Desert-Shapes and Other Cosmic Mysteries is an exploration into all sorts of things from various sources
& perspectives.
http://desertshapes.blogspot.ca/2009/01/the-desert-of-real-and-shapes-in-between.html
Is reality
an immense recording & projection of space & time for consciousness
to interact within? Metaphorically like a cosmic hard drive.
This is just one of the multitude of subjects & topics that desertshapes explores.
{When Morpheus is explaining "What
the Matrix is" to Neo, he uses the phrase, "Welcome,
to the desert
of the real
." This is a paraphrase from Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra
and Simulation", the hollowed-out book where Neo keeps his illegal software. The quote can be found in Chapter One - The Precession of Simulacra, Page one, Paragraph 2, "It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours. The desert of the real itself." NB: The American title of
Baudrillard's book is Simulations. It was published by Semiotext(e) in
1983. }
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/trivia http://www.librarything.com/work/44427
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{" The resistance leader Morpheus utters the ironic greeting
: "Welcome to the desert of the
real." Was it not something of the similar order that took place in New York
on September
11? Its citizens were introduced to the "desert of the real"
- to us, corrupted by
Hollywood, the landscape and the shots we saw of the collapsing towers could not but remind us of the most breathtaking scenes in the catastrophe big
productions."}
http://web.mit.edu/cms/reconstructions/interpretations/desertreal.html
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The Holographic Universe Theory implies
that information &
reality is stored on many levels. The
Wheel_of_time is an ancient concept for the cosmos being like an immense hard drive of space, time & consciousness,
etc. Questioning & examining reality can reveal several clues about the larger aspects of
reality. Buddhism implies that the universe has an operating system. Indeed, somehow this system returns the
consciousness of a person into another body for another life experience. The
rebirth process is like a wheel in a vast cosmic machine. However, the concept
of past
lives &
reincarnation isn't limited
to Buddhism.
Reincarnation_research has revealed several clues to something like a cosmic
OS. - The
Dharma path like
Hinduism,
Sikhism & the
Abrahamic_religions have their gods as creator & pinnacle of the
cosmos. While life on earth seems real, there is the belief of higher levels of reality beyond the earth plane of existence. These higher levels in comparison to the earth plane, apparently make earth life more like an
illusion within a much larger reality.
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Although
Robert_Jordan didn't directly refer
to a cosmic hard drive, he did create his own Wheel of Time Mythology. After the end credits of
Vanilla Sky, when the music ends you can clearly hear the sound of a
record player stopping. Perhaps a symbolic reference to a particular disc program ending. All throughout history, there have been accounts of people being visited by an angel or a guide, perhaps from a cosmic version of
tech support. Every movie has a
director & a studio can produce several movies. Since life exists on earth, why couldn't it exist on other worlds as well?
The Universe may have several channels
or frequency layers. Observing & taking notes on
coincidence &
synchronicity can reveal many clues. Since ancient times, people first thought of the
earth as being a
disc for life & other data to exist upon. Perhaps the
ancient concept of a flat or disc
world was more of a symbolic concept of
this world &
the universe existing
on several
levels.
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Although
Wikipedia articles are heavily reference here, its primarily just for a general purpose level. It is always important to do your own cross referencing of more in depth research data.
