A Mirror of Before and After - CHAPTER IX

By Frank Moore circa 1970s

On Slarnis, there are three islands: Sedes, Locian and Lemlops.

On Sedes, where Diane-Grace came from, the people have no identity except for their names. They have learned the value of silence as a communication media. Sedesians have no personality walls. They don’t use words as filters to screen in what they really mean or feel or to hide what they really are. With silent projections, they must be totally honest. If they aren’t totally honest, their projections will boomerang the dishonesty back into the dishonest Sedesian’s body, where it will be trapped in the joints. The more that a Sedesian is dishonest, the more the body aches as he grows older. Eventually, dishonesty could be fatal on Sedes. But most Sedesians are young and flexible because they avoid dishonesty. Rather than being dishonest, they express even ‘evil’ thought, through the medium of silence. Then, you can feel exactly where a Sedesian is at, but they are always changing … extremely quick changing.

The people on Locian, where Phil came from, are very verbal. But when they speak to you, they take you to some place. Their words don’t take you anywhere. Locian words are pretty pictural sounds that have no meaning, no substance. On Earth, people usually love, but don’t trust Locians. To Earth, Locians seem to be lazy, shiftless and are not to be given any material responsibilities. But the earthlings listen to the Locians to be carried away into imaginations. The earthlings walk away from the word creators, confused, thinking strange thoughts which did not come from their own brains, and dream for nights afterwards of places they know they belong, of places where something inside of them went when they were talking to a Locian. The mischievous Locians are usually con-men dreamers, carnies and poets when they come to earth with their mind-reading ability.

I came from Lemlope, the middle island on Slarnis. Lemlope is uninhabited except by a priest caste. In the fourth month on Slarnis, the Sedesians pick a young woman and the Lociens pick a young man. They court and mate on the plain of Lemlope. When a child is born, the couple are sent back to their islands and the child is raised by the priests. The Lemlope children have balanced the qualities, traits and powers of both the Sedesian and the Locian cultures. I was a child of Lemlope.

Each child of Lemlope has his own mission. The Unicorn’s mission is to bring the earth into love through music. Through the silent communication of Sedes, we convey to our listener a hidden truth that is so simple, that it can’t be put into earth words openly. The listener can sense the total Sedesian honesty that the band projects; but the listener’s brain can’t rationalize or analyze that honesty. It is just there. With the Locian word, energy, played through this band, the insides of the listeners are transported to the gardens of mansions where they dream. The band pushes the listeners into living their dreams in reality.

That was the band then. Just before I had come to D.C. this second time to jam with Moe and the Before and After, I was singing in Santa Fe on my commune. We sang country rock. “We are the hippy, gypsy, peacenik, fearless, trucking, lovin’, praying keepers of the Dream. We’ll be the farmer peasants. Sit back and enjoy the present.”

There was a lull, and Moe came over to give me a hit of orange juice from the carton.

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