Markham (Preface)

It turns out I have a relatively unique challenge with Quantum Mechanics. While fascinating, the study of functions and advanced math nomenclature are based in the dictates and underpinnings of logic and pure analytic reason. These are interesting pursuits – to be sure; but lack the overwhelmingly satisfying energy of conscious phenomenological experience.

As a card carrying cosmologist, I am far more intrigued and energized by the foundational and ontological aspects of the Quantum Mechanics theory, String Theory and the notion that we may inhabit a Multiple Universe – with infinite possible other universes – and their probable ramifications.

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To begin with – as an pre-anecdotal critique of coming attractions – I find myself side-tracking in my thinking as I might be wandering a bit too far afield and am struck by the inescapably irrefutable realization that everything we could be considering could be extremely irrelevant while simultaneously astonishingly appealing.

To this, my ever irascible self says, “it might be a good time to give all this up and get back on track”. To which I actually have no suitable retort. However, it would be a grave mistake for you to think you are now somehow psychically eavesdropping on a meaningless personal conversation.

Quite the reverse is true.

You have been selected to engage in a brand new experience of conscious evolution, and, you have my word, it won’t hurt one bit. In fact, the sole objective here is to get you wrapped-up enough in the ongoing conversation so as to keep you occupied just long enough to give you a snapshot of what is up about human consciousness, information you might not otherwise get another chance to integrate.

All set?

OK, here we go…or, as my great friend Markham is so very fond of observing, “Everyone wants something from someone. That’s not good or bad, it just is.”

Impeccable. Before we begin, however, the are a couple of other items worth noting…

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I had a visitor. His name was Markham. Not “Jon Markham” or even “Bob Markham”, just Markham. And, though I would ask a couple of times during our times together about his name, his origins, and other such information; at the very best he only ever obliged me with some unrelated story that had nothing at all to do with him, his people, or his home.

In the end, I just gave up.

Markham had some interesting notions about quite a few things, but the subject with which he was most eloquent could be best described as a model of consciousness based wholly upon experiential and empirical observations about himself and the world in which he found himself currently residing. I tried, during our many discussions, to point out that his view was entirely heliocentric and lacking of any real objectivity, to which he curiously quipped, “So is every other everything you have ever heard or might be fortunate enough to hear come tomorrow and the next day, and the next, and so on until the end of your days!”

For instance, on one such occasion, just as I was returning from one of my client visits he greeting me with the following.

“Consciousness Expansion”, he related, “the exponentiation of one’s conscious awareness and incumbent creative capacities through the deliberate and sustained excitation of one’s core energy.”

“Sounds completely and utterly terrifying”, I remarked. “If I were to suggest such an incredibly fantastic notion, you would have me laughed right out of town!”

“Nonsense!’, Markham insisted, ‘it’s as simple as 2 + 2”. “Here, let me explain it to you in more simple terms…”

“To begin with, it could be said that each of us is a singularity of consciousness. By that, I mean to say, we are all single, isolated, and discrete points of light in a vast rainbow of consciousness. We all begin just at this singularity of spacetime to comprehend the ensuing expansion of our self in what we call ‘the world’.”

“That sounds a bit familiar”, I remarked.

“I am not claiming that what I have to relate to you is entirely unique. In fact, many terra-born philosophies and religious views actually contain similar notions.”

And so it went with him. Over the course of the ensuing years he had many other somewhat odd, buy always interesting, things to say.

The following is what I recorded…