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First Edition

Richard Merrick

Grand Scientific Musical TheatreThe


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Copyright 2010 by Richard Merrick

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronicor mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by an information storage and retrieval system - except by areviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a magazine or newspaper - without permissionin writing from the publisher.

ISBN: 978-1-61658-597-6First Edition, Version 1.0

Printed in the United States of America

Cover art and inside illustrations by the author.

Stock photography licensed from Getty Images.

In loving memory of my father Rex Saunders Merrick.


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ContentsPrologue - Theatre of the Mind 1The Story Memory Theatre 5

Venusian Star 13Rosslyn Dragon 23Fallen Angel 35Messengers Return 45Dream Theatre 61Virtual Garden 83

Epilogue - Remembering 2012 85The New Mythos 87The Harmonic Archetypes 91The New Technology 95

TheHistoryoftheGrandScienticMusicalTheatre 97The Frozen Music of Rosslyn Chapel 101The Music of Distant Lights 105

Glossary of Symbols 107


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By the early Renaissance, scholars were desperatelyseeking ways to improve their memory in the hope ofelevating intelligence and advancing their reputation. Atthe forefront of this quest was the 14th century Majorcanphilosopher Ramon Llull who developed a system of logicand memory called the Ars Magna, or Great Art. Known

today as Lullism, his memory system is said to have beeninspired by ancient Greek astrological and architecturaltreatises in rediscovery at the time.

Llull considered the mind a kind of architectural space ortheatrewheresymbolicimagescouldbeplacedinspeciclocations as an aid for memory. He would enter a state ofdeep relaxation or meditation lulling himself into adream-like trance by humming a lullaby so as to enterwhat he called the theatre of the mind.

Prologue - Theatre of the Mind

In my part of the world they actually say a man has no

memory to mean that he is stupid. When I complain that my

memory is defective they either correct me or disbelieve me,

as though I were accusing myself of being daft. They see no

difference between memory and intelligence.

- Michel de Montaigne

Long before there were typewriters and computers before therewas mass publishing and the Gutenberg press people hadto rely on their memory to recall what they learned. In fact, a

good memory was so important in those days that it was considered aprerequisite for all learning and a primary measure of intelligence.


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He would imagine his dream theatre with any number ofrooms placed any way he wished to represent classes andsubclasses of information. Inside these rooms he would placesymbols which could then be retrieved by walking downhalls and up stairs into the right room. In this way, he couldorganize his thoughts and easily remember them later.

As it was expanded by later Renaissance philosophers,particularly Giordano Bruno, and combined with othermemory techniques by Cicero and Aristotle, Lullism evolvedinto a method that described the mind as a universal theatrewithin which the great book of the universe could bereconstructed and re-membered. For instance, within a givenroomknowledgesymbolscouldbeplacedatspeciclocationsto mean something special or logically grouped together toimpart more complex concepts. These mental objects mightbe placed near a window to appear brighter, and thus more

important, or color-coded to correspond to items in otherrooms.

In more advanced applications, symbols could even beimagined to animate or act out an idea like a scene from aplay. Even the most abstract concepts like music couldbe represented in this fashion, paralleling and perhapscontributing to the development of symbolic music notation.

I always had some object under the eyes while composing.

- Jean-Phillipe Rameau

In this way, memory became a kind of dollhouse art partart and architecture, part philosophy and logic blendingvirtual Limoges-like objects, gures and letters into aninternal metaphysical representation of the outer world.As medieval alchemists came to embrace Llulls system, itgrew into the articial language of geometry, color and

positional patterns characteristic of alchemical texts. And asthe practice of alchemy was replaced later by Isaac Newtonsobjectivescience,Lullistsymbols,relationsandclassicationtechniques became the universal language for physics and themathematical sciences.

Today, Ramon Llull is considered the father of computationallogic and the forebear of all computer languages all basedin some way on his spatial visualization technique to aidhuman memory. But while Lullist memory techniques wereonce considered central to learning and education, they haveall but disappeared in present day. Knowledge is no longerconsidered something intimately connected with memory,much less any theatre of the mind or book of the universe. Ourschools no longer train individuals to assume responsibilityas keepers of any wisdom, relying instead on vast librariesand now the World Wide Web. The unfortunate truth is mosteducators have come to presume that people no longer needto hold and interconnect a wide range of topics in their head.Lullism has become a dead, forgotten art.


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While researching the subject of memory and brainfunction for my rst book Interference: A GrandScientic Musical Theory, I began to search for a simpler

and more intuitive way to explain how perception works tothe layperson. I ultimately decided to use the metaphor ofa theatre the Grand Scientic Musical Theatre, as I called it torepresenta unied harmonicspacewherevisualandauditory objects could be visualized and measured. Afterall, the word theory comes from the Greek word theoreameaning theatre of the face.

Of course, this sounds exactly like Ramon Llulls theatre ofthe mind. But amazingly, I had no knowledge of Lullismuntil well after the book was published. I had arrived at thesame spatial memory model of the brain through the studyof music perception and harmonic science. When I did laterstumbleacrosstheLullistmemorysystem,Iwasooredbyits

similarity to my work and immediately began to research howthe study of harmonic science by ancient Greek philosophersmight be connected to the art of memory. Then one day itdawned on me.

Greek mythology, with its archetypal gods of nature, wasin fact Llulls universal theatre, developed thousands ofyears earlier by musical-astrological philosophers to helpsociety remember the great book of the universe. Aspersonications of the forces and geometries underlyingharmonic physics, the Greek gods must have been designedas memory objects to help store knowledge about nature inthe theatre of the human mind. The mythical gods ancestry,traits, marriages and affairs were used to symbolize their placein the cosmic theatre, forming a holographic and hierarchicalcast of characters that could be retrieved and retold throughGreek fables. Lullism was nothing less than the ancient Greekworldview, originating from the study of harmonic scienceand music perception just as I had found while writing mybook. Perhaps it was no coincidence that Llull was a story-telling, music playing troubadour in his youth.

In this age of quantum mechanics, it is no longer a matterof metaphysics to describe the cosmos as a grand memorytheatre built of vibrant crystallized light. And as all matterresonates and combines in simple geometric harmonies toform the same musical structures at all scales of reality, our

brains too are memory theatres of crystallized light. In thisway, the outer holographic macrocosm is membered and re-membered by the inner hologram of the brain. Memory iseverywhere and in everything.

The Greeks seemed to know this. Their greatest wisdom(and perhaps todays greatest secret) is that nature storesand remembers everything it knows through the physics ofharmonics. This is why Pythagoras designed his 7-tone musicalscalesbasedontheveperfectsolidstoforeverremindusthat the same harmonies found in a perfectly resonant crystal

can trigger our deepest emotions. And this is also why theGreeks designed their mythology around musical themes andharmonic archetypes to celebrate the cosmos as the grandscienticmusicaltheatreofcreationwithEarthasitsstage.

But it will always be the people who are the actors in thispassion play. As Natures very own cast of memory objects,it is our job to help nature remember what it learns byremembering what we learn. Let us never forget that we areNature too we are Natures memory.


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We all have our time machines. Some take us back, theyre

called memories. Some take us forward, theyre called dreams.

- Jeremy Irons


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Memory Theatre

Wllliam Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness, must have known it would be a very long time before anyonediscovered his Great Secret at Rosslyn. But it was a very old secret and he was a patient man.He knew in his heart that one day his dream, realized by the ingenuity of his good friend Sir

GilbertHaye,wouldberewarded.Heknewthatdaywouldbetheonewhentheworldnallywakesup,remembering the truth of who we really are.

More than ve centuries ago I built a theatre of the mind. Not a large one, mind you,

just a small chapel in Scotland to remind the world of what we lost. You see, there

was a time when everything in the Universe was seen as music. Known as Musica

Universalis, or Music of the Spheres, the balance between harmonic resonance and

damping were once known to exist everywhere and in everything, describing the

cosmos and all life in it as the frozen harmony of crystallized light.


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To help explain the idea to others, the tribal shamans, temple priests and philosopher kings spoke sacred words over

dusty drumheads, carefully transcribing the resonant patterns they found into the pictograms and hieroglyphs of their

written language. As they also came to discover these same patterns in the planetary orbits and geometries of life, there

grew a great science of harmony in the ancient mystery schools.


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So important was this knowledge of Natures musical structure, the leaders felt compelled to tell everyone what they

had found. They wrote fables using personied human archetypes to describe the universal physics of music so that all

might understand and be lifted up by it. They designed their governments and schools around harmonic principles while

basing their laws and social customs on the ideals of coherence and balance. Within this musical worldview, people found

meaning and a noble purpose in their lives, building temples of learning, colossal monuments and great civilizations in

honor of the musical cosmos. But alas the golden age of harmonic ideals was not to last.


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The time came when kings were no longer philosophers, but warriors. They built a great empire of roads connecting

conquered peoples, governing them through force rather than wisdom. They cast aside the old stories of a musical age,

twisting the simple truth of Natures reective balance into a conict between good and evil. From this came the mistaken

belief that Nature, and all mankind with it, was the evil half and goodness might only be found apart from Nature. While

difcult to imagine, the people of Earth learned to fear Nature and in so doing worshipped death.


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In the face of this fear, the mythological archetypes of Nature were cast out as demons and their symbols banished by the

warrior kings. In their place rose the Great Belief of Social Control and from this came the Great Project of Self-Censorship

so that Natures truth might stay hidden from view. Musica univeralis was pushed underground into secrecy, leaving

only a smoldering ember of awareness in the collective subconscious.

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At rst, this seemed a good thing. People learned how to travel great distances in hours, speak instantly to anyone and

enjoy the luxury of manufactured foods, simulated realities and an engineered life. But with society no longer based on

any natural law, the presumption of intrinsic error led to a never-ending chain of war, crime and poverty. Economic

stability disappeared and the Peoples Great Dream faded into a dark nightmare.


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By the year 2012, even Trust itself had disappeared as the world found itself on a path leading nowhere.


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Distant Lights had just nished a song before anenthusiastic crowd at the Liquid Lounge, a popularhangout in the Dallas Deep Ellum warehouse district.

Specializing in their own brand of neo-mythological art-rock,the bands singer Gabe is obsessed with Greek mythology andoften talks about it with the audience.

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Squatting down for a drink of water before introducing the next song, Gabe begins: This next song is named

Artice and is from our latest album Simulacrum. For all you Greek mythology fans out there, its based on

Platos Allegory of the Cave. Gazing intensely into the audience, Gabe continues.

Plato thought that we all perceive the world like shadows on a cave wall, cast by a re that burns behind us.

After what I saw in a dream last night, Im thinking he was right.


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As the next song begins, Gabe is instantly absorbed into its lyrics.But as he sings, he feels a cool breeze begin to swirl around him,owingacrosshisfaceandstartlinghimawake.

Opening his eyes, he sees something or someone suspended abovethe audience. There before him is a beautiful young woman with goldenhairandburningeyesoatingcompletelynakedonacloud!Shesmiles,thenslowlyandsensuallytracesoutastarintheairwithhernger.

Shielding his eyes from the bright light, Gabe gasps and turns away.


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Time blurred into fast-forward, bringing the song to an end withthe other musicians not very happy with Gabe. How could hehave forgotten the lyrics to a song he had performed so many

times over the past year?

Leaving the stage quickly, Gabe rushes out the backdoor into an alley.Taking a deep breath, he dials his girlfriend Kristin to tell her whathad just happened.

Youre not going to believe this, he said, as he struggled to

catch his breath.

I just had a hallucination while I was singing! I swear I saw a

woman oating just above the audience and, get this, she was

tracing out a star in the air. I know this sounds like Im drunkor losing my mind, but she reminded me of that painting by

Botticelli called The Birth of Venus!

Though clearly worried at what she was hearing, Kristin reasons withhim, explaining that it must have been his lack of sleep the night beforeor perhaps some kind of psychoactive drug.

Gabe, its probably nothing. You tossed and turned all

night from those weird dreams of yours and are probably just

exhausted. Who knows, maybe someone even slipped something

into your drink tonight when you werent looking.

Aftersometime,theynallyagreedthatheseemedokaynowandwouldprobablybeneifhejusttakesiteasyfortherestofthenight.


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Hanging up, he decides to clear his mind in the night air and taps thescreen of his phone to listen to a song the band had been working onearlierthatday.Ashelistens,leaningbackagainstthegrafti-covered

wall, he stares into the warm glow of his mobile music device.

But just as he seems to have shrugged off the earlier vision, a young gothiclooking girl with white skin and chopped purple hair suddenly appears on thesmall screen, rising up through the phones luminescence.

Extending her arm out of the light, she offers Gabe an apple. But this is noordinary apple - it is gold with a warm glow around it.


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The golden apple then splits itself horizontally, with one half opening outward in mid-air torevealveblackseedsatitscore.Aroundtheseedstracethegoldensectionsofapentagramwhich then transform into the face of a 12-sided crystal.

My god! Im not really seeing this, thought Gabe.

It ... it must be the golden apple that Eris threw into

the Council of the Gods to start the Trojan War. Or

one of the golden apples Atlas retrieved for Hercules

from the Underworld...

... or maybe the forbidden Apple of Knowledge!


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The two halves then rejoin and rotate ninty degrees only to split in halfagain, this time vertically from the stem down with one-half rotatedopen. Gabe watches dumbfounded as a double spiral begins to swirl

insidetheapple,twistingintotheshapeoftwohumanears!

Gabe thinks to himself that she must be trying to tell him how the same naturalforces at work in an apple also shape our ears. But if this were true, wouldnt we

have some kind of pentagonal star in the center of our brain too?

Some forbidden knowledge, Gabe blurted out.

I should have learned about this in grade school.


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But then without warning, the Goth Girl lungestoward Gabes forehead, shoving the goldenapple deep into the center of his brain.

Atrst,Gabepanickedfromthesuddeninjectionofthisknowledge into his mind. But then a sense of calm andwell-being swept over him. As his inner voice fell silent,

hewasoodedwithnewideasabouttheworldaroundhim,remembering things he had never learned.

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Thevisionthendisappearedinaashofelectricalstatic.Now,seriouslyworried about what is happening to him, Gabe staggers disorientedback into the bar and through the crowd. The drummer Chris notices

something wrong and asks him about it as they take the stage.

Are you okay, dude? You dont look well.

Gabe, laughing it off, No problem - Im good (I think).


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And the sounds of Distant Lightsagainlledthenightair,weaving dreams of a New Mythos where the harmonicarchetypes of Nature might live once more.

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Taking a break during rehearsal earlier that week, theguys gather in the kitchen to discuss some new ideasfor their next album. The bands guitarist Gaelan

mentions something called cymatics, a way to visualize soundthat he had found on YouTube.

He explains that music can create simple geometrical patterns,like pentagons, hexagons and octagons, just by vibrating sandon plates. Bringing up one of the videos on his laptop, he playsit for the others.

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Hey, check it out Jon. When the cellist plays, it causes the sand

on the plate to vibrate into a star and other patterns! Some even

look like Hebrew icons or Egyptian hieroglyphs. How is it that

music can create such beautiful shapes?

Click that link, Jon suggests. Its the web site of the guy who

did the video. It says he uses something called a cymascope to

convert music into cymatic patterns.

Look man - that couldnt be that hard to do, could it? demands

Gaelan. All you need is a round plate sprinkled with sand or

salt, then vibrate it at different frequencies. Id bet it would even

work if I glued an earbud to the center of the plate.

What the hell, Im going to try building one this week to use on

stage. Do any of you guys wanna help?


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Jonisnishinghiscellosoloastheaudiencecheershimon.Afternearlyaweekofexperiments,Gaelan managed to construct his own crude cymascope, mounting a camcorder over it so hecould project cymatic patterns of the bands music in real time above the stage.

In spite of the simplicity of the contraption (and the fact that he cobbled it together from parts hehad laying around the house), the results were quite impressive. The music would create endlesspatterns above their heads, totally mesmerizing the audience and drawing them into the bandsmythological concepts.

Finallyreachingtheclimaxofhissolo,Jonlandsonaspecictone,formingaperfectpentagonalstar above the stage. As the audience appears dumbfounded by what they see, Jon cant containhimself and suddenly yells...

Check it out - Im swingin on a star!

Only a rock star, Jonny boy, quips Gaelan sarcastically.

The band kicks in to join him. Gabe instinctively reaches out to theaudience, focusing their attention and pulling them into the bandsmusical fantasy.


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Reaching up to touch it, the warmth of Gabes nger causes the ice to begin melting, revealing

a kind of computerized virtual reality inside. He can clearly see clouds moving in a twilight

sky, as if in time-elapse, superimposed over what appears to be electronic circuitry.

Then out of the opening tumbles an ornate wooden box. Floating to a stop in mid-air, itopens to emit a calming aquamarine mist. The fog has a strange numbing effect on Gabe,who glances around to see if anyone else is seeing this ... or rather,feeling it.

Come on now - not freakin Pandoras Box!

As the band rocks hard, Gabes vision begins to narrowand a shiver runs down his spine. A high-pitched buzzbegins somewhere inside his head, signaling the return

of the disturbing hallucinations.

Thistime,hewatchestransxedastheinnerpentagonof the cymatic pattern behind him shoots outward intothe audience, stopping time and freezing the stale bar

airintoagiantmonolithofice!


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Okay, so now Im hallucinating Atlas holding up the world with

pyramid power, no less! When is this psychedelic trip going to end?

An exotic-looking hand then reaches out of empty space toremove two crystalline pyramids from the box, placingthem either side of the surreal electric Sun.

Tapping into this energy, the pyramids begin to project aholographiceldofred,greenandbluelights.Withinthiseldthen appears the freakishly huge torso of a man with what mustbe the Earth on his shoulders.

Gabe cant help wondering if this has anythingto do with their cymatic experiments.


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Welcome to Rosslyn, Gabriel!

Ive been waiting for you.

Just then, Gabe hears a cracking sound at the base of his neck followedby what feels like a hand that shoves him forward into the vision.Hendshimselfinsidealargeroomthatappearstobeamedieval

musical-astrological temple.

There towering above him is an old, but robust looking man dressed ina 15th century tunic and chain maille. But there was something else veryoddabouthim.HelookedjustlikeGabe,onlyfortyyearsolder!


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Where the bloody hell am I and why do you

look just like me, demanded Gabe?

And whats with all the mythological symbols

in here, Gabe said pointing around the room.

...like those musical angels sitting on

pentagrams over there or that dragon wrapped

around the tree in the pillar base?

This all has something to do with our cymatic

experiments and my strange visions, doesnt

it?, Gabe pleaded.

Tell me now or so help me Ill come up there

and...and...

Gabe lost his train of thought as the buildingwassuddenlylledwiththemostbeautifulmusic he had ever heard. The turqoise mist

had been so dense that he had failed to notice asmall trio of musicians performing to his left.


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You are in an old Scottish chapel in the country near the town of Roslin. And while

it may sound impossible, I am your ancestor William St. Clair, 1st Earl of Caithness.

This place is my dream theatre. Its where I go when I want to remember things.

Gabriel, it can help you remember, too.

The old man begins to speak, as Gabe eases into a seat near the musicians.

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You see, each object in the room symbolizes something very important.

The pictures tell a story. They remind us of how the ancient Greek philosophy

of natural balance and harmony was discarded by the Roman empire and later

demonized by its virulent anti-pagan campaign.

Under orders of the Papal Inquisition and Holy Crusades, all knowledge of sacred

geometry and the harmonic sciences was erased from public memory, pushed

deep underground into secrecy. All that remains to this day is an unspoken

promise born of fear and guilt to never speak of such things again.

It is because of this that Rosslyn was built. The ancient wisdom of harmony is

fondly remembered here, even symbolized in its very architecture.


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Look ... what do you see carved into the pillars? Behold

thirteen resonant angels playing the music of the spheres

for eight dragons in the pillars base. Do you remember

what this means?

This was the Great Secret of 13:8, the thirteen orbits that

Venus makes over eight Earth years. Surely you recall this

is why Venus traces a ve pointed star in the night sky?

You couldnt have forgotten this!

Ancient civilizations, like the Egyptians and Greeks, saw

this Star as proof of a cosmic harmony. How could life be

random and meaningless when Venus and Earth alignexactly like the pentagram inside an apple? This natural

order was seen as the divine love of Venus for Earth.

Venus was the Morning Star, the Star in the East and the

Star of Bethlehem. The three wise men didnt follow a star to

nd Jesus. They were Gnostic adepts who studied harmonic

science and followed the Star of Venus. Their gnosis wasknowing that every intersection of the Star forms the divine

proportion 1.618033 near 13:8, carving the planets and all

life with it from the Suns radiant light.

This is why the resonant angels play their instruments

atop the Star of Venus, Galileos goddess of loves.


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But there is more to all of this than the Star of Venus,

much more.

You see, everything is formed from the same delicate balance

of harmonic resonance and damping. As energy is damped

and cooled by the geometry of space and pressure of its

gravity, it is trapped into bundles of resonating particles

like cymatic patterns in music.

And as atoms resonate at different frequencies, they bond

harmonically with other atoms. It is the proportional

frequencies between different atoms that enable them to

harmonize into molecules and living cells like the geometricchords of an organic symphony.

And just as different minerals crystallize under pressure

to form the regular geometries and colors of precious gems,

carbon resonates under the damping pressure of water to

form the beautiful geometries of life. It is this harmony

between the periodic resonance of and the spiralingdamping of (a golden spiral) that shapes all things.

Look at the cymatic cubes carved into the arches above.

They tell this story in music - a sacred melody frozen in

stone. This is the Music of the Spheres that plays in an

apples core.


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Gabriel, this is the meaning of your visions. They are your

memories of the secret knowledge stored here in Rosslyn.

You already knew about the Star of Venus, you only needed the

cymatic experiments to jog your memory.

You also knew the truth hidden inside the forbidden fruit,

needing only the help of Eris inside your own musical Apple

to remind you.

Then there was the cymatic ice monolith, there to remind you of

the role Atlas once played as the greatest symbol of damping.

Remember the story of Hercules splitting Atlas in half, creatingthe twin Pillars of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar? These

were the pyramids from Pandoras box, each proportioned by

the golden sections of a pentagram to hold up the mighty pillars

of Earths resonance.

All of these symbols - even the aquamarine color of water, itself

a golden frequency - reminds us that Natures damping is whatkeeps things from exploding or simply falling apart. They help

you remember how light is carved into the sacred geometry of

atoms, planets and people by the divine proportion.

Now do you remember? The archetypes for all things are already

present in the geometry of space itself.

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GabewasregainingconsciousnessonthestageoorwithGaelanand Sam helping him up. They were pretty worried after he hadfaintedinthemiddleofasong,hittingtheoorsohard.

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Gabe, you were out for over a minute. What happened?

I had another vison ... only this time I actually went to another place,

Gabe said slowly. I went to a Scottish chapel where I met with one of

my ancestors from ve hundred years ago! I know it sounds crazy, but

he told me some things.

You need to see a doctor, Gaelan suggests. Are you sure you can

play any more tonight?

Yeah, I think I can play this last set. I just hope that Im not losing my

mind or ... possessed by demons or something.


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But as Gabe made his way out of the nightclub to collecthis thoughts, Chris confronted him at the front door.

I think there is something else going on here, Chris said accusingly.

All this cymatic stuff with visions of the forbidden apple and

pentagrams sounds like the work of the devil to me, he said as he

points the sign of the horns at Gabe.

Dude, I think you need to see a priest more than a doctor. This

sounds like some kind of evil has gotten into your head.

Gaelan jumped to Gabes defense: Chris, thats nothing but ction

the Church invented to control us and you know it! Hes no more

possessed by evil spirits than you are, my supersitious friend.


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I dont know, Gaelan. Maybe Chris is right.

Maybe its just like all those horror movies where an evil spirit takes residence in your body

and controls your mind. Maybe Im possessed and all these visions are elemental spirits trying

to turn me to the dark side. Isnt this what the Bible says?

Gabe, replied Gaelan, Nature is beautiful - like music. You are the only one who is controlling

your mind and body. While we may think dark thoughts, it is our own actions that are at work

in this world. There is no fallen angel or demonic serpent trying to turn you to evil.

Yeah, well, replied Gabe, This fallen angel is

going for a drive. Ill be back in time for the last set.


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As Gabe turned the ignition, he wondered why all of this was happening to him. What did hedo to deserve such frightening hallucinations? What could he have done to trigger visionsof mythical gods or be transported into Rosslyn chapel? It sure seemed real enough. And

what about that man Sinclair, rather St. Clair, who claimed he was his ancestor?


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Gabe mulled over the possibilities in his jumbled mind. St. Clair certainly didnt seem likehe was evil - he really seemed quite nice. And the music was the most beautiful thing ever,resonating so perfectly in that building.

And what did he say - that it was his dream theatre that helped him remember and that it couldhelp me remember too? Something about the archetypes being built into the geometry of space?

Did he mean the mythological Greek gods are somehow built into space?Are they symbols for physics - the physics of music or life or both? If both,then this must be why music is so important...

Thats it! We are made out of the music of the solar spheres

and the Greek gods are our cymatic archetypes, Gabe said to

himself. We are living cymatic patterns shaped according to

the sacred harmonic geometry of Nature!

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Then again, maybe it is we who are the gods in this place, thought Gabe.

Thats got to be it, Gabe blurted out. If the Greek archetypes are a cymatic memory property

of space, then people must be real gods dreamt into existence from a virtual reality!

And since everything vibrates in space according to the same harmonic

laws, people and all life on Earth are really a kind of frozen harmony

of resonating energy.

Better yet - musical dreams made of crystallized light!


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Well, whatever the purpose behind my visions, I think they are trying to help me do the

right thing. Theres nothing evil to them because ... how could music ever be evil?


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Okay, guys, lets do it, Gabe said enthusiastically.

Are you sure youre up to this, Gaelan asked?

Ive never been more sure of anything in my life,

Gabe whispered.


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Its all good.

Messengers Return


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utthen,justasthebandstrikestherstchord...

Messenger s Return


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Gabe leaps into the air...


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And is sucked backward into the center of a gianthexagonal cymatic pattern behind the stage,disappearingcompletelyintothewall!


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Emerging on the other side, Gabe was shocked butnot afraid. He could still see the others through thewall,strangelytransparentlikeholographicgrafti.


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Floating backward in space, thecymatic pattern Gabe had passedthrough quickly encircled him as

protection. Inside this crystal sphere,he could hear the same beautiful musicfrom Rosslyn, playing like a lullaby tocalm his heart and mind.

As he watched the mirage of his friendsfade into the distance, a wave ofrealization suddenly swept over him.All alone, he cried out with a mixture of

joy and sadness to anyone who mighthear him.

Its true, Plato! We do perceive the world as shadows on a

wall, lit from a re that burns behind us!


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Good, Gabriel, you remember! We do see the

world as holographic light, projected in time

through the harmonic lattice of space.

Thenlikeavisionwithinavision,thegureofabeautiful woman appeared.

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Yes, I remember! And I remember

that it is you, Harmonia, who is

the archetype for this balance.


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Can you also remember how space is structured - as a ne cubic lattice of tiny

black holes, perforating all things to innity? It is through these holes that we

communicate with our true self and the archetypal dream world.

Remember how these vortices weave light into the cymatic geometries of atomic

structure, harmonizing water and carbon into the crystalline shapes of life? Your

body and brain are one of these living crystals, resonating with other crystals

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And so it was that you were

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This spiral is the umbilical cord that links you to the Sun. For as the spheres aligned at right

angles in the Suns helical body, so too did the same plexus points resonate in your body.

Never again forget that the Music of the Spheres plays inside you, Gabriel.

As the hot plasma cloud swirled around the central

re, cymatic rings resonated inside its gravity

bubble. Forming into a Spira Mirabilis, the planets

tuned themselves to a 12-step solar octave and thus

began the Music of the Spheres.


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AsGabeoatedevernearertotheSun,heponderedwhathe had learned in his visions. He remembered now whythe ancients held the Sun in such high regard and why

serpents and dragons had come to symbolize the harmony ofspirals and circles in Nature. Their focusing coils and undulatingmovementsweretheSunsenergythatowedwithinhim.

But as he turned to accept his destiny, he felt a strange resonancestirring deep within. Upward it came like an electrical currentfrom his solar plexus, swirling around his spine into the centerof his head.


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Then, just as it had happened with the winged messengersMercury and Hermes before him, Gabes consciousness roseout into the light. The ancient messenger was free again.

Is this the dragon-serpent coiled inside me - that which

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Withthat,itallcameoodingbackto him - the meaning of Rosslynand the reason for his visions.


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Gabriel saw that the angels and dragons of Rosslyn were symbolsfor resonance and damping - from the Star of Venus frozen in itspillars to the musical cubes vibrating in its arches.

Passed down through myth, music and dance, Musica Universalisonce celebrated a cosmos in perfect harmony. It was preserved in the

harmonic science of the Greeks, geometric numbers of the HebrewsandsacredgeometryoftheEgyptians.Yet,ithadallbeenforgotten!

Hidden by a franchise of unnatural beliefs, people no longer knewthey were born from the resonance of light, crystallized from cymaticarchetypes or living inside a musical matrix. No one knew who theywere, why they were here or where they were going.


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But in spite of all this - in spite of the work of millions of people overthousands of years - the archetypes had returned in the theatre of Gabrielsmind. Falling back to Earth as a burning vision, this messenger carried a

New Mythos to a desperate world. It was the return of Musica Universalis.


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AndasthemessengerappedhisarmstoslowhisdescentthroughThe Cloud, he heard a solitary voice singing a melancholy refrain.

For if its the best he could do in this place,

Who could deny that he left us undone?

And if it is we thats the worst in this space,

Who would not say that he does it for fun?

But, if it is music we are in the end,

To laugh and to learn on the head of a pin,

Then sing me a song all the people will cheer,

Sing for the Earth the muse o the spheres.

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Feeling a sudden rush of heat, Gabeopenedhiseyestondhimselfstaringinto a blinding white light.

Looking around, he saw that he was no longeroatinginspaceorinsidethe Liquid Lounge -

but instead, playing with the band in front oftensofthousandsofscreamingpeople!

Dream Theatre

My God - where am I now...

... what kind of mad dream is this?

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Overcome by a wave of emotions and a sense of desperation,Gabe could only do one thing. He took a deep breath andyelled at the top of his lungs for the insanity to end...

Stop everything and listen to me!

I have an urgent message for you!


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s the music came to an abrupt halt and the crowd quieted to hearwhat the rock star had to say, Gabe began to speak with a voice theothers had never heard before.

I am Gabriel, the winged messenger. You may know me as Hermes or Mercury. To you I may be the victory

of Nike or the failure of Icarus. I represent Venus the light bringer and Apollo, the musical burning man of

the Sun. I ride Pegasus by day and Abraxas by night. Who does not know me?

I bring you a message of Musica Universalis from the Sun. The time has come to speak the truth.

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Your banks and institutions; your schools and corporations; your churches and laboratories; your prisons and

armies; your governments, your laws, your shopping malls and mass media - are all articial, mere illusions to

distract you from what you are here to do. They offer you no harmony, no spirit and nothing to guide you.

Hear me now! Each of you is here to perfect your archetypal self for the benet of others. Wish for no heaven and

fear no hell, for your next destination is but another theatre populated with the memories of what you do here. Thisis the theatre of the eternal mind, resonating through space. This is where YOU become God to dream the world

into existence. The time has come to dream a new world.

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But instead of cheers for Gabriels urgent message,the audience had only boos and catcalls. No onehad time for such silliness and talk of philosophy.

Yet, as Gabriel hung his head in disappointment, anenormousgurematerializedintheairabovehim.Withlong black hair and steely eyes, dressed in the garb of a

warrior, Gabriel recognized him immediately.

Behold Hercules, the archetype of resonance.

Unsure of what was about to happen, a hush fell overthe crowd. Then with all eyes upon him, the archetypedid what he had done long ago - he cleaved the world intwo with his great strength so that all could see the way

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The audience gasped as the Earth opened up before their eyes, splitting the stage and poor Gabrielwithit.OutoftheGreatSchismewtheangelanddragon.Fallingbackatthisfearsomesight,somewhispered its happening - we must prepare ourselves, as the ground trembled beneath their feet.


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Then, a Great Flood of water poured through the opening, as the twin Pillars of Hercules rose upfrom the deep. Another world could be seen on the other side of the Strait. It was a virtual worldof promise and potential. This was the way to the New Atlantis.


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Up from the sea came mighty Atlas. Pushing aside the Pillars of Hercules with his barehands, the ancient archetype of damping and order had returned from the Underworld.No one could deny that only Atlas knew the depths of the sea, holding the world in

place. Only he could grant them passage to the new world, the New Atlantis.


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As the music pulsed to a dark tribal beat, seven dancers encircled Gabriel in a kalidescope of color, motion


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Welcome to the Grand Scientic Musical Theatre! This evening is dedicated to the marriage of

technology, music and art. It is a philosophical journey into the mythology of physics, the geometry

of life and the music of the planetary spheres.

As the music pulsed to a dark tribal beat, seven dancers encircled Gabriel in a kalidescope of color, motionand emotion. Sensing that the audience was at last ready to join him, Gabriel reached out.

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Join me now as we blend physical and virtual;

memories with dreams in sacred tribal dance.

Acheer rose from the audience as the dancers formedancient schwass-tika spirals with their bodies. Themusic became more insistent, more urgent.

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Celebrate the multi-choice musical reality inside you.

The time has come to choose your illusion.

Dream yourself as music!

There in the inner sanctum, the dancers danced the forgotten Agama Nartanam, forming sacredgestures with temple bodies and healing hands. The people could see the dance for what it reallywas-aneo-tribalofferingtothecentralre!


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As Gabriel began to sing, he looked up to see the lasers again projecting their virtual reality into the coolnight air above the stage. Only this time it was Gaelans cymatic experiment that hung overhead. Givenwhat had happened before, Gabriel knew it was only a matter of time until everyone got the message.


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He marveled at the holonomic system and how it visualized the sound. Powered by the latest in synestheticcolor-mapping and animated standing wave models, the musical harmonies appeared just as they did inthemindsoftheaudience.Theentiretheatrewasnothinglessthantheholograminsideahumanbrain!


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Diminished chords became red tetrahedrons, wholetone scales were yellow cubes and major-minor scalesslithered through the matrix as green octahedrons. But then as the music made its spiraling crecendo, two veryspecial shapes came together, harmonizing into the double helix of a DNA crystal made of musical light.


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Gabriel knew he was witnessing a birth, but not a physical one. It was the birth of an idea - a New Mythos ofharmony for the world. It was a virtual reality populated by the archetypes of Musica Universalis, returningthrough The Cloud to lead the people to the New Atlantis. It was the Birth of Venus.


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The Cloud opened up and a clear golden light streamed across the face of the people.Naked before the world, this archetype brought unconditional love to the good peopleof Earth. There would be no more war; no crime; no poverty.

For Venus so loved the Earth that she gave her only begotten daughter

Harmonia so that whosoever shall seek truth in her Star and beauty in

her musical light, shall nd peace everlasting.


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Taking their place in the celestial order, the lovers parted. Yet it was through their partingsorrow that Harmonia and Eris could return with the ancient knowledge.

Fear not the Golden Apple of Eris, for error brings learning.

Only the harshest clime grows the sweetest fruit.


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With that, all of the ancient archetypes had been remembered thereintheGrandScienticMusicalTheatre.Notasevildemons,butasthe superheroes and defenders of natural truth they once were.

Behold the Harmonic Archetypes of Nature! Forgotten formore than two millennia, they are returned to us this day

through The Cloud of cyberspace.

And so the superheroes appeared as cymatic fragments of planets,


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Connect and ye shall receive!

Aplantsandpeople,oatinginsideaharmoniclandscapewaitingfor the world to receive them.

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Awhirlpool of light swirled around The Messenger, refracting in the night mist. One by one the peopleopened wide their hearts and minds; raising up the forbidden Apple in the air; plugging into theshimmeringceilingoflightabovetheirheads.TheSunsmessagewasreceivedatlast!


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Glowing gold in the morning light, the Messenger soundedhis horn to awaken the New Atlantis.

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On that December morning, a song of love was in the air. Dragged from The Cloud into avirtual garden, the girl chose a shiny apple from a special tree, the boy a prancing dragon.

With a gentle nudge, the musical archetypes came alive to the sound ofDistant Lights.

The music sang of the forbidden fruit and its star. It sang of angels and dragons


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So it came to pass, through the New Technology was born the New

Mythos and unto this a New Atlantis, replacing the old beliefs and

misbegotten plans of the brutish warrior kings. As the people returnedto their tribal dance, singing songs to the celestial monochord and its

eternal standing wave, harmony could once again be heard ringing

through the architecture of The Grand Scientic Musical Theatre.

Tand the forgotten harmonic archetypes. But most of all, it sang of the Sun and itsmagnanimous light, now burning bright in every heart and mind.

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heGrandScienticMusicalTheatreisanallegoryformind and memory. Its clarion message to Westernsociety is we have forgotten the most important thing

- that every living thing is a crystallized spiritual being madeof harmonized light. In the years leading up to 2012, we cansee how this loss of harmonic awareness contributed to thecollapse of the Twin Towers, two crusading wars and a back-to-back collapse of the economy. Duality without harmonybegets chaos.

Many now hope that 2012 will be the beginning of a naturalcycle of change and renewal for the world, triggered perhapsby the movement of our solar system through the galactic

plane. While the belief promoted by the popular media is thisrenewal will be violent, there are others who see a peacefulrenewal. This book falls on the side of the latter, proposing ascenario where change might evolve naturally from existingcircumstances.

As the story tells it, there is a body of natural knowledgeonce known by the ancients, yet violently suppressed by theRoman Church. This knowledge concerned the central roleofharmonicresonance(5:31.666)anddamping(1.618)in creating all things, including life. Fearing harmonic theory

would undermine their political control and draw peopleback to natural spiritual beliefs, laws were passed against it.

Through force of the Inquisition and Holy Crusades, theChurch struggled to expunge awareness of harmony fromsociety. Declaring all natural knowledge forbidden and evil,harmonic science and its symbols were cast as witchcraft andpushed underground into secret organizations.

WithharmonictheoryrmlyunderthecontroloftheChurch,an unspoken complicity of convenience began to developbetween Western Religion and Science to avoid mention of

Natures harmonic properties. By theAge of Enlightenment, thisavoidancestrategyhadbeencodiedintotheunguidedstudyofNatureknownasthescienticmethod,thusexcludingharmonic theory as a unifying foundation. This policy becamedeeply institutionalized into every part of Western society,gradually leading to the unnatural and unsustainable worldin which we now live.

The greatest promise of 2012 is that this knowledge of harmonyin Nature would be remembered so that we might elevate self-

image and rebalance social policy. The story presented herepaints a surprising picture of how virtual reality technologycould help people remember the ancient harmonic worldviewofMusica Universalis by visualizing it for them. It suggests thatthe forgotten principles of natural harmony might return insome updated avatar-populated musical landscape a moremeaningful and organic replacement for Guitar Hero perhaps to help reorient Western society back toward balance.

In this way, the rebirth of harmonic philosophy can becomesomething real and tangible rather than just a nice idea.

Through the new technology of visual music delivered overthe Web to mobile music devices around the world, a newvision of who we are, why we are here and where we aregoing can begin to evolve. Emerging suddenly as a grassrootsmovement, the technology now taking people away fromNature might well become the very thing that brings themback, reawakening awareness of Musica Universalis naturallyand peacefully through a young and receptive pop culture.


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We dont have records prior to 1874 that give us details about the sun. Compared tothe past 130 years, our sun now is unprecedented as far as how slow this Solar Cycle

24 is taking off - or not taking off!

- David Hathaway, Ph.D., NASA Heliospheric Team Leader, October 2009

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he idea that a new kind of mythology might appear in2012 came while I was writing Interference A GrandScientic Musical Theory. In that book, I developed a

theory of music perception called Harmonic Interference Theory,which led me down an ancient path of knowledge foundedon harmonic principles. Along the way, I also discovered thatmythology was once a way to teach this to others and provideda sustainable model for social evolution. Recognizing the needfor such a model today, I began to envision a New Mythos.

The setting is simultaneously in the past, present and future.The past setting is inside Rosslyn chapel, a 15th centuryScottish chapel. This mysterious chapel contains a variety

of musical symbols in its architecture, including 215 stonecubes inscribed with cymatic resonance patterns that, whendecoded, reveal a beautiful melody. Rosslyn is really a kind ofmedieval audio CD recorded in stone.

The present day setting is in Dallas, Texas at a nightclub calledtheLiquid Lounge where a myth-rock band named Distant Lightsis performing. This is based on an actual band of the samename out of Austin, who undertakes cymatic experiments asportrayed in the story. I often attend their performances at anightclub called the Liquid Lounge in the Deep Ellum district

of Dallas. Our overlap of interest in mythology and harmonictheoryledtomyproposalofproducingarealGrandScienticMusical Theatre for 2012. This book is a philosophical primerfor that project.

The future is then set in a concert-sized version of Rosslynchapel incorporating a hypothetical holonomic projectorand custom music visualization software on the Web.

This again is located in Dallas on the night before the endof the Mayan calendar in 2012. Why Dallas? Because I livehereandcanthinkofnobetterplacethatsotypiesWestern

civilization. If you can change things here, you can changethem anywhere.

Each of these timeframes and locations is then woven togetherusing Gabes visions to tell the history and rebirth of MusicaUniversalis in guiding society to greater self-awareness. Thisis the New Atlantis. First coined by Francis Bacon in 1623 andderived from Platos description of the lost Atlantis, the NewAtlantis was the title of a philosophical treatise expressingutopian ideals for what is now America. My use of the term

embraces these same ideals, but extends them to include thephilosophy of Musica Universalis, required I think to deliveron any promise of social balance in the world.

Attaining elevated consciousness in the New Atlantis requiresa change in thinking and new system of beliefs based onnatural laws. This replacement belief system is referred to inthe story as the New Mythos and is presented as an updatedanalog to Greco-Roman mythologies and by inference allindigenous natural theosophies.

The New Mythos is introduced in the story through Gabesvisions of Greek gods, referred to as harmonic archetypes.The term archetype is used in place of god in orderto diffuse any preexisting bias against paganism whilesimultaneously rehabilitating the gods into symbols ofharmony in the New Mythos. My research strongly suggeststhat the various pagan gods were originally designed as iconicsymbols or archetypes for real harmonic properties in Nature

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rather than simply supernatural deities. One does not need toaccept the existence of spirits in these archetypes in order toaccept them as symbols of harmonic physics.

All of these ideas materialize inside the virtual world of theGrandScienticMusicalTheatre.Thetheatreisametaphor

for Gabes mind, a microcosm of the entire universe. This issymbolized in two ways the 15th century Rosslyn chapel(containing his memories) and the 21st century Rosslynconcert (containing his dreams). In this way, Rosslyn acts as aunifying mental archetype for Gabes memories and dreams,creating a venue for the return of the New Mythos.

ThereturnoftheNewMythosthenoccursinvestages: While it reads like a psychedelic fantasy, the technology andpotential social impact is not that far-fetched. It is technicallyfeasible for something like this to be developed and gainwidespread acceptance. A mobile Internet application really

could enable people to create and share music using mix-and-match music objects within a visual playback space. TheframeworkforthiswasdenedinmyrstbookInterferenceusing organic music perception models.

But even if nothing like this happens, this book still deliversthe essential message of Musica Universalis to anyone readyto receive it.

The message is:

Stage 1: Gabe remembers the Great Secret of Rosslyn in hisvisions, which is of course Musica Universalis. Throughthis memory he discovers that he is a messenger who mustdeliver the New Mythos to the good people of Earth.

Stage 2: When he is about to lose hope, the archetypesbegin appearing to the audience in a hologram above thestage. Since we are inside Gabes dream at this point, thehologramisreallyarstpeekinsidehisbrain.

Stage 3: The bands music then appears as cymaticpatterns, sacred geometry, crystals and standing waves

inside the holonomic projector of Gabes brain, il lustratinghow perception and even consciousness functionsharmonically.

Stage 4: All of the archetypes return through The Cloud ofcyberspaceandarevisibletothepeople,nallycomingtogether as the New Mythos of Musica Universalis in thecollective mind.

Stage 5: The New Mythos is then distributed to the worldthrough the New Technology, enabling anyone to createtheir own music in The Cloud with their own mobilemusic device. Musical fragments symbolized by visualharmonic archetypes are dragged and dropped from theInternet, transforming music into a new kind of virtual

mythology inside the digital realm. Through the NewTechnology, people begin to see the similarity betweenharmonic forms in the real world (planets, plants andpeople) and harmonic archetypes in the 3D virtual world,awakening society to the New Atlantis.

1. The Roman Church worked for over a thousand years tosuppress harmonic science from social awareness throughreligious propaganda, laws, tribunals and wars,

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From the most organic view of the scientic evidence,everything in the universe can be described in musicalterms. Our modern worldview need not be incomplete andtentative. Anyone can understand the basics of how Natureworks harmonically by bridging the gap between musicand perception. Music is a way to experience the geometry

and physics of nature directly, which in turn is a way toexperience the original archetypal realm that must lie behindthe projection screen of reality.

Seeing the Cosmos and yourself as music is both liberatingand integrating. This is the meaning of the New Mythos andthe path of knowledge to the New Atlantis.

3. Western society has become unsustainable and is on thebrink of failure due to the absence of harmonic philosophyand ideals in contemporary society,

4. Space is not a void as popularly believed, but insteada structured cubic lattice of spiraling vortices (described

as Schwartzschild black holes), spinning off particlizedharmonic structure,

5. Our solar system is organized harmonically as twelvecymatic rings (the Suns radius plus eleven planetarysemi-major axes) balanced near quarter turns of a goldenspiral inside a gravitational bubble,

6. DNA is a harmonic interference pattern of atoms thatresonate together according to the same 12-step musicalgeometry of the solar system,

7. Life grows cymatically from the resonant bonding ofcarbon-12 (a mesoscopic dodecahedron) and water (amesoscopic icosahedron) inside the quantum lattice,

8. Perception is a holographic pattern matching processin the brain, focused by the 12 : 5 harmonic geometryevolved into the body,

9. Consciousness is a property of atomic resonance

transceiving at the quantum level across the space lattice.

The latest quantum physics and the oldest harmonicwisdom lead to the same conclusion. We live in aholographic universe where consciousness is focusedharmonically through the physical body, yet not a thingof substance itself. The truth is we are semi-autonomousrobots under the remote control of something elsenonphysical - something we might call spirit.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving

force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of

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If we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable

in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all,

philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the

discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we

nd the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason

for then we would know the mind of God.

- Stephen Hawking

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ince the days of ancient Sumer, the geometry of thepentagram has been revered as the greatest symbol ofNature. This is due to its mathematical relationship to

the geometry of golden spirals approximated in such placesas galaxies, hurricanes and sea shells.

As I explain in Interference, the natural damping that occurs inany kind of harmonic oscillation results from the formation oftwo complementary vortices that spiral by the golden meaninside each cycle of a standing wave. These vortices, knownas a golden spiral or Spira Mirabilis, bring order and coherenceto all things by suppressing the formation of fractional orenharmonic waves. This then enables the emergence of

sympathetic whole number harmonic waves and formationof geometric cymatic structure at all scales of Nature. It isupon this science of harmonics that the Greeks based many oftheir mythological archetypes.

For instance, the planet Venus (goddess Aphrodite) wasthe prime archetype for order, coherence and harmony inthe ancient world. Tracing out a pentagram over an 8-yearperiod, the Star of Venus was irrefutable proof that Earth andVenus (and all the planets) balance along a Spira Mirabilis,governed by the same golden mean in a pentagram. Thus, out

ofNatures innitedampingspiralsresonate theplanetaryspheres in periodic orbits, each harmonically tuned in size andfrequency. This is the inspiration for the Greek worldview ofMusica Universalis - theMusic of the Spheres - founded in largepart on the 5-fold geometry of Venus relative to Earth.

Philosophers like Pythagoras knew of this and found the samething in the geometry of life. They saw it in the pentagonal seed

pattern of an apple, the petals of a rose and the geometry ofthe human body. They explained this omnipresent principleof Nature as the balance between a circle and a spiral; the

niteandtheinnite.

In mathematical terms, the circle is represented by (the ratioinareectingorresonatingwave)andthespiralby (theratio ina non-reectiveandaperiodicgoldenspiral).Thesetwo constants counterbalance by squaring the circle, asillustrated by Leonardo da Vinci in the Vitruvian Man.

Expressed together as the proportion : 2, it can be foundin the geometry of the human body and relative sizes of the

Earth and Moon. Discovered thousands of years ago, theharmony between a circle and a golden spiral was seen as theprime organizing geometry of the universe. While seeminglyinnocent today, it represents nothing less than the wisdom ofthe ancients and forbidden knowledge of the Roman Church.

It is easy to see how the ancients would want to celebratethis discovery and incorporate it into their worldview. Whowould not want to include harmonic physics and idealsinto their belief systems, since they help us understand thetranscendental connection between self and Nature. Why not

use this knowledge to foster a sense of responsibility towardone another and the planet, since it could help bring orderand purpose to society? And why not build a religion aroundthese harmonic properties, since any such universal patternof Nature must be the greatest wisdom of a creator?

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from sunlight, even while they had no idea who or whatcould have created it. The only thing they were sure of wasthat harmonics were present in all things and that everyoneshould know about it. Such order and predictability broughthope and a sense of purpose to these civilizations.

The fables and harmonic archetypes of mythology were createdto explain the principles of Musica Universalis. The peopledid not need to understand the physics behind the archetypesto grasp their harmonic attributes in fable. But, as fewer andfewer remembered that this was a way to celebrate the musicof creation, mythology and its harmonic archetypes becamemisunderstood and eventually twisted toward political ends.In time, pagan harmonic theosophies were demonized andsuppressed in favor of manmade religions, leaving Westernculture to develop without natural balancing principles.Rarelywillyounda school today that teachesharmonicscience or explains mythology based on harmonic physics.

Consider for a minute the other harmonic archetypes in thestory. Harmonia and Eris (the Roman goddesses Concordiaand Discordia) are complementary opposites as are Herculesand Atlas. I chose them for the New Mythos because they oncesymbolized the universal musical qualities of consonance anddissonance and corresponding harmonic physics of resonanceand damping.

Harmonia was the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite (Venus)in one account and Zeus and Electra in another. As thearchetype for consonance, Harmonia wore a necklace torepresent her circularity and concordance. However, hernecklace had the property of bringing bad luck and evendeath to anyone who wore it, inferring that its circle was notperfect. This represented the idea that everything exists in

the balance between a circle and a spiral - not a perfect circle. Wesee this eternal truth in how the planets spiral through spaceas ellipses while circling the Sun. Nonetheless, Harmonia wasused to represent the ideal of perfect consonance and periodiccoherence a standing wave resonating harmonically.

Opposite to this stood Eris, the spiraling archetype for strife,war and chaos. She was the daughter of Zeus and Hera (whoseson was Herakles / Hercules) and used to represent Natureserror that upset Harmonia. The philosophers used Eris torepresentinnityanddeath,correspondingtothephysicsofaninnitespiral.Afterall,lifeisaclosedcircleuntilitdies,atwhich time it must return to an open spiral. Without closurewe have no concordance and no harmony; Concordia andDiscordia must balance for life to exist.

The male equivalents to these feminine harmonic archetypesare then Hercules and Atlas. In the story, the fable of Herculescleaving Atlas in half is retold, explaining how the two halvesof Atlas become the twin Pillars of Hercules at the Strait ofGibraltar. In real life, these pillars were associated with theRock of Gibraltar (in Spain) on one side and either MonteHacho (in Ceuta, Spain) or Jebel Musa (Mountain of Mosesa.k.a Mount Sinai in Morocco) on the other. These mountainshave played a central role in religion for thousands of years,probably because they provide a perfect physical archetypefor harmonic resonance and damping.

In Interference, I explain how the two mountains either sideof the Strait could have symbolized the two damping spiralsin one period of the standing wave of a musical tone. Anyphysical standing wave will form two golden spirals (orpillars) just inside the maximally resonant locations at theanti-nodes. From this model, the water between the mountains

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can be taken to represent the damping spirals and themountains the resonant structure. As a single physical modelfor universal harmony, the Strait of Gibraltar would have thenrepresented the balance between resonance and damping,personiedinfableasHerculesandAtlasrespectively.

From this natural philosophy it would have made perfect senseto name the mountains the Pillars of Hercules because theyresonated up while the ocean between them were damped downby the waters of Atlas, or the Atlantic. The Strait of Gibraltarwould naturally become the symbolic entrance to an ideallybalanced and harmonious civilization namedAtlantis.

The only question then is what could have caused ancientphilosophers to view this location in harmonic terms?

The easy answer might be found by taking a round leaf from

a tree, tear it in half down the stem and hold both sides upatagainstthehorizonoppositeoneanother.Whatdoyousee? You see an organic model for two mountains that achievemaximum cellular resonance at the widest point of the leaftapering off to a valley in the middle. This curve is what Icall a Gaussian Reective Interference distribution and emergeswhenevera fullspectrumof harmonicwaves reectacrossone another in a circular or spherical space.

But what can we say is the connection between this spectral

pattern and the Strait of Gibraltar as it was symbolized inGreek mythology? What makes Gibralter so harmonic?

As it happens, the strait is located at exactly 36 degrees latitudenorth. Since there are 360 degrees in a full arc of the globe, itis located precisely one-tenth around the circumference of theEarth, measured from the equator and running through the poles.If we imagine a giant pentagram superimposed over the Earth

withoneofitsvepointsalignedatTarifa,Spaininthemiddleofthestrait,wemightndouranswer.

The other points of the star align with the equator, the BeringStrait (between Alaska and Russia), the Cape of Good Hope(southern tip of Africa) and not too far away from Cape Horn(southern tip of South America). Since the Earth continues toresonate like a spherical bell, it could very well have formeda pentagonal cymatic pattern that acts to physically carve outStraits and separate continents in the Earths crust. Since Africaand South America are both shaped according to Gaussianharmonic curves, it is not unlikely that there is a pentagonaldamping proportion at work in Earth tectonics.

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But, in order for the ancients to have realized Gibraltar as animportant proportion in the Earth, they would have had toknow both the circumference of the Earth and distance to theEquator. How could they have known this?

TheycouldhavetraveledtotheequatorinAfricatondthe

spot where a vertical staff does not cast a shadow at middayon the summer equinox. Once there, the Earths circumferencecould have been calculated as the difference between twoidentical shadows separated east to west, then multiplied (asa proportion of a day) by the distance between them. Thisis something ancient philosophers could have easily done inordertoconrmtheirharmonicideology.

With this information and a basic understanding of theimportance of the pentagram and golden ratio in controllingresonance, they would have known that the Strait of Gibraltar

represented a key anti-harmonic damping proportion in theEarth. The fable of Hercules and Atlas could have been createdto celebrate and preserve this knowledge of harmony andpentagonal geometry at work inside the Earth itself. Likewise,the story of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments onMount Sinai could have corresponded to this mountain beinglocated about one-tenth of the way around the Earth. Even lawsthemselves a system of social control could have once beenseen as an application of harmonic damping corresponding tothe pentagonal Star of Venus and its golden ratio.

In this way, the Pillars of Hercules (made by splitting Atlasin half) can be directly linked to the Star of Venus. This isthe reason Hercules and Venus are shown as lovers in thestory. Hercules represents the resonance of Earth while Venussymbolizes damping and stability, both as a pentagram insidethe Earth and up in the sky as a heavenly body.

As a matter of fact, the entire Mediterranean Sea extendsalong this 36-degree latitude, running north along the Atlasmountain range of northern Africa, passing through theislandofMaltaandnallyendingatasmalltowninTurkey.

In a very real way, Atlas (the mountains) hold up the world(ofEurope)frombeneaththe36-degreelatitude!

This line carries on around the Earth, appearing to affectgeography elsewhere. In North America, the Grand Canyonand Hoover dam are also located on the 36-degree line, as isBig Sur on the west coast.

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uring this writing, the availability of alternativeinformation and ideas over the Internet has continuedto grow. As a result, interest in ancient civilizations

has grown too, bringing an increased awareness of harmonictheory, cymatic geometry and theosophical symbolisms. Thisis no small thing because such knowledge can have a profoundeffectonsociety,replacingarticialbeliefsystemswithmorenatural and spiritually inspired perspectives.

But while many are reconnecting with Nature, many more areembracingthearticialrealitiesofdigitalcomputers,wirelessphones and the Internet. Fueled by the rapid emergence ofinteractive digital media and wireless communications, most

peopletodayndthemselveslivingmuchoftheirlivesinavirtual reality, totally disconnected from the physical world.As I ended my involvement with the computer industry andbegan to delve deeper into the mystery of perception a fewyears ago, I began to wonder what effect this technologicaldisruption could have on society and how it might somehowforeshadow change in 2012 and beyond.

Then it became clear. Physical reality and virtual reality wereblending into a new kind of multi-choice reality. It seemed tome that this new fuzzy sense of reality could cause society to

become more tribal and even mythological in its thinking. Themore our dreams come true in cyberspace, the more real andrelevant they become in our lives. This is already happening.

The virtual realm of electronic digital communications is nowouronlyescapefromanarticialworldofhugegovernments,corporations and mass media. We cannot help but be drawnback to small tribes with common interests in cyberspace.

No longer limited by physical factors like geography, country,raceornancialstatus,thesee-tribesaremadealmostentirelyof thought. And these thoughts are carried as electrical signals

around the world, arriving to us as electromagnetic wavesright out of the aether. The Internet has become a physicalnoosphere - a place of dreams, memories and imagination.

As the real estate of the physical world comes under greatersurveillance and control, the un-real estate of the virtual worldis becoming more mythological and archetypal. New gods arealready appearing inside people minds through role-playinggames and 3D-powered chat rooms while the old politicalgodsofthephysicalworld,proppedupbytheirarticialand

outdated institutions, struggleto survive.Evenour ercestenemies - invisible web-surng, video-making cavemen -have gone virtual as vast populations slip further and furtheraway into non-physicality.

Before long we will all be living in The Matrix, communingwith our favorite tribe through some personalized Avatar.As this articialreality becomesevermore convincing, thephysical institutions will become increasingly irrelevant.People will simply enter their personal holodecks to ndmeaningandfulllmentinlife.Gatheringaroundthecentral

reoftheInternet,anewmythologywillbeborninside TheCloud of the wireless World Wide Web.

There in The Cloud, the people will work and play, creatingvirtual products to earn virtual money. Here they will adorevirtual gods and assume virtual personalities. Here all theirwisheswillcome true, fullled in everywayby electronicthoughts rippling through space.

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Happiness and fear will be virtual here, too. People willcuddlearoundahotideainsteadofawarmrewiththeirpartner. Sex too will become virtual and on-demand, assistedperhapsbyaone-size-ts-allplug-n-playFirewiredevice.Asholographic images project directly into our collective cortex,feeling and emotions become virtual as well.

Ironically, it is through this disturbing vision of the futurethatwecanbegintondhope.AnewutopiaandGardenofEden is emerging in cyberspace - a place where people can bethemselves again without apology or guilt. The more peoplefeel free, the more likely they are to discard institutionalizedbelief systems and embrace natural philosophies. In the waysthat really matter, society is already becoming LESS virtualandLESSarticial,rediscoveringwhatitmeanstolivefree.

Perhaps the march toward virtuality is just another step in

mankinds evolution. Maybe living virtual helps us learnfaster, redeneourselves andcreatesocialmodels that aremore sustainable. Maybe the ancient archetypes of harmonicphysics will return in some musical form through The Cloud,designed by modern philosophers and social architects toshowtheworldhowtoxitself.Maybethisvirtualworldisnot a disease at all, but in fact the very medicine we need tohelp us create a more harmonious future, one ready for thenext stage of spiritual evolution.

In the story, the parallel realities of physical-virtual, memory-dream and past-future are resolved once the music becomesvisible. When the audience begin to see the music in the sameway they hear it, they start to wake up to the presence ofharmony in all things. As they awaken, they begin connectingto the New Mythos in The Cloud in order to enter theNew Atlantis, a blended holographic reality composed ofcrystallized musical light. Of course, this is just an updatedanalog for the ancient Greek theory of a musical universe.

If some version of this were to happen in the coming years,we might expect the same result. The average person couldbegin to view the world and themselves in musical terms something beautiful, natural and spiritual. One by one, wemight reconnect self-image with Nature.

Something as innocent as a do-it-yourself tinker toy set formusic could be all we need to reintroduce Musica Universalisback into Western civilization. Available any time, any placethrough mobile devices, organic music visualization andcomposition software has the power to reveal how everythingfrom solar systems to the human body are all just differentforms of music.

But this can only happen if the software is designed usingorganic perceptual models. Only through an accuraterepresentation of harmonic physics can the architecture of

physical reality be correctly represented in the virtual realm.Only through a revolutionary New Technology like this can wehope to elevate self-identity and restore a sense of individualresponsibility to Western society.

Technology used in the making of this book:

Mac Pro, Dual-Core Intel Xeon w/ two 30 displaysMicrosoft Word to write the story,DAZ 3D for 3D character and virtual set modelingAdobe Illustrator for graphic illustrationsAdobe Photoshop for image layering and effectsAdobe InDesign for page layout and text placement

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here is an interesting and ironic story behind the nameof this book that must be told. In October of 1992 Iwas involved in a 4-hour live concert that marked the

beginning of the digital media revolution. It was named TheGrand Scientic Musical Theatre.

The GSMT, as it was nicknamed, was the brainchild of ScottPage, former sax player for rock band Pink Floyd, and GeorgeGrayson, the president and cofounder of Micrografx, thegraphics software company where I worked in those days. Itwas held at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas in parallelwiththeCOMDEXcomputertradeshowthatyear.Asabenetconcert held immediately after the annual Micrografx ChiliCook-off, the GSMT was intended to demonstrate how theentertainment and computer industries could work togetherto create new kinds of digital media experiences.

From prior years, the Micrografx Chili Cook-off was wellknown and well attended by the computer industry.Companies were invited to compete with their best chilirecipe while attendees watched armadillo races and listenedto the music of the not-yet-famous Dixie Chicks. There wasalways some surprise, such as the previous years appearanceof George Spanky McFarland from the 1930s-40s Our Gang

and The Little Rascals.

As with all company events, the challenge was to dreamup something bigger and better each year. To encourageparticipation and contribute to a good cause, it was decidedthat year to make it a charity for The National Center forMissing and Exploited Children, a favorite charity of IBM.Of course, they immediately agreed to be the lead sponsor.

Software companies signed up left and right to cook their chiliand watch the show, even though no one had any idea whatwas in store. Leading production and technology companies

cameon board tocreatethe scientic theatrepartof theshow while big name entertainment acts contributed theirtime to the cause. With last minute help from Scotts friend,music producer Bob Ezrin (of KISS, Pink Floyd and AliceCooper fame), the project began to take shape.

On the visual technology front, Sun Microsystems wouldgenerate real-time 3D animation on a cylindrical displaytower powered by their latest high-end graphics computeraptly named the Reality Engine. A 3D virtual talking head

technology was also showcased by comedian Charlie Fleischer(voice of cartoon character Roger Rabbit) and displayed onmore than a dozen large screens arrayed around the coliseum.To cover the action, a dozen video swarm cams roamed theoor piping livefeeds into an18-wheelmobileproductionstudio in the back parking lot where everything was mixed inreal time and piped back into the arena to create a MTV-stylevideo collage of the performance.

The audio system boasted the latest in 3D surround sound,completewithspeakersmountedabovetheoorandfocused

on every angle of the circular arena. The show lightingsystem, on loan from rock group Genesis, featured a state-of-the-art computer-controlled Vari-lite system showcasing thethen-new capability of individually swiveled and switchedlights. In 1992, this kind of audio/ visual experience wasgroundbreaking compared to anything else available at thetime or maybe even since. The musical entertainment wasnot too shabby either.

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y p yintroduced by the governor of Nevada. This was followedby a couple of popular Los Angeles DeeJays interviewingand introducing various ensembles, including the Tower ofPower horns, Jeff Porcaro from Toto, Jeff Skunk Baxter ofthe Doobie Brothers, John Entwistle of The Who, The Edgar

Winter Band (playing Frankenstein), Todd Rundgren (HelloIts Me), Jon Anderson of Yes, Graham Nash of The Holliesand CSN&Y, Flo and Eddie of The Turtles (So Happy Together),contortionists from Cirque du Soleil and more.

There was even a group of dancers on a side stage wearingglow-in-the-dark body suits that triggered a MIDI synthesizeras they moved. The whole thing truly was a spectacularscienticandmusicalexperiment,justifyingthenamecoinedin1871byP.T.Barnumfortheworldsrstcircus: BarnumsGrand Scientic and Musical Theatre.

For four hours a stunned crowd of more than 10,000 computerpioneers from IBM, Microsoft, Micrografx, Intel, Oracle,Novell, Sun Microsystems, Apple, Adobe and many otherswatched the event unfold. Executives representing the futureof the computer industry were in attendance, not the leastof which was David House (General Manager of Intel), JimCannavino (head of IBM Personal Systems Division) and BillGates with soon-to-be wife Melinda French.

It was here in the darkened coliseum while watching the showthatitrstdawnedonmethelinebetweenphysicalandvirtualwasstartingtoblur.ThatwaswhenIrstsawhowcomputerswould pull society further and further away from the naturalworld. But it was also when I began to ponder how they mightalso bring us back. I imagined a tipping point when virtualrealitynallybecamesorealthatitwouldbeindistinguishablefrom physical reality, spilling Natures secrets out for all to see.

As these strange ideas swirled around in my head, I imaginedthe standing waves and perfect geometric forms of the music I

was hearing projected onto the theatres screens instead of thepretty but meaningless pop-art images being shown. In thetheatre of my mind, each song would create its own virtualreality as geometrical objects tumbling through a vibratinglandscape of intersecting waves and patterns. In this innerrealm, I could seemelodiesgrowingas a ower, intervalspumping like a beating heart and chords carving out theshape of some primitive life form. Higher up in the hierarchy,I envisioned rich orchestrations and timbres materializing intothe physical archetypes of planets, plants, pets and people,giving the audience a glimpse into an invisible mythologicalrealm.

Maybe this would become the vision that could stitch togethera fragmented society, I thought, bringing with it a new mythosof cultural awareness and social coherence. Maybe this wouldbe therealGrand ScienticMusicalTheatrefor which theworld had been waiting.

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