Drones and Universes
One evening earlier this month, Whitley Strieber experienced a powerful urge to re-read portions of his own work. While sleeping that night, he experienced a vivid dream of living out five simultaneous lives in separate universes. Upon waking, Strieber sighted a drone out his bedroom window, similar to those sighted this spring in a nearby location.
Strieber's account illustrates the tenuousness of relating such experiences. It would be easy to discount the experience as suggestibility (the passages Strieber read earlier dealt with a similar experience), although it's equally easy to suggest that we may be most able to perceive alternate universes in a quasi-conscious state, and that perhaps the drone had somehow enabled such an experience after Strieber's reading precognitively prepared him.
Regardless of where one falls on the issue, Strieber's account is an intriguing reminder of just how little we know about the boundaries between reality and non-reality.
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Nature of Reality
These questions and dichotomies, paradoxes and contradictions, are all products of ingrained structures of belief which are held in our minds. Believe it or not, none of our beliefs are True (with a capital T). However, holding such beliefs manifests the experience of the realities which spawn from these beliefs. These realities are true in their own context. Any reality will be internally consistent within itself. Thus each reality's truths are true enough for that reality. Interesting things happen, though, when different realities converge or intersect...
What we call "consensual reality" is simply the current dominant paradigm for a nexus of realities. This paradigm is constantly shifting and updating, but only very astute minds will notice this... because when the paradigm shifts, it also shifts our memory of its previous configuration. You can simplify this concept by seeing it as an uploading of new programming into the matrix. Only those who have transcended the matrix, or have especially strong realities of their own will notice the changes... either because there is an interval between the shift of the consensual reality and the shift in their adoption of it, or because they can filter out the automatic updates and run the software they prefer.
This is very similar to the Castanedian philosophy of the various attention points. I'll assume that anyone here at RS already understands about "assemblage points" and shamanic use of intent. If you don't know about the Nagual, or have simply forgotten... you may want to dig out the old Castaneda books and give them another look.
These "edge" phenomena, are areas where realities are shifting very rapidly... where incursions from other realities are frequent and pronounced. In this model, it is quite possible for something to be true... and then not true moments later. It is also possible for somethings to be true for some while not true for others.
In this reality sandwich, some bites taste of pickle and others of mayonnaise...