Not Your Ordinary Alien Story

CHAPTER TEN

It's Monday morning. I'm sitting at the kitchen table sipping cinnamon flavored black tea. Mom rushes in. "Happy Birthday!" she exclaims as she fills her to-go coffee cup.

"Thanks."

"I'm leaving work early today."

"Why?"

"I'm driving over to Grants Pass with Larry," she says as she grabs her purse.

"Why?"

"You'll find out. Just make sure you're here when I get back."

"What time will you be back?'

"Around one."

My shoulders drop. Today was the day I was finally going to make it back to the fallen redwood in the remote area of the forest. "I have some stuff I wanted to do today," I tell her. "Can't it wait until four or five?"

"What stuff?" she asks.

I shrug. "Just stuff."

"Nope, it can't wait. It's very important that you be here." She gives me a secretive smile. "You won't be sorry."

It probably has something to do with my birthday but I don't know what and I can't figure out why our neighbor Larry would be going with her to Grants Pass. "Okay," I say. "I'll be here."

All morning, GranAna keeps looking at me and smiling like she has some sort of big secret. When I ask her what's going on, she only says, "Oh, you'll find out soon enough."

I go to my room. I'm not in a very good mood because first of all, it's not even really my birthday and second, I have to put off going back to the remote area of the forest where the fallen redwood is yet one more day. I sit at my desk, pick up the journal, and flip through it. I stop at the section about Qi, the vital energy the extraterrestrials supposedly usurp from the Earth.

On my computer, I bring up the same article about Qi that I read before. I read the part that says: In Japan it is called "ki," and in India, "prana". The ancient Egyptians referred to it as "ka," and the ancient Greeks as "pneuma." In Africa, it's known as "ashe" and in Hawaii as "mana." Qi, Prana, Ki, call it what you will, this energy is the life force itself, and has as many names as there are civilizations.

In the search engine, I typed in KA ANCIENT EGYPT. I open the first article and read:

The word "Ka" has regularly been translated as "life-force". The Ka was the ancient Egyptian concept of vital essence, that which distinguishes the difference between a living and a dead person, with death occurring when the Ka leaves the body. Each person's Ka is the part of their soul that makes them be alive. The word, Ka, was expressed by a hieroglyph depicting two upraised arms.

There is a link in the article that says: Who Built the Pyramids? Clicking it, I bring up the article and read:

Ancient Egyptian writing often talks of beings from the sky. The ancient writings speak of the sky opening with bright lights coming down. Ancient Egyptian legends tell of Tep Zepi, or the First Time. This is described as an age when "sky gods" came down to Earth. They supposedly flew through the air in flying "boats." Many ancient Egyptian pictures and symbols resemble UFO's.

Possibly, aliens built the Great Pyramid. The pyramid is so huge and so perfect we wouldn't be able to construct something in this day and age that will compare. Each giant stone ranges from 1 to 20 tons in weight, and the Great Pyramid consisted of well over 100,000 stones. But the Egyptians had no machinery, engines, or construction equipment. The Egyptians had not even invented the wheel yet, but the blocks that they had to carry to build the pyramids weighed about 2 tons each, 4,000 lbs.