Crazy time... PART O
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"One femtosecond is to a second like one second is to 32.6 million years. It's a very small amount of time."
Sarah A. Gerhardt, Ph.D.
[~o~][-0-][~o~] Electronic voices barely discernible amid
white noise emanating either from her own mindgland or a commercial transmission:
"STAR LIGHT FIVE AT 3:33."
Continuing override resonant echoes: "Twelve hour interval... Outside, forming a
leafy theater of illumination, diffused sunbeams penetrate the narrow space between ordinary red
brick, simulated wood suburban houses, as five curious people assemble to gaze upon the most
perfect spot in the universe... which on this day at precisely 3:33 in the afternoon will
become the absolute best possible manifestation of space/time in this or any other universe...
likewise, out of every sentient being who's ever existed -- past, present, or future -- these five,
singular witnesses are perfectly suited, chosen in fact, to be here, now..."
Not so the troubled woman upstairs, PJ, nervously pacing a ceramic floor, touching her imperfect
forehead against a warm, artificially intelligent window. Her shout is muffled:
"Hey, what're you guys doing in my yard?!" Synchronistically, given the sheer oddity of "a five"
also existing in or out of PJ's own imagination, it's a bit unnerving when they uniformly look up at
her from the soon to be premier coordinates of this or any other universe. Notwithstanding:
"It's 3:30 PM. Three minutes to go. An eternity." CLICK: "Monday, July 20, 2889... Common Era...
Summer Solstice Eve. The Haunted World."
No one could've imagined the late 29th century having anything in common with the early 21st...
©NASA
...geosynchronous, orbiting platforms above the city dome -- similarly monitoring the impending
moment below -- a verdant green orb, terraformed rust landscape, second link in a networked daisy
chain extending beyond a gas giant's icy, ocean moon, where a neighborhood's a neighborhood,
even if only robots dare to tread there, but evolved corporate primates still get twitchy
about scary, unknown paradigms especially back on "the haunted world."
She doesn't know yet who she is, believing her seventy plus years more significantly defining
than her first thirty five years or seventeen and a half seconds.
"What are the odds of even being here in the first place?" PJ asks herself, thinking about
her ex husband, Malak, downstairs painting in his own mind, wondering how in the world he
managed to marry and divorce her three times in almost a quarter century. Annoyed:
"Who are you guys?!" she yells again at the five upturned faces of eerie diverse visage,
equidistant, standing around the easement between one house and another, poised on
the edge of something terribly unbelievable or indescribably mundane. Clearly, it's a moot point at this stage.
The Reincarnation of Austin Osman Spare ...
Her ex-husband, Malak Taus,* once considered it a remote
possibility that he was the aesthetic, magickal heir to Austin Osman Spare, a minor British artist and occultist
who died in 1956. Jackson Pollock, the alcoholic, raging abstractionist who also died in '56, seemed an alternate
'previous life' possibility given Malak's own self-destructive tendencies aligned more with Pollock's depressive, explosive
demon than Spare's introspective genius for graphical detail.
Either way, his lack of talent, drive, and success mercifully karma was in charge, he could never entirely rule out the
osmotic possibility that perhaps failure was growth. ORIGINALITY? MEDIOCRITY?
EVASION? TRUTH? DEATH? His early pen and ink drawings held weird similarities
with Spare's own philosophical, occult indulgences. Metempsychosis, or reincarnation, seemed as unlikely
as Carl Jung's collective unconscious, and so in
proverbial neuroscientific due course, 'reality' did what 'reality' does best, gradually resetting navigational
coordinates, directing his path via natural selection into his beloved former spousal unit, the BFSU, PJ,
Patsy Jane, who, right now at 3:30 in the afternoon, was upstairs randomly mouthing paranoid threats at
uncanny trespassers seemingly obsessed with a small, neglected plot of suburban landscape that would in
exactly three minutes time become the most important, beautiful, perfect spot in the multiverse. Absolutely.
PJ and Malak didn't know it yet, but their crazy accommodation with each other -- thrice divorced,
separately sharing the same building on different floors, benign indifference with a deep seated,
heartfelt love -- was the portal, the quantum mechanical glue, the gravitational lens that opened the doorway
betwixt and between, allowing the five to manifest around a patch of nondescript suburbia.
A quirky, serendipitous arrangement to say the least. Three minutes to go. Pivotal. Malak Taus opens his
front door, steps around the corner, looks up at PJ's window, at the five, then says:
"No really, who are you guys?" "WE ARE OWLSLEY," the five reply as one.
"We are DEVO! DEE...EE...VEE...OH!" sings Malak.
"Owsley, huh? Just like that sixties underground chemist who synthesized acid? THAT Owsley?!"
Sounding like Roy Neary in Close Encounters
of The Third Kind, he ends with: "What the hell is going on around here? Who the hell are you people?"
Having a great talent for empathy and circuitously getting to the heart of any matter, PJ cracks
open her artificially intelligent window pane just enough to call out: "Are you sure you don't want to talk to the cops?"
In the time it takes an electron to orchestrate an impulse to a single neuron in his head, Malak
Taus' aggregate of brain cells relives his entire convoluted relationship with PJ.
18 years his senior, she had a most remarkable life; incredibly bright, with a passion for all
things humanist, especially sexuality, leading her to follow a course in clinical pursuits and degrees.
She became a successful broker, parent, colleague, friend, doctor, and a gifted therapist. As one of
the pioneers in surrogate work, body work, clinical sexology, she trained with the best, suffered the
'slings and arrows' as any great woman must, all the while maintaining a difficult practice, helping
countless individuals, couples, families... Uncompromisingly hard core, she was as gentle as a
dragon, sweet, loving, wise, resilient, strong, and always vulnerable.
Entire books could, should be written about her, yet probably won't... Her time with Malak was passionate,
lonely, eternal, and merely the briefest of dreams. Sometimes a soulmate is a loving nightmare, better to
burn away traps and illusions, but dreams endure, somehow, glowing transfixed in an eternal now, or
until all things must evaporate... "How wide is NOW?" ask the five, speaking for
the second time, interrupting Malak's silent poetic reverie spanning nearly a quarter century.
"It's still 3:30," shouts PJ. "Shouldn't it be later?" I mean, my clock said 3:30 over an hour ago, I think...
What time do you have?" "Why are you...?" Malak stops, checks his time, looks
around at PJ, the five. "Uh... yeah, it's still 3:30, but why
are we TALKING ABOUT THIS RIGHT NOW!?" Right Now.
The five appear unfazed. Malak and PJ are perplexed, senses wide open,
their minds are blank yet still aware, thinking clearly. What's going on? Some kind of power outage?
Everything seems fine with the power grid. Subjectively, there's nothing profoundly changed
about the world's interaction with the mindgland body, right? It's still just 3:30...
The longest three minutes in the history of time, at 3:33 all focus will be on a tiny piece of real estate,
when it comes, radiant, if it comes, the way a yard can be... bits of detritus, flora and fauna, tree leaves,
bugs, cyclone fencing, chunks of concrete, mineral and vegetable, brick, wood, rocks and dirt, light
and air... A frozen moment, only three minutes to go, almost there, an eternity away.
What? Where? Who? Why? When? A Great Mystery... Now? Etc... Blah... Blah... blaaaaah...
Ψ
Meanwhile, back in the 29th century, an advanced experiment in subatomic
particles engineered a small number of multiversal pathways altering many
perspectives of direct involvement changing scenes into those, this, that,
and then, far and away and back again:
PART I THE VESSEL PART II THE INTERCEPTORS
PART III THE TOWER PART IV THE LONG WALK
PART V FRACTAL PART VI SCALAR
[...] A Work-In-Progress... or maybe not... [ © --MT-- Friday, November 13, 2009, 4:00 AM]
... to assimilate the entirety of: http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/intrnmsn.htm
particularly: http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/fractal.htm
etc., etc., etc...
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__________________________________________________ NOTES: The below is from the Limbic System
and R-Complex, Reptilian DNA Double Helix stuff by Michael Harner (DMT user, born in 1929), with
a brief follow-up comment in his conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove ...
[ And Other Totally Irrelevant 'NOTES' Indeed. --MT ] __________________________________________________
... "Now I was virtually certain I was about to die.
"As I tried to accept my fate, an even lower portion of my brain began to transmit more visions and
information. I was 'told' that this new material was being presented to me because I was dying and
therefore 'safe' to receive these revelations. These were the secrets reserved for the dying
and the dead, I was informed. "I could only very dimly perceive the givers of these
thoughts: giant reptilian creatures reposing sluggishly at the lowermost depths of the back of my brain, where
it met the top of the spinal column. I could only vaguely see them in what seemed to be gloomy,
dark depths. Then they projected a visual scene in front of me. "First they showed me the planet Earth as it was
eons ago, before there was any life on it. I saw an ocean, barren land, and a bright blue sky.
Then black specks dropped from the sky by the hundreds and landed in front of me on the barren
landscape. I could see that the 'specks' were actually large, shiny, black creatures with stubby
pterodactyl-like wings and huge whale-like bodies. Their heads were not visible to me. They flopped
down, utterly exhausted from their trip, resting for eons. "They explained to me in a kind of thought language
that they were fleeing from something out in space. They had come to the planet Earth to escape their
enemy. The creatures then showed me how they had created life on the planet in order to hide within
the multitudinous forms and thus disguise their presence. Before me, the magnificence of plant and
animal creation and speciation--hundreds of millions of years of activity--took place on a scale and with
a vividness impossible to describe. I learned that the dragon-like creatures were thus inside of all
forms of life, including man. They were the true masters of humanity and the entire planet, they
told me. We humans were but the receptacles and servants of these creatures. For this reason they
could speak to me from within myself." ...
http://deoxy.org/shamanway.htm
The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner
http://www.shamanism.org/articles/article16.html
[~o~][-0-][~o~] MISHLOVE: It struck me in your description of this
in The Way of the Shaman, that after you had this drug-induced experience, you met with one of the
elder shamans, a blind man, and described your experiences to him, which were quite detailed,
visionary types of experiences. And he seemed to understand exactly where you had been, and what you
had experienced. HARNER: Yes, that was a critical point for me, because here I'd had these experiences which were
so incredible, and then I went to the shaman, and he dealt with them quite matter-of-factly.
There were certain creatures who said certain things about how they were really running the planet,
and he just smiled and said, "Oh, they're always saying that," and so on. And I realized, from that
and many other things, that he was quite familiar with the terrain that I'd been to.
[ THE WAY OF THE SHAMAN with MICHAEL HARNER, Ph.D. Excerpt from the series Thinking Allowed,
Conversations On the Leading Edge of Knowledge and Discovery, with Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. ]
http://www.intuition.org/txt/harner.htm
[~o~][-0-][~o~] SEGUE TO: April Fool's Day 2012 ...
http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/fool2012.htm
Always appreciated the 'Rendlesham Forest' account, particularly USAF Staff Sergeant James W. Penniston's
'take' on the event, (see below). Had a dream once, about an 'unmanned' craft hovering a foot or so off
the ground, human skeletal remains associated with the craft's surface, a lonely desolate feeling permeating
the autonomous, artificially intelligent structure. Years later another dream, nearly lucid, of red coloured
robots, with enamel-like high gloss skin, preparing a triangular craft for launch off a vertical assembly
surrounded by trees, the craft also 'unmanned' and autonomous. Highly evolved artificial intelligence is a
difficult piece of empathy to grasp for the emotional mental mind of 21st century humans. Last October,
10|15|09, another dream, this time numerous triangular craft in the sky... Thanks for the input.
-- MT- Monday, November 16, 2009
"...And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you
have sufficient sufferance to accept all things." Austin Osman Spare
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Former RAF Bentwaters Staff Sgt. James Penniston Recalls
Black, Glassy, Triangular Craft, Symbols and Missing Time:
earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1618&category=Environment
Staff Sergeant James W. Penniston's sketch of
symbols that were etched with the texture of sandpaper
over about 3 feet of the dark, glassy craft's surface,
averaging about 3-inches high. [ CLICK:
BentwatersPennistonSymbolSketch3.jpg ]
"They are time travelers. They are us.
... and they are using us like Band-Aids."
- USAF Staff Sergeant James W. Penniston (Ret.),
Dec. 1980 RAF Bentwaters, from 1994 hypnosis session
Penniston explained he received information
after touching the craft's symbols that chromosomes
were gathered for different reasons, particularly
to help the time travelers because they have a
"physical problem" and Penniston felt sympathy
for them. Penniston said the time travelers have,
Quote: "been coming here for a long time, at least
thirty or forty thousand years, trying to sustain
their children in the far distant future of Earth."
earthfiles.com/news-print.php?
ID=1604&category=Environment James W. Penniston joined the Air
Force in July 1973 at the age of 18. On graduation from basic training he
was recruited for the Strategic Air Command (SAC) Elite Guard. In 1980,
he was assigned to the 81st Tactical Fighter Wing and the 81st Security
Police Squadron at Bentwaters Air Base. It was there that he had his
strange encounter. During his career, Penniston was awarded 27
military honors as well as becoming the recipient of a letter of
appreciation from the President. www.rendlesham-incident.co.uk
www.rendlesham-incident.co.uk/25-26-december.php
See also: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Gallery at:
Traversing Singularity Barriers - AERONAUTICS
See also: James Cameron's 'AVATAR' in 3D ...
www.avatarmovie.com : "Dreaming With Your Eyes Open." -- JC
and Q u a s p l a t and [ Meteorite ALH84001 ]
http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/quasplat.htm
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The Army Research Laboratory, Natick Soldier Research
Development and Engineering Center and the Communications-
Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center
Defense Advanced Research Programs Agency
Humanoid Robotics Group
Biomorphic Polarities : SATBOT I
SEE Also the non-fictional, highly
entertaining, speculative thriller: Hunt for the Skinwalker
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"I don't want to be human. I want to see gamma rays,
I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter.
Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even
express these things properly, because I have to --
I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid,
limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach
out with something other than these prehensile paws,
and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me.
I'm a machine, and I can know much more, I could
experience so much more, but I'm trapped in this absurd
body. And why? Because my five creators thought that
God wanted it that way." -- John Cavil, aka Number One,
Humanoid Cylon Model #1
[ NOTE: I conceived of a 'FIVE' on or before the year 1996.
See also: THE LONG WALK, circa 1980's, and FIVE5 -- MT ]
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"During a recent debate with Gary Bekkum, in
which we were discussing some of the Trickster
Tales themes, I presented the notion that we
might be witnessing an 'apparent' ability for
other people's alternate realities to physically
impact on our own realities - not just as
shadowy, informational, meme-corrupted data,
but real-time, sentient entities. This wasn't
being offered exclusively as explanation for
the ET enigma of course, but as a possible extra
facet, to an already excessively murky area,
I agree." Caryn Anscomb, Trickster Tales - 2009
www.starstreamresearch.com/trickster.htm
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ORION __________________________________________________
Betelgeuse *
Bellatrix *
Alnitak *
Alnilam *
Mintaka *
Rigel *
* Saiph __________________________________________________
Betelgeuse: 600 light-years away Bellatrix: 245 light-years away
Alnitak: 800 light-years away
Alnilam: 1340 light-years away
Mintaka: 915 light-years away
Saiph: 720 light-years away
Rigel: 770 light-years away List of stars in Orion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(constellation)
Betelgeuse, known alternatively by its Bayer designation "Alpha Orionis," is a massive M-type red supergiant star
nearing the end of its life. When it explodes it will even be visible during the day. It is the second brightest
star in the Orion constellation, but was mistakenly classified as the brightest because it is a semiregular
variable star and was experiencing a tremendous increase in brightness at the time. It serves as the
"right shoulder" of the hunter it represents (assuming that he is facing the observer), and is the twelfth
brightest star in the night sky. [Betelgeuse is approx. 600 light years from Earth].
Bellatrix was designated "Gamma Orionis" by Johann Bayer, but is known colloquially as the "Amazon Star;" it is the
twenty-second brightest star in the night sky. Bellatrix is considered a B-type blue giant, though it is too small to
explode in a supernova. Bellatrix's luminosity is derived from its high temperature rather than its radius,
a factor that defines Betelguese. Bellatrix serves as Orion's "left shoulder."
[Bellatrix is 245 light-years away.] Alnitak was designated "Zeta Orionis" by Bayer,
and is the easternmost star in Orion's Belt. It is a triple star some 800 light years distant,
with the primary star being a hot blue supergiant and the brightest class O star in the night sky.
Alnilam was named "Epsilon Orionis," a consequence of Bayer's wish to name the three stars in Orion's Belt
(from north to south) in alphabetical order. Alnilam is a B-type blue supergiant, despite being nearly twice
as far from the Sun as Mintaka and Alnitak, the other two belt stars, its luminosity makes it nearly equal
in magnitude. Alnilam is losing mass quickly, a consequence of its size; approximately four
million years old. [Approx. 1,340 light years away.] Mintaka garnered the name "Delta Orionis" from Bayer,
even though it is the faintest of the three stars in Orion's Belt. It is a multiple star system, composed
of a large B-type blue giant and a more massive O-type white star. The Mintaka system constitutes an eclipsing
binary variable star, where the eclipse of one star over the other creates a dip in brightness. Mintaka is
the westernmost of the three stars that constitute Orion's Belt. [915 light years away.]
Saiph was designated "Kappa Orionis" by Bayer, and serves as Orion's right foot. It is of a similar
distance and size to Rigel, but appears much fainter, as its hot surface temperature (46,000F or 26,000C)
causes it to emit most of its light in the ultraviolet region of the spectrum.
[Saiph: A blue supergiant and 720 light-years distant.] Rigel, which is also known as "Beta Orionis," is a B-type
blue supergiant that is the sixth brightest star in the night sky. Similar to Betelguese, Rigel is fusing heavy
elements in its core and will pass its supergiant stage soon (on an astronomical timescale), either collapsing
in the case of a supernova or shedding its outer layers and turning into a white dwarf. It serves as the left
foot of Orion, the hunter. [Rigel is 770 light-years from Earth.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(constellation)
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