This Changes Everything



  This Changes Everything

  Volume I

  The Spanners Series

  Sally Ember, Ed.D.

  Copyright ©2013, 2015 Sally Ember, Ed.D.

  All rights reserved.

  ISBN: 9781310232428

  All logo art and covers for The Spanners Series are

  original, by WillowRaven

  For the annotated list with synopses and updated release dates of all ten Volumes in The Spanners Series, see Appendix A in this and every Volume.

  DISCLAIMER: Any resemblance to people and events living or dead depicted in The Spanners Series is due to the fact that “anything that can happen is happening,” a function of the multiverse in which we live. If it's not “true” here, it's true somewhere, sometime. However, if you or your events are described and you don't appreciate the depiction(s), please contact me. Let's talk.

  ---the author

  St. Louis, Missouri USA

  DEDICATION

  To all the Epifanios and those who love them: May we all be able to give and receive love superbly in this and every timeline of the multiverse.

  May all beings have peace and the circumstances for peace.

  May all beings have happiness and the conditions for happiness.

  May all beings have joy and the causes of joy.

  May all beings benefit.

  REVIEWS

  What others are saying about The Spanners Series

  Volume I, This Changes Everything

  "This Changes Everything by Sally Ember is a well-written, complex work that is going to add a strong title to a genre that can sometimes become bogged down with the same old, same old. This Changes Everything is a book that I am very happy to have had the chance to read and I would recommend it to any sci-fi/fantasy fan."

  --Zach Tyo, Indie Reviews, 10/4/13

  "You have created your characters very well. I feel for Clara, I imagine her alienating a lot of people because her enthusiasm and drive and ability to push herself makes her someone who doesn't suffer fools gladly. I would have liked more of the reporter's life and I didn't like Epifanio at all. He sounded arrogant and selfish. I loved that the aliens were chosen by lottery. You had so many good touches like that, which made the book a continuing surprise. I...have to say it is one of the most challenging, exciting and original books I've read."

  --Josephine O'Brien, author, Sharing Skies, 9/14/13

  "You have written a wonderfully imaginative and original story with plenty of twists and turns. I really like your multiuniverse setting with different timelines and the concept of the 'Many Worlds Collective.'"

  --Sophekles, author, The Serotonin Transfer, 10/8/13

  "I love your sense of humor. I literally laughed out loud when Clara said that she had given him the name 'Led.' I also like that this is an alien story where the aliens are helping, rather than trying to take over the world. It's a refreshing angle."

  --S.M. Koz, author, Pangalax, 9/4/13

  "...I found the story itself to be one of the most immersive and original ones I have read recently. Amongst the sea of science-fiction novel clones, there is This Changes Everything, a book in which old ideas are taken in completely new directions (such as the whole intergalactic committee actually trying to help the humans), and new ideas are spawned by the dozens...[Ember is] presenting us an enthralling and original storyline set in a majestic and extremely-detailed world, populated by many characters that will stay with you once the last pages are closed. I wholeheartedly recommend the book to science-fiction fans.”

  --David ben Efraim, Quick Book Reviews, 1/20/14

  "[This Changes Everything] is highly-imaginative, but for so many different reasons, and outside of the normal scope. There are times when I felt that I was reading an actual research report of true to life events. Honestly, I’m sitting at my laptop, questioning if Clara has provided this work to Ember, or if the two are one in the same. The experience is mind-altering, and would challenge readers to think beyond the bubble that we live in. I would surely recommend This Changes Everything to anyone that enjoys a well-written and researched Sci-Fi series. I will point out that it pushes the envelope, and toys with one’s perception. Well done! 5 Stars."

  --Janice G. Ross, author, JRG Writer, 11/11/13

  "The writing is complex and done extremely well....There were times when I almost forgot I was reading a work of fiction and not a news account of real events, and I would consider that to be skilled writing indeed....[D]id I enjoy more of it than not? Yes. Four stars. Did I like the overall content? Most of the time. Three stars. Was the writing of good quality? Oh, definitely yes. Five stars. My overall rating: four of five stars."

  --Lynda Dietz, Easy Reader, 11/4/13

  Volume II, This Changes My Family and My Life

  Forever

  "One thing I like very much about The Spanners Series is the message that we can all live together in peace, learn from each other, be there for each other. All differences (religious, racial, gender, and even between species and inhabitants of other planets) are overcome. I mean, how cool would that be to be able to communicate with animals - and not in a jokey, Eddie Murphy-Dr. Dolittle-kind of way, but accept them and their needs / interests as equal to humans? And those people who resist change (yes, there will always be those, even if it is clear that the change is for the better) will not be eliminated, but gently persuaded to recognize what is best for them."

  --Peggy Farooqi, The Pegster Reads, 5/31/14

  https://thepegsterreads.blogspot.co.uk

  Volume III, This Is/Is Not the Way I Want Things to Change

  “Because this reads like documentation of actual events, I came away from it feeling like my own little life is petty and trivial and a waste of 'time.' Like, I’m not part of The Movement and I ought to run right out and start a victory garden or a recycling programor find an ESP trainer and get started learning how to TK or.... “

  “The entire series is such an astounding creation it amazes me that it’s the production of just one person.”

  --Devorah “Dee” Fox, Dee-Scoveries, fantasy/

  thriller author, journalist, columnist, 9/25/15

  https://devorahfox.com

  This Changes Everything

  Volume I, The Spanners Series

  by Sally Ember, Ed.D.

  Copyright 2013, revised 2015 Sally Ember, Ed.D.

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  Dedication

  REVIEWS

  Acknowledgments

  CHAPTER ONE

  First Contact between the Many Worlds Collective (MWC) and Clara Branon, Ph.D., in northern California, December, 2012

  CHAPTER INTERLUDE I

  Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, What is Fiction?

  CHAPTER TWO

  Minutes from the Fission Subcommittee, MWC Intergalactic Council, Earth Date: August 5, 1945, Page 6 of 9

  CHAPTER INTERLUDE II

  Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Clara Freaks Out

  CHAPTER THREE

  "'They' Never Leave: the MWC and Earthers; or, Crop Circles, Alien 'Abductions,' Whitley Streiber, Roswell/Area 51 and other MWC Blunders," Opening Remarks given by Dr. Clara Ackerman Branon, Ph.D., Chief Communicator and Liaison between Earth and the Many Worlds Collective Global Unity Leaders Council #1, 6/8/15, The Hague, The Netherlands

  CHAPTER INTERLUDE III

  Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Who are "The Spanners"?

  CHAPTER FOUR

  Many Worlds Collective Intergalactic Travel Authority Accident Report, Earth Location and Date: Roswell, NM, USA, July 8, 1947

  CHAPTER IN
TERLUDE IV

  Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Ackerman Family's Adventures in Psychokinesis

  CHAPTER FIVE

  The Mayan and Current Calendars; or, Why First Publishable MWC Contact Occurs on December 21, 2012, Vid Interview given by Dr. Clara Ackerman Branon, Ph.D., Chief Communicator and Liaison between Earth and the Many Worlds Collective, January 6, 2014, with Media Contact, Esperanza Enlaces, Interviewer

  CHAPTER INTERLUDE V

  Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Clara Develops Trust in The Band

  CHAPTER SIX

  Epifanio's Version, Epifanio Dang Tells His Story

  CHAPTER SEVEN

  MWC Collective Artists’ Guild's Philosophy and Policy on Off-Planet Installations, Approximate Earth Locations and Date: Teotihuacan (Mexico) and Sudan (Africa) Pyramids, 250 BCE

  CHAPTER INTERLUDE VI

  Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Clara Describes Her Earlier Timulting Experiences

  CHAPTER EIGHT

  Second Public Contact between the MWC and Clara Ackerman Branon, Ph.D., or, This Is Not a Dream

  CHAPTER NINE

  From Esperanza Enlaces' private journal entries, February 13 - December 23, 2012

  CHAPTER INTERLUDE VII

  Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Confessions of a Bad Poet: How I Become a Writer

  CHAPTER TEN

  How Our Contacts Become Public (thanks to my son, Zephyr Branon, and the 2013 world-wide web [www])

  CHAPTER INTERLUDE VIII

  Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, "Clara: the Outsider Who Becomes the Ultimate Insider" rehearsal for interview with Espe for May 2, 2013

  CHAPTER ELEVEN

  First Internet News Stories, posted simultaneously on The San Francisco Chronicle’s website as well as salon.com, Reuters.com, slate.com and hundreds of other sites on January 5, 2013, and the Changes Publicizing the MWC Contact Bring

  CHAPTER TWELVE

  Individuals from the Many Worlds Collective: Their Names and Their Worlds (as Earthers know them)

  CHAPTER INTERLUDE IX

  A Compilation from Clara Branon's Personal Journals, All the Epifanios

  CHAPTER THIRTEEN

  Do Solar Storms Make Us Do It? Conflict, Wars, Violence and Other Human Flaws Are Not Our Fault?

  CHAPTER FOURTEEN

  Exploding and Imploding Earthers; or, What the Buddha Teaches That Makes His Followers’ Heads Explode, Public Talk given by Dr. Clara Ackerman Branon, Ph.D., Chief Communicator, new Nobel Laureate, Nobel Peace Prize Recipients' Ceremony, 12/12/16, Oslo, Norway

  CHAPTER FIFTEEN

  Generated by Events of January, 2013 – March, 2013, Contact-Induced Injuries Report made to MWC Intergalactic Council, April 27, 2013 Earth Date

  CHAPTER SIXTEEN

  Whom I Save and How It Happens; or, “I Told You So, Part I” (for my brother, Dr. Thomas Ackerman)

  CHAPTER INTERLUDE X

  Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Being Changed "For Good"

  CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

  MWC Lottery Winners Determine First Public Delegation to Earth, Story posted on mwcw.lottery.verse, December 8, 2012 Earth date

  CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

  How Ongoing Contacts and My Role as Chief Communicator Change(d) Me

  CHAPTER NINETEEN

  IGC MWC Musicians and Artists Festival, first-ever held on Earth, Sydney, Australia, August 15-22, 2022 Earth dates

  CHAPTER INTERLUDE XI

  Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Even Social Media Have “Previews”

  CHAPTER TWENTY

  Who Survives and How We All Change: Learning about Re-set

  CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

  From Esperanza Enlaces' private journal entries, April 18 - May 20, 2013

  CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

  “Imagine: The Elimination of Nations, Boundaries, Citizenship, Race, Religions, Politics, Hunger, Poverty and War: What John Lennon Knows," Public Talk given by Dr. Clara Ackerman Branon, Ph.D., Chief Communicator, Templeton Prize Recipient for 2014, 5/12/14, London, England

  CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

  Minutes from the Jesus Subcommittee, MWC Planning Committee Meeting, Capernaum, Galilee (Israel, Africa), November 13, 32 A.D. Earth Date, Page 2

  CHAPTER INTERLUDE XII

  Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Explanations, Appendices and Acknowledgments

  CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

  The Love Story Embedded in This Story; or, “I Told You So, Part II” (that’s for My Future Husband, Epifanio Dang)

  CHAPTER INTERLUDE XIII

  Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, When Trouble is not Trouble

  CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

  Interspecies/Interplanetary Marriagebond Laws stories posted on mwcw.laws.verse, May 30, 2023 and February 10, 2035, Earth Dates

  CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

  Other versions of Clara and Epifanio's Love Story (either/ors and both/ands)

  CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

  Sono-Pictorial Languages of Cetaceans, Sign Language and Vocalizations of Primates and Other Species’ Communication Modalities on Earth and Afar

  CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

  There’s No Time Like the Present; or, (as Zephyr Branon coins) Timultaneity: Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Outside It

  CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

  The Media and Clara,POPULAR MEDIA, "Lost and Found: How My Time with the Aliens Helps Me Lose 130 lbs. and Find Love,” interview with Clara Ackerman Branon, Ph.D., by Esperanza Enlaces, O Magazine [Oprah Winfrey’s periodical], September, 2014, Earth Date

  CHAPTER THIRTY

  “The Future of Earth and the Many Worlds Collective,” Panel Discussion at the Ceremony for the Retirement of the Chief Communicator, Part I, San Francisco, California, USA, Link MediaVerse Studios, December 22, 2040, Earth Date

  CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE

  What Happens When we Die? Clara Learns About Return and ReInvolvement

  CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

  “The Future of Earth and the Many Worlds Collective,” Panel Discussion at the Ceremony for the Retirement of the Chief Communicator, Part II, San Francisco, California, USA, Link MediaVerse Studios, December 22, 2040, Earth Date

  CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE

  Clara Explains Human Relationships to The Band: The Romantic Paradox

  CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

  Photos and Captions

  CHAPTER INTERLUDE XIV

  Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Clara's Apology Letter to Epifanio

  CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE

  Even the Chief Communicator Disappoints Her Mother