Nick Herbert
Nick Herbert -- hippie physicist, friend of RAW, Quantum Reality author, fringe science editor for Mondo 2000 -- has a wild new blog post up, "Metaphase Typewriter 2.0: a Preposterous Proposition." It's about his efforts to build a device to communicate with "a few recently deceased friends" and other entities in the beyond.
You should read the whole thing -- it will probably be the most interesting article you read all day -- but let me offer a taste. Here are the opening sentences:
"In the early 1970s I designed and built the Metaphase Typewriter, a machine intended to communicate with spirits, based on the assumption that somehow consciousness, human or otherwise, arises at the quantum level and that an open quantum channel producing human speech or text might be able to be “possessed by some discarnate entity" in a manner similar to the way trance mediums can be taken over by alternate personalities. The Metaphase Typewriter was inspired.by Jane Roberts's Seth books. "
Herbert recounts his efforts to get the machine to work, discusses his efforts to improve the idea and his new inspiration for how to get one that might work, concluding:
"Nick's preposterous proposition is the conjecture that today's quantum computers are not really computers at all (sure, they can--noisily--compute) but these systems may actually be better suited to operate as easy gateways to new kinds of quantum soul to soul connections, connections that are difficult today for us to even imagine, so deeply hypnotized are all of us by the materialism-is-everything trance. The interfacing will certainly be a bitch, but your children will appreciate the essential part you played in transforming their humdrum lives into complex experiences beyond present human recognition."
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Anyone read Quantum Reality? I saw it in my nearby free library this weekend but passed on it since I couldn't tell whether it was intended for the lay reader, which I need it to be if I'm going add it to the pile.
The Metaphse typewriter was my inspiration for a software-based cut-up/chatbot mashup I did in the late 90s.
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Quantum Reality is INCREDIBLE! Works as a great companion piece to Quantum Psychology. In fact, RAW had us read it in the MLA class for Quantum Psychology. Very much recommended and totally fine for the lay reader.
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