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Converting to mobile memory
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by Frank DeMarco |
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On Monday, March 28, 2001, I awoke from a dream remembering the phrase, "Convert to mobile memory," which, within the dream, was the solution to a computer problem. But as I awoke, I realized that anything I think or know is only in my mind till I put it into mobile memory – as a book, a blog entry, whatever. I awoke feeling that I was not recording enough, not even remembering enough, of the things that have happened in my life or their meanings. So I asked the guys upstairs.
FD: Let's talk about blogging and publishing and making an impact.
TGU: Thank you for hearing that. It isn't anything you haven't half-heard before now, but this is a good time for the discussion. In writing books, what do you wish to accomplish if not to attract an audience and preserve your thought in more permanent form? Books are more permanent than magazine articles or newspaper articles, to be sure. But – contrary to your first impression, they are not as permanent as the Internet. They are more tangible, yes. But, as soon as they go out of print, they are less accessible. And even in the meantime they may be much less easily found.
FD: So I should write for Kindle?
TGU: Do you want to discuss the subject, or not?
FD: I do. You getting touchy?
TGU: No, we never object to jokes or one-liners per se – but we do object to your asking a question and then slipping away before we can answer it. This is not a simple subject, really, though it may appear to be. If we were talking of the structure of the soul, or of the nature of the afterlife, you might jest but you would listen. But when the subject is something "merely" physical, you slide away.
FD: Guilty as charged. So, proceed.
TGU: You know the concept of dynamic symmetry. If several things are traveling in convoy, their relationship to each other is more important to the convoy then any relation to a reference point outside the convoy. Something moving too quickly is as disruptive as something moving too slowly relative to the convoy as a whole. We have touched on this from time to time. We'll try to pull it together.
Your time – your convoy – has vastly speeded up, just in the past 20 years. Therefore your activities – everyone's – must be measured in a different scale. Several different scales, in fact: speed, connectivity, depth of thought, connection in time, connection in space, connection in depth (internal), connection in non-space (this kind of ILC, for instance).
FD: I see. As you said, a larger topic than I thought. Quite a list. Care to elaborate as I list them one by one, and then pull it all together?
TGU: What a splendid, inspired, idea. We smile.
FD: And somebody asked me if I was always such a wise guy in connecting with you!
TGU: Symmetry, friend, symmetry. Proceed.
FD: All right. Speed.
TGU: When you were a boy, the fastest communication was the telephone, but beyond local calls, cost had to be factored in, and so there was not the unthinking practice of calling on impulse. Nor was it expected, which of course also reduced its frequency. As you got older, telephone charges came down considerably, and people became freer at using the telephone to bridge distance, and the whole concept of a "long-distance call" lost much of its special aura. Distance, to that extent, became disregarded. Then came the Internet, less than 20 years ago, and in a short time it revolutionized the concept of staying in touch. By e-mail, you could call when you wished and it didn't matter if the other person could talk then, it was as if he or she could. This aspect of e-mail vastly freed communication because you no longer had to wonder if it was convenient for the recipient to talk. When you had the impulse, you e-mailed. When they did, they e-mailed back. And the result was that instead of waiting by your mailbox or by your telephone, you were plugged in more or less permanently if you wished to be. The only delay was in the response time from the other end of the communication. This is a huge and undigested change in a very short time, of larger import than the one-way communication of television, or radio before it – greater because the participant in e-mail is participant, not recipient.
FD: Connectivity?
TGU: It has become customary already to compile lists of similar-minded friends and send group e-mails, thus linking yourselves into a temporary but repetitively active community. The isolation that was taken for granted as a fact of life only a generation ago is gone except among those who by choice or circumstance are not connected by e-mail or other electronic linkage. You laugh at texting, but this is because you are a man from another age. It is not depth of thought but the feeling of moment-to-moment connectivity that is fostered thereby. If you think that is without value, think of the powerful centrifugal force it counterbalances.
FD: Depth of thought, then.
TGU: Well, you can see that speed and connectivity militate against depth and continuity of thought. You can’t hop around continually and still hatch eggs. This must be looked at as a condition that is a sort of opportunity-cost involved with greater speed and connectivity. It shouldn't be overlooked.
FD: Connection in time.
TGU: That's you. That’s anyone whose present is a rich compost of many remembered pasts. Not speaking here of personal life but of cultural, and personal, historical life. The world of American history lives within you, or, equally, you live within it. You have internalized parts of the construct that is history because you read of it when so moved. Thus you look at Harry Truman's memoirs, or Hemingway Goes To War, or any of the books – some favorites, resorted to time and again – and you thereby connect yourself to an array. You become, in effect, a specialized tool for the greater mind, as does everyone who acquires specialized knowledge by repeated immersions into practical or theoretical (abstract) knowledge. This, too, cuts against – therefore must compromise with – greater speed and connectivity.
FD: Connection in space.
TGU: In your present day, travel is beginning to close down again, but for 50 years you had an unprecedented opening-up of the world to the unconnected Western traveler. By unconnected, we mean those who traveled strictly for personal reasons, rather than from a connection to the business or military worlds. That wide-spread travel often seemed – often was – pointless from any rational point of view – people relocating themselves but only by being careful to immerse themselves in an artificial re-creation of the environment they were used to – but what it accomplished along with the electronic extensions of the senses such as film, TV and radio, and now Internet video, was to vastly expand the scale people think at. That is, even if people don't absorb the meaning of their newscasts, they become accustomed to hearing of the existence of Korea, Vietnam, Japan, the Middle East, etc. And now the Internet accustoms people to having friends "there" that they may never meet in person but will meet, perhaps intimately, in their mind and soul.
FD: Connection in depth.
TGU: Over the past few months we have been helping you to redefine yourself as a collection of strands, you being the ringmaster for the duration of time you are alive. The progressive integration of those strands – the greater harnessing of them as a team – is the work we call you to, for your own satisfaction now and in the life beyond the physical. Some are more able to do this than others; some are more attracted to it; some are more challenged by it, according to the nature of their internal makeup. In "hard times" the degree of integration becomes more important as a factor.
FD: Connection via ILC.
TGU: Well, you can see how helpful it is to have a source of internal guidance and of – shall we call ourselves "invited-guest guidance." One more new resource for new times.
All of these factors are in different relation today. They will be in different relation again, a few years hence. This is the nature of changing times – and the times are always changing.
So – to return more immediately to our theme – in a changed environment, you cannot expect older ways of communicating to produce the same effect. Physical, printed, bound, distributed, retailed books are necessarily going to make up a smaller percentage of the sensory nexus than they have in 300 years. Given the economic factors at work, they are no longer the most permanent medium.
We ought to repeat that, to be sure you really hear it. "Permanent" is not the same as "tangible," and in fact in your day is cutting against it. An electronic file can be stored essentially forever. It can be printed out. It can be sent on. It may circle cyberspace forever, or as long as cyberspace continues. It is more permanent, thus, than books considered as available product. Yes, if you own the book it is yours till it disintegrates or is lost or discarded. But looked at from a systems point of view, the book once out-of-print is essentially unavailable, and even while in print faces ever more competition for people's attention. As a file it need not go out of print, or become unavailable.
Now if the Internet disappears, or you lose access to it, that's another story, but that is like postulating that the roads disappear, or that USPS and UPS cease delivering books. In either event, everything would change – but in either event, the consequences to information flow would not be the most significant result – to put it mildly.
FD: I'm tiring out. We should continue this, however. Looking back, I see it was spurred by the dream sentence, "convert to mobile memory."
TGU: Worth remembering your dreams, perhaps.
FD: Yes, perhaps! Thanks.
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Frank DeMarco,
Author, publisher, editor, & psychic explorer.
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Frank DeMarco holds an M.A. in History from the University of Iowa and a B.A. in History from George Washington University.
His work as co-founder and (for 15 years) chief editor of Hampton Roads Publishing Company brought him into close association with many brilliant and insightful minds, including psychics, remote viewers, channelers and mystics, and showed him the human side of extraordinary abilities.
In 1992, his psychic abilities opened up at a Gateway Voyage at The Monroe Institute in central Virginia. Since then he has been engaged in first-hand exploration of the nature and limits of all things psychic, especially including such areas as healing and guidance, direct access to knowledge, communication with past lives, and the integration of the spiritual dimension into everyday life.
His autobiographical work Muddy Tracks: Exploring an Unsuspected Reality describes the first stages of his discovery of the key to expanded awareness, and offers pointers for those just beginning their quest. In his weblog, www.hologrambooks.com
wordpress.com, he shares the journey and the results of continuing explorations. His blog, “I of my own knowledge…” investigates what individuals can know first-hand about the purpose and conduct of life.
Contact info
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muddytracks@
earthlink.net
Phone: 434-244-0370
Website & Blogs:
www.hologrambooks.com/
www.thehistoricalcontext.
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