"The new age has finally dawned... 0=1" the public orator proudly declared.
"What is he on about?" I remember thinking - me and everyone else who was present and half attending to what was being said. "0=1" It made no sense whatsoever. Still doesn't - though we've learned so much since then. Now we're rolling with it. Feeling our way. Finding our feet in a world that bears little or no relation to the one we used to know.
"Concrete examples - how many times have I told you" - my teacher would drill us - "always give a concrete example for every bald assertion you make."
Er... it's difficult to know where to start. It's so all pervasive - like the smells you get walking through a shopping mall, or a forest glade for that matter.
"Start with something simple - not matter how small. Something, anything is better than nothing" he would insist - Dr Limes to give him his proper name.
Well - what about the much ridiculed "zero point energy". Remember there was a time when you couldn't talk about it without people smirking knowingly - you were one of those who believed in the tooth fairy of free energy. What a joke! until quite suddenly, quite unexpectedly, it wasn't.
"Details, details - fill in the narrative. You're telling a story - never forget that" which I always found confusing as we were trying to establish facts as opposed to fiction, but even facts have to be packaged in a digestible story of some shape or form.
Well, it had to happen individually, didn't it?
You're not actually sure, are you? - the ghost of Dr Limes heckles me.
As I was saying, before I was so unceremoniously interrupted, it had to happen individually - on an individual basis. It wasn't about releasing secret or suppressed technology at all. That was the least of our problems.
Then what? I thought it was the opposition of the oil and financial elite?
No, they were just playing their roles - powerless to do anything different.
Well, how could it happen individually - as you put it - if more than half the population knew next to nothing about this new, controversial form of energy?
Good question, Chel.
I pause, to give the answer time to slip effortlessly into place. It has to come to each and everyone simultaneously. It shouldn't be rushed. It mustn't be "my answer". It has to be ours. This is an ownership issue.
"We have to own our own knowledge."
But how can we own it if we don't even know it's there?
Don't focus on the specific issue Phen. Assume, instead, that the shift was long in the making, and was a natural phenomenon - like winter shifting into spring. It isn't going to happen because of one specific data point - a higher midday temperature, a bird building a nest, a snowdrop sticking out its neck when all the others are nestling contentedly in bed.
No? But you said it has to happen individually.
Which it does - inspite of the apparent paradox.
Then what?
Nature is not bound by linear time the way we like to assume we are. Big events, big shifts from one age to another are complete movements - like a symphony. Listening to it unfolding you might assume it's just a spontaneous outpouring of sound and feeling, in the heat of the moment so to speak, but no... there's a wholeness, a completeness, another kind of time in play.
Another kind of time?
Yep. Shall we give it a name? Shall we call it non-linear? or holistic? or round time?
The kind of time that enables a revolution to happen?
That enables evolution, which never happens without some kind of dramatic reimagination.
Reimagination? From sound to imagery - that's quite a conceptual leap.
Isn't it. Nothing actually has to change at the time. We just have to reach the point at which it no longer makes sense to continue seeing things the way we used to.
You mean a shift of perception?
More than that.
Then what?
Not just how we're seeing reality... like it's basically unchanged but now we see it completely differently because we've changed in some way... No, that's only half the story.
And the other half.
You're not going to like it.
Try me, I might surprise you this once...
It's non-linear - a chicken and egg moment in which you cannot determine cause-effect time flow.
And these moments exist?
They have to - otherwise we'd be stuck in normal reality.
And what's wrong with that?
Nothing whatsoever - but where does it come from? How does it suddenly shift with all the inertia built in? This is zero point time - the time at which linear time converges on itself from two sides - thus cancelling out.
So what happens? Everything ends in a huge implosion?
You'd imagine so, wouldn't you.
If it were acting in a linear fashion - yes. But you've already asserted otherwise.
So, we're at a point that is no point - experiencing a kind of weightlessness, like astronauts in orbit, floating around the Earth, and we suddenly declutch the normal mind drive - it happens automatically.
Declutch - like a car engine as it shifts between gears.
Precisely. At this moment we're in a state of conscious-awareness that bears no relationship to normal perception.
And you're going to say that we can reimagine reality - and that doing so it actually shifts?
Yes.
But that's absurd.
Yes.
It wouldn't change just because we imagined it was now different.
No, it wouldn't need to.
What do you mean?
Because it was never one thing or the other.
But it had to be... otherwise nothing would be certain.
Yes, that's true, but when the shift is in the works, and we're ready to encounter zero point time, then things are different... and no amount of explaining's going to make it easier to accept.
So, you're saying...
No, not I'm saying - this is mathematical - not a matter of conjecture.
Mathematical? How so?
0=1.
Not that again.
Precisely. The mind puts up a show of resistance, even as we move steadily further into the new age of zero point energy... even as all the old shibboleths are replaced, one by one.
Ok, assuming what you're saying is correct, what does it mean?
Well done, I was hoping you'd give it a go.
Well, I'm not saying you're right. Give me a few more data points and I'll reserve judgement.
The proof is in the pudding. The shift only happened because of a singularity involving each of us individually, and all of us collectively. The shift had to happen through us, with us and to a certain extent by us. We are, as you've probably realised, an integral part of the system.
Which system?
Whatever it is we're observing. Objective reality - if you like.
So it can only change if we change with it?
I guess so. I can only assume that we're now on a fundamentally new trajectory borne from this reimagining, which is why things that had been blocked for so long were suddenly released and incorporated in our new reality. We no longer needed to block them. We were now qualified to handle them because we'd passed the test.
So what now?
Good question. 0=1... I guess we're going to venture further down the rabbit hole of conscious-awareness and discover that nothing is quite what it seems, but didn't we know that already.
Yes. I think we did. But this zero point time thing - if it's non-linear - it has to flow back into the past, so to speak, and assist in its own genesis.
Ah, good point. Yes, I expect it does, but then when you consider the singularity of 1, you realise that fundamentally nothing ever changes - it's simply reimagining which is outside time.
So this is some kind of dream reality you're saying.
So it would seem, but something tells me we need to avoid speculation and stay with the real world of intergalactic flight and transpersonal conscious-awareness.
Fair enough. Got to keep our feet on the ground... fancy a bite to eat. I'm starving.
Good idea. My planet or yours?
"What is he on about?" I remember thinking - me and everyone else who was present and half attending to what was being said. "0=1" It made no sense whatsoever. Still doesn't - though we've learned so much since then. Now we're rolling with it. Feeling our way. Finding our feet in a world that bears little or no relation to the one we used to know.
"Concrete examples - how many times have I told you" - my teacher would drill us - "always give a concrete example for every bald assertion you make."
Er... it's difficult to know where to start. It's so all pervasive - like the smells you get walking through a shopping mall, or a forest glade for that matter.
"Start with something simple - not matter how small. Something, anything is better than nothing" he would insist - Dr Limes to give him his proper name.
Well - what about the much ridiculed "zero point energy". Remember there was a time when you couldn't talk about it without people smirking knowingly - you were one of those who believed in the tooth fairy of free energy. What a joke! until quite suddenly, quite unexpectedly, it wasn't.
"Details, details - fill in the narrative. You're telling a story - never forget that" which I always found confusing as we were trying to establish facts as opposed to fiction, but even facts have to be packaged in a digestible story of some shape or form.
Well, it had to happen individually, didn't it?
You're not actually sure, are you? - the ghost of Dr Limes heckles me.
As I was saying, before I was so unceremoniously interrupted, it had to happen individually - on an individual basis. It wasn't about releasing secret or suppressed technology at all. That was the least of our problems.
Then what? I thought it was the opposition of the oil and financial elite?
No, they were just playing their roles - powerless to do anything different.
Well, how could it happen individually - as you put it - if more than half the population knew next to nothing about this new, controversial form of energy?
Good question, Chel.
I pause, to give the answer time to slip effortlessly into place. It has to come to each and everyone simultaneously. It shouldn't be rushed. It mustn't be "my answer". It has to be ours. This is an ownership issue.
"We have to own our own knowledge."
But how can we own it if we don't even know it's there?
Don't focus on the specific issue Phen. Assume, instead, that the shift was long in the making, and was a natural phenomenon - like winter shifting into spring. It isn't going to happen because of one specific data point - a higher midday temperature, a bird building a nest, a snowdrop sticking out its neck when all the others are nestling contentedly in bed.
No? But you said it has to happen individually.
Which it does - inspite of the apparent paradox.
Then what?
Nature is not bound by linear time the way we like to assume we are. Big events, big shifts from one age to another are complete movements - like a symphony. Listening to it unfolding you might assume it's just a spontaneous outpouring of sound and feeling, in the heat of the moment so to speak, but no... there's a wholeness, a completeness, another kind of time in play.
Another kind of time?
Yep. Shall we give it a name? Shall we call it non-linear? or holistic? or round time?
The kind of time that enables a revolution to happen?
That enables evolution, which never happens without some kind of dramatic reimagination.
Reimagination? From sound to imagery - that's quite a conceptual leap.
Isn't it. Nothing actually has to change at the time. We just have to reach the point at which it no longer makes sense to continue seeing things the way we used to.
You mean a shift of perception?
More than that.
Then what?
Not just how we're seeing reality... like it's basically unchanged but now we see it completely differently because we've changed in some way... No, that's only half the story.
And the other half.
You're not going to like it.
Try me, I might surprise you this once...
It's non-linear - a chicken and egg moment in which you cannot determine cause-effect time flow.
And these moments exist?
They have to - otherwise we'd be stuck in normal reality.
And what's wrong with that?
Nothing whatsoever - but where does it come from? How does it suddenly shift with all the inertia built in? This is zero point time - the time at which linear time converges on itself from two sides - thus cancelling out.
So what happens? Everything ends in a huge implosion?
You'd imagine so, wouldn't you.
If it were acting in a linear fashion - yes. But you've already asserted otherwise.
So, we're at a point that is no point - experiencing a kind of weightlessness, like astronauts in orbit, floating around the Earth, and we suddenly declutch the normal mind drive - it happens automatically.
Declutch - like a car engine as it shifts between gears.
Precisely. At this moment we're in a state of conscious-awareness that bears no relationship to normal perception.
And you're going to say that we can reimagine reality - and that doing so it actually shifts?
Yes.
But that's absurd.
Yes.
It wouldn't change just because we imagined it was now different.
No, it wouldn't need to.
What do you mean?
Because it was never one thing or the other.
But it had to be... otherwise nothing would be certain.
Yes, that's true, but when the shift is in the works, and we're ready to encounter zero point time, then things are different... and no amount of explaining's going to make it easier to accept.
So, you're saying...
No, not I'm saying - this is mathematical - not a matter of conjecture.
Mathematical? How so?
0=1.
Not that again.
Precisely. The mind puts up a show of resistance, even as we move steadily further into the new age of zero point energy... even as all the old shibboleths are replaced, one by one.
Ok, assuming what you're saying is correct, what does it mean?
Well done, I was hoping you'd give it a go.
Well, I'm not saying you're right. Give me a few more data points and I'll reserve judgement.
The proof is in the pudding. The shift only happened because of a singularity involving each of us individually, and all of us collectively. The shift had to happen through us, with us and to a certain extent by us. We are, as you've probably realised, an integral part of the system.
Which system?
Whatever it is we're observing. Objective reality - if you like.
So it can only change if we change with it?
I guess so. I can only assume that we're now on a fundamentally new trajectory borne from this reimagining, which is why things that had been blocked for so long were suddenly released and incorporated in our new reality. We no longer needed to block them. We were now qualified to handle them because we'd passed the test.
So what now?
Good question. 0=1... I guess we're going to venture further down the rabbit hole of conscious-awareness and discover that nothing is quite what it seems, but didn't we know that already.
Yes. I think we did. But this zero point time thing - if it's non-linear - it has to flow back into the past, so to speak, and assist in its own genesis.
Ah, good point. Yes, I expect it does, but then when you consider the singularity of 1, you realise that fundamentally nothing ever changes - it's simply reimagining which is outside time.
So this is some kind of dream reality you're saying.
So it would seem, but something tells me we need to avoid speculation and stay with the real world of intergalactic flight and transpersonal conscious-awareness.
Fair enough. Got to keep our feet on the ground... fancy a bite to eat. I'm starving.
Good idea. My planet or yours?
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