Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature. —St Augustine.
Bilocation through space-time
A number of saints, Padre Pio being the best known, were capable of bilocation—the ability to be in two places simultaneously[1]. Temple Gates, Benjamin Franklin’s Grandson, Temple bilocates from Detroit, April 21, 2030 to London, January 29, 1774.
Can the nature of reality account for this? Yes.
To begin, Temple’s mother was a stigmatic before she met his father. Temple inherited her neurophysiology[2]. However, Temple is not sufficiently religious(devout) to be capable of stigmata, let alone bilocation. His friend ‘Bet’ leverages Temple’s neurophysiology with drugs and virtual-reality[3]
Experimental Drugs
Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic, known to cause out-of-body experiences (OBE) in a subset of patients. Temple belongs to that subset. Bet infuses Temple with Bromatheon, a ‘fourth generation’ dissociative anesthetic. In 2030, Bromatheon is an experimental drug.
Temple discovers later[4], Bet also used an experimental drug, Nootropin-ZT49. Nootropin-ZT49 temporarily boosts neuronal activity, substantially increasing cognitive prowess. The drug was modeled after Provigil, which does that in a subset of users. Temple belongs to that subset. Provigil was the model for NZT-48 in the movie Limitless, starring Bradley Cooper.
Mitochondrial rejuvenation. Again experimental. This therapy required multiple IV infusions of a sequence of proteins and RNA that induce rejuvenation of mitochondria. One reason two-year-olds have so much energy is their mitochondria are new. As we age the efficiency of our mitochondria declines. It works for Temple.
Virtual Reality
The Virtual Reality Lab at Elysian Enterprise requires a haptic suit, described in detail by Temple in the first chapter. The VR Chamber–haptic suit can mimic a state of sensory deprivation, which boosts the efficacy of Bromatheon to induce an OBE. Without Temple’s mind, mind-altering drugs, and the Cockpit stereogram identical to the real-historical event, the VR Lab is merely a VR chamber.
Visual (and other) cues. Temple’s father is a votary of Benjamin Franklin and a collector of stereograms of scenes from Ben’s life. One of those scenes is the Cockpit scene. The VR Lab with the stereogram generates a 3-dimensional virtual reality that by pure happenstance is identical to a real moment of a real event in space-time. Thus a virtually-real scene in the VR lab induces a state of mind in Temple that connects him to a real event in space-time. This explains why Temple bilocates to London, 1774. Note: Temple does not realize he has bilocated until book 3 of the trilogy, Temple Gates, and Elysian Enterprise.
Ultimate Reality. Computer Analogy.
At the moment, approximately 700,000 files/apps exist on my hard-drive, but only ~100 files/apps occupy RAM (active memory).
Space-time is analogous to a hard-drive. Trillions of lives exist in space-time, whereas only billions of lives are in ‘active memory.’
Files/apps are indexed on a hard-drive in order to be found and transferred to and from active memory by the CPU.
In Space-time, the synthesis of VR-Lab & Temple’s mind functions as a CPU. Matching virtual reality image in Temple’s mind with real Space-time event constitutes an index.
The 3-D virtual image in Temple’s mind matched an historical event, momentarily establishing a reversible equilibrium permitting bilocation. Ben and Temple lock eyes and shake hands. Without this ephemeral physical-emotional connection, the phase transition would have deteriorated to a remote viewing experience. Instead, Temple bilocated to 1774, and Ben Franklin bilocated simultaneously to the VR Lab, 2030. In effect, Ben was ‘resurrected’ from the dead[5].
Matter and Consciousness. The Analogy of Electricity & Magnetism
In 1776, Temple wrote an essay (for college) titled Is Space A Real Being[6]. Temple’s conversation with his mother in the opening of Temple Gates, Benjamin Franklin’s Grandson, Bet persuaded Temple that space/matter is a sub-domain of the larger reality of consciousness.
We know matter properly organized can generate consciousness, because we are proof of that. Suppose Consciousness, properly organized, can generate matter. Matter and consciousness may have a relationship analogous to electricity and magnetism. An electric field may exist independently of magnetism. A magnetic field may exist independently of electricity. However, an electric field may be used to generate(induce) a magnetic field, and a magnetic field may be used to generate an electric field. Of special interest … When a magnetic field generates an electric field, which generates a magnetic field, which generates an electric field … on and on, we have an electromagnetic wave, i.e, photons, which may be dormant in electron orbits, or, from their point-of-view, circling the universe of space-time in zero time. Perhaps, a simple kind of immortality.
[1]Stigmata. Ian Wilson. 1989. Also see ewtn.com/padrepio/mystic/bilocation.htm
[2]Bet preferred Temple’s mother for his experiments, but she instinctively distrusted him, and spurned his awkward efforts to befriend her.
[3] ‘Bet’ is John Warne’s nickname. Temple’s father (for fun) conflates John Warne with John Warne Gates, a 19th century tycoon who famously bet a million on a single poker hand. Thus the nickname ‘Bet-a-million’ Gates. ‘Bet-a-million’ was soon abridged to ‘Bet.’ Temple, believing himself trapped in a virtual reality, refers to Bet as he might refer to God in reality. See John Warne’s biography for more details. He is a nefarious fellow who is a central actor in another story of time travel.
[4]See the scene, Plow and Harrow Inn, Chester, Sunday, October 27, 1776, 5:31 a.m.
[5]See Temple Gates and Elysian Enterprise, book III of the Trilogy.
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