Going West

Good luck to you, Daniel, for trying to change people's thoughts and attitudes!

That crop picture from Savernake Forest in 2006 was one of a series that showed advanced topics in spacetime wormhole theory.

That one in particular showed a Roman ring with four wormholes, only two of which were active: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole

or

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_ring

What happens apparently when you try to travel instantly through spacetime, is that any single-wormhole connections get short-circuited by a huge flow of vacuum energy, and hence are unstable.

But if some advanced race were to link four wormholes together in a ring, then instant spacetime travel becomes theoretically allowed according to our current understanding of physics.

The unknown race making those crop pictures has evidently gone a little further than us in that kind of technology already!

"I need something to change your mind. Give me something to change your mind."

I didn't mean to be particularly challenging, especially since, if anything, I tend to wax syncophantic. That said, one wants to feel on a site like this, if nowhere else, that he or she is part of a large discussion which includes the author, who you have taken time to read and think about.So it's nice to see responses, yeah

I guess I was thinking, when I wrote above, that as much as we admire people with renown, and may crave it for ourselves, the blowback for putting any art out there can be devastating, especially if one is a big success. Look at the vendetta against Thomas Chong; the complaint noted his movies mocked law enforcement. The DEA is vindictive. So maybe all Letcher is saying is that being perceived as occupying the throne of drug guru (probably a term no one would want, unless he was some precocious ninth grader selling weed and Adderall to his gym teacher) has questionable value. 

There is honor too. Think of those who paved the wave for free speech: obscenity trials against Joyce, Lawrence and Burroughs; Medicine wome and Giordano Bruno burnt at the stake. Success threatens people, but mostly those who have it without being ready.  After winning the Oscar for French Connection (director and picture), William Friedkin saw a shrink for the first time in whole life; he was convinced he was a con artist, artistic scum.

Some people see the 18th Major Arcana THE MOON, with its two pillars, as posing the question: Will you be who truly are (and walk through the pillars), or your dutiful, scared self, which supposedly conforms to societal norms and walks around them? (Of course, societal norms include genocide).

The Moon card shows  what Masons do when they walk between the two pillars, it is also an allusion to Odysseus enduring the pain of facing Scylla and Charybdis. From what I have read of Mr. Pinchbeck, he takes a lot of risks, writing passages that his younger, jaded, agnostic self would, I guess, ridicule.

One only hopes the rewards are commensurate with the challenges. In fact, they should far outweigh the pain. Lenny Bruce paid too hard a price for truth telling - it's one reason I am wary of fame (the paparazzi kind being the worst side effect, but I never worry I will be a movie star). Enjoy the new moon in Pisces