I also communicated with Chris just after I had spontaneously entered timeless causal realms, because Dark Night was the closest description I had found to describe them. I wrote my recent work 'Safari of a Patchwork Pilgrim' to elucidate what I believe are some of the preconditions for such experiences, how irreconcilable they are to the world of time, but also how certain attributes ( stoicism, solitude, longing) set the sextant for such travel. Chris did remark that he could not believe I had survived ( I very nearly did not) trying to manage the two worlds ( Time and Timelessness) simultaneously! I would say that 'Safari' is a kind of primer to Chris's explorations under carefully controlled conditions ( and with an attendant 'nurse') in case of dark, tumultuous traumas! By contrast, I was committed for a lobotomy and imprisoned! So such travel is not a foray into bliss!
Hi Philippa - it sounds like you are very familiar and conversant with these realms and experiences that Chris relates ... and yours was thrust upon you rather than a careful preparation (as in Chris's case) ... we also need to be forewarned about these spontaneous cases, as they are perhaps more likely than to occur than the pre-prepared ones. Your own rich life journey, as I know you relate in your autobiography 'Safari of a Patchwork Pilgrim', should reach as many readers as possible. I still hope to be able to get to it myself at some later point! Blessings to you...
Thanks Kingsley, I was hesitant to seem to be flogging a book but the greatest reason for writing it was to introduce the components (synchronicity, entanglement, instant causality) as they increasingly manifested in an 'ordinary' life, once one was open to seeing them. It was the Safari (life) that gave rise to the alternative concept of Involution, and the reason for writing the latter poetically (multidimensional language rather than linear) as the closest one could come to communicating the limitless connectedness of everything.
I understand, Philippa, that us writers generally are hesitant to mention our own books - yet credit where credit’s due, and your work deserves attention :-)
Echoes of Terence McKenna's idea that the universe is an engine designed for the production and conservation of novelty and that as novelty increases, so does complexity. With each level of complexity achieved becoming the platform for a further ascent into complexity. We are living it now…
Cheers Gor - yes, Terence was another pioneer on this path, although he was more archaic and shamanistic than Chris (who was quite methodical and 'scholarly'). Their experiences play off each other - though Chris didn't encounter McKenna's 'machinic elves' ;-) However, they did both perceive an end-point of this complexity where a 'singularity-transition' point was breached.
Thank you, thank you Kingsley! Most appreciated and useful as an epilogue to such a compact and profound series. I'll listen to the interview with Chris Bache tomorrow. Now continuing reading in 'Is there life on Earth.'
Thanks Catharina ... it's nice to finish off a series with a 'round up' chat - I feel it gives closure. You'll probably enjoy the longer chat with Chris Bache, who gives more context to his experiences :-)
What a beautiful mystical journey Chris Bache takes us on. When it really began to grip me was when he became emotional about the diamond luminosity, something that brought me back to Sufism - the beloved - and Judaism, the rabbi always spoke of the danger to go off into the light alone, it could destroy one. Releasing this interview here Kingsley was a perfect idea, a treasure, thank you very much, - Catharina
I also communicated with Chris just after I had spontaneously entered timeless causal realms, because Dark Night was the closest description I had found to describe them. I wrote my recent work 'Safari of a Patchwork Pilgrim' to elucidate what I believe are some of the preconditions for such experiences, how irreconcilable they are to the world of time, but also how certain attributes ( stoicism, solitude, longing) set the sextant for such travel. Chris did remark that he could not believe I had survived ( I very nearly did not) trying to manage the two worlds ( Time and Timelessness) simultaneously! I would say that 'Safari' is a kind of primer to Chris's explorations under carefully controlled conditions ( and with an attendant 'nurse') in case of dark, tumultuous traumas! By contrast, I was committed for a lobotomy and imprisoned! So such travel is not a foray into bliss!
Hi Philippa - it sounds like you are very familiar and conversant with these realms and experiences that Chris relates ... and yours was thrust upon you rather than a careful preparation (as in Chris's case) ... we also need to be forewarned about these spontaneous cases, as they are perhaps more likely than to occur than the pre-prepared ones. Your own rich life journey, as I know you relate in your autobiography 'Safari of a Patchwork Pilgrim', should reach as many readers as possible. I still hope to be able to get to it myself at some later point! Blessings to you...
Thanks Kingsley, I was hesitant to seem to be flogging a book but the greatest reason for writing it was to introduce the components (synchronicity, entanglement, instant causality) as they increasingly manifested in an 'ordinary' life, once one was open to seeing them. It was the Safari (life) that gave rise to the alternative concept of Involution, and the reason for writing the latter poetically (multidimensional language rather than linear) as the closest one could come to communicating the limitless connectedness of everything.
I understand, Philippa, that us writers generally are hesitant to mention our own books - yet credit where credit’s due, and your work deserves attention :-)
Echoes of Terence McKenna's idea that the universe is an engine designed for the production and conservation of novelty and that as novelty increases, so does complexity. With each level of complexity achieved becoming the platform for a further ascent into complexity. We are living it now…
Cheers Gor - yes, Terence was another pioneer on this path, although he was more archaic and shamanistic than Chris (who was quite methodical and 'scholarly'). Their experiences play off each other - though Chris didn't encounter McKenna's 'machinic elves' ;-) However, they did both perceive an end-point of this complexity where a 'singularity-transition' point was breached.
Thank you, thank you Kingsley! Most appreciated and useful as an epilogue to such a compact and profound series. I'll listen to the interview with Chris Bache tomorrow. Now continuing reading in 'Is there life on Earth.'
Thanks Catharina ... it's nice to finish off a series with a 'round up' chat - I feel it gives closure. You'll probably enjoy the longer chat with Chris Bache, who gives more context to his experiences :-)
What a beautiful mystical journey Chris Bache takes us on. When it really began to grip me was when he became emotional about the diamond luminosity, something that brought me back to Sufism - the beloved - and Judaism, the rabbi always spoke of the danger to go off into the light alone, it could destroy one. Releasing this interview here Kingsley was a perfect idea, a treasure, thank you very much, - Catharina