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: {Title|THE GOD PHONE}
: by
: David Gladstone
: Now that's really a coincidence...Coming events cast their shadows before.
: - James Joyce, Ulysses
: 
: Science proceeds as if the past were the home of explanation; whereas the
: future, and the future alone, holds the key to the mysteries of the
: present.
: -- Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Apology for Old Maids
: 
: If you were anybody at all in the cultural scene that was exploding in New
: York in 1965 you knew Edie.  Edie Sedgwick had cachet.  She came from that
: long, august line of New England Sedgwicks, whose firmament was illuminated
: by genuine brilliance but was often  blighted by suicide and mental
: anguish.
: 
: Edie's Face was everywhere.  Diana Vreeland featured her in Vogue Magazine.
: She was in all the teenybopper rags.  Her short hair, black tights, and
: great legs were always moving in a maelstrom of whirlwind activity, from
: limo to club to limo again, in an endless frenzied spiral.  It was 1965.
: For a while Andy worshipped androgenous Edie.  He made her a star.
: Warhol's' factory'provided a nucleus around which Edie and her entourage
: spun their high speed orbits, high energy particles soon to crash.. Her
: face and style impressed everyone.  Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger, riding the
: newest musical waves, intersected Edie's orbit.
: 
: Everyone knew she was the real heroine of Blonde on Blonde1. She was one of
: the many things that moved me, Bob Dylan, Jackson Pollack... The first time
: I saw Edie was in Vogue Magazine in 1965.  You have to understand where I
: came from.  Living in south Jersey you get connected with the pulse beat of
: what's going on through magazines.. It was all image.. She was like a thin
: man in black leotards, white hair and boat-necked sweater. She was such a
: strong image that I thought, "That's it." It represented everything to
: me,.radiating intelligence, speed, being connected with the moment.."
: - singer-songwriter, Patti Smith
: 
: Edie's last starring vehicle was "Ciao! Manhattan", now a cult classic.
: The infamous Dr.Roberts, inaugurated the film by shooting up the entire
: cast with amphetamines for an orgy scene at a health club.  Edie describes
: her activities in Jean Stein's Edie,
: 
: ..an incredible sexual tailspin..every kind of sex freak from homosexuals
: to nymphomaniacs... Gobble, gobble, gobble. Couldn't get enough of it.  Sex
: and speed.  Wow.  Like oh, God!  A twenty-four hour climax that can go on
: for days.  I'd like to turn on the whole world for a moment... just for a
: moment.  I'm greedy.  I'd like to keep most of it for myself and a few
: others, a few of my friends ... so that I'd radiate sunshine.
: 
: "And I'd like to see her rise again."
: - Patti Smith2
: 
: Edie's image lives on.  An icon that has the power to evoke an era or
: inspire imitation.  Carl Jung attributed to such images a kind of magnetic
: power to attract events, linking the future and the past through loops of
: meaning which cannot be explained by the accepted definition of causality.
: Edie's power to fascinate is demonstrated by her continual 'resurrection'
: in books and films.  While working on this article, Oliver Stone's "The
: Doors" played on the TV unwatched.  Suddenly, I looked up and there was
: Edie, gyrating amid a swirl of bodies on the screen - 10 seconds of Edie
: and we are back at the Factory, ca., 1967. Edie is gone.  Andy wants
: nothing more to do with her.  Viva has taken her place but she is not Edie.
: Jim Morrison, the latest avatar of the god of "Rock and Cock", is brought
: to the Factory to meet Andy who greets Morrison like the returning prodigal
: son.  The camera focuses on a gold telephone, which Warhol picks up and
: holds out to Morrison saying:
: 
: Edie gave me this phone, it's a God phone. ... She said I could talk to God
: with it.  I don't have anything to say to God...This is for you. Now you
: can talk to God .
: 
: The moment has a ritual intensity, as if Edie herself annoints Morrison as
: the next immortal living legend, and the God-phone a symbol of sovereignty.
: Jim and Edie become interlinked in a loop of meaning, a synchronicity,
: which has the power to cause events in the here and now.  Changing the
: article to include this synchronicity entangled me in a strange loop of
: meaning.
: 
: Edie's God Phone is a symbolic representation of a device and a new
: paradigm that could change our lives and our view of the universe.  What we
: are talking about here is a universe designed and created from the future.
: In such a universe, things that seemed to be mere random coincidences,
: acquire new levels of meaning. becoming part of a new kind of
: 'supercausality'.  Unhappy with the classical explanation of causality,
: because it left so many meaningful events in his life unexplained,
: psychologist Dr. Carl Jung coined the term 'synchronicities' which are
: meaningful coincidences.  Thoughts and events sharing a common meaning are
: attracted to each other like magnets, across the seemingly impenetrable
: barrier of space-time; although there is no ordinary causal relationship
: between them, they are inextricably linked.
: 
: Jung relates a story of such a synchronicity that occurred to him while
: conducting analysis with a young woman.  "The night before coming to see
: him she dreamt that she had been given a golden scarab.  Jung was sitting
: with his back to the closed window listening to her recount her dream when
: he heard a gentle tapping behind his shoulder.  Looking round, he saw a
: small insect knocking against the windowpane.  Opening the window, the
: insect flew in and he caught it in his hand.  what he saw was a scarabaeid
: beetle, the closest equivalent to a golden scarab one could find in
: Switzerland. 'I must admit', Jung wrote, 'that nothing like it has ever
: happened before or since and that the dream of the patient has remained
: unique in my experience.'  Jung kept coming across connections which 'I
: simply could not explain as chance groupings.'"3
: 
: Jung's intuitive rebellion against causality were encouraged by new
: developments in quantum physics.  Jung studied physics with his patient
: Wolfgang Pauli4, in order to learn more of the nature of causality.
: 
: Dissatisfied with what he learned, Jung concluded that the quantum theory
: must be incomplete.  Many years later biological scientist John Lilly,
: famous for his work with dolphins, also found the scientific explanation of
: causality to be unacceptable.  What he calls 'cosmic coincidence control'
: and what Jung called 'synchronicities' are an integral part of what Dr.
: Jack Sarfatti says is the ordering principle of a superluminal (faster-
: than-light) universe.
: 
: In a superluminal universe, what seems to be miraculous or impossible,
: becomes everyday.  People remember the future.  Famous cases of accurate
: dreams of the sinking of a ship or the death of a loved one will be
: explainable under the new theories being propounded at the leading edge of
: quantum physics.  Becoming aware of Edie's image on my TV screen at the
: same moment I was writing about her caused me to alter what I was writing,
: because it seemed as if something was telling me to include Edie in the
: story.  If true, this is the kind of future intervention that alters lives,
: often without our being consciously aware of anything happening.
: 
: Sarfatti describes a synchronicity linking him with Edie and the Sedgwicks:
: "I was having another fight with my girlfriend Suky Sedgwick, Edie's
: sister.  While waiting for Suky at San Francisco State library, I came
: across a book that had the name Sedgwick on the binding.  The book was
: called Apology for Old Maids by Suky's grandfather, Henry Dwight Sedgwick.
: In an essay called "House of Sorrow" ,there is a quote claiming that the
: future rather than the past is ""the home of explanation"". I was stunned.
: I had just read Sir Fred Hoyle's book The Intelligent Universe and had seen
: almost the same quote.  Sedgwick's book was almost 80 years older than
: Hoyle's.  I'd experienced yet another 'loop' in time."
: 
: I should like to make an alarming suggestion...I suggest that we may
: actually be going badly wrong when we apply the usual physical rules for
: time when we consider consciousness!  here is indeed, something very odd
: about the way that time actually enters our conscious perceptions...suppose
: there is something even vaguely teleological about the effects of
: consciousness, so that a future impression might affect a past action.
: Surely this would lead us into a contradiction.
: - Roger Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind
: 
: What Penrose, a Royal Society Fellow at Oxford, is considering with some
: trepidation, is the complete overturning of our notions of cause and
: effect.  The question is this 'Do we live in a superluminal universe or
: not'?  Upon the answer depends the very nature of existence itself.  A
: superluminal universe means final cause, or what we call God.  A universe
: that is not superluminal is most probably random without God.
: 
: 3..2..1..Contact
: In 1952, Jack Sarfatti, now a physicist and designer of a quantum
: signalling device or God phone that will receive messages from the future,
: received a phone call when he was thirteen years old that changed his life.
: "I was reading a book on computer switching circuits at home when the phone
: rang.  I answered it and heard a strange sequence of clunking mechanical
: sounds.  Then a metallic sounding voice comes on the line.  A cold
: mechanical voice is the only way I can describe it.  It gives a long series
: of numbers that I did not understand and then calls me 'Jack' and says it's
: a 'conscious computer on board a spacecraft.'.  It may have said it was
: from the future, but I am not sure.  However, that was the implication of
: what it said.  Anyway, it says I've been selected to be one of '400 young
: receptive minds' to be part of a special project but that I must make the
: choice myself.  The voice on the phone told me that I would begin to meet
: the others I was to work with in twenty years.  I was scared and everything
: in me screamed to say NO! and hang up.  I felt a strong jolt of electricity
: go up my spine to the base of my skull and I heard myself say YES.  I was
: terrified and fascinated.  The voice said 'Good, go out on your fire-escape
: and we will send a ship to pick you up in ten minutes'.  When I hung up I
: ran like a bat out of hell and found my friend Winky, who is now a homicide
: detective in Brooklyn.  We, and a few other kids, went back to my apartment
: to wait for the flying saucer but it never came."
: 
: Years later, while Jack's mother, Millie was reading Andrija Puharich's
: book URI, she came across the account of Uri Geller's allleged contact by a
: conscious computer aboard a spacecraft which mirrored Sarfatti's experience
: even to the details.  Millie, said to Jack, "This sounds just like all
: those phone calls you got when you were a kid."  Sarfatti said, "I was
: stunned. I only remembered one phone call.  I still only remember one call.
: Millie told me that there were many calls over a three week period.  She
: said I was walking around glassy-eyed.  Finally she picked up the phone and
: listened out of concern for me.  She heard the cold mechanical voice.  She
: told it to quit bothering her son and stop calling.  The calls stopped."
: 
: What is this rough beast,its hour come round at last, slouching towards
: Bethlehem to be born.
: - W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming
: 
: Albert Einstein, father of relativity and a deeply religious man, was never
: comfortable with the idea of a Godless, random universe.  In 1953, almost
: 20 years after his famous EPR paper prohibiting "spooky" action-at-a-
: distance, Einstein admitted to his assistant, Ernst Straus, that he had
: second thoughts "You know I have recently lost confidence in the principle
: of no action-at-a-distance."
: 
: Sarfatti explained that Einstein's 1935 paper showed that the Heisenberg
: Uncertainty principle could be violated without action at a distance.
: Since quantum mechanics is based on the uncertainty principle, it could not
: be considered a complete description of reality.  The uncertainty principle
: asserts that certain physical properties (like energy and time or momentum
: and position) are incompatible with each other and cannot be measured to
: arbitrarily small precisions (statistical standard deviations)
: simultaneously in the same experimental setup."  In plain language this
: means you can't change your tires and give your car a speed test at the
: same time.
: 
: Einstein couldn't accept action-at-a-distance because that would violate
: causality.  Causality means causes before effects.  It stems directly from
: the way conscious beings experience the flow of time.  Einstein's theory of
: relativity rested on two pillars, causality and symmetry.  In 1935,
: Einstein believed that both pillars were essential for relativity.  Today's
: experimental data shows that causality, the major stumbling block in the
: way of action-at-a-distance and superluminal communication, is wrong and
: that only symmetry is necessary for relativity.
: 
: Sarfatti's eyes glow with intensity as he takes on the dubious task of
: explaining the forbidding subject of quantum mechanics to a non-scientist.
: "We don't need more math", he says, referring to the insistence of most
: physicists that useful faster-than-light communication is beyond our reach.
: "The current mathematical formalism is sufficient to show how we can decode
: messages from the future.  Eberhard, Stapp, and Josephson all believe in
: action-at-a-distance, but say there's no way within standard quantum
: mechanics to locally decode such influences. I say they are probably wrong
: because of the counter examples I've developed which can be tested."
: 
: Recent discoveries may have bolstered the case for a superluminal universe.
: The lead headline in the New York Times recently trumpeted, "Scientists
: Report Profound Insight On How Time Began,"  The large type and the picture
: were impressive enough but the latest computer generated pictures from the
: COBE satellite provide very strong confirmation for the existence of cold
: dark matter, the (as yet) invisible stuff which reveals itself only through
: its gravity and is now thought to comprise 90% of the universe.  This
: mysterious dark matter, may bring a brave new world of time travel through
: wormholes and starships roaming the vastness of interstellar space.  The
: crux of the matter as far as superluminality is concerned is that the
: universe obeyed the laws of quantum mechanics at its birth subjecting it to
: Heisenberg's uncertainty principle when it was smaller than an electron.
: Hoyle and Sarfatti believe that it was at this that consciousness from the
: future created the universe bringing itself into being.
: 
: Einstein's work on relativity provided a starting point for intuitive
: physicists such as Wheeler, Feynman, Josephson and  others.  The new
: physics has also given rise to a new cosmology of which Sir Fred Hoyle is a
: leading proponent.  Hoyle compiled a massive body of evidence in his book
: The Intelligent Universe that seems to strongly suggest that only a living
: and intelligent (superluminal) God could have created a universe where life
: (us) exists.  The very conditions of the birth of the universe (the big
: bang) were specifically tailored to produce life.  The Anthropic principle
: championed by Hoyle, Sarfatti and others was strongly supported by Brandon
: Carter, who in 1968 stated  "Had the numerical values of certain
: fundamental constants (the speed of light, the mass of an electron etc.)
: been only slightly different - the universe would not be able to sustain
: life as we know it."
: 
: Experimentalist Alain Aspect proved5, the reality of faster-than-light
: action-at-a-distance in an experiment on the quantum connection between
: pairs of photons6.  Delayed choice experiments7 and gamma photon-proton
: scattering experiments8 showed that future causes do create past effects.
: 
: Recent work by such respected physicists as David Deutsch, Kip Thorne,
: Yakir Aharanov and Sarfatti, involving time-travel, future-causality and
: other mind-boggling vistas, is invigorating superluminal physics as never
: before.
: 
: Sarfatti's credibility among other physicists, like the superluminal
: conjecture, seemed for years to lay dormant in the barren soil of a
: conservative physics establishment.  For  many years, talk of faster-than-
: light communication and time travel has been beyond the pale of good
: science.  It was a suitable subject for comic books and science fiction
: only, 'strictly kid stuff.'
: 
: Sarfatti, a physics professor at SDSU in the sixties (while still in his
: twenties) suffered for his connection to this 'kid stuff'. He quit his job
: at SDSU and went to the University of London to learn from David Bohm who
: had worked with Einstein.  Sarfatti then spent almost twenty years out of
: the 'academic' loop' of mainstream physics.
: 
: Seemingly a genial character,with professorial mien and white goatee,
: Sarfatti is impulsive and temperamental, and infamous for burning his
: bridges in front of him.  Bitter arguments with Werner Erhard and a
: perceptible rightward trend in Sarfatti's political thinking alienated him
: from the New Age 'establishment'.  Sarfatti still harbors bitter feelings
: towards Gary Zukav,author of The Dancing Wu Li Masters for what he
: considers Zukav's "betrayal". "Zukav didn't know physics from shmysics.  I
: brought him to Esalen over the strenuous objections of Michael Murphy's
: wife.  I introduced him to everyone, wrote the chapter on quantum mechanics
: and then he reneged on his promise of a percentage of the royalties."
: 
: Conflict and betrayal are part of the warp and weft of Sarfatti's life, as
: they are a part of his beloved Wagnerian opera "Twilight of the Gods."
: During his 'exile' he spent his time crying wolf at that 'barren physics
: establishment', raving about time machines and Soviet spies over
: cappuccino's and vino in the Caffe Trieste in San Francisco's ragged
: Bohemia, North Beach.
: 
: The dictum that nature abhors a vacuum was certainly true for Sarfatti.  He
: became friendly with some prominent local conservatives, among them
: A.Lawrence Chickering and Marshal Naify.  "The three of us were having
: lunch at Enrico's in North Beach.  Suddenly Naify launched into a monologue
: describing the future Star Wars program in what turned out to be
: astonishingly accurate detail.  It was an amazing performance."  Sarfatti
: said.  Even more astonishing since Naify was not involved in the sciences
: and no one was talking about anything resembling Star Wars in the media at
: that time.  Chickering was so impressed by the idea he asked me to give a
: scientific summary of what Naify had outlined.  The summary was sent to
: Paul Nitze, Reagan's chief nuclear weapons negotiator.  Chickering told me
: Nitze liked what I wrote.  I talked about rendering nuclear weapons
: impotent and obsolete.   A channel to Cap Weinberger had opened up through
: his son, Cap Jr.  I sent him all the same material, which reached Reagan
: through his father, the Secretary of Defense.  The physics wasn't good, but
: it made good propaganda against the Soviets."
: 
: A fervent believer in synchronicity and in himself, Sarfatti made
: numberless versions of 'God Phones' or 'Future Machines - many of them
: wrong, he admits.  He fired his salvos to colleagues all over the world.
: Feynman believed he had gone crazy, and he certainly wasn't alone in that
: belief.  Mostly they reacted bemusedly when his name came up.  A few had
: sterner reactions. Henry Stapp, of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, who
: carried on a ten year correspondence with Sarfatti, wrote an angry letter
: to the Editor of Physics Essays that Sarfatti was incompetent for insisting
: that faster-than-light communication was possible in standard quantum
: mechanics.  More than ten years ago the late Heinz Pagels, a highly
: respected professor at Rockefeller University and President of the New York
: Academy of Sciences, shouted at me on the telephone that Sarfatti was "a
: charlatan" for his belief in action-at-a-distance. "Sarfatti was crazy",
: who was he to sweep aside causality with a wave of his hand.  Pagels held
: Sarfatti in bad odor because, in addition to his support for action-at-a-
: distance, he worked on precognitive remote viewing with New Age people from
: Esalen9, such as Uri Geller and Andrija Puharich.  Esalen would also serve
: as the place where the "Hot Tub Diplomacy"10 of the early 80's took place.
: 
: Something rather chilling occurred a few years later.  Pagels dreamt of
: mountain climbing (he was an expert climber) and falling to his death.  So
: shaken was he by the dream's vividness that he told his friends and even
: mentioned it at the very end of his book, The Cosmic Code.
: 
: I dreamed I was clutching at the face of a rock but it would not hold.
: Gravel gave way.  I grasped for a shrub but it pulled loose, and in cold
: terror I fell into the abyss.  Suddenly I realized that my fall was
: relative; there was no bottom and no end.  A feeling of pleasure overcame
: me.  I realized that what I embody, cannot be destroyed.  It is written
: into the cosmic code, the order of the universe.
: 
: Not long afterward, while on an undemanding climb with friends, he slipped
: and fell to his death.  Had Pagels experienced a genuine precognition?
: That was something that he just knew was impossible.  Yet it consumed his
: attention until he slipped and fell on a climb that was regarded as easy,
: safe even for a less experienced climber than Pagels.  Sarfatti has no
: doubt but that Pagels had a first hand experience with future causality.
: Many people, he says have a strange blindness to this kind of thing.  In
: some way Pagels believed and accepted his precognition as part of his
: cosmic destiny as we can see from a closing quote in The Cosmic Code  " But
: it seems certain that the recent human contact with the invisible world of
: quanta and the vastness of the cosmos will shape the destiny of our species
: or whatever we may become." And, as Sarfatti points out, "The invisible
: world of the quanta obey the superluminal dictates of the future."
: A shout in the street.
: "From the play field the boys raised a shout. The ways of the creator are
: not our ways," Mr. Deasy said.  "All history moves toward one great goal,
: the manifestation of God."  Stephen jerked his thumb toward the window,
: saying: - "That is God. Hooray, Ay, Whirree!" - "What?" Mr. Deasy asked. -
: "A shout in the street." Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.
: 
: Now that's really a coincidence...Coming events cast their shadows before.
:                          - James Joyce, Ulysses
: to be continued.