Had to consider a while before I posted this because it is a bit wordy but it does have an interesting point. If you will take the time to read it your mind may go places that it might not have gone had you not read it. A few years ago I visited NASA, just south of Houston, Texas, and went inside what they said was an exact replica of a Space Shuttle. What I saw was sheet metal, levers, pulleys, nuts, bolts, and a myriad of other items put together in order to help propel and then return fragile human beings far from earth and then bring them back safely. My immediate thought was that sending people out into space on something that looked similar to my lawn mower was compared to people leaving St. Louis, and heading west in a covered wagon. But, even the covered wagon had far fewer parts to have something break. And, unlike the space shuttle, if something happened, you did have the option of walking home. As with any “scientific” examination you have to have questions. Those came without effort. Why would anyone want to sit on a keg of black powder and light a fuse hoping that the top part of the keg would protect his bottom, hoping to send him to a predetermined place hundreds of thousands of miles away from home? Why would a man with a wife and kids and parents want to sit on the powder keg and offer himself up the fate of other peoples effort to send him shooting away from earth at 15,000 miles per hour? What kind of faith must he have to think he would get there safely and then return to an exact spot already picked out for his landing? He must have faith in literally thousands of people he will never meet and trust them implicitly to do each of their very meticulous jobs to perfection. One bad “O” ring and we know what can happen. Yet, he goes through a regimen of training that only a few select individuals ever experience to reach that point of faith where you place your very life in the hands of strangers to ride on what is a mal-configured bomb. To say that we are still in the days of covered wagons when it comes to space travel would be to repeat myself. But repeating myself promotes further examination of many propositions when it comes to space travel, or any type travel for that matter, be it to a distant planet or into the next room. In discovery of anything we begin by being curious enough to peel back a thin layer to see what is there or by gently dusting a piece of broken pottery in a foreign desert. The more layers peeled back and the more dusting reveals more and more of something we have yet to discover. All of science uses the same methods, albeit a slow process to allow for identification, description, cataloging, categorization, and storing for later referral. I am not sure what initiated the curiosity of Alexander Bell, William Morse, or Guglielmo Marconi to such ends as finding a way to communicate without being seen by the ones to whom they are communicating. But, for this purpose I am curious to know what made them think that there were ways they could use using things they couldnt see, feel, taste, touch, or hear. Yet, at some point, they decided that something was there they could contain and direct to do the tasks that they had assigned themselves. So, by conducting small, minute experiments, layer by layer they finally eliminated all the things that didnt work and were left with what did work. Since their time, we have continued eliminating more and more at such a rate that by the time a product or device in in production it is already out of style and obsolete. The layers are being pulled away at an astounding rate, so much that we have to wonder where it is all going. Is there an end to it, or will we finally end up back where we started and that is with a completed set of knowledge upon which to build something new and with a whole new set of environments to discover? We use many various primitive means to travel from place to place as well as using many primitive methods of communicating with each other. The key word here is primitive. From the time of my visit to NASA and seeing that bucket of bolts they were using to travel into space I knew there would come a time when all of that would be obsolete. So far, so good. The space shuttle has been retired. We use modern automobiles more amazing than ever before and we hold in our hands everyday, almost every hour devices that would cause Dick Tracy to take more that a second look. We are now pulling away more layers and making more discoveries leading to ways of eliminating unnecessary chaff. The design of the cars and the phones are as futuristic as time for production will allow but we are still tethered to them. We still have to have them to get from place to place and stay connected. Yet, no matter how modern the design and how many terabytes we use we will always find more ways to create a more futuristic look and more atomic space for our playgrounds. All this will come to an end and will force a new way of travel and communicating after as many layers have been pulled away that satisfy the need. In my minds eye, like the space shuttle, my lawnmower, and my car, I see them as antiquated, and no matter how new, out of date, style, or function I know there is another way to travel and communicate without devices. Weve all had a phone call from someone of whom we were just thinking. Why? How? Radio waves, TV waves, radar waves, waves of all shapes and sizes are permeating the atmosphere so much that if each transmission were assigned a color, and we could see them the sky would be black with the colors all combined. This is going on now, all around us. We dont see it but we feel and utilize the effect just like we dont see electricity but use it every day. If we can combine science with what true scientists already admit and know and that is that invisible forces lay dormant for our use, we can begin to peel layers of thought back little by little to reveal more and more astounding discoveries. Two forces are at work. One, the skeptic scientists who only believes what has already been proven or only that he can see. The other scientists, such as Bell, Morse, and Marconni, are those that already know before they know. And, that is the key. Knowing before knowing, being there before being there. We all agree that we have motivating forces within ourselves that with stimulation can unlock amazing abilities. We reach the highest, the fastest, and further than anyone else all propelled by that invisible power potential in each of us. Within that potential we can travel and communicate without devices. We do it everyday and dont realize it. However, because of social influences we name it, bring it about and then negate it because we dont want to be accused of saying something that may be too far fetched and risk ridicule. But, what if everyone in the past who were thought to be insane succumbed to what others thought? No cars, no phones. Lets peel away layers, not of things we see, not of things we brush gently but those of things thought. Invite into our being the curiosity for it to happen and it will come in. Invite into ourselves understanding of how it is to happen and it will. Invite questions to be answered to bring about our abilities. Open our minds to become Bells, Morses, and Marconnis. See and know like they did that there are amazing, wonderful, invisible ways to accomplish what will become the norm. But, unlike the bucket of bolts ours will be of pure thought to move from place to place and to communicate with others.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 19:44:09 +0000
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