"The Wanderer," Part 4

Synchronicity is no more baffling or mysterious than the discontinuities of physics. It is only the ingrained belief in the sovereign power of causality that creates intellectual difficulties and makes it appear unthinkable that causeless events exist or could ever occur. But if they do, then we must regard them as creative acts, as the continuous creation of a pattern that exists from all eternity, repeats itself sporadically, and is not derivable from any known antecedents.

C. G. Jung, Synchronicity

Translucent Memories

My novel The Risen attempts to explore and reveal the way that reincarnation works. It is essentially a description of a shamanistic trip; from several viewpoints. The novel starts with three experiments being conducted at the exact same time. In three separate places. A physics laboratory in Cambridge, an ancient "sacred copse" in Cornwall, and inside the Giza pyramid. In the first, the technology involves a laser and diamond crystal. In the second, a psychotropic drug. In the third—the Gantenbrink robot going deep into the pyramid along a very narrow shaft from the Queen's Chamber to the outside. Each of the three experiments represents a different way of looking at the same "event"—which is revealed to be a shamanistic event. What appears to be (in our space-time continuum) a single moment in time, is the place of hovering (as the Ancient Egyptians called it ...) through which Amenhotep (a character in the novel) reincarnates himself into the present time plane—the meaning of such a vertical multi-layered moment is what is revealed through the narrative linear time of The Risen. Another way of describing this event is to say that it is an exploration of the meaning of the birth of Horus the Falcon, from the moment Isis hovers over and copulates with Osiris, the moment of insemination, which, clearly, is an act of artificial insemination. I interpret it as the Egyptian's way of describing a process they experienced directly—by which the gods became flesh, through the alchemical process of transforming light into gold.

The Risen is a vertical novel, the narrative of events (scientific, dreams, sexual) are entirely existent within one instant in time, hence the name The Risen. Through access to another dimension—the 5th, people are already calling it—I call it the R-Field. It may appear to be a horizontal narrative, but the meaning of the connectedness of the three experiments, the coincidences, can only be understood if you realise that time in the novel—is cyclic. It is vertical. As in holographic space and time. The gap, the space between the two virtualities that creates a holographic image ... Time also is holographic. A moment of split, falling ... verfallenheit, if you like ... into holographic time, through which any number of things happen. Simultaneously. We are no longer initiated, so cannot see them all at once! It is during such a moment of verticality (the simultaneity symbolised by the hovering of Isis, which results in the birth of Horus the Falcon) that "reincarnation" can occur. When matter in this material plane as we know it, can be penetrated and given spiritual meaning, by events from the past. Artificial insemination ... but on the spiritual plane.

Looking back over my life—trying always to understand it symbolically, if you like—I seem to have no choice but to believe I am living out somebody else's reincarnation. For many years I didn't know who, but I know now. I know who he is. I know all about him now, thanks to my working with a real shaman in Pakistan in 1979. This remarkable man was responsible for putting me in touch with my spirit and with my past. Proving it by physically realized facts. It's a question of exploiting the split in your own consciousness. He forced me to reject the shackles of rationality. The shaman accepts that split, exploits it. Falls into it and through it, and creates a fissure. (As in the famed Double Slit experiments in quantum entanglement experiments?)

In my novel—but then in my life—the shaman slips through a broken lattice in the...