Ammonia Avenue

"Some seek to fix the world that we have polluted,
Some search the heavens to find another home,
Some blame and quarrel, as they always do,
Some dream of a new day, and new ways,
Some escape it all, building a new world with their own hands."

In this age we seek so many ways to find comfort, we employ countless technologies, we consult the charts, crunch the numbers. We believe our experts all too quickly and consent to their visions and their dreams, from health and medicine to computing, religion, psychology, biology, physics, chemistry and every facet of wisdom that can be explored. There will come a day when mankind will chose to act responsibly with wisdom and benevolence, and create his own world. In the past we have seen visionaries discuss the ideas of terraforming existing barren worlds, engineering enormous sustainable spaceships or space stations and even combine the two concepts (a planet-craft.) What we haven't heard much about is the act of creation. I know this is a taboo subject to many of you out there. Creating has always been left to the realm of the divine. Mary Shelley knew the outrage of her society as she published her work about a mad scientist who dared to steal thunder from the sky and breath life into a tattered corpse. Even today this theme runs chills up our spines, as we face the real possibility of its everyday occurrence. We can know that it is only so long before humanity's definition is widened, as cyborgs and androids walk among us. We stand to gain so much wisdom, so much ability and so much value as this new age dawns! Must we continue to harvest, to cannibalize, to manipulate that which is already manifest? Might we seek instead to create a new world, a world where there was nothing? Might we use the science of the quantum scale, scalar resonance field technology and manipulation of sound and light to produce a new reality*, a new universe? Might we dare write the laws of this brave new world with the patterns of our home world - all the more perfect for the translation? Might we instill in its very fabric the compassion and wisdom of the Christ, the Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi? I would have only one more wish for humanity living in such a world, such a paradise. I would wish for them to endow each subsequent being (born into the place) with the worth, the honor, the wisdom and freedom that allowed for its very creation. Its our own patterns that we struggle against all too often (those which we perceive to be external and those which are internal - even our own DNA.) We humans have seen one empire after the next plant flags on beach after beach, dominate, destroy and deform the native civilization. This destructive tendency has permeated our entire recorded history with very few exceptions. It is inevitable that this tendency be left behind, that mankind put away his preference for consuming and take up a new found sense of value and responsibility. This world is what we make of it, and the next one may be ours to forge.

I had originally discussed some of these concepts in a blog entitled "Simulism: The Science Of Holodecks" this concept ventures further out into obscurity, envisioning the capability to generate a solid, functional world complete with all the complexity of life on earth (minus the really frustrating attributes.) Think of it as a Utopia made up into the space between the matter we see right here around us. It could be as close as we wanted it. It could be as real as we wanted it. It would be of our own making.