Reviews and Awards for The Burning Years the first book in the series Until The Last

“I LOVED this book. Even more than my just “loving it,” though, I feel very strongly that it critically bridges and transcends audiences and the timing is beyond perfect. I believe what you’ve written is incredibly important.

Your science, both current and future, is sound and far-reaching. You tap into so many levels of what’s going on, and what can possibly go on (travel beyond our planet). I really like the “voice” throughout the book, regardless of which scenario you’ve dropped the reader into. All are equally engaging and the character development is even and (almost) clinically objective. I think this will really (also) appeal to a sci-fi audience, which is awesome and very “in line” with today’s readers.

Additionally, I have to admit that I was haunted by your descriptions of the plutocracy and their reckless disregard for the vast majority of living things on Earth. What OTHER possible explanation can there even BE than yours (that they consider everyone but themselves to be “takers”)? Your descriptions of the political elite align perfectly with real-time scenes playing out across America right now.

The mix and “balance” of gloom and despair vs. incredible scientific achievements removed what might have become an almost claustrophobic effect. Example: The US population goes from 318 million to 10 million VS Rachel’s living, breathing personal space on Persephone which made me think of the vividness and aching beauty of the forests in the movie, “Avatar.” Very hard to achieve this effect,

[Side bar: VERY nice weaving of string theory, parallel universes, quantum entanglement, Maslow, and the heliosphere’s foam zone in the book! Also, excellent timing with “Stranger Things” making the US Department of Energy out to potentially be devastating in the future– and you’ve got DARPA. Perfect!]

After I finished the book, I again visited your website for The Burning Years. As I scrolled down to the pictures at the bottom, seeing them for the first time, it was SO NEAT. I advise anyone who reads the book to do the same thing.

https://schatziesearthproject.com

"Here's a fiction that's not afraid to tackle some of the biggest topics of our time."

Bill McKibben, author, The End of Nature and numerous environmental books, and founder of 350.org https://billmckibben.substack.com

“…the journey through a different way of inhabiting our solar system based on the latest technologies, developments, and beliefs about who we are and our relationship to living, life, and space…It’s wonderful―”

Rachel Armstrong, TED Senior Fellow, Professor and Pioneer of “Living Architecture” https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/rachel-armstrong-university-of-the-underground-architecture-040817

Author's Biography

Author Felicity Harley has had a long career as a journalist, writer and a social justice activist.

In 2015 she published a book of short stories, Portraits and Landscapes, and has appeared in several poetry anthologies. In 2013 she was part of an anthology called Gathered Light – On the Poetry of Joni Mitchell, alongside writers such as Wally Lamb, Kim Addonizio, Fred Wah (Poet Laureate of Canada), Larry Klein, Susan Deer Cloud, Cornelius Eady, and others, published by the Canadian Sumach Press. In celebration of the 65th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and on behalf of Poets for Human Rights, Felicity was the winner of the 2013 Anita McAndrews Award.

Felicity was also a member of the Board of Directors of Curbstone Press for twenty years before it became an imprint of Northwestern University Press, where she served as a steward for many of its authors and their books.

In 2014 she was commissioned by Hartbeat Ensemble to write the play “Transplant”. This was directed in June, 2014 by one of the nation’s 25 premier young directors, Steven Raider Ginsberg. Currently Felicity has just finished a five book series, Until This Last, as well as a musical play on Women in Afghanistan called "The Road."

Her first book in the series was published in 2017 by Double Dragon Publishing. The press was sold a couple of years later and Felicity bought the publishing rights. The first two books The Burning Years and Homo Deus will be (re) published by https://andrewsparke.com in the summer of 2024, the third book, Tesla’s Dream, will be published in the fall of 2024, and the last two books, The Creators and My Quantum Life, will be published in the spring of 2025.

Felicity's trusted editor is Paul Butler.

Felicity currently blogs on Medium and is active on Twitter.

PS As a legacy to my grandchildren Nzarah, Nia, Lucien and Phoenix I’ve named four main characters in the series after them…and here is an armful of love. Clockwise from right to left Nzarah, Phoenix, Lucien and Nia.

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Some initial thoughts I’ve been having on how the academic fields of science and philosophy blend with the genre of science fiction

I am interested in exploring how one can draw a science fiction audience to read the most current information in the areas now being discovered in philosophy and science. This includes climate science, quantum physics, theories on non-human intelligence, consciousness, metabolism research in developing artificial biology systems showing qualities of near-living systems, DNA research, bio-engineering, cloning, ufology, holograms, formation and existence of various features of the Universe by electricity and magnetism rather than by gravity alone, scalar energy, and sound and vibrational energy.

As a start, and to encourage the readers of my books to explore the factual subjects on which I base my writing, I include a glossary of terms and links to various reference sources at the back of all five books. Amongst those links are also ones to the websites of leaders in the UFO/UAP field. This is a field which is rapidly expanding its research capabilities. Podcasts I’d initially recommend are https://uforabbithole.com, https, https://www.earthfiles.com, https://www.unknowncountry.com/podcasts/dreamland/, https://patternstellstories.com, https://open.spotify.com/show/24xucCwPjcXENqwUgtKZaY

Science fiction writers often use metaphor and story telling based on current scientific, philosophical or political ideas to imagine alternative worlds and entities, as a tool to help readers think critically, and help them to make sense of futuristic concepts and also our current world. They are often engaged in thought experiments which can bring ideas to life through imaginative writing.

Many early science fiction writers were both philosophers and scientists such as Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, and Margaret Cavendish, who wrote fictional stories about their philosophical and scientific ideas. These scientists called themselves natural philosophers and were interested in the workings of nature and the universe. For them science fiction was an accepted way of examining mainstream scientific and philosophical ideas. Most famous of these was Descartes who believed that there was no certainty about the existence of an external world outside of our minds.

In his books Frank Herbert brings forward his philosophical belief that science alone will not resolve our political problems and our propensity to greed and violence. Ursula Le Guin speculates in her books about the benefits of a genderless world. Ishiguro creates characters who are clones and advanced AI to engage us with the important question of what it means to be human, as did Mary Shelley when she wrote Frankenstein.

Le Bovier de Fontenelle used his stories to help educate women on science. The eighteenth-century philosopher George Berkely explored his ongoing argument with Descartes over the pineal gland through speculative fiction printed in a popular newspaper, and believed this was the best way to reach a mass audience with this issue.

I believe it’s important to use factual physics and academic-based philosophy to explore the UFO/UAP issue, but I also think that it is equally as important to bring this extra-ordinary story to the public through fictional writing, based on actual physics and academic-based philosophy. Fiction is important because it engages the emotions and allows readers to understand how science and philosophy relate to human beings and their everyday lives.

I know there are limits, however, to speculative fiction. It is difficult for fiction to capture the depth of a complex ontology or theory of knowledge. Hence, science fiction can lend itself to facile pseudo-philosophizing. Nonetheless, science fiction stories can serve as an extended thought experiment, as they speculate about the possibilities of the universe and human existence. Such stories can explore thought experiments in these areas with much more detail and nuance, as characters experience and live through experimental ideas and theories.

Ultimately, both philosophy and fiction have always explored some of life’s most basic questions. What does it mean to be human? What is the nature and scope of the world and universe? What is our place in this universe?

If philosophy is the love of wisdom, there is little doubt that philosophical science fiction based on real science can, through the telling of human stories and the development of characters, expand the audience for the complex ideas that are currently emerging. If this storytelling can draw a direct line to actual facts and empirical research, then it serves to broaden the public’s knowledge base in these critical areas.

PURCHASE HOMO DEUS SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES DESCRIBED BELOW

Temple of Hathor courtesy of the magical Blue Fairy https://www.worldanvil.com/w/blueC2B4s-worlds-blue-fairy-74

On this note, Zid leads the group like an Old Testament prophet up to the temple of Hathor, which is like a great all-seeing eye watching over the desert range. Because it is so hot, it takes some time to climb up the trail that winds and slopes over jagged red rocks. They must ascend a long series of tiered steps to get to the very top. As they proceed up the path, resting often to draw breath and activate the cooling mechanisms in their suits, they pass Egyptian inscriptions and engravings. One is of Inanna offering the emblems of life and dominion to an Egyptian pharaoh. Zid stops and translates the words on the stelae, “Said Hathor: I am giving thee life, perpetuity, and health to thy nose for eternity.”

SPHINX courtesy of the magical Blue Fairy https://www.worldanvil.com/w/blueC2B4s-worlds-blue-fairy-74

As the night advances, the temperature drops, and they all sit around the camp. Gabriel softly recites some lines from Yeats’ famous poem, his words lingering in the dark which surrounds them:

“somewhere in sands of the desert

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again; but now I know

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”

A Writer of Science Fiction Searches for Answers

Below Sophia, the geneticist in my books who represents the Gnostic idea of Sophia (wisdom-based knowledge), stands looking out over an Earth that has been destroyed by climate change.

I am a writer and poet who also has a long career as a nonprofit administrator. I have recently written a science fiction series. This series explores many of the different mythologies and mystical stories that have given rise to various traditional and non-traditional metaphysical, spiritual, and religious beliefs around the world. The series also delves deeply into the world of quantum theory and physics.

My challenge as I began to envision the series, was how to include much of the factual information I was uncovering in a compelling fictional story with characters and a plot that would be engaging. After studying many of the futuristic female writers I admire, such as Le Guin, Butler, Lessing, and Atwood, and the more scientifically oriented male ones like Asimov, Lem and Clarke, I embarked with some trepidation on a journey which has challenged me and taken me to the limits of my writing skills, creativity, and imagination.

My editor Paul Butler, a novelist himself, often told me he found my story and my characters compelling, and while he thought the science was intriguing, he would need to work with me to make it less obtuse and more “sensual.” He would often write to me “but what does it feel like, smell like, or look like.” Or “you are giving people too much information, leave some of it to your reader’s imagination.” Because he was not a reader or writer in my genre, I knew I had succeeded when he finally signed off on the books.

My characters live on an Earth that has been demolished by climate change. As the Earth slowly recovers, starting in its far Northern and Southern regions, they go on a quest to find a secret source of ancient energy, which will help humans as they establish colonies once again on its surface. Along the way they learn about Earth’s ancient hidden history and meet visitors from other planets and dimensions who assist them in uncovering critical lost scientific knowledge. They also of course meet human and non-human protagonists who want to stop them.

In the end they successfully emerge from their underground cities to create a society that includes a new energy source, modern high tech, as well as Indigenous and ancient land and conservation practices. As they develop their new society, they are watched carefully by a group of powerful technologically and scientifically advanced extra-terrestrials and inter- dimensionals. These mainly benevolent non-human characters, offer the remaining inhabitants of Earth a chance to join them if they can put aside primitive concepts such as nation states and competing religious beliefs, and are able to act and see themselves as a unified planetary species.

For us humans to understand our place and function in the cosmos, many of us still use hearsay about events which may or may not have happened and are based on a set of beliefs about which we have no proof. Science however is now revealing to us mathematical information about the ways the Universe and humans’ function, which unravels some of the mysterious and paranormal events that feed directly into these beliefs.

The famous physicist David Bohm believed that explicate order generally revealed itself within diurnal time. However, with respect to implicate order, Bohm asked us to consider the possibility that time was an undivided wholeness containing within it the past, present and future. He considered our separateness an illusion and argues at a deeper level of reality we, as well as all the particles that make up all matter, are one and indivisible. Bohm also believed the world was a giant hologram, conclusions that are continuing to be proven today by those who study advanced physics, cosmology, and string theory. https://www.openhorizons.org/wholeness-and-the-implicate-order-five-ideas-from-david-bohm.html

In my last book of the series – My Quantum Life – A Memoir on the Physics of Consciousness, one of the main characters Raphael explains Bohm’s ideas to Sophie.

Below is my attempt to combine poetic fiction with Bohm’s rather dense hypothesis on implicate order.

Raphael explores Monument Valley plucking the past and future out of implicate order, speaking to Sophie and Maria (a Djin) as he wanders along between the impressive red mud monoliths.

“Then he conjured up a vision for my amusement and my delight. It was a three-dimensional holograph of Navajo warriors that he plucked out of enfoldment – implicate order –to show me once again how explicate order can easily be created by those like him who know how. What he did was to decode a signal that was always there, to create a sensible image for us. Monument Valley thus became a massive, holographic, movie screen within which we stood as he spoke the following words in his unbearably exquisite, and lilting voice. “See they are still here and always have been, the Navajo warriors, riding brown and white horses across the desert floor, letting the red dust cloak their skin. Listening for the sound of the rain, the sound of hope as it moves just ahead of them, across the horizon into fields of blue corn.”

After saying these words, I remember he slowly rotated the explicate images he had formed into reverse, so that they eventually became invisible, and were enfolded once more into implicate order, waiting to be re-visited by others like him who understood how to access them. “See, human reality is ultimately as plastic as the thought processes that engender it. You perceive the world as solid and substantial, but in reality, it is as a dream in the night,” he said as he continued to lead us around the Valley. “Objective reality is produced out of the collective memories of your species. The Universe, as humans understand it is a construct where all things appear stable and eternal, from the laws of physics to the substance of galaxies. However, if humans could view the past just as you did just now, they would easily see all linear time and permanence as illusory. They need to understand only consciousness is eternal, a consciousness of which they are miraculously a part. Human bodies are projections, visible in one location and invisible in another.”

He stopped in front of one of the monuments as the dust swirled around our feet before he continued. “Humans have a powerful brain that tinkers with their world before they see and feel it. Their bodies are their vehicles for learning in this life. The human brain and senses are a lens that create the appearance of time and everything else that is experienced by them in the physical universe. Universal consciousness is always trying to teach the inner self and the body things it needs to know to become healthier, happier and to learn.”

He paused for a long time before he spoke again. “Most importantly, humans must understand that they are not discovering the reality of their universe, they are participating actively in its creation.”

In the series I also explore the lesser-known religious mythologies of the Sumerian gods who are believed by some to be our progenitors, and the original creators of Homo sapiens. Considering current advances in cloning and how we are now able to clone and manipulate DNA, it is easy to see how more scientifically advanced species might have come to Earth in the distant past and created us. And based on the cargo cult theory, easy to see how we might have thought they were gods. A cargo cult is a religious belief system found primarily among indigenous peoples in which they imitate the behaviors, rituals, and symbols associated with technologically advanced societies. Many examples of this exist, such as when European civilization has collided with indigenous cultures. The most extreme of these is perhaps when the Melanesians first saw airplanes, and metamorphosized almost immediately from a society that knew only stone and wood, to one which understood that these machines existed in the material world, and they could fly in them.

Two of my characters in the books are Sophie and Sophia. In Gnosticism, Sophia represents divine wisdom and the female spirit. On observing creation, she desires to make something of her own. Because I am intrigued by the Gnostic idea of Sophia (feminine knowledge) I have used this idea to develop two of my main female characters - Sophie and Sophia. In the second book of the series, I have described exactly how Sophia is able to create Homo Deus, a new version of homo sapiens, in a lab on Mars using cloning.

Besides exploring the Gnostic idea of Sophia in the books, I also introduce several versions of extra-terrestrials and inter-dimensionals who interact on a regular basis with humans. There is now a growing belief among credible scientific and religious scholars that we are close to having proof that such non-human entities exist and have existed on our planet for millions of years. Who they are or where they come from is unclear, as well as what their intent is.

Author D.W. Pasulka, a professor of religion at UNC, Wilmington has systematically examined data that exceeds rational categories. Diana has the exact academic skillset and credentials needed to parse the world of UFOs, angels, AI, dreams, and other dimensions, which exist at the edges of human understanding. Her recent book Encounters is a riveting exploration of the leading science of nonhuman life and a bold glimpse of the future of humanity in a universe where we are far from alone. [1]

In his seminal masterwork, Passport to Magonia, Jacques Fabrice Vallée, an Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist, and astronomer traces the advent of strange phenomena. This is often described in religious texts, and includes accounts from observers of their physical characteristics, their psychological behavior, and their motivation.The word Magonia used in the title refers to an old legend which tells that up in the sky are cities made by witches and wizards who were driven out of paradise and have made for themselves another world in heaven. In the 9th century in Lyon France, a cloud ship landed, and people came out and the population thought they were devils and wanted to kill them. This story is preserved in the writings of the church, published by the Archbishop of Lyon, explaining in them that when the cloud people came before him, he advocated that they be allowed to live.[2]

According to Vallee these unexplained sightings which have occurred throughout recorded history have all been in forms best adapted to the believer’s country, race, and social regime. The names and attributes vary, but the main idea clearly does not. Magonia, heaven, hell, Elfland - all such places have in common one characteristic: we are unable to reach them alive, except on very special occasions. Emissaries from these supernatural abodes come to earth, sometimes under human form and sometimes as monsters. They perform wonders. They serve man or fight him. They influence civilizations through mystical revelation. They seduce earth women, and the few heroes who dare seek their friendship find the girls from Elfland endowed with desires that betray a carnal, rather than purely aerial, nature.

Gary Nolan a leading American immunologist, academic, inventor, and business executive who holds the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor Endowed Chair in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine, has recently created The Sol Foundation. The Foundation’s primary mission is to research the philosophical, policy, and scientific implications of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).

Two years ago, Gary published a fascinating article in the January 2022 issue of Progress in Aerospace Sciences. In the paper he cites an incident which happened at Council Bluffs in Iowa, where a luminous red mass was reported as having fallen to earth supposedly dropped from a mysterious, unidentified hovering object. Nolan used modern technology to examine the materials. While Gary found that the metal was mostly iron with isotopically ordinary elements, he also had reason to believe it might have been discarded fuel from an advanced aerial vehicle. His goal in writing the paper he explains, was to show data in a way that could be applied to other remnants of alleged UFO’s that he knows exist, and to bring scientific clarity to a field in which it has been in short supply.[3]

All the individuals quoted above, believe like me that strange phenomena may have a basis in material science and can be quantified. Based on research they understand that because of how advanced our science now is, we can begin to categorize and explain things and events which have previously remained in the religious, metaphysical or supernatural realms.

Writers have always known the power of language and words. In addition, science fiction writers have known that part of their power rests with expanding the narrative of what is possible. A narrative that if it can include real science and reach into our dreams and imagination as well, and weave meaning for us from metaphor and archetypes, it will succeed in awakening those who read our stories to begin their own search for answers.

To demonstrate how I used some of the more abstract metaphysical ideas I explored within the narrative of the book, I include below a draft excerpt from The Creators, the fourth book in the series. It features Sophia’s clone, whom she calls Zid after Ningishzida the ancient Sumerian god, whose bones she found on Mars. In addition, it introduces the idea of a holographic universe. It is my humble attempt to fictionalize several hypotheses which are current in theoretical quantum physics.

“Once Zid returns to Weather City he travels back to Fairbanks. He has been asked by Sarek to re-enter the portal which Lucien and his friends travelled through, and which brought them back so swiftly to Alaska from Antarctica. Sarek and the Federation believe it has prime significance in their research to try and uncover the origins of the Universe and all the others they know for sure exist.

In a recent report back to the Federation Zid has told them. “I know you’ve figured out we might be in a series of holographic Universes where physical reality is consensus and consciousness-based, and therefore malleable. You also believe the formulas and ideas that create subatomic particles, fractals, string theory and life consciousness come from someplace outside our Universe, and reside in complex, highly advanced mathematical data.

As a result of these beliefs, I’ve been asked by you to locate portals that can be traversed to the place where this data might be coming from. It’s where I understand you believe the conscious entity or entities reside who created much of what we call the multi-verse. You’ve also indicated to me however that these portals, once found, are probably not traversable, and are white holes where information comes out but can’t go in.

Your hypothesis is that we’re potentially one of billions of Universes which may have conditions which are like ours, and many which are not in fact at all like ours. You believe these other Universes might bounce around together in a substance much like jelly. For instance, if I was to observe them from the outside, which you believe is possible, they would look like a collection of beautiful, rainbow-colored soap bubbles. On the other hand, you think perhaps all the Universes might be nested within each other like Russian dolls.

So far, I’ve discovered all kinds of folk stories and mythologies which exists on various planets that confirm such portals exists. Consequentially, with your help and guidance I have been trying to find them.

As a result of his search for portals on other planets, Zid and his brother Lucien are successful in finding and travelling through several of them here on Earth. The first is in the legendary Dark Pyramid of Alaska, which takes them to the octagonal structures which some think may be located under the ice in Antarctica.

The well-known journalist Linda Moulton Howe has researched these two sites extensively, and her Earthfiles website provides a wonderful place to explore all the information she has found out over many years about strange places and phenomena, firsthand. Many times, this information comes to her from current or ex-military personnel or contemporary scientists.[4]

Below is an excerpt which takes place in one of the octagonal structures in Antarctica in which I’ve chosen to quote Hermetic texts. Hermeticism is the concept of God being viewed as a magician or alchemist. Hermeticism is also a philosophical and religious system based on the teachings of a legendary figure called Hermes Trismegistus. The wisdom attributed to him combines a knowledge of both the material and the spiritual world. Since my character Zid is modelled on both the Sumerian god Ningishzida as well as the Egyptian god Thoth and the Greek god Hermes, these ancient texts seemed to fit into the overall story and his character well.

Zid looks around and sees the walls are covered in hieroglyphics. He appears to be able to distinguish the meaning of some of them, as he traces the deeply etched shapes with his fingers and murmurs, “the all is mind, the Universe is mental.” He moves along the wall and finds another phrase he recognizes as he nods his head and translates for his brother, “Nothing rests, everything moves, everything vibrates.” He steps a few paces to his left as he turns and recites without reading the words, "Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause; everything happens according to law; chance is but a name for law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the law." He continues to recite these words by memory as he moves around the room touching the lines and circles without bothering to read them as he says, "Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates." Then he falls quiet before he remarks without emotion, “how strange it is to find my own words written here.”

At the end of their journey through the two portals located in Alaska and Antarctica, my two characters final destination turns out to be Aramu Muru in Southern Peru. Aramu Muru is best described in a book called The Secret of the Andes by a Catholic monk called Brother Philip. In the book we learn about the destruction of the known Pacific continent of Mu. In this legend the last part of Mu to go under water was Lemuria, possibly during the time of the Great Flood described in the Bible and many other books.

In the legend, one of the great masters of magic Lord Aramu Muru escaped from Lemuria and took with him scrolls which contained all the spiritual and scientific knowledge of his people. Somewhere in South America he established a mystery school called the Monastery of the Seven Rays. But most importantly he brought with him a disk that was made of transmuted gold. (This legend ties in nicely with legends of the Anunnaki which I explore extensively in the series, and who supposedly came here from the ninth planet Nibiru, seeking gold dust to repair their planet’s atmosphere). This golden disk could cause earthquakes or teleport humans anywhere in the Universe. According to Brother Phillip the disk has now been reclaimed by the original owners who dwell in another dimension, and will come back with it to Earth when the time is considered right.

Once Zid and Lucien arrive at Aramu Muru, Zid is successful in entering this so-called “gateway of the gods”, and which can be found near Lake Titicaca. It is made from an unusual pinkish stone and stands over 7 meters high. There are beautiful carvings on its surface depicting serpents and lizards. Mysteriously, it is sealed from the inside.

Some believe it was created by an intelligence with access to an advanced technology that can manipulate spacetime. What is fascinating is that in a recent laboratory experiment at Heidelberg University, researchers succeeded in realizing an effective spacetime that can be manipulated. In their research on ultracold quantum gases, they were able to simulate an entire family of curved universes to investigate different cosmological scenarios and compare them with the predictions of a quantum field theoretical model.

Also, according to some geologists, a sudden and violent movement of tectonic plates near Aramu Muru could have opened a hole in spacetime, creating a wormhole-like structure. A wormhole is a hypothetical structure connecting disparate points in spacetime and is based on a special solution of the Einstein field equations. A wormhole can be visualized as a tunnel which is able to bend spacetime with two ends at very distant separate points.

Models of 'folded' space-time illustrate how a wormhole bridge might form with at least two mouths that are connected to a single throat or tube. https://www.astronomy.com/science/what-are-wormholes-an-astrophysicist-explains-these-shortcuts-through-space/.

What we also know about Aramu Muru is that scientists have measured strong electromagnetic activity around it. This electromagnetic activity may be what creates the massive amount of energy necessary to form a wormhole. Many people have reported experiencing strange effects in this location, and some have reported seeing fluctuating colors on or around Aramu Muru as well as a variety of humanoid apparitions. Others report a drop in temperature and a strong magnetic pull towards the doorway.

I have attempted in my description to link many of these hypotheses and proven theories to fictionally describe a spacetime linkage. In the excerpt below Zid goes through this passageway and meets some post biological, inter-dimensional, non-human intelligences.

As he falls into an unknown space, Zid has a hard time breathing. Finally, he forces himself to open his eyes, and he sees stars, nebula and comets streaming past him. He understands immediately that gravity has ceased to exist. Then he feels as if he’s passing through a thick, gelatinous membrane before he comes to an abrupt stop in a cloud filled space, and his feet are planted abruptly on a hard surface he cannot see below them.

Everything is silent around him, until he hears a voice echoing through the white swirling mist, “we understand your confusion.”

Zid finds he’s unafraid just extremely curious. He thinks, finally I may have successfully reached the destination from which the Federation has been seeking knowledge for so long. The voice replies immediately, “Yes Thoth, the Lord Ningishzida, we’ve have been waiting for you.

There is a silence as he stands there patiently.

“It is us who caused your universe to come into being.”

Zid turns and looks back and to his surprise sees the universe where he has come from expanding out of a cone shaped structure which is balanced between a series of flashing red rods.

Now what? he thinks. The need to know and understand overwhelms him. He also realizes at the same time he’s not exactly sure of the questions he should be asking.

The odorless mist is swirling thickly around him, and he notices that it doesn’t even create dampness on his face. He’s removed his helmet so he can see more clearly, but it hasn’t helped his eyes to penetrate the thick, soft whiteness surrounding him. Now, he looks down and realizes he cannot even see what he’s standing on. That’s probably a good thing, he thinks.

“To our surprise your Universe started to make its own rules and now it is expanding by itself and creating a whole new set of Universes,” the disembodied voice continues. He believes it’s a female voice. It is low and rhythmic and gentle on the ears he thinks.

Zid nods to show he understands, and then he remarks out loud, “But just like the multitude of planets in our Universe there must be differences between all these others that are being created.”

After a small silence, the disembodied voice continues with warmth and humor. “You’re right. There will be differences between them, and these are random and offer a wide set of probabilities and experiences to those that are observers within them. There are many dimensions in your universe that elude you because you only have a 3-D perception of reality.

“So our universe behaves randomly?” Zid says learning forward and straining once again to see who or what is talking with him through the thick, dense fog that surrounds him.

“Yes, your universe, the one that we created, does seem to behave inherently randomly,” the disembodied voice replies. “ In a non-random, deterministic universe, all changes and all events are predetermined. We have learnt however that in a universe like yours, where a framework of initial laws has been set, inherent randomness generates an infinite amount of interesting variations.”

Here the voice pauses as if it is gathering its thoughts before it proceeds. “What I can tell you is that all universes behave as if they are infinite, in that there is nothing that would point to any limit. As you understand the meaning of infinity further, you will be able to participate more fully and know you are everywhere, because copies of you exist that are scattered throughout multiple universes and worlds. Creatures like you who have a more limited understanding, a more limited ability to observe time and space are also very different to many of the types of intelligences who share your world and universe with you and have developed ways of processing and understanding all of this.

The voice pauses again and the mist in front of Zid seems to recede slightly, frustrating him because it doesn’t reveal any definite outline or shape that would give him a sense of who he is speaking with, and what kind of place he is in. Then the voice, continues shifting slightly to Zid’s left, so he is obliged to turn without risking moving forward to hear it more clearly.

“We find your world fascinating, because the individual observers like you that reside within it, function separately from the mathematical formulas which we know make up all the material objects that surround you. Despite this knowledge, many of you still believe you exist in a world, where everything is always there whether you see it or not. This belief continues even though your scientists have proved that it is only when measured or observed that light collapses into form and shape. What they have not considered yet however, is whether the molecules that observe each other can also stop the interference pattern as well. They have not yet identified exactly which observers are dominant and can more easily collapse wave patterns and create consensus-based reality.”

Zid reflects on this as he stands there listening. He realizes that the fog surrounding him is now infused with a pleasant smell, one that he is unable to identify, but one which is calming and soothing to his nerves.

“It is obvious to us that because you live in a three-dimensional world you do not see probability waves or superpositions of states,” the voice continues conversationally. “In your present state you cannot observe multiple probabilities without changing them into concrete form. Therefore, you are only able to observe one result from these probabilities, not all of them. The question is what happens to the others. They operate in all the multi-verses and parallel worlds your world is creating. But even though you cannot see them, because the human imagination is always playing around with what could have been and what could be, many different worlds are created by you and become a part of the infinite multi-verse in which you play an important role.

“And who and what exactly are you?” Zid replies.

The answer he receives is swift and like his thoughts arrives directly into his mind, “I have evolved to what you would call a post-biological stage. For instance, in the dimension where I dwell, I see multiple vibrating fields of probability before they happen, thus I have more choices in how I create reality. In addition, I can move through space and time using quantum entanglement, allowing me to communicate instantly over large distances faster than the speed of light.”

“And what meaning do you give to it all?” Zid asks curiously.

The voice laughs, a low vibrating sound that tickles as it fills Zid’s ears. “We believe all of us conscious beings in the meta-verse are taking part in all of this, whatever if may be. We have chosen separation from the source of everything to learn more, and by doing this we have in essence become the universal “Sophia”. In the universe from which you come, which we have created and that has evolved a cosmic life and destiny of its own, you Ningishzida are the infinite symbol of the divine falcon who throughout all time has fought many iterations of the dark serpent, once called the Leaping One.

“And what are the rules you follow in the place where you reside if any?” he asks.

“In your world you are surrounded by the finite. All things around you are limited: even your known universe. Understanding infinity is one of the keys to understanding many worlds. In your world infinity is unimaginable because you are finite creatures. For you the main framework within which you operate is that you may freely choose between order and predictability or fear and entropy; that you are designed to play out these choices in what you call consciousness.

The being pauses as if searching for something else to add more clarity to what it has just told him. “You can only perceive one world, though you are surrounded by many worlds. I on the other hand perceive vast networks of interesting universes. Like a fractal, each branch also functions as the trunk, the starting point of many new branches and variations. “

“Fractals,” Zid replies, recognizing the implications immediately. “Yes brilliant,” he compliments whoever this being is. “Fractals are forms, rhythms, sounds or trajectories that like holograms can be broken down into self-replicating structures. Fractals are a paradox. Amazingly simple, yet infinitely complex.”

“Yes,” the voice replies, “as you know they stem from the phi ratio, which stems from the pentagon, which stems from the circle. Fractals can be seen in all places and throughout non-physical and biological bodies like yours. For you, they are evident in the neurons in your brain, your nervous system, your cardiovascular system, your lymphatic system, and most importantly in the branching of your lungs; the breathing mechanisms by which you live.”

Zid realizes he is delighted with this conversation. He cannot imagine why he’s the one who by chance is standing here gathering this knowledge. His hope now is that these beings can somehow get him back to where he came from. He realizes with a jolt that Lucien must be panicking.

“At its core,” the voice continues reverberating around him like a beautiful cello, “what in all worlds is called the golden ratio, is a fractal-holographic process. Most critically the golden proportion is embedded within light itself, and as light it is the fundamental constituent of matter, the golden proportion is inherent in everything.”

The voice pauses so that Zid can fully absorb what it has just told him, before it continues. “I and the others like me also understand we are the product of something else. We were trying to understand ourselves and who created us when we brought your world into being. We now believe we too come from some other place. We also believe there are other places outside of ours with many more spatial dimensions.”

“And Entropy,” Zid asks “with a constant level of energy around all universes, there would be no energy left to expand, wouldn’t all Universes be dying or going extinct?”

The voice lets out a long, gentle laugh before it replies.

“Remember in a holograph volume is illusory.”

Zid puzzles on this for a moment before he asks, “So how does all of this begin and end?”

There is a silence then the entity replies, and it’s as if it is hypnotizing him as it recites in a low tenor voice. “All we know for sure is each time a black hole forms, a world is created somewhere else. We also know there is data behind all patterns. Data that was here long before even us existed. We refer to it as an abstract mind: a mind constituted of monads and their states. It is a thing so huge it contains all possible forms, and realities. Something which is supremely conscious and is constantly self-actualizing.”

“What we might call the theory of everything?” Zid asks.

“Exactly,” the voice replies.

There is silence and then the voice tells him, “We will now send you back to where you came from,” but then it pauses as it says, “be prepared to meet others on your way, ones that would stop you from bringing what you have just learned back to your world.”

The draft passages quoted above appear near the end of the fourth book in the Until This Last series, and reflect the evolution of my thinking. They are the result of the research I have done into myths and legends, theology, philosophy, and theoretical quantum physics. In them these post biological, non-human intelligences conclude that there is a mathematical order, a greater consciousness, a huge data-base of knowledge which exists outside of space and time, one that fights to constantly evolve away from chaos and entropy (extinction). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rgYz_BU2Ew

Before I began writing the books, I accepted the fact that religion and science both offer explanations for why life and the universe exist. Science relies on testable empirical evidence and observation. Religion relies on subjective belief in a creator. Now at the end of the whole writing process it seems to me that the formulas which science can now hypothesize and prove underwrite much of what we call reality, are not random and have most likely been designed. In fact, it is because of the beginnings of an understanding I have of theoretical physics, rather than a belief in any particular religious doctrine or book, I have come to the opinion that something that is not in any way human, may be designing the mysterious, spectacular show we are all part of. However that does not mean we are not an active part of this show, and bear personal responsibility for our own lives, and most importantly the life of our planet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Walsh_Pasulka

[2] https://www.jacquesvallee.net

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch

[4] https://www.earthfiles.com