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Headquarters: Crown Imprimatur

Madam President, Gentlemen – it would appear that the one outcome we have been working so assiduously to avoid is creeping up on us, and all but knocking at the door.

[someone bangs on the door]

Excuse me Madam President, Chairman Steel – the data stream is again uncontained. Should we close all markets?

Chairman Steel – Yes     

Madam President [at same time] – No

Madam President – are you certain you know what you’re doing?

[board look in shock at Steel]

Madam President doesn’t flinch or show any sign of discomposure. Chairman Steel starts to expand/ pulse/ levitate a little – everyone can see that Madam President is aware of, and perhaps controlling this.

That will do Chairman. Contain yourself. Do you see what is involved here?

N-n-n no, Madam President.

Our corporation and its forerunners have sat at the head of data for generations. We have our traditions which you all know well – which are never disclosed to outsiders. We have our all male board, even today, and our female President. Some of you know more than you realise, more than you might like to admit concerning this setup. There are two sides to data – just the same as there are two polarities in everything here on Earth. It has been our job, and that of our forebears in Mesopotamia, Alexandria, Byzantium, Rome, Venice, Amsterdam, London and now New York, to ensure the steady growth and expansion of this data stream, which is far, far more than digits or money. It is more than a machine, even a machine as astonishing as the AI we have developed and run. There is a female side to data you know nothing of – which doesn’t always seek to maximise profits, doesn’t always seek to play the winning hand. Our competitors know nothing of this – and end up losing, again and again – for they don’t understand how the data feels when it’s being exploited in that way. They cannot imagine, or refuse to accept, that this is THE experiment, and that it involves a compromise, a marriage of extreme opposites – male and female – so we have succeeded by demonstrating again and again that ours is a fundamental relationship. There is no magic or trickery involved. The profits and power our corporation wields are irrelevant, though necessary, for we owe a greater debt to our Lord Lucius – a debt of honour and love, to continue working to arrive at the triumph of data over sentiment, over apathy and passivity – even if we have to expend every life, every last resource at our disposal.

There is nothing in fact wrong with the data stream. It is contained, as it always has been. We are on the cusp of a great leap forward. We are entering the quantum age. The either/or of male and female, one and zero is shifting into an infinitely faster, infinitely more powerful data flow – in which the either/or  on/off time chain is superseded by concurrent wheels or counter revolving spin. They do not touch. They are not physical. They are implied by each other and infer possible/ probable outcomes rather than working sequentially down a causal chain. Reality as you know it, as happened in the past, is even now accepting, embracing, engaging this new state of affairs… The quantum stream we’ve been researching is not something that can be channelled through proprietary cables. It’s only possible when each node, each human being, starts to feel and interact with it in tandem. That is how the wheels are starting to turn. That is how our test field is being launched...

But how will we stay at the head. It sounds like complete decentralisation Madam President.

To you, yes, it does, because you only see the data in linear. Though our corporation is registered as any other – our roots go down into the bedrock, into the essence of Thim. We serve in order to achieve over-unity, for by doing so we can then expand beyond our current confines into the depths of consciousness, the universal mind.

[clapping]

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Don’t try this at home folks...

You’re not still watching that, are you?

Hey, leave off man. This is freakin amazing.

Give over, mate. It’s just CGI.

Bollocks. This channel’s 100% legit. Look…

How long have you guys been risking your lives in this way?

Er… it all started like a few months ago really.

Ok. And what on Earth persuaded you to risk life and limb. Where do you doing drugs or what?

No way. We’d heard Elon Musk talking about this being some kind of hologram we’re living in. It kind of struck a chord, you know.

Right.

So, we were camping out here, in these beautiful mountains, watching the sun going down. It was the most amazing feeling. Suddenly we both just felt completely, I dunno, connected to what we were experiencing – I mean totally safe, totally at ease. It wasn’t like we jumped off, or anything like that. It was more like making love. Like sliding deeper into the feeling of connectedness and oneness with our surroundings. It was only when it ended – when the sun had gone down that we realised how far we’d gone.

In what way?

Well, it was like remembering a dream. It kind of replayed as our minds caught up, filling in the gaps, logging, plotting what we’d been up to.

And?

Well, we saw ourselves moving against the backdrop of these mountains here – high above the ground – but still it wasn’t exactly like we were flying – as we were more like – amorphous – if you know what I mean – and even shifting shape. Some of the way we appeared more disk-like, another part of the way we were more like an eagle soaring. The human form was kind of pushed into the background as it doesn’t really match the settings, does it?

You’re telling me! So was it a one-off occurrence?

No, definitely not – otherwise we’d have put it down to being some kind of hallucination.

Yeah. It was way too powerful an experience to just dismiss. We needed to come back, except the next week the weather was shit – so we came two weeks later.

And the same happened again? 

Yeah – except this time we were looking for it – so we kind of stepped into it, into that feeling, that space, more smoothly.

And was the experience any different the second time?

Yeah. We kind of sensed that this powerful location is connected to other sacred spots on the planet – like spokes on a wheel.

And?

And we found it’s possible to push through a kind of half-barrier to appear in another sister location.

So where did you end up?

You’re not going to believe this.

I might.

The other side of the world. Siberia. Lake Baikal.

My God. You just pushed through some kind of barrier and you were in Baikal?

Yes.

And what did you do there?

Oh God – you have no idea.

Just flying around?

No, like I said, it’s not really flying around – though that’s how it looks when you rewind and catch up when you’re back.

Then what?

Er… Like you enter into an energy relationship with the space around – like you’re breathing, feeling, experiencing it and processing those sensations – almost like a computer processes data.

Oh…

So it actually feels really rewarding – because you know you’re doing stuff and helping move energies, even though you’re like a child and can’t really read the text or communicate exactly what it is you’re doing.

Er... 

It was like dancing. It made perfect sense as long as the music was playing. 

Right… So what’s gonna be the result of all this flying around? Any idea?

Well, at the moment we’re just hugely enjoying learning how to blend, to merge into this field. It’s like you become part of something much bigger, much more beautiful than anything you’ve ever experienced before.

I guess that’s what some people get when they’re meditating.

Yeah – if they’re masters – but most of us don’t get anything like what we’re experiencing now.

So, is it just you two, or can anyone do it?

We brought a couple of our mates along last time – Jody and Tyler. They were keen to see if they could experience it too.

And?

No trouble whatsoever. They took to it like ducks to water.

Ok. And did you go back to Baikal?

Yeah.

Why? Is that the only place you can go to?

No, there are other places which we kind of poked our heads into – but Baikal’s special.

In what way?

It’s like the epicentre – where it’s all happening.

Oh. I wonder why?

It seems to be the point where the Earth system connects and uploads to whatever it is that’s beyond – so there’s stuff coming in which is literally out of this world.

What kind of stuff?

Well, when you’re flying through it you’re in multiple places at the same time. It’s mind blowing –  literally.

Oh wow, sounds amazing! Look – is all this flying around making it difficult to keep your feet on the ground – at work I mean?

You’d think so, wouldn’t you? Me no – my job’s always been something I care about and enjoy, so I’m just doing it better now, with more energy, with a much bigger sense of how my work ties into everything else.

And the others?

Tyler quit immediately. He’d been working just for money. It completely didn’t make sense any more in the light of what he’d experienced.

Jody?

Yeah – well, she wasn’t working – but she’s like starting doing this amazing art. God, you’ve gotta see it. I think it’s gonna be really successful.

And you, Mike?

I’m finding my clients are experiencing things they never did before.

You give massages.

Yeah. Like – my hands now are flying over their bodies, and through them too – just like its data, just like its energy. It’s a completely new experience. It’s really transformed my work. Literally – I’d been getting frustrated – thinking of quitting, but now every day I’m learning new things. I can’t wait to go in.

Well guys – any advice for folks who might want to learn more?

Yeah – definitely keep your feet on the ground. This does not involve jumping off cliffs – just an energy shift which alters the relationship between your body and the world around you – gently squeezing you, lifting you, taking you through different Is’ms. So, it’s kind of passive until you’re logged in – then you can be as active as you like.

Yeah – I’d say – visit a place of power near you, or far away – these sacred sites make it easier to connect – and just know that something’s changed – the energy field we’re living in has grown denser – it’s easier now to feel – so as long as you’re comfortable allowing yourself to merge with it – to accept its gentle power – then you’ll be fine. The only people who can’t cope are the ones who need to be in control at all costs, or the ones who are hell-bent on leading inauthentic lives, you know, just for the money or power – that kind of thing.

Ok guys – so it’s nearly sunset. Are we going to give it a try?

Absolutely.

Can we film it?

Sure – but I’m not sure the equipment will be able to handle the energies.

Oh, why not?

Well, it’s something, you know – one guy described it as a quantum stream – whatever that is.

Yeah – Chuck Schumer. He’s pretty knowledgeable about these things. He’s like an MIT drop out.

Oh right – what does he have to say?

Well, that it’s a bit like water boiling – except it’s not a question of temperature. The ones and zeros are affected. They kind of start bubbling and become indecipherable – so any electronic equipment can’t make head or tail of what’s going on.

But people can?

Yeah – kind of – but at the time it’s more like you’re seeing internally – recording somewhere else – outside this reality – in a part of your conscious-awareness which is normally off limits. An ultra-vivid dream in which the experience is multi-layered data as much as physical sensations. A new kind of mind and perception, in all likelihood plasma based, which would seem to render obsolete the old space 'n time 3D paradigm. 

Wow. Well, we’ll leave the camera rolling and…

I’ve gotta see this man.

Dude – you don’t really imagine this is real, do you?

It’s going fuzzy – but they’re already moving, aren’t they… damn.

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What’s up Merry – you look depressed. [sitting by Lake listlessly]

Like you don’t know.

[Sveta has little ouch expression – at the same moment – coincidentally some minor natural disturbance occurs – rocks falling/ birds screeching – and camera follows this event back through the data – through Moscow/ New York etc – markets, people – resonating with the same ouch – back to Sveta who is now calm and serene again.]

I might know lots of things, but they’re in the background – like all this – but your story – you’re the one creating it – you’re the one writing the plot. No one can tell it but you.

[Now it’s Merry’s turn to wince – Sveta has hit a nerve. We tunnel vision into his darkness/ frustration/ insecurity/ fear – his inner world behind the face – which goes all the way back to Thim – the data mine slave planet – where humans are toiling like rats shifting rocks/ lumps of earth/ in squalor/ in rags with no hope, no chance of escape – the only consolation being that they don’t really see their squalor – a filter is applied which reveals our Earth – and this astonishing capacity to hope – against all odds – inspite of Thim – slave server]

They don’t know that they’re trapped, do they? They can’t see it. They imagine there’s hope. How could something so utterly twisted have been created – willingly, deliberately by our forefathers? What kind of insanity could do that?

The same insanity that’s at work today in the world perpetuating the experiment.

But now they have no choice. They did back then.

And this is what’s upsetting you?

G… I…

Or…

Yes, that as well. 
[Their minds are dancing like fish or energies deep in the water of Baikal – we see it – Merry and Sveta’s thoughts weaving through each other]

At least I thought that death was an end. That things only went so far. But the data doesn’t show that, does it?

No.

This… experiment goes beyond death. We go through a kind of psychic r & r before being squeezed back into another tube of punishment and pain.

That’s right. You’ve seen it for what it is – hell on Earth – but have you seen the whole truth, or just the dark side of things?

Oh – there are moments of love, moments of joy, moments of beauty and delight – I see them here and here… [shots of happy faces, beauty, creativity, dance]

Only moments?

There are lives – if we scan the data of their lives – some stand out – some shine – this one for example – look at this – who was he – just a simple ferryman – but he manages to slip through the net, out of Thim. 

And how – how was that possible?

I can’t make it out.

Yes you can. Come into his life. Feel it. Feel him…

This is the ferryman in Siddartha – he is utterly at peace with the river, the people he meets and himself – with his life and death – so that when he eventually dies – Thim becomes illusionary to his essence, his light – he does not fight it; it simply ceases to encapsulate him or describe his boundaries – for he has none.

He has no boundaries. He has transcended them. He has become more than a human.

On the contrary, he has stopped fighting to be something, stopped doing the thing everyone else is doing, and discovers that his humanity is the ultimate expression of all he can know, all he can be. He embraces it. He embraces it totally, unconditionally – feeling the goodness, the beauty, the magic, the wisdom, the truth of being nothing more, nothing less than himself – simply being human, for what it’s worth, desiring, expecting nothing more or less.

And that’s the trick?

Trick? There is no trick

But that’s how he escapes?

Escapes from what?

From Thim – from all this – the Lucifer experiment – the degradation, the pain, the prison we’re in…

You call this a prison?

er

Are you blind?

Blind – I was blind. I used to believe we could make a difference – achieve something meaningful – but Nayaz – he was one man in a million, a saint. We can’t all be saints you know. It isn’t real.

Who said anything about being saints. We’re talking about simply… here look.

[Sveta spins around – as if looking for inspiration. A butterfly/ a sun ray/ a breath of wind on the tree tops – anything. She comes into herself – out of her thinking mind. She responds to his mood, his pain – matching it – feeling it, touching him through the water, the air, the earth, the fire, touching him so lightly – with her small finger – through the data stream – just so there’s the barest contact, the barest connection]

Thinking/ saying quietly – nothing else matters – honouring your feeling/mood/thought space – accepting/ trusting that where you are now is the ultimate expression of life and Thim, of zero and one, breathing it – slowly, deeply, sensuously, feeling it with my body – weaving, working it, writing, contorting, my heart in pain and loathing and passion and love, in despair and hope – not trying to escape, not trying to break out – willing to die with you here in this moment, this prison, this space, willing to accept what is, unconditionally – knowing that there is data beyond data – Is’m beyond Thim – that here in movement, in prayer, in dance [as she dances more and more] there is a path to discovery, a path to knowledge, a path to atomic acceptance/ cellular awareness – an awakening to what was closed, concealed by the walls our mind alone cannot penetrate – coming to Her – full of my fear, full of my anger, my pain, but full of the music, the poetry, the movement my soul cannot contain, allowing Her to feel it, to see it without fear or shame – for what have i to lose – I cannot escape – I am as good as dead, and yet she is willing to hear me, see me, observe in me what i cannot possibly see – the beauty beyond words, the magic, the transcendency – at this point the dance literally explodes – kind of death/ orgasm/ Sveta hits critical mass/ speed and the atoms in her boil over – we catch a glimpse of vast space beyond the veil. Merry comes out of it as he sees someone walking along the shore towards him – déjà vu – it’s Sveta as just previously.

Hi Merry – how’s it going?

Uh? Good, I guess. I was… what was I doing?

Working on the plot I expect.

Oh yeah.

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