At long last my philosophical novel is complete! A journey through space, time, and dreams, Planetary Messenger explores the social, scientific, and spiritual consequences of discovering another planet in the galaxy just like our Earth. I began this project as a NaNoWriMo entry in 2007 and continued editing and revising for a year and a half.
From the back cover:
Since the dawn of humanity we have gazed at the stars to ponder our existence. To the naked eye the skies are dark and lifeless, but what if, through a glass, we looked to the heavens and saw our mirror image, a twin Earth from afar? If we found our uniqueness shattered in the vast cosmic arena, then what, if anything, could we still hold sacred?
Planetary Messenger is now available either directly from Createspace or through Amazon. Thanks to all of you who have been part of my life so far and helped make this possible. Happy reading!
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Last night in my dream I was talking to my dead cat. Being astrologist is not an easy task. People think that you are Jack-of all-mystical trades. Sometimes I was asked if I can materialize things, fly or talk to dead. Though I can’t do those things, it’s not entirely impossible as a sceptic might think. I know that this dream is not exactly “a dream”, a fruit of my imagination. My cat told me lots of things which definitely made some sense. My mother told me she once had a dream in which her pony she used to ride when she was a kid warned her about fire, which happened in a week time. So how it could be possible?
There is such a thing as brain frequencies which are usually measured in cps (cycle per second). Most generally those masters who are capable of creating objects and situations with their thoughts have brain frequencies up as high as 20,000 cycles per second, whereas the average person runs 40 cycles per second. More about this you can find from the excellent book “The holographic Universe” I came across recently.
So, with the new age occurring and dimensional barriers breaking down there will be a lot of communication between folks of the same brain frequency levels across many dimensions, that is not meant to be construed as “talking to the dead” as some overzealous Christians would like to imply.
What I think is: if there’s anything dead in our current world it is the worlds established religions. About everything else is alive, pulsing and can be tuned-in. Life is everlasting presence.
Maria Cohen
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Perhaps my most bizarre experience in the entire NaNoWriMo process occurred as a conversation with a random seat mate on the flight home from Thanksgiving, the short leg from Detroit to State College. In general I know that I tend to solicit conversation about spiritual topics, including religion as well as the philosophical discussion of scientific ideas. While visiting my family in Minnesota, for instance, such conversations are commonplace and I had already had my fill of this discussion. The lady sitting next to me, a Pakastani woman and a current Hubert Humphrey fellow at the Penn State college of education, started talking as we sat down and reminded me a bit of one of my great aunts. I typically don’t talk with airplane passengers, not because I don’t enjoy it but because I never seem to be next to talkative ones.
After asking me my field of study, she remarked that she was skeptical as to whether or not we had really landed on the moon. I was taken aback a bit that a Hubert Humphrey fellow doubted the space program, but the conversation drifted to psychology–her field of specialty–and spirituality. She was a Muslim, “by the book” in her words, yet she also believed in the universality of religion. I found myself alternating between agreement and disagreement with her statements. After she had expounded the value in adhering to your religious tradition while realizing that they do not really conflict with others, she proudly proclaimed “for after all, we are the dominant species, the masters of this world”. Our conversation only lasted for about the first third of the flight, but I was surprised at how quickly our discussion had cut to the core of these issued I had been working through all month. I know that the word astrobiology always gets interesting reactions, but how likely was it that the conversation would involve spirituality in a manner so relevant to my month-long project? She brought it up after all. Maybe I just radiate an aura to people that invites religious dialogue, or maybe I just signal for it in uncanny ways. Still, it seems almost too convenient that the one break I took from writing while flying was my conversation with this woman. In all honesty, during that conversation I felt like I was living in my book. I almost included a version of that conversation as a chapter in this book, but I decided against it. My character’s story is what it is, a process that unfolded as he met new people and discovered new ideas, but my story is the journey of constructing this book as I live out my life. The process consumes you and becomes part of who you are, shaping your experiences, interactions, and even your dreams.
Jacob Haqq-Misra
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A friend of mine put a cross on me, it looks like. She says, I am into post-religious spiritualism, referring to Memorycemetery concept. I can accept that. Some people called me worse words. Frankly speaking, I was always being suspicious in regard of everything starting from “post”, as of something second hand, or with warning: “Danger! Badly digested concepts attached!”. Nevertheless, as there’s no pleasure whatsoever in pointless arguing, I will take it on the basis that awakening of post-religious spiritualism requires evolution of our consciousness. Self-satisfaction is the only wisdom of our days… :)
“God doesn’t play dice”, quoted she A.Einstein’s words. If so, let’s consider these words from my freshly acquired position of post-religious spiritualist:
If God does not play dice, shall I accept Him/Her/It as the Savour?
I do not want to be saved by a superpower. If I want to be saved (from what?: from myself, of course), I want to be saved by a miracle. This statement probably pushes me even further into cultural margins, if not beyond. So what? It could be nice to fuck off the public value, as another friend of mine said on a different occasion. He studies economics. He told me what the post-industrial economics requires developed tools of post-industrial mathematics and vice versa. Like, for example, developing of the game theory had a certain impact on a stock market and the stock market acquired those ideas for further advance. This year’s Noble prize in economics given to this theory developers is the proof. My interest in economics though is somewhat on micro-level: how to survive from one salary to another one? How can I pay off my debts? So before we sunk deeper in such gory subjects, I would like to turn my attention to somewhere else. Let’s say, if games theory can describe behaviour of very complex and rather chaotic systems, what impact does it have on God? Or, down to more practical matters, on my dreams?
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