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Audio: Readings by the author
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Star Child:
I was compelled to buy over £300 worth of merchandise from a local shop. The brand names of the items I’d acquired possessed significance: Galaxy chocolate bars, Honey Nut Loops breakfast cereal, Bold Automatic washing powder, Signal toothpaste and so on. Amongst this array of shopping, a solitary Kinder Surprise egg.
An auditory transmission had conveyed there was to be an encounter with Celestial Beings that night. The voice instructed me to take the products I had purchased along with four reflective spires I’d constructed previously, to fields just outside the village. The voice indicated that the goods were to be offered as a gift for the visitors.
I arrived at the rendezvous point at midnight full of anticipation. During the early hours I received a further communication:
‘Within the egg there is a Star Child waiting to be born.’
I placed the Kinder Surprise egg under one of the spires.
No encounter took place that night. The morning however, brought the farmer whose land I was on, his father, the farmer’s wife, at the same time, my parents and a friend who took a sequence of photographs with my camera. After reassuring the farmer I intended no harm, I told the gathering about the egg and what the voice had communicated.
‘A Star Child waiting to be born.’
I then opened the chocolate egg to release the surprise. Inside, I found a small plastic effigy of the children’s cartoon character Asterix. Unaware of its bearing, I laughed dismissively and wrote the incident off as a whacky aberration.
It was not until a later date, when I relayed the whole story to my brother, that I was truly surprised… he told me that Asterix means Star!
I was compelled to buy over £300 worth of merchandise from a local shop. The brand names of the items I’d acquired possessed significance: Galaxy chocolate bars, Honey Nut Loops breakfast cereal, Bold Automatic washing powder, Signal toothpaste and so on. Amongst this array of shopping, a solitary Kinder Surprise egg.
An auditory transmission had conveyed there was to be an encounter with Celestial Beings that night. The voice instructed me to take the products I had purchased along with four reflective spires I’d constructed previously, to fields just outside the village. The voice indicated that the goods were to be offered as a gift for the visitors.
I arrived at the rendezvous point at midnight full of anticipation. During the early hours I received a further communication:
‘Within the egg there is a Star Child waiting to be born.’
I placed the Kinder Surprise egg under one of the spires.
No encounter took place that night. The morning however, brought the farmer whose land I was on, his father, the farmer’s wife, at the same time, my parents and a friend who took a sequence of photographs with my camera. After reassuring the farmer I intended no harm, I told the gathering about the egg and what the voice had communicated.
‘A Star Child waiting to be born.’
I then opened the chocolate egg to release the surprise. Inside, I found a small plastic effigy of the children’s cartoon character Asterix. Unaware of its bearing, I laughed dismissively and wrote the incident off as a whacky aberration.
It was not until a later date, when I relayed the whole story to my brother, that I was truly surprised… he told me that Asterix means Star!
An aside to this tale is that I accidentally opened the back of the camera exposing the film to daylight. The prospect of losing the photographic record was disappointing. Again the voice spoke to reassure me not to worry, but to seek the light when the photographs had been developed - this was the final exposure…
