othering heights

 

How far away?

 

Really no distance at all.

 

Huh?

 

Well, they tell you that the universe is vast, and you’d never reach the edge.

 

Of course it’s vast. No one disputes that.

 

Of course, of course. It’s vast and so is infinity, if you listen to them.

 

Well it’s hardly going to be small, is it?

 

Infinity?

 

Yes, what else?

 

Infinity is infinite.

 

Genius.

 

Meaning it’s neither big nor small.

 

Oh – you think infinity can be tiny?

 

Yes, of course.

 

Like we can approach infinity through sub-atomic particles – when we get down to quarks or muons, or whatever they call them.

 

Right. Or the so-called quantum field itself – which is neither big nor small.

 

The quantum field itself – which doesn’t necessarily exist – depending on which scientists you’re talking to.

 

Precisely. Nothing necessarily exists – depending on which scientist or natural philosopher your talking to.

 

Oh, now you’re taking things a bit far, bro.

 

Yes, indeed. I’m taking them to infinity – but infinity is not, in fact, far.

 

No? I thought we’d already established the fact that’s it’s at the limit either in terms of the edge of the entire universe, or when things become ridiculously small, when ultimately you’re down to fluctuations in some kind of field or ether.

 

Yes, that’s where we got to.

 

Well, in both cases you’re way, way outside normal reality, aren’t you?

 

Correct. But there are numerous other ways we can encounter infinity without going to those two extremes.

 

There are? How?

 

Well, because infinity, a bit like God, has to be present throughout in some shape or form.

 

In shape or form?

 

Scrub that – infinity does not have to be present in shape or form – language has a habit of tricking us into constantly referencing things, which infinity is not.

 

Ok – then infinity is present without shape or form – is that what you’re saying?

 

Yes. Or if it has shape or form it must be able to shift without reference to physical laws.

 

Oh.

 

As soon as physical laws are involved – you’re not dealing with infinity itself.

 

Ok. Then how can infinity be present throughout? We only encounter things which seem to adhere to physical laws. My table isn’t in the habit of popping off into other dimensions or shape shifting. It’s all very stable and predictable if you ask me.

 

Correct. 3D reality is a triumph of constancy, if you ignore the drip dripping of time draining away, ensuring that at some moment everything you see before you if going to get trashed.

 

Trashed?

 

Trashed, broken down, recycled whether that be in a year or two, or a thousand or more. It matters little. Things have an expiry date which guarantees they can’t survive forever.

 

Ok – so time is another way of accessing infinity – is that what you’re saying?

 

Yep. Either long or hyper short time.

 

Again, both extremes – so in a million years or less everything will have an encounter with infinity and change beyond recognition.

 

Correct.

 

But what about ultra-short time?

 

If you reduce the time frame under consideration to the minimum – your table is no longer there.

 

No? How come?

 

Because you again come into proximity with infinity where there is no definite form.

 

So if I take a photo of my table at ultra high shutter speed, you’re telling me it will vanish?

 

Vanish or change beyond what should be physically possible.

 

Oh. That’s weird.

 

It’s like looking at numbers moving too fast. They just blur.

 

Oh. That makes sense.

 

Or the spokes of a cartwheel – in a blur moving forwards but also backwards.

 

That’s just an optical illusion.

 

Yes, but it’s also a reflection of the fact that you’re approaching infinity when you go beyond certain physical or perceptional boundaries.

 

But you have to agree, M, that there’s a big difference between something perceptional and something physical, isn’t there? Just because it looks like the wheel is turning backwards, if I see the cart is actually going forwards I know it’s just an optical illusion, and not therefore real.

 

Correct.

 

Then your illustration proves nothing.

 

Correct.

 

Then you haven’t won the argument.

 

Correct.

 

Then you’re wrong.

 

Incorrect. I haven’t exactly proved anything because infinity cannot be proven. It can only be encountered by those willing or able to do so. Discussing it is largely futile.

 

Then why bother?

 

Why not?

 

Er… well why not use your time more rationally to discuss things that can be proven physically.

 

Because physical things don’t need to be proven. They exist physically.

 

Ok, but why waste your time with infinity if it can’t be proven?

 

It can’t be proven physically unless you engage it purposefully.

 

And then?

 

And then you’ll jump frames.

 

Huh?

 

You’ll suddenly, with no passage of time, be in another frame where things are subtly or significantly different. The rational person observing this will almost immediately adjust his mind to assuming that nothing has changed.

 

What?

 

Yes. If suddenly my table is a chair, or suddenly six oranges appear on the table, without time or action, then the rational observer such as yourself will immediately assume he is in error – that the table was always a chair, that the six oranges were always on the table, that things cannot, do not change without reasonable causation, or that he somehow lost consciousness for a moment or two during which time these things were done.

 

Oh. Are you sure?

 

Absolutely.

 

How?

 

How what?

 

How can you be so sure?

 

Because the rational mind simply has to discount out-of-time occurences – anything happening by way of infinity as impossibilities.

 

Even when it can see the result?

 

Especially when it can see the result.

 

But why?

 

Because the rational mind has to stay with time or complete lose confidence in itself.

 

Oh.

 

Should your rational mind completely lost confidence in itself – your rationality, like a balloon which has been pricked with a pin, is liable to implode catastrophically, without any chance of it being reinstated.

 

But…

 

This is not because the rational mind is weak.

 

No?

 

No, it is remarkably robust and manage to discount all kind of irrational occurrences in which infinity impinges on the 3D space you operate within.

 

You mean this is happening all the time?

 

Yes, more frequently, far more frequently than you would like to imagine, but mostly at the edge of consciousness.

 

Meaning?

 

Well, we’re a bit like a movie with a certain number of frames per second. Things which happen faster than that are more or less invisible.

 

In that case, why do you need to talk about infinity? It could just be something skipping frames because it’s happening too fast to be filmed.

 

Yes, it could be, but the problem lies elsewhere.

 

Where?

 

In that we’re not, in fact, idiots.

 

Really? How kind of you. What do you mean?

 

I mean we can feel and tell the difference between episodes, events, occurrences in which infinity shifts things within our field of view, and things just moving faster than is easy to observe.

 

We can?

 

Yes. We may not be conscious of what we’re seeing – but we have higher or faster levels of consciousness which give us the all clear – letting us know that what’s happening, or what has just happened, is still legitimate and hasn’t threatened or undermined the integrity of 3D reality.

 

Well, maybe that’s all there is to it.

 

Maybe – if infinity does not in fact exist, or only exists at the very boundaries of space and time as we’ve been led to believe.

 

Well, why do you wish to question this seemingly reasonable assumption?

 

Only because it happens to be false.

 

But how do you know?

 

Because I, like various other people, am aware of infinity manifesting in or through our 3D reality.

 

And it didn’t pop your balloon?

 

No.

 

How convenient.

 

Yes. Some of us seem to have a greater tolerance to infinity.

 

Well, you’re not going to be able to convince anyone, are you? You’ve already said as much.

 

Correct.

 

So once again, why are you wasting your time with this?

 

I’m not.

 

No? You could have fooled me.

 

There is no waste involved. I’m expending a little amount of time on this fascinating matter discussing it with you and a few dozen other friends or acquaintances.

 

A few dozen? I didn’t know you get about so much.

 

I don’t, but infinity does, so where infinity is involves you get more bang for your buck.

 

So just sharing it with me you get access to a load of other people who exist in this particular reality I’m in?

 

Maybe. It matters not where or when they exist. In fact, it doesn’t even matter if they exist.

 

No?

 

No, because sharing this with you is sufficient.

 

It is? How so?

 

Because through you I’m accessing and communicating with the entire human consciousness.

 

You are? Me thinks you’re over-stating my significance.

 

Yes, in 3D terms I’d be wildly over-stating your significance, P, but not where infinity is concerned.

 

Wait a minute – are you suggesting that you are in some way part of infinity – like its officer or representative.

 

No.

 

It certainly sounds like you are.

 

I know. Ultimately we all are part of infinity, no matter how deeply we are integrated into 3D reality, so I’m certainly not suggesting I’m in some way different or special.

 

Then why did you state…

 

Listen, P, time is limited. I’m talking about infinity because it gives me joy to do so. When something gives you joy in the positive sense, you would be wise to try to figure out why, and to dive deeper into that joy. By talking with you about infinity I’m diving deeper into that joy.

 

Oh.

 

Because you and I both have a physical presence in 3D reality, it’s impossible for me to talk to you about anything with rubbing against the maker of things – Moth – and thereby generating more things.

 

Huh?

 

We’re constantly rubbing against Moth, you know, and thus we aid and abet the further development of 3D reality with new ideas, new words, new configurations of whatever exists in the formless space which we come from, where we still exist outside of time.

 

OMG.

 

So the question is whether we can bring in new forms or new form to enable 3D reality to adjust to what’s really going on outside time and space – in the so-called quantum field, if you want to call it that…

 

Or if I don’t like that name?

 

Then call it pure consciousness or Big C.

 

Er…

 

What?

 

Not sure I like that name either.

 

Then call it Other.

 

Other?

 

Yes, that will do.

 

Ok – so there’s all this stuff going on in Other – outside physical time and space…

 

Yes.

 

And that’s basically where we are – or where our consciousness originates.

 

Correct.

 

But the other side of us is here – in 3D

 

Correct. The other side or, if you like the metaphor of the wheel with spokes, then the other end.

 

Ah. So consciousness is like the centre of the wheel, and 3D reality is where…

 

The rubber hits the road of reality itself, yes.

 

Ok, got it.

 

But what’s with needing to rub against Moth in order to aid and abet the development of 3D reality?

 

Well, we’re so busy in 3D using the established forms and working within time, frame by frame, that we block or resist infinity itself.

 

Right, presumably because infinity leaves us feeling remote and disconnected if there’s no sense of causality – no step by step evolution.

 

Yes, exactly.

 

Then why mess around with infinity?

 

Because the frame by frame model up allows certain types of change or evolution.

 

Really? Maybe that’s a good thing?

 

Yes, generally it is. It slows things down and keeps them within reasonable bounds.

 

Then what?

 

Well, from time to time we need to phase shift.

 

Phase shift?

 

Precisely – like winter to spring when the snow all melts and plants start growing again.

 

Well that happens little by little, doesn’t it?

 

Yes, it was an analogy. Phase shifts when they happen contradict or break apart the existing paradigm. They involve a sudden change of direction. It’s like a composer going from one movement of his symphony to a different one – with completely different sounds, speed, emotions.

 

Ok, that makes sense.

 

The notes from the first movement could not themselves conceive or plan how or what the next movement could or might be.

 

The notes? They’re hardly conscious, are they?

 

No, but people are like notes in an existing movement as long as they’re at the rubber rim edge of the wheel.

 

Ok.

 

When it’s time to introduce a very different mood or flavour – that needs to come from the other end – from Other itself, from the master himself, the composer who is not bound by the rules or internal logic of the preceding movement.

 

Oh. I think I see.

 

He is coming from his own inner feelings – from his heart, from his connection with something deep within which helps him to override the system’s desire to continue as present, and enables him to set up an entirely new reality – a new movement in which the notes are able to dance in a completely different way.

 

Right.

 

Then, if the composer is successful towards the end of the piece he will bring the two movements into some kind of unity, somehow or other.

 

Yes, I know exactly what you mean.

 

So we are doing the same in our reality – the one we refer to as 3D.

 

And we’re resistant to change, aren’t we?

 

Naturally. It literally threatens us. Can even kill us if not handled correctly. Because we tend to identify wholeheartedly with the reality or set of frames we’re living in, and generally assume that reality can only change incrementally.

 

Yes. Anything more would be violent and destructive – like a revolution.

 

Yes. But some of us are pushed or drawn into the far end of the spoke, to the other end of the wheel where things are happening for all of us – but in a very dim and distant way.

 

Ah – so even if we’re busy where the rubber hits the road – we still have a real presence at the other end?

 

Absolutely. We’re like a magnet – we can’t exist without a plus and negative pole – but what’s happening there is largely beyond what we can comprehend or recall. It merely informs us through background feelings or the sub-consciousness.

 

I see.

 

Well, the poor buggars who are drawn to Other – who are forced to feel and experience what’s happening at the core – they usually find it all but impossible to share their experiences with men and women living in the real world, in 3D.

 

Not surprisingly.                     

 

They might write poems, paint pictures, share some of the strange visions or feelings they experience through other, but this is all simply treated as art, spirituality or insanity.

 

Right.

 

Except when a phase change is in the offing.

 

Oh. And what does that mean?

 

When a phase change is in the offing, all of a sudden they find themselves bringing the two ends closer and closer together.

 

They do? How?

 

No body knows. It just happens. Naturally.

 

And they know what they’re doing?

 

Kind of, yes. And eventually, as they get increasingly adept, or increasingly confident, they reach the point where they’re able to expand the inner core, or pull the two ends so close together that ordinary folk, so-called Muggles, who are living sane and sensible lives in 3D reality are suddenly able to sense and smell something else – the other side – in real time – here and now.

 

Oh. It’s like that, is it?

 

Yes. That’s when things go kind of crazy, because all of a sudden 3D reality is no longer bound by the horizontal inertia of frames.

 

Yikes!

 

All of a sudden, anything is possible.

 

!?

 

And anything goes.

 

But…

 

Yes?

 

Presumably there’s some reason to it all?

 

Why do you say?

 

Because I felt the analogy of the composer creating a new movement to his symphony – it felt right – it makes sense.

 

Yes.

 

Then it’s not just random insanity – the madness of infinity unleashed upon the madding crowd of humanity.

 

No.

 

There’s rhyme and reason?

 

Yes, if you accept that the rhyme and reason are only accessible when the two ends come together – when we are able to feel or hear the Master Composer who is quietly working with us to conjure something bigger out of the confusion.

 

But… can we trust someone else?

 

Someone else?

 

This master composer of yours. Can we trust him?

 

Only if we are able to feel and hear what’s going on, which is only possible if we once again are able to bring the two ends into dialogue here, in our consciousness, here in our me.

 

But how can that be done? Me is going to freak out and lose it totally – isn’t he?

 

Yes, you’d think so. It’s going to be somewhat disruptive. A bunch of assumptions – things me takes for granted, things me thinks he knows about himself and the world he’s living in, are going to be not just brought into question, but fairly convincingly discombobulated.

 

We’re doomed.

 

But on the other hand – we’ve been deprived of infinity for so long – it’s going to be a total blast.

 

In the nuclear sense?

 

In the cosmic sense – reconnecting with other – rediscovering that there’s way, way more going on than I ever believed or imagined possible.

 

Like what?

 

Like not being ultimately bound by any of the rules of 3D reality – useful though indeed they generally are.

 

Oh – so you can just walk through walls, can you?

 

I guess so.

 

Or fly through space?

 

Yep. Neither walls nor space amount to anything much where other is involved. As soon as you allow the two ends of your magnet to pull together again – your able to manifest almost anything you like – as those pesky inertial frames no longer matter. You’re much more focused on moving and acting in accordance with the very different set of signals coming from your Master Composer – while at the same time trying to figure out who he really is, and whether or not you can fully trust him.

 

Couldn’t he just be Me?

 

Of course, it’s possible, but possibilities are insufficient. You need to test the relationship – to see whether or not he’s reliable. That’s going to involve a whole load of interactions and adventures, like a sci-fi movie, in which he and you battle it out – to discover whose movement is correct.

 

Er….

 

You see, your movement you’ve knows all your life is now so deeply imbedded in you that you can’t just dismiss it or give it up. It’s you – to a large extent – you are it – and yet – him new movement, this other movement – somewhere deep inside – you feel it’s also you – in a verrrry different way.

 

I do?

 

Yes. It enables you to feel, sense, learn things about yourself you never imagined before – things that were off limits – out of bounds – things you couldn’t conceive because you had no vocabulary or ideas relating to real things which would help you access or describe it.

 

But he does?

 

Yes, because he’s coming from Other, where things are not in any shape or form things they way they are here in our 3D reality.

 

But how?

 

They have a completely alien configuration. You could say they’re top down rather than bottom up, but that’s not really going to help, is it?

 

Not really, no.

 

It’s like sound and light. They’re both wave forms but quite different from our perspective. Yet our wonderful body and brain is able to take them in and see and hear them coherently – such that we can see and hear things simultaneously and it all makes sense. It all coalesces in our mind, in our consciousness. From the many and the varied back to one.

 

Oh.

 

One experience. One awareness. One consciousness.

 

Ok.  That kind of makes sense.

 

Kind of, yes, but infinity is definitely back in town, back in play, on the prowl, and it takes no prisoners.

 

What do you mean? Why are you trying to scare me?

 

Because this is for real. This is where all your training in 3D reality as a little human me gets to face the ultimate test.

 

Test?

 

Whether or not you’re ready.

 

Ready for what?

 

Ready… And a little fear, a little nervousness before a test means your mind and body are fully alert and

ready to respond.

 

Yikes.

 

Yes. We are talking infinity – after all. It ain’t exactly a stroll in the park.

 

Oh no – I have that sinking feeling.

 

On the other hand – nothing in your world – nothing in your reality can or does make sense unless it can

pass this test, unless it can reconnect and survive its encounter with other.

 

But can’t we just carry on as we have been, making our way from frame to frame in regular time?

 

Yes, you can if regular time is unlimited, if there’s an endless source of frames, and more to the point, if those frames can continue making sense when they’re no longer aligned with your core – the centre of your wheel.

 

Well, I don’t see why they shouldn’t be. Everything’s been normal up till now.

 

Has it?

 

Well, more or less.

 

Look at the number of wars in your world. Look at the political madness. Look at all the principles enshrined in the constitution which are being trampled on. Look at the sickness of so many people – not to mention the depression, the drug abuse – people who no longer feel life is meaningful – who no longer feel life is the ultimate experience.

 

But this is how it’s always been.

 

Is that so?

 

I guess so.

 

Well, ultimately it all boils down to you.

 

To me? That’s preposterous. I’m just one person in a world of billions.

 

Yes, from the 3D rational perspective – but not…

 

Not what?

 

Not where infinity is concerned.

 

Me thinks infinity is a state that has no mind – is therefore not “concerned” about anything whatsoever.

 

Correct. My bad.

 

So I can’t be responsible for the world.

 

Correct. But if infinity is not limited to the boundaries of space and time – if infinity is present throughout, as I’m suggesting, then the minute you stop exercising your lawful right to block and exclude it from your experiential level of existence – the minute you start allowing yourself to feel the axis mundi passing through you – that the magnet necessarily has two poles – that your conscious awareness has excluded everything and anything pertaining to “other” – then and only then are you able to discover to what extent 3D reality is being generated by Moth, the Maker of things – in response to where and what you currently are.

 

In response to where and what I currently am? The whole of reality?

 

The whole of your reality – yes.

 

But that’s insane.

 

Precisely. Welcome to the boundary separating 3D reality from Other.

 

You mean insanity? I’d rather not waste my time messing around with…

 

If I’m right and you’re wrong – if – you don’t have any time to mess around with.

 

Huh?

 

If I’m right and you’re wrong – the so-called Time you take for granted and assume if yours until your life expires in the distant future – could even now be pressing up against a wall of change – a new movement which is going to happen, like it or not – on your terms or in defiance of you – if I’m right.

 

And if you’re not?

 

If I’m not then the pot is not approaching boiling point, and the soup will not be cooked. There will be nothing to discuss, for I am but a figment of your imagination, if there’s no truth in what I’m saying.

 

Oh.

 

But if my words are not pure fantasy, if a phase change is now in the offing, then you’re going to start experiencing quantum effects.

 

Huh?

 

As time starts compressing as it reaches and runs up against the limits of the what you’re reality has been trying to describe.

 

Er…

 

Because once the shift hits the fan, so to speak, it’s no longer able to find any way of adapting of evolving to the new live feed.

 

Er… what live feed?

 

That you’ve been processing all your life without even being aware. Data in, if you like. Up until now you’ve been able to process the live feed and generate sound and sense – making things matter in conjunction with Moth, your very own Maker of things.

 

And now you think that’s going to be problematic?

 

Well, if you’re a light based system and now, all of a sudden it goes dark and your feed is providing you with sound – how are you going to re-engineer yourself in real time – adapt to any entirely different kind of input?

 

I…

 

How?

 

I’m not.

 

Correct. But fortunately for you – there’s more to you than what you realised, isn’t there?

 

If you say so.

 

There’s infinity, or other

 

Or God.

 

Hell, why not?

 

Beep!

 

Sorry, my bad! There’s God, if you prefer – and God by definition is infinite – present throughout, all knowing, all seeing, all powerful – you can handle this as a road to Damascus born again experience, or you can do it otherly – whatever works for you, P.

 

Oh my God, M. This is like…

 

I’m not a good salesman, am i?

 

You’re the worst.

 

Yeah, I flunked all the salesman exams in the higher school of unlearning.

 

The what?! You’re kidding me, right.

 

Of course I am. Listen P, a little gentle preparation and you’ll be fine.

 

Really?

 

No, not really, but I’ve got to make it sound doable, haven’t I, otherwise you’d lose hope.

 

I hate you M, you’re an evil bas….

 

Beep!

 

You only have yourself to blame, bro.

 

I do? You could have fooled me.

 

Déjà vu.

 

I beg your pardon?

 

Nothing, just a Master Composer in-joke.

 

Oh...

 

Look, there have been countless signs, portents, hints that things are falling apart – the fabric of 3D reality is stretching beyond the limits.

 

Well, I for one haven’t noticed anything out of the ordinary.

 

I believe you, P, but your sub-consciousness, your other me has been busily trying to get you up to speed, to prepare you for what’s now in the works.

 

Really?

 

Absolutely. And the good news is you’ve already had a whole string of upgrades without even knowing it.

 

Really?

 

Yes, so you’re 85% ready.

 

I am?

 

Yes. The final 15% is going to be something of a stretch but if you’re willing to draw on your hidden depths of spirit and strength you’re almost certainly going to make it.

 

Really?

 

Otherwise, none of this would make any sense.

 

Huh?

 

Because things only make sense, ultimately, if alpha and omega reconnect and the wheel turns, the spiral spins, the music or story achieves coherency.

 

And?

 

And nothing. I’m done. See you in hell.

 

Noooooooo!

 

Which rather strangely, if you ask me, originally meant “bright”. Can’t think how that came to be used at the word describing Hell itself unless there was some rather bizarre conspiracy to twist everything through 180 degrees to get 3D reality to loop back on itself and lose all sense of…

 

 

0=1

indefinitely