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- From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Brett McInnes)
- Subject: Re: The Sarfatti Papers 3: The Gladstone Report II
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:54:03 GMT
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- sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
- :
- : Long orphaned by science and most philosophy, teleological superluminality
- : has found a home in drama, religion, literature, and in film. Joyce's
- : Ulysses is a treasure trove of Jungian synchronicities, which may be
- : acausal loops-in-time that employ the future-to-past time sense. Joyce
- : uses such seemingly random recurring events as a shout in the street, the
- : wanderings of a crumpled piece of paper, the pealing of church bells, to
- : order time through loops of causality. The inner geometry of Ulysses is
- : not the geometry of billiards and of Newton. It is the strange inner
- : geometry of Einstein and quantum mechanics. Causality seems to slide along
- : this strange geometry like a roller coaster at an amusement park. Kurt
- : Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five also reflects the strange geometry of future
- : causality: The planet Tralfamadoria which exists in the future creates a
- : civilization on earth so they can get a part they need for one of their
- : spaceships. Just as the Greeks in Romans used the Deus Ex Machina to
- : provide for a superluminal Voice of God. Chris Marker, in the highly
- : acclaimed film "La Jettee" creates an eerie warring world of the future,
- : that makes captives of people in the past to experiment on them. In "The
- : Navigator" a young man leads his people from the plague-ravaged 14th
- : century to the 20th century to find a cure for the mysterious disease that
- : is decimating them. In the Sci-Fi genre, Sarfatti's fellow physics
- : graduate student at UCSD, Gregory Benford, weaves a chilling tale of a
- : doomed future earth in Time Scape. In the story, scientists send warnings
- : to their colleagues in the past to save the planet. Phillip Jose Farmer's
- : Riverworld series which includes practically everything that ever lived,
- : requires future-to-past causality as well. And of course, we can't forget
- : "The Terminator" or "Back to the Future" and "Peggy Sue Gets Married".
- :
- : Turning and turning within the widening gyre.
- : - W.B.Yeats, The Second Coming
- :
- : Merging the ostensibly separate meanings of God and Machine, Edie, perhaps
- : unconsciously, linked herself to a turn of thought and intuition that has
- : its branches in antiquity and its roots in the far distant future. From
- : the ancient stories of the Greek gods to the cyber-punk of today's Science
- : fiction, people have taken for granted the existence of a superluminal
- : reality. Almost all of us have experienced this firsthand. For example,
- : invariably, when I call my mother, she will say, "That's funny I was just
- : thinking about you." How many times have you thought about someone,
- : suddenly, perhaps after a long period of time when you hadn't thought of
- : them at all. Soon, sure enough, you see them in a day or two. then you
- : know that you've just touched the mystery. Precognitive incidents like
- : these have always suffered from the taint of impossibility, just like
- : UFO's, although admitting to a dream that proves to be true or having had a
- : precognitive experience may be less embarrassing than claiming to have seen
- : or been aboard a UFO.
- : Deus Ex Machina
- : Deus ex Machina' or the God from a machine was originally used in ancient
- : Greek and Roman plays, a device was brought on stage to intervene in the
- : action of a play when conditions were in extremis; when the situation was
- : such that only supernatural intervention could save the day. Jack Sarfatti
- : thinks that his article "Design for a Superluminal Signaling Device"11'
- : may lead to nothing less than a Deus ex Machina. Both he and Heinz Pagels'
- : close friend, Nick Herbert, have spent years trying to develop God Phones
- : which decode and utilize precognitive messages from the future. This is
- : not the same as predicting the future. Sarfatti's goateed visage looms out
- : from under a Greek fisherman's cap as he proclaims: "Prediction of the
- : future from the past is part of the classical causality axiom, yet it is
- : not really supported by the evidence. In quantum mechanics both the future
- : and the past co-determine the present."
- :
- : The increasingly likely establishment of a superluminal world-view cannot
- : be credited solely to an individual, or even to the sciences. Future-cause
- : and past-effect has been an intrinsic part of the scientific, cultural and
- : religious inheritance of the human race.
- :
- : Since ancient times scientists have tried to model the universe within
- : their cultural and religious contexts. According to Sarfatti,
- : Pythagoras,12 Newton, Einstein, Planck and Heisenberg, are the Illuminati
- : who receive knowledge from the future God that is bringing our universe
- : into being."
- :
- : Quantum mechanics is illuminating a trail which may lead to the roots of
- : consciousness itself. Indeed, at the quantum level our own brains may be
- : mirroring the quantum processes which occurred before the Big Bang itself.
- : As above so below, says the ancient mystical truism, and now quantum
- : physicists are echoing that sentiment. Recent work done at the leading
- : edge of molecular biology supports this conjecture.
- :
- : With state Christianity in the Roman empire came dogma and a strategy of
- : repression and elimination of views that differed. Speculation on the
- : nature of the universe was discouraged by the Church Fathers. For nearly
- : 1,000 years, science remained stuck in an ancient rut. As the renaissance
- : dawned, however, scientists fought a mostly losing battle to be free of the
- : constraints of religiouss tyranny. Marlowe's Faust is an allegory of
- : scientific man's rebellion against the tyranny of Church authority. The
- : careers of Bruno13 and Galileo amply illustrate the difficulties of that
- : struggle. Over hundreds of years the work of Copernicus, Newton and
- : Descartes eviscerated the Church's authority. Such literal Biblical
- : teachings as creationism are taught only as a relic of religious thought
- : rather than as valid theories of how the Universe comes into being. God-in-
- : the-Machine is now just the voice of the machine. Anyone accepting the
- : literal word of The Bible as truth in today's secular world would be
- : considered a credulous fool by many secular westerners.
- :
- : Since the beginning of this century, physicists have gone by speculation
- : and experiment where few can follow. Most of us must accept the claims of
- : scientific authority as we once accepted the validity of religious dogma.
- : Some scientists claim (just as many ancients must have done after observing
- : a phenomenon they could not explain) that they can see the "handwriting of
- : God" in some of the recent pictures from the COBE satellite which show the
- : universe at a very early age.
- :
- : Sarfatti's Hyper-History
- : Sarfatti suffers no embarrassment about his claims of a superluminal
- : connection to all kinds of historical figures. In 1978 Sarfatti was
- : suffering his indulgent idyll/exile in North beach, orphaned by the New Age
- : Movement after his bitter falling out with Werner Erhard. He met someone
- : who, according to Sarfatti, clarified the historical context he was in. He
- : feels trapped in a time loop of causality reversal that connects him to
- : such world historical figures as Hitler, Mussolini and FDR. "Sitting on
- : the terrace of the Savoy Tivoli, I was introduced by a friend, Leila
- : Dwight,to an aristocratic-looking young man dressed in Lederhosen, the
- : Bavarian national dress. She said he was her cousin but it didn't mean
- : anything at the time. I didn't know that Leila's family had intermarried
- : repeatedly with the Sedgwicks for 200 years.
- :
- : He was Egon Sedgwick Hanfstaengl. At the time I met him I hadn't yet met
- : Suky Sedgwick. He said something about his family being involved 'in
- : history' but he didn't say what. These connections were made clear to me
- : years later when the book Edie by Jean Stein and George Plimpton came out.
- : Hanfstaengl was a cousin of Edie's and the grandson of Ernst "Putzi"
- : Sedgwick Hanfstaengl.
- :
- : In 1904, Putzi spent hours in the basement of Teddy Roosevelt's White House
- : with his cousin and Harvard classmate, Frank (FDR) playing the piano in the
- : boisterous, somewhat oafish style, that his friends loved. In 1920, Putzi
- : was playing piano to a captive audience in Munich. His new friend Adolph
- : Hitler was in a hypnotic and joyous reverie listening to the music of his
- : beloved Wagner. Putzi and his American wife performed a valuable service
- : to the future Fuhrer. They arranged gemutlich little musical evenings with
- : many of the prominent figures of post WW1 Germany for Hitler. They
- : smoothed his rough edges. They eased his way into the upper circles where
- : the spirit of unrepentant revanchism burned undiminished by defeat. In
- : 1923 at Putzi's Tyrolean Villa, the distraught Hitler was in disgrace; his
- : Bavarian Putsch was broken and he was about to be arrested for treason.
- : The police were banging on the door and would soon be coming up the stairs.
- : All was lost; but for the timely intervention of Putzi's wife who altered
- : history forever when she wrestled the loaded pistol that he had pointed at
- : his own head from him. Sarfatti claims that the hand of destiny that saved
- : Hitler, also altered his own life. Saying that historical themes tend to
- : recurr in within certain familial "Destiny Matrices", Sarfatti sketched out
- : a nonlinear history of his clan.
- :
- : In 1923, Margherita Sarfatti, was the lover of Benito Mussolini, and later
- : was patroness of the fascist cultural movement, Nouvocento, (New Century)
- : which expressed a belief in the philosophy of future cause. She was the
- : mother of one Italy's WWI heroes, Roberto Sarfatti, killed at the age of
- : eighteen at Mussolini's side in the trenches. Roberto was later enshrined
- : as one the immortals in the fascist pantheon. Samuel Sarfatti was the
- : personal physician to Pope Julius II and he was instrumental in getting
- : Michaelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. 'Sarfatti' means
- : 'the Frenchman' in Hebrew and traces back to the great Rabbi, Rashi de
- : Troyes (1040 - 1105)." Sarfatti sees himself linked in meaningful causal
- : loops with many historical figures. "This historical context is not my
- : creation", he says, "but a recurrent theme over hundreds of years that
- : expressed itself in the lives of real people, who happened to be my family
- : and Suky's family. Just like I happened to get that phone call. We were
- : brought together as players in a scene written in the far future."
- :
- : He is not the only one to see himself this way. Sarfatti and his
- : superluminal physics are portrayed in Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus
- : Trilogy. Carlos Suares, a cabalist mystic and intimate of Henry Miller
- : annointed Sarfatti to be the "heir" to his tradition. "I didn't know what
- : he was talking about at the time. But he was a Cabalist Master who knew a
- : great deal more than I about the significant role some of my relatives
- : played in Jewish history." Fictionalized as Balthazar, in Lawrence
- : Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, Suares urged Sarfatti to "smash the wall of
- : light.", which Sarfatti sees as one and the same as Einstein's light
- : barrier. "I saw myself as a Parsival character. I reached the Grail Castle
- : and didn't know what I was doing there and I didn't get the Grail. But I
- : got the challenge to "smash the wall of light" and that's what I'm trying
- : to do.
- :
- : Since the publication of his latest paper in a prestigious physics journal
- : and his reestablishment of ties with academics at Berkeley, Sarfatti's
- : credibility seems to be rising phoenix-like from the ashes. It was at
- : Berkeley in Ray Chiao's quantum optics seminar that Nobel Laureate Charles
- : Townes was told by Chiao that a paper by Sarfatti some twenty years
- : previously had helped them in their research. At another seminar, David
- : Mermin,head of the physics department at Cornell, told the group that he
- : had read Sarfatti's paper and had been perplexed because he couldn't find
- : anything wrong with it. He finally realised what was wrong but he he said
- : he couldn't remember. Sarfatti says the seminar broke up in laughter. His
- : most recent salvo against 'fortress mentality' of the physics establishment
- : is a paper he believes will invalidate Phillippe Eberhard's proof against
- : communicating useful messages from future to past.
- :
- : With the help of modern technology man is extending his intelligence out
- : into into the vast reaches of space and down to the mysterious level of
- : quantum phenomena. In the worlds of art and science, ( which seem to
- : uncannily mirror each other) there has long been dissatisfaction with the
- : theories and dogmas which leave far too much of our real world unaccounted
- : for. Sarfatti sees this as a 'vacuum of reason' which he like nature
- : abhors. "What I'm after is simple. I want to prove the existence of God
- : and a superluminal universe created from the future which created us so
- : that the universe could itself be created. Let's not play games and stand
- : on high horses when it comes to radical advances in thought. Let
- : experiment decide. If it doesn't work then we've still learned something."
- :
- :
- : 1 arguably Dylan's greatest album
- : 2 from the poem "Edie" written on hearing of Edie's death.
- :
- : 3 Beyond Time, Danah Zohar
- : 4 discoverer of the Pauli exclusion principle and the neutrino
- : 5 at the University of Paris in 1982,
- : 6 quanta of light
- : 7 Carol Alley of the University of Maryland
- : 8 Charles Bennett of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
- : 9 a resort near Big Sur in California,famous for sixties style sexual
- : experimentation and lectures promoting a New Age of enlightenment.
- : 10 Newsweek, 1980.
- : 11 Physics Essays, Vol. 4, No.3 Sept. 1991 (University of Toronto Press).
- : 12 whose famous theorem is at the foundation not only of relativity but
- : also of quantum mechanics. Pythagoras was one of the great scientists of
- : all time but also a mystic and religious leader.
- : 13 Bruno was burned at the stake and Galileo was placed under a church
- : edict to keep silent regarding his heretical beliefs.
-