Chapters 9, 10 and 11 Summary

One afternoon, between passengers, Richard cannot vaporize clouds and knows he is making things harder than they are. He points to the biggest, meanest storm cloud as a challenge for Shimoda and it disappears. Shimoda claims it is easy and has Richard concentrate on a wispy puff of white. After seven minutes, it vanishes, and Shimoda advises him just to relax and remove it from his thinking, rather than being negatively attached. The handbook says clouds do not know why they move as they do, but get an impression from the sky, which does knows. In the same way, if one lifts oneself high enough, one can also know. One never receives a wish without the power to make it true - with work.

At an isolated field on the Illinois-Indiana state line, Shimoda tells Richard to watch quietly and see...