Seeking the Mythical Future (26 page)

Using SI units, where mass is measured in kilograms, length in metres, and time in seconds, G = 6.7 X 10
^-11
and c = 3 X 10
⁸
metres per second. For the Sun, M = 2 X 10
⁸⁰
kilograms, and using the following calculation

we find that the Sun (at present 700,000 kilometres) would have to be compressed to 3 kilometres to achieve its critical radius. By the same calculation, the entire mass of the Earth would have to be compressed into a volume less than one centimetre in radius – about the size of a marble – before entering a stage of Temporal Flux; or, as it might be known, a mini Black Hole.

A
CKNOWLEDGMENTS

For the calculations used in Appendices I and II, I should like to thank Adrian Berry for permission to quote from his book
The Next Ten Thousand Years
(Jonathan Cape 1974); and my thanks also to Patrick Moore and Iain Nicolson for permission to use material from
Black Holes in Space
(Ocean Books 1974), and for their suggestion of the graphic ‘ripple' analogy.

G
LOSSARY OF
T
ERMS

Conscious Universe
: A theoretical concept, so far without any evidence to support it, which propounds that the 100,000 million galaxies in the observable universe constitute a single conscious intelligence, or hyper-brain.

Cosmology
: The branch of metaphysics dealing with the universe and its relation to the mind.

Cyberthetic
: Machine intelligence with a reasoning and deductive capability, ie a thinking machine.

Dream Tape
: A means of plotting and recording (for later analysis) the varying patterns of sleep and dreaming activity by the use of a portable EEG device.

Dyson Electromagnetic Sphere
: Construction of solid iron-ore asteroids which produces a one million volt electrical field to stabilize a region of Temporal Flux.

Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)
: A system utilizing electromagnetism and gravitational energy which permits interstellar travel by using the basic proposition of lightspeed as a constant; developed on the theories of Oliver Heavyside, nineteenth century electrical engineer.

Ernst–Ryan–Gathorne Experiment
: Mathematical evidence for the acausal nature of time and the universe which demonstrates that Event A might precede Event B, or vice versa, at one and the same time – depending on the location of the observer.

Event Horizon
: The absolute barrier surrounding a Temporal Flux Centre, preventing communication of any kind with the outside universe.

High Intensity Complex
: An area of Psy-Con for deportees who have been screened and classified as high-risk subversives.

Indexer
: A device for inducing and measuring mind rhythms, egalpha, theta, delta, etc

Metagalaxy
: A term which embraces all of Creation, ie that
portion of the universe which is visible and the greater portion known as the Hidden Universe.

MetaPsychical Code
: A theoretical framework which seeks to integrate all psi phenomena and human neurochemical data in one cohesive structure.

MetaPsychical Research
: Similar objectives to the related science of Myth Technology but more concerned with an investigation of human neurochemistry and its connection with the ‘celestial clockwork' of the Metagalaxy.

Mythic Projection
: A state of ‘Teak Experience' which gives an insight, almost religious in nature, into the mechanism of Creation. Known among ancient superstitious peoples as an epileptic fit.

Myth Technology
: That branch of
Cosmology
(qv) which seeks to relate all psi phenomena and mythic projection with the four prime energy sources of the universe.

MyTT
(
Myth Technology Research Institute)
: The central organization dealing with theoretical and applied research into mythical past and future events (repositories of knowledge).

NELLIE
(Neuron Processer): Abbreviation of Neuron Processing and Transfer/Three-Dimensional Display Interface developed in PSYCON for purposes of projecting brain patterns into visual display.

Neurological Landscape
: A term used in MetaPsychical Research to denote the overall picture produced by a patient during transmission of brain patterns (cf NELLIE).

Observable Universe
: The Hubble Radius of 13,000 million light years containing an estimated 3,000,000,000 galaxies.

Planetary State
: A naturally-occurring planet colonized by man.

Planetoidal State
: A man-made body which has been formed, shaped and set in orbit for the purposes of colonization.

Pre-Colonization
: The entire period of human history prior to man's colonization of other worlds.

Project Tempus
: A program of collaboration between the planetary and planetoidal states whose aim is the practical investigation and exploration of Temporal Flux Centres by means of manned injection.

Psycho-Med
: Faculty of MyTT concerned with the psychological and physical preparation of the injectee prior to injection into Temporal Flux.

Psy-Con
: Psychological Concentration Camp organized and run by the MDA, situated on the continent of Australasia.

PSYCON
: Psychic Conservation Unit, the medical-experimental department of the Faculty of MetaPsychical Research.

sat-Con-lab
: satellite-Control laboratory orbiting on the periphery of a Temporal Flux region for command of and communication with Injection Vehicle.

Scenario Planning Symposium
: A conference of related sciences with the aim of establishing a cohesive policy for further research, in particular in relation to Project Tempus.

Schwarzschild Radius
: See
Appendix II
.

Singularity
: The region of infinite spacetime curvature at the dead centre of Temporal Flux where matter has been crushed out of existence and time has stopped.

Tachyon
: Sub-atomic particle which travels faster than lightspeed and is therefore ‘time-reversing'. Theoretically believed to be the basis for the precognitive faculty in human beings of future events.

Temporal Flux Centre
: A region of infinite spacetime curvature (cf Singularity) resulting from the collapse of an extremely massive star to within the critical Schwarzschild Radius.

Temporal Flux Injection Vehicle
: A spacetime craft endowed with cyberthetic intelligence capable of entering the ergosphere of a Temporal Flux Centre.

TFC Lab
: Temporal Flux Centre Laboratory, the nerve-centre through which all data are processed and instructions relayed.

Theory of Synchronicity
: As developed by Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli, the theory states that psi phenomena are examples of ‘meaningful coincidences' which are linked in terms of meaning but have
no causal relationship
such that one thing or event gives rise to another.

Time Dilation
: See
Appendix I
.

Time Throat
: An area within a Temporal Flux Centre which leads to a mutiplicity of alternative universes.

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*
As originally proposed by Jung and Pauli and revised by Conrad and Maxon (Redraft 3rd Edition Sdp).

^*
For further information the reader is referred to the work carried out by Professor J. A. Wheeler, as summarized in his book
Geometrodynamics
(Academic Press, 1962).

^*
For the mathematics relating to time dilation, interested readers should refer to Appendix I.

^*
See Appendix II.

^*
In fact, Einstein allowed for this in proposing that lightspeed was affected by gravitational fields of energy.