Happy to Hang Around - Travis

Bob has had a few different jobs in his lifetime. After he finished university he went straight into door to door dvd encyclopedia selling, and from there he went on to lead a group of specially trained door to door salesmen who specialised in selling to the old and the handicapped. He said that at the top levels of door to door salesmanship, you have sold your product the moment you ring the doorbell, and that various factors could go into selling them. He said that before ringing the doorbell, an elaborate pre-selling process would occur in which many incidents were staged to lead the person into thinking they needed the product. He said he would have his people talking about dvd encyclopedia's on the bus or at work within earshot of the target, and even to the point of interfering with their radios and playing fake radio competitions in which the answers to questions could be found in the dvd encyclopedia.

After a successful pre-sell, Bob said, a customer purchase was almost guaranteed.

Bob left the door to door selling after a few years and went into painting for a while, creating elaborate impressionist like pieces that displayed feelings of loss and tragedy whilst at the same time hiding strong feelings of hope. He said that once he had discovered this way of painting, he did one a day and sold them at galleries for huge amounts of money. People, he said, knew that life would not give them everything they wanted, and they could see that in the broader views of his paintings, but the feelings of hope that were subtly woven through them gave people something they wanted, and so his paintings came to be regarded quite highly.

The illusion of hope, Bob said, is to most people stronger than hope itself.

Bob then became a studio musician, as he had always played guitar and was at this point quite good at it. He cruised along steadily until his guitar work was recorded on Tamaril Millimar's breakout album 'five fingers of fear and foreverness', and he suddenly became the most wanted hired gun around. He played live with more bands than he can remember, and recorded with even more.

Rock, Bob said, is a world all of it's own.

One day Bob was walking in the park and he met Bethany, who was with a young man around Bob's age called Barry. They got to talking and Bethany taught Bob about the truth in the world around him, and suddenly Bob was able to understand the world in a way he previously could not. He saw Bethany more and more, and eventually he quit his studio musician job and donated almost all of his money to charities, deciding to start fresh in the fresh new world he now lived in.

As it turns out, Bob has a strange sort of energy flow, because unlike other people he has been harmoniously placed so that his energy is always positively enriching. The problem, Bob said, was that his power could run both ways, and bad people could sense it and would want to use it even if they could not see it. Bethany told him she could teach him how to control the flow better but they would have to leave right away. Bob said he never say Barry again, but Bethany assured him that Barry was a strong energy warrior capable of fending for himself.

Bethany's energy flow training, Bob told me, was nothing he could explain to me without blushing and feeling a little dirty. He assured me however, that it is an amazing workout, and it opened his eyes to universes of pleasurable energy flow the likes of which he had never EVER previously known.

Bob seems like a really cool guy.

I was going to head off today but Bethany convinced us to stay an extra few days. She said that this area was a positive area and that we should soak as much of it in as we can before we leave. She looked at me and she said 'if possible i want to suck in ALL the energy in this area, and feel the flow of it all around and inside of me.'

I am not sure i understand Bethany yet.

Blake out.