Parallel Conversations

Let’s Jump Right Into This

You may have noticed the rise in movies, novels, TV shows, short stories, etc abouttime shifts (Back to the Future, Groundhog Day, Run Lola Run, Looper, Fringe, Journeyman, Timeline, Star Trek NG, Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, the Jacket, It’s a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol just to name a few) parallel dimensions (Lost, The Butterfly Effect, Click, The Garden of Forking Paths, Random Quest, Almost anything by Phillip K Dick, all of the Alice adventures by Lewis Carroll, all of the other Lewis’ Narnia series, HP Lovecraft, etc), parallel universes (see parallel dimensions), personality and perspective leaps (Mulholland Drive, Source Code, Dark City,  the 13th Floor, Shutter Island, Eternal Sunshine…, Stay, Event Horizon, Sliding Doors (?),  Big, Freaky Friday, Switch, 13 Going on 30, MANY more…) and a few other related states. I propose that the release of these kinds of stories is increasing at a rate disproportional to the increase in literature and entertainment in general.  The list of such material would be a monumental task to undertake.  I know because I’ve been working on one, along with it’s parallel genre – books and movies, etc that explore the “Bardo” (the name given by the Tibetan to the state of the consciousness after death or between lives – most cultures have such a descriptive body of lit) for quite some time.

Why are we paying more attention to These Things now? Coincidence? Let me just state, for the record: I have no clear, working understanding of the meaning of the word coincidence. Oh, I understand the dictionary definition:  “a  striking occurrence of two or more events at one time apparently by mere chance.”  I just don’t grasp that part about “mere chance.” So just for the sake of our conversations… let’s lose the idea of coincidence.  Let’s go with the “everything happens for a reason” (even if it’s not what we might consider a reasonable reason) approach.

SO, WHY THE INCREASE?

Movies:  Let’s take movies, for example.  I understand movies to be the means and mode of expression of the collective dream (state) of any given culture, its egregor.  Movies that make it in the mainstream have to speak and be recognizable to the unconscious minds of a great number of people in that language or cultural group… or they just won’t make it. Enough unconscious energy must already be diverted to what we might think of as an idea, vision, topic, state, etc. for that movie to be accepted, wanted and desired.

A good example of this would be what I like to think of as the Space Brotherhood Series. This group of movies projected our unconscious emotional ponderings regarding our relationship to the ubiquitous “Other.” Now, the Other can be “the other woman”, or the other race, or the other person that I call friend, or my cheating spouse or simply the enemy or the loved one (our first other. as infants, is usually the mother.) In the case of the Space Brotherhood Series, the Others are Extra-terrestrials.

In this archetypal series we first encountered (Close Encounters of the Third Kind – 1977) the Space Other as a mysterious presence who seems to be trying to get our attention, drawing us out (in one case literally pulling a child out through a vent tube) to be whisked away somewhere, perhaps abducted never to be seen again. But wait, the Space Other turns out to be Space Mother and yippee, she loves us!  All’s well that ends well.

The next time we had a Blockbuster close encounter our curiosity gets the better of us, we boldly ventured to where no man should have gone and find that the Space Brothers are NOT our friends. This (Alien – 1979) Space Mother sees us  as breakfast and is determined to eat us (which is a pure and primal fear shared by all humans, at least at an unconscious level – no one wants to be prey.)  It took us decades to put that genie back in the bottle; IF we have.

After both of these Space Mothers (benevolent mystery, hive queen bitch) we next reconsidered the Space Other and had an altogether different encounter with it; this time as the baby ET (The Extra-Terrestrial , 1982) who possessed some power(s) that both awed and frightened us. We feared it (attempting to capture and control) and protected / befriended him. And though he meant well during his short visit with us (raising the dead and pointing with his prodigious digit toward the sky) we eventually sent this child packing, back home to the sky from whence he came.

When the Other returns in some subsequent episodes he will definitely be male and he will be identifiable as a stern father; a galactic seed sower who will return to test his children in the fashion of Chronos or a papa tiger. He will be again be a Predator (1987), out to eat us.

So what has this got to do with our original topic? I simply mean to demonstrate that as a culture, community, group, we project, through our movies, whatever state ,condition, growth lessons we need to process, just as we do in personal dreams. This is how we work our stuff out. It is one of the largest projected tangible workshops of the unconscious collective mind.  Many more ‘parallels’ may be drawn and I’ll forsake those for the good of returning to topic.

WHY THE BUILD-UP IN PARALLEL PRATTLE? 

Because we needed to develop this capacity of the human mind to provide alternatives for the apocalypse.  And, I think, we’ve known this would be necessary for quite some time…and as the possibility for Armageddon, Ecological total meltdown, Solar Flare incineration, Mayan mischief or any of perhaps innumerable unpleasant means of change bore down on us, the need became increasingly  urgent. We had to come up with something; and that something was nothing less than a leap in the development of human consciousness.  What is sometimes called an “MMP”, or Material Manifestation Point, is the ‘critical mass’ process of change. Whereas dialectic thought holds that change happens gradually and steadily on an even upward slope through time, trialectic thought holds instead, that there is an underlying buildup of tension and energy that at a point, after reaching a peak of internal pressure, seems to suddenly leap into a new form. Anyone who has been left by a lover knows how this works. One minute everything is fine and the next moment, out of the blue, she/he dumps you for no good reason; when in hindsight we see that the nagging or wandering eye or need-to-talk-about-things-that-we-don’t-really-need-to-go-over-for-the-umpteenth-time, were all build up, omens and portends of a future, invisible at the time…Then suddenly, Pop! The Material Manifestation.

What was the underlying pressure? Impending doom (12/21/2012, the Rapture, whatever) and movies, books and talk in which we dream up the possibility of shifting to a desired plane of existence from an undesirable one.  What was the MMP?  We made the ‘Parallel Shift’ to a dimension (or universe) that did not perish in a fiery ball of atomic cleanser.

What I saw: I won’t go into all the specifics.  I will say that I did see worlds end in all of the worst case scenarios that you can think of… and then some.  Yes, some died in atomic agony, though not as many in conflicts between “major powers” as I’d once expected. Others were scourged by a great solar flare (some fast like the bunny others torturously slow), some actually experienced the great beasts of John of Patmos; some fled to subterranean shelters and remain there as we speak, etc, etc, etc. It All Happened… 

But those of you reading this, mastered the quantum leap.  The explanation is far more complicated than the practice…And you might as well practice it… since you’ve already exercised the option and activated the possibility. Your brain/mind can handle it… you’ve been there, done that.

HOW?

Start as simply as possible, relinquish the necessity to break it down, figure it out, check the safety, and all of the other left brain, right handed twitches.  Just recognize what your heart desires. Then, “make it so, Number One.”

If that sounds too easy, it’s because you are listening to this through the din of all the internal chatter that says … Too Easy… a price MUST be paid.  Something SO good, should be SO hard. And, YES, you CAN easily make it just so. And you can just as easily make it easy, if you are willing to choose that.

There is no need to provide mumbo jumbo, or even the rationale of quantum physics, which, BTW, totally supports this parallel business.  Let is suffice to say – everything is easier now, than ever before.  And for those who are interested, this is, also the case with enlightenment.  So now that we’ve mastered hardship, difficulty and struggle, why not try something new?  Why not try Grace and Ease?

It’s not, by any stretch, mandatory.

Let’s say you DO have that option; what do you choose?

Remember: Point and click.

Till next time.