| "Swedenborg, you're crazy!" they said when I | | | | my work. Modesty was never one of my |
| told them I was designing a boat that could | | | | characteristics. I believed that if we are |
| navigate under water, and I was nearly | | | | given gifts by the Almighty, then we should |
| laughed out of town when I made a treadmill | | | | use them to the maximum limit.For my work in |
| chariot where the horse rode on board. The | | | | transporting ships overland by using a roller |
| horse bolted one day and caused damage in the | | | | railway, I was knighted by the King. It was a |
| town. I had to give up my invention.I also | | | | just reward.I wrote a book of prophecies and |
| visualized that some day guns would be able | | | | regret that although I lived into my |
| to shoot dozens of cartridges in a moment, | | | | eighties, I never saw my visions materialize. |
| and I knew there would be flying machines. | | | | It pleases me now that most of the things I |
| Alas, my work was not to be the inventor of | | | | wrote about have come into being. Your |
| these futuristic things. My work was to write | | | | generation is lucky and you too might have |
| and work as an assayer for the King Sweden, | | | | dreams of things to come in the |
| which is where I was born.My parents welcomed | | | | future.Consider these:Planets being connected |
| me in 1688. My father, a bishop of the | | | | by a universal highway system, but rather |
| Lutheran church, was interested in the | | | | than roads, highways would be built on laser |
| spiritual world, believing that he was | | | | beams of light.The earth would become a |
| receiving messages from those who had passed | | | | contained object surrounded by a Plexiglas |
| beyond. This subject greatly interested me | | | | like substance. Opening would work for space |
| when I grew older. I wrote about it, but | | | | travel but the shield would protect the |
| unfortunately most of the people of those | | | | environment. |
| times did not understand what I was writing. | | | | |
| Oh yes, I was praised highly but the praise | | | | The sun's life giving energy would be |
| was from people who could not understand the | | | | filtered through a web like opening during |
| words, therefore they thought the writing was | | | | certain periods of the day.This environmental |
| of a great intellectual nature.How I wish I | | | | protection system would enable other planets |
| could live in these wonderful, modern times | | | | to be inhabited.The atmosphere would come |
| of yours. I would say to my countrymen, "see, | | | | through a filter system such like the |
| see, it is possible to have all the things I | | | | reservoirs of today.The human body will have |
| told you about, the submarines, the gattling | | | | learned to sustain itself on chemical foods. |
| gun, and the motorcar." I would be the one to | | | | This is all part of our natural |
| laugh then, but never at someone else's' | | | | evolution.These things may seem outlandish to |
| expense. I would laugh with joy that these | | | | you, but then so did my predictions of a |
| things had come to be."Emanuel! Emanuel! You | | | | submarine, machine gun, and automobile.Mary |
| are a dreamer," I would hear my family say | | | | Bradley McCauley is a writer in no particular |
| again and again. My father believed in my | | | | genre. Her articles, short stories, essays, |
| dreams and made it possible for me to travel | | | | poems, travel bits, and 'thinking about' |
| to Germany, France, Italy and England where I | | | | series have been published and well |
| was able to meet with heads of state and | | | | received.Her metaphysical novel, "The House |
| brilliant men. I learned the language of each | | | | of Annon" has been one of her writing |
| country and prided myself in my ability to | | | | highlights.After the nomadic life of the |
| converse with the people in their native | | | | military with it's countless moves, and a |
| tongue.I had been an excellent scholar. I | | | | career in travel taking her to the Bering Sea |
| loved to study and learn, especially things | | | | in Alaska, the Opera House in Sydney, most of |
| of nature. When I returned from my tour of | | | | the major islands in the Caribbean as well as |
| the foreign countries, I wrote in detail of | | | | several trips to Europe, Ms. McCauley |
| my travels.The King took me on to give | | | | recently moved from Florida to Franklin TN.A |
| scientific advice about the mineral | | | | former Army Brat, Army Wife and Group Tour |
| properties of ores. I was happy to do this | | | | Travel Advisor, she claims her first love is |
| work since I loved all that had to do with | | | | being with her grandchildren and second is |
| the earth. I also designed canals for the | | | | communicating in any way, shape or form. |
| sate and was considered to be quite good at | | | | |