From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Brett McInnes)
Subject: Re: The Sarfatti Papers 3: The Gladstone Report II
Organization: National University of Singapore
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 01:54:03 GMT

sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti) writes:
: 
: Long orphaned by science and most philosophy, teleological superluminality
: has found a home in drama, religion, literature, and in film.  Joyce's
: Ulysses is a treasure trove of Jungian synchronicities, which may be
: acausal loops-in-time that employ the future-to-past time sense.  Joyce
: uses such seemingly random recurring events as a shout in the street, the
: wanderings of a crumpled piece of paper, the pealing of church bells, to
: order time through loops of causality.  The inner geometry of Ulysses is
: not the geometry of billiards and of Newton.  It is the strange inner
: geometry of Einstein and quantum mechanics.  Causality seems to slide along
: this strange geometry like a roller coaster at an amusement park.  Kurt
: Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five also reflects the strange geometry of future
: causality:  The planet Tralfamadoria which exists in the future creates a
: civilization on earth so they can get a part they need for one of their
: spaceships.  Just as the Greeks in Romans used the Deus Ex Machina to
: provide for a superluminal Voice of God.  Chris Marker, in the highly
: acclaimed film "La Jettee" creates an eerie warring world of the future,
: that makes captives of people in the past to experiment on them.  In "The
: Navigator" a young man leads his people from the plague-ravaged 14th
: century to the 20th century to find a cure for the mysterious disease that
: is decimating them.  In the Sci-Fi genre, Sarfatti's fellow physics
: graduate student at UCSD, Gregory Benford, weaves a chilling tale of a
: doomed future earth in Time Scape.  In the story, scientists send warnings
: to their colleagues in the past  to save the planet.  Phillip Jose Farmer's
: Riverworld series which includes practically everything that ever lived,
: requires future-to-past causality as well. And of course, we can't forget
: "The Terminator"  or "Back to the Future" and "Peggy Sue Gets Married".
: 
: Turning and turning within the widening gyre.
:               - W.B.Yeats, The Second Coming
: 
: Merging the ostensibly separate meanings of God and Machine, Edie, perhaps
: unconsciously, linked herself to a turn of thought and intuition that has
: its branches in antiquity and its roots in the far distant future.  From
: the ancient stories of the Greek gods to the cyber-punk of today's Science
: fiction, people have taken for granted the existence of a superluminal
: reality.  Almost all of us have experienced this firsthand.  For example,
: invariably, when I call my mother, she will say, "That's funny I was just
: thinking about you."  How many times have you thought about someone,
: suddenly, perhaps after a long period of time when you hadn't thought of
: them at all.  Soon, sure enough, you see them in a day or two. then you
: know that you've just touched the mystery. Precognitive incidents like
: these have always suffered from the taint of impossibility, just like
: UFO's, although admitting to a dream that proves to be true or having had a
: precognitive experience may be less embarrassing than claiming to have seen
: or been aboard a UFO.
: Deus Ex Machina
: Deus ex Machina' or the God from a machine was originally used in ancient
: Greek and Roman plays, a device was brought on stage to intervene in the
: action of a play when conditions were in extremis; when the situation was
: such that only supernatural intervention could save the day.  Jack Sarfatti
: thinks that his  article "Design for a Superluminal Signaling Device"11'
: may lead to nothing less than a Deus ex Machina.  Both he and Heinz Pagels'
: close friend, Nick Herbert, have spent years trying to develop God Phones
: which decode and utilize precognitive messages from the future.  This is
: not the same as predicting the future.  Sarfatti's goateed visage looms out
: from under a Greek fisherman's cap as he proclaims: "Prediction of the
: future from the past is part of the classical causality axiom, yet it is
: not really supported by the evidence. In quantum mechanics both the future
: and the past co-determine the present."
: 
: The increasingly likely establishment of a superluminal world-view cannot
: be credited solely to an individual, or even to the sciences.  Future-cause
: and past-effect has been an intrinsic part of the scientific, cultural and
: religious  inheritance of the human race.
: 
: Since ancient times scientists have tried to model the universe within
: their cultural and religious contexts.  According to Sarfatti,
: Pythagoras,12 Newton, Einstein, Planck and Heisenberg, are the Illuminati
: who receive knowledge from the future God that is bringing our universe
: into being."
: 
: Quantum mechanics is illuminating a trail which may lead to the roots of
: consciousness itself.  Indeed, at the quantum level our own brains may be
: mirroring the quantum processes which occurred before the Big Bang itself.
: As above so below, says the ancient mystical truism, and now quantum
: physicists are echoing that sentiment.  Recent work done at the leading
: edge of molecular biology supports this conjecture.
: 
: With  state Christianity in the Roman empire came dogma and a strategy of
: repression and elimination of views that differed. Speculation on the
: nature of the universe was discouraged by the Church Fathers.  For nearly
: 1,000 years, science remained stuck in an ancient rut.  As the renaissance
: dawned, however, scientists fought a mostly losing battle to be free of the
: constraints of religiouss tyranny.  Marlowe's Faust is an allegory of
: scientific man's rebellion against the tyranny of Church authority.  The
: careers of Bruno13 and Galileo amply illustrate the difficulties of that
: struggle.  Over hundreds of years the work of Copernicus, Newton and
: Descartes eviscerated the Church's authority.  Such literal Biblical
: teachings as creationism are taught only as a relic of religious thought
: rather than as valid theories of how the Universe comes into being. God-in-
: the-Machine is now just the voice of the machine.  Anyone accepting the
: literal word of The Bible as truth in today's secular world would be
: considered a credulous fool by many secular westerners.
: 
: Since the beginning of this century, physicists have gone by speculation
: and experiment where few can follow.  Most of us must accept the claims of
: scientific authority as we once accepted the validity of religious dogma.
: Some scientists claim (just as many ancients must have done after observing
: a phenomenon they could not explain) that they can see the "handwriting of
: God" in some of the recent pictures from the COBE satellite which show the
: universe at a very early age.
: 
: Sarfatti's Hyper-History
: Sarfatti suffers no embarrassment about his claims of a superluminal
: connection to all kinds of historical figures. In 1978 Sarfatti was
: suffering his indulgent idyll/exile in North beach, orphaned by the New Age
: Movement after his bitter falling out with Werner Erhard.  He met someone
: who, according to Sarfatti, clarified the historical context he was in.  He
: feels trapped in a time loop of causality reversal that connects him to
: such world historical figures as Hitler, Mussolini and FDR.  "Sitting on
: the terrace of the Savoy Tivoli, I was introduced by a friend, Leila
: Dwight,to an aristocratic-looking young man dressed in Lederhosen, the
: Bavarian national dress.  She said he was her cousin but it didn't mean
: anything at the time. I didn't know that Leila's family had intermarried
: repeatedly with the Sedgwicks for 200 years.
: 
: He was Egon Sedgwick Hanfstaengl. At the time I met him I hadn't yet met
: Suky Sedgwick.  He said something about his family being involved 'in
: history' but he didn't say what.  These connections were made clear to me
: years later when the book Edie by Jean Stein and George Plimpton came out.
: Hanfstaengl was a cousin of Edie's and the grandson of Ernst "Putzi"
: Sedgwick Hanfstaengl.
: 
: In 1904, Putzi spent hours in the basement of Teddy Roosevelt's White House
: with his cousin and Harvard classmate, Frank (FDR) playing the piano in the
: boisterous, somewhat oafish style, that his friends loved.  In 1920, Putzi
: was playing piano to a captive audience in Munich.  His new friend Adolph
: Hitler was in a hypnotic and joyous reverie listening to the music of his
: beloved Wagner.  Putzi and his American wife performed a valuable service
: to the future Fuhrer.  They arranged gemutlich little musical evenings with
: many of the prominent figures of post WW1 Germany for Hitler.  They
: smoothed his rough edges.  They eased his way into the upper circles where
: the spirit of unrepentant revanchism burned undiminished by defeat.  In
: 1923 at Putzi's Tyrolean Villa, the distraught Hitler was in disgrace; his
: Bavarian Putsch was broken and he was about to be arrested for treason.
: The police were banging on the door and would soon be coming up the stairs.
: All was lost; but for the timely intervention of Putzi's wife who altered
: history forever when she wrestled the loaded pistol that he had pointed at
: his own head from him.  Sarfatti claims that the hand of destiny that saved
: Hitler, also altered his own life.  Saying that historical themes tend to
: recurr in within certain familial "Destiny Matrices", Sarfatti sketched out
: a nonlinear history of his clan.
: 
: In 1923, Margherita Sarfatti, was the lover of Benito Mussolini, and later
: was patroness of the fascist cultural movement, Nouvocento, (New Century)
: which expressed a belief in the philosophy of future cause.  She was the
: mother of one Italy's WWI heroes, Roberto Sarfatti, killed at the age of
: eighteen at Mussolini's side in the trenches.  Roberto was later enshrined
: as one the immortals in the fascist pantheon.  Samuel Sarfatti was the
: personal physician to Pope Julius II and he was instrumental in getting
: Michaelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. 'Sarfatti' means
: 'the Frenchman' in Hebrew and traces back to the great Rabbi, Rashi de
: Troyes (1040 - 1105)."  Sarfatti sees himself linked in  meaningful causal
: loops with many historical figures. "This historical context is not my
: creation", he says, "but  a recurrent theme over hundreds of years that
: expressed itself in the lives of real people, who happened to be my family
: and Suky's family. Just like I happened to get that phone call. We were
: brought together as players in a scene written in the far future."
: 
: He is not the only one to see himself this way.  Sarfatti and his
: superluminal physics are portrayed in Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus
: Trilogy.  Carlos Suares, a cabalist mystic and intimate of Henry Miller
: annointed Sarfatti to be the "heir" to his tradition.  "I didn't know what
: he was talking about at the time. But he was a Cabalist Master who knew a
: great deal more than I about the significant role some of my relatives
: played in Jewish history."  Fictionalized as Balthazar, in Lawrence
: Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, Suares urged Sarfatti to "smash the wall of
: light.", which Sarfatti sees as one and the same as Einstein's light
: barrier. "I saw myself as a Parsival character. I reached the Grail Castle
: and didn't know what I was doing there and I didn't get the Grail. But I
: got the challenge to "smash the wall of light" and that's what I'm trying
: to do.
: 
: Since the publication of his latest paper in a prestigious physics journal
: and his reestablishment of ties with academics at Berkeley, Sarfatti's
: credibility seems to be rising phoenix-like from the ashes.  It was at
: Berkeley in Ray Chiao's quantum optics seminar that Nobel Laureate Charles
: Townes was told by Chiao that a paper by Sarfatti some twenty years
: previously had helped them in their research.  At another seminar, David
: Mermin,head of the physics department at Cornell, told the group that he
: had read Sarfatti's paper and had been perplexed because he couldn't find
: anything wrong with it.  He finally realised what was wrong but he he said
: he couldn't remember.  Sarfatti says the seminar broke up in laughter.  His
: most recent salvo against 'fortress mentality' of the physics establishment
: is a paper he believes will invalidate Phillippe Eberhard's proof against
: communicating useful messages from future to past.
: 
: With the help of modern technology man is extending his intelligence out
: into into the vast reaches of space and down to the mysterious level of
: quantum phenomena.  In the worlds of art and science, ( which seem to
: uncannily mirror each other) there has long been dissatisfaction with  the
: theories and dogmas which leave far too much of our real world unaccounted
: for.  Sarfatti sees this as a 'vacuum of reason' which he like nature
: abhors. "What I'm after is simple.  I want to prove the existence of God
: and a superluminal universe created from the future which created us so
: that the universe could itself be created.  Let's not play games and stand
: on high horses when it comes to radical advances in thought.  Let
: experiment decide. If it doesn't work then we've still learned something."
: 
: 
: 1 arguably Dylan's greatest album
: 2 from the poem "Edie" written on hearing of Edie's death.
: 
: 3 Beyond Time, Danah Zohar
: 4 discoverer of the Pauli exclusion principle and the neutrino
: 5 at the University of Paris in 1982,
: 6 quanta of light
: 7 Carol Alley of the University of Maryland
: 8 Charles Bennett of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
: 9 a resort near Big Sur in California,famous for sixties style sexual
: experimentation and lectures promoting a New Age of enlightenment.
: 10 Newsweek, 1980.
: 11 Physics Essays, Vol. 4, No.3 Sept. 1991 (University of Toronto Press).
: 12 whose famous theorem is at the foundation not only of relativity but
: also of quantum mechanics.  Pythagoras was one of the great scientists of
: all time but also a mystic and religious leader.
: 13 Bruno was burned at the stake and Galileo was placed under a church
: edict to keep silent regarding his heretical beliefs.
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