain. At infinity, the dead were advancing in single file slowly, he did not know what waiting. - If my father were still there doing the tail? cried Raoul. Consequently, he lost his temper. He wanted to meet faster Thanatonautes Rabbi and his disciples. The Strasbourg readily agreed to visit us in our thanatodrome des ButtesChaumont. Rabbi Meyer, bald little man, wore a pair of thick black glasses that gave him strange looks. Surprise behind the glasses, his eyes were closed. As he was slumped in an armchair in the penthouse, I thought First he was sleeping but when he began to speak, the eyes still closed, I realized that this pioneer infinity was blind. Blind! - It does not bother you for Thanatonautes? - An ectoplasm does not need eyes. He smiled, his face turned towards me. All he had to to hear my voice to know exactly where I was. He took my hand and I knew that by this contact, he learned everything about me. He saw my personality through the heat of my palm, the moisture of my sweat, lines on my skin, the shape of my fingers. - You do not have a white cane, I noticed. - No need. I may

be blind but I’m not lame. His disciples burst out laughing. Apparently, they loved their master and his antics. Me, the humor put me uncomfortable. People stricken with blindness are supposed to be sad and overwhelmed and not laugh and joke. In addition, there was an religious scholar and a scientist, therefore, a serious man par excellence. Suspicious, Raoul fluttering her long hands a few inches of his glasses. Meyer protested, impassive - Stop shaking your fingers. You cause a current air and it may catch cold. - You will not really see anything? - No, but I’m not complaining. I could also be deaf. That’s got to be really painful. His students were thrilled. He continued, more seriously: - You know, there are more interesting information the sounds in the images. Prior to blind rabbi, choreographer and I have always I loved playing the piano. It’s a Bach fugue to me gave the idea of ​weaving the umbilical cords. The rabbi walked unaided to the piano, drew the stool and sat down. The music sounded almost mathematical in the enchanting canopy green plants in our tropical setting. - Listen to this passage. You receive both voice? I closed my eyes to hear better. In fact, so focused, I discerned two voices overlapped. Meyer commented: - Bach was a genius of the braid. By mixing two voices, it gives the illusion of creating a third that does not exist and

yet is richer than the sum of the two. This technique applies to all, for music, for writing, for painting and whatnot? Keep your eyes closed. I thought of the discovery that allowed me to the monk-ectoplasm routed. Prevent eye sometimes seen. In binding me to the darkness, I realized better about the rabbi. He fingered notes. Two voices coexisted but the air was heard was unlike none, For me, music was provided so far a background, sometimes pleasant, sometimes unpleasant, existence. To seize suddenly as a pure science was an upheaval. I had never done that hearing, I learned to listen. Freddy Meyer laughed without stopping play. - Excuse me, when I’m happy I can help laughing. Amanda filed a Bloody Mary on the piano. Rabbi stopped for drinking. We see it all with the same look ecstatic that his disciples. Then we recounted his journey. Moch past three, stretching a very large area and crowded. In an immense plain cylindrical, crowded

ectoplasm to cut the cords. There were billions of dead patient in a plain orange where they appeared in transit. They were there like a long river, moving slowly. They flew over, they were lying. It was easy to fly. In the middle of the river, the dead huddled in clusters wiry. They moved a little

faster at the periphery, coming together to discuss their previous life. Scholars disputed the primacy of their inventions. Actresses bickered quality their interpretations. Writers without critical amenity their respective works. But most of the dead content to move slowly. There seemed some for ages. Of course, as in all crowds, there were people to look to double everyone playing the elbows! That, after the third wall comatose, there was this gigantic tail. Perhaps the dead were they subjected a test of time? Perhaps did they teach them patience? Their movements were slow. They remained there to do nothing, just wait. - The test of time … It is perhaps this hell, I said. - Yes, but in any case, not for us. Not for Thanatonautes. Us, we are able to fly overcoat the myriads of cluttering the cylinder dead orange. Moreover, the country is quite beautiful, like a little to what I was told photos taken of the planet Mars. There, around the central river of the dead, banks, slopes, and off a light as the sun wonderful. A sun so appealing and to which the stream flows of the dead … But I did not venture too far in the fourth area. I feared bogged in time while my friends rabbis, the poor, waiting for me in the … Red corridor of pleasure. Raoul entered in Razorbak As the words Freddy Meyer: - Tell us specifically that area, I will Please, Rabbi. - More and more we advance the atmosphere warms. Over the cylinder walls look fast. I felt the feeling of being enclosed in

a mill running idle, knowing that deep down I would be crushed. This sensation of speed contrasts sharply with the patience and time required of souls that are there. That these walls would spin so fast on the contrary desire to run and move as quickly as possible, yet it impossible! - It is because of the centrifugal force of the black hole, reported Rose. Amanda was surprised: - Your ectoplasm actually collects the heat and proper speed. - Yes, miss. But we do not suffer we feel. The rabbi lifted then put the black cap on his head, displaying his perpetual air of baby. He touched all objects around him as much rattles. He had felt, probably stronger than me, the note of seduction in Amanda’s voice but he did not offended. This small Jew smiled, hilarious, like a big Buddha. - You were not impressed by the spectacle of all these deaths? asked the pretty blonde, very appreciative. - Oh, after the first few billion, it’s like for everything you get used to, he said soberly. Raoul took the card. With satisfaction, it effaced for the delay, the reference Terra incognita and noted the indications of Rabbi Meyer. The red area ends with three leading Moch: AREA 4 - Location: coma over 27 minutes. - Color: orange. Sensations: fight against time, waiting room, “Heaven”

turning point, plain. Area of ​air currents, windswept. Billions of dead advancing in line Indian River into a vast gray (normal, it is composed of ectoplasm). It faces the time. We learn patience. You would have with the dead famous. - Rabbi, do you have “seen” the end of the corridor? Amandine inquired. - Call me Freddy, please. And do not hesitate to pronounce the word “see.” Qu’ectoplasme as I see perfectly. Out of his body is no longer suffering from any disability. Finally, to answer your question, yes, I saw deep, straight ahead several hundred meters, a another wall. Moch 4? - Was it closer than 3 Moch? asked Raoul. Hardly. Moch 4 must be three-quarters of the diameter Moch of 3. Raoul noted. - The curve of the funnel is tangent. The more we progresses, the trumpet is pipe. One more question, Rabbi … - Call me Freddy. OK? Tell me, Freddy, have you not seen in the queue a man of about forty, with a bit like that, glasses, such as a quickdraw and my hands still buried in his pockets? For once, Freddy does not laugh. - Talk about a relative of yours? - In my father murmured Raoul, so low that we had hard to hear. He died there nearly thirty years. - Thirty years … Freddy sighed. I think you have misunderstood what I said. There were billions of dead in the queue. How could I examine one by one? How could I distinguish your father among this immense flock? Yes, Raoul blushed. My question was stupid. But my father

died so early and I was still so young … It left, taking the mystery. - And if the mystery was precisely your heritage? said the rabbi. By leaving in doubt, you left engine which led eventually all your activities. - Do you really think? The Strasbourg giggled again. - How do I know? At times, I tend to confused a little psychoanalysis and Kabbalah! Both are sometimes linked. You’re probably more than I làdessus stalled.

Raoul sighed - I would have so much to ask … It was he who the first had the idea of ​Thanatonautes. The disciples broke the malaise that is established by calling visit our thanatodrome. They examined with respect our gear propulsion. They were content to meditation and a decoction of bitter roots. Us their shewed how to detect the exact moment of takeoff with our receptor gamma waves, how we will schedule returns with an electric timer by also acts as security. They were passionate. - With such devices, we further improve our Performance exclaimed the old sage. Another synergy. Our mutual talents added together to exceed the sum. Two modes of think different. Two songs that come together to create new music. 163 - police files Name: Meyer Name: Freddy Hair: White Eyes: Blue Size: 60 1 m Distinguishing features: Rabbi, is a permanent cap on head Comment: Pioneer of Thanatonautes. Inventor of the technique braided cords that allowed the crossing of three Moch Weakness: Blind 164 - BLINDNESS AND CLAIRVOYANCE We lodged the six rabbis from the yeshiva in Strasbourg in

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they exerted to new choreography to build more firmly their cords for future flights. One after another they took off from the chair our thanatodrome. When they were familiar with our methods, we installed new thrones departure and they resumed their flight group. Stefania often went with them, sometimes making the point ectoplasmic of the pyramid. To see them take off and return together, they all seemed to have fun up there. Freddy Interior was always when he awoke, as if he had it get a kick out! His gaiety troubled me. Freddy was not only a rabbi, but blind and old. Three reasons to exercise more outfit! And I did not understand that can Thanatonautes joked. Death was right even something scary. Me, I always took the death and love seriously.

Both require gravity. Women swoon have always presented masks pain. Once, after landing, I heard Rabbi tell a joke rather ribald. “These are two old who remember a hotel, after dinner, you are entitled a show quite unusual. An artist released his sex and, using it as a hammer, breaking of a sudden three nuts. They come back a little later, the show continues. The artist has aged but is still there. This time it breaks not three, but three normal nuts coconut. At the end, will see two old men in his dressing room and he wonder why he made the exchange. And the artist replied, “Ah! You know what it is, with age, to decline. ” “ The others laughed. I was a little shocked. The rabbi, despite its function, take death to

light, I faced. I made the remark to him. - Someone, somewhere, has misinterpreted the word God, he said. A prophet has realized a little deaf “God is love” instead of “God is humor”! Everything is funny, including death. How could I accept my blindness without humor? We must laugh at everything and without restraint. - This is a little weird, I say to Stefania. It was not me. Tibetan meditation him had a better understanding the wise Alsatian. Freddy had completed its cycle of reincarnation. This would his last life. It would be more then a pure spirit, released from all suffering. He had nothing more to prove. He was calm now. In previous migration his soul, he had known love, art, science, compassion. Now it almost touched the knowledge absolute. It was his deep serenity emanated This contagious bonhomie. As for his jokes, if they shocked me was because I had my own head stuffed prohibited. It was true that around the floated like a rabbi will wave beneficial. If Stefania was right, I envied him. I wish, too, have done with my cycle of lives. Have understood everything beyond appearances. Say

ask a soul at peace. Alas, I was still young in this earth. I was probably not to my hundredth or two one hundredth incarnation. My karma was still hungry knowledge and conquest. Fortunately, Freddy did not begrudge deliver us know! In the evening we made a circle around him in the penthouse and he told us, seriously this time stories of the Cabal and taught us the secret meaning of words and numbers. - According to the Kabbalah, we are all immortal, death being only one developmental stage to determine within the next phase of our existence. Death is a threshold. It opens a door to another life. As we to be the most lucid and serene as possible! Fear, confusion mental refusal to die is the worst state that can know. Longer be at peace, the more it is able to perform smooth a successful transition to another world. It is written in the Zohar: “Blessed is he who dies of clear conscience. Death is the passage of a house to another. If we are wise, we will do our next home a more beautiful home. “And Rabbi Elimelech of Lizensk, always so cheerful, exclaimed: “Why did not I would be happy, knowing that I am about to leave this world to enter the upper world of eternity? ” Amanda ate the eyes Thanatonautes which, among all had

advanced as far as possible in the hemisphere Ultimate. She was surprised that the belief in reincarnation is part of the Jewish religion. - This is a secret teaching, explained the small bald man shaking his cap. Moreover, few the rabbis who share my ideas. I am a reformist, liberal and Kabbalist. In other words, I sow havoc in of Judaism. - Still, insisted Amandine, are there in your religion a procedure to die? Of course! The dying are instructed to close the doors of their senses, to focus on the psychic center the heart and stabilize their breath. So it is written in the Zohar, the soul will take the highest of all paths. The highest of all the paths … We were silent, tempting to imagine. - You use meditation to take off. What is your technique? asked Stefania. You Is Clean or have you also taken from your teachings? - Our method comes from the ancient times. We call Tzimtzum. The prophet Ezekiel it was already seven centuries before Christ. Rabbi Aaron Roth’s codified later in his Treatise on the busy the soul, followed later by Maimonides and Rabbi Isaac of Luria. Tzimtzum means “withdrawal”. To tzimtzum, think so, you must become an instant as outside his body, watching from a distance and observe all happens to him. - How do you manage in practice? - We focus on our breathing and particularly the action of air on our blood and the action of blood on our bodies. - Your method is not very different from mine, commented Stefania, the Tibetan Buddhist.

Freddy laughed heartily.

- Yes, but if it is resolutely modern, we can is decorporation many other ways. Nothing beats a well cooked and much of legs in the air! The big chill. - Ah, Freddy! You can never stop you from joke, protested half Amandine. - No, he said very seriously. All acts of our lives are sacred acts: eating, drinking, breathing, do love, as many ways to honor God and the existence he has given us! How to distinguish expression in empty eyes behind the thick black glasses? A child’s smile lit up the wrinkled face when the rabbi recited aphorisms that says it, he had learned from his spiritual master, the Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav: - It is a great duty to be always in joy, to remove all our strength sadness and bitterness. All diseases based on human originate from the degradation of joy. It comes from a distortion “Deep song” (nigun) and the ten vital rhythms (Defiquim). When joy and song go out, the disease takes hold rights. Joy is the greatest remedies. We must find in us a single positive and we attach. Hair in my face. With that, he claimed to Amanda’s favorite drink, a Bloody Mary, swallowed in one gulp and said it was time for him and his followers to lie.

165 - decorporation Rose and I decided one night we decorporation accordance the teachings of Freddy. After we content with light foods for dinner, we stretched on the floor, out of the synthetic carpet. We We concentrâmes on our breathing and blood bathing our organization. Also as shown in Freddy, if a cramp arose, we absorbed our pain before you forget and whenever our mind wanders, we would reduce the

empty we thinking only control our breath. We spent half an hour still on the floor, back into sauce before being all taken giggles. Apparently, Jewish meditation, it was not our cup of tea. Mischievous, Rose I nibbled her ear: - Freddy also talked about the most pleasant ways to out of his body. I stroked her long black hair: - I do not like me so drunk. Alcohol does not give me no happiness, nothing but nausea and a famous pain head! There is one other technique, she said, stretching luxuriously his aching limbs before rushing in my hand. Quickly, we undressed each other.

- It is said that in order to meditate, to be disposed everything that we adds, reminded my wife. - It is said that in order to meditate, we must feel the blood beat in his temples. And I feel it, I said, incorrigibly Scientific - It is said that in order to meditate, it is important to grow comfortably on a bed, said Rose, taking me to our soft layer marriage. Our bodies embraced each other and gradually our minds united to joy. Both envelopes carnal s’étirèrent timidly out of our carcasses burning for merge above our heads, during a few seconds of ecstasy. 166 - PHILOSOPHY AUROVILLIENNE “Evolution is not to become increasingly saint or more intelligent or more happy. Evolution is becoming increasingly aware of. It takes a long time before they can withstand the truth of Past Lives. The greater the psychic body

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we did not find but a passage quiet of a mode of experience to another. Until the day where we will have enough to brew enough of conscience in the body so that it makes our immortal spirit. “ Satprem, Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 167 - LOST Raoul had drawn the galaxy by placing at its center a kind of mouth sink trumpet. The Continent Ultimate. What was the fun in that location, that he answered the call of nature have always had the people know the center of the world. Successively they thought it was a city and a country, then Earth and the Sun. We knew now that the system was only a trifle on the outskirts of immense galaxy, which was centered on a vacuum cleaner mill of everything and even souls. God lived there? Was there and gods carpet center millions of galaxies that make up the universe? Nothing thinking about it made me dizzy. What a headache! President Lucinda came to inspect the new layout our thanatodrome. We have now eight chairs flying, one for Stefania, others Meyer and his disciples.

Placing the National Assembly to the extent of our inroads on the Continent Ultimate, the head of state had succeeded to release a real war budget for Thanatonautes. It would not have to juggle between slush and Veterans Affairs, and we could gain antenna radio-astronomical format gigantic. Thus, we could finally see many souls bound for beyond not just the ectoplasm of our companions. Curious, Lucinda then asked to attend a flight

grouped. Freddy drew to him the figure that his band would perform there. The President remarked that it looked like a round parachute holding the leg. Freddy assented, but added that it was necessary in addition to ensuring well weave the umbilical cords. - You should come with us, President. - Thank you, answered our protector. I’ve been there once but I believe to be most useful to the cause of Thanatonautes being head of state rather qu’ectoplasme. The team took place in the bubble of protection. All in lotus position and wearing their white uniforms, they were quite impressive. - Six … five … four … three … two … one. Off! Eight slash crackled one after the other in the radio receiver. Stefania was part of the first. Normal it would be up there at the top of the scaffolding.

I set off my watch, placed timers rescue “coma over fifty minutes,” then, with our dish, we followed the path of our commando souls. There was nearly an hour to wait. Feeling playful, Lucinda proposed a game of cards. We sat around a table for a gin-rummy while glancing from time to time to the screens -Monitoring Raoul was the first to spring from his chair, flipping almost. - A rabbi is dead! he exclaimed. - “What? How? fright Lucinda. I discovered with panic as the electrocardiogram and the electroencephalogram of the members of the yeshiva Strasbourg were flat. - He had to produce a disaster up there! - They would have passed the fourth wall to fall in an infernal world? I shook my head. - Impossible. It is that “coma more twenty-seven minutes “. They are still in the second area, the country black. I ran all the instruments of control. All bodies flesh were nervous. What a tragedy know

they said, there? Amanda felt the pulse of the seven survivors. She shuddered. A second rabbi was gone! - I do not understand, she said, wringing her hands. They

have crossed many times this area without problems. They were soon weaving their cords … In the laboratory, the atmosphere was more anguished. Raoul was riveted to the pulse of Stefania. I concentrated on radio receivers. It was strange. There were plenty of signals and they do not match all those of our friends. Were we faced with souls parasites, souls pirates? Some higher authority would she decided to cut the “road to the afterlife?” We will verify these claims later. For now, it urgent need to limit the carnage and bring in more soon before all our friends will pass away. Together, We hurried to trigger timers. Six Thanatonautes furious opened successively the eyes. All trembling with anger. Stefania seemed mimicking a fight yet. What happened here? What happened here? Difficult, she said a name: - The Hashishins! 168 - HISTORY Hashishins There were old men who thought they had discovered the heaven on earth: the Hashishins. Are known as the “Hashishins” the Ismaili followers of the reform of Hasan i-Sabbah. They were so named because they used a lot of hashish before embarking commandossuicide. Their fame is such that they are the source of the word French “assassin.” The sect came from a branch of Shiite Islam. Its members

declared themselves followers of Mohammed’s nephew, which, being a descendant of the Prophet by women, was not recognized by all Muslims. According to the testimony of the Venetian traveler Marco Polo (1323) and many Persian historians, the Hashishins

lived in the fortress of Alamut, 1800 meters above sea level, Mazenderan in the south of the Caspian Sea. Confined to their mountains and do not have the means to undertake conventional wars, they devised to send in six men (the fidawis) charged with stabbing the enemy leaders, the most often while they were engaged in their devotions in mosques. The master of the assassins was sacred “Old Man of the Mountain “. The first of these was obviously Hasan iSabbah, the founder of the sect. Those designated to commit the murders were anesthetized with hashish, introduced into their food in a paste mixed with rose jam. The Old Man of Mountain spoke to them at length and the men fell asleep because hashish is a drug and not overpowering not exciting. Asleep, they were transported in a garden secret, deep in the fortress of Alamut. In their wake, they there were approximately of young slave girls and boys, eager to fulfill all their sexual

desires. They arrived in rags. They discovered in dress son of enhanced green silk and gold all around it was the Paradise: silver-gilt dishes, sweet wines in profusion, roses with delicate fragrances, hashish at will. Drugs, sex, alcohol, luxury and pleasure! They were convinced of being in the gardens of Allah, especially since this place was an oasis particularly scarce in arid and mountainous. They were then anesthetized again to paste hashish, and then returned to the starting point in their old cast-offs. The Old Man of the Mountain they said while, with his powers, they had the chance to try sneaking in Paradise of Allah. For them to return finally dying as warriors! Smile on lips, then went meekly fidawis murder viziers and sultans. Stopped, they walked to the scaffold, the ecstatic face. There were the priests Hashishins high level (Sixth grade) to know the secret gardens of false of Allah. The sect first took care of its own interests by pro

moving the message to Hasan-i Sabbah. Then the Old Man of the Mountain found that their fanatical henchmen could big dividends. They rented their services to the highest bidder. The assassins rushed to volunteer when their leader asked, “Which of you will rid me of this or that? “Thus perished, among others, the poet ACMA, the daughter of

Marwan, who had dared to speak ill of his allies Medina, who immediately made use of the arm mercenaries of Hashishins. The fortress of Alamut in 1253 was conquered by the great Mongol Hulagu Khan, Great Khan Chinese General Mongkha. The murderers had claimed the support of good sultans they helped, they were careful not intervene too happy to get rid of these dangerous troublemakers. The Hashishins massacred could verify that they had known that ersatz paradise. A sacred world artificial, made by men to deceive. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 169 - MERCENARIES OF BEYOND - We were attacked by pirates ectoplasm, Stefania explained, still panting, shivering uniform under her heavy breasts. They were about twenty, hidden behind the first wall comatose. Taking advantage of the effect of surprise, they cut their teeth cords Lucien and Albert. Freddy was surprised to discover that the world of ectoplasm has its own standards. In dreams, People can fight and blood flow. Similarly, in The Ultimate Continent, the ectoplasm of the same nature can fight them and cut their umbilical cords land. He came to find out but did not know how to explain

the phenomenon. Perhaps it was enough a program of hate or aggression to cause violence? In any case, the two rabbis had been poor properly drawn into the light at the bottom of the funnel. Stefania and Freddy and how could they as easy

ment describe their attackers as “Hashishins “? Telepathy between souls. Meyer previously thought to battle organized by the Arabs. Manichean reflex: Arabs against Jews, would have been too simple. These were the last descendants of Hashishins, who saw this attack against Rabbis a great way to wake up the holy war and of selfdesignation as the spearhead of conquering Islam. They would ensure that the skirmish known a wide publicity in the Muslim world. Stefania was furious. - They jumped on us. They have grabbed. They trying to break our cords by pulling a sharp blow or by rolling their ankle. The surprise past, we defended! - And strangely, even! Freddy adds. We have our turn ad patres shipped three of the pirates. They know Now that we not let ourselves be “murder” without reacting. The fight had taken place a little like a battle diving between frogmen, except that instead of cut the tube inlet compressed air, it was

sabotage the silver lace. Surrounding the dead of the day terrified to see Thanatonautes kill each other! President Lucinda, although it had decided to stop been smoking for three days, took a cigarette Raoul bidder. - In the long run, he said, exhaling a fragrant wreaths eucalyptus, it will declare the Continent Ultimate “zone demilitarized. ” Anyone charged with intent to penetrate bellicose will be immediately expelled. - By UN battalions ectoplasm? Stefania sneered. - For now, we are powerless. to everyone. has the right to get up there, including Hashishins, and we are unable to control them on the ground. We can not initiate a conflict, even local, to protect a continent that belongs Ultimate altogether at any the world. I had never thought about the diplomatic aspects

ticks of our exploration. Typically, the pioneers plan

taient the flag of their country through their discoveries

vraient. Thus were born the colonies. Came first explorers, then settlers, then the commercial

and finally administrators. By dint of turf wars, it drew new borders at will, sometimes drawn with a rule like many African countries. But we had not scored in areas that we had penetrated, so that the Continent was Ultimate currently owned by any nation. Of obvi

dence, the first to use force to seize were likely to become teachers. Like the Wild West, this who would be drawing the faster! I was naive, I had always been that men and women experienced in meditation and able to risk their lives on our flight seats could not be that good people, animated by the sole concern of reducing the limits of knowledge. Finished the adventure, finished the stunt of death, no more

mystical dreamers! With the popularization of flight, is reproduce up there all the problems we had taken so long to solve this world. In the afterlife, any sect, any horde of fanatics, any band of rogues prove as powerful a State. Some Hashishins not representative some fifty mindless murderers threatened ownership of Paradise, because they were the first to have had the idea to take it by force! How to counter them?

President Lucinda seemed discouraged - The caution, my friends. It is important to avoid any incident diplomatic or political with Lebanon, Iran and even Saudi Arabia. Stefania was indignant: - But neither Iran or Lebanon or Saudi Arabia do Hashishins support. They are the enemies of all Arabs. Even other Shiites hate and despise, adds a rabbi who survived. - Go figure! Lucinda almost moaned. The Saudis went on to build a gigantic head thanatodrome not far from Mecca. What do they have mercenaries able to call to take the lead in the race? Now they are Our main suppliers of oil and we can not not have the luxury of getting angry with them, even for Thanatonautes some small problems. - But this is life and death it is, Rose protested. - Sorry, my children, but first I have to worry about seven billion people who, on our planet have much soul deep in the body and, more specifically, sixty million individuals with a good half of voters in this country, traveling in cars that run through oil, was filled with tissue from the oil, warm the oil is … - In this case, if we unearthed a Saudi emir ready to ally with us? I asked point-blank. - In this case, a blank! said the head of state by opening arms wide. 170 - KORAN THEOLOGY “God has assigned them a rank higher than these. He made promises to everyone, but he intended to fighters an

even greater rewards to those remaining in their homes. “ Koran, Sura IV, 97. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 171 - it gets complicated The Hashishins were only the precursors of a religious war that we had not anticipated. Of course, all at the beginning of our experiments, we saw clerics to compete hard to get first in the world the dead but we never imagined that the conflict can take on such a scale. Hindu against Muslim, Protestant against Catholic

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economists: it was the first major denominations s’empoignèrent around the continent Ultimate. Entered dissidents and then competing brotherhoods concerned

with autonomy : Iranian Shiites against Sunnis Syrian Dominicans against Jesuits, Taoist Tzu line against supporters of Chang Tzu, Lutherans against Calvinists, liberal Jews against Jews and anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox, Mormon against Amish, Jehovah’s Witnesses against Adventists Seventh-day adherents of the sect against followers of Moon Scientology! I did not know theology counted so many shades. Th discovered that there was so much dissension between the human religions that it was useless to hope that the believers of all faiths find themselves one day Lahaut by the sole desire to ecumenism. While ectoplasm to ambushes and killing each other in the name of their faith, when I reread the notes Raoul had carefully listed all mythologies and theologies of the world and found that, because there were many similarities between them. It seemed all trying to tell the same story and to convey the same information by using parables and different words. The conflict has poisoned the skies soon be its impact on earth. Terrorists launched Hashishins a car packed with explosives against our thanatodrome. We owed our salvation to the awkwardness of a display that had not adjusted his bombs, which exploded with him a hundred meters from our building.

With his customary composure, Raoul brings us together in our penthouse. We were now too many spread for us on the flagstones of Pere-Lachaise. He displayed a map of the Continent Ultimate. - It is natural that religions want to conquer the land of the dead because it will control the spirit world will also master the material world. Imagine that Pakistani Muslims win, they block the cycles of reincarnation of Indian Buddhists! Stefania had become an expert in combat ectoplas

nomic. She had prepared for all kinds of parades to protect its own silver cord. - Do not overlook the possibilities of alliance, even most unexpected, she said. We lost two rabbis friends on our last flight, but with the support of Bedouin Muslims, we have killed a dozen Hashishins of rabid. We must therefore get that group powerful enough to bring our enemies to flight and continue our exploration. After all, that’s what Account! - Instead of starting at six or seven, to take off ten or twenty … Raoul made thoughtfully. - Exactly, Stefania strongly emphasized. These are Always more win. Why not fly to fifty or even one hundred? - All right, Freddy noticed, but there is not one hundred Thanatonautes rabbis. - Why be confined to rabbis? I said. It is perhaps time to make

comparisons. I have found, for example, the Kabbalah and the I Ching had many in common. The Italian applauds the idea. Up there, she would an ambassador. A week later, twenty novices Asian which, at first glance resembled as much drops of water knocked at the door of our thanatodrome. They belonged to the monastery of Shao-lin, where we specifically taught for millennia that religion and fighting go together. The monks of Shao-lin are well known to be the leading experts in kung-fu. They are the source of the science and practice of martial arts. War has always marry them and meditation. Freddy contemplated with rapture new choreography ectoplasmic. He ran either a commando but a real squadron of war can be grouped in formation flying fortress. He named our heavenly host the army of the Alliance, the alliance between all the religions of good will. 172 - Hassidic story The child looked at the old man who was dancing and seemed dancing for eternity. - Grandpa, why do you dance well? - You see, my child, man is like a top. Dignity, nobility and balance, it achieved the in the movement. The man is to discard, not forget it. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

173 - WARS We were not the only ones to seek allies. The Hashishins that seemed to hate us personally to also found associated with unusual. They named it their army “Coalition” and gathered in the thanatodrome they were located in the heart of their ancient fortress of Alamut. First, they bound themselves with monks Shinto Yasukuni Shrine. Here, in this sacred place near Tokyo, which are honored the souls of the 2,464,151 soldiers who died during all the wars of imperial Japan. Nevertheless, liberal rabbis more monks Shao-lin against muftis Hashishins more monks Yasukuni hostilities severely slowed exploration of the Continent Ultimate. There were terrible battles, such as the May 15, where two hundred soldiers of the Alliance confronted six hundred followers of the Coalition. Freddy, Freddy the Pacific, improvised on this occasion what can only be described as first control strategy ectoplasmic. He sent a small group of rabbis and Taoist scouts while the bulk of the allied army was hidden behind the first wall comatose, facing the bullessouvenirs. The fight was so hot on the periphery of the corolla as in the allies forgot the existence of Moch 1. As soon as the Allies engouffrèrent there, they pursued

while holding each other’s umbilical cord to protect themselves. The bad encounter that awaited them was not than they had expected. Indeed, this was not the Allies, but bubbles, memories that the attackers. Our men took advantage of the surprise cut as possible umbilical cords. Three hundred Confederates, Hashishins head, and charged down that day to the light. Allied side, it resigned itself to deplore a hundred of what he had to call them “dead.” Freddy found that if victory was altogether easy, it was because the past rabbis and men Shao-lin was definitely much clearer than Hashishins. They were not encouraged massacres in Lebanon, practiced terrorist attacks at all Gender: They did not have to keep their victims of the past together with their enemies present. Paradoxically, these wars ectoplasmic gave the conquest of the world beyond its true pedigree. In around the world, religions experienced renewed fervor together, alas! the fanatics became more. Some sects even sought to take advantage the opportunity to rise to the status of recognized religion. It enough for a commando to jeopardize the representatives a confession made. Fortunately, people went naked for the Continent Ultimate. They had no opportunity to take with them weapons,

machine guns, rifles or even daggers. Otherwise, given the ferocity of quarrels would have been the slaughter of clerics. Lack of photos and films in the early newspapers and TV

visions spoke little wars ectoplasmic. Corn always at the forefront of the information in this regard, the Small Thanatonautes shown had the idea to send a reporter, Maxime Villain. Former Trappist monk remained long silent, this reporter had acquired a great memory visually. If some people are issuers, it still taciturn, was a receiver. It captures everything and restored Then to his readers. For them, the first reporter ectoplas

economic, he scribbled a few pictures of the fighting terrible taking place in the afterlife. Finally a clean war

and safe for the average citizen. While sitting in their armchairs, quiet fans were passionate for the invitation

sible conflict. Does it still require increased staffing. In our thanatodrome Buttes-Chaumont, we were forced to leave our apartments for individuals make way for a number of thrones flight. Fifty clerks of the Alliance now had at least take off simultaneously if you wanted to conquer the enemy. The building was transformed into a veritable tour de Babel. It sounded foreign languages ​and often incomplete

prehensible to each other but united in the same desire to conquer the next world, representatives of

different faiths get along very well and manage to share their techniques of meditation and prayers. The Alliance was becoming ever more diverse. To Reform rabbis, monks and Taoist Buddhist sages the beginning of the marabouts were added animist Ivorian Turkish muftis, Shinto monks of the island Hokkaido (traditional enemies of the monks of Shinto Yasukuni Shrine), whirling dervishes and even Greek three Inuit shamans, sorcerers six Australian Aborigines, eight Bushman sorcerers, healers of the Philippines, including a Pygmy we do not pills beliefs and a sage cheyenne. Our army consisted of well over two hundred pious soldiers, living proof that it is possible to establish a perfect harmony between the land wherever. A peaceful atmosphere prevailed in the penthouse, instead of meeting with all our little world. Far from the rigors of their monasteries, our devotees exchanged jokes of college students. For my part, I tried to look good by proposing a riddle: - You know how to draw a circle and axis without lifting the pen? Monks and rabbis are so fond of the challenge at the right sens - Impossible! they ended by exclaiming. - Neither more nor less than the Thanatonautes I answered before calmly tell

them the solution. Behind, I heard Raoul, always ahead of enigma, to charge an attentive the charade of Victor Hugo:

- My first is talkative. My second is a bird. My third is in the coffee. My whole is a pastry. There was room for discussion. Mainly because solution seemed simple. While Freddy played the Gershwin on the piano and concocted his Amandine scholars cocktails, I racked my brains, “My first is talkative? A magpie. But a pie, it is also my second, the bird … And who, what, is in a café: a drunk, a server, a beer? “ 174 - ISLAMIC MYTHOLOGY According to Islamic tradition, Paradise is huge and Spread over eight cylindrical rings. Irrigated by four rivers, it is a delightful place. Here the four bask first caliphs, the first ten men converted to Islam and the Prophet’s daughter Fatima. All have seventy houses covered with gold and stones precious. Each pavilion includes seven hundred beds occupied by seven hundred houris. Seven animals are identified Paradise: the camel of Elijah, the ram of Abraham, the whale of Jonah, the mare Borak, the ant and the crest of Solomon, the dog of the Seven Sleepers. The Prophet offers its guests various pleasures but an infinite sensuality.

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 175 - THE BATTLE OF PARADISE The atmosphere and good ecumenical our thana

todrome did not make us forget the reality of hard fighting a conflict that was just beginning. The Alliance and the Coalition were engaged in a war no thank you. Every day, we woke Thanatonautes sweating, trembling in every limb and announcing further losses. Freddy Meyer, our rabbi choreographer promoted to chief of war, decided that the time had come launch our major offensive. The famous “Battle of

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Paradise “was held in the year 2065 AD. Raoul, Rose, Amanda and I followed it as best we can with our satellite dish but we could only see the excitement that prevailed among the inhabitants. Maxim Villain gave later in his diary a pretty good relationship. Here it is:

BATTLE IN HEAVEN As the mist created by the dying stars thickens around the vortex gaping black hole that called Paradise, I see advancing army rabbi’s Freddy Meyer, strong Chinese monks of his affable, his Buddhist peaceful, impressive Stone Cheyenne and Happy marabouts African animists. Their group is welded. The legions of the Alliance have brought their ectoplasm in order to thwart their opponents the most unheard. Coalition troops emerge a few minutes later. Front line, hover Shinto monks, such terrible bombers ready to decimate the cords umbilicals. Position of karate, they spin the edge of their hands as much invincible false. Behind them, arranged in two wings, sneer of Hashishins while the Dominicans chant prayers. The sky teeming with souls. On both sides reinforcements arrive thanatodromes all the world. On the one hand, almost in 1200 the rabbis, animists, Buddhists, Kabalists and Taoist. On the other, two thousand three hundred monks Shinto, shamans, and Hashishins Dominicans. At the head of the Alliance, Rabbi Meyer communicates telepathically commanding his troops. Among the allies, the General Shiku, great strategist Japanese transmits the same his instructions. Note that since the defeat of May 15, his souls have learned to control their most difficult

memories so do not be immediate victims soon the black area. Anyway, they decided this time to remain outside of Paradise to better control the flow

umbilical cords enemies. The Allies, meanwhile, were placed near the doors in order to have their backs the light, which they hope will attract and blind their opponents.

Shiku and the Old Man of the Mountain give the signal of charge by taking the umbilical cord with the whole hand. The Hashishins break on the wing mainly defended by animist wizards and Cheyenne. The Liberal Rabbis rush to their rescue, but are stopped by the monks Shinto, which, with the edge of palm, cut their strings like so many stalks of flowers in a garden. Taoist monks and Dominicans engage in the fray. Any strategy seems to have disappeared. It is only a giant rat race among the stars. Surrounding day of the dead still come and go, barely intrigued by those souls who fight with such determination on the periphery of Paradise. Allies note at a time that due to staffing least, they begin to have the bottom. They darken to the first wall comatose.

Fearing they resume their tactics May 15, leads his troops to Shiku their pursuit. On the ledges of the second world, more and more

steep piles fighters compete simultaneously their most horrible memories. Souls are numb in this place that smells of earth and death. Many cords are cut and ectoplasm of warriors dead spin towards the light. Three Hashishins attacked a rabbi Liberal attempts to escape their jerky movements by Yiddish dance steps. Grace jumps in kung fu, a Taoist monk manages to cut a single movement six umbilical cords Dominicans. Mohican is a finds himself alone against a group of Iroquois. Cluster tight, the Moonies are resistant to Scientologists. The sects seem to especially a fight between them. To create strange associations. A marabout African

Cain saves an Indonesian shaman, a prisoner of an exorcist

Roman Catholic who wonders just what he does there. A band of Zen monks is lost in the cornice. We seeing a nice load of Indian gurus, well packed in lotus position, against dervishes twirling in top. They have developed a revolving line of defense that used to house the soldiers exhausted most of their camp. A horde of a group of Jesuits stuck ayatollahs Shiites in turn to be attacked by Hashishins. They owe their salvation to a commando of Druze and a small group of Alawites. That’s it, the last of the Mohicans is dead. Cheyenne avenge. Attack against the whirling dervishes supported by marabouts. In a triangular grouping of monks zen to prevent Indonesian shaman run to the rescue of Jewish liberals. The umbilical cords slam like rubber bands. It bites, it is drawn. Crocs-in-teeth and leg-in-cord. The light illuminates the bottom of the tunnel of light duels skin. Enraged or frightened faces as pale in neon. By far, I see groups linked

by their tempting cords and often complicated maneuvers doomed to failure. The slightest pity. The slightest mercy. Everyone is fighting to kill or be killed. The Allies seemed at first most likely to triumph but they are increasingly dominated by the aggressiveness of their opponents. It is in their camp that the cords cut are the most numerous. Rabbi Meyer sends the signal of telepathic Retirement and runs to the second wall comatose. General Shiku always in mind, the allies follow. But crossing Moch 2, they find the red zone, full of delights and pleasures. After the painful memories, devotees are forced to confront their sexual fantasies. What titanic struggle this battle where the monks transparent trying to cut each other’s silver cords while rejecting the most repressed desires! We do not know where does the horror begins the orgy. Dominicans and Hashishins are the most affected these sexual visions which beset them everywhere. Without They were probably more frustrated that Jews and Buddhists because their lines are decimated while the Allies that their

religion allows women to own and to love no taboos, stand without too much difficulty. Faced with an enterprising geisha who is bent on Price

search in their umbilical cord, and the general Shiku Old Mountain fled, followed by what he ectoplasmic rest of their fighters. Who awarded the victory in this battle of Paradise? Undoubtedly the erotic visions!

Maxime VILLAIN 176 - Aztec mythology The Aztecs believed that human blood of sacrifices provided the energy needed for the proper the cosmos, the planets in the race and the return of the seasons. Victims torso torn and guts exhibited by the daggers of obsidian priests joined the gods names which they perished because, once, the gods had themselves sacrificed to save the world. Death men was therefore the engine of the universe. A War was a way to get fuel at ie the captives for sacrifice. Everyone folded But happy that this fate was preparing education any aztec warrior. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 177 - Ecumenism The Battle of Paradise sowed disarray among the brave conquerors of the afterlife. So many men of God died in vain … The Dominicans, mortified, wondered how they could be persuaded by the fanatics Hashishins point to join them. They considered with contempt the few survivors of the sect refugees in their fortress of mountains and quivered at the memory cruel acts that they committed their side.

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Had they braved the wrath papal nothing to deserve really the flames of Hell? In delegation, they went to our thanatodrome of Buttes-Chaumont, multiplying excuses and mumbling prayers. It would not be perpetrating wars that succeed to unravel the mysteries of the continent Ultimate. The devotees of all faiths had included. The Battle of Paradise marked a historic turning point in their relationship. In the days of violent opposition, succeeded that of the greater understanding. Faced with a meeting colorful, standing in our penthouse, Raoul spoke: - You can be sure, all religions are good. Only are bad intentions of some individuals claiming to be sole repository of the true faith. Zoroastrians, Alawites, Christians, Orthodox, Muslims, Jewish, Protestant, Shinto, Taoism, shamanism, witches, healers, marabouts, and

even cult members, all your faiths have had access, at some point, the general common knowledge. In a fabulous knowledge. The general mystery of death. Together, we join to find it, intact, for in him is the mystery of life. Together we will discover the reason for our presence on earth and what should be our attitude. The religions are only quests good instruction manual of human existence. Monks, sorcerers, rabbis and others ovationnèrent. A Japanese monk zen explained that once in the time older, there were no multiple religions but one, not a multitude of dialects but only one Languages There was no philosophies different, the disparate cultures, different wisdom, but a single the real one. The men had forgotten. Employing language incomprehensible for one another, they had only describe the same old knowledge, which had lost its original meaning by dint of successive interpretations. Thus were born the antagonisms. All disputes were only misunderstandings. Accolades. Solemn handshakes. A Second Vatican Ecumenical Council

nique global agreement was signed at the ButtesChaumont, establishing the first two commandments of the Thanatonautes.

Article 1: The Paradise belongs to no nation, or no faith in particular. Article 2: Paradise is open to everyone and no one has the right to interfere with free access. With these first laws legal-religious, that was the end the period of anarchy. Travel to Paradise were now regulated. No one could afford to do anything on the grounds that there existed No control. The agreements of the Buttes-Chaumont instituted a new climate of understanding inter-religious. General Shiku initiative Rabbi Freddy Meyer to the ritual the tea ceremony. It does not take offense that the Alsatian the prefer lemon. Now that our thanatodrome had become a place of appointments for clergy around the world, we settled for them a meeting room in the basement. Unlike the penthouse to the glittering windows of light, the place was dark, full of relics, prints and charms the most diverse. Monks, imams or sorcerers crossing in Paris liked to navigate to it collect or dialogue. That no conflict on earth was reached impose a single battle in Heaven had succeeded. All religions began to work together to go faster, further. To the ends of the continent from the dead! 178 - Christian mythology

“Was it his body? I do not know. Was it out of the body? I do not know. God knows. He was taken to the third heaven … “ Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, XII, 2. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 179 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS

DATES TO REMEMBER

May 14, 2065 Battle of Paradise June 18, 2065 agreements of the Buttes-Chaumont June 20, 2065 first edicts Thanatonautes

History textbook, second year elementary course. 180 - Mocha 4 A little drunk to have once again too celebrated agreements of the Buttes-Chaumont, Freddy told us, talkative, his personal history. Student at a ballet school, he had for once to become otherwise dancer at least choreographer. He appreciated also when all air sports. Arabesques, tendrils, the impression of flying to the heavens, it was all as he pleased. But one day he was engaged in hang gliding, the waist strap snapped. Its two shoulder straps do not suffice to support him, and a hang glider being stripped of parachute, he fell. He saw down a plain and a single tree. A single tree. The slump lasted only few seconds but Freddy had time to pray and swear that if he escaped this twist of fate, he vouerait entirely to a religion. Random, why not faith Jewish.

He landed on the tree, but such that if it was spared, two branches he put out his eyes. He was saved but now blind. It does not comply with less promise. He was not Jewish, yet he entered the yeshiva Strasbourg, where he was fortunate to have to master a Lamed vav. One day, he swore he too would become a Lamed vav. And that was what, a Lamed Vav? A man who is reincarnated by pure compassion for men of this world, then having done all he was free to leave the Gilgoulim, the cycle returns to of life.

The Lamed Vav were wise secrets of religion Jewish. Their goodness and mercy helped to improve the world. They were aware of their past lives, knew how to fight against ignorance, were devoid personal ambitions. Stefania reported that such characters existed as in Tibetan Buddhism. There they called bodhisattvas and also returned deliberate to earthly existence although they are delivered from the cycle of reincarnation. There was no greater act of mercy than return on earth, by pure love for the rest of humanity in chains their karmic wheel. - There must be in all religions of the wise who choose to return despite painful experiences experienced during their

reincarnations, says Freddy. With us, the Hasidic tradition designates as the Lamed Vav, which is the number 36. Each generation, a handful of righteous sacrifice in secret to save all mankind. They despise the pride and do not want the notoriety. We celebrate their psychic powers and knowledge of life and death. Th sometimes think that Jesus Christ might be a Lamed Vav, as well. These evenings libations, encouraged by Amandine which ensured that the glass of the great Thanatonautes not still never empty, does not affect the work Freddy He continued to invent new choreography heavenly. He imagined an Eiffel Tower ectoplasmic, consisting several rounds of souls supporting spiral together other. All silver lace would be knotted, braided and placed in the center of the building so that everyone protects everyone. As a sign of reconciliation, the rabbi gave the tip his former enemy, the Old Man of the Mountain, which had arisen home one night, sheepishly, repented and cash now his disciples on the fingers of one hand. The former head Assassins gratefully accepted. He knew he would be the first to cross the fourth wall coma

tick! Our ballet mystique took off July 21. Without difficulty, its members crossed the first, second, third, and even the fourth wall comatose. They saw that there was behind and we told. Upon their return, Raoul hastened to update our map of the Continent Ultimate. The orange area ends with Moch 4. It leads on: AREA 5 - Location: coma over 42 minutes. - Color: Yellow. Sensations: passion, power, omnipotence itself. Here before all the mysteries are incomprehensible their solution. Muslims are the true Garden of Allah. Catholics find the earthly paradise. Jews percent the secrets of Kabbalah. Yogis discover the meaning their chakras and are showing their third eye. The Taoists are the way of pure Tao. The yellow area is the land of absolute knowledge. All what seemed so far received his foolish purpose. Ministry meaning of life appears in its entirety, of the infinitely large the infinitely small. The yellow area is completed by Moch 5. Some devotees were so overwhelmed by the Golden revelations of the country they wanted to remain, but the cords were so tightly woven that they could not dissociate themselves from their companions.

So all returned intact. We open the champagne. We summoned reporters to the world to know that ecumenism general had allowed to perform again step in the discovery of Paradise and knowledge at all. 181 - Sufi philosophy “I am shattered, and pieces of my body were [Thrown

In this firmament which is my original home They are all drunk, happy, love of wine Of the Invisible, for fear of the prison is [I Shorten the time this tumultuous life The wolf of annihilation to pieces the flock In the spirit of each man’s pride reigns, yet The blows of death will lower their heads [Proud. “ Is Rubai, Jalal od Din Rumi (thirteenth century).

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 182 - Mocha 5 At its peak, the Buttes-Chaumont thanatodrome made off simultaneously near a hundred and twenty priests of all religions. They then joined in the territory yellow to attempt the crossing of Moch 5. - Six … five … four … three … two … one. Off! First floor. Departure of thirty monks who compose the top of the choreography. - Six … five … four … three … two … one. Off! Second floor for support. - Six … five … four … three … two … one. Off! Third floor, another stay. - Six … five … four … three … two … one. Off! The foundations of the building. At the top, all expected in the vicinity of the corolla of Paradis then methodically wove their cords according to the figures created by Freddy. A specialist knots sailors joined the holy men to help strong ties to compose, easy to do and undo. A Monitor parachute provides advice to all can stay as long as grouped according techniques of flight in free fall. Welded articulated a long procession, the Thanatonautes first passes through all the walls. The dead

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Waiting in the orange hailed the passage as the Now they had taken the habit of seeing, which was a distraction for them. They explained the same newcomers that there was nothing to fear the troops who had, doubling everyone without both break their umbilical cords. It was mystical and the caravan, consisting of one hundred twenty Thanatonautes, managed, Moch past five in the sixth area. In return however, they seemed more disillusioned exciting. They did not seem at all pleased to have completed all this great progress. On the contrary, their friendship seemed to have taken a hit and ecumenism as well. They gladly gave way, however, our examination.

After the territory yellow, they said, was the area green. Green as the vegetation, the trees. There were beautiful flowers, plants wonderful ending in multicolored stars. The green country was that of the absolute beauty. - So what is the test? asked Raoul. - Exactly, it’s too good. The green area is unbearable Beauty, murmured a rabbi. It’s beautiful, agreed reluctantly monk Buddhist. I did not understand anything! How absolute beauty could it be a test? Freddy explained: - It’s so beautiful that you lose all desire to be a man never to be hoped that the fragrant flower calyx. It comes to hate so much you feel ugly compared to so much splendor. We would like to be confused with the magnificent vegetation of the place and no longer exist in any other Type While it is particularly painful to be confronted absolute knowledge, but to be suddenly brought into contact with the most perfect beauty is a test more hard to overcome. Rabbi blind seemed indeed for once completely a loss. The piano, he ginned sadly few notes of a Chopin sonata. - He’s right, Stefania said darkly. Receive beauty after undergoing pure knowledge, it takes away any want to go down. It was very difficult for us to resign. Fortunately, once again, our cords were tightly bound!

Raoul, Amandine, Rose and I did not succeed very well understand how the vision of beauty was a test so disconcerting but we complétâmes no less our map of the Continent Ultimate, pushing even the mention Terra incognita. TERRITORY 6 - Location: coma more than 49 minutes. - Color: Green. Sensations of great beauty, and also denying oneself, to be hideous. The vision of beauty is a terrible ordeal. Ends Moch 6. Green left the country to the devotees as a bitter taste. They were not prepared to see the beauty. One after others, they prétextèrent various obligations and returned at home. These splendors, they wanted to capture the sole benefit of their parish. There was no question to to war as in the days of Hashishins but time was not to ecumenism, rather to everyone for so. The race was on and the best man win! Freddy and his three disciples survivors of all wars ectoplasmic were only we remain faithful and stay with us. It must be said that by dint of perseverance, Amanda had managed to seduce the wise old man blind. The couple no longer concealed her romance. The other Strasbourg, they were accustomed to life in Paris and were in no hurry to return to their yeshiva, especially without their master.

Takeoffs resumed piecemeal. Each confession

sion had its champions. Each hoped to be the first to discover “God” as soon crossed the dam beauty. To many, it seemed clear that only “God” could be there at the end of the tunnel blue, then black, then red, then orange, then yellow, then green. The beauty was his last parade, the final frontier before Paradise. After battling his memories at the end of fear sick of pleasure, all patience tired, seized by the know

power absolute, maddened by the ideal beauty, so lice

VAIT we meet, if not the Great Architect of the Universe? In their respective thanatodromes, monks, sorcerers,

imams, priests and rabbis held out their hands to him. Who would join him first? 183 - Textbooks

Learn to honor the dead Never speak ill of the dead. Mostly dead Recent. Because they can still be active in our world. The dead who wait patiently in long lines in the country orange are not idle. They observed quietly the living. They often try to communicate with their loved ones on earth. If we radiate positive the memory of a loved one, his soul may come support us in our projects. However, if we have nothing but resentment for him, his soul can more help. Up there in the orange country, while the death is subject test of patience, it attempts to contact all those he loved and who loved him. It occupies. This communication can only succeed if the life experiences always love to death. Thus we see, sometimes the dead do enough on the point of being loved do decline. This is called “die of grief.” This is not necessarily a bad thing. The souls of two lovers may well come together to wait in the long line of country orange. Instruction manual civic second year elementary course. 184 - TRAJECTORIES CONCURRENT Phase “may the best win in the sprint” was moderately interesting. Since Thanatonautes went now most often alone or in small groups, no longer have the support of the pyramid to extract

the wonders of pure knowledge or beauty ideal, many tranchèrent their own cord stay up there. Remained more lucid, perhaps because of their errors past, the Dominicans were the first to reach Moch 6 using one of the tricks that they had been taught Freddy. Yet they not succeed in crossing it. It was the same for our team. Gradually, the public had lost interest in our expeditions and we were no longer in the headlines. For all the people, it now seemed clear the Thanatonautes was a never-ending race. Moch 1, Moch 2, Moch 3, Moch 4, Moch 5, Moch 6 … Why not then Moch 124 or Moch 2018 with all the colors of the rainbow sky, all the tests possible and why not an Olympic triathlon? L’Osservatore Romano newspaper of the Vatican quipped these socalled pioneers who dared to doubt infinity of the heavens. “The opium is the last Thanatonautes the people, “the British newspaper Times headline. The Thanatonautes became the target of jokes cartoons, puppet showmen and television. She lost all sanctity to become a goodwill among others. In the family shop, sales declined. Tu mother and brother had beautiful launch new posters, Tshirts to the most

beautiful colors of the afterlife, caps with relief pattern, winged sandals, small posters fluorescent only visible in the dark, rations food “special Thanatonautes”, customers were rare. Well, after 6 Moch, there would be 7 Moch, and what interest? Raoul railed: - It’s not our fault, even if this adventure beginning to show repetitive aspects. It is not we who have invented the Ultimate geography of the continent. We insist only to discover it and it just as exciting. He was still furious. If people were making fun of our business loans decrease. The slush presidential were not inexhaustible. Lucinda we had yet attached. If the public does captivated for the show, well, we provide him ! He suggested a series of meditation classes television every Sunday morning, replacing the traditional aerobics lessons. Freddy and Stefania would be great. The President had even found a title for their show: “The XXII century will be spiritual or will not. “The was very happy. - It takes us for monkeys or what? got angry Stefania. - We must understand, I said. After all, it’s normal that people get tired of the endless walls comatose. Myself, sometimes I feel like we do finish ever! Error exclaimed Freddy. Moch 6

will be the last border. We sommâmes to explain. Serene, unfathomable to away from his dark glasses, the rabbi spoke. - In the Bible, in the Cabala as in many scriptures, it says there are seven heavens. Seven heavens, So seven territories after death. Been Moreover, all the expression “going to the seventh heaven.” Sept. no more, no less. I discussed with other religious faiths and we all found that number 7 always returned to describe countries the afterlife. Moch 6 will probably be the last wall. - And what will he back? I asked. Freddy made a gesture of helplessness. - The center of the black hole, God, a lottery ticket, a Firefly, an impasse can be … For us to go and see! Without enthusiasm, I leaned on my boosters. 185 - EASTERN PHILOSOPHY “So Almitra said - You want to know the secret of death. Corn how else will you find by searching the heart of life? The owl whose eyes are made to the night blind the day can not unveil the mystery of light. If you really want to contemplate the spirit of death, open your body fully to life. For life and death are, as the river and the ocean are one.

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the afterlife. Rely on dreams for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. “ Khalil Gibran, The Prophet. Extract from the thesis Death the unknown, by Francis Razorbak. 186 - EVEN THE STARS reincarnate Rose’s eyes were glued to the screen detector ectoplasm. Eighteen Taoist monks had taken off from several minutes already. She was convinced they had managed to break into the sixth wall. My wife was probably since, because after an hour spent in torment us, we found that their mortal coil did not give no sign of biological life. Peace to their souls. Freddy believed that it would rebuild a caravan hundred and twenty mystical multi-faith to succeed, but his old friends declined the invitation of the rabbi, as they continued to want to act separately for glory to splash out on their only religion. My wife suggested to give up some our concerns mystical to reorient our research toward astronomy and astrophysics. I agreed, but what could we learn more than that the Continent Ultimate was indeed a black hole in the

center of the Way milk? Rose had an idea: - You want to know what’s in the hole. It so happens that astrophysicists have known for for a long time to come. “Oh, really…” sneered Raoul, skeptical. 306

- And what is it? I asked. - A white fountain. A white fountain! Freddy left the chair off on which it rested to survey the room. Despite its agitation, the blind man was doing to avoid encountering any devices, although many who crowded our the laboratory. - The white fountain, the opposite of the black hole, Precisa Rose. It absorbs light, that one rejects it. The black hole attracts matter, the white fountain flows. Some believe that the Big Bang would be a fountain White, Producer of matter and light. Fountains White would perhaps even the origin of new Universe Rose gave then a fascinating lecture for Astrophysics. Each black hole would mark the death of a galaxy since swallowing the stars it compresses and transformed into pure energy. The center of our galaxy is consists of a vortex that sucks and twirls matter around it. It is even expected by many million years, let it swallow the sun. The most fascinating being that, as explained very well

the physical science nothing is created, nothing dies, everything changes. The death of a star generates energy expelling the fountain white, which has just the form of a blunderbuss to the barrel flared. Thus, even the stars would be reincarnated! Black holes and fountains white are merely gateways to parallel universes. Rose said that, as each galaxy has its own area or of its particular god, each would also have its own big bang and his anus cosmic. Each galaxy could even have its own space-time. We, we would therefore the world of the Milky Way, with the god, time, death, consciousness peculiar to it. Rose we were all very impressed with this idea black hole corresponding to each time a fountain white and then a revival in another space-time. Freddy sat down to better digest the lesson.

- But what would become of ectoplasm, past the fountain skin. asked he. My wife knew his limits. - While there, over science and return to religion. “Maybe! that souls are spit out, too, and reincarnate Then in another world? Amanda suggested that we go up in the penthouse drinking cocktails and a little rest our brains. The session we were exhausted, we consented willingly. There, among

the green plants, relaxed, the old blind man and beautiful blonde we announced their intention to married. Amanda assured that Freddy was the man of her life and she was quite willing to convert to Judaism if demanded it. But her boyfriend did not ask for much. He was liberal enough to allow himself a mixed marriage. They united then, and with the followers of the yeshiva Strasbourg, we made the party. Never had I seen Amanda also radiant, while her new husband was beating traditional tunes on the piano, and we danced in circle. Freddy was twenty years her senior, two eyes less, but he could allay his fears and make her laugh. What is more important in a relationship? 187 - MYTHOLOGY TAOIST “Far to the east of the South China Sea, where the sky off the earth is a vast abyss, without substance called “the Confluence universal.” There, all waters of the Earth and those of the Milky Way (River collector water space) pass without ever content increases or diminishes. Between the gulf and China, it are five large islands, Tai-yu, Yuan-kio, Fang-hu, Yingtcheou, Peng-lai. At their core, these islands are each thirty thousand stadia in circumference. Their top flat to nine thousand stadia in circumference. The buildings that cover the islands are all in gold and jade. The animals are familiar. The vegetation is wonderful. Flowers fragrant. The fruit eaten preserve of old age and death. The

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inhabitants of these islands are all geniuses, the wise. Each day they visit by flying through the air. “ Lieh-tzu. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 188 - NOTHING but trouble We wanted to go to the end of our adventure and cross the difficult sixth wall. It was, however, circumstances dramatic enough to force us to write final chapter of our quest. In July of that year he performed a phenomenon strange. Fundamentalists returned to the charge. There was more graffiti on our doors, “Let God alone “Signed” Guardians of the mystery. ” Later, death threats reached us by phone and by mail. Again the Holy See entered the lists, recalling the prohibition of taking off under pain of excommunication and enacted the famous bull “And mysterium mysteriumque” qualifying a heretic anyone who tried to see what was behind the sixth wall before being called by the Most Top

“People are too curious die stupidly,” insists a voice on the answering machine of the laboratory. Raoul was beaten in the street. As usual, he had forgotten to defend it. Priests and imams joined together to protest, surrounded by their flocks, in front of our building. Tons waste were dumped around. The windows of family store were shattered, fortunately after the It is closed. Bystanders, amazed by so much rage, gazed with curiosity shop ransacked. Be back to the center of controversy, we redevînmes in fashion. Youth, we found our status as a hero, players of the greatest adventure of Millennium. They lined up to get an autograph the famous Thanatonautes Freddy Meyer and Stefania Chichele, and worshiped the memory of the precursor Felix Kerboz. Our shop quickly redecorated by

dozens of unpaid volunteers, never empty more. After the threatening letters poured in messages of support. We begged him not to bow to the obscurantism and fears medieval. In stormy meetings, fights broke out between supporters and critics of Thanatonautes. The latter became more and more violent. One day Rose, alone in the shop, replaced my mother, a pickup truck parked in front of the building. Got out Three men wearing

balaclavas and dressed in leather jackets, waving of pickaxe handles. They began immediately to the store bag and my wife understood that his salvation was in flight. But they pursued. She took her legs around his neck and dashed into the street. Panting, of breath, she took refuge in a doorway. Other fast approaching. It therefore took its course in full view of passers as always indifferent. I veered to the left, right, left again to find himself cornered in a dead end. Frail young woman against three fellows armed, Rose had no chance. They left, blue bruises, the forehead in blood. Two hours passed before a tenant in the neighborhood consent to address the woman lying on the ground, others had passed without flinching, saying later they thought it was just a drunk again, slumped to sleep it off. At the hospital Saint-Louis where he was taken to emergency, Physicians sorry I declared that she had arrived too late for them to save her. She had lost too much blood. Thank goodness a compassionate man he is allowed to die in a hospital bed, so many people dying overnight on the sidewalks without anyone thinking even call the police! Rose was lying inert, in the recovery room. Only equipment keeping her alive.

What to save? I ran back to my friends. Raoul advised me to talk to Freddy. In these circumstances terrible, only the old rabbi would know how act. The wise Strasbourg took me in his arms and stared at me in his eyes blind - You’re ready for anything, really desperate to save her? “Yes. I was adamant. Rose was my wife and I loved him. Enough to risk your own life to preserve the his? - “Yes. A thousand times yes. The rabbi looked at me with his soul, I felt. With his soul, he sought to collect if I spoke the truth. I waited, the beating heart, he consents to believe me. - In that case, here is the solution. Sets a specific time with doctors to disconnect the devices. We try then to take off at the same time. By hanging in his umbilical cord and striving to hold it until it breaks, we can perhaps to bring back to life. You come with us and thou save it. 189 - police files

Note to the services concerned Violence toward the thanatodrome des Buttes-Chaumont. Should intervene?

Response services affected Not yet. 190 - Flying High It was possible. I was convinced it was possible. The Grim Reaper does not pick my Rose. I ran to at the hospital? The head of the ICU did not understand really why I wanted so much to fix the death of my wife at 17 o’clock but he assured me that I had made the right choice. Better to use euthanasia as keep alive a human being in the form of vegetable. He came happy with my request. Families sore him

had already presented the strangest. He promised to begin to look at his watch at 16 h 55 and 0 seconds. I did not sleep all night. It is not by repeating that tomorrow we die voluntarily we get from sweet dreams. Wide awake, I nightmares rather, trying to imagine what bubblememories assailed me for I cut to pieces and what hidden defects reveal myself the country red. I forced myself to eat breakfast and dinner consistent before taking the afternoon to review with Freddy the figure that we would use to save Rose. No pyramid this time but a

flat structure, a kind of net in which we hoped to collect my wife. I would be in the center, holding two rabbis Strasbourg by hands, two Taoist monks of Shao-lin (income there to obscure political reasons) by the legs. I can not not that Freddy had promised them that they agree to join us, but in the great hall of flight, I discovered eighteen other rabbis, thirteen Buddhist monks Tibetan and, of course, Stefania. Having for me no confidence in my capabilities of meditation, I checked carefully my boosters chemicals. We all donned our white uniform of Thanatonautes, each setting screen which drew our beats heart and our business electronic brain. My companions were already closing their eyes, ready to shake pear-off when the bell rings. 16 h 56, indicated the clock. 16 h 57 … I was dying for the second time but it would be my first off voluntarily. After all this time spent send people to the mainland of the dead, had come the day to go there myself! I was sure to fail and died for good but I had no choice. The concern to save Rose was before all other considerations. 16 h 57 and 10 seconds. My hands are sweating on the press.

16 h 57 and 43 seconds. On both sides of me, Freddy and Stefania are particularly serene. We have several After repeated pool our respective positions for form the choreography ideal that will allow me to go very further if necessary. With the figures he has developed, Freddy think we can reach the fifth wall comatose. For my part, I intend to catch Rose before Moch 5. I have no experience flying interstellar. 16 h 58 and 3 seconds. The room off is immersed in a dark clean us calm. Gregorian chants rise slowly. Now I understand what effect soothing the music may have for Thanatonautes to sail. 16 h 58 and 34 seconds. Suddenly the door opens. A silhouette appears in silhouette. I recognize it. Raoul. In he shoot my baptism of death? No, I launches a flash and then, without hesitation, put on an outfit white and goes to a ball flight. It is placed as we in the lotus position and takes in his hand a lever boosters. 16 h 58 and 56 seconds. The door opens again. A slender figure with blonde hair for a moment flooded the outside light is directed in turn to a throne. As Raoul, like me, Amanda has never off. She is going to do now to Rose. For me. She picks up one of our uniforms. This is the first time

outside of his marriage, I see white. I installing the various devices and crashes in the arm the needle to inject the liquid death. 16 h 59 and 20 seconds. I smile. I really best of friends. If it’s in hard times that recognize them, well, then I agree. The presence of me gives strength. How lucky I am to have known! I really the best of friends. 17 hours 00 minutes and 2 seconds. First arpeggios of Bach toccata. It’s like a bell supposed to open the gate of heaven. Sesame toccata, let up there, we do we ran up against not an impenetrable wall. 17 hours 00 minutes and 25 seconds. - Ready? asks Freddy around. Twenty-eight votes to meet the same time: Loan How many times have I heard that word without being concerned! Rabbi count: - Six … five … four … three … two … - Do not ask, “But what I do i… “Bite the bullet. Tighten the buttocks. - Two … one. Off! Of my sweaty hands, I press the pear boosters. Th meaning the liquid frozen flow into my veins, and … I die! 191 - Eastern Philosophy

“Your fear of death is just the thrill of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand will rest on him to honor him. The shepherd rejoices it not under his shake it wear the insignia of the King? And yet! Is not aware of the earthquake? For what is death if not to stand naked in the wind and melt in the sun? And what does stop breathing if not free the breath its tides anxious for it to rise and seek God without hindrance? Only when you drink from the river of silence you sing really. And when you reach the top of the mountain, you will finally begin to rise. And when the land claim your limbs while you dance Really? “ Khalil Gibran, The Prophet. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 192 - LA-UP Stefania is right: as long as we is not dead, we can not know what it is. It is impossible to describe with words. Yet I try to share these emotions as I I felt. Be aware, however (if you are

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Some feelings are indescribable, and these feelings, I them all felt that day, that day when I left to try to save my wife before she was caught by the Continent Ultimate I had so many studied. When pressed the button off, my first impression is that nothing happens. But then, strictly nothing I even want to get up and announce to the round experience has failed and must try something else. I hesitate for fear of ridiculing me, and I decided to wait five minutes if an event occurs last. I am a novice, but the others know. If they do not move not, is that everything is normal. I yawn. No doubt the effect of anesthetics to me gives the impression of being a little drunk. My head is spinning. I strive to keep my back straight as advised eternally Stefania. My last conscious thought is for Rose and I Again, I must save her. Now I know I will die. A memory comes back to me. I was still very small and was the first time I rode a roller coaster. To Initially, the truck slowly climbed the slope.

Once is at the top, you think you had better be elsewhere and have to go down before it’s too late. Already, however, the truck rushes forward, girls howl of terror or joy, and closes his eyes in prayer for this torture stops as soon as possible. It does not stop. We won the right, then immediately reduced to left loops upside down, we are on the verge of fall into the void and we say that the worst is that we paid to suffer so many frights! Okay, so I go to sleep quietly. I feel lighter. Very light. I feel that if I wanted, I could float as a feather, and I see that indeed … I float as a feather! At least a part of my body there try, as if the other instinctively refused to leave of life. I just love Rose with all my heart, death frightens me terribly. I do not want to leave as it’s my apartment, my neighborhood, my pub, my friends.

Although my friends and especially my principal friend, are all there, accompanying me in this terrible ordeal. All I feel, Raoul feels. All my fears, he must share them. Suddenly, something strange happens. A lump rises from the top of my head, tending my scalp in the extreme. How to prevent this monstrosity? My heart beats so slowly that I can move. I watch helplessly, childbirth the top of my head of another self, unknown so far. My conscience balance. Will she down with to me sitting cross-legged or leave does

with me, he climbed my head? I push, pull, pulling it out. Vertigo. Fuzzy. Disappearance of the notion of time. Ministry my every move takes a century. In reality, it is surely only a fraction of a second. Exhilaration. A horn out of my skull. Specifically, a horn ending with a head. My head. My “other” head. I’m like split in two. Double and even time to be totally erased. I die when the horn continues to grow, beautiful, white, transparent. Now she has two arms hanging over my fontanelles for better release of my skull. In her top, mouth open in a moan noise. My second head cries by delivering of my body. As a birth. My physical body gives birth of my soul. Glare. Tingling. Pain and pleasure. In turn, I see the world with my eyes always with the eyes of my soul. My soul observed especially what is happening in my back. I see, scared, we’re both in my mortal coil. The “other” continues to emerge. It is over a horn but a vague ball stretched. I see and sees me. Incredible, the effects of decorporation! My “me” hesitates between lurking in my body or it go to the ball which grow in this leg.

“Go,” close my body to my soul. “Pars” exhorted me to myself. I think back to Rose, to all my friends around I risking their lives to help me and, in an effort will, j’ancre my conscience in being transparent springing from the top of my head. I am another. Other in my new body transparent. Flash. Ectoplasm, I became an ectoplasm. The balloon After my skull reproduces faithfully the form my head is extended by my neck transparent, my shoulders transparent, my torso transparent, my arms transparent my pond clear, my legs and feet transparents. I’m like unmolded! Such a long intestine crumpled and twisted, rope transparent hanging from my navel I connect to a type far down, sitting on a chair lotus position. And the funny thing is that this type at the bottom, well, that’s me! I became a soul and I see arise from other surrounding spurting of skulls and foreheads. We are forty to float just under the ceiling of thanatodrome and now I really want to go higher. Freddy, very comfortable in his role as veteran space, beckons us to rise. Follow the blind! Okay, but the ceiling

… It has already crossed the ceiling, monitoring of religious, Raoul and Amanda on their heels. Th am now alone to contemplate forty body stiffened like so many statues soft. How to imitate others? I am not a pass-wall but I’m afraid to dwell and, far from all. Arming myself with all my courage, I close my eyes and transparent hop, passes through ceilings, floors, climb floor by floor, and already is the terrace the roof. The others are there waiting for me. Together, we elevons. Paris from above, it’s great! I contemplate the Notre Dame when a supersonic aircraft darkens on us. Too late to avoid it but who cares? It pierces without damage our ethereal bodies. By the way, I look at the levers of the cockpit and the entrails of a Pilot Fantastic, I scanned a jet! Freddy me from my wonder. We must hurry if we do not want to miss Rose. In fact, we arrive too late in the vertical of the hospital Saint-Louis.

Rose has already passed and is now between us and the Continent Ultimate. It’s my fault that we missed. With my hesitations to the ceiling, I slowed down the whole team. Always command, Freddy tells us to go for any the power of our thought. We drive well to three times the speed of light, doubling

sunshine of radius the sun. Bzzz … One passes Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto, Uranus, Neptune and bzzz … is the empty space! Fortunately, the ectoplasm are sensitive nor lack of oxygen or the laws of gravity, do not feel hungry or thirsty. We know that reigns here a temperature icy but it did neither hot nor cold. The ectoplasm is the mode of transport of the future! The soul knows no obstacle, breaks all speed records and do risk (with rare exceptions like our ancient wars religion) practically no accident. I enjoy cross the small space ship hijacked by Russian cosmonauts left the discovery of the black hole center of our galaxy, after Rose was revealed. The crew evidently ignorant my signs of collusion.

Before me, the rabbis urge him to hurry. Okay, but how do you accelerate? Easy, Just think about it. Everything is so new, so strange, so unknown my narrow islands of imagination. Stefania smiled. It may be transparent, but like others, I fully agree. We veins side by side, between stars and planets. On my right is as Raoul, Amanda and Freddy. Our entire squadron of ectoplasm Thanatonautes flying, plane, fuse to the Continent Ultimate.

Soon, I saw Rose. It is there, far ahead and yes, it goes straight to … death. Death evidenced by a large multicolored halo: the entrance of the hole black. In fact, for a black hole, the place is pretty bright! All around the corolla, planets and stars sucked is collide in a magical fireworks shaped galaxy swirling. The stars have not yet been swallowed, as a result speed which causes the bottom of the black hole becomes pink, then white, then red, purple, burst into rosettes, flowers in dew drops bright. Light, yet so fast, here is deflected. The rays are bent, rounded, dance before being diverted by the magnet absolute. Magic show, but to overcome quickly. Around us, the dead of day rush to the attractive light, snatching hastily their cords umbilicals. The Rose slams with others. One moment, ” I think that everything is ruined. No, Freddy think is possible to recover it. It beckons us, however, much care to preserve our own leads. Our fleet is regrouping to better weave, in accordance indications of Freddy. That reassures me a bit. It’s like engaging in a difficult climb, but pledged a good string of recall. Our group slides together in the gaping mouth of what is a Black hole Its diameter is huge: millions of km, probably!

The closer we get, the more the halo of light grows, revealing other circles inside. Felix had reason: it’s not a crown but a funnel. We differs from sinking into a corridor walls that do ceases to stretch. I stretch my arms towards transparent Rose, far. We reach a beach. Around and in front there like a sea of ​ neon blue, barely illuminated by a sparkling sunset. In addition to mph, I is approaching waves. By the way, they send me a soft power, comforting and invigorating. I am here. I’m better than anywhere else before. I then a scary thought: Rose is right to darken, we are wrong to want to return to the world. I was shaking. My wife comes out of my field of vision. We rush our pace with our thought. S one of us thinks and everyone knows what in the mind. I accelerate again. This huge country, I would nevertheless willingly traveled for days at leisure and

months. I had never seen such crazy sensations. car : racing motorcycle, the highest diving board, nothing beats this intoxication of victory and speed. I sink, I sink, I slip, I pour out to the source central

illumination. A splendid force invades my transparent body. I like the sea sparkles us around them. Of dazzling lights flash on my nails translucent. The dead are many days of the entry of the vortex. I find difficult to Rose in the crowd. We enter with him into the flower corolla star. She is such that I have seen so many times in comic dictation from previous Thanatonautes. Everything turns, while we aspire. Freddy rushes in an attempt to seize Rose before it crosses the first wall but comatose it goes too fast. If his followers had not retained the cord of the rabbi, he would have broken. Rose disappears. Realizing that I have the jitters, Raoul seized me by the hand with our Strip I spend a Moch. Help! A giant monster emerges immediately. The woman in dress Satin white skeleton mask floats in space black as an airship in a horror movie. His laughter strident deafened me. I’m like a gnat to this being ten and one hundred and one thousand times larger than for me? The woman in white satin has a gorgeous body. It raises her dress, revealing long legs of a perfect curve it stretches luxuriously. His chest swells tiny and her cleavage hints at the birth of her breasts.

She is always laughing, asking me to get lost in the folds of her white satin gown. The skeleton mask stares at me watching my reactions while it shrinks as get better within my reach. Now it is more reasonable size, I want to try to snatch. My hands to soar the edges of the mask. Sharp, they squirt of my fingers a transparent and sticky blood. Despite my disgust, I do not release my grip. I draw all my strength. Behind this mask there is something essential that I need to find at any price. Behind the mask of the skeleton woman that attracts me so much? Amandine? Rose? My mother? Raoul? My death, this I study to compensate for dead I know not what is missing? An arm rises slowly. Very slowly, he removes the Mask #: The mask is almost removed. And I see … Amazing what’s behind that mask! So unexpected! And yet so simple … 193 - BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY “Here, monks, holy Truth about removing pain: The extinction of this thirst is effected by the destruction Full of desire, by banishing the desire, by renouncing in delivering it, in leaving him no space.

Here, monks, the holy truth of the path the elimination of pain, this is sacred path with eight branches which are called pure faith, pure will, pure language, pure action, livelihood pure, pure application, memory pure, pure meditation. “ Buddha, Speech Benares. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 194 - death in the face I step back and become very small. Ectoplasm freezes my astonishment. The blood stops squirt of my fingers. Behind the mask of a skeleton, there is a skeleton. Another skull. The woman in white satin is the hard to discover one another, then another and another still She rejects and over a hundred, as many identical representations of death.

Death, this is it. Death is death is death is death is death and nothing else. The being or thing becomes daunting. His legs transformed into tentacles that imprison me. I debates do my best. As I now understand the terror of Bresson!

- You will regret being up here! exclaims the skeleton, with new laughter. And as it becomes masked woman, I see the fingers pink rot, flesh rot, putrefy. Two indexes do manage to cross my face in ectoplasmic trying to poke my eyes out. Suddenly, I have before me a spider covered white satin. Telepathically, I try magic formulas for get rid of it. “Vade retro Satanas. “In vain. We think of the litany of fear of Dune. I pronounce it: “I will not know fear. Fear is the little death that leads to total obliteration. I will face my fear. I would will pass over me, through me. And when it is over, I will turn my inner eye on his way. And where it is over, there will be nothing. Just me. “ I close my eyes and mentally repeat each phrase. The laughter stops and the woman in white bubbles exploding in Bright. Only one remains. This is the central light that we shows the way. With this clarity, I see in shadow silhouettes of my friends. I agree with them. All fought their monster. Their personal monster. Freddy confirms this: we spent a Moch. And Rose is still far ahead. After the first wall comatose, the color changes. Ministry changes to violet blue and brown. There are hints of black.

Is it the shades of hell? We slow down our race while, as the hailstones of unusual storm, bubble-based memories on us. The corridor twists, turns into spring. I travel always toward the light of death trying not to pay attention to their bites. What impression of force No twenty minutes out of my soul my flesh and I’m already hundreds of light years. No sense of loss, much less depletion. I just simply leaving a rusty armor. I thought this armor protected me. In fact, she compressing the soul, breath, intelligence. With this armor, I cashed blows, convinced that inscribe my wounds there than just scratches. Wide despises. Everything touched my sensitive roots. Every time of my life, I saw one by one. Paradoxically, those I have received have left fewer traces than those I have given. My soul is like a tree which would be engraved the knife of words and memories. Everything happens very quickly. I remember my birth, my mother force feed me, my father gave me vertigo only fun and forcing me to play the plane, my first outbreaks of pimples and the shame they caused me, my car accident, the slaughter of prisoners Fleury-Merogis, Felix driven to suicide, the crowd of the Palace Congress booing me, the

hate mail, letters threats, and my perpetual guilt. “Assassin! Murderer ! “I throw in the faces of men I’ve forgotten to the name. “Assassin, assassin, assassin, assassin,” I repeat an inner voice. “You killed one hundred and twenty to three innocent people. ” “Sorry, Michael, but you are not the my kind of man. “The bad memories mingle for old nightmares. On balance, I prefer the meeting with the woman in white satin gown. Too bad, I face my spent in the most honest. Rose is also hampered by the hail of bullessouvenirs. I should perhaps an opportunity to catch up. Th approached with great difficulty, struggling against storm of my own life. I am making progress though. That’s it, I almost joined. Telepathically (as well expressed the ectoplasm), I launched: “We are come to help you get you down. “She did pays no attention. She found her first love. This is an American astronomer. When he dropped,

she sought to resume pursuing the same studies him. Rose than I had ever spoken. - “Now?” I understand better many of his feelings. She discusses with the memories of her lover. He said he was bored with it. He said that in a couple, the Most important is to never get bored. She was gentle and kind, of course, but it brought him nothing special. That’s why he

left her. In tears, Rose fled. I have not had the time to not swear, you never get bored with it that, already, she through the second wall comatose. I can not run after her. Freddy holds me by my silver cord. He reminds me that the purpose of this expedition is to all go live on earth and that if I too rushed, I will break my cord and not be able or Rose rescue or turn around. Freddy, Stefania, Raoul and Amandine holding my hands, Moch 2 we spend together. Stefania has certainly often extolled the pleasures of the country red but I never imagined so many fantasies and perversions of reality! Another Amandine, Amandine the I have so long desired, is presented in corset and fishnet stockings and tries embraced me. I am looking for as an escape Amandine true but it surrenders in the arms of a handsome Adonis black prominent muscles. Boys caress Raoul, I had never thought he could repress homosexual tendencies. Accustomed places, Stefania took the opportunity to mingle moment a gang of girls who know the most inner springs of a woman’s body. On the bench back of a Rolls Royce, Rose is engaged to a prince of fairy tales. I want to get her but Amanda of my fantasies, whose long

blond hair contrasts with his black leather clothing, grabs his face and plunges between warm her breasts while laughing like a devil. For his part, Freddy is surrounded by a harem of women Arabs, all wearing a sparkling diamond in the navel. A a, a daisy as a stripper, it deprives them of their silk veils. Where did we go screw us? Amandine in my dream I caress the neck from the end of her eyelashes she does beat very fast. A butterfly nervous tickles me of his long wings of silk. So I had this fantasy that? This is delicious. Amanda smiled at me with a look of the most rogues. Then, with her mouth, she … 195 - police files

Note to the services concerned A group of experienced Thanatonautes took off this morning. There is still mired in the second area. Should we intervene?

Response services affected No, not yet. 196 - BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY “If, despite our virtues we have an unhappy life, this is due to our bad past karma. If despite our wickedness we have a happy life, this is also due to our past karma. Our present actions will have to turn all their consequences at the earliest opportunity possible. “ Narada Thera, Doctrine of the Renaissance. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 197 - IN THE CLOUDS … She chews the ears. But it’s still us I like (it) I love even that. Especially on the upper. And then the lobe. And neck as well. No neck. On the other hand, I like the tip of the shoulders. She knows it. She now knows. all about my sensuality! She benefits. Abused. Then I Amandine dream, becoming more bold, I … But tearing the houris, Freddy fights the recall and we

to overcome our inner sex drive. We shake against each other by standing mutually our umbilical cords. Beside me, a Taoist monk did not lead off. He knows that we are moving towards territories beautiful but dangerous. Many times we try to catch Rose. In vain. It has already crossed 3 Moch and joined the crowd of the dead in waits Like her, we enter the country orange. The line the dead stretches out of sight. Some are surprised to We always see off our leads. What’s it that these strange visitors from the world of life for visit the continent of the dead? Most, however, is not interested in us. I am looking for Rose in the crowd. There is whole battalions of soldiers killed in alien wars, victims of devastating epidemics, of road accident victims in shambles. The dead, the dead, still dead, of all races and all countries. Lepers, sentenced to death electrocuted, the roasters red lights, of tortured political fakirs imprudent for chronic constipation, explorers poisoned arrows in curare, swimmers underwater that too teased the shark, marines, of ethyl frantic and paranoid who fled their imaginary enemies through the window of the ninth floor of jumpers bungee which the elastic was too much of volcanologists too curious, myopic who have not seen the truck approaching, the presbyopia who have not seen the ravine, of astigmatism that have not recognized the

tarantula, high school students who did not understand a viper, it does not look like a snake. We overturning everyone. “Rose, Rose”, issues I language telepathic. Several women named Rose is back. Of Rose full of thorns, spikes or spite. Like those of others, their ectoplasm tells their story. A victim of a jealous husband, a peasant surprise in a wheel hay by a vengeful father, an old woman who died without used his wealth squander already his grandchildren …

I grew among other dead. Deaths, deaths, still dead. Drugs in overdose, women too battered sliders on banana skins, the colds unlucky smokers époumonés, marathon runners winners, Formula 1 drivers who have missed the turn of pilots who missed the runway, tourists who imagined that Harlem was fine-much more picturesque in the evening, fans of vendettas family, discoverers of the virus unpublished drinkers water in the Third World, the ball boys lost, collectors of mines from the Second World War racketeers jackets that fell on the police leave, thieves car bomb. There are also riders who were convinced that there was

enough room to double the truck up the hill, truckers who gave a great swerve to avoid a motorcycle just up the coast, hitchhikers who saw suddenly, just up a hill, a motorcycle to graze and a truck they go for it. Of liver transplant patients discuss with heart transplant. Children criticize their parents who have not yet found while playing hide and seek, they had just hidden in the refrigerator. No tension between the dead. Here reign of universal peace. Bosnians coexist with amenity of the Serbs. Clans Corsican reconcile. A shipwrecked sea talks with a wrecked space. Freddy reminds us that we have no time to lost in distractions. We gather around him, ready for the figure we have repeated in the laboratory. Supporting each other striving to maintain our umbilical cords, we are building a pyramid. To top, Freddy, Raoul and Amandine keep me on their shoulders. I communicate to Rose that we are here to make Come back home. “What for? “She replies. It believes that the time has come. You have to know to end the existence and is satisfied with her end: she died after

have passed his life. She left when she was happy and that

the project succeeds. What more could you ask for! I retorted that she died before having a child and that, I want a child with her. She retaliates by me recalling a sentence of Stefania “The problem is that people are needed on this earth and are unable to give up everything, what pride! “ She believes that the world is sufficiently populated to she did not regret to leave no descendants. Finally, never to listen to my exhortations, it takes his legs around his neck and plays elbows to exceed the Mass of the dead pending. My wife and we after him pass and the fourth Wall comatose and win the land of knowledge. Without asking, I learned why E = mc2 and I think it’s great. I understand why humanity tears in constant wars. I even see where hidden the keys to my car I’m looking for so for a long time to come. I get lots of answers to questions that I do ‘ve never asked. How, for example, one can keep the bubbles in a bottle of champagne nothing by introducing a silver spoon in the neck. ca it’s always been for me a great mystery!) I understand that we must accept without complaint the world as it is and without judging anyone. I understand that the only ambition of a human can only seek to continually improve. My mind expands in to blow my brains out. I am aware of all of life, beings and things. - It is nice to just

Understanding As Adam had to be happy in crunch the apple of knowledge and Newton in the receiving of head! Ah yes, the meeting with the knowledge may be tested the most difficult of all. I advance in knowledge. The general knowledge and little knowledge. Absolute knowledge and expertise relative. Suddenly I stop, struck by a revelation: I never liked. Of course, I experienced compassion, tenderness. I warmed up with my friends, people with whom I enjoy being and talking. But do I really loved? Am I only able to love? To love someone outside myself and that is not me? I tell myself that I am certainly not alone in this case and they are certainly Many, humans who have never really loved, but it’s not a reason. I do not see no excuse or consolation. The experience of death have me at least open eyes to an idea that had always seemed tainted foolish sentimentality: you must love to be happy. Love is the greatest act of selfishness, the best gift you can afford to own. And for now, I’ve never been able! And Rose? After all I thought I loved, because I’m dead for her. In fact, I do not like it enough. Rose, if I pull there, if we draw from, I’ll knock you down with my love. On the immense love and free! The poor, it surprisingly, surely it is happening. There is nothing of as scary a great love

suddenly delivered by someone who has always tried to moderate his feelings. It will be scary and yet delicious! As I can not wait to tell him that I am able to understand what it means to truly love! I accelerate my flight and the other too. Rose is at the end the tunnel. After, like us, is full of knowledge, it crosses the fifth wall comatose and between in the country of great beauty. Flop! What a shock! After facing fear, desire, time, knowledge, Here is the beautiful country green, flowers, plants, its splendid trees shimmering like wings Butterfly. How even describe the indescribable? I see a perfect female face, I flat above his body and it turns into flower petals stained glass a cathedral. In clear lakes, fish for long fins crystal us smile. Gazelles grenadine hop over the Northern Lights. These are not hallucinations. The ideal beauty back

to the surface all my memories of beauty and leads to their peak. My companions also have their own visions. Butterflies black fluorescent flutter around Raoul. Dolphins silver play around Stefania. Freddy is surrounded by young

fawns green and white on the back cover of foam. Somewhere heard the Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun by Claude Debussy. Beauty is also Music And perfumes, I feel around like odor light and menthol. Front, Rose slows down and then goes again to the attractive central light that captivates me too as its waves are positive. My wife comes and the sixth wall. Moch 6. That no Thanatonautes in the world is yet to come to overcome! As she hurries, she no cord interferes Moreover, in its course into the unknown! Floup! It is the other side. She is in the Terra incognito! Freddy tells us that we must now change our position. It requires a broad base continuing with a fine point. He tells us that only he and I will try the passage. Him because he is experienced by all, me, because I am only able to convince my wife to return. Raoul encourages me. Come! Straight ahead, straight into the unknown! 198 - Sufi philosophy

“I come from the soul which is the origin of all souls I am of this city is the city of those without City : …………………………………. The path of this city has no end, go, losing all [You have, that is what is the whole. In the sea of ​fidelity, I dissolved like salt I only no impiety, no faith, no confidence, no doubt

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In my heart shines a star And the star then hidden the seven heavens. “ Rubai Yat, Jalal od Din Rumi. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 199 - here we are Freddy amazes me. He moves without complex to this border that no human has ever reached. Ministry cord excessively stretched, he advanced boldly, and I dragging its feet. I’m a little tired of the surprises of death. However, I

feel back there lurks the ultimate mystery, the final mystery of death. I finally know the secret the most secret. Who has caused more deaths than … death? Here, behind this curtain, come to an end all thrillers and all novels of love. Here, behind this curtain, science fiction joins the fantastic and all the mythologies of the world merge with the exact science. I hesitate at first, and then I rush. Here it is, finally, the last area of ​the continent Ultimate. I see it. One moment I forget Rose. Mystery of mysteries, secret secrets, never revealed to men, I see you. I see you, I feel you, I hear you. Here is the end. Here is the graveyard of Elephants. Here dies the light, all lights, sounds, all sounds. Souls, all souls. Ideas, all the ideas. I am in heaven. Millions of celestial music burst in my head. Debris stars m’adressent of nice farewell. A star dies and a man who died doing the same path. They go to Paradise. I walk in the fog, trampling of my feet fluffy a territory valuable. My arms translucent rise as a hello. My knees bend to genuflect. I kiss the ground blur. By mistake or out of love, I am in heaven. And it’s

beautiful! Even more beautiful than all the visions of ideal beauty the sixth area. They were only reproductions and imitations. The real beauty of Paradise surpasses them all. Paradise is my only country, my only home, the only object of my chauvinism. I am here. I seem to have always been there, have always known that from there I came and there I had to go back. On land there, so low I was only passing through. on vacation. I am an ectoplasm, I’ve never really been Michael Pinson. I ‘m a pure ectoplasm. I have never been this sad, this stupid Michael Pinson. It is so stupid, what type, while my true self is so … light. The lightweight, this is the cardinal virtue. My ambition is to remain a vapor thinking. I was attached to the land and my body. Error youth. I see Rose and I love much more than on earth. Why fall back us to our skin narrow, our aching body and our minds filled with worries staggering? We are both here. We no longer afraid of the time. We no longer fear nothing I do not care Thanatonautes waiting for me at the door of Paradise. They are stupid to stay there. Me, I found my country and my world. Revelation of the revelations. I’m in my source. I see the real sun. Besides, the other one

Terran, I think yellow. White, true white, pure white is in Paradise. I am in heaven. I came to preserve Rose What a mockery! The fog scatters. Beneath me is the long line of dead. It forms like a river, further, seems to divide. I go down to examine the phenomenon more closely. The River of Souls splits into effect in four branches, and in the middle of human souls, I see now souls of animals and even plants. No doubt the Paradise has he a second door through which they are engulfed. There anemones and marine algae, bears and roses. Plants also have a soul. I know, because now I understand everything. Syncretism absolute. We are all interdependent and,

on earth, all together, we have suffered. You have to live avoiding violence. Do not do violence to others whatever their nature, do not get either violence. The law of existence penetrates me to the end of my toes. So I was just that, a man ignorant dedicated to up one day in Paradise gauge his ignorance. The river, carrying human souls and animal plant is divided into four parts. What works crammed into the office of Raoul evoked they ever a country irrigated by four rivers? The Hindus spoke of the Jews find Sentences of the memory of Raoul me through mind: “Hebrew mythology. Paradise lies in the seventh celestial sphere. Two doors provide access. We is invited to dance and rejoice. We see four rivers, one air, one of honey, one of wine, an incense … Ministry Paradise is watered by four rivers, “said also Quran. Throughout the world to another, the ancients knew and had used metaphors to describe the same pay-Sage Four rivers. Four subdivisions. Four types of souls, not only the good and evil, rather four tones as the bass, midrange, treble and shrill. Four ways to be a soul. Next Rose, Freddy and I go back the four rivers of the deceased. And suddenly I see the angels. 200 - Christian Philosophy

“The Blessed will then clearly the solution of mysteries which reason asserted here on earth with truth and docile submission of faith. The Trinity, the Incarnation, redemption, the hidden laws of providence in the government souls in the government of the world in its action on the people whose history is too often wind for us or a riddle or a long scandal. They know the economy supernatural ways of God to

the sanctification of His elect and the infinite wonders of the essence of the Godhead. “ Bishop Elias Meric. Extract your thesis Death the unknown, by Francis Razorbak. 201 - AT THE END By far, one would think of fireflies. The angels. I know immediately that it is them. Angels of Paradise. The show was worth the trip.

Freddy takes me to the shoulders, shook me like a plum. I shouted that we vowed to bring Rose the land of the living, not to stay with her to the continent of dead. I beg to remember my mission. He caught all my thoughts just now. We understand so fast, between ectoplasm! The rabbi speaks and takes me back to reason. Delirium is Done Death, I’ve already defeated under your form of woman white satin, you will not seduce me ever, even appearing to me like a paradise. Freddy is happy. He is conscious of having brought the quiet in my mind. Even the Paradise will be less powerful my will. I know who I am. A pure soul and a body flesh, for the time not yet separated. I am spirit and matter and mind must remain stronger than the material. I have to keep the balance between heart and reason. I know who I am. I know who we are. No two among other souls, but two Thanatonautes mission. We are not dead, but of the living can to explore the Continent Ultimate and back. And we are here to save Rose. We follow the branch “honey” the river of the dead. We mingle with them. The dead are watching with amazement because we still have our cords

umbilicals. I do not know why I have not yet broken but in any event shall hold good.

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The four lines are very long. You might think at the counter of an airport busy during the summer. In loud, I scream “Rose! Rose! “And an old man devoured by starving her cats receives my call and she tells me in front. Probably has it already crossed the controls, Is probably already weighing. - Yes, he telepath, fatalistic. Some souls are sometimes favored. They catch and double souls in waiting in the green country from piles of centuries. Come on why … You say it is to weigh? Off course ! In the weighing of his soul. They will examine what has committed to good and evil in this life before deciding its next reincarnation. - And this is where the weigh? - All right. You can not go wrong. This is straight ahead. 202 - Taoist philosophy “The Sage loves this life while it lasts and forgets then for another life. He who is with the soul Universal keeps his ego wherever he goes.

Fire is the bundle that the soul is to the body. It passes another bundle as the soul goes to a new body. Ministry fire spreading without extinguishing it. Life goes on constantly. “ Chuang Tzu. Extract from the thesis Death the unknown, by Francis Razorbak. 203 - police files

Note to the services concerned You have refused to intervene to stop them. Now they are there. Hopefully it’s not too late. To you on your own.

Response services affected We’ll manage.

204 - THE WEIGHT OF A SOUL Freddy and I wade into the white mist from human souls, not human. We go to a valley where the four arms of the river of the dead come together. The dead are still advancing towards the light. The angels around them more closely. Angels, a priori, they are ectoplasm as you and me. They do not have umbilical cords, but are wrapped a phosphorescent halo and driven movements multicolored. They see us and their halo new and fantastic iridescent shimmer, as they were able to express their thoughts by changing just their colors. They spin up and down and from left to right, the how the fetus in a mother’s womb, and we ask what we make here with our cords intact. - We seek a wife. An angel told me that he is the one that allows to find what is lost. I describe Rose. It confirms that it is close to the weighing. He shows me away, overlooking the valley converge the four arms of the river, a mountain of light covered with vapor. Is that its summit by the light

central guiding us since our entry into Paradise. With the dead, we climb the path that leads to light. On the top, three floating angels get more brighter than the previous. - Not like the other angels, whispered Freddy, they are archangels. In fact, they sparkle, while the crowd of the dead comes painfully of them slowly. Rabbi Rose shows me, over us, embedded in In light of the mountain and the brightness of the archangels. There, on a median strip, gather the dead on the verge of to appear. - The following announcement an archangel. The following is Rose. 336

- Go ahead, convince them to let me press our rabbi. He can not follow me. It keeps my cord like his, so stretched that it seems about to break. We are really playing with our lives. Th must continue alone while he will protect our cords. I fly to the archangels, almost shouting: - Wait! Before judging this woman, I must that we, the living, we do not want it appear before you. The archangel consider myself no surprises. His voice telepathic is sweet

and reassuring. It seems open to all arguments. This agent of death has no terrors. It even attempts to comfort me at the same time as the gathered around the dead. - Explain. - Rose is dead, victim of a gang of thugs, but it has nothing to do here. The other two riders are just as archangels. In this light, they remind me a little of the aliens Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg’s film. They ask me what right I would intercede here. They examine the rabbi behind me and our cords intact. - You want to bring it back to earth, right? - “Yes. We are forty live to be fitted up to you to save it. The three archangels meet for an intense discussion. One displays a string full of knots transparent and seems to read many interesting information. He believes, sees Rose, still discussing with the other and finally speaks: - For more than forty people have taken so many risks, you really have that this woman is still necessary your lower world. So we allow you to back down but we will make him the cord if it wishes and the application itself. Rose hesitated. Now, his fate rests in his hands. I see that his mind would eventually be happy with the game

of life. Like me just now, it appears that here is his real country, his only home. At the same time, something in it, maybe the love she devote myself, fight against feeling. Around us, people and angels look forward to which side the balance. - How lucky to be so adored a mortal! whispers a Japanese hara-kiri. A child martyr approval. An angel points out that this is the first time he sees such muddle. Another is pleased that we were left up. The situation is interesting. Rose stares at the archangels. But they refuse to intervene in the decision. If it wishes, there will the weighing of his soul. Otherwise, it is free to return back and to resume the series of its existence, with its ups and downs, its good and bad actions. We are solely responsible for its destiny. From a little higher behind, Freddy is watching us. Of far, it’s like a wedding in a great cathedral skin. A couple facing each other, Rose and me behind a long gray line of guests, and in front of a mountain of light. Rose takes a step forward towards the archangels, by doing a second. I hold my breath and suddenly it makes

complete reversal and flows into my arms. - Excuse me, she said, but I still have much things to do down. Angels, surprised, change color. The scene, which presented so far look yellow, becoming bluer. Archangels we smile, tender. Cherubim small as dragonflies are busy. An umbilical cord which I can not make the tip springs from the womb of my wife set out towards the entrance of the black hole. Rose is reconnected. Again a cord connecting his soul to his body. We agree with Freddy. He knows that we have succeeded. We salute the dead: - Welcome back to the material world, guys! - They will need it, sighs a psycho-killer American Grilled on an electric chair. I, the material world, I would rather die than to return. If you ask me, life is a vale of tears. We do not listen. The return is obviously more fun than one way. We no longer fear for our umbilical cords. We descend the mountain of light, drive along the four branches of the river of the dead, then the river unique. As salmon, we departed back to the source nor do we leave that to better come back later. Behind the sixth wall comatose, all of our friends are there and applaud mentally our return. All this time, they waited,

anxious to see the extreme tension of our umbilical cords, fearing that we can not more to turn around. Raoul, Stefania, Amandine, Chinese monks and rabbis allowed us to get to the bottom of life and reach the bottom of death fluttering merrily. We cross territories and Moch. Parade of beauty, knowledge, patience, pleasure, fear. We’re almost out of the black hole. Outside, the stars pulsate miserably compared to the great light over there, really. We voletons happy when arises suddenly a band of ectoplasm gallows. 205 - Hindu philosophy “Man is like a pillow case. A pillowcase can be red, another black, and so on, but all contain the same cotton. It’s the same for men: one is beautiful, the other is ugly, a third stakes a fourth villain, but the same God who is in all. “ Ramakrishna. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

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We had imagined reconciled with the Old Man of Mountain, now deprived of its Hashishins done to death and his Confederates come to their senses. - “Not at all! After: some politeness in our thanatodrome, natural sound returned at a gallop. Lack of Thanatonautes Muslims, Now that the grand alliance was signed between religions, he rounded up a posse of Thanatonautes Mercenaries. We launched telepathically that ecumenism is a trap to fall asleep and allow all faiths Jews better invade Paradise. Freddy replies that no one owns the Continent Ultimate and it is normal that priests have agreed to condemn all violence. The last of Hashishins replied that he knows all the dirty trick of verbal are capable rabbis and does not let them take over. I enjoy his company to locate in the large Martinez our enemy since childhood, who had gone candidatthanatonaute the time of slaughter, and we then refused without our recognition. We hated to this especially as we had saved from death then some. It’s funny, but people who have hurt you you want what they have done. And if you serves them, their hatred knows no bounds. The mercenaries outnumber us and I very fear. It would be stupid to die and after such equipped! But Freddy knows that the Old Man of the Mountain does

not want in fact his own. Precisely because it sought to them understand and make a friend after the latter had tried to kill him and his family. The Hashishins reacts exactly like any Martinez. To protect ourselves, before we could prevent, Rabbi and loosens the cord is detached. It attempts a herring. - Run away quickly, we ordered there. If we stay together, none of us will return. We are reluctant to abandon it, but his accents IP Phon

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ETHICS is so imperative that we end up compliance, Amandine taking power that wants to fight at all costs alongside her husband. Freddy Amanda cries. - Come, let me, I will become a Lamed Vav. In the manner of a lasso ectoplasmic, it spins her silver cord while the mercenaries based on in front of him. Freddy The wise old man sends us signs soothing. A final message sounds to our ears: - Go! I reincarnate as soon as possible. Watch the birth of a child who will bear the

same initials as for me? It will recognize my everyday objects. Flee and remember you FM! He received blows. It makes. With his experience wars of Paradise, the old blind rabbi manages to cut quickly leads some of his assailants before they cover it. Correcting himself, Stefania will rush into the crowd. We follow but it is too late. The Old Man of the Mountain has cut the cord from Freddy. A final gesture fatalistic rabbi is drawn in by the Bright. The mercenaries then return against us. - You and me against the fools, said Raoul. clinch Amanda Martinez fight with courage. Rose confronts two hostile souls. Raoul few charge killers. And I, no luck, I am alone against the Old Man of the Mountain himself! The guy does not want me well. I ducked a few strokes of my best. The other is comfortable with such a poor opponent than me. He goes umbilical cord around my neck like choke. He shakes and my soul hurts. He twisted my rope to the extreme. I expect the crack to me to return archangels when the grip is released. After being freed relatively easy to Martinez, Amanda arrived from behind and cut the cord of the obstinate Hashishins.

The man is terrified of what is happening: a woman has KO To force people to send in artificial paradises, He suspects that the real must be less runny. He tries desperately to resume the shreds of his string of money, accumulating double knots and knot security. But in death as in life, there is no joker. The Cats may have nine lives, but not men. Lost is lost. No node Hashishins does. Floup! The Old Man of the Mountain is drawn by light as a bit by a siphon to drain. Among the mercenaries survivors is the stampede. We breathe a sigh of relief. Amandine us beg to try to save her husband as we have done to Rose, but we all know that to Freddy, he is too late and we can not. Sorry, we leave the vortex of Paradise. We came out on the edge of the flared black hole where the stars their last rays of incandescent howl of agony before to be sucked. Descent. ‘re Back the solar system. Slalom between planets. Hello again the Russian cosmonauts who have little no progress since our first visit. Crossing a field of meteorites. Braking near the moon. Already turquoise ball of earth is looming in our bellies. Here in Europe, here in France, Paris here. Can not get lost. Your ectoplasmic cord you back always at your starting point.

Safely above the capital, we dénouons the ours and raccompagnons ectoplasm Rose to the hospital SaintLouis. It sinks into the roof like a marsh. As long as our getaway him too long has not cause irreversible damage! We, we return to thanatodrome. To say that my alter ego remained there, sitting quietly, while I myself up to so many tricks! We cross the roof, floor, floors, we return to our body pain. My ectoplasm and my mortal coil are facing face. The translucent and colorful. Solid and vaporous. The light and heavy. It is now important to pick up. I go into me like a thick ski overalls padded. No one taught me how to return to his old skin. I improvise. Just in case, I go through the top of my head since that’s where I came. It’s not so pleasant to find his body flesh. I feel once my rheumatism, my sores, my itching, my cavities, in short, all those little evils that persecute you all the time. Here I met again to myself. We are more than my body and my soul. My toes are invaded tingling. Slowly I raise my eyelids. I rediscovered the “normal” world, in which “normal” world, the first thing I see is the display of the electrocardiogram and its small peaks. My heartbeat is réaccélèrent gradually.

When we are all delivered straight, I hasten to call the hospital. Exactly, they would call me. The Doctors are excited. Miraculously, there was a miracle! Rose has suddenly awakened. She has all her - onsciousness - It is well. I agree with the others, sadly gathered around the chair where Freddy lies, gaping mouth, as if to We repeat the initials of the child in which he will be reincarnated.

FM His glassy eyes for the blind are wide open. Th approached and gently, tenderly, his eyes closed. Always in this existence.

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207 - TEACHING OF THE TAROT Death is the thirteenth card of the Tarot. It does not a name. It is in fact a break in the series of images of the tarot. The first twelve cards are like first twelve hours of the day. These are “small mysteries “.

After the twelfth hour, noon arises death, and dive into another dimension, that of “big mysteries, “the other twelve hours of the day. In the esoteric meaning deep, the thirteenth arcane means the death of the profane reborn initiated. The card is not evil. If we can not overcome the stage of death, can not progress. Meaning of the Tarot de Marseille. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 208 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS

BELIEFS of our ancestors Survey in Europe in 1981 (end of the second old) on the beliefs of the people,

classified according to their different faiths. (Source: Values ​of our time, Jean Stoetzel, PUF, 1983). Out of 100 persons Catholics Protestants Not believe: practitioners On life after death 52 38 13 Paradise 45 43 8 To Hell 30 March 16 At December 21 Reincarnation 23 As the soul separated from the body 66 56 24 In God 87 75 23 History textbook, Basic Course 2 years. 209 - ANGELS - Believing that there are … angels! And then what? Rubicon this point, my brother Conrad refused to take. His skepticism and materialism had been natural under stress. He refused to advance more% in this delirious modern than we had named after Thanatonautes. While the angels, it was a bit hard to swallow. In fact, If someone had told me before that after death the angels welcome you, I laughed softly. In any honestly, I could never

believe half of the half of the tenth of all these things that I experienced with my senses. Everything was so “amazing”. However, admit that the death was a continent was been for us the most difficult step and we had French

craps. We had admitted to being with a soul capable of travel. We recognized that this soul was immaterial

Rielle. We recognized that the silver cord connected our mortal coil. So why not angels? All religions were referring to one way or another, after all. President Lucinda begged us to keep the largest secret of our recent discoveries. For now, it was important to hide what we knew from the depths of heaven.

- These angels, what a story! All we needed was than that. How about God, while you’re there? He felt that we were in possession of a bomb and the need to delay the effect. The President then pricked anger upon learning of the assassination of Rabbi Meyer by Old Man of the Mountain and his mercenaries. - What is the turban, which knows only the language of violence and exclusion? He wants to make the war on the infidels, up there? We will not allow it hack the paradise. He is already dead, said Raoul. There was a terrible duel But Michael and Amanda have prevailed and killed him. No matter, exclaimed Lucinda, behind his desk mahogany, I head over wars of religion! We are in the twenty-first century, more than the Middle Ages. We do not tolerate intolerance forever. Let me do it. 210 - Hindu Mythology “Man seeks liberation. Repeat the mantra Hare Krishna thirty-five million of both can be free of the gravest sins, namely: - Kill a man of high caste Brahmins; - Steal the property of others; - Grab the gold; - Sleep with a woman of low caste pariahs. Would we even repudiated all the rules of Dharma would be obtained and the purity and liberation. “ Kali, Samtarana Upanisad. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis

Razorbak. 211 - UNITED NATIONS The following week, Jean Lucinda President the French Republic, speaks to the UN General Assembly. He insisted on need to pacify the Continent Ultimate, now that the

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Thanatonautes entered in the customs. After the era of DIY, the era of medicine, the era of fear, the era of desire, economic era, the era of astronomy, an era of violence, it was high time to enter the legal age. Legislators to take responsibility. The Thanatonautes should be subject to a charter, with its laws, its amendments, the code of conduct mandatory. Otherwise, there would be an eternal Far West over our headers. - We have already passed two laws Thanatonautes, and what a result! noticed, disillusioned, the representative of Equatorial Guinea. - They are inadequate, it is therefore necessary for new, Lucinda insisted. And in front of assistance rather distracted, he proposed with force two articles that would be known thereafter as the third and

fourth laws Thanatonautes.

Article 3. It is prohibited to cut the umbilical cord some ectoplasm whatsoever. Article 4. Every physical body will be responsible activities of its ectoplasm. According to a scale for prison sentences and fines proportionate to the crimes committed by ectoplasm.

The President of the French Republic was formal: the Ultimate continent should remain neutral territory, like of Antarctica. No one should be allowed to fight there or them to engage in campaigns of ownership. The Secretary General of the UN agrees with its meaning: - Heaven is for everyone. If necessary, we send peacekeepers responsible for maintaining peace and ensure the free flow of dead and Thanatonautes. A murmur of astonishment ran the room. The representative Fiji looked up from his newspaper and the Suriname started, from his torpor. - Yes, why not? continued the Secretary generall After all, the Old Man of the Mountain was lifted up a private army to appropriate places. We are therefore entirely possible to

send our own strength interposition, namely peacekeepers ectoplas

nomic. A police karmic somehow. The third and fourth laws were adopted at a majority of votes. Twenty countries will advocate

Cerent against or chose to abstain in order not to incurring problems on the side of Saudi Arabia, all knew, had informally encouraged and funded operations of the Old Man of the Mountain. However, the proposal to create a police karmic was rejected. There was at present no violence in Paradise

lence justifying such an operation, which also could to be very expensive. In addition, we returned to the

problems “Land” of sending any peacekeepers: would they allowed to kill if necessary, or would they just a to prevent the killing? In such a place, what puzzles! Delegates preferred to abandon the project of UN military

his ectoplasmic. Lucinda was right to bring the problem of ectoplasmic battles in the legal field. The trouble-Ultimate Day Continent would now put beyond the pale {0}{0}”(L’humanite){/0}{/0} In addition, the laws Thanatonautes, our activities finally received official recognition. Many suspected that we had exceeded 6 Moch but all the questions, we oppose the silence on more complete. In the store down, my mother was marketing now a comprehensive plan of Ultimate Continent, with its six and seven gates known territories. All resembled a bit like a trumpet, with a wide flared base and a pointed summit. The colors were reported in the order: blue, black, red, orange, yellow, green, white. The map was rather pretty and perfect to adorn the wall of a budding scientist or an unrepentant dreamer.

As a legend, Conrad had crossed a line between Terra incognita words. Had we not found any (Really all?) this distant land? Of course, we noted a white area, but we refrain from speaking of the angels or the mountain of Bright. It was too early.

In the penthouse of our thanatodrome Buttes-Chaumont, our team held its nth Thanatonautes Meetings Freddy is no longer there to testify, each assailed me with questions about what were the “weighing of the soul “and, of course, reincarnation that followed. I still tell stories and how we reached the bottom of Paradise, the endless line of dead dividing it into four, the vast white plain, the mountain of weighing, the three archangels-judges. - I have seen but not enough to see. It must be understood. And all of my effort to save my wife, I did not thought to inform me or ask questions of the angels. It I had just thought comes the one “weighed” our good and our bad deeds before being reincarnated according to his past life. - Can you imagine the scope of such an assertion? struck me the President Lucinda. Brandishing a picture of a man

with graying temples and under deep that it was constantly on him, Raoul asked if I had glimpsed his father. I made a face. There was a dense crowd so dead, there. No, I had not seen his father, as I also did not see mine. My friend had himself recognized as the river of the dead grew from the orange territory. Our souls migrated slowly and herd tightened. Can not recognize anyone in this tumultuous flood of millions of souls in transit. Amandine, which had the usual black robes now looks like a bereavement, then asked: - Are you really convinced that this is the end? It there is nothing after? I sighed. How to be sure? - Basically, there is a mountain of light. That is what I call Mountain weighing of souls that emits the light that we draws from the first door. And then, after the trial of karmas, I can not imagine what can happen. I also see anything special behind the mountain for simple reason that this mountain is so bright it hides all walks possible. - So there may be something else behind the … mountain, noticed my wife, all his dilemma between back down here or not, did during his trip not bothered to examine the scene. Desiring above all to find his father, Raoul proposed a

New collective off further exploration. Me? I was not too hot to go back up there but the others were obviously very excited to meet the angels, to understand the meaning of their lives, to see the end of consciousness, and all that, and all that. Amandine, Stefania and Rose got up immediately hand volunteering. My wife claimed perfect

ment and delivery of the hospital in great shape. I wanted to go up there to see if his hypothesis white fountain on the other side of the black hole was the road. Regarding Amanda, I believe that despite the death of Freddy, his “baptism” takeoff had such

ment delighted that she had left for any new adventure. Like it or not, I agreed to serve as their guide. We took off together on a Friday 13. I remember very well, it was Friday, May 13 A day particularly windy. Outside, the trees bending under tornadoes and clouds were chasing. I do not too much wind, but good! We alignâmes every five in our ovoid plastic, our special tracksuits connected computers. The video purred. Six … five … four … three … two … one. Off … I squeezed the bulb. Forward for the country of angels. 212 - Jewish mythology Three souls correspond to three brains: - Hypothalamus: Rouach. Level of our needs survival: eat, drink, sleep, reproduce. - Limbic System: Nefesh. Level of our emotions: fear, desire, desire, emotion. - Cortex: Nechamah. Level of reason: logic, strategy, philosophy, aesthetics and ability to control two brains.

According to Kabbalah, a number of physiological and mental changes occur at the exact moment of physical death. The Zohar explains that the Nefesh, or our bioenergy dissolves with the deterioration of the body. Ministry Rouach, related to the flow of vital energy, is a little more long time but eventually also disappear. The party transcendental the Nechamah, completely abandoned the form body. This upper part of the Self is then received by the souls of those who loved her for her life land. His father and members already deceased family gather around the Nechamah and he sees them, he recognizes like all those he knew here and all accompanying his soul to where it should remain. At the time of death, it is allowed to see his parents and his friends in the afterlife. If the deceased was virtuous, they rejoice and welcome him. Otherwise, it is recognized by those thrown into the Gehinom (purgatory). This is where the souls are washed of their filth. The Gehinom is discovered after physical death. Its necessity may be compared to that of a good shower after a game backbreaking or passage through a decompression chamber of a scuba diver before rising to the surface. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

213 - IN ANGELS My second trip ectoplasmic happened less than the first. On my first flight, I thought to rescue Rose and thinking of others can forget his own anxieties. There I was thinking about too many things along the way. Is there mercenaries from another Hashishins or a few worshipers of Beelzebub in ambush, ready to attack by surprise and cut our umbilical cords? I was afraid. I hid my fear.

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In Flight tight, we marched into the space at the speed of thought. We crossed the Sun, due to the Earth’s rotation, was then directly on the way leading to the center of the galaxy. I repressed my eternal question parasite (“But

Actually, what I … “). Finally, you see what questions

tion I mean. Review the Russian cosmonauts did me not even laugh. Move among the meteorites gave me goose bumps and the approach of each new planet seemed a good opportunity to rest my ectoplasm. I considered the galaxy around it. As was great! Stars do you want in here. Someone should get to clean from all the stars lying in the Milky Way. The Milky Way! The Greeks called and because the spray of stars they evoked a squirt Milk output in the goddess Hera, wife of Zeus. Bathed in milk, we sail in tourists to the land of the dead. To forget my fears, I really enjoy the show without

continually renewed the world interstellar. As well as flies, my ectoplasm sees everything. The Orion Nebula looks like a scallop shell Jacques in the process of dissolving. I distinguish the cloud of stars called Horsehead, similar in effect to a kind of neck ending in a corner. Later on my left is the line rebound in Cygnus and then the variable stars of the Magellanic Clouds, like a salt shaker upside down. Sometimes the supernova Vega. All these names appear to me to mind but, in fact, Rose me the breath away. I realized that this show chart fascinates me and bring me to his knowledge. Wonderful woman! Virage. Far ahead of us, right, there are the galaxy Andromeda. She is sister of ours, separated by only two million light years. Around its central axis, the stars of Andromeda are more yellow than ours. Probably because they are younger. One could conclude that our good old Milky Way is older its parent Andromeda.

A course on astronomy in the open space is fabulous! More exciting than any safari. But, again, there are wild animals. In the constellation Hunting dog (chance), two galaxies are about to touch. The smallest, in the form of sea urchin, is drawn by the larger,

spiral. - This is the galaxy M51, a galaxy Carnivore, explain telepathically Rose. It is so huge it sucks all the other galaxies that pass the range. There she is devouring the galaxy NGC 5195. When the two masses are sufficiently close to each the other, one of the spiral arms of M 51 will advance to capture NGC 5195. - And the “eat”? No! They will join to form a galaxy even more immense, and therefore more attractive and even more Carnivore. Like what predation is present everywhere. Even the inert knows his dramas. We veins always towards our central objective. We cross planetary systems exotic clouds dust red and white, meteorites frozen with their beginnings of life ready to hatch on a planet which will exist. Areas of star clusters succeed large areas empty when there are only black, cold and nothing. Here, finally, the corolla of the black hole of death. Star collide on board, identifying the entrance to the giant tunnel of a circle effervescent. We build our five silver lace in a braid Security tight and, using one of the choreography ectoplasmic Freddy, set out again to the collision of the last Area/active person Area/person

Prime territory: we are sucked into the vortex, as the “juice light” of nearby stars and all kinds of waves and particles. We arrive at the beach the Continent Ultimate. The membrane of the first wall comatose vibrates like a drum when it is hit or crosses. Look, the world of the dead is also similar to a human ear. Schlouf! I pass the wall soft. Second area: again the fear of the past, the fight against monsters tireless. These gatekeepers will always there waiting for me at home at the end. Third territory: even my fantasies, ever red, always darker. I like to find them. As it must be awful, a life without fantasies! I leave me not, however, bogged down, nor my desires nor my pleasures. Fourth area: patience. The river of the dead flows slowly across the plain orange. I fly over the mass swarming paying this time more attention to those up. Miracle, I recognize so many things that I dreamed to meet! Marilyn Monroe, Philip K. Dick, Jules Verne, Rabelais, Leonardo da Vinci. Crowd a few mythical figures of my history books: Charlemagne Vercingetorix, George Washington, Winston Churchill, Leon Trotsky. It is so eclectic, the crowd .. There is also James Dean, Fred Astaire (who can not help to outline a short walk from tap to pass the time), Molière, Gary Cooper, Queen Margot, Lillian Gish, Louise Brooks, Zola, Houdini, Mao

Tse-tung, Ava Gardner, the Borgias (Grouped into family around Lucretia). The more impatient strive to remain at the center the river to reach the light at once. The least disciplined weave around. Many take advantage of the halt to unusual encounters. We argue in the family of the last Tsar of Russia, each blaming the other for not having foreseen the Revolution. Louis XVI tries to reconcile them: it either did not see it coming. He turns away to discuss mapping Marco Polo. The real passion for this friendly ectoplasm royal, was this: mapping. He was interested just as the locks, but draw the rivers Canada and move the words Terra incognita were really major pastime and unknown to Louis XVI. Paradise is really the last show chic where you cause! I mark up Victor Hugo with his long beard, being dredged Diana the Huntress. Raoul is friendly but it always throws puzzles and do not give

The solution? I landed near Victor Hugo and the opportunity to to claim the solution to the riddle of the pastry. To first he is annoyed because I disturbed its drag but when I explain my reasons, he laughs and tells me. “My first is talkative, it’s a chatterbox. My second is a bird, it

flies. My third is in the coffee is café. Solution: the bakery is the Bavarian coffee. credit Indeed it was so easy that I had not thought of. “ What a chance to ask people the better informed. If I had more time, I would look Stradivarius to know the secret adhesives for his valuable violins. I would try to know where disappeared Saint-Exupéry and why from above there are drawings giants of Chile and Peru. I spot suddenly a familiar face. My great-grandmother Aglaia! I rushed towards her. She recognizes immediately and includes immediately why I approached so quickly. Yes, she saw how I had behaved to her death but do not mind because she had read in my heart my true feelings. Many others who were crying were only hypocrites eager to draw attention !

I’m so happy I want to find my father to tell him. But my great-grandmother Aglaé tells me that she had already briefed and that Moreover, it is now far ahead.

I take my flight, the spirit lighter. Below, Raoul search in vain for his father, Amandine meets Felix and pretends not to recognize, despite the desperate calls of the first of Thanatonautes. Stefania hovers quietly above the crowd of the dead, continuing its path towards the light. My astronomer wife is head of our group, eager to see if the bottom of the black hole overlooks a white fountain. Fifth area: knowledge. I discovered by chance and without asking, the recipe for pound cake. A quarter of butter, a quarter of flour, a quarter of sugar, one quarter of eggs. This too is part of knowledge. Do not I forget the recipe before I return to earth. Sixth territory: up to beauty. The beds purple lace alternate. Purple, tan, red, yellow, fractal images shimmer to infinity. Of

iridescent butterflies escape from beaks of swallows roses. Of frogs, blue, black and white wings unfold dragonflies. A unicorn gold rises on its hind legs. Beauty is polymorphic. As fear. Seventh territory: we come together before Moch 6, our cords always linked. This trip was perhaps less exciting to be more first takeoff but never did become a routine. The shuttle Challenger exploded had it not then dint of exploits were beginning to believe the flight spa

tiaux definitely safe? Nothing is safe, even if the method proves decorporation dis

green of the universe really soft. At no time, we do

should lose our caution. We went far, far away and quickly, so quickly. At this rate, the slightest incident could take on dramatic proportions. What we found now, we would never been able to detect, even with the best telescope onboard satellite! We were in the stars, center of the galaxy, at the bottom of the black hole and with the possibility to get out. What astronomer could feed more ambition? For us, the five musketeers of death was hand-holding the end of the trip. We had reached the general curtain masking the latter’s death. I went while others were reluctant to follow me. They saw the river of the dead pierced the membrane of Moch 6 understand but the last face of life fills every reasonable fear. I shrugged my shoulders. After: all, me, I’ve been there. I lifted a piece of the curtain terrifying and invite my friends to follow me. Aggressive and magnetic at a time, the flamboyant light struck us. For me, surprised, I found to be happy to return this vast plain cylindrical white and veils of mist. Below, the river of the dead split into four arms. Appeared the first halos of angels, so colorful, so bright face our ectoplasm so dull! If I

asked one day what is the best ambition of a man, I now know the answer: the most beautiful ambition is to make his soul as beautiful as that of an angel benevolent. But how to achieve such a feat? An angel with a sporty fluttered to us and asked why we are here with our cords intact. Curiosity? Desire to advance science? Same Stefania to the language usually so glib coit remained. It was “him” who replied to our site: - You are the Great Initiates, is not it? Which ? Raoul surprised. - The Great Initiates, patiently repeated the angel. Apparently, our intrusion did not surprise too. “Great Initiates”, “they” had a term for the “living” advancing so far. It meant others we had preceded and had kept secret information. Other Thanatonautes? Monks, shamans, rabbis, sages who quietly and without the help of modern technology, would have given up to this kind of journey from the dawn of time? The angel smiled. I understood why he and his colleagues do not put me in my problems first passage to Paradise. The “Great Initiates”, since still they were accustomed to receive, even if we the learned later, their visits had not been frequent.

214 - MYTHOLOGY SIBERIAN

In Siberian shamanic religion after the death while is reversed. You enter a country where everything above is down, everything is clear becomes obscure. Sometimes you enter the land of the dead at a shamanistic ceremony, during an illness, a intoxication or a dream. Sometimes you make a foray into the land of the dead without realizing it. That is why it is necessary to know a few things accurate. In the land of the dead, the trees grow upside down

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Raise High the roots, the rivers flow into the mountains, the night is bright as the light dark of the moon, while the day is dark as the pale reflection of the sun. These are small details to know for sure we are no longer among the living. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 215 - Asaliah

Our host was called St. Jerome French, Asaliah in Hebrew, meaning “one who tells the truth.” Corn he had a name in many other languages. It was Ptah to the Egyptians, the Sumerians Enki, Apollo to the Romans, Mapanos to the Gauls, Dianceht for the Irish Celts, Freyr for the Germans, Svarog for the Slavs, Savitri for Hindus, Xochipilli for the Aztecs, Illapa for the Incas … His task here was to find the truth and help souls to rise spiritually. With pleasure, he replied to issues Raoul on the organization of Paradise. There were seventy-two angels primary and seven hundred thousand angels side. The hierarchy was simple. The first triad included the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones, a second Virtues, Dominations and Powers. The third, the highest, united the principalities, the Archangels and Angels. Three main archangels: the archangel Gabriel (messenger and initiator), the Archangel Michel (the slayer of dragons), the Archangel Raphael (Guide for physicians and travelers). We had a choice: we could consider the angels as saints, Lamed Vav or Bodhisattvas, Buddhas, elected officials, or tzaddik. Their designations varied religions. They were perfect, which had managed their lives and could break the cycle of reincarnation but who still preferred to spend management of souls in transit. In order not to lose, We optâmes generic for “angel”. On this, St. Jerome, Ptah-Xochipilli apologized. With

crowd which pressed down, it was not the work he was missing. We pursued only visit. I was wondering if, on top of these cohorts, there was still a god or gods. The Jews say that God is one, yet Freddy taught me that in Hebrew, God said Elohim and the name is plural. So… Seventy-two angels main … This figure reminded me also something. - The number of rungs of the ladder of Jacob, I recollected telepathically Raoul. 216 - MAJOR ANGELS Some examples of names of angels main from the Bible but could also be Greek, Chinese, Indian, etc..

First angel VEHUIA, who is the master of meditation and spiritual enlightenment. Second angel JELIEL, one that soothes the revolts unjust. 3erd. e angel SITAEL, one that protects against adversity. 4th

angel ELEMIAH, one that can detect traitors. 5th angel MAHAASIAH, who can live in peace with others. 6th angel LELAHEL, who heals the sick. 7th

angel Achaiah, one that helps unlock the secrets of nature and to develop new technologies. 8th angel CAHETHEL, who chases away evil spirits. 9th angel Haziel, who helps get the benefit of Great and keeping promises. 10th angel ALADIAL, who protects those who fear we only discover their secrets. Among the most useful, in bulk, there are still: 12th angel HAHAIAH, who dominates the world of dreams

and reveals sometimes dreamlike form, mysteries sacred. 13th angel IEZALEL, a ruler of friendship, reconciliation and marital fidelity.

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14th angel MEBAHEL, one that protects against usurpers of fortune. 16th angel HAKAMIAH, one that protects against malicious traitors. 17th angel LAUVIZH, who removes sadness and terrors of the night. 18th angel CALIEL, who brings a fast rescue when blows of fate unexpected. 20th angel PAHALIAL, one that protects priests and magicians. 23rd angel MELAHEL, who can travel without incident. 26th angel HAAIAH, who saves the trial. 38th angel HAAMIAH, who helps discover the treasures. 42nd angel MIKAEL, who protects men polished

ticks and rulers. 50th Angel: DANIEL, one that gives inspiration to those who hesitate between several choices. 53rd angel Nanael, one that helps scientists. 59th angel HARAEL, who

convinces the children to be more respectful to their parents. 69th Angel: Rochelle, who helps to find objects lost and those who have stolen. 72nd angel MUMIAH, who helps companies succeed and men live longer. NB In case of specific problems, unlike the saying “better go to God to his saints “, it is recommended to use the angel specializing in the field rather than a whole divine. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 217 - IN GOOD COMPANY Stefania, who had found his range, landed an angel appeared simultaneously male and female. Its companions did not speak to himself and not not seem to want their company. What is your name? He too was not too surprised to see us there. It answered readily: - Samael. But in your world, they call me more often Satan or Angel of Death and Hades or Grand Hermaphrodite, Nergal to the Sumerians, Seth for Egyptians. I have to be known still under a lot of other names, but, sorry, they do not come to me all in mind. He shone with a strange light … A

black light! A bit like the lamps in the night clubs, give white clothes staining flood. Stefania suppressed a cringe. - And you tolerate here in Paradise? He had a booming laugh. Of course! Heaven, Hell, it’s the same. I am tolerated here and below, in your world. I am also the most indispensable of all the angels. I seduce the ignorant, I push them in their evil inclinations for better to prove their ignorance. Certainly I am aware I, on earth, a poor image, yet this Only by proving their ignorance to the ignorant one can advance! Thanks to me, those who have everything false can resume. Your wisdom does she says not before back must touch the bottom? I help people to touch the bottom to move up. Suddenly, his expression was no longer anything “satanic”. - Actually, I’m serving well, but perhaps too original for you to understand. Stefania thinking. Me, I already understood. This neither in gorged, neither fornicators, nor by drunk that triggered disasters and conflicts mortals! The most great wars have been launched on behalf of the Good, never that of Evil. And this same wisdom invoked by Samael does it not also that of an evil can come good? As he departed, an angel appearing to be St. PeterHermes-Aniel-Mercury, the angel of clarification, told us that the devils were only shadows of the angels.

- You are Peter! exclaimed Stefania, the Italian who had not forgotten her catechism. You are the holy Pierre keeper of the keys to Paradise? - Yes, he said. Previous Great Initiates me so designated because I’m often the only angel to take the time to inform newcomers. - Saint Jerome-Xochipilli has already taken the trouble to give us some explanation. - So you got lucky. - It means what, “the keys of Paradise”? Saint Pierre Hermes nodded kindly head. - There is no key in the material sense of the word. This is an image. In fact, I give the keys that allow understand the Paradise. Thereupon he returned to the seventy-two angels major. Like any angel, they have their back dark, seventy-two Devils leading, then. All have their own palace called by a sphere. In all, there is thus one hundred forty to four. Saint Pierre Hermes is verbose. It opens other locks. Gabriel, the Great Archangel, is the projection of the Devil luimême, and vice versa. The three archangels are three Great Princes Demons: Beelzebub, Shaitan and Yog Sottoth, Chaos Rampant described in the Apocalypse. - Impressive, this one, right? It means a black angel completely filamentous gliding rapidly over the river of the dead. In her approach, the ranks tremble as in a breeze cold. - Can we contact angels without up to date? I asked. Of

course! Every human being has actually her guardian angel and his personal demon. Thus, and has always been popular imagery which had seemed so innocent had only reveal the “truth” true. Angel guardian, personal demon … The Great Initiates had transmitted their knowledge in the as accessible as possible and, hence, “they” do was not taken seriously, calling all these beliefs pure superstition. Yet “they” knew. At least, step-helping people knew. And a long time. in the past .. ” always.

- Guardian Angel and Demon staff are given the day of birth. They will be there then to intercede for of the soul when it weighed by the archangels. There is a simple way to use them. Just pray or yet to produce an emotion corresponding to the field one of us. A vibration shakes when the meridian his sphere. The angel descends to judge whether to intervene. We operate only on a vertical mode, from top to bottom and from bottom to top. We are associated each in a meridian emotional acting up-charge, which is programmed as a single state: anger, peace, harmony … No free will. Can not change the register. I, for example, I only helps those who want to “understand”, since I am St. Peter Hermes, the angel of the keys and clarification. There you are. It was as simple as “mechanical” than that. It was enough to think for an angel to intervene. I grabbed Finally, the power and utility of prayer.

Prayer is request the intervention of an angel very accurate. - Obviously, there is a price to pay, specified our initiator. I furrowed my eyebrows ectoplasmic. How does the services of the angels were not free? How mint-they? - In karma. It’s a barter. Be prepared to give up part of its energy to make a wish, unless have a state of purity of procedure as it allows receive no compensation with angels. But it is rare. Barter? Yes. A bit like Faust. You have to sell his soul for power. I ordered mental the keys provided by St. Peter Hermes 1. Always follow the angels and not allow himself the any negative thought about them. 2. Always go through the hierarchy: the solicitation shall be provided to lower angels specialized by Angels top generals. 3. Each solicitation will pay in loss of energy, eroding karma, a sacrifice of his own person, unless enjoy the behavior of a saint. 4. We can apply both an angel a devil. by efficiency is identical, only the price differs. For perform a vengeance, it is better to use an angel of justice as a devil of a temper. 5. You can not ask an angel one thing at a time. An angel also a mission and for a given period. 6. Mission accomplished, freeing the angel, saying, “I do not need you. ” An angel must not remain too long on earth. It creates a mess. It must return as soon as his palace. If he stays too long empty, negative energies may rise to spheres

corresponding lower. Hatred vibrates the sphere corresponding to the hierarchy hatred, which is probably run by a devil of lower worlds. Love mobilizes a sphere of worlds superiors. The white angels are activated by the love of Well, the black by the love of evil. Nevertheless, all prayers are heard. Suddenly, there I became very clear. In life, we always get what you want. When does not get it, is that we do not really want. The angels themselves, distinguish the true desires of the whims of children. They realize that the first. On these good words telepathic, I think that if the world learned that it was possible to have everything we wish we had not finished with the problems. The Great Initiates always had reason to surround always have their revelations of mystery. Saint Pierre Hermes jumped as if he had just received a call and we left. Probably someone on land was praying for him to come. Amandine, Stefania, Raoul, Rose and I continued to browse the site as much as we allow our umbilical cords knotted. Seraphim frolicking how many small hummingbirds in human form. I grabbed one and noticed when he was blessed with six wings, similar to those of dragonflies.

- Why did you six wings, little angel? He looked at me with disdain. - It’s in all Bibles. I have two wings to cover my face, two to cover me sex, two last to fly. Faced with this tiny cherub who made fun of my ignorance, I ventured to the big question that had burned lips during our interview with St. Pierre Hermes. Corn I understood that the leading supplier of keys would consent to give than he was willing to give. My Seraph was probably less experienced in this field. - Tell me, good angel, I have seen here of the dead, the angels, archangels, devils … But is there a god, a god above you? It was a small movement towards the back of the mountain. - What do I know? he said. We have never seen god here, but some angels believe, however, that God exists and is everywhere. For my part, I’m agnostic. I am like St. Thomas you think maybe I do not believe what I see. He laughed a little angel. I insisted, looking at me as the mountain of light of Judgement. - And back there, do the hall of Heaven is for-Suit Who knows? he said with malice. Perhaps yes and perhaps leads there to God. Me, my place is here. And you, your place is below. He clapped his wings and fled. Rose, pushing us to go behind the mountain if

existed a fountain white balancing the black hole, but our cords of money were already too stretched to venture further. In addition, Stefania insisted that we returned as soon as our envelopes char

tional. We started a long time and it was we hurry if we did not want to risk find only heaps of flesh necrotic. Reluctantly, we rushed to our thanatodrome. 218 - MYTHOLOGY ARAB From the grave, the deceased is subject to the trial of two angels Munkar and Nakir. Depending on their decision, the tomb transformed into hell preliminary draft in purgatory or Paradise preliminary. The angels will then intercede with God to save the damned. Thanks to them, they come out of hell and then become like the tso’rom (small cucumbers). By bathing in succession in three rivers, they regain their whiteness.

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 219 - first concern Upon our return, Raoul sprang from his chair. He was overexcited. His dark eyes flashed and his hands fluttered around her body like two spiders malignant. - What is it? You saw your father? - No, but an angel told me his story. - Saint Pierre Hermes? - No, he refused, but Satan himself, acceded willingly my prayer. The desire to know Raoul was always so intense he was obviously produce a strong vibration. Corn the truth was she so ugly that only a black angel can to him be? I shudder even before my friend did began his story. Towards the end, said Satan, Mr. and Mrs. Razorbak not agreed at all. Francis forsook completely his wife and devoted himself entirely to writing his thesis, Death the unknown. The more advanced in its research, the more it went away. She even came to a lover, a Philip. The inevitable happened. Raoul’s father surprised one day the lovebirds frolicking in the open. Anger. Dispute. Threat of divorce. Ms. Razorbak took high and ensure that they fight to the end. If separation there was, it does

would not at his expense, but to his advantage, with a strong child support and custody of Raoul. That evening, Francis Razorbak hung on the hunt of water. For his son, it was not a suicide but a assassination. By his adulterous behavior, his mother pushed his father, so sensitive, at the worst end. Thus, it perceive quietly heritage and benefit at will of her lover. No one had pierced the deception. It was logical that Professor of Philosophy passionate death comes to to give it to better discover the other side of the mirror. Even Raoul had thought! Without the help of Satan, he never would know the truth. The truth is the worst of all weapons and dark angel did not skimp on the details and moving. Actually, it was as if for the first time, a police investigation had resolved in Paradise. What opportunities offered the discovery

Green Continent Ultimate! In the penthouse before the cocktails Amandine, we

tentâmes to appease our friend. But all our entreaties seemed to produce on him the opposite effect. Plus we will repeating that this whole thing of the past, more we pray to distinguish things, letting died in peace and live their lives more Raoul plunged into its fury. - She killed him, she killed my father! he cried, his head between His hands shaped greenhouses. - No, he committed suicide. You can not know what had in mind when he passed through the chain. - I’m not, but Satan yes. My father loved his wife and she has betrayed him, that’s all. - Satan is just pushing the ignorant in their ignorance, I insisted. But Raoul was unable to reason with a cool head. It’s as if everything around him was distorted by the obsessive idea. Overcome with rage, he rose, reversing chair glass, and went hurtling down the floors of thanatodrome. Guessing what he would do, I tried to hasten the telephone number of his mother to warn. Th told him that his son, now convinced that it had caused the death of his father, rushed to avenge him. I swore that he was mistaken, it is easily justified but hastened to hang up.

Some business quickly thrown into a bag and already she was not there when Raoul disfigured by hatred smashed his door. He returned, looking bad. Not finding his mother, he had Dark at the famous Philippe’s lover at the time. He had rushed at him but it was another, beefier, who had knocked. It was all so ridiculous! The proud Thanatonautes had become a child in anger, stamping and willing to break everything! As it is easy to get overwhelmed by hatred! For the first time I understood that it is better, often wind, not knowing the truth. Better to pursue the catch, and that was why St. Pierre Hermes was silent. Freddy does he not say that “the wise man seeks truth while the idiot has already found “? - My mother is the worst bitches, thundered Raoul de back with us. - Who are you to dare to judge? inveighed Stefania any by passing a wet cloth over his bruises. After all, Your father also had his faults. He neglected her and was interested in its books. You have yourself admitted that he did almost never held you either. , She thee high! But Raoul was in such condition that it was impossible the reason. - My father was a learned philosopher, he repeated. It had devoted himself to science. He paved the way for research

of death. And my mother killed him! Rose put her cool hand on his burning forehead. - Nothing is simple, whispered it to her musical voice. In fact, you should thank your mother. In “suicide” tone father, she has created in you a thirst for knowledge, an appetite needed to be filled. With it, you have completed your studies of biology, you’ve specialized in hibernation marmots, you became a pioneer of Thanatonautes and you ended up discovering the Continent Ultimate. - And the truth, too, muttered Raoul. - If it’s any consolation, remember that up there, it will inevitably be judged one day. Like the others, his soul will be weighed. The angels have all the elements the case, including the testimony of your father. Justice will be made. Only human pride than to imagine we can do justice in this world. Justice is an illusion. - Yes, added myself. Trust the angels and destiny. Up there, they will punish it deserves. - Perhaps will they be reborn into a toad? suggested Amandine to comfort him. He drank in one gulp the glass of cognac she served and as claimed another. - Surely there are toads happy, grunted he. Th want it to be reincarnated as cockroach to properly crush of a kick. I also asked for a drink. - You know, Raoul, I think you should make a good psychoanalysis, I sighed, because in fact you were not

ready to hear the revelations of Satan. - Remember that Satan is still an angel evil, noticed Amandine. I grabbed Raoul’s shoulder. - Remember, we fought together against the worshipers Satan and now you are going to make you support for him to solve your little personal problems ! You’re just a Faust opera. I had suddenly enough to see it and wallow in its rage, I wanted to shake like a plum tree that sad wreck tipsy. - Listen to me! I exclaimed. We will still need you to thanatodrome every day and every minute. So, forget your mother. We no time to lose. Raoul laughed bad. - What’s that Mr. I-know-all just give me a lecture? Hey, you’ve just watched, Michael? I also learned some nice on you. I shrugged my shoulders. - Impossible, I say. Satan made you confide in your father because you wanted your whole heart. Corn why’d have it about me? - My friend, my old friend, my oldest friend … I vibrated strong enough that he teach me two truths about yourself. Instinctively, I knew that these truths would make me ill. Only your true friends know where you hit to make it hurt. I felt like shouting “Go, Viper, spit your venom! ” but fear prevailed. I stopped my ears while he pronounced his revelations. At

the mine of the three women, I knew it was serious. This was especially the second information which was most affected Rose. No sooner had I removed my hands from my ears as Raoul stammered: - You did not hear? You want me to repeat? - I do not want to know! I cried. But before I had time to put my fingers in my curtains hearing, he was screaming already: - Your parents were sterile! You and Conrad you are that adopted children! Truth one. I had the impression of having been hit by a truck. The craft followed me a long time. He had me reduce to a pulp. Everything collapsed around me. My past was no longer my past. My family had never been my family. My father was not my father. My mother was not my mother or my brother my brother. And greatgrandmother Aglaia … Raoul was staring at me with delight. In my turn suffer! An expression sadistic appeared on his face while he was preparing to send its second missile. - Truth two! A truck that crushes you, it’s already terrible. “No way! to pass one on your belly already hot and bloody. I pushed very, very hard my fingers to my ears. Do not know. Above all, do not know. For pity’s sake, leave me digest first the first truth. But there it was, Raoul was already

having again stated the second. The disarray was visible in the eyes Amandine, Stefania and especially Rose. Furious, I untied my hands to clear a punch lightning in the chin of the man who was my best friend.

Is gently massaging the face, he displayed a face poor and happy. - Thanks, he said. I like to get a good uppercut … Especially on the part of my “best friends”. I had to answer something for the nose definitively. I had no time to think about a repartee fine. I articulated a phrase that meant nothing, like I made a sentence. - He who says that is! 220 - Jewish mythology “(…). They will see the world that has now invisible and they will see the time that has now been hidden. In addition, time will not make them old. Because they remain in the heights of that world, they will be similar to angels and like the stars, they will be transformed into any forms they want, beauty and grace, of light splendor of glory. Car in front of them extend the spaces of Paradise. They show the eminent beauty of living who are under the throne and all the host of angels, who are now prevented by my word to to see and forced by command to be held in their area until the coming of their arrival. “

Baruch, LI, 8-11. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 221 - police files

Note to the services concerned Confidential information transmitted to mortals by angels unscrupulous. Risk of adverse consequences. Intervention indispensable to put an end to this dangerous adventure.

Response services affected You panic again for trifles. We control fully The situation! Everything has always gone very well. There is no reason for it to go differently this time.

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222 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS It is necessary to be very hard to face the truth. How many of us can they hear the truth and keep their cool? When were understood effects perverse Thanatonautes, the Ministry of Education National introduced very quickly during ASV (Confrontation Serene of Truth). This teaching was at first confined the upper classes, but quickly spread elementary classes. He recently became part of baccalaureate exams. History textbook, second year elementary course. 223 - ORPHAN Just returned to the room, Rose and I made love. It was she who had rushed to me. She whispered she wanted very quickly a child to me. It fell well. I also wanted a child from

her since for a long time to come. Until then, we only had animals and plants. We had gone over time. First a green plant (monotone), then an orange (which produced fruit inedible) and a goldfish (Leviathan, we had found one day, without reason, the belly up) and Zouzou sea turtle (always busy to stuff yourself small maggots) and guinea pig (called Bouyebouye because he squealed all the time “bouy, bouy, bouy” to inform us that he was hungry), then a cat that had ate the guinea pig and a dog (who had avenged the guinea pig by tormenting always the cat). A child would now be welcome. Would that to avenge turn the cat by pulling the dog’s ears, tail, legs, eyelids and nose. Children are naturally good at restoring ties. Also scientific Rose consulted a calendar. - Dates are subject to paste, decreed she. - With a little luck, one could even deliver the reincarnation of Freddy, ‘I remarked. Freddy said he would charge in the country orange to attempt to reincarnate in one year. Hmm, three months had passed … But with any luck, there happen may be the same. Anyway, the idea delights Rose. It would be fantastic become the parents of the reincarnation of Freddy.

Once again we were pioneers. Which had already thought to be a child container of a soul before chosen? It was as if we manufactured a vase to put flowers already in stock. - At work, I said cheerfully. Our embrace was happy, yet I caught a sad expression on the face of Rose when she put the head on the pillow. I asked him what was wrong all at once. She sighed and made me swear always to my ears when Raoul seek to struck me the second truth. - It will pass, I say. Raoul is bitter because he was unhappy to learn that his mother killed his father, I understand. - But you have nothing to do, protested she. I do not see why, for how unhealthy pleasure, he now wants to any price you reveal the ugly secrets of Satan. In all case, you totally sounded. I did not know that my husband had such a talented boxer! she said, shaking again against me. I made a face. - For the first time I hit someone with a This will hurt him … And then I lost my best friend. - No, said she confidently. Raoul is not against you. And the canary Uncle William: “When someone is angry against you, it is not really angry against you, it is only angry against himself. ” We refîmes love. I drove the “in fact, what I do … “Always parasite, to replace soon with thoughts and feelings much more

enjoyable. Then, Rose, beautiful in her nightgown, is leaned over the balcony to gaze at the starry night. The moon was huge. Around, the stars made their interest.

- I sometimes wonder if we do not play with sorcerer’s apprentice, grumbled she. Look how the discovery the last area of ​Paradise has thrown us together against the other. Do not you’re not going to support the obscurantist who want a ban our explorations? - No, of course. Simply place the safeguards to avoid nasty spills. The story of Raoul is perhaps a warning. You imagine, if anyone went there and fell on an angel who tells him of truths inconvenient! - Just keep calm. Raoul told me that I was an orphan, so what? This did not alter my behavior. On the contrary, I am now more grateful to my adoptive parents for having me and high. I was tempted to ask the second truth to see if I could cash it. She refused. It made me promise to never ask to hear it. I read in her eyes that she was convinced that this one would cause much more damage than the first. Yet I could not see what could be more terrible to learn that parents who had always believed hers were not our real parents. We fell asleep in the arms of one another. In the morning,

Raoul was gone. He had disappeared, no one knew where. I remained alone in thanatodrome with “my” three Women: Rose, Amanda and Stefania. My wife had attached to one wall of the penthouse a huge poster of the galaxy with at its center, the pit end of the Paradis. I watched often this image, the culmination of all our efforts. Everything started from there and everything came back there. All energies, all the lights, all ideas, all souls. It was a garbage can and a matrix. The meaning of our lives. Paradise. Freddy was there … And not just Freddy, our

first Thanatonautes: Marcellin, Hughes, Felix, Rajiv … Inmate Fleury-Merogis galore … Sometimes at night I would sit in front of the receptor large antenna we had installed at the top of thanatodrome and I looked on the screen control the dead fly like so many flocks of pigeons. Good travel! dear contemporaries. A green dot symbol each deceased. Some shot up faster than others. They need to leave this world was probably stronger. Very rarely, I watched a soul returning to earth. Was it a survivor of medicine, a Thanatonautes isolated, a lover who would not leave his beloved, an assassin who wanted revenge as a ghost, a monk in meditation or an angel making discreet visit to the man who invoked ?

Regarding Raoul, we thought it wandered somewhere on this earth much material in search of his mother in the flesh real. In fact, it was not far. Powerless to discover, sorry to fight against us, he dragged Bar in bar and claimed that alcohol consumption would allow if improve his technique off. One day, sober, he realized he had to start with itself a major debate on justice. He returned to thanatodrome, rang at my door, apologized for making me the evil and promised solemnly never to attempt to get reveal the second truth, fortunately, I did not heard. I thanked him without much conviction. Knowing that there information that could disrupt my life of completely and remain voluntarily in his ignorance, This did not please me that much. In the evening, my mother and my adopted brother visited me. They were perhaps strangers, yet I measured the importance they had taken in my life. My parents had always treated as one of their own, without betrays the slightest clue. They told me blessed. They had kept the secret. They told me yelled and gave want to rebel against them like I was their true child. I could get rid of my Oedipus complex with my false father no, I have fallen unconscious in love

with my miserable mother, I could enter into competition with my pathetic brother. For all that, many thanks. The real justice, it is perhaps this: being able to say thank you to those who have done good and not lick the hand of those who have harmed. Sounds simple as that, but often we find ourselves silly to do the opposite and we do not even know why. I embraced like never before I had them kissed, and told me that, whatever the circumstances, I would never to speak up there with my real parents, who had abandoned me as a pile rags. I did not know why (probably very good) who had pushed, I did not even see their faces. If they had abandoned me, I just gave up. As for those who had passed, I passed. I had only one real home: my heavy mother and the idiot Conrad. The truth of Raoul had allowed me to understand a truth even more valuable. You do not choose necessarily friends, but … can still choose her family! 224 - Christian mythology “But if we preach that Christ rose from the dead, how can some of you they say that there no resurrection of the dead? If there is no vision, of the dead, not even Christ has been raised. But if the Christ is not risen, then our

message, empty as is our faith […]. If for this life only we put our hope in Christ, we are the most pitiable of all men […]. If the dead not rise, eat and drink for tomorrow we die. “ Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1.15. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

225 - CONFERENCES Advantage that, for now, the secret was well kept, We multipliâmes trips to explore the best and if possible to the end, the last chamber of Paradise. The angels were accustomed to visits by our small group Thanatonautes. They called us their “great introduced to the short week. ” Willingly or unwillingly, they accepted to answer our questions, as if those interviews entered a process already well known to them. When you know them a little, angels turn out kind and extremely wise. It is still in superbodhisattvas, the elite of the Lamed Vav, saints of all. Little by little we percions better the meaning of life, but We were left alone to know. Lucinda thought one day that this had gone on long enough. He was about to run a third

presidential term. On all fronts, political, economic, diplomatic, his record was disastrous. He no longer an asset to throw in the electoral battle: the Thanatonautes. Speaking of angels and heaven was more prudent evoke indices recession, figures Unemployment horrible progression and a deficit commercial completely demoralizing. Lucinda is counting on us for him to rebuild a image of the winner. After all, he was the man who had launched the exploration of the continent Ultimate Project bold if it were. The public would surely get more information about what happened after the death. And how best to achieve that by sliding in the ballot box a ballot on behalf of the outgoing president? Everything is paid: one vote equals one step closer to the explanatory

cation of your death. This was in essence the program election of our friend.

For my part, I was not convinced that the time had came to reveal to people that there was a white country spent Moch 6, populated by angels, and where the deceased had to make behalf of all good and all bad actions committed during their time here on earth. I was placed to measure the ravages of the truth. And could we not learn there? Who

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sponsored the Kennedy assassination, plotted the death of Marilyn Monroe, armed the hand of Ravaillac? Who was the Iron Mask? Which was hidden the treasure of Blackbeard the pirate? Up there, if desired very strong, we had access to

all solutions to all the answers. Was it really a good thing? In addition, when everyone would know that is enough to call wholeheartedly thrilled that his wishes come true, What trouble ahead! The desires of each are often completely against the wishes of others. Some covet power, others an inheritance, some only dream of peace and non-carnage. What/how? simultaneously satisfy all the earthlings? A world where all desires be realized upon solicitation of angels, even if not a living hell? “Let us beware of our desires, we might be well annoyed if they materialize, “said Freddy. I remembered have intended the death of a professor of geography particularly irascible. I remembered having liked to have a harem of women subservient. I remembered having wished to be dead. Fortunately, the angels me not heard, just as they had not heard so many tyrants who want to become masters of the world! - No, I asserted forcefully. Do not disclose the existence of angels. Men are not yet ready for such an announcement. Come, come, ‘said the President with a smile. My dear Michael, you were well informed that you were a adopted child and you do not make a mountain! Well … But a second fact, unknown to me that one, haunted me … Not daring to admit my obsession, I went just

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- Perhaps, but consider Raoul and his mother! In a flick, he evacuated the problem. - Razorbak needs rest. Razorbak drinks a lot too much alcohol. I convinced him to follow a detox. He promised to come and lend a hand to my presidential campaign as soon as it would Better - But his mother, forced to hide all the time? - He forgave him. The news amazed me. - How did you manage to get his due? The President rubbed his hands, delighted. - These angels are certainly very practical. It is not I who convinced Raoul is Stefania. The Black Angel Satan had caused all this damage, it has achieved the archangel Gabriel, his white alter ego, he repairs them. You see, my dear Michael, we can trust the Paradis. The evil it produces, it is able to transform as well. What say to that? And who was I to counteract the Head of State? Raoul would certainly have been able to issue objections but it was not there, and for good reason! As to Stefania, Rose and Amanda, they saw no reason not to disclose all the ultimate secret. I submitted So the general will. Thus we entered our time “showbiz “. We entamâmes a series of conferences around the world, telling throughout our interviews with angels archangels, seraphim, jinn and even devils. At first, we went there together, Stefania,

Amandine, Rose and me. But little by little, it turned out that only Amandine was very good at this type of exercise. The lovely nurse initially silent and reserved, had suddenly an oratory certain. The quietest are often the best speakers as soon as they given the opportunity. Amanda was able to communicate his passion for Thanatonautes. She recalled with wonder the Paradise, where it dated back more often to search (in vain far) Freddy and discuss with St. Peter. Of Moreover, a recent widow gave him extra credibility. A widow can not lie on a matter touching the so close, especially when her husband was the best choreographer of takeoffs Thanatonautes! The conferences of Amandine became real shows. It arose dressed all in black in white projectors, while the choir sang the opening Carmina Burana. Blond angel with the body of a crow, it looked more to the fantasy of it that I crossed to each of my incursions aliens. One evening, when she finished her presentation, a journalist Raise your hand. Come on. - This “weighing of souls” seems incomprehensible, you really want to say up there, they count points like so many penalties and bonuses? She took his time before answering. - “Yes. The existence, is like the bachelor. It doubles until

you get the average. There was a rumor in the audience. - But then the man went on, how does it bonuses and penalties for the soul away with its cycle of reincarnation? St. Peter had not been stingy with his keys. Amandine provides precise figures: - Six hundred points. According to the schedule imposed by the three archangels, judges must be six hundred points for not having to retake the exam of life. Hubbub in the room. Life Was a wide classroom where it all comes down to win the more good points as possible without his best bad grades and zero points? This vision of “school” of fate was enough to disappoint many But she at least had the merit of being coherently. - A single act benefits can pay six hundred points of a sudden, specified Amandine. Murmur of relief. It was therefore sufficient to properly have only once in his life to be saved! However, already the speaker completed: - … But in the same way, one evil act can ruin a whole life. You can get lost or run away with blows of actions that seem at the time harmless to me assigned an angel. The weighing is very subtle and judges engaged to very lengthy calculations. In fact, there is not a dead ten miles happens to get six hundred points and transform in pure spirit. Most are recalibrated and then reincarnated. Other questions

rang out. - Is there also animals up there? - Yes, and when performed well during their cycle animal, they are reincarnated as humans. Humans are at the top of the ladder of reincarnation because they are the only ones to have an abstract consciousness. - This mean that we were all animals before becoming human? - Surely. The evolution goes mineral plant of plant to animal, animal to human, human to pure spirit. This is the meaning of life. Amanda had to disclose all the secrets of the world and yet, the questions continued to rain: - A regression is possible? Obviously. If it behaves badly during his existence, we fall back into a form of past life. In humans, it becomes animal. But this case very rare. - So what happens is the bad people but not enough wicked to return to the stage animal? - They are reincarnated into humans whose existence will be particularly uncomfortable and they will have to proof still their best sides. In fact, Hell is here, on this earth. Those who behaved badly be born in countries affected by wars or famines are endemic. They are poor, sick, disabled … In these terrible circumstances, they will have more more opportunities to redeem himself. They will sacrifice for other more striking still. by Goodwill will be easier to prove. The journalist up immediately hand. - Do you mean by this that those born in rich Western

families are all people who have had good conduct in their previous life? Amanda sighed. - It would be too simple. It may be unfortunate, horribly unhappy even in a rich western family and can be happy, very happy, in the warmth and solidarity of a slum in the Third World. After: all, it is our countries supposedly the most advanced experiencing the highest rate of suicide. The assistance went, perplexed, to the exit. 226 - Christian mythology “Such is there of the resurrection of the dead: we are sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory, we are sown in weakness, it is raised in power, it is sown a physical body, it is raised in a body spiritual. “ First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians XV, 42-44. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 227 -NOMBRIL Raoul had left in search of his mother who, unaware his shift, was hiding forever. He spoke less, but always seemed inhabited by rabies. Private anesthetic effects alcohol, it was every day more bitter. After have so long tried to join his father, he could more now to find his mother. After all, it was only seeking psychoanalytic common. Again

the Oedipus complex was acting up. Except that Raoul had everything reversed. He was in love and dad wanted to kill mama! Stefania tried to comfort her best, and they had together long conversations. with me now. Raoul was silent, as if ashamed of his behavior past. Amandine was now figure star. She was become our thanatonautesse 1. She went back and forth between Buttes-Chaumont and Heaven where St. Peter, with whom it had become closely linked, was called, she claimed, “my small initiated. “ Lucinda climbed in pre-election polls while Rose and I are mostly concerned with geography Full of Paradise. What was there after the area weighing of souls? We had repeatedly approached, but ever we were able to bypass the mountain light to discover what was behind our cords silver being too short. And as more Rose was

pregnant, neither of us had any desire to risk his life to find out. My astronomer wife continued to believe that after the black hole was its opposite, a white fountain projecting the souls like a shotgun flared. The dead were drawn on one side and then powered on the other to their reincarnation. While

waiting to go see her, she had drawn more prosaically in a study on the shelves gamma, more responsible energy than X-rays or ultraviolet. She developed a new detector gamma rays that allowed us to better observe from Earth, the surroundings of Paradise and the focus of our galaxy. Ending to my bath, I lingered one day consider the water drain away in gobbling in the bung. The secret of astronomy was there, in that vortex, Such a black hole which rushed the wastewater. A circle center full of energy. I thought of the old riddle Raoul: How to draw a circle and its circumference without up his pen? The water left to drain. But where evacuated our souls? In everything, do not seek the head, always focus on the center. Stefania said that the real me is the old corridor that connects us an time mother. The navel. Thus, we received food, blood and force, and then, at birth, the door had closed. But according to Stefania, the navel does remains an important point. Our center gravity, so our real center. In contact with all areas that had once fed, it was enough to warm it up in case of illness so that radiates throughout the body. With the navel of our stomach, we begin to to live. In the navel of the galaxy, we die. I fixed the tub now empty and put on a bathrobe on my skin moist.

228 - Egyptian mythology In ancient Egypt, during the eighteenth dynasty, treatment the pharaohs and some notable deaths follows a ceremonial embalming very precise and strict. We starts down the body on the back. The master ceremony is usually a priest of Osiris, dressed as Horus. He is accompanied by four assistants who symbolize the four cardinal points. They remove hair the body then incise the abdomen on the left up to the the diaphragm. The priest of Osiris inserts his hand inside of the wound and begin to empty the noble organs may rot: liver, spleen, lungs, intestine, stomach. A Once cleaned, they reintegrate after they have been treated in solutions conservative herbal. Aid coat the rib cage with tar to prevent the flesh does not crumble. Then they stuff the body with oil, fabric and myrrh to restore the form a belly. The same applies to the skull. They put in the nostrils of the deceased a rigid rod to pierce his the two nasal cavities. The embalmer can rub a tool bent with whom he mincemeat of brains that expel then blowing into the other nostril. Once the brain is ejected, the master of ceremonies will file tar inside the skull. He will distribute evenly over the inner surface by rotating Carefully head in all directions for this water Well The body is finally covered with strips of yellow linen saffron. The face is placed a pair of eyes dummy wood, and a funerary mask cardboard painted image of death. The face paints must be young and peaceful.

According to the papyrus No. 3 Boulaq (Cairo). Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 229 - HISTORY OF ANIMALS The conferences of Amandine were more sailed. In the shop of my mother, his posters, which she

posed in outfits always sexy but never nude were selling like hotcakes. Their phenomenal success greatly enriches the small family business. But it was not the most important consequence benefits if noticed Amandine. At first they were only attracted intellectuals, thirsty for originality, and curious, eager to esoteric of all kinds. Word of mouth had then brought the scientists. Then a television station had the idea to broadcast a show of our thanatonautesse. Assailed issues, its switchboard had not resisted. Suddenly, people were interested in their karmas. They wanted to know everything: who were they before they present existence, as become of them after? Eternal questions: Where am I? Who I am ? Where i am going? One evening, after a conference, when we were together the Thai restaurant, the conversation turned on the theme reincarnations animal. Was it possible that all People

sitting at this table have once been shrews, frogs or slug? While bringing us drinks flavored with rose and shrimp croquettes, Mr. Lambert came to mingle with our digressions. He confessed to rest sometimes standing on a leg. The position gave him a feeling of comfort incredible. He deduced to have been formerly heron and we showed how, in fact, he kept with a single support a perfect balance. Amandine “supposed” to have been rabbits. She also made her small demonstration. She knew how to move his ears rather dramatically. She articulated forward and back and could distinguish perfectly the muscle to work on the side of his face. His nose quivered at times such a nose and she reminded us, laughing, in addition she loved carrots. On reflection, it seemed to me to have memories of fox. Fad or illusion? I collected deep inside the feelings you know when the short to gallop on all fours through the grass. I knew what was that bend and then deploy his spine at each Following in the balancing artfully its long tail

Fur. I concentrated more and I remembered long winters, nestled snug in my den with my vixen and my cubs. There was no better rest in the world. In the spring, I was delighted to long runs in the forest, intoxicated with the smell of moss and thyme who had just beat my nose when I was in great gallop. How could I know what a race four legs? How could I know the feeling Heat the burrow during the winter? The more I thought about it, the more memories of my life Fox was accurate. I did not run fast enough to get to hunt effectively. I remembered encounters painful with hedgehogs. The smell of the forest. When? I was a fox, breathing and in the direction of the wind, I could have a complete map of the surroundings. ca I remembered. How was this possible? Others also wondered memories exogenous. The subject fascinated everyone in the restaurant. The conversation soon became general. A big man with the long nose claim special memories of an elephant, a little lady shy confessed old quail, a man removed to recollected

his life dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex by exhibiting teeth actually very sharp. Past Lives animal it came to life. Detail strange many diseases were due in karma, logical explanations. Those who had the throat weak were often reincarnations of guillotined of the French Revolution. Asthmatics were former drowned. The priapic were former hanged. The claustrophobic had been abandoned in dungeons. The hémorroïdiens were impaled. Parkinson, electrocuted. The fragile liver were poisoned. The stomach ulcer had been hara-kiri at their last life. The psoriasis had been burned. The migraine had committed suicide with a bullet in the skull. A myopic was taupe. Everyone remembered almost precisely lives Wacky. In the restaurant, there was obviously much

former medieval knights, eight ex-pharaohs, ex-priests, exprostitutes. Everyone had memories of life abroad. Most probably scenes views … television in Hollywood movies. For, as I wanted to believe those who thought they were former peasants, as he was required to report to those who took to Indiana Jones, Barbarella, Tintin, Asterix, or Hercule Poirot, as these people never existed. It was still a good time. Lucinda joined us at the restaurant. It seemed to also in a

good mood. He ate with relish the noodles basil, and then we talked politics. After an initial rise, polls stagnated. Lucinda felt the time had come to create the event impress a definite opinion still volatile. If Amanda could tell a real weighing of souls rather than simply bludgeon the People philosophical concepts and moralistic, it would much better, said he. It was during this dialogue final prelude to rebirth that everything is played. We had know in detail the system of bonuses and penalties. So was born the idea of ​Interview with a mortal. Unable to ship up there a camera ectoplasmic to film a scene that we ourselves did in fact qu’entr’aperçue. One could of course observe the details and repeating phrases. But which of us had a memory sufficiently powerful to record then return all dialogues telepathic between archangels, judges and soul in the process of reincarnation? - Maxime Villain! said Rose. The reporter ectoplasmic, the reporter of the Little Thanatonautes shown. This is a gifted memory. This is the man for the job. It was perfect. exclaimed Lucinda. It is even capable of represent the scene drawings. My constituents will have and images of paradise without leaving their chairs. It was already calculating the number of additional votes that this evidence would bring him! I knew for myself that the ectoplasm have

a perfect view as they watch with their hearts and not with their eyes. Freddy the blind had he not was the most excellent of Thanatonautes? Yet every time I met Maxime Villain, I wondered how he was doing up there without his thick glasses. Small, short-sighted and chubby, with his goatee and his air mocking, Maxime Villain irresistibly evokes ToulouseLautrec. The next day, we did come to thanatodrome. - How lucky you have a memory like that, smirked Amanda when he acceded to our request. Me? If I do not notice immediately, I forget now. The journalist stretched his lips into a smile sorry. - Me, my problem is precisely that I have too much memory, he said. I would prefer to forget a little time time! As the young woman had a facial expression astonished He explained: - As soon as information comes into my brain, it not come out. I am cluttered useless knowledge. My culture is so huge that it becomes heavy. Ten times I started to write a book stop after a few pages as with my countless literary

references, I felt like committing a plagiarism. To create a personal work, it is important first to forget all the others. I can not. I had always envied his encyclopedic memory, I discovered it was for him a handicap. This is True, sometimes it’s so nice to forget … If only I could bury the bottom of a meander that damned second truth! So, Lucinda, teasing, allowed himself to appear as exceptional quality its enormous “ability to forget.” It was free and to take measures proposed by its predecessors and had stigmatized when he was himself in opposition. He forgave freely to anyone who had offended him, which earned him a reputation magnanimity and had contributed greatly to its popularity. Poor Maximus! He could not forget. Also remain-still a journalist and would accomplish ever its ambitions as a writer!

Much benefit for the time of its capabilities. We began to develop devices for its mission. We sat down at the point the following plan: Stefania, Rose, Amanda and I’d diversion by talking with the angels while that, in turn, Maxime climbed the highest possible Mountain of Light in order to hear the judgments Ultimate. No need to wait longer. Three days later, Our group flew to

a report ectoplasmic even more exciting as the stories of battles Paradis, who had won Villain notoriety unique its kind. Maxime stored all the dialogues in his brain. With related drawings, they were published in the Small Thanatonautes illustrated and later in interview with a fatal second book of Amandine Ballus. The manuscript original document of historical value, is currently under glass at the Museum of Death in the Smithsonian Institute of Washington. 230 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS The Thanatonautes have always shown the greatest respect for angels. Anyway, just to see an angel, a true angel to understand that we must respect it. Angels are perhaps what will be the men year 100000. They are a million times more sophisticated and more subtle than us. They have a different perception of time. Humans are stuck between a past they must accommodated and a future that frightens them. The angels themselves, transcend the present, past and future. They offer us a totally new concept, that of “present-future.” The angel distinguishes permanent consequences in the short, medium and long term of each of his actions and he chose to act in the “present-future” as we will use a food in a buffet. In advance, if we select grated carrots, we know what taste they have in our mouths. Similarly, the angel, every action accomplished, already knows the consequences.

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231 - A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF MAXIM VILLAIN When he was little, Maxime Villain was a child normal, with one difference: when he spoke, no one The listening? He began a sentence and, coincidentally, there was always someone to stop immediately. In table, at home, we cut a “pass me the salt”. In elementary school, the teacher said, “Let labor taking the next class. “It was enough that he opens his mouth to the attention of others is attracted by anything or someone blowing his nose. Maxime was even more mortified that he, on his hand, listened carefully all contact and could remain for hours without saying anything to store all information that he passed. Flattered by his attention, he had thus multiplied friends that had passed in turn their interest and thus their knowledge in areas as diverse as hypnosis, First Aid, Victorian literature, computer science, Greco-Roman wrestling, astrophysics, the strategy of war Napoleon, mathematics, twelve-tone

music and many others. Everything was good to meet its reservoir of material for thought. However, Maxime could not bear to always take nothing to exchange. At first he tried his better to force the listener. After all, he begged for a little attention. But as soon he began to construct reasoning that his parents yawned and changed conversation or his teachers said absently: “Interesting, but irrelevant.” Same with his friends. Was it his voice, grave and sweet, which was soporific? Sounds serious, acting on the heart and chest, rocking and lull. Sounds acute, however, excite and retain because they speak directly to the brain. Maximus says that high-pitched voice telling anything was more likely to be heard that deep voice stating exciting things. He tried then to change his own, with hardly get Results Out of spite, he became a Trappist monk. Among the

men who have taken a vow of silence and with whom there was no dialogue possible, he felt finally accepted and valued. He was there all the time to reflect on her situation and eventually accept as is. He was born receiver. He would never issuer. He left in peace to his monastery and continued to accumulate knowledge to listen to others. Of

course, there did not restore still nothing of his knowledge as interested no always one, but it became so extensive bank human data, infinitely expandable. With all he had earned knowledge that many have estimated utterly useless, it would have earned high hand any game show based questions called general culture. Maxime Villain never tired, however, not to learn in all. He discovered that journalism would allow better satisfy his passion. He passed through all the sections: trivia, science, gossip, politics, culture. And when he wrote, he did not have to worry about his voice among the mass of subscribers to the newspaper, he would find at least one attentive reader. Better understanding and attention to this player mythical, he began also to draw. - the words - not always enough, thought he. A picture is often Wind needed to complete them. “He fought all now Articles accompanied by a drawing. He thus became the chronicler star of Little Thanatonautes shown. Initially, writing was for him a vehicle for Emergency He quickly realized that structures stringent were needed to build a story. He is passionate about writing when it’s considered as a science Exact. Maxime Villain began to hope to write a text which the engine or engines are so powerful that the first word read, any reader would be captivated, mesmerized at to be unable to give up and

forced to read To the bitter end This text, it would be his revenge on all those people who never, had listened. Maxim said: “In my code of values, I place high literature. I know that his ultimate goal is not to make beautiful phrases, nor fine characters, or even a nice plot. The ultimate goal of literature is to make people dream away! “ Make people dream away … Still, despite all his ambitious projects, Maxime had been a journalist without ever reaching complete any book. He placed perhaps too high. 232 - Jewish mythology “When it’s time for a man to leave the world today is daunting. The four cardinal put him in charge, the punishment he come from four sides at once. The four elements (water, earth, fire, air) are competing in the human body, each pulling on his side. Moves a message whose proclamation understood in the seventy worlds. If the man is worthy of this proclamation, he is greeted with rejoice in all the worlds and death becomes a party which welcome all worlds. But if it is different, if unworthy, woe to him! “

Zohar. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 233 - police files Name: Villain Name: Maxime Hair: Brown Size: 1 m 62 Distinguishing features: None Comment: Pioneer of Thanatonautes Weakness: Allure insignificant 234 - INTERVIEW WITH A DEADLY Text & Interview with a mortal, as it was reported and illustrated by the journalist Maxime Villain.

The scene takes place on the borders ultimate Paradise, at the foot the mountain of light where sit the great archangels,

arbiters of our destinies. Actors: the three archangels more Charles Donahue, quidam just died. The Guardian Angel Charles Donahue could not come, which will change Moreover, in any way the meaning and value of the judgment. Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Hello, Mr. Donahue. SOUL: Where am I? The deceased looks around and ground area of ​its

ectoplasm where his left arm was recently amputated. He raises his head and looks at the hill of Judgement ultimate the three archangels-judges in the process of manipulating strings transparent, full of knots. Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: You are in the Centre guidance of souls and we are going to weigh in your past life. SOUL: A Weight? Archangel J. RAPHAEL: A trial. Your life will be under investigation so that we can judge your behavior and decide whether or not to end the cycle of your reincarnations on Earth. SOUL: I was very good. Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL (examining documents): That’s what you say. SOUL: I

heard in the queue I right to a guardian angel for a lawyer. He is not there? Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: You actually entitled to the presence of your guardian angel but also that of your personal demon. It turns out they are both currently in full swing in the lower world. You know or you do not know that the guardian angel you are assigned day of your birth. However, a person born on the same day that you need to send emergency and his guardian angel and his demon. A painful case of dismissal abuse. These are exceptional circumstances, but we extend not it. Do not worry: you will be judged fairly. Awareness of your angel guardian and your demon hovering over the mountain and We hear them simultaneously. Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Your case will be discussed with the greater objectivity. You are in the place of justice among all. We already know all about you. We know to the intentions that prelude to all your actions. SOUL (vehemently): I have nothing to reproach myself. I was very good. I got married. I had three children. I left a legacy to my family before I die. living at 200 mph. that is, they must have a good surprise, if you want I think. Archangel J. Raphael (while Gabriel held up a string transparent full of knots): This is not “Behave”. You see these nodes? All are an act of your life.

Everyone is buzzing bubble-memories enough similar to those that receive the dead, after the first Wall comatose. Archangel J. RAPHAEL: You mentioned your wife. I note here that you often cry. You mistaken, is not it? With an idiot at that. SOUL (fatalistic): The customs are quite free, our days … Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL (very dry): Adultery simple. Penalty of 60 points. (He studied other bubble-memories.) You raised your children, too. But did you really cared for them? I see that you arrange always go on holiday at the time of birth, you excuse then business travel to escape the cries at night, so that your wife was again always left alone at times when it had the greatest need of you. SOUL: I was always overwhelmed with work and that is the well-being of my family that I m’échinais. In addition, each of my return, I covered my kids toys. Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: You imagine that toys replace the presence of a father? Sorry… Penalty 100 points. SOUL: What’s the story of points and penalties? Archangel J. RAPHAEL: To end its cycle of reincarnation and become a sage, one must have acquired 600 bonus points during his last visit to Earth.

For now, you’re at a penalty of 160 points. Let us continue (He runs his rope and lands on a series of nodes especially white.) You have put your elderly parents in an asylum for the third category where you not visit them that just once a year. SOUL: They were senile. And with my work, I really overwhelmed … Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: When they raised you, you as you were “senile” as you say. Immediately, at that. And bawling, chaotic, dirty, slimy, unable keep you well on your legs. Your parents still have had the patience to bear your caprices. ARCHANGEL MICHAEL-JUDGE: And then, he has a good back, your work ! Let’s talk about your secretary! SOUL (surprised): Ah, you are also aware of that? ARCHANGEL RAPHAEL-JUDGE: Here we know everything we see everything we have everything. Were your parents desperate not to see you. You really miss them. In addition, in hospices, old people are more visits, more nurses treat. Those abandoned, they say, anyway, no wishes to them. Inevitably, they neglect them.

SOUL: I sent them still a lot of gifts. ARCHANGEL MICHAEL-JUDGE: Always the same old story. Them either do not require special gifts. They wanted to the presence. As your wife as your children. SOUL: Are not you exaggerating a bit? They were not so unfortunate that, at the hospice. Every time I went to see, they assured me that everything was fine … Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Because in addition they will liked and did not feel guilty. Another penalty of 100 points! Not brilliant, all that! It is already to - 260. SOUL: Wait. It’s a bit too easy. We judge people and they are condemned. One would think that you’re gone set and you do not consider that bad. I still performed good deeds in this world. Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: What do you think? SOUL: I mounted a bottle factory! I did work

worth of the unemployed, I fed the family, I produced things that helped people live better lives. Ha! ARCHANGEL GABRIEL-JUDGE: Let’s talk about your plant bottles! It has polluted the entire region. ARCHANGEL MICHAEL-JUDGE: And what working conditions there! You had created a climate of permanent conflict between your management and your workers. You go up against each other to all the break. SOUL: Divide and conquer is a law of management music You can not blame me for having studied business! ARCHANGEL GABRIEL-JUDGE: For the plant, penalty: 60 points. Already 320 below the level of tolerable. There will now be add bulk to “trifles.” SOUL: The trifles? what does it really mean? Archangel J. RAPHAEL: Throughout your life, you have committed, I quote: 8254 lies harmful to your environment;

567 cowardice simple 789 cowardice serious; 45 small animals crushed under your tires. In addition, Mr. voted anything in elections, Mr. addicted Gambling with household goods, Mr. traveling in a car loud, sir … SOUL (consternation of the ectoplasm Donahue): You’re take for the perfect bastard, it seems! ARCHANGEL RAPHAEL-JUDGE: I never said that. (It consult further its string full of knots which escape Now the bubble-memories like so many Champagne bubbles in suspension): You give regularly your blood to hospitals. Bonus: 20 points. You have saved a motorist on a highway while his car was about to ignite. Bonus: 50 points. You give your old clothing to the companions Emmaus instead of throwing them in the trash. Bonus: 10 points. SOUL: And do not forget the circumstances of my death. Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL (setting always the string): Indeed, they deserve attention. You hit a plane to avoid a cyclist while tumbling in front of you two big trucks trying to overtake. Their

drivers are also right behind you to wait by The ectoplasm Donahue turns around and discovered behind her two dead excited.

SOUL: Ah! Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: For once, you had the good reflex, I have to admit. 10 bonus points, but you could get more if, in addition to cycling, you have also saved the plane. SOUL (outraged): What! Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: Yes, he was a young plane tree who asked nothing better than to continue to grow and to shade the road and you have broken in two! The Next time you’re on your to prevent and trucks and cycling and the plane tree you plant simply in the ditch. May thus your car is on fire and you would have perished charred. It is very well seen here, the death by fire. SOUL: Because it’s a terrible way to die? Archangel J. RAPHAEL: More death is painful, the closer it is martyrdom. Death by fire you would have earned a bonus of 100 points! SOUL: What did you say your next time? Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL (very patient): You have 600 points to end the cycle of reincarnation, we have said from the beginning of the weighing. Or, you complete this existence with a total of - 230. Not terrible, all that.

Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: Especially if it is found that Gentleman is still in its 193rd reincarnation in human form. We can only refer you to another body. Try to do better than a lousy - 230, the next review. SOUL (scared): Another body? Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: Another body, another existence. A life that you choose. SOUL (more flabbergasted): Because we can choose his life? Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Of course, in life, we get always what we chose. Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: And we are here to service of souls. We’re here to help you improve it. This is for your good, so you can you amend, we’re going to reincarnate. Archangel J. RAPHAEL: We’ll give you the opportunity to correct the mistakes of your past lives. Choose your own strengths and your initial handicaps for your new life. Let’s see what we have stocked with - 230 points. The three archangels call two seraphim who have

stopped fluttering above them during the whole scene. They bring them immediately cords bubble

images rich in information. Archangel J. RAPHAEL: We have here the list any Cool for parents trying to make love at this time it is. SOUL: I’ll be able to choose my parents? Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: How many times does your repeat that one can choose his life? But be careful especially not be wrong! So you prefer the parents rather severe or relatives rather flexible? SOUL (confused): Um … What’s the difference? A seraph project a telepathic. A big Mr. and fat lady naked in bed, looking for a position where neither one nor the other stifle his partner its weight. After trying in vain to him above, it below, then the contrary, they fit on the side as Small spoons.

The phone rings but the woman motioned to the man not to respond. It is red and sweating. It ahanne loudly. Women face and twisted her hair. Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Mr and Mrs Dehorgne, a nice pair. Nice, protective, loving. Single default: their profession. They are in the restoration and facility is not busy. At night, they require you So to finish all the leftovers, their specialty is cassoulet Castelnaudary and chocolate profiteroles. Like them, you will quickly become obese. So they you want the Dehorgne? SOUL (looking with disgust the couple and their uncomfortable antics): Of course not.

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: All parents have their advantages and disadvantages. With your notes, you can not afford to do the difficult. New image upload telepathic. Archangel J. RAPHAEL: The family Pollet. The father is a tobacconist, a heavy smoker, drinks too much. The woman is illiterate and submissive as a dog. In the evening, Mr. Pollet returns often end drunk and hit everyone, including wife and children. With him, the shots belt will rain thick, I can assure you.

Specifically, said Pollet is currently grabbing the buttocks of his wife and the scratch until they bleed. Far from complain, she moaned ecstatically. SOUL: But they are sado-masochist! I hate that. To below, please! Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL (doubtful): With - 230 points … Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: The de Surnach. Bon chic bon Gender: Youth, sports, still in the game, parents the kind friends. They have lots of friends, go out often canned, travel the world. All contemplate two handsome young men hugging happily under blankets. SOUL (very interested): Finally, you propose another thing as monsters! Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Not so simple. All their good

hours, they let you do whatever you want but they are so dynamic that alongside of them, you

always look erased and timid. Archangel J. RAPHAEL: First you jealousies, Then you hate them. For their part, they are so crazy about each the other they do not accord relatively little affection. You will be a child frowned and quickly soured. Them, even sixty years, they always seem young. You, as twelve years, you will have a little old. As it is difficult to accept the idea that hates its own parents, you want quickly to the whole earth. SOUL: Okay, I understand. Who else? Archangel J. RAPHAEL: We have the duty to show the good and the bad side of things, even if your choice becomes more difficult. Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: Consider the Gomelin. A couple already old who believed no longer to have children.

Thanks to new techniques of in vitro fertilization, this lady already menopausal can deliver. You will arrive in this family as an unexpected gift. They pamper you at any cost. You’ll like them and even love. SOUL (more suspicious) What’s the catch, this a time; They will make me fat by dint of candy? They me fight every wrong note as they will be proud my grades? Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: No. They are old, okay, but very sweet. SOUL: Perfect for me, then. Archangel J. RAPHAEL: You think so? You love as you become unable to exit the family cocoon. You will always remain at home, shut up, unable to open yourself to others. You will admire both your mother no woman in the world will be comparable to your eyes. No man will seem likely to match your father, so wise and understanding. Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: But they are older and die

soon, leaving you soft orphan abandoned. You find a baby bird fallen from the nest before learned to fly. And live permanently in the regret of their disappearance. SOUL (sorry): Who else is in store yet? A couple s’étreint passionately on the carpet a living room cozy. Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: The Chirouble. They may be in the process of hugging, but they divorced within a few days. Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: Parents separated. You will entrusted to your mother. She has a lover who will hate you. They lock you up in a closet to make love more quietly. It will hit you every time you cry because she fear that her lover never leaves because of you. Your father will sometimes on weekends but also focus more on his mistresses to you. SOUL: Better and better … Archangel J. RAPHAEL: No, these parents presented

tent a few advantages. As you grow a rage as you will want revenge on life. You hate it all women because they make you think about your mother. This indifference makes you irresistible and will make you a great seducer. You will hate also all men because your father and, hence, you will be power-hungry to better control them. With this kind of

unhappy childhood you become an entrepreneur or dynamic statesman to grasp. Archangel JUGEMICHEL: In addition, you can simply talk Your awful young for everyone sympathizes and you forgive your wickedness. Archangel J. RAPHAEL: And if you write your autobiography it will sell like hotcakes and producers would tear the film rights. People love stories of unhappy childhood. The ectoplasm Donahue hesitated a moment. He was a priori quite charming, this couple seemed much fun on the carpet. He said though. SOUL: I do not want to be Cosette and Gavroche. Other thing. Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: - 230, sorry, that’s all we have to offer. Large restaurants, tobacconists drunkards, BCBG dynamic, old parentsgâteaux and divorced scabby. Choose and quickly, because it You will then decide your disability and health. SOUL: You ask me to choose between the plague and cholera! Archangel J. RAPHAEL: You had to think about before. You

you would be better included with your parents, your wife and your children with a better score, you have certain

ment proposed better. The dead before you had that - 20 points and just with that, we were able to give a nice family of wine merchants. Nice people which will give him an excellent education and perhaps chance to become wise enough to not have to reincarnate. Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: There is still the possibility of reborn in a third world country. You shall not eat not your hunger, but you will benefit from an environment warm. SOUL: As long as pain, painful life for life miserable, I still prefer not to change country. Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: So, with all due influence, I recommend the divorced scabby. The more you suffer in this existence, the more likely you gain points for your next life. We must see

long-term. A life is quickly past. Surrounding the Seraphim project the images of all couples offered. Archangel J. RAPHAEL: I think also it’s a good choice. It will allow you to progress. It will be difficult to first, but an adult will bring you some compensation.

SOUL (addressing Gabriel): And you, what you think? Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: I instead select the Pollet, the tobacconist drunk and violent. I am convinced should not hesitate to choose a child really rotten. Then things can not go getting better. Come when the day enjoyable when your father dare more hit you because you will become stronger than him, the day even more enjoyable when you leave the house slamming the door, escaping their tyranny … SOUL: But you accused of having neglected my parents in my life before! Archangel J. RAPHAEL: Each life is different. It is no absolute rule. It is natural to seek to from the influence of wicked parents. Even if their forgiveness later, so you would be a few points bonus handy! The ectoplasm Charles Donahue thought it over in carefully

examining the projections of each couple. SOUL (sighing): Okay, forward for the divorced scabby. Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: I maintain that it is a good choice. In nine months, if you wish, you will then reincarnated in the family Chirouble. Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Now for the pro

health problems. Also, you can choose. With your - 230 points, you must take two in the list follows: rheumatic paralyzing stomach ulcer, perpetual toothache, facial neuralgia, chronic crises nerves incessant myopia near blindness, deafness, exotropia, esotropia, bad breath permanent, psoriasis, constipation, Alzheimer’s disease, paralysis of the left leg, stuttering, chronic bronchitis, asthma. SOUL: Uh … Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Hurry up, if I decide for you. There are people waiting behind you! SOUL: So, at random: ulcers and asthma. Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL (noting): Not bad. Gentleman is connoisseur. SOUL: It’s that in my previous life, I have suffered chronic bronchitis and toothache perpetual. It was unbearable. Much change. Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Another small step. You want to be reborn as a man or woman? SOUL: What’s the difference? Archangel JUDGE

GABRIEL: Man, you are required to complete your military service and your life is eighty years on average. Woman, you give birth in pain and you live about ninety years. SOUL: One minute, if I am reborn as a woman, I can more become the great charismatic leader and seducer as you promised me. Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: That’s well an a priori man. You are mistaken, the future is to tyrants female. To “Tyrant.” Just reverse the roles. All men will be at your feet and nothing will prevent you from exercising your powers of domination. Moreover, customs continue to evolve. We see more and more women at the head of nations or companies. SOUL: A birth, it must still be very evil, right? Archangel J. RAPHAEL: I recommend an epidural. And, you know, orgasm female sex is nine times higher than the male orgasm. Only women know the true pleasure. SOUL: You are probably better informed than me the matter. Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: Why do you think that comes so many more girls than boys? People provide information before choosing. SOUL: Okay for females, then.

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Let us now to your overall mission. You do recall not but your soul has emerged ago seven hundred thousand years with the task to accomplish a work that is revolutionizing completely the art of painting. Now what do I see on your [ record ]: Just a few scribbles only promising line of your school notebooks. You benefitted any of your past lives to complete your mission. Archangel J. Raphael (disappointed): And that is why Humanity is still lagging behind in many areas … S someone does not do its destiny on the earth any one arts or science does not develop no! SOUL: With all my work down, I never had a free minute for my entertainment. Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL (shocked): You’re laughing us? I note here that in your previous existences, you were mammoth hunters, driver carts, Chamberlain in a castle, explorer Africa, pearl diver, and film actor, with all that, you have never found a short week for achieve at least a picture? SOUL: I’m afraid there have never thought of. Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: He will now. All of humanity is waiting for your contribution painting. Because your laziness, the paint is still looking for a second wind. Hundreds of artists and designers you expect to better

express themselves and enhance your message. Some die with nothing painted. SOUL: I’m really sorry. I will try to make my best this time. Still, painter, is a

job of down-and-hungry. It often takes fifty to be finally recognized. Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL (mocking): So, Mr. is pressed, it has a train to catch? You will have ninety-ten years to reflect and buy brushes, it does enough? SOUL: In addition, as a woman, I will have even more difficult to impose on me … Archangel J. RAPHAEL: The difficulties will increase your merits. If your work is so overwhelming that we we expect, if you make your Mona Lisa, I agree to grant you 700 bonus points to your pro-chain passage. That allows you 100 points penalty! What lead a good little life of debauchery between two canvases. Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: If Mr. is pressed, it can he arranged the coup de Mozart. Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: Good idea, the scope of Mozart!

SOUL (concerned): What is the scope of Mozart? Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: You realize very quickly you masterpiece, you are fairly recognized, you earn just enough to survive and continue to call in quantity but also quality and then, presto! you die young. At thirty-five years, as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It can even thirty-nine, If it suits you. SOUL (interested): It’s tempting. I accept gladly. Thank you.I’m sorry Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Wait, we do not finished yet. We still have to choose your death. SOUL: My death! But I’m dead! Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: I’m talking about your next death. We must decide everything in advance. SOUL: You mean, the last time, I opted stupidly to the plane?

Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Yes! What do you want now. Another car accident, an overdose of cocaine, was assassinated by one of your fans or your penny

pirants turned away? We have all the dead pos

sible: the police killing the flower pot falling from a balcony by accident, drowning, suicide. More death is painful, plus the bonus is important. Thanks to their 500 bonus points, many Cathars thrown into the fire have been able to end their cycle of reincarnation. The immolation by fire, it was the fashion at that time. But there now more modern 300 bonus points for perished condemned innocent in an electric chair or a victim a generalized cancer. SOUL: Never mind the supplements. I would die quickly, without noticing it and in my bed. Sleep life and wake up dead. Archangel J. RAPHAEL: Sorry, ectoplasm Donahue, but with your note - 230 points, we can not offer death as

pleasant. Your passage from life to death can only be violent. Moreover, it will provide your work with an aura additional. Think of Van Gogh! Here is a man who knew well painting, of suffering and painful death. As a result, he earned his 600 points and was able to end its cycle of reincarnations. It has become a pure spirit. Take it to For instance: SOUL (plaintive) But I do not want to suffer! Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: In any case, it is not ground for fun. In addition, with parents that you are given, just starting out will not be pink! SOUL: What wound! Well, I take the suicide. But a suicide quick, fast and painless. Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Do you throw out a window. SOUL: Impossible. I have always been subject to vertigo.

Archangel J. RAPHAEL: Slice your veins in a tub of warm water. But beware, if you do not want not you miss, then begin deep wrists. Otherwise, it will not work. Be sure to whet your razor. Pout disgusted the ectoplasm Donahue. SOUL: Well, going for suicide with a razor … Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL (smoothing the knots of the rope

lette): So I summarizes. We are in agreement: you are reborn woman with a stomach ulcer and asthma attacks. Your divorced parents beat you as

plaster. You hurry to paint the damn table. You die, veins trenches in your bathtub. For Otherwise, feel free to improvise. To the next? Archangel J. RAPHAEL: Not yet. It remains to write the Material Safety Data Sheet. SOUL: It’s what, right? Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Do not worry. T identify some of your qualities. But here you do not have your say, it is we who calculate. Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: I list: Physical strength: below average. Beauty: above average. Intensity of the gaze: above average. Tone of voice: the average level.

Charisma: well above. Ability to mind games: the lower level. Ability to lie: the next level. Technical skills: lower level. SOUL: It means what? Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: What Madame will have difficulty pass his driver’s license or it will be unable to repair alone her washing machine. That’s it. SOUL: Okay! As long as I am beautiful and intelligent, I will always find someone to help me. Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: I continue: Intelligence: average. Seductive ability: level. Endurance: the lower level. Obstinacy level. Culinary skills: lower level. General irritability: the next level.

SOUL: I will be irritable? Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: Enough, Yes. Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL (irritated to be continually interrupted) :

Ability to play a musical instrument: the lower level. Ability to fire the revolver: the next level. Taste for the sport: the lower level. Desire for children: average. SOUL: Oh, it has a broad back, free will: what you still tell me? If I am good at the crossword puzzles? For a reincarnation chosen, there are still even too many items predetermined and independent of my will. I protest. Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: You know, you’re already angry ! Let’s get: Ability to fight: the next level. Whining: level. Taste for adventure: the lower level. Come on, the next!

SOUL: One more question. I will remember all this? Archangel JUDGE MICHAEL: Of course not. You do remember anything, not even your visit here. It would too easy! Archangel JUDGE GABRIEL: At times, however, You seem to have premonitions, intuitions. This is all you will of that conversation. It’s your do then trust your intuition. But enough chat. Rush you to go down before your parents have finished making love, or you miss your train. Let’s go Next customer! 235 - Christian mythology “We are the brothers of angels. When we introduced into the court of heaven, what rapture before the splendours of the angelic choirs. And for all eternity, what joy to fraternize with the myriad of spirits Blessed! The angels are spirits leading to which our artists and geniuses are only Pygmies. “ Canon G. Panneton. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

236 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS CARD FULL LAND OF THE DEAD 1. Off. 2. Cessation of signs of life. Emission of the radio signal frequency 86 kHz approx. 3. Coma. 4. Out of the world. 5. Flight through space. Duration: 18 minutes. 6. Emergence of a large circle of light spinning said Continent Ultimate. Limbo. Blue beach. 7. Docking in the Territory 1. AREA 1 Zone: coma over 18 minutes. Color: blue. Feels like: attraction, water, space. Freshness and joy.

Attraction by a bright light. Recommendation to continue: Do not fear past the first wall of death. Ends Moch 1. AREA 2 Zone: coma over 21 minutes.

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Sensations: Fear, revulsion, cold terror.

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tion with the most painful memories. Light always present but blurred by memories. Recommendations to continue: understanding the past and be able to take every action. Ends Moch 2. 3 TERRITORY Zone: coma over 24 minutes. Color: red. Feels like: fun, light, heat and humidity. Confrontation with the most perverse of his vices and more crazy fantasies. Here come to the surface the most repressed desires. Face them without getting carried away.

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Recommendation to proceed: accept fantasies but not bogged down. Ends Moch 3. AREA 4 Zone: coma over 27 minutes. Color: orange. Feels like: fight against time, air currents, winds strong. Vision of a row of dead extending to infinity, walking slowly through a vast plain and cylindrical. Confrontation over time. Learning patience with minutes turned into hours and hours in months. Possibility of meetings and discussions with famous dead. Recommendations to continue: freedom from fear wasting time or the will to win. him to accept it! the status quo. Act as if we were immortal. Ends Moch 4. AREA 5 Zone: coma over 42 minutes. Couieur yellow. Feelings: passion, strength, omnipotence. Solutions to all

the mysteries hitherto incomprehensible. Getting to know the meaning of the chakras and appearance of the third eye for yogis. Discovery of the way of the Tao pure Taoists. Resolution of the secrets of the Kabbalah for the Jews. Appearances Garden of Allah for Muslims and the Garden of Eden the Christians. Instead of absolute knowledge. Everything finds its raison be. Discover the meaning of life, of the infinitely large to the infinitely small. Recommendations to continue: not to be impress with knowledge. Let yourself fill knowledge without wanting to eat them all like so many treats for the mind. Ends Moch 5. TERRITORY 6 Zone: coma more than 49 minutes.

Color: green. Sensations of great beauty, discovering landscapes sumptuous visions of dream and perfect flowers wonderful, wonderful plants ending in multicolored stars. The green country is that of absolute beauty. But it is also the site of an unexpected trial. THE VISION of absolute beauty brings the denial of self. We feels ugly,

useless, rude, clumsy. It is no longer a feeling of humility, a sense denial of self. Recommendation to proceed: accept his own ugliness. Ends Moch 6. TERRITORY 7 Zone: coma over 51 minutes. Color: white. Place populated by angels and devils. In the center, along the river the dead. Basically, the bright mountain of Judgement last++; This completes the migration of souls into new reincarnations. Three archangels to weigh the merits. Recommendations to continue: be willing to pay for his evil deeds. Claiming spontaneously reincarnation to repair the damage and nuisance caused in previous existences. Ends with the mountain of light. History textbook, second year elementary course. 237 - APPREHENSION Published by the modest little Thanatonautes illustrated interview Charles Donahue enjoyed, however, an impact

world. It was translated in all languages reviewed by leading psychologists, philosophers, priests, analysts and politicians. Our friend the President appeared obviously the most loquacious. He mobilized all TV channels for a speech announcing the entry into a messianic era. It said that the Thanatonautes open all doors

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hitherto closed. There would now be a before and after the discovery of the Continent Ultimate. To listen, you guessed in fact he would have liked this new era is four

sonnel of lucindérienne. More Christian calendar with data

tion before or after Christ. We were in the year

68 after the birth of Jean Lucinda. If Lucinda did not elicit the support of all of its per

rings, each one did not understand unless something essential had happened. A large door had open, leaving the storm sweep a room longer closed. What upset to learn that death was a country, this country was populated by angels, as the archangels we thought about our past lives … The Interview with mortal we had moreover taught that we live in a moral world. There were good and bad ways to behave in this world. Humans were no longer on land schoolchildren responsible for many learn their lessons,

namely empathy, generosity, the elevation of consciousness. It was so simple, so childlike, so moral. Only books Catechism of all kinds had thought about and, over the centuries, as many had ceased to believe. How clergy of all denominations had yet drummed since always that the future belonged to nice people! It was too late to do when I received the risks of such disclosure. Now, everyone knew it. It was important to wash your karma all its miasmas, to avoid tainting the existence of any villainy. Live, suffer, die, nothing seemed to matter, while was an episode to the pinnacle of pure spirit. We méditâmes about it in our penthouse. In through the windows, lit by small flames candles, we could see the starlight. Amandine star had adopted the appearance of a priestess. It does clothed only in long black robes Chinese the collar turned up and the skirt length split. She had off all lights and replace them with candelabra. We bathed in orange light.

The first, I broke the silence:

- Time is critical. We are overwhelmed by the events. We do not control anything. The Thanatonautes escapes us. Not surprisingly, she touched too many points essential declaimed Amandine with a voice actress. By discovering the death, we gave a meaning to life. Always quicktempered, Stefania angrily: - In Columbus, it has been the same. It may discovered America, but he missed his return. He imagined impress people with his parrots and chocolate. We laughed at him. It deserves although it does not care us! Still Columbus … - Poor Columbus died in poverty and oblivion, remarked Rose. We, we are still not there. - But the worst is that his discovery has completely escaped, got angry again the Italian. The proof is that if America is called like that is because of Amerigo Vespucci, the only discoverer officially recognized when by the Spanish court. We, too, we were dispossessed of our work! Expressing my agreement, I tapped his fist on the table low, lacking reverse cocktails Amandine. Was funny, but since the abandonment of Raoul, I felt compelled to give rants instead. As if, in any group, it was necessary a character irascible and blood! - We must maintain control of the Thanatonautes, storm-I.

We have pioneered its control is rightfully ours. - My poor darling, since the Maintenance with a mortal, we are overwhelmed, sighed Rose. - You heard what they say on the news? excited Stefania. The number of crimes has sharply plummeted. There are only fools who kill! - What shall we do? asked Amanda, practice. - Nothing says Rose. We will face a wave of kindness widespread. The world has never known ca We’ll see what comes of it. In silence, sorry, we sirotâmes our drinks too sweet and not enough alcohol. Berk. 238 - MYTHOLOGY Amazonian Indians Formerly, the Guarani Indians lived in the sky with gods. Their occupation was to keep the fire of stars and the glow of the planets. One day, a young warrior awkward pierced the sky by pulling with his bow. The land appeared to him then with all its wealth. The herds, game, beehives, fish, fruits it seemed so appealing that it was from this discovery his brothers. Taking advantage of a moment of inattention gods, the Guarani launched a vine to get down on earth. They reached the great river Orinoco, in heart of the forest. They feasted foods earth, but soon the wary animals became scarce. The rain flooding and fruit they could. Shivering with fever, Indians asked to return among the gods. Corn it was too late. The sky had closed and Guarani were condemned to live in this land difficult they coveted. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis

Razorbak. 239 - A WORLD OF SWEETNESS The world became progressively nicer. No question to sully his karma by bad actions, we there could be a down-andhunger in Africa, homeless New York welfare recipients in Paris. No work of science fiction could have imagined something as sweet. Throughout the kindness gaining field, such a contagious disease. Good works awash in donations. We had to queue for hours to deposit the check or his best clothes. Hospitals overwhelmed opened waiting lists to meet the many donors Blood in power.

Throughout the world, endemic conflicts extinguished of themselves, forcing arms dealers delighted to close their business generator penalty. All that, of or indirectly, might be considered bad Action was now doomed to contempt. The addicts found themselves down by dealers. Upon request, the bankers gave loans to the rate below. They inquired more capacity for repayment their customers. A bankruptcy generosity they would certainly promoted in the afterlife.

The good souls flocked to the bowls of beggars. The latter are endowed machine accepting credit cards and refused to accept more checks on presentation of proper identification. No need to lock the doors, obsolete alarm systems. You could now leave large open the exits of the apartments, cars, hire strong. Fly! No one thought more. More petty, more burglaries, more altercations, more brawls, more violence. However, the Trade flourished. Not wanting to sin by greed, while the world multiplied the gifts to everyone. Once a blind seemed willing to cross a street, dozens arms were stretched and many people stricken blindness found themselves and inadvertently lost on sidewalk opposite. The Third World received substantial subsidies. If one had flunked the examination and forced to reincarnate in a poor country, as sure it would have enriched meantime and that the next life would be more comfortable. He was in the public interest that significantly reduces the number of bad homes where reborn. People showed smiles more or less forced avoid upsetting their neighbors by eyebrows brows, a grimace or a bad word. Each had duly registered the rules: the cycle of

reincarnations continued indefinitely if it did not become not good enough and wise enough to deserve to be transformed in pure spirit. All were then at their best. Paint shops, music, pottery and even kitchen were full. Who knew if, like ectoplasm Donahue, he was not carrying a hidden gift to to make faster? Moreover, even the ugliest of works have a market. Patrons anxious to help the poor artists showed courage in their living room. Learn, grow, learn, improve. “Maintain the beauty of your soul. Grow it as a garden, “cla

maient advertisements for correspondence schools. The bosses begged their employees to accept increased

lations that they refused, wanting instead to say

ask for free time to explore their talents. “The library

libraries, not in, “claimed the unions. Of Masons volunteers built with a vengeance. Simultaneously, of course, Thanatonautes experienced a renewed interest. Who does not want to get up there find his “loved ones” or at least make a once and an update on his karma? 240 - Indian mythology NAVAJO American Indians, and especially Navajos have a morbid fear of death. The point of be barely able to approach a corpse. From someone died, they buried quickly with a great reluctance and all sorts of precautions in order to The minimum intervention. The body is buried in a place secret, as far as the village. It no longer affects business of death, it does not come near the tent, we consider that everything he owned is now dirty. In mythology Navajo, two Twins Heroes who once stole the weapons from the sun to kill the monsters who wanted to kill the Navajos. These monsters are old age, dirt, misery and Hunger. The fact that these monsters are still alive is a small mess of the Hero Twins. And do not paying attention.

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

241 - In Search of FM Busy drinking, Raoul had not noticed any of these upheavals. His rehab was not really been successful. He was still drinking, even if it was less of bartenders willing to serve, passed a state of drunkenness advanced. In thanatodrome, there was always me and “My” three women: Rose, Stefania and Amandine. During this period, our favorite pastime was to eat the headings of births newspapers in search of the reincarnation of Freddy. FM, FM, FM .. We had dug up the babies FM! François Morlon, Fatima Maouich, Frank Mignard, Felicity Munin, Fernand Melissia, Florent Mouchignard, Fabien Mercantovitch, Firmin Magloire, Florence Mervin … Each time, we take an appointment with the happy parents, but when we had the toddler, among ten other watches, pens and medals, watch, pen and the medal with belonged to Freddy, none had yet extended her handcuffs to the familiar objects of our lost friend. - It is too early, consoled me Rose. You remember the

queue? Freddy still has to be caught in the traffic jam of the dead land yellow. There was even there Victor Hugo awaiting reincarnation, and if it is not already passed its centuries ahead, when Freddy! - The dead do not go all at the same speed. Talkative as it was Victor Hugo dragged argumentative. Other hurry. Looks like ectoplasm Donahue was eager to reincarnate! - It is recommended to wait and Freddy has always be patient, reminded me of Rose. In fact, I suspect hope that it would be she who give birth the next avatar of our rabbinchorégraphe. After much discussion, we christened also advance our future baby Frédéric Marcel Pinson. But us, we called him Freddy Junior. I attended the birth. It was beautiful! A kiss, a hug and nine months later, so much love was transformed in 3.2 kg of a sweet little pink ball, thirsty

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of affection. I had never been so moved. Even the vision the continent of the dead was nothing compared to the miracle so simple and billions of billions of times repeated, the

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sion of a lifetime. A few days ago, we were both in our apartment thanatodrome des Buttes-Chaumont. In pre

feel, we were three. Are there magic more admirable? In addition, the Thanatonautes and my karma was only stain

pellets. Only he had. Our “Freddy Junior.” 242 - police files

Note to the services concerned Estimate that there are vast mistake. Mistake to have left the Thanatonautes to develop. Register now for over ten takeoffs per day. Technique more reliable. Cherubim, seraphim, angels and devils hampered in their work.

Response services affected Let’s not exaggerate. The Thanatonautes, we all know, is part a long tradition. An ancient tradition. We always let in those who can enter. There is no reason yet a change in attitude. 243 - Taoist philosophy “All life is like a dream. It is not appropriate mourn the death which is only a change of form. Why regret there an inhabited one day? “ Lao-tzu. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 244 - JUNIOR We waited a year before submitting our Freddy Junior testing personal belongings of the late Freddy senior. It was a technical Tibetan to recognize the kidneys

skin tones. In Africa, there was a similar custom in some tribes. We cut a phalanx of death to to locate the fetus would be born deprived of the same phalanx. The

recognition ceremony Tibetan seemed more adequate. On all fours on the carpet, Rose, Amanda and I kneeling beside him, the child looked at these watches, pens and medals galore as so many interesting and unpublished rattles. Usually, we wanted more out of the way such objects, lest it damage them or, worse, not swallowed. The small first became interested in watches, shaking happily few, arranged to break two (justifying and all my earlier fears about my own property) and enters finally loving the one with belonged to our beloved rabbi. Already we were ready to rush into the arms of the each other. Freddy Meyer had returned to earth in the features of our son! Rose quieted the game - Do not get carried away, whispered it while kid was still twists between the forest of various utensils placed on the carpet. I jumped again when he waved proudly the pen Freddy. He had distinguished between all and was on Entered, No doubt, at that moment I was convinced that we had found the right Freddy Meyer. Unless it does is he who has found up there, when choosing parental. He was no fool, our wise. He knew that we recognize him! Anyway, I was sure of: Freddy Meyer and Frederick Marcel Pinson had only one and even karma.

With all the knowledge that this kid was already in him what we were going to win as time! - When he is old, I put it in a course dance and choreography, announced Amandine, enthusiastic. - He will also in a yeshiva, completed myself. credit Moreover, if we tell the life of Freddy senior Freddy Junior, that he will accomplish a great leap forward in the cycle of reincarnation. - It will take advantage of a sudden sixty years of experience. It be the first human to have the memories of two lives. Rose did not hide the vast ambitions that kept for our child prodigy. - In twenty years, it will already be a great sage. Perhaps it what happened to Mozart? He was the reincarnation of a Another great musician and his parents understood from the outset. Both the other, we multipliâmes, delighted and excited, the proposals for the future. We portions more attention to the toddler when Freddy Junior showered us with net releasing the black pen to Freddy senior to a much more attractive pencil fluorescent orange. Breath, we followed him as he continued his wanderings. He sent waltzing watch and medal the deceased Strasbourg to better capture a lighter Disposable blue sea and a chocolate bar in his gold paper. This was done for. Suddenly, we considered our beloved son as a stranger.

An extension of any quidam that we had never even attended! Rose tried to console us and to comfort ellemême ensuring that, though, it had been a good person so that it has réatterri in a home as than ours. Still, it was not Freddy, and the child seemed to us suddenly, you know …? abroad. We were disappointed. We had given birth to a normal baby, born of karma for no one knew that. It was not the result of the existence of a holy man but simply a man. We now seem to have adopted a small Korean or been mistaken about the merchandise. What a disappointment! Little was still allowed to eating his chocolate bar. It would put full-face and Rose Cleanup almost with disgust. In bed at night, we had a family quarrel. My wife reproached me for having called a little too lightly the child’s first name Freddy. Now that we knew

it was not him, he would drag the name as the shot of a life that does not belong to him! With a bad faith which hitherto I was not customary, I

retorted angrily that it was her bore the blame. After all, it was his belly who had made this “thing”. Not mine. With a little application, it would have done better baby! Furious, she sent waltzing the duvet and said they had always knew that there was one chance in billions that it works. One chance in billions also be find the “real” grieved me to myself. She too was taken aback but it should not forgetting that this child was ours, derived from the genes and mine. Why would it not later someone good? - It is perhaps the blind so that it has really the same opportunities and the same talent as the other, chuckled to myself. Mustard went up in the face of Rose. After all, it was his son and we were talking, like any mother, she defend tooth and nail. I never saw her as furious. In bulk, it gave me all sorts of old resentment at the figure. She blamed my lack of initiative, my perpetual submission to Raoul, my lack of character, my inability to keep my mother and my brother to invade our apartment for a hat not they invited each other without warning to dinner, without worrying about if it had had time to go shopping and never bring flowers, stingy! I replied that she was not in any case if fine stove than that, she was so absorbed in his work astronomer that was just if it was responsible for her dear Freddy junior then, after all, she was the mother.

One sentence led to another without our welcomed the decision, neither she nor me. In the end, Rose put on clothing to chance and fled to take refuge with his own mother. I found myself alone, like an idiot, along with Freddy Junior, heard it crying, fitting the own sirens. Waved in vain his toys preferred and finally prevail in my bed. My son is asleep, I fell in the living room and looked some relief in reading a book of horror. Read things into perspective really abominable your little problems but now I could not forget my behavior absolutely mean vis-à-vis Rose and horrors that I had said. This was the moment chosen by Raoul to return to the Improv

Vista thanatodrome and break into my apartment, very drunk. He could hardly stand, but realized while I was totally shot. I told him the scene with my wife. Raoul was an odd and, with the assurance of a drunkard, he approached me and said: - Michael, the time has come to deliver you the second secret. Ordinarily, I would have hastened to me plugging ears or throw a good punch to do shut up. But, I was beside myself. Forgetful of all promises to my wife, I pressed on the contrary Speak? - It has something to do with Rose? - Uh, if you will, yes. Go ahead, speak. He collapsed on the carpet now free of all relics of Freddy senior. I lay down flat stomach next to him. Raoul laughed stupidly, drooling on my rugs. I held my desire to shake. He might vomit the large red stain and Rose would never forgive me the damage. - So the second truth? questioned I nervously picking up my friend to put it in a chair. He gasped: - It’s … report … to love. - In love! surprised myself. - Yeah. There’s a woman who loves you and awaits a

! A few more stammers and Raoul recited finally a story consistent. In my previous existence, I had known the

great love. The great love. Intense moments with a wonderful woman. Unfortunately, in our previous life, this woman was sterile, we could not father a child. She felt a great sorrow and Me, too. One day, all to his sentence, she did not notice crossing an avenue and was hit by a car. The Angels thought it was a form of suicide. credit Anyway, I had suffered so much loss that I death of sadness in the months that followed. His drunkenness dissipating, my friend told me that when a couple had known a love so intense without Yet children, they had the right to join in their next incarnation to fill this gap. I had to find that woman since it was my real woman. Raoul knew almost everything about her. Satan in said lot. In this life, my wife was called Nadine Kent. It was American but lived in Paris. I had no may cross several times randomly in the streets, but my mind all captured by the Thanatonautes, I did not recognized. - Nadine Kent! I repeated, dreamily. - Yes, that’s the name

that told me Satan. - Satan is the angel of evil. - But his action also extends to lost souls, says Raoul, as tempting as its shadowy interlocutor. He had conducted its investigation. Nadine Kent was a beauty sublime, yet it was known that few men in his life. When asked why she persisted, if wonderful to live alone, she replied with a smile waiting for Prince Charming. She was now twenty-nine and his parents feared that it remains never old daughter. - But this prince charming … - It’s you, guy ass, kind of koala viscous! Th wonder that such splendor has been able to find you, even in one of your past lives! Coughing interrupted his laughter. - Do you realize, my friend Michael! A fascinating goddess waiting since birth. She does not want that you, all others would seem insipid. You’ve got the luck! Not only do you have already experienced a great love but you have one other in reserve! Love, love … Not that I did not want love but now that I pointed the finger that I must love in particular. Some Nadine Kent which I knew nothing, and even there yet. I suddenly realized why I, too, I always tried so hard to seduce a woman and then to adapt a married life. In fact, since the beginning, I was programmed to a child that Nadine Kent. Rose and Freddy Junior was an error referral … Of least, it was what I thought of that moment.

In my confusion, I take the phone book and looked at the letter K. Kent Nadine, his number was spread there black and white, in small letters. Without further ado, I enter my handset. 245 - Jewish mythology “There is in heaven two doors of diamond and, near them, seventy thousand angels servants. When a Right (a pure man) arrives, they take away from him the shroud that was in his grave and clothe eight clothes clouds of glory. And on his head, they put two crowns, one of precious stones and pearls, the other gold. And they put in his hand, eight branches of myrtle. And they do enter in a place flowing with eight streams of water from eight hundred species of roses and myrtles. And every fair has to alone by a canopy from which spring four rivers, one of Milk, one of wine, a nectar and one of honey. And sixty angels stand in front of every just and tell him: “Go and taste the honey with joy because you’ve taken care of reading of the Book. ” “ Yalkut, Genesis 2. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

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A female voice elderly: - Hello? I had another call, in my haste? - Could I speak to Nadine? I say in a tone uncertain. The hour was late. I perceived a hesitation at the end of File It was to be his mother. Please. I pleaded. - I will seek, consented, with a touch of mistrust, husky voice. Standby Footsteps light. A delicate hand grabs of the device. A mouth approaches the handset. - Hello? Who wants me? asked a soft voice and familiar for at least three hundred years of reincarnations. No doubt. That was it. - Hello! Silence - It’s me, anon-I. At the other end, I perceived a sob. A sobbing with joy. Together, in a voice choked with tears, we began to talk. We said things senseless. Confidences that two people who do have ever met would never have dared to say. With Thanatonautes, I had already known moments difficult perilous, but never anything as moving, moving and terrible, that this succession of sentences confident and tender. And I knew she felt the same feeling. - It’s been so long I expect your call, was gently Nadine. - I know, I sighed. Another silence. - Hello? maddens me to myself. - No, I did not hang up. I’m here. For you, I will still

there. I was suffocating. This was the moment chosen by Freddy junior arise his face smeared with sleep. To yelp in addition its first word:

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Father A little chubby hand began to wipe my tears on my beard. I took my son in my arms and took it to her room. As I tucked carefully I closed the door with the clouds, white and blue painted by my wife. I did not want to hear the “hello, hello” desperate sounded in the handset. It was there. I knew, the famous truth! Devilish Satan! Why am I having learned? I paid dearly for ignore forever the existence here of Nadine Kent. I curse Raoul, I cursed the angels in general and Satan In particular, I curse the Thanatonautes. I embraced my child who already eyelids were closing on the eyes as blue as those of his mother. In the living room, Raoul was laughing like hell. “Hello! hello! “Cried again the phone. I took it hastily.

I could not go.

I wanted to not be me. Not having a wife for. I felt incapable of taking an old contract signed in previous lives. I wanted to tear the skin covering my soul. I plowed hand with my nails until they bled. Why had it imposed a situation as unmanageable? I could not escape anywhere, in any country throughout the situation would pursue me. Stop the world I want to get off. Stop the world I want to get off. I picked up and whispered with fear uncontrollable - Forget about me, Nadine. For pity’s sake, forget me for this lifetime. Find yourself another man and I beg you, Nadine, be happy! Then, unceremoniously, I take Raoul neck and flank-dock at the door. 247 - Egyptian mythology Formula to never die (pronounced twenty-eight every day before going to sleep):

“I am the soul of Re, which is out of Nun, the soul of God creates Hou. My abomination is misconduct. I have no consideration for her. I believe in Maat and I saw her. I Hou, which can not perish in my name Soul. I came to the existence of myself with the Nun in my own name of Khepri in which I come into existence every day. I am the master of light and my abomination is die. I am the Noun, those who do evil can not harm me. I am the Elder of ancient gods: my soul is the souls of the gods, eternity, and my body is sustainability because my events are eternity as master of year and regent of sustainability. I deleted my sins, I saw my father, the master of night, the one whose body is in Heliopolis. I am responsible, as twilight, residents of the CRE

twilight on the hill west, that of the Ibis. “ Book of the Dead Egyptian. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 248 - ANOTHER COMPANY The discovery of the seventh heaven brought daily new changes. The temples were deserted. For

What part in religious ceremonies since the mys

Ministry of death was gone? Even the priests lost the faith. The main prelates had great shout, all faiths, if we had discovered the angels, we did not, however, found God, it was all end of devotion and mysticism.

Temples were turned into museums, others theaters, others in private houses. The end of the purpose was to build a swimming pool in a church. Reflections multicolored stained glass was reflected in water and organ music sounded at the time of dives. However, as and when religions Pericles

taient the Thanatonautes developed. The thanatodromes private hatched everywhere like mushrooms. Some were real tourist offices: “Weekend in the afterlife. Guided tour. Formation spiritual

tual accelerated. Boosters provided. Accompanied by Monk graduated from Thanatonautes. Possible meeting with

the angels. “ Of course, most of these ads were men

reverie. The tours usually stops at the third

third or fourth zone. We paid dearly for knowledge as it was dangerous to venture further. Raoul may have given up reunited with his mother but was nevertheless ethyl and bitter. After the coup of Nadine, I did not care and I did not want to take care him. In thanatodrome, women took over. Amandine and Rose (with which I was soon reconciled) were fit while Raoul and I were face warriors weary and disillusioned. They took pleasure in raising Freddy junior, became the mascot of the place. I must say that the kid was Interior, inquisitive and easygoing. “Maybe! that basically kids are great sages and only wear life makes adults unreasonable? If it was not the reincarnation of Freddy Sr. Freddy Junior

was probably that of a merry prankster rather sporty, given his propensity to run around in all corners. Amanda caught up with him for a hug. “Daddy,” “Mom , ”” Pee ”” poo “were the four words he loved align successively. Later, he would have a good psychoanalysis to teach him how to separate these four concepts distinctly. With my son, life went on. Humanity evolved. My genes were perpetuated in the nucleus of cells. - Still playing with this kid! sneered Conrad. It must have over the top of you, Dad pot-de-glue! Me? my kids, I them alone. - Papa-pee? asked point-blank Junior. My brother laughed and replied: - No, daddy-poo. I suspected Conrad of being a bad teacher. My brother had set up a company Thanatonautes. He built thanatodromes anywhere in the world, on demand. In promoter advised it innovation by providing at option of the customers, rooms off a mythological decorations or mystical. With it, you could fly from a replica of the pyramid of Cheops or a copy of the Sistine Chapel. The less fortunate, it proposed thanatodromes individual wooden huts similar to saunas but affluent of all equipment necessary for a successful takeoff. As an option, for a fixed price two hundred thousand francs, he provided system sound and uniform Thanatonautes identical to our own.

The affairs of my mother were also booming. I had opened a publishing house to publish the works Complete Amandine Ballus: The Vademecum of dying Some ideas for a weekend in Paradise, The Thanatonautes in ten lessons, asthma, heart and epilepsy : Some precautions to take before you die … All were bestsellers, though the competition was rude. The manuals of Thanatonautes, all as stories-stories, were in vogue. Fly was now within reach of all. As to those who could not afford to buy all the bric

a-brac of Conrad, they could always leave their bodies by meditating! 249 - INDIAN PHILOSOPHY “The mood at the time of death determines the shape received for the next life. But how a desire virtuous Could germinate in extremis in the mind of the whole his life was devoted to evil? Sometimes, however, that good repressed tendencies or accumulated during lives earlier

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laughing change at all at the moment of death the soul a man who spent his entire life in error. “ Ananda Mayi Ma. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 250 - it gets complicated Life was a passage. Willy-nilly, as and as knowledge of the Continent Ultimate spread here, the idea made its way among the populations people. There were other lives before, there would be other After the soul survived the body. If Paradise was not palpable, it had no less a place geographically accurate in the universe: the black hole in the center of our galaxy. Just about everyone now knew there was a continent “spatial” consists of seven heavens and that in the last resident of the angels, capable of solve all problems. The first to suffer from these revelations was our president Lucinda. There was only one month of the elections when one of

rivals, a Richard Picpus, claimed to be mounted Paradise and be taught by an angel he was the reincarnation of Julius Caesar. - What an angel? demanded to know Lucinda in a public debate. - Mumiah, who helps the success of our business Of course, ‘replied the other without disassembly. Lucinda, who Julius Caesar was a model and who knew so his life by heart, tried in vain to the trap. Told reporters stunned, Picpus described in detail the forum of ancient Rome and health problems the winner of Vercingetorix. Even Lucinda was stunned.

Mythomania or encyclopedic memory after Picpus-Julius Caesar, marched candidate Robert Mollin which provided reincarnated Napoleon Bonaparte and Philip Pilou that swore to be Alexander the Great. But we knew the angels

not talkative and doubted the veracity of This plethora of new contenders. Lucinda could claim to be the first head of state to have deflowered Paradise, Caesar, Napoleon and Alexander had nevertheless built prestigious empires. Each affirmed able not only to give France a international reputation but also to conquer permanently the Continent Ultimate.

What a trap! Lucinda had found it “Paradise” that in front of him. We meet soon to seek together how pull away. If these pseudo-Caesar, Napoleon and other Alexandre convincing voters, fighting would resume and the galaxy again become quickly out of control! It was Rose who suggested to use to historians. After all, these famous men did not have lives copies! It had been fornicators and tyrants, yes They were devastated entire continents and caused the dead countless. We ressortîmes old Folders Julius Caesar and civil war sounded the death knell of the Roman Republic, Napoleon was the gravedigger of the French Revolution and unnecessary conflict bloodied Europe, Alexander the Great had the dubious morals and his famous empire lasted only time in its short life …

Bizarre characters brought us support unexpected. An avatar of Vercingetorix reminded television how Caesar did not hesitate to starve the population during the siege of Alesia. For an hour, he told the horrors of war Gallo-Roman. But in this conflict, victims Gaul were the ancestors of the voters of today. An unexpected reincarnation of Josephine spread in women’s magazines gossip about the sunsets adulterous the Emperor. She highlighted the massacres of the war Spain, the collapse of the Russian campaign, the error Waterloo dreary plain. Alexander the Great fared better because there was that specialists from Antiquity to be familiar with the details scabrous its existence. There was still some nice stories of massacres and orgies.

Faced with this onslaught, Lucinda retained the largest silent about his past lives. Its this alone would argue in its favor, said he and his present alone determine

undermine its future. Since the vast majority of voters never approached Angels in any way and was quite unable to boast of any existence illustrates it approved its discretion. His attitude was all the more appreciated that no one knew it was over acts in this life that would be considered later. There was no nothing to boast of being only Picpus after Caesar! Still, Alexander the Great and his face of an angel pleasing the crowds. He was proud, imbued with itself, pre

pretentious, no matter what he pleased. A week before the elections, the polls gave him 34% of intentions

to vote, we were far behind with 24%. Julius Caesar and Napoleon was in back of the pack respectively 13 and 9%. - We need a miracle last minute! sighed the candidate Lucinda. - I have an idea, murmured dreamily Amandine. 251 - Hindu philosophy “If the prospect of continual beginnings produces a certain fatigue among Hindu thinkers, they aspire to put an end to this game painful deaths and successive rebirths, the masses, however, accommodate themselves happily. “ Alexandra David-Neel, India where I lived. Extract from the thesis Death the unknown, by Francis Razorbak 252 - ELECTION RESULT Amanda had actually had an idea, and good. Almost on the eve of election, Maxime Villain, the “See ectoplasmic” joined our team elections. Lucinda was a “miracle”.

Villain called a press conference in which he announced

calmly that the angels were in favor of Lucinda. Why ? Easy. because they and they alone were aware of all their lives, which led them to trust him. This deposit was decisive. Few were willing to risk to take a bad point in voting for a candidate considered undesirable Heaven. Only the sick and infirm did not yield to the polls. Lucinda was reelected with 73% of votes. Bravo, Maxim! Thanks to his contacts known to the angels and honesty legendary, Lucinda was still President No one would ever be allowed to question the words of Villain who had recorded so faithfully V Interview with a mortal. However, the dear man was blamed on a well bad penalty. He had flatly lied. Never angels had expressed any opinion whatsoever on the ballot. In fact, they did not care, our elections. As a reward on earth of his sin, Maxime Villain received a medal Thanatonautes from the President.

- You would not by chance the reincarnation of Machiavelli? I inquired with a laugh during the ceremony. The little man smiled modestly. - I wish that you compare me to Dante or Shakespeare. You lied. - As are you sure? I do not even know if it is

possible lie. The truth changes with space and time. Lucinda was elected? Well, it’s that up there, they saw the thing a good eye. And I run, too, at a glance. 253 - police files

Message to the services concerned We had been warned. It is too late. The trouble will to start.

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Response services affected Situation still under control. Let us not underestimate. 254 - Jewish mythology “Before the silver wire does coward …” Ecclesiastes XII, 6. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 255 - THE PAST CLARIFIED After the reelection of Lucinda, the Thanatonautes experimental became the Thanatonautes mass. People were leaving more often to the bottom of Paradise. And it was not without consequence. Anyone could claim to have met with a angel and bring up there his little scoop-shaped thunderclap. Was announced and on the news that was traced to Adolf Hitler. It would have been reincarnated in bonsai. - In bonsai! astonished Rose. I thought the ectoplasm humans could not return to form vegetable. - From what I have said St. Peter, it seems in some cases it is possible, says Amanda. We reincarnated generally to improve but if,

when of human existence, it is so stupid that animal, we start at the animal level. And if human it was even more bestial than the most wild animal, it returns to the plant and perhaps even as far away as mineral. I was flabbergasted. Hitler bonsai living room! We found the bonsai to the address indicated by some Angel indiscreet. The avatar of Hitler belonged to a kid a wealthy family. The kid could not understand how the life of a bonsai was a punishment. He cared very own and there was a lot.

I considered the thing and the obvious jumped out at me. The life of a bonsai is a torture permanent. It is a plant in a pot too small for her and we then cut systematically all growths. It’s torture a plant high level of art. Without water, members constantly intruded, without place, without air, without food, bonsai is only suffering. Constrained not to grow the shrub remains forever dwarf while all that lives on this earth has the most basic rights that is one to grow. Of course, simply because they considered them the most beautiful as well, The Chinese have long felt justified to confine their daughters’ feet in narrow strips for keep growing. But in the case of bonsai was worse! It was not

just the feet. He cut its branches, upper limbs, and roots, lower limbs. Every day The more subtle punishment for a heinous criminal war, it was good to reincarnate in bonsai in Japan. I had chills, remembering as I had been unhappy when my parents forced me to put on the clothes that are too close to my brother Conrad, just to save money. Good idea, hat, archangels, judges! There was However men to think smarter than them and finest vigilante! With great blows of petitions, it claimed the death sentence of bonsai. Finally, we dug up the thing to death liberating ensues, thus end (in my deepest regret for that matter) to his eternal torment. Followed a shower of “revelations” more or less verifiable. For my part, I could not believe the angels so talkative with so many people, and I examined each times with the utmost caution. According to some tourists from beyond, Ravaillac was innocent of murder Henri IV. The Iron Mask was the sister hidden Louis XIV. Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat brave in the rescue of Hungarian Jews during the occupation Nazi, had been killed by the KGB, like resistant martyrs Poster Red had been reported by their “friends” of the French Communist Party. JOHN Lennon himself had contacted her killer to be commit suicide. The Chevalier d’Eon was a hermaphrodite.

Nicolas Flamel had made his fortune by robbing and murdering bourgeois, he then explained enrichment suddenly by the alleged discovery of the secret of transmutation of metals. Jack the Ripper was well William Gull, physician to the royal family. It was found that, overall, the bloodthirsty tyrants had received adequate punishment. Stalin was reincarnated as laboratory mice, Mussolini was a circus dog, Mao was duck glaze, about the fascist generals South America they were mostly reincarnated as geese you Gave to make foie gras Christmas. But apart from these “bad”, others advantage of celestial revelations doubtful to get lather. True or false, the crafty étalèrent their past lives to get some benefits in this life-it. A grocer Asian Paris assured the reincarnation Modigliani and began a trial to the heirs of former art dealers so they him pay back their considerable capital gains. A charming teacher aerobics television swore to be the reincarnation of Botticelli. I could become self-employed through an auction several of his paintings, collected in museums. We lost count of the litigation and the demands of repairs of all kinds! It was human history, as to According to some who needed to be revised, informed, explained, demystified.

256 - Christian mythology “There are natural necessity for the soul to be purified and cured. If it was not in his earthly life, healing takes place in future lives and beyond. “ Saint Gregory of Nyssa. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

257 - SLIDE Freddy Junior grew and our interest in Thanatonautes was decreasing while that of the public kept at contrary, to grow. I was spending more and more one world of my home. The world opened up and I closed my. At that time of my life, I was convinced that much in a life was to marry, have children and build a family unit strong enough that this state lasts as long as possible. A healthy family life is perpetuate to become atavistic and would avoid the occurrence of child temperamental, tyrannical or apathetic.

I was happy. I loved Rose. The awakening of Freddy Junior I was fascinated. I introduced him to the love of books as I

myself had been initiated by Raoul. Rose taught him to observe the stars. Past, contemplating the stars relativized human problems. Because of us, it was changed. It seemed to me that by communicating to Freddy my craving reading, I offered him the freedom to educate themselves and then by itself. Every night, I told so to my son that seemed to be the most interesting for a child three years: legends, tales, fables, stories short with beautiful scenery. But beyond the walls of our cozy apartment delayed course, the company continues to receive waves shock movement Thanatonautes which we pioneered. Stefania came home one day quite upset. A stranger had approached in the street to offer him a large sum. Not to seduce her, but just like that, to a good deed! She was beaten for refusing. - I’m tired of all these sweet, all of these vouchers, all these cutesy. - Do you prefer violence, perhaps? asked Rose. You’ll raving! Stefania was red with anger. - No, I digress not. Before, when someone 438

was kind, it was because he wanted to. He had the choice between being nice or nasty, and had freely chosen kindness. Now, everyone is nice in superstition pure! They were all afraid to be recalibrated up there their review. Is zero. A beggar dressed in rags, clearly indicating its condition, then appeared at the door he was no longer useful close. He entered quietly and headed straight to our refrigerator. Having possession of a sandwich smoked salmon and a small cold beer, he sat comfortably, just to participate in our conversation. Stefania fell upon him, and before I could react, he tore promptly sandwich and canned hands. - You feel free, especially! burst does. The man stared in amazement, the Italian out of it. Since all the doors were open, like all his fellows, he had used to enter any which apartment and to use at will. - But … but … you’re crazy, mumbled he. - Species of lout, we do not learn to hit before entering in people! The tramp was indignant: - Do you dare deny me alms! - It’s not that you refuse alms is that sup-is not that you stinking the house with your dirt and your clothes greasy. The poor man took us to witness, Rose and me.

- It will not in his noggin, this woman! I do not realize … If she refuses alms, that he worth a gaggle of bad points for his karma! We looked Stefania anxiously. - Nothing to shine! stormed does. Get out, vermin! The man stared at her, mocking. - Okay, I’m going. But after that, you wonder not to be reborn … (He looked for a moment the worst) to be reborn cancerous. Stefania brought his face close to hers, regardless of his foul breath. - You can repeat myself that? He smiled mockingly, and strongly reaffirmed: - You will be reborn cancer. I do not live from the hand of the Italian, but the table, glasses vibrated when sounds the right pair of slaps. The man was more astonished than angry. This woman had dared to engage in an act of violence on a beggar. He rubbed her cheeks sore. - You hit me! he said, eyes wide. - Yeah. And it’s not worth me start again I do not know what a curse. Cancer? Much so I have a little fun in this life, in the meantime. And But you have interest to clear out as soon as possible before I sending you my foot I think. - It struck me, it hit me, sang there almost. He realized suddenly that this pair of slaps had nearly to raise the status of martyr. Being a victim of shrew violent and aggressive, this should surely you

argues a lot of bonus points. He crossed the door, beaming. Stefania turned to us. She passed a hand across his forehead.

- My word, you get all crazy! she said. We did not know what to say. In fact, at that moment, Rose and I trembled for our friend. Reborn really cancer? - You should not have to risk hitting. We never know … I began. She interrupted me bluntly. - But, you do not understand our world is more populated than larvae and mops! More emotions, more fear, more conflict! There is no one left. down here that beings soft and superstitious. They are not good. They are selfish. They only care about their karma. They seek to do good than to ensure a good status in their next life. What are we bored! I suddenly realized that I too, basically, I always been kind of selfishness. For lazy, too, and not complicate my life. Be mean forced to deal with others, to care about their defenses, to imagine nasties. But be nice, it can not touch or be touched by anyone. Kindness is just a comfort be quiet. Stefania pacing the lounge like a lion in a cage.

- I’m tired of you. I’m sick of good intentions. I’m tired of this company since we will have revealed what should have him remain hidden. Hi, Thanatonautes! I’m going. And she went away without further ado. She took her things and left our building of the Buttes-Chaumont without a goodbye to Raoul, who, even drunk, however, was still her husband. 258 - Jewish mythology The body and soul are they equal before the trial divine? The body could accuse the soul of sin, since since she left him lying inert at the bottom of the tomb. What soul could argue that issued the body sinner, it hovers serenely through the air like a bird. The soul and the body could they so escape the Judgement divine? We asked the question a wise man. Like all sages, he replied with a parable, the king who had chosen guardians of the orchard a blind and a culd-bowl. The cul-de-bowl was soon raving about the benefits beautiful. “Let me climb on your back for gathering, suggested he blindly. Then we eat outfit The blind proved unable to resist the temptation, and the return of the king, he was nothing left of fruits of his orchard. The monarch who was surprised, the blind replied that he had seen nothing, the cul-de-bowl would have been quite unable to climb a tree to capture the any fruit.

The king does not think long. He ordered the culd-bowl to get on the blind. Together, they were severely of blows as if they were one.

Similarly, all the soul and body appear. Of Also, together they will be judged. Babylonian Talmud (Sanhedrin 9 a b).p> Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 259 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS Thanks to the Thanatonautes, the world knew peace, prosperity and happiness. Humanity had finally completed a ambition dating back over three million years since appeared on Earth. Until then, death was considered as pain and suffering. With the exploration of Continent Ultimate, fears had been defused. A conduct on earth and up there, the reward expected.

Thanks to Thanatonautes, together with the wars, hatred and jealousy disappeared from the surface of the planet, a new era ahead. The American paleontologist Thunder proposed to delete the term homo sapiens and replace it

with a more modern homo Thanatonautes. Homo Thanatonautes is a man who knows now not only his life and death but also all his past lives and future. What a leap forward for mankind! History textbook, second year elementary course. 260 - VISIT TO THE MUSEUM Life goes on, even without Stefania. Rose and I decided to enjoy the weekend of Pentecost to take Freddy Junior Washington visit the famous Smithsonian Museum where were kept all the relics of our adventure. The movement was worth the sentence. In this imposing concrete structure, we redécouvrîmes Our first chair off, we read emotionally list of the first volunteers sacrificed on the altar of Thanatonautes, we lingered in front

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our own reproductions, wax figures mimicking daily activities Thanatonautes.

Personally, I was just like with this grin bizarre and the large syringe by hand. Amandine, how starlet, was much more successful with its sheath black molding. In one corner, the mortal coil of Rajiv Bintou, the Thanatonautes Indian who had lingered in the world of pleasures, was still on a drip. If the mood took her one day to return, his body was left at his disposal, kept in the freezer transparent. Next, a pan-map stated in any case her umbilical cord was still intact. There was also a model of the blockhouse Bresson, with a note narrating his sad journey. Puppets flew in the different figures thanatochorégraphiques composed by Rabbi Meyer for takeoffs in groups. A huge mural of thirty meters long and ten wide recalled quite accurately the battle of Paradise. By pressing a button, it triggered even the sound of fighting, “Oh,” the “Take that, rogue,” and “dirty dogs of infidels,” the “Attention, I die” and the sound of blows and a its fabric torn supposed to reproduce the noise produced by umbilical cords when they slam. In fact, this set the scene was stupid, because the ectoplasm, even Thanatonautes, produce no noise, even if they did, they will not retransmit in the intergalactic space. The Smithsonian Museum was huge. All around, ATMs conveniently located gave visitors an impression of paradise while their to gorge on popcorn, hot dogs and refreshments frozen. The Americans are still well things.

The center of the gallery, a sculpture showing Felix Kerboz shaking hands across the centuries to Christopher Columbus. Needless to say, the great Adonis smiling put up statues here had nothing to do with the brute we had known. I imagined pretty well in the future a new profile

Greek on the coins associated with our motto: “All right, straight into the unknown! ” I prefer our old motto: “Together against the idiots! “Always up to date. Fun, recreation of the interview of the ectoplasm Donahue. Three old machines wax to large beards white were perched on a promontory translucent Plexiglas lit by neon (the mountain of light Last Judgement, no doubt), and their mouths moving, they repeated endlessly: “This will be weighed every good and bad actions of your past life. “ There was later a detector off ectoplasmic (Invention of Rose, my wife), a large satellite dish, a screen with fake green spots. To be believed the Buttes-Chaumont! To complete the exhibition, museum officials had developed a great relief model supposed to represent Paradise. A cone of cardboard thirty meters high in its widened part dragged a corridor was narrowing to finish on

a diameter of two meters. It was enough to advance on a treadmill in order to penetrate and slide slowly through the corridors to changing colors. Each crossing of a wall coma was symbolized by a curtain with thick sections of plastic could not see what was back. Each Moch plastic through, we heard a sucking sound and then found himself in the territory black red, orange, etc.. Around us, lit up as and as slides illustrating our stories of the continent the dead. Somewhere, a voice-over commented: “Behold here a few of the demons believed see the first Thanatonautes when they passed Moch 1. “Images Satanic in no way resembles our mate the real Satan. Regarding the area of ​the pleasures, the organizers did not want to shock the children. Some characters contented themselves with kissing on the mouth. For territory of the patient, the treadmill slowed so abruptly that some believed in a crash. In the knowledge, the voice was passing information of a kind Pythagorean theorem, a2 + b2 = c2. A real little over catchup for use by school students. As a pinnacle of beauty, a few butterflies rickety side by side with dolphins laughing. Families photographed with a vengeance and s’esbaudissaient the slightest comment.

- If you are very wise one day you too will visit the Paradis, provided a dad to his toddler. I was careful not to say such things to Freddy Junior! After the treadmill, just exit. After: confinement for several hours in the museum, the clarity of days was based on land white! Thank you.I’m sorry No better reward for the visitors a little tired. In a large room, rubbed shoulders cafeterias where it was good sit and rest a bit and souvenir shops better stocked than my mother, tee-shirts, false thrones takeoff, models of demons, models of angels, picture books angelic or demonic, meal trays for easy take off. Freddy Junior feasted cotton candy and asked several key chains with the names of angels still missing to his collection. For my part, I hesitated in front of a cassette video graphics promise to share “As true” all the sensations of flight Thanatonautes.

I gave it up. Finally, all unpacking sickened me a little. We abrégeâmes our trip across the Atlantic. 261 - Jewish mythology “The birth of man on earth and his death cause a shift of mind that is removed from a location and moved to another. This is called Gilgoulim, the migration of souls. “ Zohar.

Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

262 - KARMOGRAPHE The Thanatonautes became truly a mass sport. It was crazy, the number of people who rushed up there to have a taste of their last trip. Death after all, it’s true for everyone. Given the congestion in space, died the day were forced to clear a fashion on their way between “tourists” to the umbilical cord intact appetite for new sensations. The Japanese provided the main body. For them, the Thanatonautes was a way to seek their ancestors which they devote a cult unwavering. Not surprising while a Japanese company was the first to put point “objects ectoplasmic”. Of Zen meditation took charge of the project in Paradise using the power of their thinking. Major brands devised soon to start in marketing ectoplasmic. In 2068, the deceased and Thanatonautes had for the first time the attention attracted by a notice posted on the road to reincarnation. A advertising ComaCola: “With Coma-Cola, refresh your soul. “ Insurance companies followed suit to the firm in Atlanta.

“You are? So you have committed a imprudence. Do not repeat. Upon your next reincarnation contact the General Insurance in London. AGL, security in all existence! “ The advertisements were limited primarily to the corolla external but soon, we settled in front and behind the first Wall comatose. Specialized agencies were created. They appropriated without asking anybody surfaces and locations that we have drawn on our maps. Monks is recyclèrent and focusing in prayer, projected precisely in the desired area messages to be played on the Continent Ultimate. The rates varied by area. The formats ranged from 1 m 2 to 10 m 20. In heaven there is no

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restrictions, depending on the energy of the carrier medium.

Customers were not lacking. Bulk, after Coma-Cola and AGL, tour operators for travel ectoplasmic (“With Airmort,

return guaranteed”), layers, pants (“At home in your future skin of newborn with Impermeablex, diapers linking exvieillards incontinent future babies incontinent they again become “), dairy (” Thanks to the yogurt Transit, leave without cumbersome to natural paradises “) of bedding (“Mattress Somnis, the secret of meditation successful “), the chairs off of my brother Conrad (“Thrones Emperor catapults into the hereafter, all died are baba “), rock bands (” music Dead-Stroy, even the angels love it “) and up Liquor (“Lucillius, appetizer if fruit we would like drink with the Seraphim “). Some psychics gifted reached even to make flashing their commercials. credit coming into the black hole of Paradise, it was now the impression of being near a large supermarket. Whatever thought Raoul, the Continent Ultimate was now sold to the merchants of the Temple. The UN imposed, however, an ethics committee, International to put an end to abuse. Prohibited advertising for a drug reactivator of memory (“With Memorix, you would have remembered all your nonsense “) near the black area of ​bad memories. No advertisements for inflatable dolls in the red zone fantasies or for watches in the country of patience, or for encyclopedias in the area of ​knowledge, no more than an art gallery in the absolute beauty. It does still had not exaggerate! In bookstores, the books ad hoc accumulated : Death and

formalities, Paradise Earth contrasts die so what?, Handbook of etiquette the use of meetings with the other dead, their ancestors and angels, The Road of reincarnation: comprehensive plan and advice not to go astray, Some examples of choreography ectoplasmic.

On Earth, everything became simple and clear. Trade walking, people loved each other, poverty would disappear. More religions. More old hatreds centuries between people. The whole world was under the banner of good deeds. Where were the cynics, the ironic, the mocking? Even the humor was more appropriate. Humour is based on derision and trips to the continent of dead had proved that nothing was ridiculous, that any thing, any behavior, even the most innocuous, had its price, everything was observed and recorded in high places. Another problem is the fatalism total who took possession of the people. “What’s taken anything, is people said, anyway my previous lives have already set my karma, I’m just living on a purchased thousands of years. Why perform wasted effort, if my destiny is already written up there, the Paradise? “So, laziness won humanity at the same time for kindness. And why go to the trouble when it was enough to

enter a shop or in private for use at their leisure? Without material incentives, what could induce people to engage in business or to imagine new projects? I had always been beset by doubt as to the revelations on the Continent Ultimate. My discomfort was accentuated even when, one day, I witnessed a strange scene. A children crossing the street when there arises a sports car. In speed he was traveling, not the driver could stop in time. Thinking of my first accident, I ran: “Warning!” The boy paused, looked at me, considered the fireball approaching, and set out deliberately: - Bah! If this is my fate, nothing can stop it. And he stood there, arms dangling, waiting to be crushed without realizing that my warning was also part of his destiny! I jumped so and ran away just time. - Small moron, you almost die stupidly! He looked at me smugly. - Not at all, since I was destined to be saved by you. Today, at least … He returned in frolicking as if he wanted to be killed later, only to play me a trick! 263 - police files

Message to the services concerned Stop it right now. The Thanatonautes has enormous dangers. Humans are already in place advertisements on the way of reincarnation. Multiplication of testimony senseless on the Paradis. Urge you to intervene.

Response services affected Yes. The situation takes an unexpected turn. We think about seriously. 264 - APATHY Was it really possible that our whole adventure has served to this: make mankind completely apathetic, fatalistic and unmotivated? In this case, I had accomplished a great sin and I need a number of reincarnations to repair This fatal error. I could not go to span in Street people lying quietly waiting for their present existence flows. It was even fatalism, was the renunciation of life! Remembering the kid indifferent to everything, I felt chills. In thanatodrome des Buttes-Chaumont, the atmosphere was grim. Rose, Freddy Junior and me we closed more and more about the family unit while Amandine continued his lecture tours.

As for Raoul, with the loss of Stefania, his wife, succeeding that of his parents, he had found a new good reason to drink. He seemed to find in alcohol as a third world, a world beyond the life and

death. Maybe after all the alcohol is at the end of all questing. In this case, both have upset early with Raoul not to let myself be drawn on this slope. One evening I sat listening to jazz in the penthouse. I liked especially a solo plaintive and sad saxophone, the kind of music that no one was listening more. Returning from one of his shows, Amanda joined me. Th looked at only. Dismissing a green plant, she let herself fall on a wicker chair next to me. - Are you tired? I asked her. No! I have the disease states of mind. - The states of mind? Who does not? Lighting a cigarette bidder whose Raoul left still hanging packets everywhere, she added: - Do you remember what was said Freddy? “The wise seek the truth, the fools have already found. ” And now the world has found its truth. - So the world is stupid. - Yes, but it’s our fault. I was silent, full of remorse. I thought back to that day when I asked my mother what it meant to the word “death.” I could see the icy hand of my great-grandmother Aglaé hanging out sheets. I remembered also the amazing image etched forever in my mind, the three archangels Light gathered up there to judge us.

In fact, they are not benevolent. They are terrifying. Despite their smile. I began to understand Stefania. Goodness imposed, it is also disgusting that the soup mash-Mellows honey and grenadine syrup. Rose appeared in the penthouse, clapping his hands. - If you are hungry, hurry down. Ministry meal is ready and Junior is already devour everything. It will remain soon as crumbs. 265 - TEACHING YOGI It is five observances to remain strong in his life: - Health. The body must be healthy if we want 450

keep a clear conscience. It should be clean, never fulfill its stomach full. - Contentment. Enjoy what is a. - Perseverance. Do not get overwhelmed by the smaller of emotions: fear of the unknown, fear of annoyance, surrender to the pleasure soon taken. - Study. Move towards knowledge by reading sacred texts and meditation. - The offering to God. We do not live for ourselves but for something in us that is beyond us. Above all, stay humble. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

266 - DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNT We already knew from Interview with a man that six hundred points were needed to end the cycle of reincarnation and become a pure spirit. A new conversation with Peter provides Amandine of key more specific. She reported the official scale.

MALUS Lie: - 10 to - 60 points Slander: - 10 to - 70 points Humiliation: from - 100 to - 400 points

Failure to assist a person at risk: from - 100 to - 560 points Child abandonment: from - 100 to - 820 points Abandonment of parent: from - 100 to - 910 points Cruelty to animals: from - 100 to - 1370 points Cruelty of humans: from - 500 to 1450 points

Crime resulting in death of others: from - 500 to - 1510 points Recurrence: penalty multiplied by 1.5 (The number of points deducted depends on the case given the will to harm, pleasure taken to the evil, irresponsibility, selfishness which motivated actions and non-actions.)

BONUS

Don concerned: from + 10 to + 50 points Sincere gift: from + 10 to + 90 points Contribution of joy to those around: from + 10 to + 100 points Assistance animal in danger of + 50 to + 120 points

Assist a person in danger of + 100 to + 270 points Production of a work of art: from + 100 to + 410 points

Original idea for progress: from + 100 to + 450 points Self-sacrifice for the benefit of others: from + 100 to + 620 points Proper education of a child of + 150 to + 840 Multiplier: bonus multiplied by 1.2 So precisely made people more cautious. Rather than risk committing a sin, some preferred suicide immediately to restore the counters, as it was at the time. The term Nor was a metaphor. A Japanese firm had actually marketed a counter good and bad actions. The karmographe The thing was a kind of small watch crystal display liquid and keypad. People were carrying their right wrist, the left being reserved to the knowledge time. It was enough to note, every night before bed, the acts committed during the day to find out where we were exactly with his karma. Not enough good points and a horse was part of the screen karmographe. First sign of the scale of degeneration karmic, which passed down to a dog, a rabbit, a snail, a amoeba. The most serious cases were represented by a rod parsley or a fungus. With karmographe, you could die easy knowing exactly

where we were in the scale, without fear to face the trial of the archangels. Obviously, the operator

ration and account settlement required a lot of franchise with oneself. In thanatodrome, we played with the device. Pink found that it had a bonus of 400 points. Me? I was more humbly somewhere between 0 and 5 points. I did not commit too many nasties in my life but I had not been a saint. Finally, Raoul was right: I was not a hero, I was a neutral type. Even in my karma I was using. Freddy Junior was in turn fascinated by the machine. His karmographe pristine announced kindly 25 points. The kid does not become less obsessive. No sooner had he pulled the ponytail of a comrade square he consulted as soon as he karmographe to know if it was serious. The aircraft had replaced advantageously confession. 267 - OUT Thurs Conrad was able to get the reproductive rights of karmographe. The Japanese had ensured the grain. Their patent was well protected. My brother had so resolutely turned towards a

any other business: the pills “out game”, ie pills “special suicide without pain.” “Better a new life a life failed “was his slogan. Was simple and it said what it meant. Conrad, who had always been so skeptical about the Thanatonautes, was now the first to encourage people to take the plunge, business first! Ironically, he counted quickly among its first customers his own son, my nephew, Gustave, desperate to have failed composition of mathematics. By way of letter Farewell, the teenager had scribbled: “Do not worry. A small turn quickly to the land of the dead and come back in another skin. “ His parents were convinced he had probably reason, but they did not know as much as the kid was reincarnate. “So much effort and education thoroughly

programmed stupidly wasted by bad note math, it’s enough hair pulling! “Lamented Conrad who wondered if he should cry or not death of his own son. Rose and I, we inquiétâmes. And if Freddy Junior was tempted too? One annoyance is so fast arrival the present. We had good knowledge of Heaven, we wanted not to say that our children are left too early, allowing oneself to slam his own umbilical cord, at that.

To better deter escape this mode that spread in schools and colleges, we replaced in sweet pills cyanide “bench” that he had bought with his pocket money by harmless candy in icing sugar. And it does not yield to a sudden desire jumping into the void, we made Fences to all windows. Rose did his best to comfort him in all circumstances. If he returned with a notebook full of bad notes, we offered him gifts to comfort him. We do grondions ever, we covered their affection, assures us constantly of our support. It was essential that our son loves his life to the point of persuaded that he will never find parents also owls in another incarnation. But all the parents were not as effective as us. The suicides of children increased, as those of adults, too. Discontent, dissatisfaction, and hop i The most sensitive walking with a cyanide capsule implanted permanently in a hollow tooth, and the least concern, they put an end to an existence considered a failure. Life is a game, never to part, it was enough to said thumb and get “out of play” with the pill up counter by my brother Conrad. The result could be seen almost no old people in the streets (a first ride, and forward to a new youth before knowing the irreparable outrage of years) not more people concerned

or too sensitive. All that remained that beings immature obsessed with the idea of ​doing good, laziness or superstition. There was a real social problem. The leaders of men and creative are for most people experienced a difficult childhood and it came out in force wrist by forging letters of hardened steel for better survival. But now that suicide promised delivery of the counters at the slightest annoyance, future elites disappeared before he had time to take of age. Lucinda and his government understood the problem. In the administration, they rubbed more than soft and void, unable to make any clear decision as they feared to injure one or the other. It was important to act quickly so that the most intelligent and most sensitive young people continue to commit suicide. Death become commonplace, it was also important to promote life here and now, not elsewhere in we did not know what future. This was not evident. More no one was so much life to the point of fighting for her or bite the bullet when you face adversity. Worse, each hoped to see that he would reincarnate, slightly as play roulette or the lottery. This should not be the correct numbers that were missing up there!

Thus was born the ANPV, the National Agency for the Promotion of life. Lucinda began to contribute the best advertising so they invent slogans, ideas, concepts that people attach to their lives rather than go to tire-larigot. Who would have thought that before the 2000s? It would surely laugh out loud at the idea that he would one day advertising for people to appreciate what is most basic more natural and easier in the world: life. 268 - ADVERTISING Life, a moment full of emotions. Suzanne M., twenty years, a student, said: “At first, my life I did not like. Similarly, I

thought it was corny. My parents were alive, uncle, my grandparents and all the failures of the family were living, and I wondered how they were coping to stand by and support to age and rot up as rags. What fools! Yeah, life, I thought it was zero. I even tried to flee with drugs and alcohol. But the drug made me sick and alcohol as well. So I wanted out of life. Then I had an idea. Before I go, why not around the world? There, I realized as life it’s great. Plants live, the animals live, even stones live. So I said why not me? Now, I do not regret my choice and when I see all these

young people who are hesitant, I say, come on, guys, do You also around the world. You see, life is a something that will remain in vogue for a long time! “ This is a message from the ANPV, National Agency for the promotion of life. 269 ​- police files

Message to the services concerned This is pure madness! So strong you are, do not go to pride. Do not refuse to recognize your mistakes. Your laxity is detrimental. Very damaging. At all.

Response services affected Fear blinds you. A little quiet, please. And above not panic. Strive always to the grain. 270 - Japanese mythology “We’re just grains of sand, but we are together. We are like grains of sand on the beach but without the sand beach would not exist. “ Poem language Yamato (ancient Japanese). Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak.

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271 - SUICIDE OF ANY ERROR The National Agency for the promotion of life was to his best, but received only the insignificant results. It had a tragic event, the Lambert case, to put end of a blow to the movement of suicide.

This happened on a Sunday, in our thanatodrome of Buttes-Chaumont. We allow some to our friends use our thrones of takeoff. Mr. Lambert, the head of our Thai restaurant favorite, we had just asked to try one. We had no reason to oppose it, especially since as Mr. Lambert was somehow the leader of our canteen personal, we wanted to keep the best relationship with him. He sat down. We Reglami our devices. He counted “six, five, four, three, two, one-off “and urged the pear in the rules. Nothing unusual so far. The weird happened to Back When Mr. Lambert opened his eyes, I felt to find myself in front of another Jean Bresson. He was febrile, nervous, even his face looked more like the Our placid Thai restaurant. We had before us a man to stare hard. Another man. “Maybe! a Mr. Hyde would have always hidden until the Dr. JekyllLambert? - You feel good, Mr. Lambert? I asked. - Oooh oror! To go

in there. It’s going very well. I never went as well. - You have visited the Continent Ultimate? inquired Amandine. - Oooh oror! To visit, I visited. It’s really a place very, very interesting. His voice was that of the former Lambert, his features too, and Yet I could have sworn that we had to deal with the same person. Later, it turned sardonic, with even a Jene-know what’s evil in the eye. He had forgotten everything the kitchen and up to his beloved recipe noodles basil. In the kitchen, he did not care elsewhere now. He put

suddenly sold his restaurant. That its customers used as fortunate to go to be fed wherever they appear! He washed his hands. He left the city and we never saw him more. This story disturbed me a lot. I spoke with colleagues from other thanatodromes. They assured me having already encountered similar cases. Like me, they had thought of a syndrome of Dr. Jekyll. The name stuck. We decided a video conference to discuss the problem. Mr rajawi, head of thanatodrome Indian had an explanation to offer. A mystical explanation, but still an explanation. He said it was the suicide that were causing the phenomenon. When someone kills himself deliberately before to have completed the time of life that has been

allocated during his last trial, the ectoplasm is transformed in a wandering soul. It remains there, hovering above the ground, in search of a body which rematerialize to live what was left to live. However, it is very difficult to find bodies vacant and many committed suicide wander and for millennia.

These wandering souls, the living have often referred of “ghosts.” Because they are miserable and desolate, they play to scare people to ensure they still have some power. They scare fearful and naive typing against the walls at night, doing to raise the floors or vibrate chandeliers. At worst, they can cause rain and thunderstorms unannounced but it is their only strength. Their actions are ridiculous and should arouse pity rather than fear. - This is what we call evil spirits, reported Director of thanatodrome Dakar. - And we blolos, blolos bian men blolos blas for women, the official said in Abidjan. - Maybe, but with this new mode of suicide, the air must be saturated with ghosts in search of a mortal coil, sighed his colleague from Los Angeles. Mr rajawi continued his explanation: - When life meditating, or he is engaged in Thanatonautes, he gave a time his physical body. S a wandering soul goes through there so it rushes into.

We stayed there all bec us between glances. What risk were we so all taken during our many Travels And, even worse, because of all the “tourists” which, thanks to us, went into the afterlife, a lot of Ghost now had a nice set of body put on. What a paradox! These suicides that were leaving for a better life their way into the first existence came! And even if they had the chance! It was not so easy to be there at the right when faced with a mortal coil vacant. Everyone went to his case of “possession” to return. Of sudden changes in mood and behavior were now elucidated. - We must raise the alarm, I say. We need people stop suicide and even Thanatonautes. It’s too dangerous ! Everyone at home, we organized conferences campaigns Everyone does not believe. There were skeptics to declare that we want our sport us when he moved to democracy and that soon, even workers could Thanatonautes Sunday. That respond to that? Despite our warnings, the agency Travel ectoplasmic continued to do business. It there would always be hotheads to go for a walk on the continents most ultimate, convinced that they were that accidents will not happen to. The idea of ​being bitten her body during a takeoff

discouraged, however few. It was not pleasant to think that anyone, in case of disaster, would then go to you and fit in your family and into bed with your wife without anyone capable to make a difference. For candidates to suicide, it was different than for tourists to the afterlife. Some sought to exploit, other safety and happiness. Conrad vain solder its stock of pills “bench” unsold, there was hardly any buyers. Become a wandering soul in search

of a body, and that perhaps for centuries to come, was not a future very exciting. People understood that suicide did not call at all a counter to zero, that there would necessarily be lived to the end. We learned to accustom small miseries. The explanation of my fellow Indian had another advantage : It comforted the parents of babies or young died too soon, by disease or accident. It could include suicide, which, after reincarnation in a physical shell foreign, had a few more years to live. A man who committed suicide at age sixty when he should have died sixty-six reborn and in the skin of a child doomed to die in six years. It was definitely a complete science that manage their karma and every morning brought new laws.

Raoul is walled up in silence. I knew he was thinking constantly Stefania. We had heard from by {0}{/0} {1}Logs{/1} She had gathered around her a band of “Bad guys”. The Italian Tibetan Buddhist we had loved so much professed everywhere that the property was equilibrate with evil. That whatever now our knowledge, the desire to commit suicide resume faced with a world so bland. Under his leadership, a horde of thugs in leather jacket black, perched on bikes, trying his best to promote acts as outmoded as theft, murder, rape and pillage. But the fear of damaging his karma was too strong, Stefania had difficulty retain the services of associates and initiative remained isolated. Stefania was something of a national curiosity and even when the police were able to stop it, it or some of his own, they abstained. They feared that the operation could be considered a assault and said that, in any case, these bandits would be sufficiently punished in their reincarnations. Yet, for Raoul and me too, Stefania became a major concern. Embodying evil, it proved there were still risks to be in this world. It gave relief to the property. By sacrificing his karma healthier society, she was engaged ultimately an act of

pure abnegation. We all felt vaguely that in reality, Stefania’s Cursed was a saint. We did not know what to do. Finally, we decided to go back up there to see a little what was happening. 272 - ADVERTISING Mr. Vinstack, forty-two years old, single, leads a modeling agency. He loves life and he tells us why: “For me, life is women. All are different. With a mouth, eyes, legs, breasts, a perfume, a process, a haircut, a port Neck different. I’ll never have the time to know all. That’s why I’m glad that life is actually quite long. This is my twelfth marriage. I’d love to live a hundred years to find a more than women. As women exist only in life, thank you life and I thank you women. “ This is a message from the National for the promotion of life. 273 - IT is further complicated Still many daredevils on the way to heaven! Ha! yes, takeoffs had nothing to do with those the first time when we evolve only among the the deceased. Now, no sooner had they left the Earth that is found stuck in a crowd of tourists ectoplasmic, the umbilical cord tied to

that of their guide, a monk Recycled. And still so many ads, if not more! Movies Do not miss the next existences, advertisements for prepared meals, cat food and dogs pets, cigarettes, travel unusual … And

of course, a large poster of the National Agency for life, extolling the virtues of returning to life! Lucinda had tried to bring greater security on the Continent Ultimate. From the entrance, a sign projected a whirling dervish of Turkey set the tone: “Welcome to Paradise. You are a thousand annéeslumière of the Earth. Caution, danger! Ban travel alone. Be sure to weave carefully your cord ectoplasmic than your guide. “ Ensued the various laws enacted with the support of United Nations: Article 1. Heaven belongs to no country, or no religion. Article 2. Paradise is open to everyone and no one has the right to impede the free access. Article 3. It is forbidden to cut the umbilical cord ectoplasmic of others. Such an act is criminal and will be continued as such.

Article 4. Any physical body will be responsible for activities of its ectoplasm. Article 5. Tourists Thanatonautes must leave this place as clean as they want to find in their actual death. Article 6. It is forbidden to disturb the angels in their dexterity Article 7. It is forbidden to store memories and fantasies of another. Everyone is free to owner his own experiences in Paradise as here below. Article 8. It is prohibited to affix graffiti ectoplasmic on advertisements decorating the hallways. Article 9. It is forbidden to hide behind doors comatose to play tricks with the dead in Passing through Article 10 It is forbidden to speak to the archangels in the weighing of a soul. Article 11 It is forbidden to interfere in favor or against of a soul at the time of weighing. No evidence outside can not affect the archangels. Article 12 Paradise is not an amusement park. The parents with children are asked to leash by their cord ectoplasmic.

Everything had been planned for the comfort and safety of tourists. On the surface of the first gate comatose spread :

“Moch 1. Warning: memories aggressive. People sen

sible to abstain. Those who are unable to assume their past are urged to get their umbilical cords of their guide and regain their bodies. “ The deceased’s date and Thanatonautes no one rushed no less en masse, despite the warning. Some played to fight their painful memories in the way of wrestlers. As all this was indecent! Tourists Greek played voyeurs looking at the bubbles that affected them in any way. Surrounding advertisements extolling the virtues of

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nalystes and private detectives, for those who still had an opportunity to redress their wrongs. As each time through the Black Country, I found my car accident, my arguments with my brother, the death of Felix Kerboz, passionate love once brought to Aman

dine, not to mention a bunch of minor events that I never really digested. I began to be used to. Moch 2 and back in the red zone of pleasure. Some tourists had fantasies perfectly disgusting. I thought this place looked more and more within hot and humid with a woman’s sex. “Maybe! Amandine, she imagined a man’s sex … Here, the advertising of sex shops, the peep shows and porn videos, despite the amendments.

Shoving his fantasies of orgies and young stallions oversized, Amanda took me to that I do not hit back to its double black leather. A woman I continued shouting called Nadine Kent. I yelled at him telepathically to leave me, I was married and family. The fantasy of Nadine metamorphosed then for adopt the generic form of Stefania.

Really, I fantasized about all the women in my entourage. When in doubt, Amandine I took his hand up Moch 3. Look out! Here, Moch 3. You are about to enter in the country orange. As eager to turn around while there is still time. ” The crossing lasted only two or three minutes but We seemed drag on for four or five hours. Everywhere advertisements for watch manufacturers. Decidedly, it was not the time to enact legislation if they were not even met. I do marveled over to meet celebrities or famous men. I was just anxious to get out of there. It is blase about everything. Time, what a terrible opponent! Yellow zone. “Look, Moch 4. You are about to to enter the land of knowledge. Do not if you are not able to learn all the truths World Village. “ - Eureka! Eureka! bellowed telepathically tourists Greek, very excited. Moch 6, finally. “Welcome to heaven. Here ends the for.

You are in the bright background of the black hole. To those who appear before the judges want a good queen

carnation. Others, are reminded not to disturb Angels at Work “, issued the whirling dervish official. We walked in the white area of ​the weighing of souls. The angels began to know us well. They paid no attention to the tourists, but in However, three of them came to Raoul, Amandine and me. Some Greeks asked questions they did mine not to hear. - Okay, said the Greeks, this is the Olympus but Where is Zeus? They did not understand these idiots. No Zeus, Jupiter, Quetzalcoatl, Thor or Isis. The angels have no supervisor. Similarly, the angels do not have name, they bear names. Angels have no

nationality, they have all nationalities, all religions, all philosophies. What stupidity it chauvinism which suggests that its own deities are necessarily more impressive than the other! I do perceived not immediately the cry telepathic pushed suddenly from I unite the Greeks did not surprise but fear. All became clear when he screamed in its language, telepathically, we all understand: - My umbilical cord is cut! - Impossible! calmly replied the guide. There is always related to the braid of our group. No, whined the other. This is the bottom it has been decided! This meant that while the ectoplasm was walking here on earth his body had been murdered. As its cord was actually tied to the other, they remained bound. It is only when the group would defeat its nodes that the unfortunate now deceased would be sucked its next reincarnation. It was horrible to know and died away, somewhere else! . We were doing just the situation that another cried already murder! One after another, the eighteen tourists Greek did the same sad conclusion. Their ball of cords was indeed intact, but nothing connected it to Earth. All had lost their

physical body! Together they spun join the longest river of the dead. Yes, the mortal coil are at all times vulnerable and it is always dangerous to abandon them. “Picking”: apprehension, Raoul, Amanda and I écourtâmes at quick trip to return hurriedly these comfortable armor what were our bodies. The evening papers désignèrent the authors of the package Heavenly: Stefania and his gang. The Italian had sent communicated to the major news agencies to announce that it would address now to thanatodromes and ship again in the hemisphere Ultimate the lovers walking aliens. She hears thus making the death fear and mystery. Extensive program !

- Stefania’s right! exclaimed Raoul. We went too far. I protested.

- But it’s you who first, you wanted to know everything about death! And now that we have unlocked the secrets, Do you regret?? My friend had decidedly changed dramatically. Pacing the penthouse, he decreed:

- We could have done better to remain in ignorance. Oppenheimer also expressed regret for having designed the atomic bomb. - It is too late to go back, ‘I murmured. It’s never too late to do, said Raoul. Amandine, Rose and I hochâmes head. Raoul had Suddenly the same accents as his wife: - Well, we managed to stop the suicides. But look a little around you as people are become vapid! It happens nothing. No more war, more crime, more adultery, more passion at all. Only Stefania shown courage. While the world was unbearable. I came to Thanatonautes to fight against my boredom and Thanatonautes had made the world boring! For the canopy, I saw a young boy, furtively stuck a poster on the run. A portrait of Stefania black and white, in big red letters: “Together to reorganize the bad! “ 274 - Rosicrucian Philosophy “By your desires, you draw your life. Around you is a mental atmosphere which attracts but does not attract either all things. This atmosphere Mental is made of your desires. It is also made of your fears that are the negative part of your desires. These are the two sides of the same coin. In addition to your conscious desires, are your desires and fears unconscious. Thus you attract the people and events

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We can not release that untying the knots emotional situations past and present. “

Max Heindel, Cosmogony of the Rosicrucians. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 275 - THE THIEF OF SOULS These were the cries of Freddy Junior we rameutèrent, Rose and I, watching television. The cartoon Puerto Rico it was closely following had suddenly stopped. Bands black and white zigzag on the small screen. - Dad, is a failure. It was not a failure. The welts left already place in the image of Stefania.

- She managed to hack the fifty-third chain, the most popular and time of the greatest Hark! exclaimed Rose, much admired. We did shut our son, indignant at being deprived of his favorite show, and I increased the sound to hear better the words of our friend. Somewhere in a forest, perched on a mound grassy Stefania harangued a small crowd. Focus on her face once so happy and now tense. - Thank you all for coming, she said. I know what courage it takes to promise to engage in bad risk to sully his karma. But it’s for the good of humanity whole that we act. Rumor approval. Travelling on boys black tank top muscle tattooed and girls with long hair hanging over their ripped jeans. Together to millions of viewers, Stefania addressed his followers. - The world is in itself neither good nor bad. The nature, God, or some principle whether we assign the direction of our lives, do not bring reward or punishment. To us to learn from our experiences. There is only one fault: ignorance. “The whole history of mankind is full of abominations and atrocities. As we still learn from them. Education received in the pain is always more effective a lesson in joy. “But I can assure you, at the Last Judgement relive the

pleasures and all the suffering you have procured for your neighbor. All your experiences. Because the Earth is the place of experience. All your actions here, you understand the importance when you death. In fact, I assure you, when the archangels will indicate the scope of the blame for your actions, they respond not with anger nor indignation. They laugh just your stupidity. “The purpose of existence is not goodness. The purpose of a existence is the realization of self. The purpose of an existence is not to be nice, but to be constantly aware of. The purpose of existence is to abolish ignorance. “In Italy, during the thirty-year reign of the Borgias, the country has experienced war, terror, murder, poisoning and produced by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and all the current spiritual renaissance. In Switzerland, they brotherly love, five centuries of peace and democracy, and what they produced? Watches for power accurately measure the time of their trouble without end. “Since time immemorial, the Good fight against evil Beau against the ugly, the truth against falsehood, Yang against Yin, and this is constant confrontation What always sprung knowledge and progress since both are never been without the other. “But with the knowledge of the Continent Ultimate, with

this trend so human to always want to simplify everything, people have brought the goal of life to one and unique requirement: the goodness! What a mistake! In truth, I stated, evil is essential to the balance of things here below. Fifty boys and girls, more sinister each other, chanted around it: - We will bring evil! We will bring evil! - Thank you, my friends. Thank you.I’m sorry In a first attempt to bring humanity back to a correct view of reality, we have already sent in beyond a group of tourists Greek Thanatonautes of circumstances that had nothing to do in Paradise. This is just the beginning, we will continue our Fighting spirit In truth, I assure you, we will not stop there. The black eyes of Stefania flashed. She was as transfigured in its efforts to convince the rightness of his cause. A bearded shaggy jumped next to her. - In the threat and violence, we terrorize Thanatonautes. We will obtain closing thanatodromes. Persons engaged in a takeoff will advance by us sentenced to death. Last

Warning, tourists of death! Laughter and applause. Roar of motorcycles. A punk in relation identified with kohl and mouth Scarlet shouted above the tumult: - It’s not just thanatodromes! Evil must be everywhere! And we must end the sentimentality room! For this, there are simple things! - What do you suggest? asked a hoarse voice. - Why not revive the hard rock? Is heard more than classical music or planing in stores and on the radio. There’s really tired. Th want to rock concerts of thunder! Rock, rock! chanted the activists of Evil. - You want some? I have. The camera fell on the rock fan. Increased its motorcycle, cigarette between his lips, a type unshaven, bandanna to front, brandished as a relic a cassette. ab was registered on behalf of a group, AC DC, and a title, very

old while promising, Highway to Hell. His mount was pledged to a cassette player. He slipped one All around him gazed with envy.p> He increased the volume to maximum and the air was filled with sounds more and more violent. They all trémoussèrent once in a sort of barbaric

tribal dance, surrounding Stefania their leader and imitating his lascivious movements. The same excitement the winners. Between them, they wake up the world.

- If we exist, God willing! cried Stefania. - If we kill, God willing! yelled the bearded man. - If we love hard rock, God willing! exclaimed the punk. - God is good, but God is evil, because God is, ‘said Stefania, breathless. Up there, I met Satan and, indeed, I assure you, he’s a very respectable ! Stop the music, Billy Joe. The motorcyclist obeyed immediately. No dancer, and Yet they were all in ecstasy, like the dervishes turners, did not protest. Apparently, Stefania was venerated to his family of worshipers of evil and he obeyed the finger to the eye. - It’s not just hard rock to have disappeared. There are : as alcohol. People are afraid to drink because they fear to behave badly under the influence of alcohol. All distilleries have virtually disappeared from the surface of the Earth. Let us open in the clandestine and pour out the bottles everywhere. I thought in petto it should have from time to time her former husband. There’s at least one of which had not given up! And obviously, bottles, he knew where to dégoter. Promoters of Evil do not find at least the idea excellent. Widespread drunkenness, was an idea that their kicking. Alcoholism, it promised men roueraient strokes women and children, motorists drunk crushers good people and why not rape, all impulses released! A great stone in the garden kindness! - Yeah. Congratulations alcohol! - And after alcohol, there

are still … - Drugs, suggested Billy Joe, who apparently understood quickly. - Drugs! approved Stefania. Recreate networks of dealers. There must have a few stocks in the suburbs. Just ask politely former bosses. They fileront coke without problems so they will be safe to commit a good deed coming to the aid of junkies in need. The sounds of AC DC sounded again in the background

violent before Stefania will summarize:p> - My friends, you all know now what you have to do: find new recruits, assassinate Thanatonautes, spread alcohol and drugs. Total in fact I can assure you, we will succeed in reinstating the sacred balance between Good and Evil. Then, setting right the camera and addressed his audience cathode, it concludes quietly - Evil is reborn. All tremble or visit us join! A kind of fog invades the small screen and Freddy Junior could get on with his cartoon. 276 - police files

Message to the services concerned Not our fault. Human movement spontaneous. Did not need Stefania Chichele to put Thanatonautes incapable of harm. Natural reaction to laxity that has lasted too long.

Response services affected Not matter whether you are or not involved. We take yet old policy of openness. 277 - MYTHOLOGY ZOROASTRIAN A fifth of the dead out of the earth, endowed with body and having the same appearance as when they death, where the breath had left their bodies. They arise in pairs, the father and son, wife and husband, the master and disciple, one who commands and the that follows.

Arise, O corporeal beings, you who have followed the yasat, you who are dead on this earth! Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 278 - RESULTS Despite all his enthusiasm and his eloquence, Stefania failed to revive the forces of evil. It did not reach never gather more than a hundred thugs, which s’échinèrent to delinquency in general indifference. The Italian distributed thousands of leaflets that people picked up without reading them to throw in the trash the

Nearest They contributed well to the cleanliness of the city, a bonus easy. Some newspapers took up the text with no more results. He does not lack of interest: “What are the sins of choice? Kill? But if a god, any god exists, it has never prevented people to exterminate them. To otherwise, wars have become a way as another to prevent overcrowding and thus prevent the humans to crush the other species. Fly? Who are we to claim that anything is up to us alone and not another? Fly is not a sin, but rather the refusal to give to others that would be. Disregard the name of God? But if a god exists, it certainly is an entity very wise and intelligent

gente, so devoid of pride and pretension. God, if a God exists, could not care less and those who worship and those who insult him. Do not respect the sacred things? But nothing is sacred.

The priests who claim to be the interpreters of a god make commit themselves the sin of pride. Who can dare say that such a place, such things are sacred? Claim, only claim. The angels are not aware of any. There is an authority above them. Call it God if you want, but

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Know that God cares absolutely good deeds and kindness. Peoples of the world, wake up! Kindness, there is nothing worse. “ In his fury, our friend had thrown out the window the Book of the dead Tibetan, his breviary of the past, to rush on the Little Red Book of Mao Tse-tung. She was burning for the taste of the action of the Chinese president. Like him, she felt that it is in contradiction is revealed the true nature of the world and is compared willing to Great Helmsman, speaking of the need a permanent revolution

and preparing, too, a Long March. The contradiction is the driving force thought, said Mao. The revolution Evil is a necessity for humanity, completed Stefania Chichele. Mao had his Red Army, she had her black army. His troops enjoyed themselves well in their debauchery. As best was something gained. At the price they pay their sins up there, as they primarily benefit the pleasure to do a little evil in this world. Difficult to reverse in a world filled by goodness! The “poor”, they said all took pity for these unfortunate propagators of evil in the karmas if damaged! Thanks to them, however, there became less bland. We watching for their next evil deed that will spice up a little if dull day. They were also admirers who rented their selfless courage. And also, with these “bad guys”, one could win with it some bonus points. Now that all the clothes available were given to the Companions of Emmaus, when someone chanced drugs, alcohol or weapons in an attic, he immediately despatched to the lovers of evil. They were nice kill many tourists from Paradise this did not prevent the affairs of the specialized agencies Turn over again. Assassination was undoubtedly a good way to die a martyr.

279 - It does not get better It was then that Lucinda decided to end his life. Bystanders found him mangled foot the Montparnasse Tower. The President had spanned the parapet for a rainy day which made the road shimmering.

Jump into the void a lot of courage. Mainly in bad weather. In addition, many of those who their exit fare. It must be said that in general they choose the fourth or fifth floors. Then either they land softly on a hood of a car or a rubbish, or they end up legs crushed, paraplegic in a wheelchair. Lucinda him, did not leave any chance. He jumped the fifty-eighth floor. As always effective, was put in position a paratrooper head first to make it safe and fast. Why had he killed while all indicators polished

ticks were in good shape? In retrospect, I wonder if, as Stefania, he had not been suddenly disgusted

by that company soft he had himself contributed to to create Was it that he wants to s’autocondamner and to turn into wandering soul! A housekeeper discovered the will that deceased had placed on his desk: “I finally understood that it is useless to be famous, wrote our friend. Immortality is razor. I want it removes my name from all the history books and dictionaries. I want debunks all my statues. Th want us to remove all street signs to my name. I hope the funeral of the most simple, without pomp and no procession. I do not want to be buried in a coffin padded under a marble slab. Flowers or wreaths, no tears, no requiem or funeral oration. I ask be buried under a tree. And without stele indicating my presence. I want to go directly to the earth being invaded by the roots of the tree, nibbled by slugs, earthworms, bugs. Despite my suicide, perhaps I

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reincarnated I and humus fertile? If my body has served only

little in my lifetime, it is at least one good compost after my death. I long to understand, but now I see the meaning of life. President or tramp, king or slave, we are all the same. Only small grains sand lost in the universe. I claim the privilege of have been a grain of sand for humanity. I was a grain of sand, of course, but I know that without grains of sand, there would never beaches. “ Of course, the interior minister decided to burn on the spot a text as subversive. The death of President Lucinda could have a new brake application movement Thanatonautes. This is not was nothing. After his magnificent funeral, unlike wishes also ignored by all, he devoted chapters integers in the history books, we built a gigantic statue in his likeness on the place of Hôtelde-City : …………………………………. The interim government decreed that the thanatodrome ButtesChaumont he had created would be called now thanatodrome Lucinda, as well as Medal Thanatonautes would now medal Lucinda. There are countless cities and villages which they dedicated avenues, streets and squares. You can sometimes choose his life, but it is difficult to choose death!

Richard Picpus was elected easily president. His first speech was a tribute to Lucinda. He said that his only goal was to continue the work of the great “Initiator “The Thanatonautes. At the end of the ceremonies that Raoul told me that he intends to remarry. Stefania had so away from his life that he considered himself free. 280 - ADVERTISING On the TV screen, a man in white coats, Quarantine smiling in front of a blackboard.

“Hello, I am Professor Filipini. I am a scientist. I have long carried out research on life. See this formula (the teacher holds up a rule to table) is that of hydrogen. An atom, an electron is simple. Watch below (the rule moves on the table). This is the formula of DNA. Deoxyribonucleic acid. Rather complicated, right? Well, life is that, and there are very few in the Universe. The Universe is up to 99% of poor hydrogen and one finds only 0.00000001% of DNA as it is complex life. Same man is unable to make, of life. Do not waste yours. Every life is precious. If you do not respect yourself, respect life chemical that is in you. “ Sweet female voice-over: “This is a message from the

ANPV, National Agency for the promotion of life. “ 281 - Mesopotamian mythology “But you Gilgamesh What ever your belly is satiated

Be happy night and day Make every day of your life A celebration of joy and pleasure That your clothes are clean and sumptuous Washing your head and bathe yourself Flatters the child who holds you by the hand Rejoice the wife who is in your arms. These are the only rights possessed by men. “ The Epic of Gilgamesh. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 282 - wedding The elect of Raoul was Amandine. I did not expect more. Neither Rose nor I had surprised tender looks, brushing of hands, stolen kisses in the evenings

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penthouse. We did not hear doors slamming during the night between the two apartments. In addition, the During his endless drinking, Raoul had stopped cry Stefania. Finally, the facts were there and the bride and groom radiant. Nine months later, Amanda gave birth to a small Burnet. The event shook the personality of Raoul’s completely. He who had always lived according his parents, that he found himself a father himself and moved to the other side of the fence. Now he threw on his own parents look quite different. We had a long discussion in his living room. Suddenly became lucid, Raoul understood how his mother was able to turn away from a man who neglected her to do concern than death. Of course, she hated her father, she had deceived him, but she had still not murdered with his hands. It was he who, realizing his solitude in a world where, just beyond, he was not interested, had decided to hang himself. His wife had not itself attached to the toilet! He spoke and Burnet shouted. It was his way of

communicate with the world. As soon as she was not receiving. the attention it wanted, it did not tend to more quickly the toy she claimed, she screamed. Amandine is undertook to calm her down. Under the decibels of the girl, Raoul told me his last reflections: - There is only one way to love his parents while forgive them, whatever they did. Then, there is no to forgive yourself for not they have forgiven before. My friend remembered the little things that make big grudges childish. Thus, when he was little he could not stand not her mother do the dishes rather than dealing him. “Wait three minutes,” she said. It in would then be neglected and not to give instant his tyranny. He closed his love for the punishment, it denying the same time. On reflection, his relationship with his parents looked like enough to mine the

Burnet howling and Raoul rushed to his turn. In her arms, she began slowly her tears. Would she, too, to forgive him one day not to be ran faster? Would she one day forgive him for not not offering him all the love and all the toys in the world? 283 - ADVERTISING

A big boy lanky, mop disheveled, dressed in jeans, is lounging in an armchair in brown leather. Hello. My name is Thomas Frilinot. Me, life, love well go with a group of friends. Life alone is well, but with friends, it’s even more fun. What we do in our life together? Uh, well we playing cards and then … bof, we play mostly cards. And me, friends, cards, love it. And life also, of course. Because without life, maps, and friends, it would be really bad, right? So live life, guys! “ Soft voice, “This is a message from the ANPV, National Agency for the promotion of life. “ 284 - Vedic philosophy “Man has a thousand heads It has a thousand eyes, thousand feet Covering the earth from side to side He still exceeds ten fingers. The man is nothing but this world What happened, what is to come. He is the master of the field immortal Because it grows beyond food. “ Rig-Veda. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 285 - it gets harder ALWAYS

That night I had a dream. The dream was so strong, so realistic, so logical, so consistent and so scary at the same time, I hastened to record in the morning in great detail. Here is the story as I wrote this morning. “The Archangel Gabriel descends to Earth to contact the General Assembly of the United Nations. His speech is simple and straightforward. Humans do not cease to reproduce, services, he says, are completely overwhelmed by the dead each day. Seven billion humans is too much! How to weigh all these souls with only three jugesarchanges, even working twenty-four hours twenty-four ! The country orange is full of souls waiting. The records are sloppy. There have been mistakes. Sages were reincarnated as gangsters while perfect scoundrels became pure spirits, with a cycle of reincarnations prematurely and unfairly interrupted. The archangel Gabriel thus has a choice to humans: or regulate finally properly births, send aid to the sky. After all, since the ectoplasm from living bodies come to the edge the Continent Ultimate, why would they stay not help identify and monitor the cards karmic? Meeting in emergency session, the Heads of State of the planet fully understand the problem. They recognize that it is impossible to impose a strict control of births. They are

switching to the second solution: sending officials ectoplasmic Paradise. A new class of pen-leather is born. Of used the paperwork to turn every morning agents ectoplasmic and sit on their thrones takeoff like others, at the same time, take subway or commuter train. Up there, the angels have planned for their offices where they analyseont all their cards to their customers. Of course, these international civil servants are sworn. However, one of them commits the first

prank by warning his son, after consultation with its plug, if it does not cease to terrorize his fellow class, it will be reincarnated as a slug. This seems trivial, yet the oath is broken. No one is perfect and governments, from still developing with the growth of populations, ectoplasm sworn were soon so numerous that incidents are increasing. For example, with respect to the kid who insists on play the bad heads, his father eventually change slightly the cord, just to settle the karma of his offspring. It adds 100 points. Hop it! Quickly. Not seen, not taken. But it’s not just the family, there are friends. And friends of

friends … And those, always well informed, who, knowing that employees, even sworn never so well paid than that, manage to find their identity and address an envelope properly. A few tickets, and that’s a good reincarnation of guaranteed! Gradually, it is established a real black market good reincarnation. The rich pay to find out the exactly is their karma and how many sins they can still afford. In advance, they make sure to be reborn in affluent families and in excellent health. So that rich stay rich and healthy in their next life. The poor remain poor and sick in their next life.

It is no longer a dream is a nightmare. A new bourgeoisie appears: the thanatocrats. Regardless of his behavior here, it becomes impossible

sible to be reincarnated as a better if you can not afford Financial to bribe an official ectoplasmic. In the past, which frightened the most people was to commit sins. Now it is to be poor, because

you know you will remain forever, for all its reincarnations, with no way out of this circle cycle of failure. All the rules are changed. We no longer live for money. Everything is good to get: theft, prostitution, fraud, crime, drug trafficking. This is the opposite of the period virtuous. Any act does to the conquest of money. My son Freddy was attacked by racketeers at the exit the school. My wife Rose is snatch her purse the supermarket. Mafia rising from the ashes. No longer hesitate to hire professional killers to seize the property of others or get rid of a rival business. Have money can rebuild their virginity karmic, so why trouble? The world is completely dominated by money. The remains of different religions are launching a campaign for the humans stop meddling in the affairs of Paradise. But giving up the afterlife is to make again all responsibilities to the angels, or they are no longer able to manage the seven billion people on the planet. The world

becomes more and more wild and more in addition to ignoring … “ I was awake shivering and sweating. Was it possible we’re misguided at this point? I felt sure, the angels me a message their channel of communication usual: the dream. And its content was clear: stop everything before the situation escalates to the point of control. Quickly, I shower, got dressed and went down lunch with the other coffee. I found only Raoul. Junior had already left for kindergarten. Almond and Rose had gone shopping. I looked at the cat cafe. It seemed safe. Ministry kind of cat that has it all and merely lounging in its reincarnation. Happy beast. It would revive likely in the form of a very relax. Then a policeman jumped into the cafe, yelling. It was difficult to understand what he bellowed but basically it meant “Your thanatodrome, they are now ransack your thanatodrome! “

286 - Jewish philosophy “Just as the human body consists of members and parts of

various ranks with all these actions and reactions to form a single body, and the wider world is a hierarchy created things, when they have each other for actions and appropriate responses, are literally one organic body. “ Zohar. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 287 - ATTACK AT FORT Buttes Chaumont These were the worshipers of evil. Stefania had had their order to destroy our thanatodrome. Through the windows on the ground floor and the store, we saw demolish everything with rifle bat baseball and chain biking. Raoul gave me a nudge. - You and me against the fools? This sentence I plunged at once in the past. When Raoul and I were still best friends world and when it impressed me so much by using his voice against the worshipers of Beelzebub. The challenge was difficult and But we managed. Again, the victory seemed beyond our reach. But see the store from my mother ransacked, balls souvenir containing dry, split, letting sink their pretty liquid, the posters of Paradise torn Tshirts soiled, photos of Amanda coated whiskers or other obscene drawings, I boosted.

We passed the door. First, no one paid attention. Raoul could even take a long tube Metal protecting a giant poster and me tender. I went over. Suddenly, I forgot how we we were angry, how he became an alcoholic. Th clutching the improvised weapon.

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We were together. He and I against the fools. Him and me against the world. He took also an aluminum tube. There were two hooligans quite frightening. Hairy, smelly, body tattoo skulls and signs Hell, they wore rictus of rage and cruelty. One was busy splitting with a knife scarves representing the map of Paradise while the other broke with the teeth dolls angels the most popular. - Stop it now! barked Raoul. We broke the stunned. They believed that in a world so sweet, no one would dare oppose their raid. They had taunted successfully police and soldiers. They felt invincible.

One moment they stopped, banned, but resumed quickly. The biggest approached us, almost smiling. It held out his hand as if to shake one of us, then, come near, he gave me a big kick in the lower abdomen. I should have stayed on my guard. I forgotten that the worshipers of evil did not respect anything and had no code of honor. I collapsed, cut in half. I had just enough time to see Raoul jump to punish the miscreant a blow of aluminum tubing on the head. The second we rushed ab The scene turned to boxing. I stood up and was fighting the best I could. To my surprise, I do clapped not too bad. Perhaps the wars of Paradise Had she given more confidence. After all, had I not knocked down, with the help of Amanda, of course, the terrible master of Hashishins? I take a plaster statue representing Felix and crushed the head of the great. The guy collapsed. Thank you, Felix. Ministry second does not claim his account and fled to the floors to seek reinforcements. We proceeded on. The sixth floor, we override four beefy armed axes that fun at all to smithereens. They destroyed chairs, broken one by one all screens control, and oscilloscopes for identifying the flights.

He who seemed their leader had a face that was familiar.

For the first time, recognition was each other. - Well, well, who do I see? he said. Raoul recognized too. Was the big Martinez. Our class enemy that we had saved their lives in the first flights Thanatonautes. I remembered a lesson Meyer: “If someone hurts you and you do not avenge yourselves, you will want very strong. If someone hurts you and that you not only do revenge not but what more you save his life or you make it well, you hate a terrible hatred. But we must love our enemies, even if only because they see is on the nerves. “ Was. Far from being grateful for having spared risky experiments Fleury-Merogis, Martinez we wanted to have denied the celebrity Félix. He rushed with his ax as Raoul tried clumsily block of the aluminum tube. It was cut into two Simultaneously, two Malabar fell upon me. Raoul, a kick properly adjusted, reached the fingers Martinez clutching the ax. The edged weapon fell. - Bastard, I will have your skin! said our former comrade . He grabbed Raoul’s head and began to shake. Corn slender and flexible, my friend pulled away to grasp the size. I had no time to follow further their duel. Already. my opponents overwhelms me. We fought like kids, I tell them pulled their hair and they’ll scratched the necks of their long

dirty fingernails. It fell to the ground. The others were about to have the upper hand when suddenly a voice is heard. - I’m here guys! Maxime Villain rushed to the rescue, armed with a nunchaku. With this weapon East it was pretty laughable, but the reinforcement was very much appreciated. It’s still useful to have friends. - You have to call the police! bawling myself. - It will not help, said Villain. They dare never fight, even the cops are afraid of damaging their karma! It was the general hubbub. The objects were flying, to the faces, hitting bat baseball whipped the air, interspersed with the dull thud of fists against flesh. We were all so busy we tap it and we strangle that we prêtâmes not pay attention to a roar Motorcycle followed not dry up the stairs. A figure appeared in the doorway. Stefania. Enough! intima does. She pointed a large revolver caliber automatic 9 mm. We raised our hands. The round Italian was much thinner in its forests. Chestnuts and squirrels, it does not feed. She was beautiful, with a large black cape with red facings. Thus, She looked a bit like my fantasy of the third country. She gazed with delight. - A long time ago that I wanted this interview, she says. - It

was enough to call. We have made an appointment, observed Raoul, sly. Apparently she did not relish the humor of his former husband. Behind her, his henchmen roared. - Stop prating, Raoul, shouted it, employing the tone of warlord had become. - But I’m listening, Stefania, I’m all ears. - Know when my men and I came here to destroy the thanatodrome. I have many, many thoughtful, Raoul. We were wrong. We are lost from the start. We must destroy the monster we have built. Martinez, who was bleeding from the mouth, proposed by massaging the cheek - Let’s begin by destroying these guys? - No, she said firmly. These are my friends. She came to me brushing: You are my friends, Michaelese, Raoul, Maxime. In you, I will never do wrong. But all that is needed to demolish. Let’s go ! commanded she. And his band began to rampage, breaking everything. They dismembered the thrones of takeoff, they broke the devices, they crushed the vials. - Raoul, begged Stefania while continuing to keep us in playing with his gun. For pity’s sake, put an end to the Thanatonautes. Otherwise, it can only go from bad to worse. Raoul lowered his hands and approached her. I was convinced it would take, but no bullet came out of the barrel

when he took his lips. Meyer was right when he repeated: “We must love our enemies, even if only because they see deals nerves! “They were kissing and this moment of violence suspended with a kiss was something magical. Too fairytale. Martinez could not stand it. Benefiting from stupor Overall, he picked up his ax and planted in the back of Raoul. Everything happened so fast that no one had time to react. Raoul opened his eyes wide with surprise then, including he had just been assassinated, he smiled and began to embrace greedily Stefania. It was she whom he loved more and he wanted from a kiss. He had discovered the death, the ultimate meaning of life and yet, at the approach of his death, he thought only one last moment of pleasure. Love a little on this earth before leaving elsewhere. Then he fell on his knees, the ax still stuck IN THE BACK - Quick, I cried, it’s not too late, you must re-walk a throne off ectoplasmic, we will recover before the soul reaches the world of dead! No! said Stefania, sobs in his voice. No! let it die quietly. She made a sign to his henchmen and they tied him up. Hands tied, I rushed forward to m’appro

expensive to Raoul. It was not yet completely gone. It

opened his eyes, recognized me, smiled and mumbled something thing I was the only one to hear: “The link is settled I knocked down all the evil in me O Osiris powerful I finally born Look at me, I have been born. “ He dragged himself to kiss the feet of the Italian and had a final jolt. We were losing time, I was furious. But Stefania had made his decision: Raoul had to die “normally”. As before, no one tries to stop him. Before, I remember, people were dying and it was concerned only their funeral and their regrets. It is so common today make up the dying as I had forgotten. The soul of Raoul started with a kiss last memory this “low” world. Pretty dead, indeed! I would like to succeed and mine. I thought that Raoul had known love. He had loved his father developed to follow him in his adventure. He loved his mother as to forgive him for not having loved enough. He loved books. He had loved to the point of train in its wake. He had loved Amandine. He had like Stefania. Meyer said: “It is very difficult to love Really? In general we have only one life for this, it must not miss. “ The body of Raoul was lying in the arms of Stefania. Its

eyes filled with tears. Around us, his henchmen knew very well what to do. Their leader in tears: this was contrary to all precepts of the worshipers of evil! They sat there dangling arms. - Come, let us go, she said. Motorcycles pétaradèrent. The worshipers of evil disappeared as they had appeared. I looked at the corpse of my friend. The mortal coil was probably already emptied of its soul. Could we put a spirit in that pile of meat? It was now too late, the soul of Raoul was already be in the territory orange, mixed with the billions dead. We never meet again. When I was convinced he was dead, irrevocably dead, I realized that Raoul had been my brother. My only real big brother. I wanted to howl at the moon like the coyotes of

desert. Aouuuuuu. But no one understood that it is my only natural way to express my sorrow. When his best friend dies, do not howl at the moon as a coyote, we must cry. Everyone knows that. 288 - HISTORY TEXTBOOKS It was in 2068 that Maxime Villain, one of the masters of ia Thanatonautes, states: “As long as man is deadly, it can be

relaxed. “ Was the answer to the centuries in American philosopher Woody Allen. Indeed, what is more horrible than immortality? Imagine you a life that does not finish last, to repeat, extend to infinity? It would quickly become bored of everything, sad, unmotivated, cantankerous. We would have no purpose in time, more hope, more limited, more fear. The days ticked mechanically without being appreciated. - elevators gifted could reign without end. Everything would be all over blocked by the strongest that never gets old. Names would have the opportunity to end his life. Immortality is a thousand times worse than death. Fortunately, our bodies age, our time on earth is limited, our karmas are renewed, as each new life is full of surprises and disappointments, joys and betrayals, of pettiness and generosity. Death is essential to life. Really, let’s be casual … because, by chance, one day we die! History textbook classes during elementary 2 years.

289 - Ectoplasm RAZORBAK The Archangel Gabriel greeted the ectoplasm Raoul Razorbak with the deference due to a Great Initiate. - This time for good, found he simply. After a brief confab, the three archangels-judges 488

remembered with a Great Initiate, there was no need to weighing or bargaining for a future life. This soul already knew everything. The procedure was necessarily different. The archangel Raphael explained briefly Raoul its merit in previous lives had earned him the death fast enough for an ax in the back. Its merits he had also gained access to all knowledge he had desired, and especially to become a Great Initiate. Time, however, was not yet come for his soul to be transformed into pure spirit: he had too sin pride, had allowed himself to drunkenness, had maintained impulses for revenge. However, facing a Great Initiate, and given the qualities that enabled him to access this place, the custom wanted the archangels abandon their prerogatives of judges. In the ectoplasm Raoul Razorbak, therefore, itself decide its next reincarnation.

The soul of our friend thanked him with gratitude. He was the first to know not to be in possession of six hundred points needed to end the cycle. - I want to be reincarnated as a tree, announced the ectoplasm of Razorbak. - What? fright the archangel Gabriel. - In the tree, repeated firmly Raoul. The Archangel Michael tried to reason with him. - Well, you know that consciousness evolves the mineral to the vegetable, the vegetable to the animal and the animal to humans. We reserve this kind of regression to frank scoundrels. Tree is unworthy of you. - Maybe, but I’m so tired! In lucidity I beg you to grant me this regression. I’m tired from the busy world of humans. Even animals move too. I want to find the stillness of the plants. For me, this is not a regression but a relief. - Let it be done according to your will! sighed the archangel Gabriel. - Okay, did the soul invigorated. Show me this you have to offer me as a body spray. It must well be somewhere pairs of plants being to copulate, pollen Daisy contacting stamens males of a congener. Put me in a seed, one potato, an onion! I gush then the ground to a lifetime of healthy immobility. Quiet at last quiet. - But plants are not at all the quiet life! exclaimed the archangel Raphael. The wind whips, herbivores graze, rainfall and drowning, animals and human crush them

without noticing. - Yes, but as the plants have no system nervous, they do not suffer. A seraph project several bubbles love plants. It was quite poetic. Together, Raoul and archangels and examined with candor. - Hey, look there! exclaimed the archangel Michael. A seed grape in Sauternes is being done fertilization in France. It is the Chateau Yquem, a great believed. See what vine! It is exposed to warm sunshine, it enjoys sufficient moisture, growers maintain it with love. It might be nice to become a small plant Vine. Raoul looked at him with tenderness the plant that was be its parent. He found his future father a little twisted but very nice. So he decided to be grape. 290 - Hindu philosophy For each, there is a “Book of Life.” The Orientals call it “Archive akhashique.” On its pages are recorded acts and thoughts of previous lives of each and future lives necessary to appease the karma. The mind can choose to start with it or by this, to settle debts in a lifetime lived in the seventeenth century rather than those of his last life. Ministry harm inflicted in the latest reincarnation is perhaps already offset by the good done in a previous life. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 291 - police files

Message to the services concerned Now what?

Response services affected You were right. It is time to intervene. 292 - CHAIN A cat in heat meows on the sidewalk at 2 h 11 of the morning. An insomniac annoyed swore, opens its window and launch a slipper toward the cat. The projectile misses and lands on the windshield of a car. The driver slows sec. Good for the cat crossing the street running, too bad for the vehicle that was behind, the driver has not had time to realize what was going on and pressed the first car. The shock caused a fuel leak in the tank. Everybody out. While we discuss findings and insurance, from dropping a few glowing ash of his cigarette into the puddle. Gasoline ignites. Both cars explode. A wing fiery wings to fall into the dustbin where fled pussy. Terrified, she runs to a wall, knocking the passage an empty tin which was hiding a big rat. Disturbed, the animal runs to an empty lot. Two fellows are exerted to smash in a basket Basketball in the light of a street lamp. When one sees rats, it jumps up and sends the ball high above the wall. Continuing its trajectory at high speed, it bounces against a window while a woman phones her husband. Under the broken glass, she screams piercing. However, the husband is air traffic controller and converse at work. To cry of terror of his wife

ringing in the earpiece, it has a side movement. This is enough to push a wheel. It turned out that this dial indicated in an airliner approaching its precise position relative to the runway.

293 - DEVELOPMENT 2 h 13 in the morning at my wristwatch. I said everything. Oh no! I check my notes and see that I forgot indicate how you draw a circle and its axis without lifting his pen. Just fold a corner of the sheet of paper. Mark a big point on the edge, riding on the tails and the side face. From this point to draw a semicircle on the turned edge. When you reach the edge of the board paper stop. There is no more than unfold the paper to complete, without lifting the pencil, the circle around the point used as axis. Faced helped pile. You will have used a foray into another dimension to better achieve something seemingly impossible. Use another dimension … Raoul had reason to solve problems there Admittedly, one can go in a different type space where one has all the rights. This goes well beyond all mystics. It’s just that expand the mind. Fun to expand the mind. As said Maxime

Villain, the only goal of the writers must be there: “To dream more far. Dream on the other side of the sheet. To dream on the other side of death. Anything is possible in writing, why not enjoy it? Sometimes just by writing or reading, I gets really in other dimensions. I think it is the same with the destiny. For they are complete, they must begin in universe and end in another. If I rested now my familiar questions: “Where am I? Who I am ? Where i am going? “I think I could try to answer them. I know I am a human being, living here and now. Why ? To participate in the discovery of thanatonau

tick. I know that human thought can all fly and pass through the material at the speed of the imagination, s’emma

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is inside. Everything is in the center. Outside, there is only reflections. I know I’m a corpse on borrowed time. I reread it, I said everything. I just wrote, I can forget everything. Thank you to the angels for giving me the time to tell history of the conquest of the continent Ultimate. But do I publish it? This contribution will he a good or bad for {0}{0}”(L’humanite){/0}{/0} Pile, I publish. Face, I do not publish. Perpetual reflection on the obverse and reverse. I run. The play runs on a armchair. On all fours, I look. Stack One last sentence again for my book, “Until last moment, I feared they prevent me from writing This ouv … “ 294 - READ IN A DAILY “Michael Pinson, Amanda Ballus, Rose Finch, the leading pioneers of Thanatonautes, died yesterday night in unusual

circumstances. A Boeing 787 has cut down on their thanatodrome. The disaster would original human error, falling to a traffic controller heaven. Experts are currently looking into ruins the black box of the device that will bring more further details. Their death was instantaneous. Investigators reconstituted at the time of death Michael Pinson was writing at his desk. All sheets have been calcined in the drama, it remains unclear what message the pioneer of Thanatonautes sought to convey. Â by now, they are surely in this paradise they contributed so much to discover. Peace to their souls. ” (On sale from next week: a special issue on the life and work of Thanatonautes French.)

295 - Indian mythology An old Hindu legend ensure that there was a time where all men were gods. But they abused both of their divinity that Brahma, the lord of the gods, decided depriving them of the divine power and hide in a place where it would be impossible to find. The difficulty was to find a good hiding place. Summoned to a council to solve this problem, minor gods suggested “bury the divinity of rights in the land. “Brahma

said,” It will not be enough not because man dig deep and find. “ The minor gods then proposed: “In this case, tokens of divinity in the depths of the oceans. - No, ‘said even Brahma, because sooner or later man will explore the depths oceans and it is certain that one day he will discover and rise to the surface. “ The lesser gods concluded, “We do not know where hide the divinity as it seems to exist on earth or in the sea where man can not reach one day. “ Brahma thought, and gave his verdict: “This is what we will do the divinity of man: we will hide the deepest part of himself as the only place where it never think to look. “ And since then, says the legend, the man went around the Earth. He explored, climbed, dove and dug without discover what is in him.

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QUIZ To prepare for the bachelor, test your knowledge

growth in Thanatonautes responding in less than five minutes, watch in hand, the following questions: 1. What was the name and surname of the first Thanatonautes to be formally managed a trip ectoplasmic? 494

2. What are the famous words of American philosopher Woody Allen. 3. How many walls comatose on the Continent Ultimate? Look out! walls, no territories …) 4. What are the three main techniques a decorporation? 5. What is a tachyon? 6. What was the first Thanatonautes to cross the second wall comatose? 7. Which was built the great thanatodrome of Paris? 8. What is the only event perceptible a flight ectoplasmic? 9. Where is Paradise? 10. What does Freddy Meyer to Thanatonautes? 11. What date was the Battle of Paradise? 12. What are the Christian names of the three Archangels-judges of our destiny? 13. How to meditate for a decorporation? 14. Why Stefania Chichele turned Does it rebel? 15. How to protect

her umbilical cord silver at the flight of his soul? 16. What is the ignorant? 17. What is the wise? History textbook, class terminal. 297 - police files

Message to the services concerned At your service. Are ready.

Response services affected At work. 298 - TIME TO OBLIVION Again I fly to Heaven with my friends. But this time, our umbilical cords are cut

and we know that for this existence, this will be the last trip. Rose, Amanda and I have died in our apartments the thanatodrome des Buttes-Chaumont, victims of Boeing crazy. Villain stumbled home in the kitchen and collided head the acute angle of his machine washing Crockery [Porcelain] We all go at the same second. Without devices, without uniforms, without thrones, without pressing pear. Without shelling our famous “six … five … four … three … two … one. Off. “ We are no longer Thanatonautes. We the dead of the day, happy still to be together for this final journey. We go through at full speed the solar system and its periphery. We hover almost before spinning to the center of the galaxy.

We no longer any apprehension at the gates of death. On the Continent Ultimate, we are now with us. We have so many hikers, as others Palavas-les-Flots or Trouville. I do not pay attention to the winks of Women in white satin mask skeleton. Long ago I no longer fears his empty eye sockets and grinning toothless. We go through all the colors of an ordinary death. Blue, black, red, orange, yellow, green, white. It seems cepen

ing in high places it is pressed to see us. We we go straight through the crowd of the dead waiting as if we were still Thanatonautes. Soon we came to the mountain of light. We did not wrong. The archangels are there

waiting for us. To better talk to us, they interrupt the River of the dead, regardless of protests of ectoplasm in a hurry. St. Peter seems sorry. As usual, he will is responsible for an explanation. Since the earliest times, there have always been Thanatonautes to want to explore the Continent Ultimate. The angels welcomed their rare visitors with kindness and have given willingly mysteries of Paradise. In return, some wanted to trans

put these “revelations” to other humans. Abraham, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, and many others have provided testimony. Thus were born the Bible, the Book of the Dead Tibetan, the Gospel, the Koran, the Tao Te Ching Chinese … and

all the sacred books of the world. The angels had of human Great Initiates and they had not shown themselves ungrateful. They had sought to take advantage of their knowledge all future generations so that they are progressing, getting better and move more rapidly towards a state of pure mind. The Great Initiates had thus contributed and men and heaven. However, they had surrounded their “revelations” of mystery mysticism, symbols airtight. They had hidden under a blanket of legends and mythologies strange. But we, what had we done? We had broken the secret, we had betrayed and, in turn, misled our congeners and caused confusion on Earth. Angels have always been kind to Great Initiates because until we all were wise. We, we had been unconscious. We learned all the meaning of life and sense of death. We had scattered at random through. We invited anyone who follow us. We brought the tourists mess where the mystery must remain mystery and secrecy, secret. “The wise man seeks the truth, the idiot has already found.” The archangel Gabriel annoyed us about our “work”. Battles for possession of Paradise panels advertising in the halls of death, an interview with a mortal published in the press, of karmographes galore … Ha! that disorder! It was really

great time to put an end to our stupid actions. - Very well, ‘said Rose. We’re going back down to Earth and undo everything we did! - More pain, giggles Satan. We no longer need you the bottom. We put the time, but we finally decided to leave the police angels intervene. Look what is happening right now. A cherub casts bubble images. Of thanatodromes, large and small, formal and informal, explode,

struck by lightning. The thrones of takeoff lie disarticulated. History textbooks of Thanatonautes disintegrate to dust. The Museum of Death of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington is on fire, the store of my mother. Advertisements ectoplasmic dissolve under our eyes. A typhoon passes over the lower world, sweeping the passing everything from near and far, concerns the Thanatonautes, erasing forever from the minds of humans. All the work of our previous life returns to nothingness. - You wanted to play to the gods, ton the Archangel Gabriel. But men need to understand the truth themselves. Sacred knowledge can not be popularized. I wonder suddenly: - That’s why you have killed Raoul? - “Yes. He was the first and most dangerous of you. The Wrath earns up to a lovely seraph.

- A little more and your habit of putting the light where should reign the dark, there were street lights and prostitutes on their way to reincarnation. Shyly, I try to defend ourselves: - We are but mere humans and as all humans we make mistakes. - No, scolds the archangel Michael. You are Great Insiders. Instead of enjoying the silence, you spread the meaning of life and thus negated the engine of existence : Curiosity, the desire to learn, to move the way of knowledge. - But that’s just what wanted Raoul! - And that’s what earned him specifically to be initiated. Corn our knowledge does not suffer from being overused. Even the cult members the most outlandish, even the enlightened one day have always understood that they had to keep quiet and speak only in metaphors. But you raw smarter than others. You wanted to popularize “Dead”, you failed … Archangels repeat the litany of our sins. - You have designed and sold maps Paradise, today announced an air sorry the archangel Raphael. - You have published … manuals tourism. - You have developed machines to die. - You have repeated our words. - You have prompted thousands of wandering souls in encouraging suicide. - You look at us without fear. - We miss you respect. - You consider us as your servants and not as masters. The dead awaiting trial constantly impatient to be interested in the scene. Since all the time they are here, they have never seen the archangels lose their

imperturbability to get excited and cons of poor ectoplasm. - Traitors, you’re only traitors! A question bothering me since the beginning of the reprimand. I interrupt to ask. - Okay, but in this case, why did you left to do? Some angels show a sardonic expression. Maybe are these the “police heavenly” that are intervened against us. Apparently, those wanted put us out of harm’s way from the start. These are the others, those who get upset now, we have allowed to continue. The archangel Gabriel did not lead off. - We wanted to know how far you dare go. - We too feel sometimes curiosity against humans, says the archangel Michael, ashamed. They sometimes mind if crooked … For the father of Raoul there had had secret meetings. With his thesis Death this unknown, it had gone too far. Its publication would up too much sail. - Then, when his son took over, we are asked to make these Thanatonautes who considered the discovery of death as a sport. There were the curious like me, so supporters of the yes. In front, it There were supporters of the no and the “police heavenly” that stopped sounding the alarm. However, top, The majority of the seventy-two angels white main and seventytwo double blacks felt that had to wait and see. They advised the angels from below,

our police, not to panic. The Thanatonautes, pensions, we self-destruct itself. Of ordinary human would be unable to concentrate enough to complete an experience as crucial. But you were not the ordinary human. You have reached us and deserve and to become Great Initiates. Only after you have caused too much damage. Ha! These travel agencies ectoplasmic … Even with the best will in the angels could no longer tolerate such incursions into their secret world. No more than men saying, “I know everything.” You should have ponder the biblical allegory of Adam and the apple of knowledge. You should never attain knowledge absolute, only move towards it … - In you, in any case, the joke is finished, slice the archangel Raphael. The Thanatonautes died along with you. - But it’s too late, lamented Rose. Too many people read our books. The concern of karma entered the customs of all. The archangel Gabriel interrupts him with a disdainful gesture. - You commit again the sin of doubt our power, we who have already sent a Flood drowning all the sins of humanity. After all these images we’ve shown, you feel still unable to locate forgotten in our memories? In our memories? - No one will remember your action, said St. Pierre. You will not be another of these waves legends that no one really believes, as Loch Ness Monster, the Yeti of the Himalayas or the triangle of Bermuda. Myths evoke probably Thanatonautes but you hear me: no one imagine the Thanatonautes really existed. I make you solemn oath. It will

only be a second thought in the minds of people particularly susceptible. - And Stefania? I ask. - Stefania forget too. But unlike you, she will be saved because it tried to continue the work of Satan at a time when, with all these vapid, these friendly and the superstitious, he really need a helping hand. Satan nods, pleased. Mothers s’angoissent: - And Freddy Junior? - And Burnet? - They forget too. Fears nothing for them. They will not be punished for the sins of their parents. 299 - Mesopotamian mythology “Six days and seven nights spent Storms of the flood was still blowing Storms in the south covering the country. On the seventh day Storms of the flood That such an army Were all killed on their way Diminished in intensity. The sea calmed The wind subsided The roar of the flood stopped. I looked at the sky, silence reigned. I saw the men again become clay Waters stalls formed a roof. I opened a small window. The light fell on my face I knelt down and began to cry. That was all over. “ Epic of Umm Napishtim, also known as … Noah in the Bible. Extract from the thesis that unknown Death, by Francis Razorbak. 300 - Jewish mythology

According to Kabbalah, the fetus is a great sage. Already in the womb of his mother, he knows all the secrets of the world.

But just before he was born, an angel descends to do shut up. It applies a finger on his lips and said “shhh” … The fetus then forgets everything. Only his unconscious who vaguely remembers the “big secret”. It is Because of this contact angelic that we have a recess under the nose: “The gutter lip. “ Freddy Meyer, Notes of work. 301 - THE SOLUTION We are still before the mountain of light. No angel would dream of taking our defense, Rose, Amandine, Villain and me. All emit more than stable light indicating the final resolution and no Calls, The Archangel Gabriel took the floor again. - Later yet, in a very long time, thousands years perhaps, other Great Initiates arise here, real insiders because we will never accept more tourists. We tell them your story and slowly, very slowly, they will discover your exploits. Small consolation! We write I do not know when to us Another

Odyssey, a Bible, a novel, who knows what! Raoul had reason to believe that all these socalled “Mythologies” hiding the truth. - What will you do with us? concerned Amandine. - You will follow the common path. Like all other dead do not have 600 points, you will be reincarnated and, of course, your reincarnation will remember nothing of your previous life. In my head, I hammered “I was Thanatonautes I been Thanatonautes I was Thanatonautes. “If j’imprègne my soul of this insurance that the Thanatonautes really existed and that I was a pioneer, perhaps it will remember still a bit in the next incarnation. - Go ahead, order the archangel Gabriel. You want what hides the mountain light of Judgement, indeed He smiled.

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- A few steps more and you will know. - You agree finally to show us the bottom of the Paradise? surprised Rose, delighted. - Of course, since you will not return to Earth shout to the winds that you have seen. My wife ahead like a dream. Even in last moment, the astronomer is pleased to meet his curiosity. It runs nearly to discover what is on the other side of the black hole.

- To you, Michael. - I do not go to trial? - No trial for the Great Initiates. I have explained to Raoul. But trust us. You are still young. You do know that one hundred and fifty to three human forms. We have planned for you a friendly small reincarnation. I approach. Rose consider myself anxiously. - You and I together against idiots, issues I telepathically. She rushes and ectoplasm long kiss my mouth. My lips feel nothing but my soul is moved. - Together, repeats it. In my turn, I cross the mountains with light and that I see behind is truly wondrous. This is beyond any what we had seen in all other areas of Paradis. Suddenly, I understand. As we were far from account. No one could have expected it, of course. Fabulous, it’s just fabulous. I see the bottom of the bottom of the black hole and I’m just flabbergasted. It is not at all what I thought. I Trembling with emotion. Now I know. On the other side of death, there a…

MANUAL OF HISTORY

DATES TO REMEMBER 1492: Started in the Americas. 1969: First steps on the moon. History textbook, second year elementary course.

Thanks to: David Bauchard, John Cave, Dr. O’Brian, Jerome Marchand, Frédéric Lenorman, Olivier Ranson, Patrice Serres, Richard Ducousset William Aretos, Catherine Werber, Dr. Loic Etienne.