(Kiri explains to a guest the three varieties of flowers except the pink ones because the guest’s grandson was attending the session also. We begin theorizing if the blue flowers had been lotus blossoms described by Homer in the Odyssey. She tells us Sirius too has their stories of a similar nature as Homer’s.) 

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Kiri: we have a particular variety of recreational herb, they're flowers, they come in three distinct colors. There’s the red ones which make you very hyper, give you tons of energy, give you a great buzz, keep you up for about 48 hours, it’s great but you don’t get headaches, there’s no negative side effects.

Skip: that’s neat.

Kiri: yeah it just leaves you afterwards totally washed out and you sleep.

Skip: for 24 hours.

Kiri: about that. Then there is the blue flowers which are a depressant. They make you very mellow, make you happy, make you nice and even, if you eat too many of them you just fall asleep.

Skip: hmmm that’s wild.

Kiri: and they're used in healings, they’re very juicy both the red and the blue so there’s a lot of fluid in them that you can actually eat them as a meal and survive on them. 

Skip: hmm. 

Kiri: if you eat one or the other they don’t counteract each other, you get both effects one after another. The red ones are a lot of fun if you’re planning on cramming for college, if you’re doing a lot and you just have lots of energy, you're senses are sharpened, you're very active, you’re very bouncy, you’re very bubbly and then phhtt. Once it’s worn off there’s no fall coming down, you start to feel a little bit tired and the more tired and then finally it's sort of like, "I got to lay down". 

Skip: time to go to sleep.

Kiri: yep and the more that you eat of them, the more energizing energetic you become and the only negative thing is if you eat too many you throw up.

Skip: your system rejects it.

Kiri: yeah, it just rejects it. Then there’s the pink ones, my favorite ones. These are an aphrodisiac…..

(Skip starts laughing loudly)

Kiri: let’s not go into to those.…….

Skip: yeah okay nevermind.

Kiri: there are young minds present.

Skip: bring me one.

Kiri: nearest that I can get to them is you ever heard of the Lotus Blossom Eaters? From I believe it would be the tales of brave Ulysses? Your Greek mythology?

Russ: Homer. Homer, the Greek storyteller?

Kiri: doesn’t Mark have the Iliad down here?

Russ: nope.

Kiri: he has the Odyssey.

Russ: yeah.

Kiri: and that’s the book.

Russ: that is the book.

Kiri: here we go. You might want to read it, it’s got…….

Russ: great stories.

Kiri: better ask Mark if you could borrow it actually, there I'm giving his books out and he has an aversion to that doesn't he?

Russ: stories of the Cyclops, the Sirens……

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: battles of Troy, in fact well actually after the Troy.

Kiri: yeah.

Russ: this is Ulysses' voyage home after the battles of Troy.

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: and the gods decide to play havoc with his life.

Kiri: does he the Iliad too?

Russ: no.

Kiri: no, no Iliad?

Russ: uh-uh I don’t think so, I haven’t seen it. 

Kiri: but that in itself is an interesting topic, the legends.

Russ: uh-huh.

Kiri: the Lotus Blossom Eaters, it gives a very good description of a very odd effect of a strain of blue flowers that does exist.

Russ: and there have been people who have traced that route out that is described in that book and have found similar places along that route that match up with descriptions that are put in that book.

Skip: huh.

Kiri: uh-huh, they haven’t been able to pinpoint Ithaca yet though.

Russ: no but they found the land of the Lotus Eaters.......

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: they found where the Cyclops would have landed.......

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: they found where the Sirens hung out.

Kiri: uh-huh, they also found…..

Russ: they found Troy.

Kiri: uh-huh. What’s it, that was Schliemann?

Russ: uh-huh.

Kiri: uh-huh, see, I do know your Earth history.

Russ: very good darling.

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: I didn’t remember his name.

Kiri: yes and his native bride that he decked out in the jewelry that he found? 

Russ: uh-huh.

Kiri: it was very unlikely that it belonged to the so the called Helen, I don’t think Helen actually existed.

Russ: no but Agamemnon did.

Kiri: uh-huh yes, he found Mycenae.

Russ: uh-huh. He found where the Minotaur was supposedly kept.

Kiri: uh-huh. Yes and he was frowned upon.

Russ: oh yeah.

Kiri: uh-huh. Anyway, anyway, anyway, anyway, where were we? You have questions.

Russ: the legends.

Kiri: yes, the legends, we have similar legends on our planet back home on Sirius. There are legends of the great sailings and kind of like the Odyssey and the Iliad. I think it's common throughout many, many different worlds, they have the same basic stories. Mainly because life on different planets seem to go through very distinct set cycles.

Russ: hmm, yeah but again there you have the same thing where someone might have taken a journey and based their story upon their travels upon that journey and made up mythical people to fill in those gaps in their story where the people would have been.