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connections that everyone else was blind to.”
         Dr. Wheeling was back to nodding his head like a crane going after a fish. “We have to find him! It is so obvious!”
         “What’s obvious?”
         “David, think about it… we were just saying that to explain the behavior of The Object we had to examine it in terms of quantum physics. Then we discover that of all the 6 billion people on this planet The Object wants to communicate with a young physicist who had a strange idea in the field of quantum physics – though perhaps not just at the quantum level -- that was not mainstream and so was rejected. Obviously he was on to something and somehow The Object knows it! Now that is another question for us! So how does The Object know of him? And WHY do they want him”
         “OK, I get it! So we have to find him. But how do we do that? I’m sure the government with all their resources is already looking for him. People all over the world are now looking for him.”
         “The governments are looking for someone with the name Benjamin Planck. But we know who he is. And it would not surprise me that perhaps he will not want to be found.”
          “But we can tell our government who he is.”
         “No David -- that we cannot do! If the government finds him first they will hide him away and keep him from us! He is too important to trust to any government. Too much is at risk!”
         “You don’t trust the U.S. Government?” I was a little shocked that he had said it.
         Dr. Wheeling just shook his head. “The fate of our world may depend on this! Would I trust any government with that? Look what just happened in Korea! There is no Korea now! Millions of people are dead because our governments did not know what to do about one crazy leader who was allowed to keep nuclear weapons as his personal toys!”
         I couldn’t argue the point. “I’ve got to find Ben Planck.”
     
     
     
     
     
     
         The Alien was dazzled by the lights of downtown Tokyo. The crowds of humans pulsed with a frenetic energy that this Alien found distasteful. He had requested to come to observe Japan in the hope that he would find something different. But this seemed much like what his cohort had observed upon his visit to New York. He realized he had been hoping for something that could not be.
         Before disembarking from what Humans now called The Object, he had learned about Japan’s history and culture. He had been shocked to see Japan’s cultural history was so similar to his own. But Japan had drifted away from the cultural underpinnings they shared whereas his whole planet had fully embraced them. Although the terms were different and the actual histories evolved differently, the similarities were astounding. What here was called Zen Buddhism and truly practiced now by only a few, on his planet it was practiced by the majority. And the warrior code that evolved out of Zen Buddhism that was here called ‘the Samurai Code’, on his planet was embraced by all – in fact growing up outside The Code was unthinkable and dangerous. How could one not put honor and wisdom foremost? And how could one not approach life fearlessly? Warriors needed such a Code!
         He was also learning how few people here engaged in deep meditation. How was it that though it had been practiced here for centuries, it had not spread and evolved to its higher manifestations? On his planet it was a guided daily ritual for the multitudes! The power of his world depended on it!
         Curious about its historical antecedents, while walking through the busy shopping district, he accessed the encyclopedic data compiler his cohorts were building and submitted a query about how the Samurai Code had developed here and why it had not spread across the planet. Similar to his own planet’s history, it had evolved in earlier centuries when Zen Buddhist monks who had come to Japan from China