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- sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
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- :
- : {Title|THE GOD PHONE}
- : by
- : David Gladstone
- : Now that's really a coincidence...Coming events cast their shadows before.
- : - James Joyce, Ulysses
- :
- : Science proceeds as if the past were the home of explanation; whereas the
- : future, and the future alone, holds the key to the mysteries of the
- : present.
- : -- Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Apology for Old Maids
- :
- : If you were anybody at all in the cultural scene that was exploding in New
- : York in 1965 you knew Edie. Edie Sedgwick had cachet. She came from that
- : long, august line of New England Sedgwicks, whose firmament was illuminated
- : by genuine brilliance but was often blighted by suicide and mental
- : anguish.
- :
- : Edie's Face was everywhere. Diana Vreeland featured her in Vogue Magazine.
- : She was in all the teenybopper rags. Her short hair, black tights, and
- : great legs were always moving in a maelstrom of whirlwind activity, from
- : limo to club to limo again, in an endless frenzied spiral. It was 1965.
- : For a while Andy worshipped androgenous Edie. He made her a star.
- : Warhol's' factory'provided a nucleus around which Edie and her entourage
- : spun their high speed orbits, high energy particles soon to crash.. Her
- : face and style impressed everyone. Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger, riding the
- : newest musical waves, intersected Edie's orbit.
- :
- : Everyone knew she was the real heroine of Blonde on Blonde1. She was one of
- : the many things that moved me, Bob Dylan, Jackson Pollack... The first time
- : I saw Edie was in Vogue Magazine in 1965. You have to understand where I
- : came from. Living in south Jersey you get connected with the pulse beat of
- : what's going on through magazines.. It was all image.. She was like a thin
- : man in black leotards, white hair and boat-necked sweater. She was such a
- : strong image that I thought, "That's it." It represented everything to
- : me,.radiating intelligence, speed, being connected with the moment.."
- : - singer-songwriter, Patti Smith
- :
- : Edie's last starring vehicle was "Ciao! Manhattan", now a cult classic.
- : The infamous Dr.Roberts, inaugurated the film by shooting up the entire
- : cast with amphetamines for an orgy scene at a health club. Edie describes
- : her activities in Jean Stein's Edie,
- :
- : ..an incredible sexual tailspin..every kind of sex freak from homosexuals
- : to nymphomaniacs... Gobble, gobble, gobble. Couldn't get enough of it. Sex
- : and speed. Wow. Like oh, God! A twenty-four hour climax that can go on
- : for days. I'd like to turn on the whole world for a moment... just for a
- : moment. I'm greedy. I'd like to keep most of it for myself and a few
- : others, a few of my friends ... so that I'd radiate sunshine.
- :
- : "And I'd like to see her rise again."
- : - Patti Smith2
- :
- : Edie's image lives on. An icon that has the power to evoke an era or
- : inspire imitation. Carl Jung attributed to such images a kind of magnetic
- : power to attract events, linking the future and the past through loops of
- : meaning which cannot be explained by the accepted definition of causality.
- : Edie's power to fascinate is demonstrated by her continual 'resurrection'
- : in books and films. While working on this article, Oliver Stone's "The
- : Doors" played on the TV unwatched. Suddenly, I looked up and there was
- : Edie, gyrating amid a swirl of bodies on the screen - 10 seconds of Edie
- : and we are back at the Factory, ca., 1967. Edie is gone. Andy wants
- : nothing more to do with her. Viva has taken her place but she is not Edie.
- : Jim Morrison, the latest avatar of the god of "Rock and Cock", is brought
- : to the Factory to meet Andy who greets Morrison like the returning prodigal
- : son. The camera focuses on a gold telephone, which Warhol picks up and
- : holds out to Morrison saying:
- :
- : Edie gave me this phone, it's a God phone. ... She said I could talk to God
- : with it. I don't have anything to say to God...This is for you. Now you
- : can talk to God .
- :
- : The moment has a ritual intensity, as if Edie herself annoints Morrison as
- : the next immortal living legend, and the God-phone a symbol of sovereignty.
- : Jim and Edie become interlinked in a loop of meaning, a synchronicity,
- : which has the power to cause events in the here and now. Changing the
- : article to include this synchronicity entangled me in a strange loop of
- : meaning.
- :
- : Edie's God Phone is a symbolic representation of a device and a new
- : paradigm that could change our lives and our view of the universe. What we
- : are talking about here is a universe designed and created from the future.
- : In such a universe, things that seemed to be mere random coincidences,
- : acquire new levels of meaning. becoming part of a new kind of
- : 'supercausality'. Unhappy with the classical explanation of causality,
- : because it left so many meaningful events in his life unexplained,
- : psychologist Dr. Carl Jung coined the term 'synchronicities' which are
- : meaningful coincidences. Thoughts and events sharing a common meaning are
- : attracted to each other like magnets, across the seemingly impenetrable
- : barrier of space-time; although there is no ordinary causal relationship
- : between them, they are inextricably linked.
- :
- : Jung relates a story of such a synchronicity that occurred to him while
- : conducting analysis with a young woman. "The night before coming to see
- : him she dreamt that she had been given a golden scarab. Jung was sitting
- : with his back to the closed window listening to her recount her dream when
- : he heard a gentle tapping behind his shoulder. Looking round, he saw a
- : small insect knocking against the windowpane. Opening the window, the
- : insect flew in and he caught it in his hand. what he saw was a scarabaeid
- : beetle, the closest equivalent to a golden scarab one could find in
- : Switzerland. 'I must admit', Jung wrote, 'that nothing like it has ever
- : happened before or since and that the dream of the patient has remained
- : unique in my experience.' Jung kept coming across connections which 'I
- : simply could not explain as chance groupings.'"3
- :
- : Jung's intuitive rebellion against causality were encouraged by new
- : developments in quantum physics. Jung studied physics with his patient
- : Wolfgang Pauli4, in order to learn more of the nature of causality.
- :
- : Dissatisfied with what he learned, Jung concluded that the quantum theory
- : must be incomplete. Many years later biological scientist John Lilly,
- : famous for his work with dolphins, also found the scientific explanation of
- : causality to be unacceptable. What he calls 'cosmic coincidence control'
- : and what Jung called 'synchronicities' are an integral part of what Dr.
- : Jack Sarfatti says is the ordering principle of a superluminal (faster-
- : than-light) universe.
- :
- : In a superluminal universe, what seems to be miraculous or impossible,
- : becomes everyday. People remember the future. Famous cases of accurate
- : dreams of the sinking of a ship or the death of a loved one will be
- : explainable under the new theories being propounded at the leading edge of
- : quantum physics. Becoming aware of Edie's image on my TV screen at the
- : same moment I was writing about her caused me to alter what I was writing,
- : because it seemed as if something was telling me to include Edie in the
- : story. If true, this is the kind of future intervention that alters lives,
- : often without our being consciously aware of anything happening.
- :
- : Sarfatti describes a synchronicity linking him with Edie and the Sedgwicks:
- : "I was having another fight with my girlfriend Suky Sedgwick, Edie's
- : sister. While waiting for Suky at San Francisco State library, I came
- : across a book that had the name Sedgwick on the binding. The book was
- : called Apology for Old Maids by Suky's grandfather, Henry Dwight Sedgwick.
- : In an essay called "House of Sorrow" ,there is a quote claiming that the
- : future rather than the past is ""the home of explanation"". I was stunned.
- : I had just read Sir Fred Hoyle's book The Intelligent Universe and had seen
- : almost the same quote. Sedgwick's book was almost 80 years older than
- : Hoyle's. I'd experienced yet another 'loop' in time."
- :
- : I should like to make an alarming suggestion...I suggest that we may
- : actually be going badly wrong when we apply the usual physical rules for
- : time when we consider consciousness! here is indeed, something very odd
- : about the way that time actually enters our conscious perceptions...suppose
- : there is something even vaguely teleological about the effects of
- : consciousness, so that a future impression might affect a past action.
- : Surely this would lead us into a contradiction.
- : - Roger Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind
- :
- : What Penrose, a Royal Society Fellow at Oxford, is considering with some
- : trepidation, is the complete overturning of our notions of cause and
- : effect. The question is this 'Do we live in a superluminal universe or
- : not'? Upon the answer depends the very nature of existence itself. A
- : superluminal universe means final cause, or what we call God. A universe
- : that is not superluminal is most probably random without God.
- :
- : 3..2..1..Contact
- : In 1952, Jack Sarfatti, now a physicist and designer of a quantum
- : signalling device or God phone that will receive messages from the future,
- : received a phone call when he was thirteen years old that changed his life.
- : "I was reading a book on computer switching circuits at home when the phone
- : rang. I answered it and heard a strange sequence of clunking mechanical
- : sounds. Then a metallic sounding voice comes on the line. A cold
- : mechanical voice is the only way I can describe it. It gives a long series
- : of numbers that I did not understand and then calls me 'Jack' and says it's
- : a 'conscious computer on board a spacecraft.'. It may have said it was
- : from the future, but I am not sure. However, that was the implication of
- : what it said. Anyway, it says I've been selected to be one of '400 young
- : receptive minds' to be part of a special project but that I must make the
- : choice myself. The voice on the phone told me that I would begin to meet
- : the others I was to work with in twenty years. I was scared and everything
- : in me screamed to say NO! and hang up. I felt a strong jolt of electricity
- : go up my spine to the base of my skull and I heard myself say YES. I was
- : terrified and fascinated. The voice said 'Good, go out on your fire-escape
- : and we will send a ship to pick you up in ten minutes'. When I hung up I
- : ran like a bat out of hell and found my friend Winky, who is now a homicide
- : detective in Brooklyn. We, and a few other kids, went back to my apartment
- : to wait for the flying saucer but it never came."
- :
- : Years later, while Jack's mother, Millie was reading Andrija Puharich's
- : book URI, she came across the account of Uri Geller's allleged contact by a
- : conscious computer aboard a spacecraft which mirrored Sarfatti's experience
- : even to the details. Millie, said to Jack, "This sounds just like all
- : those phone calls you got when you were a kid." Sarfatti said, "I was
- : stunned. I only remembered one phone call. I still only remember one call.
- : Millie told me that there were many calls over a three week period. She
- : said I was walking around glassy-eyed. Finally she picked up the phone and
- : listened out of concern for me. She heard the cold mechanical voice. She
- : told it to quit bothering her son and stop calling. The calls stopped."
- :
- : What is this rough beast,its hour come round at last, slouching towards
- : Bethlehem to be born.
- : - W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming
- :
- : Albert Einstein, father of relativity and a deeply religious man, was never
- : comfortable with the idea of a Godless, random universe. In 1953, almost
- : 20 years after his famous EPR paper prohibiting "spooky" action-at-a-
- : distance, Einstein admitted to his assistant, Ernst Straus, that he had
- : second thoughts "You know I have recently lost confidence in the principle
- : of no action-at-a-distance."
- :
- : Sarfatti explained that Einstein's 1935 paper showed that the Heisenberg
- : Uncertainty principle could be violated without action at a distance.
- : Since quantum mechanics is based on the uncertainty principle, it could not
- : be considered a complete description of reality. The uncertainty principle
- : asserts that certain physical properties (like energy and time or momentum
- : and position) are incompatible with each other and cannot be measured to
- : arbitrarily small precisions (statistical standard deviations)
- : simultaneously in the same experimental setup." In plain language this
- : means you can't change your tires and give your car a speed test at the
- : same time.
- :
- : Einstein couldn't accept action-at-a-distance because that would violate
- : causality. Causality means causes before effects. It stems directly from
- : the way conscious beings experience the flow of time. Einstein's theory of
- : relativity rested on two pillars, causality and symmetry. In 1935,
- : Einstein believed that both pillars were essential for relativity. Today's
- : experimental data shows that causality, the major stumbling block in the
- : way of action-at-a-distance and superluminal communication, is wrong and
- : that only symmetry is necessary for relativity.
- :
- : Sarfatti's eyes glow with intensity as he takes on the dubious task of
- : explaining the forbidding subject of quantum mechanics to a non-scientist.
- : "We don't need more math", he says, referring to the insistence of most
- : physicists that useful faster-than-light communication is beyond our reach.
- : "The current mathematical formalism is sufficient to show how we can decode
- : messages from the future. Eberhard, Stapp, and Josephson all believe in
- : action-at-a-distance, but say there's no way within standard quantum
- : mechanics to locally decode such influences. I say they are probably wrong
- : because of the counter examples I've developed which can be tested."
- :
- : Recent discoveries may have bolstered the case for a superluminal universe.
- : The lead headline in the New York Times recently trumpeted, "Scientists
- : Report Profound Insight On How Time Began," The large type and the picture
- : were impressive enough but the latest computer generated pictures from the
- : COBE satellite provide very strong confirmation for the existence of cold
- : dark matter, the (as yet) invisible stuff which reveals itself only through
- : its gravity and is now thought to comprise 90% of the universe. This
- : mysterious dark matter, may bring a brave new world of time travel through
- : wormholes and starships roaming the vastness of interstellar space. The
- : crux of the matter as far as superluminality is concerned is that the
- : universe obeyed the laws of quantum mechanics at its birth subjecting it to
- : Heisenberg's uncertainty principle when it was smaller than an electron.
- : Hoyle and Sarfatti believe that it was at this that consciousness from the
- : future created the universe bringing itself into being.
- :
- : Einstein's work on relativity provided a starting point for intuitive
- : physicists such as Wheeler, Feynman, Josephson and others. The new
- : physics has also given rise to a new cosmology of which Sir Fred Hoyle is a
- : leading proponent. Hoyle compiled a massive body of evidence in his book
- : The Intelligent Universe that seems to strongly suggest that only a living
- : and intelligent (superluminal) God could have created a universe where life
- : (us) exists. The very conditions of the birth of the universe (the big
- : bang) were specifically tailored to produce life. The Anthropic principle
- : championed by Hoyle, Sarfatti and others was strongly supported by Brandon
- : Carter, who in 1968 stated "Had the numerical values of certain
- : fundamental constants (the speed of light, the mass of an electron etc.)
- : been only slightly different - the universe would not be able to sustain
- : life as we know it."
- :
- : Experimentalist Alain Aspect proved5, the reality of faster-than-light
- : action-at-a-distance in an experiment on the quantum connection between
- : pairs of photons6. Delayed choice experiments7 and gamma photon-proton
- : scattering experiments8 showed that future causes do create past effects.
- :
- : Recent work by such respected physicists as David Deutsch, Kip Thorne,
- : Yakir Aharanov and Sarfatti, involving time-travel, future-causality and
- : other mind-boggling vistas, is invigorating superluminal physics as never
- : before.
- :
- : Sarfatti's credibility among other physicists, like the superluminal
- : conjecture, seemed for years to lay dormant in the barren soil of a
- : conservative physics establishment. For many years, talk of faster-than-
- : light communication and time travel has been beyond the pale of good
- : science. It was a suitable subject for comic books and science fiction
- : only, 'strictly kid stuff.'
- :
- : Sarfatti, a physics professor at SDSU in the sixties (while still in his
- : twenties) suffered for his connection to this 'kid stuff'. He quit his job
- : at SDSU and went to the University of London to learn from David Bohm who
- : had worked with Einstein. Sarfatti then spent almost twenty years out of
- : the 'academic' loop' of mainstream physics.
- :
- : Seemingly a genial character,with professorial mien and white goatee,
- : Sarfatti is impulsive and temperamental, and infamous for burning his
- : bridges in front of him. Bitter arguments with Werner Erhard and a
- : perceptible rightward trend in Sarfatti's political thinking alienated him
- : from the New Age 'establishment'. Sarfatti still harbors bitter feelings
- : towards Gary Zukav,author of The Dancing Wu Li Masters for what he
- : considers Zukav's "betrayal". "Zukav didn't know physics from shmysics. I
- : brought him to Esalen over the strenuous objections of Michael Murphy's
- : wife. I introduced him to everyone, wrote the chapter on quantum mechanics
- : and then he reneged on his promise of a percentage of the royalties."
- :
- : Conflict and betrayal are part of the warp and weft of Sarfatti's life, as
- : they are a part of his beloved Wagnerian opera "Twilight of the Gods."
- : During his 'exile' he spent his time crying wolf at that 'barren physics
- : establishment', raving about time machines and Soviet spies over
- : cappuccino's and vino in the Caffe Trieste in San Francisco's ragged
- : Bohemia, North Beach.
- :
- : The dictum that nature abhors a vacuum was certainly true for Sarfatti. He
- : became friendly with some prominent local conservatives, among them
- : A.Lawrence Chickering and Marshal Naify. "The three of us were having
- : lunch at Enrico's in North Beach. Suddenly Naify launched into a monologue
- : describing the future Star Wars program in what turned out to be
- : astonishingly accurate detail. It was an amazing performance." Sarfatti
- : said. Even more astonishing since Naify was not involved in the sciences
- : and no one was talking about anything resembling Star Wars in the media at
- : that time. Chickering was so impressed by the idea he asked me to give a
- : scientific summary of what Naify had outlined. The summary was sent to
- : Paul Nitze, Reagan's chief nuclear weapons negotiator. Chickering told me
- : Nitze liked what I wrote. I talked about rendering nuclear weapons
- : impotent and obsolete. A channel to Cap Weinberger had opened up through
- : his son, Cap Jr. I sent him all the same material, which reached Reagan
- : through his father, the Secretary of Defense. The physics wasn't good, but
- : it made good propaganda against the Soviets."
- :
- : A fervent believer in synchronicity and in himself, Sarfatti made
- : numberless versions of 'God Phones' or 'Future Machines - many of them
- : wrong, he admits. He fired his salvos to colleagues all over the world.
- : Feynman believed he had gone crazy, and he certainly wasn't alone in that
- : belief. Mostly they reacted bemusedly when his name came up. A few had
- : sterner reactions. Henry Stapp, of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, who
- : carried on a ten year correspondence with Sarfatti, wrote an angry letter
- : to the Editor of Physics Essays that Sarfatti was incompetent for insisting
- : that faster-than-light communication was possible in standard quantum
- : mechanics. More than ten years ago the late Heinz Pagels, a highly
- : respected professor at Rockefeller University and President of the New York
- : Academy of Sciences, shouted at me on the telephone that Sarfatti was "a
- : charlatan" for his belief in action-at-a-distance. "Sarfatti was crazy",
- : who was he to sweep aside causality with a wave of his hand. Pagels held
- : Sarfatti in bad odor because, in addition to his support for action-at-a-
- : distance, he worked on precognitive remote viewing with New Age people from
- : Esalen9, such as Uri Geller and Andrija Puharich. Esalen would also serve
- : as the place where the "Hot Tub Diplomacy"10 of the early 80's took place.
- :
- : Something rather chilling occurred a few years later. Pagels dreamt of
- : mountain climbing (he was an expert climber) and falling to his death. So
- : shaken was he by the dream's vividness that he told his friends and even
- : mentioned it at the very end of his book, The Cosmic Code.
- :
- : I dreamed I was clutching at the face of a rock but it would not hold.
- : Gravel gave way. I grasped for a shrub but it pulled loose, and in cold
- : terror I fell into the abyss. Suddenly I realized that my fall was
- : relative; there was no bottom and no end. A feeling of pleasure overcame
- : me. I realized that what I embody, cannot be destroyed. It is written
- : into the cosmic code, the order of the universe.
- :
- : Not long afterward, while on an undemanding climb with friends, he slipped
- : and fell to his death. Had Pagels experienced a genuine precognition?
- : That was something that he just knew was impossible. Yet it consumed his
- : attention until he slipped and fell on a climb that was regarded as easy,
- : safe even for a less experienced climber than Pagels. Sarfatti has no
- : doubt but that Pagels had a first hand experience with future causality.
- : Many people, he says have a strange blindness to this kind of thing. In
- : some way Pagels believed and accepted his precognition as part of his
- : cosmic destiny as we can see from a closing quote in The Cosmic Code " But
- : it seems certain that the recent human contact with the invisible world of
- : quanta and the vastness of the cosmos will shape the destiny of our species
- : or whatever we may become." And, as Sarfatti points out, "The invisible
- : world of the quanta obey the superluminal dictates of the future."
- : A shout in the street.
- : "From the play field the boys raised a shout. The ways of the creator are
- : not our ways," Mr. Deasy said. "All history moves toward one great goal,
- : the manifestation of God." Stephen jerked his thumb toward the window,
- : saying: - "That is God. Hooray, Ay, Whirree!" - "What?" Mr. Deasy asked. -
- : "A shout in the street." Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.
- :
- : Now that's really a coincidence...Coming events cast their shadows before.
- : - James Joyce, Ulysses
- : to be continued.
-