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 you're 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 is 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 cart wheel – 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 completely lose
confidence in itself.
Oh.
Should your rational mind completely lose 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 fixed.
But…
This is not because the rational mind is weak.
No?
No, it is remarkably robust and manages 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 perfectly 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 doesn’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 involved 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 without 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 progression.
Yes, exactly.
Then why mess around with infinity?
Because the frame by frame model only allows certain types of change or progression.
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, 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 or linearly.
Yes. Anything more would be violent and destructive – like a revolution.
Yes. But some of us are pushed or drawn into the other end of the spoke,
to the centre 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 – you're 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 – his 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" the 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 is 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 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 or progressing 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 an 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 do-able, 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
