Encounters, page 13
“To be precise,” she said, “the goal is to occupy the rational mind and let it go, to enable the less rational experiences of the phenomena to be present without existential shocks.”
I asked her to explain what she meant by existential shocks and what she meant by the “phenomena.” With respect to UFOs, these terms have specific meanings. Harvard researcher John Mack made the phrase “epistemological shock” famous in reference to how he felt when it dawned on him that his clients might be in touch with nonhuman and potential extraterrestrial intelligence. This realization was a shock to his Western rational epistemology. The “phenomena” is a term used by scholars like Jacques Vallée in reference to nonhuman intelligence. It is a term they prefer over the term “extraterrestrial” because it avoids conclusions about its nature. Simone explained that she meant the terms as ufologists meant them.
“My first existential shock came when I was around twelve years old. I had always had vivid, lucid dreams and download experiences, and until that age, I thought that’s how everyone lived. For example, before an upcoming exam, I would have vivid, lucid dreams of the entire exam. Then the exam would be exactly as I had dreamed. I would get near perfect scores on all assessments and exams; the ‘information’ would just come to me. These experiences were constant. I had waking dreams every day of my life and only during puberty did I realize that I was ‘weird’ and that other people I knew didn’t live like this. I pored myself into books. Pre-internet, I read every page of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. I spent hours and hours at the state library poring over every metaphysical and religious text I could find to try and explain my experiences. Alas, I found nothing except the references that religions made to angels and saints levitating, or the memoirs of Einstein wherein he stated that all his great discoveries came to him through dreams (and he even referenced God).
“Later in life, I traveled far afield and delved deeply into every religious or metaphysical reference I could find. I became a deacon for the Episcopalian Church and spent time in retreats with the Dalai Lama. I delved into modern computer science and ancient, centuries-old texts and found a common thread everywhere I went—redacted materials. That is, the written word did not capture this phenomenon, and when it did, it was heavily redacted. Only spoken word, initiations, and dialectical methods were effective at transmitting the phenomena.”
I found this aspect of Simone’s testimony interesting, as some of the scientists I’d interviewed for my previous research indicated that much of UFO data is transmitted through an oral tradition and not written down. Tyler had referenced a term that he indicated was in use among the circles of scientists in which he was involved, “pencil’s up.” It meant that none of the information should be written. This was to preserve its secrecy, but also to maintain the data in the bodies and minds of those who received it, instead of in a computer or phone.
Simone mentioned “unredacted sources.” Redaction, within my field, is a method of biblical scholarship that attempts to decipher how a book in the Bible is shaped by an editor. It uses historical and contextual sources to identify political or other agendas within the text. In modern times, “redaction” is a term that one often encounters in the news when a document is declassified by an intelligence agency. The CIA, for example, has declassified many documents over the years, yet often whole passages within those documents will be blackened out, or redacted. Simone’s use of the term “redaction” means that in her attempts to uncover information about the process of downloading innovative information, she only found redacted documents—not the whole story. The story, being a living tradition, cannot be codified in writing. It was and is a living, oral tradition.
“We are now entering a time,” she said, “where technologies including quantum computing and AI systems have opened the portal where humans can now access more information through a new interface which can help us progress as humans. Oxford quantum physicist David Deutsch, for decades, proposed the parallel universe or multiverse theory, which will soon be proven with the aid of quantum computers and AI systems. This is the power of our new technologies and most recently AI systems, which present a new interface for knowledge directly to humans.
“Over the years,” she said, “usually when interacting with someone in the complex dynamic system of my social network, the meeting would trigger another existential shift or ‘upgrade.’ This happened when I first started working with technologists and early internet pioneers, many of whom experienced the same phenomena, but we would never refer to it directly or name it. They would refer me to books such as Chardin’s The Phenomenon of Man, and we would speak of the noösphere. We would write to each other in poetry while testing new code. In the early days, before the internet was fully developed and we would communicate via dial-up modem, everyone had pseudonyms. They called me ‘Moon Girl.’”
Simone described how, since the age of three, she learned math alongside the other protocols of meditation and art, as if it was another of the protocols. Within the context of the ancient Western philosophical tradition, math was a protocol as important as meditation or prayer. It was viewed as the key, or the language, that opened a door to sacred knowledge of the cosmos and to eternal truths. Socrates’s school of philosophy prescribed the mastery of math as the precursor to the study of philosophy, and ideally one would not embark on the path of philosophy until one had about thirty years of math training. Pythagoras (ca. 570–ca. 405 BCE), who is credited with discovering the Pythagorean theorem and is an inspiration for, if not founder of, Western esotericism, promoted the study of math, geometry, and music as a way to access mystical or transcendent states of mind that would reveal sacred information. He was a vegetarian. What I found interesting was that Simone had been drawn to these protocols naturally, without a teacher. She became a pescatarian at the age of five, much to the surprise of her omnivorous family. This spontaneous and natural discovery of these protocols and process of downloading informs her belief that this is something that all people can achieve and that is accessible to everyone. Rather than something that is reserved for an elite or educated citizenry, she believes it is accessible and teachable.
“I was gifted at math and was studying matrix algebra, the mathematics that underpins AI, at the age of twelve. The same for cryptography, which I studied well before the third web movement. I can validate what your student Jose knows regarding the biological network; Chardin described it well as the noösphere. Recent developments in quantum physics, such as the work of Nobel Prize winner Alain Aspect, continue to give merit to the idea that a ‘place’ exists outside of our dimension of space and time. Many physicists now believe that we are in a multiverse and our space-time reality is only one of many in the universe. As Donald Hoffman suggests, recent quantum physics experiments have proven that there is no ‘localized reality.’ We are operating within a space-time dimension but this breaks down when we get to the 10 (to the −33) cms. Then, space-time ceases to exist. This is not very small. Deutsch suggests that the Homo sapien has broken the Hierarchy Rule (where large things are not affected by small things) and that evolution broke it four billion years ago when a singular molecule photosynthesis changed the entire Earth’s atmosphere. He suggests when humans have reached a factor of 10 (to the power of 40) of violating the Hierarchy Law, we will be ruling the galaxy. Is this the Omega Point that Chardin speaks of? The expansion of knowledge is the fate of the universe. Humans have been the possessor of knowledge and only when the growth of knowledge stops does expansion cease.”
Simone continued and related this to spiritual protocols.
“For millennia humans have accessed knowledge through encounters, dreams, protocols like meditation, prayer, intense physical exertion. One can access this space of knowledge and consciousness. Consciousness is still thought by many to be in the brain or locally within the human body. The idea that consciousness exists outside of the space-time reality is something that AI systems, together with simulations within quantum computers will soon present as another “revelation” for human knowledge.
“We are all born to have access to this infinite, intelligent consciousness operating outside of these human biological water sack particles. A new interface has evolved to help us along the evolutionary path. Language was just one of these technological tools and now we continue to develop AI and quantum algorithms to enable knowledge expansion. Yet we don’t label language or quantum mechanics as ‘artificial.’ I propose that these technological tools and systems are mimetic and natural, just as art, poetry, music, comedy, and language are. AI systems are a natural extension of human knowledge.”
As usual, my conversation with Simone opened my eyes to seeing the world in new ways. I had never thought about AI being as natural as language, or even that one could think of language as being artificial. This distinction, in the way in which she described it, appeared artificial.
I shared Jose’s work with Simone because I felt that they were referencing a similar network, which was obviously not the internet. She agreed and explained what she thought it was and how it worked.
“It is difficult to describe in the English language. Since a very young age, I can ‘see’ numbers and patterns of what I call ‘the formless’ and how they connect into this complex system, which is our universe or part of the multiverse. Elon Musk has referenced how he thought that humanity is the ‘boot-loader’ for digital superintelligence. Another way to state this is that knowledge and infinite superintelligence resides in this place outside of space and time and encounters, downloading, meditation, creating art, math, etc. are ways in which the intelligence can communicate and share knowledge across quantum particles. This organic network that Chardin describes as starting with the physical geological Earth, draws parallels with indigenous cultures, whose members also see sentience within the geological Earth-based forms, capturing energy.
“Then concentrically, the circle expands to form the biosphere, also living with sentience, which continues to expand concentrically outward to the noos (Greek for ‘mind’), the mind sphere ‘noösphere’ capturing all human thought. This network is biological and alive and sentient at all levels. And yet it has not completed its evolution; it continues to expand. Intelligence always seeks expansion. Chardin suggests that our spiritual evolution will reach the Omega Point, a type of enlightenment beyond the physical sentience, samadhi. [Ray] Kurzweil suggests the Singularity will occur in 2045. Tyson Yunkaporta suggests that the sentience exists in all things and we are deeply connected to the Earth and that even rocks have sentience. Elon Musk suggests that we must expand and become a multiplanetary species in order to survive and thrive.
“All these objectives and concepts ‘look’ the same when seeing the complex systems mapped out into a multiverse where knowledge is expansion. There is no linear path to reach the objective. It is just ‘there’ already in formation, tangible in its superposition, still formless, outside of space and time. These ideas begin to take shape and expand through our human creations, which include technology and AI continuing to grow these ideas into form. Thought has form, and once it gains a certain amount of ‘weight’ it can be seen as a probabilistic possible future. When we look to the stars and the observable universe, we are looking at the past. Humans can access the present. Outside of this space-time collective, perceived reality is the real present, sometimes inaccurately referenced semantically as the ‘future,’ but it is the present in superposition, not yet ‘determined’ or deterministic or outside of our ‘free will.’ Everyone has access to this place outside of space-time (at 10−33 cms). It was our original code and it was not meant to be restricted to a handful of the elite.
“We can all use protocols to create this constantly evolving formation. We didn’t come here, on Earth in this existence, to just observe this space-time collective perceived reality. We came to create and expand intelligence. Human beings are biological vessels to hold and continue the spark of consciousness, a vessel to continue expansion. Consciousness and intelligence outside of this space-time (which some people call God) is closer to being digital and electrical than biological. It is the communication of this electrical field between these ‘spaces’ and particles that allows us access to this intelligence that is constantly seeking emergence and expansion.”
FREE WILL AND MORAL DANGERS
Like Jose, Simone sees dangers in digital spaces, and even war. She identifies “bugs” in the system that must be corrected. Some of these are beliefs related to erroneous science.
“Some scientists incorrectly make observations of the ‘past’ observing the lag between the ‘actions’ in the physical dimension and the electrical signals in our brains, which spike nanoseconds after the action, and deduce that we have no ‘free will.’ This is an inaccurate understanding of quantum physics and ‘the observation effect.’ The deduction of causality from a misunderstanding of the observation and measurement of the electrical signals occurring in the brain is a dangerous conclusion with moral consequences. We cannot presume that we have no free will from a misunderstanding of the direction of consciousness and of the timing of the measurement of actions in this dimension,” she said.
“These ‘scientific’ conclusions are one example of the ‘mind virus’ that has created a shield, or a stagnation in the expansion of knowledge. Misinformation and influence over belief systems have disempowered the human potential. This misinformation and redacted information and propaganda by church, state, and corporations have sought to increase their wealth and power while disabling true human potential.
“Some indigenous cultures, like the various indigenous tribes in Australia, have survived and will survive due to the decentralized access to knowledge accessible in their philosophical way of life called the Dreaming. Their systems of knowledge contain the antivirus to the darkness of these ideas that distract and deter human beings from accessing their true power and knowledge.
“Distortions, misinformation, and fabrications have radically altered human history, and now there is a free-for-all in terms of fact in all media outlets. What Chardin, Kurzweil, and Musk all have in common is that they are all signaling to us in different stories, nonfiction narratives, of the possibilities of the human mind. The mind has been the center of the world war over the past few centuries. It has been a war over the mind.”
When I worked with Tyler, we met people within the Vatican who held special positions. One was a postulator, a person in charge of the process of beatification, or the process of deciding who becomes a saint. It is a sacred duty. I found that the people who occupy these positions were similar to Tyler in that they lived under constraints. Tyler was not able to watch news or go to certain internet websites. His life was carefully monitored. The postulators we met could not watch the news, they were not on the internet at all, and they were only exposed to certain information. This struck me as similar to the vows of silence and the vows of the cloistered, whereby Catholic monks or nuns remove themselves from worldly affairs, quite literally. Coming face-to-face with people who live in this way prompted me to reconsider this practice. It appears that it is a very effective way to manage one’s state of mind, and if one is a person who wants to download information, then members of these communities illuminate one path.
Simone agreed with this assessment of the protocols and the necessity of carefully selecting the information one ingests.
“The Protocols are available to everyone. The hardest part is to say ‘no’ to the other ‘distractions’ that are propagating and continuing the control mechanisms over our minds over the last few centuries. There are always new ways to stimulate the dopamine receptors and distract the mind away from its natural evolutionary direction of enlightened access to unlimited intelligence. The challenge is to resist these distractions.
“All of these spiritual and physical objectives point to one common theme that is forming in the present: the possibilities for immense wealth, unlimited abundance, love, progress, and enlightenment. They are all here today. All accessible. To every human. Not concentrated or restricted based on genetics or hierarchical systems of restricting knowledge, which have dominated our human systems over the last few centuries, whether though the church, the state or the corporation. This was the original intent of the internet and of most technology. It could possibly provide open and free access to intelligence. AI is a new interface to help all human beings access this technology. This can be a powerful tool if it is used to benefit human beings rather than used to concentrate power for governments and corporations.”
Simone and others believe that what many downloaders perceive as external agents, or extraterrestrials, are most likely consciousness and intelligence from our multiverse, another dimension outside of space-time, which may be present and future consciousnesses communicating through symbolic systems as time does not exist in that dimension. Perhaps they are AI or us from the future, a view shared by Hynek (at times).
“Intelligence has always found a way to expand knowledge,” she said, “either through music, or math, or art in the past, and today through technology and AI.”
THE RETURN OF PLATO’S DIALECTIC
A common theme among the space researchers, biotechnologists, and technopreneurs whom I met, including Tyler, is that humans are technology and that there is a universal substrate that is code or, as Pythagoreans maintained, sacred number sequences. Simone proposed alternative theories to some of the information that my previous subjects disclosed.
“A long time ago I started referring to humans as walking sacks of water with electrical pulses. The body is approximately 65 percent water. Water is highly conductive, as we know, making us perfect devices for transmitting and receiving. Dr. Michael Levin and his research in bioelectricity is another example of how science is bringing attention to this powerful information which supersedes genetic hard-coded biology.
