And I should know, given the training we'd had on telepathy.
Normally I would meet with the other nearby platoon leaders, but we were meeting with other squadron and platoon leaders in our regiment. We weren't all face-to-face, of course - that wasn't practical when allowing Rangers to put physical life needs first for a group - a Regiment - that was spread over most of the south east of Australia. To conserve energy, we didn't try to do this psychically either: Internet was fine - practical, reasonably reliable, and easy.
I was expecting the Colonel in charge of our Regiment - which had been called the Isil'zha, from one of our founder's favourite television science fiction series - to begin, but no, we were addressed by Brigadier Daniel (we rarely bothered with last names) himself, leader of the Second Brigade, which took care of Australia.
"Thank you all for coming out tonight. As you've probably guessed, we're planning some work across multiple continents, so we're getting as many units involved as we can."
He smiled and continued, "How many people that will involve is, as always, contingent on other life demands, which are always valid."
"We've had multiple psychic scouting and divination tell us that three entities are trying to create a strong and direct connection between the emotions of suffering being caused by poverty and conflict in central Africa and the Sahel with conservative media in the US. Needless to say, we don't want that to happen.
"The Eight and Ninth Brigades have been working on getting rid of poverty and ending the conflict in Africa, both of which involve addressing corruption."
He paused and looked around us and those on the monitors before continuing.
"As always, fixing these problems requires physical action, as well as nonphysical, and we have a few people in touch with what is happen in the physical world there so we can make sure we coordinate with them and support their needs.
"Over in the US of A, as always their politics is concerning, and the wide influence of their very backward and reactionary form of ultra-conservatism is of great concern. We're worried about what analogies and imagery they might develop and start using if this influence becomes active.
"Now, the three entities. Two are incarnates. One is a victim of abuse in South America. The fourth Brigade reports she was subject to prolonged sexual abuse, and has had no healing or support. Tenth Brigade, in India, has some healers who have lived experience, and they will be taking the lead in addressing her situation. Once the healing is done, the South American - fourth - Brigade will work at dissolving her negative links to the others.
"Somewhat understandably, she is unaware of the links, but has a subconscious perception that they enable her to get even with her attackers - who happen to be people like some of those in the USA. She doesn't understand, and is unlikely to at a conscious level, that she is actually feeding them what they want, rather than punishing them by giving them what distressed her."
I and quite a few others nodded at that. Learning that "all people are unique individuals" also meant what one considered good or bad varied across the range of humanity, thus one had to careful not to strengthen those negative people who would thrive on receiving hate, was a difficult lesson to learn, and even harder to implement.
We'd all grown quite a bit as people during our training.
The Brigadier continued: "The other incarnate is a male in Africa whose planned life path of gaining through corruption is disappearing, and, in his resentment, he wants revenge. Either the Eight or the Ninth will work at clearing the negative influences around him, and strengthening his impulses towards good."
He looked at our Colonel, and she smiled. Ah, this was where we would come in.
"The third entity is a particularly smarmy earthbound entity. They've been causing havoc ever since they died on the Second World War's Eastern Front. We're not sure which "side", or even whether they were in the military, but they've been a problem ever since.
"This is where the Isil'zha Regiment comes into play, as we understand you actually had a similar case recently."
Our Colonel, Belinda, gave a run down on the operation we'd done a few months ago, where we'd found some very negative entities in a nearby block, entities whose energy was contributing to domestic violence - including violent.
The Brigadier continued: "The Sixth Brigade in Europe will be doing the work against this entity, and we want your Regiment to pass on the benefits of their experience, and then being on backup to aid them during the actual operation."
He paused. "As always with this sort of work, getting a time that suits everyone is near impossible, and this is one of those actions where we need everyone working at the same time.
"What we've settled on is early morning in the US and South America, midday or just after in Europe and Africa, and the evening here."
OK, that was it. Colonel Belinda took over, and we quickly arranged a smaller meeting for the Regiment.
But that's another story.
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