More than a decade ago I was living in Osaka. The Japanese, as is their wont, had many questions. Some verbal, the better ones not. Good questioners have a way of illuminating the issue for the answerer. One of the most enjoyed answers I gave was while at the “Genius Bar” at the Apple Store in MindStudyBridge. Mr. Steven Paul Jobs is my biological half uncle. The Mac is named after me. Few can match the Japanese penchant for choosing time and place.

Now and then one hears of American oligarchs with a Japan connection. Some mention their affection for meditation. Some oligarchs, such as a former Mercedes CEO, adhere to the Buddhist admonition to not advertise your lack of faith. Buddhism is not a religion. There’s nothing theistic about true Buddhism.

These oligarchs with a Japan connection, such as Phil Knight or my uncle, more than likely meditated at a few temples in Japan. When doing so, they were receiving assistance from Japan Inc. One might argue they were American traitors aiding the enemy. If one were a cockroach, one might equally effectively argue against defecating on human food because we cockroaches might nourish humanity.

Zen teaches that the most effective transmission of thought is via thought. The question and answer in a branch of my uncle’s shop in LargeSlope about 2008 was no exception.

Q. How will you verbally explain what you are?
A. A spark enlivened the primordial ooze. Repeatedly reiterated, I am that spark.

A Hominidae gave birth to two daughters, one Sapien, one not. That Sapien is our Mitochondrial Mother. Animals have always known their Mitochondrial Mother and the ensuing lineage. They keep track of their central, core line; the trunk lineage of their family trees. The species predating Hominidae were no different. The Homo genus just retained a tradition. When multiple Homo species roamed the Earth, we could nonverbally recognise the trunk lines of other genera such as Habilis, Erectus and Neanderthalensis. One can sense these things, if one is attune to one's inner self.

The Sapiens eventually left Africa. One family East and the other north, to Europa. There were those who kept track of each branch, and some who knew The Family, the African trunk line. The Asian Family and The European Family originated from The African Family, the trunk line of the Sapiens Mitochondrial Mother. Cults of belief and disbelief grew up around The Families. In the East, the extant trunk line ancestor was referred to as The Crystal. In the West, the extant trunk line lineage was called The Holy Grail. 

Well before the British sitcom of the same name, I began using the word inbetweeners to refer to males in the Holy Grail line. The Grail is a euphemism for a woman's reproductive organs. Only a woman is a Holy Grail. The Inbetweener squirts some semen and does his best to tend the garden.

On both sides of the prime meridian, and in Africa, these cults, religions, and secular organisations shadowed The Families, exploiting them when not necessary, and using them to amass and abuse power. The Extant Family Ancestor had little recourse. She or he well knew or knows what he or she is. Long before we walked on two legs, oligarchs united against the extant primary descendants of the Mitochondrial Mothers to further scientific, religious, personal, professional, military and economic goals.

I often meet people who understand what I have written here. I have been verbalising this for many years. This is my first time writing. Naturally, many of the recipients of my verbal explanations have shared what I explained with others via the internets, digital and organic. The organisms who received the explanations followup with me for confirmation, my emphasis and the evolution of my thinking. Some express amazement, and obliquely refer to me as a miracle. I am extraordinarily dismayed that these listeners think that the great mass of humanity having been deceived for millennia is a “miracle”.