The Guardian of Forever portal can take you back in time, but what is the Guardian of Forever? Is it a being or an artifact, a construction with magic powers? No one knows but, just when one is in trouble and finds out a mistake is made the Guardian of Forever appears and gives you the possibility to fix it. A mind warping thought for the sci-fi movies. Or is It a wishful thinking when things go wrong or right and we “knew it”, but did not act in time? When looking back at grand historic events, we can’t really help ourselves but ask could the things have been different? And if we really could go back in time, could we actually change anything? Will it be possible? Can only one person affect the course of history? What about me, can I change the present if I went back in time and revised my choices? There is a Star Trek episode for every dilemma of this kind 😊 and in 1967 there was Star Trek Season 1 Episode 29, The city in the edge of forever.

Kirk is the captain of the starship Enterprise one of the best flying machines of his world. And his world is an advanced world, a world of abundance. However, someone goes crazy and Kirk’s whole world disappears, is gone. The ship is gone, all the previous generations their fully lived lives undone, murdered, their inheritance all the achievements erased. The captain finds himself in a desolated place and needs to save the world, save his ship, save his friends, save himself.

So, he goes to fix the problem to claim his life back, to get back his world. He finds himself in a poor world, one of scarcity one where nothing make sense and no one will understand him. But there is no time for hesitation must find some clothes first.  And then find some work, and food, the basic necessities come to the forefront of his life. The lucky break comes as a second job with 22 cents per hour, what a joy. Not all is bad, there is the beautiful woman with an amazing smile, maybe he should forget all the troubles and be positive, enjoy the good things that are still. There was that nice conversation maybe she can understand him, maybe just a hug. Maybe just a kiss, if he did that does not mean that deep inside he accepted the new world he gave up on what made him. Does not mean that he erased all that made him, all that he was, just because it was convenient.  But how can this be wrong, how can love be wrong? Spock asks is it really love; can you really love when you are in such a difficult situation and not allowed to be yourself? Kirk can’t see that but Spock helps him, tells him about his situation, and what is the danger of accepting the poor world.

Spock understands that if Kirk fell in love with the convenient acceptance of the situation nothing can be done, and in the movie, this also changes the poor world to a world without hope and changes the future to a Nazi world to continue. Death of the beautiful woman in the movie is the symbolic message of the choice that Kirk made, he will not compromise out of the convenience of the moment, he will choose to live his own life, his destiny.

What about you, o captain of thy self, I ask?

And Dostoevsky replied first:

“It became clear to me that life and the world, as it were, depended upon me. I might even say that the world had existed for me alone. I should jab myself, and then there would be no world at all, for me at least. Not to mention that perhaps there will really be nothing for any one after me, and the whole world, as soon as my consciousness is extinguished, will also be extinguished like a phantom, “

 

 

Once upon a time, there was a time of darkness and lasted for 1000 years. At some time before this period a wrong turn was made and we got stuck in the dead end of delusion, fog, stillness and madness. All we could do as a sign of life was move the limbs from the inertia pushing from the centuries and hold onto the inherited pieces of knowledge imprinted in the everyday patterns without a meaning, hoping for a miracle of fitting the puzzles of life blindfolded with ignorance and confident with naivety. It bears the name of the dark ages. In the search for answers to understand their predicament people looked inside their inheritance, to history when it was better and the beautiful arose to live with us, what was different then? They needed to look outside of the contemporary narrative, that one was hacked, so they checked deeper, further back to the Greeks and the Romans decoding the stories, paintings and the sculptures and they found … nothing, they were not able to understand the missing piece of the message that which was hidden on plain sight the one you could feel so clearly but not catch or formulate.

A fresh perspective arrived on the nature of matter; it came from an unlikely place one that was so different from the narrative. It made the way in with a special promise, if one developed the right understanding and put in the work, offered endless gold. It was the magic. Was this a case of desperation and the magic beans? Actually, many tried, and tried, and tried and in due time it did work, this work achieved riches beyond any imagination, riches that changed the way of life for whole mankind.

This new way of thinking came about from the collision of a very rigid dogma with wild imagination. While the work to “make” the gold was chugging along there was also the matter of articulating, describing “this”, developing the reason “why” to the others. The effort started again looking at history for the reasons why it should work, they checked far and wide through all the human reasoning from further back the Egyptians and Hindus, the very beginning all the history. They said all knowledge, for all, came from the same source long ago, and as such all knowledge was considered, it was accepted was welcome. And something new was born a different view for the beautiful, a different perspective for life. And in this amazing time of rebirth the beautiful started to appear again. And then magic was approved and accepted within our realm. As we can expect the magic was too much to deal with, too scary so they just took a little piece of it and locked in a box. What was this magic? What is in this magic? Truth happens on the physical world, always! This little phrase is the magic and we called it science.  Even though framed with fictional limits it changed the world. As we progressed in building with science, we thought we know everything, the more successful the application become the more ambitious our aim. We were convinced, now we know everything and we can explain everything, we just need to go deeper in the box down to the elementary particles, there is the answer. And the silliness to explain the outside of the box by going deeper inside the box has become the highest level of science. Let’s take the magic that science “locked up” and free it from the box so it can continue to build the world.

The answer is in you and you are the answer. I wake up in the morning and see the sunlight, feel the warmth, smell the coffee and the experience is an affirmation to me, the owner of this experience, and I accept it. I go out in the world and interact with family and friends’ other people and listen and experience the interaction and when it is supportive, enriching. The positive feedback from outside to my life is a sign that I am in the truth. But there are other times when is hard to open the eyes because of the darkness, the cold, the stench and this is a warning to me, the owner of this experience. I go out in the world and there are no interactions but rejections. The negative feedback from outside is telling me this cannot be the truth, how to accept this kind of truth? Then the contract of my life is drawn from the beginning of my life, and there it is my first breath, my first heartbeat as the signature. I accept it from the beginning. And I am told to let go, let go of the challenge. Because it is the truth. This is a fundamental condition to our existence, it does not mean that; we deserve it or intended everything that is happening, no this means that with our actions and our lack of knowledge (for the impact) we built the reality that we live in, we made it. I need to keep (or be used for) the balance of the whole, so the ship can keep going. Did I play my role or allowed the ship to go astray by moving aside?

If we are to take a single step towards knowledge, we must accept that Truth happens, always! I call this the first Postulate and is more than a common-sense statement it is an undeniable condition of human existence. What will you say if you took a look at your life? Do you have the courage to look? Can you find the words? Did we let the river go upstream?

There is a little nudge to consider all the facts.

“Yet they could easily reach agreement if only they dropped the word “physical.” “Physical” is not the only criterion of truth: there are also psychic truths which can neither be explained nor proved nor contested in any physical way. If, for instance, a general belief existed that the river Rhine had at one time flowed backwards from its mouth to its source, then this belief would in itself be a fact even though such an assertion, physically understood, would be deemed utterly incredible. Beliefs of this kind are psychic facts which cannot be contested and need no proof.”

Carl Jung, Collected Works, Vol 11 [553]