Just 9 years old … Young Sir Thomas, still a child, would wander on many quests … frequently in the fields where he was growing up. An arrid desert, sage brush and tumbleweeds … this was a lonely and remote location with plenty of imaginative adventure grounds for such a young mage in training. Those deserted fields was where his imagination was alive and teeming … with dreams of becoming an archaeologist, rumors of UFO crashes and abductions, legends of mythical creatures, environmental locations where tornadoes and flash floods took him by surprise, and valleys filled with World War II artifacts.

Inspired and intrigued, he would climb through the desert river-cut gashes in the earth and with his brother or neighbourhood friends, would build forts. There were two valleys …. one they named the “Valley of the Kings” and another they named the “Valley of the Queens”. Battles would take place between the two rivines of volleying gourds, mud balls, and during winter months .. snowballs. Carved inside the cliff walls, were intricate caves and tunnels that the kids would use as their temples and forts. Stashes of treasures found in those fields would be cached there.

One day during the summer when young Thomas was alone, whether daydreaming, sleeping, or a victim of imaginary friends … he was approached by a royally dressed couple dashed in gold and jewels. He swore they were right out of a movie screenplay on Ancient Egypt. They introduced themselves as “Isis” and “Osiris”. They discussed with young Thomas the history of the ancient Gods and Goddesses of Egypt. They spoke to him about Aten, Amen, and Egyptian cosmology. He was told he was needed. He was to protect the past. It was a dire mission. He was told about “The Other People”. Young Thomas was intrigued and fascinated. But then the mysterious couple disappeared in thin air as quickly as they appeared. Young Thomas either woke up from his daydream or snapped out of his hallucination. “Was this real?” he pondered. That evening, he couldn’t wait to get home to research Ancient Egypt. As he did, he began to explore the “Egyptian Mysteries” and was very intrigued with “Akenaten”.