somehow the Black Rook had fallen asleep and when he woke up, he realized he was alone -- he was about to go outside when he saw that two of the four centre squares of the chess board was occupied by two White Bishops, which is to say, two bishops from the other team, one on black squares and the other, of course on white squares, hence a black and a white bishop (but both, in this case, White). Two bishops in such a strategically powerful position were too much for the Black Rook who was trapped and would need reinforcements....
The Black Rook called in for reinforcements and the strategically sound thing to do in this instance would be to sit tight and hide (from the two powerful White Bishops).... in order to kill time until the reinforcements arrived... The Black Rook took up one of his hobbies: studies of manifestations of psychic power. In his case study file he had files from the Soviet Union's KGB's studies on psychic phenomenon, many of which were available on YouTube, and some which weren't -- likewise he had notes and files on CIA and Military experiments on the same. If soldiers could master the art of psychic warfare, moving matter with their minds, dropping bombs by willing it -- without needing planes or factories, it would change the battlefield entirely. That such was the staple of very many children's cartoons like Dragon Ball Z and children's books like Harry Potter and that Wizards and Warlocks and Magic and Fairies and Dragons and Spells was not readily denied by anyone. And that myths of the world over all spoke of ante-diluvian floods and lost civilizations was not news to the anthropologists, and that legends spoke of ages past where magic was commonly practiced amongst the Atlanteans likewise could not escape the attention of those even casually acquainted with intellectual works prepared for children -- whose imaginations' seemed to demand fantasy and magic and not simply an insistence on the five physical senses. Everybody readily agreed on hunches and 'gut' feelings as a cognitive power beyond the five senses.
But what interested the Black Rook at present was the real experiments carried out in secret not by any Church or Mystical Society, but by the respective Intelligence and Security aparati of the Americans and Russians during the cold war, e.g., during the 1950s. The Black Rook understood that it was a condition of general human evolution over the millenia, and even the thousands of millenia, to have shut down its own psychic powers like a person who covers his own ears and yells, 'I can't hear you! I can't hear you!' when confronted by a noisy and annoying situation. The Black Rook understood that this was so because humanity had run into trouble in the past due to being too abra-cadabra-like and that it was simply easier to pretend that men were evolved from monkeys (ludicrous!), that there was no Intelligent Design (very apathetic indeed!), and focus on having a good time. Unfortunately, what passed for having a good time had devolved into being fat, watching TV, and a state of consciousness heavily absorbed during waking life in matters of Matter; a disconnect between the third of life spent in dreamlife with the two-thirds spent in waking life; a predisposition towards sensuality and drunkenness and intoxication in many societies, or cruelty, gambling, laziness, etc.
It seemed to the Black Rook that despite the many very stupid games man played in order to demonstrate his innate disgust with his own consciousness and what it perceived; and that no matter what a flagrant Joke man deeply and even subconsiously believed (his/her own perception of) Life to be, there was one irrevocable reality - that man would have to be or not be. And that if man chose survival, no matter how easy it might be in certain times/centuries/societies, the undeniable reality is that man would have to reckon and espouse the TRIBE - the principle that no man is an island unto himself. And yet, despite the overbearing influence that the local natives might have on a man's consciousness, thought the Black Rook, nevertheless, very many a man could choose isolation for himself much more so than he did, and the Black Rook surmised that many times, man did not want to be isolated, but wanted a wife to infuriate him, a child to sting him with ingratitude and disrespect, a merchant to pawn his pauns. So thought the Black Rook as he awaited reinforcements and looked at files on an experiment to bend and shape the very backbone of Matter.
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