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Demonstration in San Francisco

As the lights were dimmed in Masonic Auditorium, a man walked down the main aisle toward the stage. He appeared to be holding a device of sorts -- perhaps a briefcase or a box. When he walked up the steps and ascended the stage, it became clear that he was holding a tablet-like device. The reason we knew this was the case was because his image was being broadcast onto a huge 100-foot screen located at the rear of the stage. And that in turn was being shown live on the Internet around the world.

At this moment, the camera operator moved in for a close shot, as the man walked slowly to the podium with his tablet-like computer in hand. His name was still echoing in the hall from the vigorous introduction he received from a fellow member of OzCom. As the applause died down, the man at the podium began to speak.

“Thank you for the nice introduction and your kind welcome. I am most grateful to be standing before you. To be honest, I have never been in front of such a large audience. Add the fact that this event is being webcast to five continents, well, you can understand my nervousness. But then again perhaps you are nervous too!”

The audience responded with a ripple of laughter. It was true; the crowd did not know what to expect! They had heard of the project, including the fantastic claims being made in the media. “A leap in human consciousness.” “A new species is born.” And, of course “Once again, we are being taken for a ride.” But what was the real truth behind the hype of Excalibur?

Satish Chandrasekaran continued:

“Ladies and gentleman I stand before you a slightly confused man. Yes, that’s right. I don’t really know what we have discovered. In fact, we don’t even know for sure if we have created anything! That is for you to decide. I can only present the evidence.”

Satish then began his demo. In the next one hour he performed a demonstration of a web-based program that had become the talk of the technology community -- no, the talk of the world. Satish’s presentation would turn out to be clear and to the point. However, at the end of the hour, you could detect that the presentation had been somewhat of a letdown for the audience. In fact, as it moved into its final phase, there was a definite restlessness in the crowd. Several people even got up to leave.

 

Satish completed the nuts and bolts part of the presentation; the part the techies and hackers in the audience were most interested in. Still he had not gotten to the main event. Finally, after an hour, Satish came to the moment everyone was waiting for. After a long silence, he continued:

“So here is the situation ladies and gentlemen. When I get to the Grail part of Excalibur, something unusual is supposed to take place. Even I am not completely sure what that will be. Let us see what happens.”

The noise level in the auditorium fell to a whisper. Nervous laughter could be heard intermittently in the audience. Once again, Satish stepped up to his voice synthesis microphone and began to speak:

“White knight, allow me to pass.”

A voice responded. “Illegal operation; please restate your intention.”

A groan emanated from the crowd. Also, several catcalls could be heard from the back of the enormous room. Satish then turned toward his audience, humorously throwing his arms up as if to say “that didn’t work; let’s try it again.” The crowd responded with a wave of nervous laughter.

Satish then leaned forward again and spoke into his mouthpiece:

“White knight, holder of the Grail, allow me to pass.”

Suddenly an ethereal, melodic chord emanated from the computer; which was then followed by dead silence. In the audience, once again one could detect a smattering of disappointment. Satish gestured to the crowd as if to say “now what?” Someone in the audience then bellowed out another sarcastic remark.

Somewhat deflated, Satish shook his head from side to side.

However, just a moment after he had given up hope, he heard a murmur from the audience. Then he saw someone point to the right side of the screen located at the front of the room. Satish then quickly turned around to see what people were gesturing at, and saw something moving behind the red curtain just to the right of the edge of the screen. It seemed to be someone pushing against the curtain from the other side. “What was it,” he wondered?

The curtain continued to billow, with what seemed like a figure behind it. Then all at once a woman suddenly emerged, and stood there on the stage in full view of the crowd. She was obviously shocked and embarrassed now that she realized that she had accidentally entered the stage in front of thousands of people!

Frightened and embarrassed, you could hear her cry out: “Oh my God! I am so sorry! What have I done? I feel like such a fool!”

Satish then hurried over to the young woman, and asked her what she was doing there. Unfortunately, she was too stunned to answer. In a tender gesture, Satish then began to gently escort her off the stage.

However, as the two of them exited left, a man suddenly leaped from his seat in the auditorium and cried out.

“No, this is not a mistake! She is the answer we have been looking for! She is the Life Response from Excalibur that we have all talked about! I know her! She is a member of the Great Sisterhood!”