A Death by Synchronicity and The Conscious Universe

A Conscious Universe and The Death of John Mack

“We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.” 
― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Introduction:
When I reread this post, it 's focus of enquiry seemed vague. When I heard of the circumstances of John Mack's death, I had the unsettling feeling that there was more to the story than simply an accidental death although I had nothing to base this on and the early reports had the facts wrong. The sense was not one one of unfounded and free floating paranoia but just a sort of inexplicable sense that there was a deeper backstory, whatever that backstory would be.... and it would be as odd a mystery I suppose as any death could be, but there was something else...What I am now interested in is meaningful coincidence the the possibility that this phenomenon had a role to play in this, which is known as synchronicity. That being said, how may synchronicity work if it does occur? 

Theology Versus The Incommensurable
If we take away all the anthropomorphic bias projection and the inferred pats on our own egocentric backs from the term God which seemingly represents a humanoid deity that considers each of us worthy of a somewhat controlling personal relationship in human terms, what are we left with?  We would lose this shared sense of being personally connected to the universe simply based on the human authorship of theology, as a series of tribal psychologically driven buffers against experiential reality which has no one spokesperson elected or chosen to explain the complex, the subtle as well as our own self deception to us, as if we were children.Yet we are connected to the material universe as well as it's mirror of organised coherency in the energetic sense, as I said several years ago that the universe utilises us to learn what it's nature is as we use the universe to discover our own. It certainly is an entangled relationship. If you go back and read my review of Phillip K Dick's Exegesis and the backstory behind VALIS  you know that one concept that Phillip and myself share is the conceptual model of a conscious universe. This is also a concept explored by Dr Persinger at Laurentian University, whose scientific studies of the paranormal have been noted here many times as well as Princeton Universities many scientific studies of global consciousness and the human skewing of probability in the aggregate sum.

"Here is a story worth sharing. We often speak of the universe being a reflection of ourselves, and point to how the eye, veins, and brain cells mirror visual phenomenon in the universe. As above so below right? Well check this out. How about the idea that the universe is a giant brain? The idea of the universe as a ‘giant brain’ has been proposed by scientists and science fiction writers for decades, but now physicists say there may be some evidence that it’s actually true (in a sense).

According to a study published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, the universe may be growing in the same way as a giant brain – with the electrical firing between brain cells ‘mirrored’ by the shape of expanding galaxies.

The results of a computer simulation suggest that “natural growth dynamics” – the way that systems evolve – are the same for different kinds of networks – whether its the internet, the human brain or the universe as a whole."
http://csglobe.com/physicists-find-evidence-that-the-universe-is-a-giant-brain/

The Physics of Anticipation and Expectation?
Then there is the strange tale of the death of  Dr John Mack. If you skip to page two it seems we have a possible case for his death being one of meaningful coincidence filed under a strange synchronicity. Mack's fascination with the phenomenon of what is labelled alien abductions was replaced with an equal intensity regarding the survival of consciousness after death

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/05/americans-alien-abduction-science

From the article:

"In Newport with the other experiencers, a Tom Hanks look-alike who wanted to be known as “Scott,” the way Mack referred to him in Abduction, remembered their last meeting at Cuvelier’s villa, in the summer of 2004. Mack was excited about his new book, on the survival of consciousness. Scott confessed his own fear of death. Mack reassured him. “You never know when it will be your time,” he said. “We could all go at any time. I could walk out on the street and get hit by a car.”

Raymond Czechowski, a 50-year-old computer technician, had spent three-and-a-half hours at the Royal British Legion, a military charity in north London, planning the latest poppy drive to aid the troops, in the course of which he downed five or six pints of shandy—beer mixed with lemonade and ice. Then, on that mild, clear Monday night of September 27, 2004, he pointed his silver Peugeot north and started driving home.

Just ahead, shortly after 11 P.M., in the north London suburb of Barnet, John Mack climbed wearily out of the Underground station at Totteridge and Whetstone. His talk had gone well, and many in the audience had brought copies of his Lawrence biography, which they asked him to sign. He had also spoken about the death of his father, Edward Mack, who, 31 years before, almost to the day, had been driving home with the groceries to their summer home in Thetford, Vermont, when his car collided with a truck. In London, Mack was staying with a family friend, Veronica Keen, a widow who told him she had been receiving messages from her deceased husband—more evidence, Mack thought, of survival of consciousness. She had said to call her from the station and she would pick him up, but Mack decided to walk. He crossed a divider and stepped into the busy street. His American instinct was to look to the left.

Czechowski hit the brakes, but too late. Mack’s body flew into the air, shattering the Peugeot’s windshield before traveling over the roof and landing heavily on the ground. “He just stepped there, bang,” Czechowski told the police, who registered his alcohol level at well over the limit.

Mack never regained consciousness. From a crumpled paper with an address on it found in his pocket, the police learned his destination and his identity."

Indeed, perhaps "He just stepped there. Bang" but as with so many meta-novels which seemingly always have an inevitable  twist, this slim volume with the subtitle of the survival of consciousness after death is slid back into archives of Borges Library in the Crimson Hexagon.
And as all the volumes have a variability of misplaced periods , a missing word, lost adjectives or a missing paragraph,  only to be found somewhere in the vast genetic code of a Conscious Universe,....
The volume entitled Dr John Mack remains indecipherable, intriguing with an odd theme of meaningful coincidence. and as the old bromide suggests, it may be true to be careful what you wish for.  Or then again, perhaps not.

Howard Hughes and Robert Bigelow: Men of Mystery

At my other blog ( Intangible Materiality) I had written several pieces about Robert Bigelow's substantial, personal investment in the creation of his now publically defunct NIDS (National Institute of Discovery Science)  to scientifically study the paranormal, as well as atmospheric anomalies. All of these organised studies seemingly culminated with the strange events at Skinwalker ( Sherman) Ranch. At the time of the formal disbanding of NIDS  he said that they had no impetus to investigate any anomalies "for 2 1/2 years" which struck me an explanation that defied common sense. Nothing to investigate?
Nonetheless, let's continue  to explore whether the bone of NIDS was buried rather than being tossed. One of several themes in this story is one of public access to information and the disparity between disclosing the inner workings of a corporation ( where there is no recourse for disclosure) and that of a government agency
When a private corporation becomes a contractor for the government, some interesting bone may be buried away from prying noses. Then there is another player in this play..

"When you have a field like ufology, where there’s so many layers of deception already, and the waters are constantly stirred and muddied by any number of people, whether for personal gain or whether its an intelligence agency that needs to put their fingers around everything........If MUFON is to be deemed beyond reproach and not having outside influence or manipulation, you can’t hide behind non-disclosure agreements and you can’t hide behind “No comment.” You have to be open and you have to lay all your cards on the table and state exactly what your position is. So I find it very interesting John Schuessler has refused to comment on whether he received a security clearance in connection with his association with Robert Bigelow"
— James Carrion , former International Director, MUFON

http://reformmufon.org/J.%20Carrion%20Blog.html

Bigelow has always reminded me of another entrepreneur who had both close ties to the CIA and the federal government as well as the development of experimental aircraft. They both have their fingers in several pies and both heavily involve themselves in what could be generically could be described as intelligence gathering.
From an obituary in the Las Vegas Sun of Robert Maheu Hughes's Chief Operating Officer;

 "Robert A. Maheu, a former Howard Hughes confidant and  chief trouble shooter for the operational wing of Hughes empire was a documented  CIA operative once involved in a failed plot to poison Fidel Castro, has died in a Las Vegas hospital. He was 90. Maheu died Monday evening of congestive heart failure at Desert Springs Hospital, according to his son, Peter Maheu. Maheu was the public face of Hughes' massive corporate empire in the 1960s, a period in which the troubled aviator and one-time Hollywood playboy was increasingly reclusive and dogged by phobias. Hughes spent the later part of the decade holed up in his Las Vegas hotel suite, directing Maheu and his casino and development interests via memo. Maheu worked for the FBI in the early 1950s and later as a private investigator who counted the CIA among his clients."

More here on the CIA connection from the Washington Post:

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-08-06/news/36825024_1_robert-maheu-hughes-s-tycoon-s-aide

 Hughes and Bigelow as the preeminent inside operators. They even somewhat look like one another. Both are and were enfolded into government activities. The resemblance between Hughes Version .1 and Hughes Version.2 is, in more ways than one, remarkable.

 Long after his organisational structure to undertake these studies was disbanded ( or reorganized in a more covert manner) Bigelow held onto the title to the ranch. During this transitional reorganization to a very close relationship between Bigelow Aerospace and NASA  , it further evolved as his firm now developed into becoming a private contractor for NASA.
An interesting transition of private and public purpose.
Of course we are all familiar with the endless string of testimony from NASA' s own astronauts concerning strange things seen in orbit that remain mysteries.

Also, at that time, his firm was developing inflatable orbital space vehicles that were successfully launched. One highly strange aspect of this vehicle was it was equipped with a very large projection capability, much like a television, that could broadcast images to...the void of uninhabited near earth space At the time, I thought this may be an attempt at communication with space anomalies that do not officially exist as all the other possible uses of this seemed absurd in relation to the amount of capital it took to design, fabricate and launch a television into earth orbit. I seemed to be the only one at the time who thought this was odd. Truth is stranger than fictions. In the back of my mind arose the misdirection of attention achieved by Hughes and the Glomar Explorer. Why would someone with a huge ego project their image when there was no one to see it?
The idea seems ludicrous. However when you think of projecting non verbal images or messages to someone or something already there as a form of communication, it's a nifty concept.
Below is the actual image used on the Bigelow website:

Shortly, in the same timeframe a February 11, 2010 directive issued by the Federal Aviation Administration to the FAA Air Traffic Organization setting out how pilots and all individuals should report sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) sightings and appearing now on the FAA website specifically mentions an organization controlled by Bigelow, stating in part that “Persons wanting to report UFO/unexplained phenomena activity should contact a UFO/ unexplained phenomena reporting data collection center, such as Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS)…, the National UFO Reporting Center, etc..” 

From airplanes to aerospace..the prerogative of the lone wolf visionary with a penchant for privacy whether it was Hughes and now Bigelow who largely speak through emissaries, if at all, largely to conceal the shape of things to come. Then again, I recall the infiltration of UFO research groups by the CIA and now it seems it simply easier to pay for what you want as in politics or the Mafia. Hughes knew this all too well and so does Bigelow.

Then MUFON was also folded into this reporting structure that funneled reports directly to Bigelow. Some of us recall the brouhaha following James Carrion's resignation and in his own words, in bullet point fashion he expands the reasons behind his resignation. 

• "John Schuessler, MUFON Board Member and former International Director was offered a U.S. government security clearance allegedly related to his consulting work for Mr. Bigelow. Now whether John was actually given that clearance, I can’t say for sure, but I was one of the people interviewed as part of his background investigation.

• Mr. Bigelow did not fund MUFON’s work for BAASS, instead “sponsors” that Bigelow revealed to John Schuessler but not to the other MUFON Board Members put up the money.

• Mr. Bigelow invalidated his own legal contract with MUFON by refusing to abide by the original deal struck with MUFON and instead changed the terms mid-stream, something the MUFON Board of Directors acquiesced to despite my protests.

• During the project, MUFON provided both historical MUFON files as well as current MUFON case files (including witness information) to BAASS. To cover MUFON legally, the MUFON UFO reporting form was modified to collect the witness’ permission to offer their sighting data to a third party, the only third party being BAASS

• When I uncovered some very damaging information about the Skinwalker Ranch (also owned by Mr. Bigelow) and provided that information to the MUFON Board along with my doubts about the true agenda of the BAASS-MUFON relationship, the MUFON Board unethically bypassed me and communicated in secret with BAASS in an attempt to continue the project. When I found out about this unethical behavior, initiated by my former friend and current International Director Clifford Clift and MUFON Board member Jan Harzan (probably the next International Director after Cliff retires), I resigned immediately from the MUFON Board and the International Director position

• Rather than reveal the truth of why I resigned to the MUFON membership, Cliff decided to whitewash the unfortunate events while he swept his broom around MUFON, portraying me as an inept leader who brought MUFON to financial ruin and presenting himself as the savior of the organization. His betrayal stung me to my very core, as I considered him a friend for fourteen years until he revealed who he truly was. At the 2010 MUFON Symposium he told the MUFON State Directors that I left MUFON because the “truth” I was seeking was not the same “truth” the MUFON Board of Directors sought."

NASA now also has joined the anomalies direct report club and I may be the only one who thinks that a government who disallows the existence of them, now has a private contractor in their employ who is analysing what does not exist. 

Does anyone else consider this more than a bit schizophrenic?

An enterprising young man captures nervous laughter and some carefully crafted responses at a conference that Bigelows firm participated in..



 .Some hide in hotels some hide with corporate representations...and some secrets hide in plain view. Some lead advances from the forefront and some lead from behind, pushing from a less prominent position in the rear, driving the rest of us toward some imagined goal while they themselves are mysteries, as mysterious as the goals they pursue much like material anomalies.

Is The Anomalous The Holography of a Polyhedron?

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” 
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

“Information is a difference that makes a difference.” 
― Gregory Bateson

Disturbing the symmetry between more faceted and less faceted dimensions of space-time ( rather than higher vs lower, which to me as always a misapplication of three dimensional language) perhaps is a key feature of anomalous events, what Einstein termed "spooky action at a distance". This interlocked faceting of space ( which we also mislabel as time which is not a reality in of itself but rather a measurement of space) may provide, in the future, an understanding of why some anomalies (1) Are semi-solids (2) Are hybridised variations of the familiar (3) Are often nonsensical (4) Can manifest and evaporate faster than the blink of an eye. (5) Are often experienced as "recordings" of past events. Sounds much like Psi-Gamma and Psi-Kappa co-joined at the hip.

The observer effect in quantum physics may explain the high levels of variability in seemingly borrowing one's own set of internal references that form expectations and anticipation much like a organising principle  that in interaction with more complex dimensions, creates a mirroring effect, as I have suggested as the source of EVP recordings, some UFO phenomenon perhaps even so called demonic manifestations ( as unresolved emotional conflicts) that resemble the ghost characteristics shared as key features between them, placing them more in the category of PSI events than literal interpretations that get entangled in the vicissitudes of memory and language. 

We recall the term sacred geometry which as a sort of odd framework that easily degenerates into various belief systems, but nonetheless has at it 's core the hybridisation of Euclidean geometry with the Pythagorean  extensions of it's principles into the equivalence of scales that Brian Wilson has at the core of his "Good Vibrations", or I suppose, another case may be "bad vibrations". Again the intermingling of various dimensions of space as a sensory intuition, which also somewhat relates to so called psychic phenomenon, or the reading of a local environment toward a more complex spatial relationship.

Physics enters this geometry of space by walking into our three dimensions with a polyhedron in hand, saying, in effect, "Look what I found! Is this it?"  

In geometry, a polyhedron is traditionally a three-dimensional shape that is made up of a finite number of polygonal faces which are parts of planes; the faces meet in pairs along edges which are straight-line segments, and the edges meet in points called vertices. Cubes, prisms and pyramids are examples of polyhedra. The polyhedron surrounds a bounded volume in three-dimensional space; sometimes this interior volume is considered to be part of the polyhedron, sometimes only the surface is considered, and occasionally only the skeleton of edges. Sounds a lot like holography, doesn't it.? Perhaps the White Rabbit of Lewis Carroll's foray into dimensionality that leads us into the worm hole, is not a rabbitt at all.

A polyhedron is said to be convex if its surface (comprising its faces, edges and vertices) does not intersect itself and the line segment joining any two points of the polyhedron is contained in the interior or surface.

More here...

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-principle-nature-quantum.html

I think what is interesting is the subject of traversing space, and in terms of physical space, this capability of ours by various contraptions is a relatively new tool making innovation.

And of course we have innovated on this aspect of tool making in regard to transversing physical distances, rather than spooky action at a distance by our venturing into "space" which as a term in the context of this post seems more than a little ironic. Whether it's the now discarded Space Shuttle or robotic contraptions on the surface of Mars, in our material world, these are considered great leaps forward, and yet we know very little concerning the space we occupy as well as perhaps the ones we intersect with unknowingly. In our young species history as compared to one's that may be over a million years old, perhaps such mechanical devices seem hopelessly crude, as the transection of space may include the utilisation of their minds harnessed to an environment we can scarce imagine. This topic brings to mind the advice of the late Dr John Lilly who suggested that we 'Design like you're right; listen like you're wrong'.

Indeed.

A Review of Biocentrism by Robert Lanza MD

When I was first exposed to The Book of Thomas from the exorcised Gnostic Gospels, what drew me to this set of writings was their purported direct quotations from the historical character of Jesus, which was their sole content. No comments or editorialising was included. What does this have to do with biocentrism you might rightfully ask? Over and over, these alleged quotations used the term "root", the root of this or the root of that.
Now consider the broader issue of faith and belief in all of it's written history, as well as the material sciences, parapsychology, metaphysics and even all the goofy populist infotainments of the paranormal....What is their root? What are they driving at in terms of having a common question answered?
 Robert Lanza MD in his book Biocentrism, according to E Donnall Thomas, the Nobel Prize winner, puts Lanza's tome simply, describing it as "A new way of looking at the old problem of our existence."
Again, simply put, in any theory of the root cause of the universe, there must be a coherent explanation of the origin or root cause of consciousness. If you are familiar with any of the myriad of theories that purport or attempt to explain the origin of the universe, you will find the two in relationship oddly separated or the entire root of the relationship between the two bypassed, as if to skip the origin of how the question is posed where not as equal as why it is, or even the answer itself, which would be undoubtedly wrong in error in any "theory of everything." if this chicken or egg mystery were not resolved.

And so going back to metaphysics, religion, material science, the paranormal, in this light we can see they are belief systems or articles of varying faith, more accurately, they are notations along the way in a human diary of a long journey to resolve the issue regarding the origin of the universe.
What Lanza manages to do in a highly readable manner is to turn many orientations of perspective on this issue upside down which is no mean feat. As Einstein said, a good question is worth more than a thousand answers and in posing a good question he manages to drill down into what material science knows, which does not amount to much ( in fact, nothing) in relation to the cause of the universe which is the core question of our existence. Essentially, the theory that Lanza proposes is revolutionary, and I do not want to provide you with a spoiler or some simplistic and reductionist explanation in ten words or less.
I highly recommend this book to any human being with a modicum of brain cells, or better yet, those with an innate curiosity regarding the full spectrum of the issues posed by the fact that we exist.
Four Stars out of Four.

BTW..I decided to do these reviews as a variation on the previous content, not that reviews will become solely the content, so since there haven't been any comments I naturally wondered if these reviews have been interesting or sort of a redundancy. Feel free to share your thoughts. They are appreciated and I do listen. You also may have noticed a change to a simpler writing style based on your feedback. 

A Review of Telephone Calls From The Dead

This compact paperback version of this unusual subject had to be ordered from the U.K but it was worth the wait. Written by Callum E. Cooper who is currently based at the University of Northampton as a PhD researcher, lecturer and student mentor of psychology.  He is a member of the Society for Psychical Research, an Academic Member of the Academy for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies and a Student Member of the Parapsychological Association. His fields of interest include parapsychology, the psychology of death, human beliefs, psychological research methods and Egyptology.  

Cooper holds the 2009 Eileen J. Garrett Scholarship (Parapsychology Foundation Inc) and was awarded the Alex Tanous Scholarship Award (Alex Tanous Foundation for Scientific Research) twice over, first in 2011 and then again in 2012.

Using a classification system devised by type that focuses on key characteristics much in the manner reminiscent of Dr Alan Hynek's methodology in sorting out anomalous aerial phenomenon, Callums book is also a homage to the original researchers who had penned the original study that also includes a brief biography of both interesting gentlemen. At the heart of the book, is the unknown origin of this rare phenomenon which at present falls between P.S.I activity rooted in the subject who underwent this extraordinary experience or actual phone calls from the dead. 
From a ringing telephone in a abandoned railroad station with no phone service to a cell phone buried with a deceased that apparently produced text messages to a bereaved widow, there is enough high strangeness to keep one's mind occupied as much as the author's in attempting to navigate both physical psychic phenomenon alongside human psychology as well as theories involving physics.

One case of high strangeness revolves around a computer that only had a very basic word processing system in the pre-internet era, that managed  that somehow had produced some three hundred messages in a extremely obscure 16th Century local dialect known as Southwestern Middle English with nearly three thousand words and terms, out of which, one hundred and twenty one were unknown and yet their arrangement as well as meaning were perfectly clear. The originator of these messages was one Thomas Harden who had once lived in the same cottage were the messages were received. When an investigation by the SPR  was conducted, it turned out TH was an actual person who indeed had lived in the cottage during the 16th Century, and to make the situation more strange, as if it were not strange enough, Thomas reported that he was sending these messages by the same computer ( which he called a box of lights) that had suddenly appeared in his cottage, and his servant girl called this bizarre event, work of the devil, while Thomas was intrigued..Even more bizarre was a message purportedly from 2019, that this three way transcommunication was an experiment conducted in that distant year. As they say, time will tell.

Cooper manages to balance an open mind with skepticism while navigating hoaxes, over ripe imaginations and cases of misidentification. A complete list of references and a handy index are included from prolonged conversations to warnings, to short simple messages all forthcoming from parts unknown originated, presumably, from the dead or as mentioned earlier a P.S.I effect. This is an easy read and a fascinating one that is well worth your interest. A context for subject is a lecture by Noam Chomsky entitled "The Machine, the Ghost and the Limits of Understanding."

Consciousness After Death: Strange Tales From the Frontiers of Resuscitation Medicine

An interesting article courtesy of Wired Magazine, which, among other aspects of NDE, includes an interview with Dr Sam Parnia, the author of  "Erasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death" 

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/04/consciousness-after-death/

The reason for posting this article are certain key features of what Dr Parnia is describing in terms of his  findings regarding the coherency between the receiver and the received in withdrawing one's personal library from a delimited quantum plenum once one has been separated from a cellular state , which then becomes a simulated experiential environment whose qualities which, in turn, become virtual in the provinces of the mind, which was dealt with in the last post using the metaphor of mirrors and membranes.
 Enfoldment of a seeming unlimited library of all possibilities of a proverbial genomic memory as well as a state of energy as information which appears to serve as both a reflective surface dependant on one's anticipation as well as having a state that in waking consciousness remains "dark" or non-material to our sensory systems.

A Review of The Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion by Paul LaViolette Ph.D

This exhaustive survey of the intriguing experimental attempts to harness this force by the physicist Paul LaViolette is an excellent example of how a poor choice of title would lead one, at first glance, to dismiss this  summary as the work of a crank, and yet, nothing could be further from the truth regarding it's contents.
For the hardcore UFO aficionado, there is enough material here to open the door to their much beloved theory of nuts and bolts aerospace anomalies, on a much more grounded basis as well as prying open both the difficulties and possibilities of harnessing gravity.
Many of these experiments proved to lesser and greater extents, that this is possible simply by the results that were obtained, but in all cases gravity is a force that is yet to be tamed in the sense that the results can be potentially fatal, and, one senses in this the reasoning that all of the military industrial attempts at application are held behind a cloak of security. At the same time, one can easily surmise where conspiratorial lunatics such as Lazar and Greer purloined their material and came to ridiculous conclusions.
LaViolette lets the reader decide for themselves, if these brave pioneers of science by uncovering intriguing results by the use of high voltage, innovative capacitors and phased microwave fields have inadvertently led some credence to what observers have been reporting that have been dismissed out of hand, as being impossible and yet what some experiments have revealed is that impossible is an uninformed opinion that is definitively not shared by the aerospace industry.
A wealth of footnotes, photographs, illustrations and charts accompany the text.
One of the major issues that Laviolette brings out is the overwhelming competition between nuclear research and anti-gravity research, which, at least publicly the nuclear aspect from purely a pragmatic point of view, wins hands down. Another issue is being able to control what has been harnessed which can lead, as he has cited to the entire works exploding. One further barrier to a successful application is that some of the research required has no application for use, outside of the larger aim of gravitational propulsion.
This fascinating tome also reprints letters and correspondence form Townsend -Brown as well as opening the closed doors that hid Project Skyvault. From Tesla to microwave conjugation, LaViolette leaves no stone unturned. This a book I highly recommend that adds a comparative basis for one's own analysis of unidentified aerial phenomenon.

Dark Matters

Across The Great Divide of Night

One of the central tenants of my suspicions regarding the series of membranes we inhabit (that can easily be surmised by direct observation) relates equally to metaphysics as well as physics, is the seeming enfoldment of these membranes into one another by a series of superimpositions, that are potentially coherent or, if you, will, being One, which is an age old metaphysical issue from Ibn Al Arabi to Philip K Dick, and perhaps most eloquently being presented as a library by Borges, and, most recently, by Jacques Vallee.



In the "Crimson Hexagon" Borges's narrator describes how his universe consists of an enormous expanse of interlocking hexagonal rooms, each of which contains the bare necessities for human survival—and four walls of bookshelves. Though the order and content of the books is random and apparently completely meaningless, the inhabitants believe that the books contain every possible ordering of just a few basic characters  letters, spaces and punctuation marks). Though the majority of the books in this universe are pure gibberish, the library also must contain, somewhere, every coherent book ever written, or that might ever be written, and every possible permutation or slightly erroneous version of every one of those books. The narrator notes that the library must contain all useful information, including predictions of the future, biographies of any person, and translations of every book in all languages. Conversely, for many of the texts some language could be devised that would make it readable with any of a vast number of different contents.

Despite — indeed, because of — this glut of information, all books are totally useless to the reader, leaving the librarians in a state of suicidal despair. This leads some librarians to superstitions and cult-like behaviour, such as the "Purifiers", who arbitrarily destroy books they deem nonsense as they scour through the library seeking the "Crimson Hexagon" and its illustrated, magical books. Another is the belief that since all books exist in the library, somewhere one of the books must be a perfect index of the library's contents; some even believe that a messianic figure known as the "Man of the Book" has read it, and they travel through the library seeking him. Of course, what is interesting is the anthropomorphic twist that they are in search of themselves as exemplified by their creation of a conceptual totem of their own species, the "Man of The Book"

I have likened this to a proverbial genome that incorporates the delimited with the constraints of the variables found in it's local environment in terms of materialised or semi-materialised forms as recounted in John Keel's "Our Haunted Planet". Of course there was Keel's Ultraterrestrials followed by Mack Tonnie's variation of a independent species of sentience that was unique to our planet, or, if you will, a localised phenomenon.
I have diverged from their shared path into seeing these related phenomenon as more likened to the workings of cellular intelligence, working as autonomously as our nervous system but seemingly in a interactive manner dependent on who is looking and where, as well as intent and anticipation adding their own pixels to a experiential anomaly, or, more accurately, a variety of them.
Well, all that is fine and dandy, but where exactly is this locationless location termed by PKD as VALIS, that mysteriously co-inhabits and expands our universe as a storage state in flux, and, as I suspect and have written about much earlier, seems to be the basis of the expansion of the material universe as two sides of the same mirror? We seem poised between both sides, pinned with a fear of the dark with no alternative but to be pushed forward into the unknown as we cling to the familiar instinctively, and, as a consequence, there are many in the community of sciences who obsessively dwell on the repeatable.

“Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins like slender bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day that ever was and he was riding to his death.” 
― Cormac McCarthy, Child of God

Not being as talented as the in-house scribes of NASA, I will allow them to explain a very strange state of affairs which may provide a substantive clue as to the other side of a mirror, or , again, more accurately, a series of mirrors...as explained further on.
Of course the principle of the mirror is reflected light and then journeying back to metaphysics, we have the gnostic Sufi tradition telling us that the greatest form of light in all of it's permutations is what they refer to as "black light." Is it any wonder that as children as well as some of us who grew into adulthood fear darkness, the absence of light...Call this an experiential metaphor. Is there a proverbial alligator hiding under our beds deeply buried as a bone in our psyche, or is it simply "all in our minds" as many a parent suggested? This may be a portrayal of something we sense instinctively, that what we cannot see can harm us but this sort of ignorance works both ways in building proverbial moats and walls through the rigorous application of belief systems although none of them can see into these dark matters anymore than we can. The old saying, "Don't get go of nurse, because there maybe something in the bushes ten times worse" also seems apt for a majority of us.

“Reality denied comes back to haunt.” 
― Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

The play of light and darkness was of great importance in Phillip K Dick's last years in order to formulate a theory of a conceptual cosmological model that addresses our whys and wherefores.

From NASA:

"By fitting a theoretical model of the composition of the Universe to the combined set of cosmological observations, scientists have come up with the composition that we described above, ~68% dark energy, ~27% dark matter, ~5% normal matter. What is dark matter?

We are much more certain what dark matter is not than we are what it is. First, it is dark, meaning that it is not in the form of stars and planets that we see. Observations show that there is far too little visible matter in the Universe to make up the 27% required by the observations. Second, it is not in the form of dark clouds of normal matter, matter made up of particles called baryons. We know this because we would be able to detect baryonic clouds by their absorption of radiation passing through them. Third, dark matter is not antimatter, because we do not see the unique gamma rays that are produced when antimatter annihilates with matter. Finally, we can rule out large galaxy-sized black holes on the basis of how many gravitational lenses we see. High concentrations of matter bend light passing near them from objects further away, but we do not see enough lensing events to suggest that such objects to make up the required 25% dark matter contribution."

The metaphysical wit of Alan Watts comes to mind when he observed the spaces between what we observe are as important as what we see. Of course, we have some intriguing clues of our own when a temporal and usually nonsensical experiential anomaly occurs, such as the psychology of a subject and their emotional state, the field effects surrounding such occurrences, the coherence in the immediate environment to be open to variables being "allowed", atmospheric temperature and humidity, the odd effects from and to direct current versus alternating current, shadow or dark figurations of a dark matter, as well as a relationship of variability in  delimited reception by electronically induced wavelengths being equal to the substantive coherence what is received that seemingly is produced as more of a cellular effect that appears sentient rather than the inverse, a sentient wave packet seeming cellular.

Rather than proverbial angels gliding upward toward a heavenly paradise, we are more like moles burrowing hither and yon in a substrate of membranes trying to determine our location always in relation to that which we cannot see directly. All of this further complicated by the fact we live within a non existent now, a sleight of hand.