Loosen Up
Sitting in a flatulence inducing tube with 300 other people for ten hours is beginning to feel like a scene from the Flintstones...
As I sat in traffic on the M25 wondering whether or not I would get to Heathrow in time to make my flight to America it struck me that there are just too many people trying to be in the same place at the same time.
Arriving stressed and late I tried to negotiate an upgrade and immediately entered one of those subliminal mental calculations to assess the value of competing claims on my (supposedly) limited resources. What could ten hours of slight discomfort buy in another context?
In this case, the opportunity cost, as we economists like to call it, was just a little too high. So resigned to my fate, I chose a seat most likely to have an empty one next to it and took my chances, aware that my attempt to engineer space would cost me time on exit. In this case another lightning fast piece of processing concluded that space was more valuable than time and, as calculated, there was an empty seat next to me but at the cost of being at the end of a long immigration queue.
Whilst some still marvel at the achievement of plane travel I have to admit to a frustration at the tardy pace of development in our transportation technology, which to my mind is a 50 year old relic, still in place only because of an economic system that seems to thrive on compression of space and theft of time. Sitting in a flatulence inducing tube with 300 other people for ten hours is beginning to feel like a scene from the Flintstones..."Wilma..."
To me air travel is an easy metaphor for an aging society. Bound by our assumptions about the constrictions of time and space we organise ourselves with a monetary system which apportions both of these apparently scarce resources. Economy, premium economy, business and first class are all priced according to the marginal differences in terms of space and time, but essentially the differences are exactly that, marginal. However much is spent we are all bound by our limiting relationship with time and space, or the laws of physics as they are known.
Most scientists, and all pragmatists (who are just those who can't do the science but believe what they are told), blindly accept the assumed fundamentals which determine our "physical" reality and accordingly our experience is a daily confirmation of that, after all the observer effect is powerful! For example, our ability to meaningfully penetrate space as a means to overcome our perceived lack of space is, ironically, limited by the fact that there is just too much of it. To travel to our nearest neighbouring star system would take so much time because of the unimaginable expanse of space that we have neither the material nor conceptual ability to survive such a journey. We are confined to a tiny space because there is too much space around us...
This is not to say that the current science is wrong about the nature of reality. What is wrong is the assumption that that reality is the only one. The laws of physics work beautifully within that version of reality, but there is a growing awareness of different dimensional spaces which observe different laws and present different possibilities. The next step of our journey is not about finding different ways to push the boundaries of the currently accepted laws of physics, it is to travel into dimensional spaces in which the limitations of those physical laws no longer exist, and that journey involves neither time nor space. It is paradoxically beyond both.
If, like me, you feel there is the possibility to establish a different relationship with time and space then feed your imagination with this excellent presentation on the strange properties of monatomic gold by Laurence Gardener .
My recent excitement about the physics of Keshe and the physical anomalies that monatomic materials, nano-states and superconductors present has its route in the understanding of space at the fundamental level. It appears that by increasing the space in the atomic structure of these materials we open a door to a different dimensional experience, with different governing laws.
It would appear we somehow become less dense or, to put it another way, enlightened. This does not mean we "escape" the current physical "reality" we are simply less bound by it.
So when someone advises you to loosen up or not to hold on too tightly it might be wise to take notice.
And when flying may I recommend monatomic class,
With LOVE
Bill