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