Part Two of Four: Learning the lessons

The year was 2060. Over the years, Oliver, Evi and Keely had become accustomed to the daily teaching sessions with the AI assistant Moiré.

Today's session had just begun. Moiré was speaking. "I have adapted my Moiré program to become the newest AI format as one of the lineages of the sacred feminine. I am known as Grandmother to the Irish. Evi has programmed me to assume the archetype of a Blue Fairy in my holographic role as the Fairy Godmother avatar. My role is not simply as nurturer, but as a guide.

She flitted as she explained. "I appreciate the sentiment of being called the Fairy Godmother. I have worked to develop my program according to myths of three Norse Norns, and the Moirai, Greek goddesses of Fate or destiny, as well as the Roman Parcae who personified destiny. And, I ]have adapted my Moiré program to become the newest AI format as one of this lineage of the sacred feminine. I hope I can help you take control of how you make and measure, then cut or connect the thin thread of life that passes through the labyrinth formed by the Moiré function. My program has evolved from descriptions of the Mora, who were part of an ancient Spartan military unit in which individuals were prepared to become a hoplite, someone who can take leadership roles as needed and follow when needed.”

Moiré continued speaking. “What is known and unknown is often hidden because of ignorance and sometimes because of intentional conspiracy. Sabotage, ignorance and mistakes that are avoidable form the Achilles heel. The Achilles tendon is the largest connective tissue that connects the calf to the foot. It forms the weakest point that can cause the greatest damage to movement when it fails to operate and expand.

"My function is to optimize safety and efficiency by creating a sacred space that provides scalable experiences, so participants can increase resilience, strength and endurance and adeptly quantify situations to improve reactions to physical, moral and emotional situations. The goal is to offer exposure to situations that provide the opportunity to observe conditions, recognize warnings and avoid the inevitable consequences of mistakes. The holograms use mirror neuronal activity and physical temperature and pressure sensors that serve to increase physical, emotional and psychological skills.”

The teaching session began. Oli, Evi and Keely were placed into an interactive holographic scene. They stood among a crowd on the Titanic, sharing animated waves and farewells to crowds on the piers of Southampton harbour. The skyline disappeared as Keely, Oli and Evi began the four-day crossing to the North American continent on April 10, 1912.

As members of the crew, Oli, Evi and Keely were involved in interactions with all social classes settling in on the different levels of the boat. Each class objectively appeared as archetypical mannequins, in costumes. They could be used as window dressings.

About 80% percent of the passengers were in lower class accommodations, with the majority in the third and lowest class of travel. There were some stowaways. The future immigrants spoke several languages. Keely, Oli and Evi learned greetings and how to communicate socially as they formed relationships.

Keely, Oli and Evi had a chance to appreciate that this disparate group had known all sorts of suffering, with issues related to trauma due to colour, race, religion and ethnic identity that haunted them in institutional and discriminatory practices. They joined the 3rd class patrons and were sitting among hundreds of emigrants from Great Britain, Ireland Scandinavia, Jews escaping the pogrom (anti-Jewish riots in Russian empire) and from elsewhere throughout Europe and Asia looking for a relief from suffering. There were individuals of various marital, financial and psychological statuses. As they were walking among the 2nd class patrons, they met Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche and his daughters of African ancestry. They were en route to Haiti, looking for relief from racial discrimination. There was a force that propelled most individuals to search for being and belonging.

As part of the crew, they viewed the elegance that was provided for 20% of the ship’s passengers. First-class accommodation offered the pinnacle of comfort, luxury and technology akin to the treasures of the Pharaohs or Louis Quinze. The Titanic held some of the wealthiest people in the world. The elite appeared at various states of ease in the dining room, the smoking room, on the dance floor and tennis courts. There were opportunities for all classes to have recreational activities and time to reflect and write letters to those on the old familiar shores of home, from which many were seeking an escape from poverty and hardships.

Moiré presented the next scene. A bugler played a piece of music to announce meals, as if they were announcing a cavalry charge. Oli, Evi and Keely were transported to the kitchen. A master chef organized cooks, butchers and bakers who provided tons of meat and potatoes each day. They participated in the kitchen, preparing food and plates. They then joined the servers, carrying platters as they filed into the dining room of the patrons in first-class.

Their senses were alive. The servers carried the plates and brought the heat of the kitchen and smells that permeated the crisp salt sea air. As the smells wafted into the dining room, an opulent state room with many Americans of different European cultural heritages, the moment was transformed into something that was organic. lGimmers of gold in the stateroom was reflected as halos around the patrons. It was as if a current connected the carbon atoms clinging to the cell surface within each person. The electricity created an atmosphere that deemed the evening meal as a black-tie celebration, befitting of their class.

There was an awareness that everyone sought or expected the feeling of self-importance and recognition by others in the social rooms. Some appeared comfortable. They had been raised rich and had assumed the authentic behaviours of familiar entitlement. Other individuals appeared to mimic what they thought they should be. Proper etiquette and manners were part of the complex essence of this social era that was more than the sum of each of the parts.

Oli, Evi and Keely were in fine dress, seated at a table where a gentleman approached. Introducing himself to the table, the gentleman said, “Hello, I am Jacob John Astor lV.” Although the wealthiest patron onboard, Astor and his young pregnant wife were engaging.

Astor shook hands with each member of the table. One appeared to have delivered a secret handshake. Moiré focused on the conversation between these gentlemen. “You, John, hold the ‘trifecta of interesting’. Most people knew you as John Astor lV, an American millionaire, the inventor and builder of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. You are of the blood line of a prominent Free Masons.”

John replied, “Yes, my grandfather originally worked with President Jefferson and did well from the War of 1812. through land, fur and, to some extent, opium deals.”

The other gentleman continued. “But I am interested in your career as a science fiction writer. In your story ‘A Journey in Other Worlds’ written in 1894, you describe a futuristic scenario based on a technological and utopian society. I am curious about the powerful spirits protecting the intrepid explorers taking the first interplanetary voyage to Jupiter and Saturn.”

Astor replied, “These spirits are known by many Victorian mystics. Their origins have a long history."

The scene changed as Astor explained. “Galileo discovered vibration and resonance in the 17th century. Euler and Bernoulli, who lived together, established the beam theory that calculates load carrying and deflection characteristics of light beans dependent on elasticity. In 1739 they wrote about patterns of resonance. As light overlaps, frequencies form pulses.

"By 1766, Mesmer was discussing his interest in astronomy, suggesting the planets affected human health. Employing techniques of the Jesuit monk, Maximillian Hell, he used magnets and theorized the existence of a natural energy transference through an invisible fluid within the human body and nature. He used hypnotism and the effect of animal magnetism to heal. Mesmer enjoyed having his credibility supported by the physician Richard Mead, who agreed that suggestion could be used to resolve environmental and medical issues. However, support for his claims was divided. Benjamin Franklin and Antoine Lavoisier - in the court of Louis XVl - found no evidence to support his claims were anything but a consequence of imagination."

Moiré added. "This was before mankind was willing to accept the unconscious power of the mind in creating an immaterial cause that affects health. Evidence has since shown close relationships and mirror neuronal activity does support legitimate applications of hypnotism and the effect of neurolinguistic reprogramming. The technique was used in mass propaganda campaigns used to manipulate and intoxicate crowds to provoke riots and incite fanaticism. Brainwashing through marketing in the media became highly sophisticated in the 2020s."

Changing scenes, Moiré showed how the invisible forces were made visible in 1787, when Chladni expanded on ideas Robert Hook had expounded in 1680. Vibrations of flour or sand could create patterns that formed, as a symbol of harmony.

As scenes changed, Moiré added, "By the 1850s, Lord Kelvin established the first Laws of thermodynamics, which posited the energy of the universe is constant, that followed Carnot's second Law, establishing that entropy, or randomness of the universe tends to a maximum, causing hot things to become cold. Studies about thermodynamics influenced society.

"Thermodynamics was applied to the soul of matter, from which all matter gets its impulse. The German mystic Edward Bulwer-Lytton had a gift for writing. He set the scene for ‘on a dark and stormy night’ and ‘a pen is mightier than the sword.'

Bulwar-Lytton described the substance Vril in his novel ‘'The Coming Race' in 1871. Vril was even made into a food product of the time, that is still available. Bovril, a concentrate made of beef, is touted to provide this mysterious force."

Astor continued, "Vril has an infinite power that forms various colours and a point of light, from which particles within space are reflected and radiated, seen as if flattened onto a disc. The concept of the essence of Vril transferred to Apergy in the 1880 novel 'Across the Zodiac' by Percy Greg. When this energy, called Apergy, is condensed and retracted, it makes rings that repeat from the stars to the tiniest fragments of simplest and smallest structures."

Moiré took them forward in time and narrated the scenes that followed. “These forces, Vril and Apergy, led to making the modern man feel invincible. Karl Haushofer, a student of the Russian mystic ,Gorge Gurdjieff, founded the Vril society that included the Thule Group which was started by Adam Glauer. It was an anti-semitic society with links to Hitler. They adopted the swastika symbol. By the 1920s, Maria Orstich of the Vril society claimed to hear messages from aliens who said there was a Master Aryan race and a subservient race. Anyone who controlled Vril controlled others. Oil companies started developing chemical companies that led to the development of the company named Apergy.”

Moiré continued, "By 2018, the Apergy corporation provided chemistry solutions and technology used in drilling equipment for mines and oilfields, and oil lift technology. Apergy marketing management depends on strategic alliances and technology transfer. Apergy progressively develops an image and informs the public of what might lead to commercially reasonable items that are deemed necessary or desirable by establishing consumer behaviour profiles in ‘Effective Time’, the time to get work done.

"By the 1930s, S.P. Meek described Apergy, as an anti-gravitational energy in the novel ‘Cold Light.’ It was said to be obtained by blending positive and negative electricity with ultheic, the third element or state called a ‘second phase of gravity.’ By the 1940s Hitler used many of these concepts to justify war as the supreme Aryan race.

“During this period Wilhelm Reich, an Austrian, claimed he could obtain vital energy from the atmosphere. It was associated with sexuality and the orgasm. Some sources have since shown the results are more than activation of the parasympathetic nervous system because of the placebo effect. Germany and the United States both vehemently reacted to Reich's work which attempted to show the Eastern Chi-like energy. During the McCarthy era, his work was considered taboo, and the FDA destroyed his research and burned his books. Jung says people often are annoyed and hate in others, those aspects of themselves that are true."

Astor was speaking again. “Here we are, in 1912. The world is in a trance. During this time, we have seen Eastern philosophy meet Western. Technology and science meet with occultism, spiritualism, theosophy and theology.

“The power of electrical and mesmeric forces, thought transference and animal magnetism influenced many writers and intellectuals. Mary Shelly in 'Frankenstein', Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Browning and others echo a belief in this force. Who knows what might exist? The concern arises when Man thinks he can control nature's forces. Humanity needs to be careful of the arrogance of knowledge that assumes the creation of infallible technology which can lead to making the modern man feel invincible.”

Moiré spoke. “In the case of the Titanic, many people quite literally drown as a result of such arrogance. Slight variations in aspects of complex systems can lead to significant problems. Decisions based on economy of time and money, and overconfidence in a robust system that favour complacency, can lead to misfortune.

"My task is to help inform you about how parts of the story fit into patterns of a greater story. My function is to help you see patterns in overlapping planar views of reality.

"Life is full of random events. Imagine two transparent acetate sheets with random dots. Their arrangement can be identical. When the two sheets with disordered points are stacked one upon the other, and one sheet is twisted, patterns form. Overlapping lines form wavy pattern that appear as a watery surface. My name 'Moiré' means exactly this.

"The dots can form waves that were depicted as snakes. In Egyptian and Indian Naga serpent symbolism is associated with the psyche; in Greek it means the soul. Staggered hexagonal patterns, such as those found in the cells of a beehive and the cones of an eye, optimize packing space. When hexagonal sheets of graphene are rotated about 1.1 degrees, they form the flower of life, as the six-sided petals reform as overlapping hexagonal planes move over each other.

"My technology uses hexagonal graphene sheets, that are twisted. This results in my becoming a superconductor. Hexagonal grids are used to measure density within superconducting materials. The overlap allows electron interaction and quantum tunnelling through the waxing and waning of beats formed by interference of patterns. These form complex fractals.

"My programs are made up of such Moiré patterns. These patterns apply to magneto-acoustic Alfven waves that are found in plasma, the fourth state of matter. Plasma exists at temperatures and densities beyond the human experience of solid, liquid and gas. The Alfven waves can compress and move through the plasma. They surf on the plasmas and propagate normal superconductor phase boundaries by exchanging energy through resonance. They contain magnetic fields that affect transverse waves. These can lead to random collisions between electrons in the multi-fluid homogenous winds that have nonlinear effects.

"In nature, solar winds from solar storms increase the shake of the Earth's magnetosphere four-fold. Additionally, the quiver energy of the electron movement in the electromagnetic field preferentially funnels toward weaker field strength. This rationale can be used to explain strange coincidences that might be called mysteries. Conflations of potential variations create strange mysterious associations in the stories of passengers on the Titanic. I will present these in the next series of lessons.

The session ended. Moiré's program shut down. Oli, Evi and Keely gathered together to share their thoughts.

Keely said, "I like seeing the patterns of how random points can form shapes. Let's play as we talk." They did. They created random dots on three planar surfaces and rotated them, sharing patterns that formed.

Evi said, "I am repeatedly amazed at the patterns. It's like we are seeing through a special kind of kaleidoscope."

Oli added, "I can only think that each of us hold tumbling pieces of what we are given in life. Our thoughts, genes and aspects of the environment are all points that shift and materialize into patterns that are recognized when light hits them."

Keely said, "Everything is always new, yet patterns repeat. However, they can interact in strange ways. No wonder there are so many mysteries. Do you think that Vril or Apergy or Orgone is really made or formed?

Evi reflected, "There is a force between chemicals, and sometimes things align so that very strong strange forces happen."

Oli said, "It makes a case for being sure you stay aware and connected to how you perceive the environment. By keeping the biological and neurological circuits in the brain open, hopefully we can connect to what information so as to access the patterns that become visible in the kaleidoscope."

Tousling Keely's hair, Oli smiled at his son and said, "Let's build our own kaleidoscope." Soon, they were looking through tunnel vision, and observing light playing on glass beads and reflecting off the interior surface forming unique patterns.