The sign had the word ‘Haven’ on it with a symbol of a penguin next to it in crayon. Symbols seemed to be important here, it made things simple, like links or connections, just as you had on your desktop.
Dave wondered if there were rooms like this with other symbols on them for other things, like fish, snakes, or stars, to indicate what was in the room, and what you would learn there.
This room clearly did not have any form of en-suite facilities though, and Dave had no intention of even taking a quick look into the basement, as he had a fairly clear idea of what was down there - and it wasn’t good.
“Alright Dave?” asked the elephant enthusiastically, and nodded to him in a friendly manner.
Dave ignored it, in the hope that it would just go away.
The elephant in Dave’s mind wasn’t really an elephant though; again it was just a manifestation of the difficult problem, the unresolved paradigm of what this all was.
It was that awkward issue of something that couldn’t be explained away by anything that you knew or understood; that awkward thing that plagued all philosophy, psychology, quantum physics, art, religion and everything else.
It was that ‘hang on a minute that doesn’t make any logical rational sense’ elephant, that you couldn’t translate into physical logic, and get your mind around.
Dave knew what the answer was really, you had to have been ‘in it’ to understand ‘it’, but he didn’t have any way of describing ‘it’ in any physical or real terminology either, as it wasn’t ‘like’ anything.
Yet everything he knew and perceived had come from it, not the other way around. So the problem remained an elephant for now, and the only way of getting close to defining it or describing it was still through various analogies and descriptive stories.
Dave just carried on ignoring the elephant, and pretended that it wasn’t there; just in the same way as everyone else did.
Besides it would be very embarrassing getting caught talking to an imaginary virtual elephant, especially as he didn’t even know its name.
Dave did know however that he wasn’t going mad.
This was all just here to show something to him, to explain something to himself.
They had said that his late aunt Mildred was mad; madder than a box of squirrels, apparently. She heard ‘voices’ all the time, and she thought she was a reincarnation of a flying dolphin called Flipper.
Which was fine, except that of course everyone knew that dolphins didn’t come back as penguins, not even ones from TV programmes.
So everyone thought she was mad, all except young Dave; after all she did seem to be the only one in the family that had been happy, and the only one that had interesting conversations with him. He thought that she just had different ways of seeing things.
Things then began changing in the room; objects were being added, like in a progressive dream.
Dave looked up. There was a large clock on the wall. The clock had two sets of hands on it; one set was going forwards and the other was going backwards.
Every time you looked at it, the hands were not in the same place. The clock was clearly useless here and didn’t seem to have any purpose other than to explain something; obviously that time was irrelevant here, that it was timeless, a state machine.
He wondered why it didn’t just have a sign saying that, instead of some cryptic animated symbol, or perhaps it was unaware of the fact itself.
But then that is why you get representations like this in all those books, films, art and in your dreams; it was trying to represent something in some way that was understandable to you, giving you a story to convey parts of the whole picture.
Curiouser and curiouser thought Dave.
Dave thought he would try something.
“What is the point of that?” he asked of the elephant, and he pointed to the clock “It is totally useless.”
“Well,” said the elephant “time doesn’t exist here. It is meaningless. This is a state environment, and not defined by time. Things here just are, or are not. There is no concept of ‘was’ or ‘will be’, other than that which is projected by probability or remembered in memory, in which case they are known and perceived into reality.
“Things just have an informational state, but with projected future probabilities of other states. Yet it knows ‘what was’, and ‘what is’ and ‘what probably will be’, and ‘what will be’ changes the ‘what is’ and the ‘what was’ and vice versa. So you see it’s meaningless.”
Dave was now wishing he hadn’t asked, and he watched the clock intently and without blinking; the hands moved in a gentle flowing motion.
“But when I look at it, it doesn’t jump around” said Dave.
“That’s because you are giving it meaning by perceiving it; both time and the clock itself. That’s what you are here for - to create meaning from the meaningless; to organise stuff along a set of rules and guideline; to evolve” said the elephant.
“It still looks a bit weird if you ask me” said Dave.
“Well yes,” said the elephant, who was now wearing a little blue and white dress, “but then everything has errors - nothing is perfect - you just have to try and make sense of things even though they are senseless.”
That seems logical, thought Dave. He had no idea why the elephant was wearing the dress now though, but he was a broad-minded and polite penguin, so he didn’t ask.
There was now a full length mirror on the wall. Dave went up to it and looked at himself in it.
It showed you everything that you wanted to see, and in the way you thought you wanted to see it. It was a reflection of perceived reality.
Dave was pleased to see that he looked just the same in it as he always did, his mental, or ‘higher’, ‘spiritual’ program blueprint looked good, although his six-pack had lost some of its usual toned definition.
He turned sideways-on to check over his profile, and flexed his biceps.
Then suddenly the room changed around him. It was as if he could create any environment he wanted just by thinking about it, imagining it.
His imagination expanded and he could envisage even sharing common game-type holograms with other penguins’ minds in other rooms that they might be in. But the change made him tired, it seemed to take some energy from him.
There seemed to be a purpose with us being physical too, being a physical penguin, to see it, experience it, change it, add to it, and record it all in the records of his mind or his consciousness or whatever it was called.
Dave understood now; the reason the elephant was there was that everything was trying to see, perceive, or make sense of, things in the wrong direction. It didn’t make sense unless you understood that the physical reality that we knew was being projected from within it, and part of something; something much larger, of which we are only seeing and understanding and perceiving the physical subset part of.
There was a flash of inspiration and the elephant had changed. It was now wearing a lab coat and a mad science professor wig. It started talking to him now in his head, indicating that his mind was getting more technical in explaining things to him.
It wasn’t talking though, it was just knowledge loading itself into his head, sort of in parallel.
So if we only know what we know, i.e. what we understand and have experienced or seen throughout our lives, then you can only describe the concept of what this all is in relation to those things that you have knowledge of, even if this isn’t like anything that you already know.
This was why there have been so many interpretations of it, in so many ways, throughout history. Mostly that is all we can cope with, understand, and it is for our own protection.
As we learn and understand more about everything so our collective perception changes, seeing it more in an unfiltered, unprotected, les naïve way.
We just have to get better at coming up with knowledge and understanding, use better descriptions, and see more of it, and the nature of how we exist.
; The physical world we see and experience is just a tiny part of the information and energy available, yet that is the part with the driving capability for change; through random evolution, controls, laws, and energy.
In so doing it is building and growing minds within minds of evolving complexity within this encompassing evolving field structure, and it is all represented by the physical universal interpretation which is part of it, and which it has manifested into perception.
Dave shook his head, to try and clear his brain. It didn’t work. His mind needed some props to help explain things.
On the far wall Dave noticed a curtain that he hadn’t spotted before. He walked over to it, bent down on the floor and moved the curtain to one side with his beak. Behind the curtain he saw a little door made of wood, and the door had a little handle.
Luckily, as he was short of time, it didn’t need a key, and he opened it and looked out into a field and landscape stretching off to the pink horizon.
The field was green, as you would expect, with all the blades of grass all the same length - almost plastic looking.
Little lollipop trees lined a perfect, white, picket fence; all unbelievably real, intense, and vibrant.
There was a stream with five hooded figures next to it, and a blue angel, and a sky full of stars, which was odd considering that it was daytime.
There was a sheep eating the plastic grass, and it stopped and looked up at Dave, “Alright Dave?” it said with a smile, in a rather elephant-like nasal tone. It grinned at him and nodded, which was somewhat disconcerting.
Dave slammed the door. Ahhhh, Wrong sort of field he thought.
You see… continued Dave’s mind, the fundamental problem is that it isn’t something you can describe simply as a field, or as collective consciousness, or as a universal mind, a zeitgeist, a rhizome, a matrix, psyche bubbles within spheres, and so on.
You can’t currently show, or express, or demonstrate, or explain what it all is, by any means possible, from what we can currently see, hear, perceive, show, or visualise from the physical context.
Even if you use religious stories and New Age-like dreamscapes - you are still only trying to describe and define the major whole from within, and by, the language terminology and drawings of the physical minor part.
It is like trying to describe what gravity, and electromagnetic field, or say snow, actually is by just using what you can see, and to someone who has never felt it.
Dave could see why it had been easier in the ancient past to just give it an all-encompassing name, a non-defining generic term, and an all knowing, all seeing, universal name. It was easier.
Dave thought ‘Mildred’ would be a good choice instead.
…You can’t say that it is ‘like’ anything that you can perceive. It isn’t ‘like’ anything real or anything that you can imagine - what you see in the physical world is a reflection, a perception, the part that makes sense, that is necessary or useful to know.
It’s like being in a universal computer program that has rules, and is a projected representation of information being processed - but there is a whole lot more to it than that - it is also alive, just as we are, but in a different way.
So there is no way of demonstrating or representing it with anything that you already know or understand, have heard, seen, or made sense of.
There are no mechanisms with which to define it. It’s like trying to describe a film in a book of braille, which is a simple serial representation of a vast parallel context.
So that’s the problem for penguins who have experienced it in any depth, who have tried to represent it, or spoken of what they have ‘seen’, or tried to work to understand. They have tried to express it in many terms and forms; stories, art, science, religions, films, books, biology, psychology, philosophy, music, quantum physics, and even with information technology.
It doesn’t matter how hard you try with any of these areas, you will always end up with the elephant shortfall. You can still only base what you are experiencing on what you know and understand, hence all the historical interpretations and the creation of religions.
Unless you have experienced it all for yourself, and on many levels over and over again, and you can apply knowledge and intelligence, you will never ‘get it’; never put all the pieces together. You will always be trying to plug the gaps with ideas, thoughts, concepts, and suggestions from other people in the past.
But then even ‘getting it’ doesn’t seem to have any particular benefit attached to it anyway, aside from chaotic grief, the bruises and the sticky plasters.
So what we perceive as reality is in fact a projected subset of a much more detailed defining field or multi-levelled information structure that is representing it.
The physicality is a shadow of it, yet part of it, in effect a hologrammatical informational physical image of something much bigger, and on many more levels, and with vastly more information depth and complexity, most of which doesn’t make any bloody sense to the physical part of ‘us’.
But then that’s what ‘reality’, or at least the physical reality that we have worked so hard to make sense of, is all about; bringing order and organisation and logic to the chaos, rational to the irrational, sense and order, perception of the truth through knowledge.
The only question, therefore, is why? Aside from evolution and survival of course, what seems to be missing is any sort of direction, external drivers, something to evolve toward or compete against. Which also explains a lot of the mess in the physical world.
Dave wanted to stop now. His brain was wandering off in the same direction as his stomach which hadn’t had any food for several hours.
But his mind was still talking to him, busy working things out, and still repeating itself.
So… it went on, in effect evolution is also happening within the field at the same time, and we are perceiving this evolution as a physical biological projection. Which is also manifesting change and recording the information within the ‘field’. Which itself has rules constraints and laws in which to exist, and guide.
This obviously all provides a mechanism for reverse engineering that quantum field as a bidirectional synchronised frequency resonance at many levels and in formed mental structures…
Dave’s brain was nodding in agreement, but his mind had a slight concern that it may not be all going in, so it made a last ditch effort.
…Our physical interpretation therefore; what we see, hear, smell, touch, is simply an integrated aspect of part of the information within the evolving organising consciousness field.
This gives structure and meaning and consequently probability to part of that field, the physical.
Which in turn evolves and allows the vast remainder to be programmed, even though it has no perceivable context, i.e. no space and time, that can be defined in physical or real terms and context.
That was enough.
This was really making Dave’s brain hurt, and he was getting tired now as well as hungry.
So he decided it was time to go.
He lifted the needle off the record of his mind, and he turned to the elephant and thanked him politely, and started to climb back out of the hole which was now in a sort of spiral so it made it a bit easier, and thankfully, quicker.
A few hours later when he had got back home, he told everyone what had happened, and that they didn’t have to worry as he had been to Haven and spoken with the elephant, and that he had managed to get safely out of his mind…
Which they were all surprisingly in agreement on, and nobody seemed to want to argue with him.
It took Dave several days for it all to sink in, to think, and work out what he had been shown.
Dave couldn’t just ignore it all though, and he was determined that he was going to sort it all out, now. He had a plan.
He was going to go back and prod it with a sharp stick, a new sort of wake up ‘symbol’, and get it talking to more penguins, get it to do something, be more responsible,
and then everyone would ‘see’ and be happier, hopefully.
He would also explain it all to everyone, and show how it ‘talked’ through synchronicity, and how it invoked global penguin organisational changes.
He would be able to explain how it all worked through quantum spin-structured brain programming, and how it mapped into biology and penguin brain structure, integrated with all the other mental and biological resonating structures.
That was all the first phase of ‘The Plan’.
The next phase would be trying to do something about it all, moving it all forward in a coherent, shared benefit sort of way.
Plan B of course, was to put a lead bucket on his head, duct tape some protective crystals to his body (as more of a sort of statement really), and then to run like hell…
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