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laid out with what is hoped is care and attention in The Invisible Landscape.
While what Dennis did in the Amazon may not have caused the idea that I developed, I have the strong intuition that it did. In the wake of the
experiment, my ordinary private concerns were replaced with such utterly strange musings that I could not recognize them as products of my
own personality. He performed his experiment and it seemed as though I got a kind of informational feedback off my DNA, or some other
molecular storage site of information. This happened precisely because the psychedelic molecules bound themselves to the DNA and then
behaved in the way that we had expected; they did broadcast a totality symbol whose deep structure reflects the organizational principles of
the molecules of life itself. This totality entered linear time disguised, in the presence of ordinary consciousness, as a dialogue with the Logos.
The Logos provided a narrative voice able to frame and give coherency to the flood of new insights that otherwise would have overwhelmed
me. My task became to unearth and replicate the symbolic structure behind the voice and to discover if it had any significance beyond myself
and my own small circle of acquaintances. I felt as if I was creating a file system for a newly revealed world of infinite variety. The timewave
is a kind of mathematical mandala describing the organization of time and space. It is a picture of the patterns of energy and intent within
DNA. The DNA unfolds those mysteries over time like a record or a song. This song is one's life, and it is all life. But without a conceptual
overview one cannot understand the melody as it plays. The timewave theory is like the score of the bio-cosmic symphony.
I am interested in disproving this theory. A good idea is not fragile and can withstand a lot of pressure. What happened at La Chorrera cannot
be explained away; rather it asks simply to be explained. If it is not what I say it is, then what is the concrescence, the scintilla, the encounter
with the wholly Other? What does it really represent?
Is it, as it appears to be, an ingression of a higher-dimensional epoch that reverberates through history? Is it a shock wave being generated by
an eschatological event at the end of time? Natural laws are easier to understand if we assume that they are
not universal constants, but rather slowly evolving flux phenomena. After all, the speed of light, which is taken as a universal constant, has
only been measured in the last hundred years. It is pure inductive thinking to extrapolate the principle of the invariance of the speed of light to
all times and places. Any good scientist knows that induction is a leap of faith. Nevertheless, science is founded on the principle of induction.
That principle is what the timewave theory challenges. Induction assumes that the fact that one did A, and B resulted, means that whenever
one does A, B will always result. The fact is that in the real world no A or B occurs in a vacuum. Other factors can intrude into any real
situation sending it toward a different or unusual conclusion.
Before Einstein, space was thought to be a dimension where one put things; it was analogous to emptiness. Einstein pointed out that space is a
thing that has a torque and is affected by matter and by gravitational fields. Light passing through a gravitational field in space will be bent
because the space through which it travels is bent. In other words, space is a thing, not a place where you put
things.
What I propose, in a nutshell, is that time, which was also previously considered a necessary abstraction, is also a thing. Time not only
changes, there are different kinds of time. And these kinds of time come and go in cyclical progression on many levels; situations evolve as
matter responds to the conditioning of time and space. These two patterns condition matter. Science has long been aware of the patterns of
space—we call these "natural laws"—but the patterns of time? That is another consideration entirely.
Matter has always been assumed to epitomize reality, but it actually has some qualities more nearly like thought. Changes in matter are
defined by two dynamic patterning agencies that are in a co-relationship: space and time. This idea has certain axioms, one of which is taken
from the philosopher-lensmaker Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz. Leibnitz described monads, which he envisioned as tiny particles that are
infinitely reduplicated everywhere in the universe and contain all places within themselves. Monads are not merely here and now; they are
everywhere all the time, or they have all space and time within them, depending on your point of view. All monads are identical, but they
interconnect to build up a
larger continuum while at the same time maintaining their individual, unique perspectives. These Leibnitzian ideas anticipated the new field of
fractal mathematics, an exotic example of which is my idea of a temporal pattern.
Ideas such as this offer a possible explanation for the otherwise mysterious mechanisms of memory and recall. Destruction of up to 95 percent
of the brain does not impair memory function. It appears that memory isn't stored anywhere; memory seems to permeate the brain. Like a
hologram, all of the memory seems to be in each part. Similarly, one can take a holographic plate of Mount Fuji and cut it in half; when a half
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