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{Title|THE GOD PHONE}
by
David Gladstone
Now that's really a coincidence...Coming events cast their shadows before.
- James Joyce, Ulysses

Science proceeds as if the past were the home of explanation; whereas the
future, and the future alone, holds the key to the mysteries of the
present.
-- Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Apology for Old Maids

If you were anybody at all in the cultural scene that was exploding in New
York in 1965 you knew Edie.  Edie Sedgwick had cachet.  She came from that
long, august line of New England Sedgwicks, whose firmament was illuminated
by genuine brilliance but was often  blighted by suicide and mental
anguish.

Edie's Face was everywhere.  Diana Vreeland featured her in Vogue Magazine.
She was in all the teenybopper rags.  Her short hair, black tights, and
great legs were always moving in a maelstrom of whirlwind activity, from
limo to club to limo again, in an endless frenzied spiral.  It was 1965.
For a while Andy worshipped androgenous Edie.  He made her a star.
Warhol's' factory'provided a nucleus around which Edie and her entourage
spun their high speed orbits, high energy particles soon to crash.. Her
face and style impressed everyone.  Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger, riding the
newest musical waves, intersected Edie's orbit.

Everyone knew she was the real heroine of Blonde on Blonde1. She was one of
the many things that moved me, Bob Dylan, Jackson Pollack... The first time
I saw Edie was in Vogue Magazine in 1965.  You have to understand where I
came from.  Living in south Jersey you get connected with the pulse beat of
what's going on through magazines.. It was all image.. She was like a thin
man in black leotards, white hair and boat-necked sweater. She was such a
strong image that I thought, "That's it." It represented everything to
me,.radiating intelligence, speed, being connected with the moment.."
- singer-songwriter, Patti Smith

Edie's last starring vehicle was "Ciao! Manhattan", now a cult classic.
The infamous Dr.Roberts, inaugurated the film by shooting up the entire
cast with amphetamines for an orgy scene at a health club.  Edie describes
her activities in Jean Stein's Edie,

..an incredible sexual tailspin..every kind of sex freak from homosexuals
to nymphomaniacs... Gobble, gobble, gobble. Couldn't get enough of it.  Sex
and speed.  Wow.  Like oh, God!  A twenty-four hour climax that can go on
for days.  I'd like to turn on the whole world for a moment... just for a
moment.  I'm greedy.  I'd like to keep most of it for myself and a few
others, a few of my friends ... so that I'd radiate sunshine.

"And I'd like to see her rise again."
- Patti Smith2

Edie's image lives on.  An icon that has the power to evoke an era or
inspire imitation.  Carl Jung attributed to such images a kind of magnetic
power to attract events, linking the future and the past through loops of
meaning which cannot be explained by the accepted definition of causality.
Edie's power to fascinate is demonstrated by her continual 'resurrection'
in books and films.  While working on this article, Oliver Stone's "The
Doors" played on the TV unwatched.  Suddenly, I looked up and there was
Edie, gyrating amid a swirl of bodies on the screen - 10 seconds of Edie
and we are back at the Factory, ca., 1967. Edie is gone.  Andy wants
nothing more to do with her.  Viva has taken her place but she is not Edie.
Jim Morrison, the latest avatar of the god of "Rock and Cock", is brought
to the Factory to meet Andy who greets Morrison like the returning prodigal
son.  The camera focuses on a gold telephone, which Warhol picks up and
holds out to Morrison saying:

Edie gave me this phone, it's a God phone. ... She said I could talk to God
with it.  I don't have anything to say to God...This is for you. Now you
can talk to God .

The moment has a ritual intensity, as if Edie herself annoints Morrison as
the next immortal living legend, and the God-phone a symbol of sovereignty.
Jim and Edie become interlinked in a loop of meaning, a synchronicity,
which has the power to cause events in the here and now.  Changing the
article to include this synchronicity entangled me in a strange loop of
meaning.

Edie's God Phone is a symbolic representation of a device and a new
paradigm that could change our lives and our view of the universe.  What we
are talking about here is a universe designed and created from the future.
In such a universe, things that seemed to be mere random coincidences,
acquire new levels of meaning. becoming part of a new kind of
'supercausality'.  Unhappy with the classical explanation of causality,
because it left so many meaningful events in his life unexplained,
psychologist Dr. Carl Jung coined the term 'synchronicities' which are
meaningful coincidences.  Thoughts and events sharing a common meaning are
attracted to each other like magnets, across the seemingly impenetrable
barrier of space-time; although there is no ordinary causal relationship
between them, they are inextricably linked.

Jung relates a story of such a synchronicity that occurred to him while
conducting analysis with a young woman.  "The night before coming to see
him she dreamt that she had been given a golden scarab.  Jung was sitting
with his back to the closed window listening to her recount her dream when
he heard a gentle tapping behind his shoulder.  Looking round, he saw a
small insect knocking against the windowpane.  Opening the window, the
insect flew in and he caught it in his hand.  what he saw was a scarabaeid
beetle, the closest equivalent to a golden scarab one could find in
Switzerland. 'I must admit', Jung wrote, 'that nothing like it has ever
happened before or since and that the dream of the patient has remained
unique in my experience.'  Jung kept coming across connections which 'I
simply could not explain as chance groupings.'"3

Jung's intuitive rebellion against causality were encouraged by new
developments in quantum physics.  Jung studied physics with his patient
Wolfgang Pauli4, in order to learn more of the nature of causality.

Dissatisfied with what he learned, Jung concluded that the quantum theory
must be incomplete.  Many years later biological scientist John Lilly,
famous for his work with dolphins, also found the scientific explanation of
causality to be unacceptable.  What he calls 'cosmic coincidence control'
and what Jung called 'synchronicities' are an integral part of what Dr.
Jack Sarfatti says is the ordering principle of a superluminal (faster-
than-light) universe.

In a superluminal universe, what seems to be miraculous or impossible,
becomes everyday.  People remember the future.  Famous cases of accurate
dreams of the sinking of a ship or the death of a loved one will be
explainable under the new theories being propounded at the leading edge of
quantum physics.  Becoming aware of Edie's image on my TV screen at the
same moment I was writing about her caused me to alter what I was writing,
because it seemed as if something was telling me to include Edie in the
story.  If true, this is the kind of future intervention that alters lives,
often without our being consciously aware of anything happening.

Sarfatti describes a synchronicity linking him with Edie and the Sedgwicks:
"I was having another fight with my girlfriend Suky Sedgwick, Edie's
sister.  While waiting for Suky at San Francisco State library, I came
across a book that had the name Sedgwick on the binding.  The book was
called Apology for Old Maids by Suky's grandfather, Henry Dwight Sedgwick.
In an essay called "House of Sorrow" ,there is a quote claiming that the
future rather than the past is ""the home of explanation"". I was stunned.
I had just read Sir Fred Hoyle's book The Intelligent Universe and had seen
almost the same quote.  Sedgwick's book was almost 80 years older than
Hoyle's.  I'd experienced yet another 'loop' in time."

I should like to make an alarming suggestion...I suggest that we may
actually be going badly wrong when we apply the usual physical rules for
time when we consider consciousness!  here is indeed, something very odd
about the way that time actually enters our conscious perceptions...suppose
there is something even vaguely teleological about the effects of
consciousness, so that a future impression might affect a past action.
Surely this would lead us into a contradiction.
- Roger Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind

What Penrose, a Royal Society Fellow at Oxford, is considering with some
trepidation, is the complete overturning of our notions of cause and
effect.  The question is this 'Do we live in a superluminal universe or
not'?  Upon the answer depends the very nature of existence itself.  A
superluminal universe means final cause, or what we call God.  A universe
that is not superluminal is most probably random without God.

3..2..1..Contact
In 1952, Jack Sarfatti, now a physicist and designer of a quantum
signalling device or God phone that will receive messages from the future,
received a phone call when he was thirteen years old that changed his life.
"I was reading a book on computer switching circuits at home when the phone
rang.  I answered it and heard a strange sequence of clunking mechanical
sounds.  Then a metallic sounding voice comes on the line.  A cold
mechanical voice is the only way I can describe it.  It gives a long series
of numbers that I did not understand and then calls me 'Jack' and says it's
a 'conscious computer on board a spacecraft.'.  It may have said it was
from the future, but I am not sure.  However, that was the implication of
what it said.  Anyway, it says I've been selected to be one of '400 young
receptive minds' to be part of a special project but that I must make the
choice myself.  The voice on the phone told me that I would begin to meet
the others I was to work with in twenty years.  I was scared and everything
in me screamed to say NO! and hang up.  I felt a strong jolt of electricity
go up my spine to the base of my skull and I heard myself say YES.  I was
terrified and fascinated.  The voice said 'Good, go out on your fire-escape
and we will send a ship to pick you up in ten minutes'.  When I hung up I
ran like a bat out of hell and found my friend Winky, who is now a homicide
detective in Brooklyn.  We, and a few other kids, went back to my apartment
to wait for the flying saucer but it never came."

Years later, while Jack's mother, Millie was reading Andrija Puharich's
book URI, she came across the account of Uri Geller's allleged contact by a
conscious computer aboard a spacecraft which mirrored Sarfatti's experience
even to the details.  Millie, said to Jack, "This sounds just like all
those phone calls you got when you were a kid."  Sarfatti said, "I was
stunned. I only remembered one phone call.  I still only remember one call.
Millie told me that there were many calls over a three week period.  She
said I was walking around glassy-eyed.  Finally she picked up the phone and
listened out of concern for me.  She heard the cold mechanical voice.  She
told it to quit bothering her son and stop calling.  The calls stopped."

What is this rough beast,its hour come round at last, slouching towards
Bethlehem to be born.
- W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming

Albert Einstein, father of relativity and a deeply religious man, was never
comfortable with the idea of a Godless, random universe.  In 1953, almost
20 years after his famous EPR paper prohibiting "spooky" action-at-a-
distance, Einstein admitted to his assistant, Ernst Straus, that he had
second thoughts "You know I have recently lost confidence in the principle
of no action-at-a-distance."

Sarfatti explained that Einstein's 1935 paper showed that the Heisenberg
Uncertainty principle could be violated without action at a distance.
Since quantum mechanics is based on the uncertainty principle, it could not
be considered a complete description of reality.  The uncertainty principle
asserts that certain physical properties (like energy and time or momentum
and position) are incompatible with each other and cannot be measured to
arbitrarily small precisions (statistical standard deviations)
simultaneously in the same experimental setup."  In plain language this
means you can't change your tires and give your car a speed test at the
same time.

Einstein couldn't accept action-at-a-distance because that would violate
causality.  Causality means causes before effects.  It stems directly from
the way conscious beings experience the flow of time.  Einstein's theory of
relativity rested on two pillars, causality and symmetry.  In 1935,
Einstein believed that both pillars were essential for relativity.  Today's
experimental data shows that causality, the major stumbling block in the
way of action-at-a-distance and superluminal communication, is wrong and
that only symmetry is necessary for relativity.

Sarfatti's eyes glow with intensity as he takes on the dubious task of
explaining the forbidding subject of quantum mechanics to a non-scientist.
"We don't need more math", he says, referring to the insistence of most
physicists that useful faster-than-light communication is beyond our reach.
"The current mathematical formalism is sufficient to show how we can decode
messages from the future.  Eberhard, Stapp, and Josephson all believe in
action-at-a-distance, but say there's no way within standard quantum
mechanics to locally decode such influences. I say they are probably wrong
because of the counter examples I've developed which can be tested."

Recent discoveries may have bolstered the case for a superluminal universe.
The lead headline in the New York Times recently trumpeted, "Scientists
Report Profound Insight On How Time Began,"  The large type and the picture
were impressive enough but the latest computer generated pictures from the
COBE satellite provide very strong confirmation for the existence of cold
dark matter, the (as yet) invisible stuff which reveals itself only through
its gravity and is now thought to comprise 90% of the universe.  This
mysterious dark matter, may bring a brave new world of time travel through
wormholes and starships roaming the vastness of interstellar space.  The
crux of the matter as far as superluminality is concerned is that the
universe obeyed the laws of quantum mechanics at its birth subjecting it to
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle when it was smaller than an electron.
Hoyle and Sarfatti believe that it was at this that consciousness from the
future created the universe bringing itself into being.

Einstein's work on relativity provided a starting point for intuitive
physicists such as Wheeler, Feynman, Josephson and  others.  The new
physics has also given rise to a new cosmology of which Sir Fred Hoyle is a
leading proponent.  Hoyle compiled a massive body of evidence in his book
The Intelligent Universe that seems to strongly suggest that only a living
and intelligent (superluminal) God could have created a universe where life
(us) exists.  The very conditions of the birth of the universe (the big
bang) were specifically tailored to produce life.  The Anthropic principle
championed by Hoyle, Sarfatti and others was strongly supported by Brandon
Carter, who in 1968 stated  "Had the numerical values of certain
fundamental constants (the speed of light, the mass of an electron etc.)
been only slightly different - the universe would not be able to sustain
life as we know it."

Experimentalist Alain Aspect proved5, the reality of faster-than-light
action-at-a-distance in an experiment on the quantum connection between
pairs of photons6.  Delayed choice experiments7 and gamma photon-proton
scattering experiments8 showed that future causes do create past effects.

Recent work by such respected physicists as David Deutsch, Kip Thorne,
Yakir Aharanov and Sarfatti, involving time-travel, future-causality and
other mind-boggling vistas, is invigorating superluminal physics as never
before.

Sarfatti's credibility among other physicists, like the superluminal
conjecture, seemed for years to lay dormant in the barren soil of a
conservative physics establishment.  For  many years, talk of faster-than-
light communication and time travel has been beyond the pale of good
science.  It was a suitable subject for comic books and science fiction
only, 'strictly kid stuff.'

Sarfatti, a physics professor at SDSU in the sixties (while still in his
twenties) suffered for his connection to this 'kid stuff'. He quit his job
at SDSU and went to the University of London to learn from David Bohm who
had worked with Einstein.  Sarfatti then spent almost twenty years out of
the 'academic' loop' of mainstream physics.

Seemingly a genial character,with professorial mien and white goatee,
Sarfatti is impulsive and temperamental, and infamous for burning his
bridges in front of him.  Bitter arguments with Werner Erhard and a
perceptible rightward trend in Sarfatti's political thinking alienated him
from the New Age 'establishment'.  Sarfatti still harbors bitter feelings
towards Gary Zukav,author of The Dancing Wu Li Masters for what he
considers Zukav's "betrayal". "Zukav didn't know physics from shmysics.  I
brought him to Esalen over the strenuous objections of Michael Murphy's
wife.  I introduced him to everyone, wrote the chapter on quantum mechanics
and then he reneged on his promise of a percentage of the royalties."

Conflict and betrayal are part of the warp and weft of Sarfatti's life, as
they are a part of his beloved Wagnerian opera "Twilight of the Gods."
During his 'exile' he spent his time crying wolf at that 'barren physics
establishment', raving about time machines and Soviet spies over
cappuccino's and vino in the Caffe Trieste in San Francisco's ragged
Bohemia, North Beach.

The dictum that nature abhors a vacuum was certainly true for Sarfatti.  He
became friendly with some prominent local conservatives, among them
A.Lawrence Chickering and Marshal Naify.  "The three of us were having
lunch at Enrico's in North Beach.  Suddenly Naify launched into a monologue
describing the future Star Wars program in what turned out to be
astonishingly accurate detail.  It was an amazing performance."  Sarfatti
said.  Even more astonishing since Naify was not involved in the sciences
and no one was talking about anything resembling Star Wars in the media at
that time.  Chickering was so impressed by the idea he asked me to give a
scientific summary of what Naify had outlined.  The summary was sent to
Paul Nitze, Reagan's chief nuclear weapons negotiator.  Chickering told me
Nitze liked what I wrote.  I talked about rendering nuclear weapons
impotent and obsolete.   A channel to Cap Weinberger had opened up through
his son, Cap Jr.  I sent him all the same material, which reached Reagan
through his father, the Secretary of Defense.  The physics wasn't good, but
it made good propaganda against the Soviets."

A fervent believer in synchronicity and in himself, Sarfatti made
numberless versions of 'God Phones' or 'Future Machines - many of them
wrong, he admits.  He fired his salvos to colleagues all over the world.
Feynman believed he had gone crazy, and he certainly wasn't alone in that
belief.  Mostly they reacted bemusedly when his name came up.  A few had
sterner reactions. Henry Stapp, of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, who
carried on a ten year correspondence with Sarfatti, wrote an angry letter
to the Editor of Physics Essays that Sarfatti was incompetent for insisting
that faster-than-light communication was possible in standard quantum
mechanics.  More than ten years ago the late Heinz Pagels, a highly
respected professor at Rockefeller University and President of the New York
Academy of Sciences, shouted at me on the telephone that Sarfatti was "a
charlatan" for his belief in action-at-a-distance. "Sarfatti was crazy",
who was he to sweep aside causality with a wave of his hand.  Pagels held
Sarfatti in bad odor because, in addition to his support for action-at-a-
distance, he worked on precognitive remote viewing with New Age people from
Esalen9, such as Uri Geller and Andrija Puharich.  Esalen would also serve
as the place where the "Hot Tub Diplomacy"10 of the early 80's took place.

Something rather chilling occurred a few years later.  Pagels dreamt of
mountain climbing (he was an expert climber) and falling to his death.  So
shaken was he by the dream's vividness that he told his friends and even
mentioned it at the very end of his book, The Cosmic Code.

I dreamed I was clutching at the face of a rock but it would not hold.
Gravel gave way.  I grasped for a shrub but it pulled loose, and in cold
terror I fell into the abyss.  Suddenly I realized that my fall was
relative; there was no bottom and no end.  A feeling of pleasure overcame
me.  I realized that what I embody, cannot be destroyed.  It is written
into the cosmic code, the order of the universe.

Not long afterward, while on an undemanding climb with friends, he slipped
and fell to his death.  Had Pagels experienced a genuine precognition?
That was something that he just knew was impossible.  Yet it consumed his
attention until he slipped and fell on a climb that was regarded as easy,
safe even for a less experienced climber than Pagels.  Sarfatti has no
doubt but that Pagels had a first hand experience with future causality.
Many people, he says have a strange blindness to this kind of thing.  In
some way Pagels believed and accepted his precognition as part of his
cosmic destiny as we can see from a closing quote in The Cosmic Code  " But
it seems certain that the recent human contact with the invisible world of
quanta and the vastness of the cosmos will shape the destiny of our species
or whatever we may become." And, as Sarfatti points out, "The invisible
world of the quanta obey the superluminal dictates of the future."
A shout in the street.
"From the play field the boys raised a shout. The ways of the creator are
not our ways," Mr. Deasy said.  "All history moves toward one great goal,
the manifestation of God."  Stephen jerked his thumb toward the window,
saying: - "That is God. Hooray, Ay, Whirree!" - "What?" Mr. Deasy asked. -
"A shout in the street." Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.

Now that's really a coincidence...Coming events cast their shadows before.
                         - James Joyce, Ulysses
to be continued.