Beyond Level 42

I read once that the rock band, Level 42, took its name from a premise in one of my own well-loved novels, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which a computer named "Deep Thought" tells the people of Earth that the answer to "Life, the Universe, and Everything" is "42". I expand upon this theme in my essay, 42 Forever: The Ultimate Anti-Aging Tonic.

This excerpt from an untitled poem by Juan Antillon Montealegre, published in the Spring 2006 issue of Yes! magazine, takes us, like so much of the work we awakening ones are co-evolving now, beyond Level 42:


If all goes well
The police
out of total boredom
will go home

Borders will disappear
Even the toy factories
will stop making arms

If all goes well
there will be no Premier
President
Savior of Democracy
King
Emperor
Tyrant

If all goes well
they will stop
trying to convince us
with lies.

If all goes well
Ayatollahs
Great Lamas
Popes
will allow God
to once more be human
dolphin
extraterrestrial
cedar and seagull
herb and star

sea
mountain
insect
dog
and cat.