Communicating Information in the Grid
My brain is only a receiver, in the universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.
—Nikola Tesla
Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.
—Paulo Coelho
There is a transcendental dimension beyond language. . . . It's just hard as hell to talk about!
—Terence McKenna
If the Grid exists, then it contains information about everything that ever was, is, or will be. Past, present, and future. From matter and form to idea and intent, from the subatomic to the cosmic, everything can be broken down into information. Imagine being able to find a way to tap into this multidimensional and infinitely expansive information field and access what might normally only exist beyond the realm of our five simple senses. Perhaps we are already communicating in the Grid without even knowing it.
In March 2012, the United States Navy announced that it had started a program to investigate how military personnel could be trained to use intuition and their “sixth sense” in combat. The program was inspired by reports from soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan who reported having some type of unexplained sensation or feeling before they ran into either an enemy attack or an improvised explosive device. The program, called Enhancing Intuitive Decision Making through Implicit Learning, offered $3.85 million to researchers who wanted to explore how intuition works at accessing information that is not clearly available to the other senses or the brain.
In a statement to the press, program manager Ivy Esta-brooke stated: “There is a growing body of anecdotal evidence, combined with solid research efforts, that suggests intuition is a critical aspect of how we humans interact with our environment, and how, ultimately, we make many of our decisions.”
While critics are quick to point out that intuition does not always work (or does it, and we just read the signals wrong?) and that it is not something we might describe as “paranormal” in nature, most of us have experienced the power of intuition in our own lives, and for many of us, we live by that inner wisdom. It works.
The fact that an entity as formidable as the US Navy might take intuition seriously aside, communicating along the invisible connective web is no longer thought of as a joke (and a big New Age joke at that). Psi, psychic abilities, intuition, remote viewing, precognition, and just plain “knowing” long held court in the realm of the anomalous, and yet we all know these abilities are real. Some of us are even damn good at them.
We get a feeling, a knowing, a gut reaction that may have no grounding in intellectual reality, but we feel it strongly . . . and then it turns out to be true. This knowledge, this information, is bypassing the normal channels of the brain and getting to us on a much different, deeper level. Some researchers say intuition and knowing are really the brain reacting to something based on past experiences and external cues, and that this reaction is happening instantaneously. The March 2008 issue of the British Journal of Psychology featured a study on intuition, viewing it as the “instantaneous evaluation of such internal and external cues,” which means that this method of communication is a combination of what is outside of us interacting with what is inside. What is on the inside can include memories, past experiences, and learned lessons, but many people swear that their intuition comes from higher sources that have a knowing that goes beyond their own cranial memory and manufacture. Intuition may then be our subconscious at work, prodding us to pay attention to information that the waking brain filters out because it is not rational, or there are no visible external cues to match it with.
In a November 1, 2002, Psychology Today article by David Myers titled “The Powers and Perils of Intuition,” the author discusses this instinctive awareness buried within us, which reveals a “fascinating unconscious mind that Freud never told us about. Thinking occurs not onstage, but offstage, out of sight.” Myers points to how memory, thinking, and even attitude all operate on two different levels: the conscious/deliberate and the unconscious/automatic. This dual processing suggests that we actually know more than we think we know, and that much of our everyday thinking, feeling, and acting operate outside of our conscious awareness: “We have, it seems, two minds: one for momentary awareness, the other for everything else.” Many people find it hard to accept this idea.
Intuition may have physiological origins, but it also gives us access to information in the Grid that the brain might normally pass on, or second-guess, or ignore altogether.
Telepathy is another way we can access information that the brain and five senses don't normally perceive. Telepathy and ESP have also prompted some serious scientific study, but because it just isn't “provable” and repeatable, it still gets swept under the rug as pseudoscience, along with intuition and knowing. Frederic W. H. Myers, founder of the Society for Psychical Research, coined the term telepathy in 1882, although at the time the phrase “thought transference” was more in vogue to describe the ability to communicate without physical means of contact. The word itself comes from the Greek tele meaning “distant” and pathe or patheia meaning “feeling, perception, or experience.”
Empirical proof of telepathy does not exist, but there are more than enough anecdotal stories of personal experiences, especially between people who have a strong connection to one another, such as twins, lovers, best friends, and parents and their children. One couple, Mark Boccuzzi and Dr. Julie Beischel, authors of an upcoming book called Psychic Intimacy: A Handbook for Couples, actually met at a conference and experienced a powerful connection to one another while engaging in an experiment on telepathy! They had their experience during a conference that was organized by the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), where Dr. Dean Radin, author of many books that delve into consciousness and connectivity and the potential science behind it, conducted the study program they were enrolled in. Boccuzzi, Beischel, and Radin cannot prove this happened, but they know it did. How important is subjective experience, and how does it fit into the scientific method, if at all?
And what do we make of the many studies of telepathy between twins? Ask many a twin and you will get a story of some amazing psychic connection between the two, no matter how much distance between them. In her book Entwined Lives, Dr. Nancy L. Segal researched twins and their potential psychic connections and concluded that there was no scientific proof of the mental connection claimed by the twins she studied, a conclusion mirrored by that of another twin expert, Dr. Eileen Pearlman. But this does not discount the hundreds, if not thousands, of anecdotal experiences reported all over the world by twins themselves, a phenomenon thought to be more common between identical twins, who share a closer genetic connection than fraternal twins, although all twins report these amazing telepathic communications.
Family members often know when another member is in trouble. Moms know when their children are ill or in danger. A wife knows that her husband, who is a cop, has been shot, or a lover senses that his beautiful adored one is ill. We communicate across the miles without the use of phones or gadgets, one the sender and one the receiver, as if there were invisible phone lines connecting each and every one of us to the other, with the lines much stronger between those we feel a deep love or emotional bond with.
Relationships seem to have their own resonance, their own vibration between those involved, and perhaps the resonant frequencies that sync up create this opening for communication in the Grid. Loved ones who have passed on may use this mechanism as a means to communicate with those left behind. Get onto the right wavelength, so to speak, and you can talk to anyone, anywhere, at any time with nothing more than your mind, your consciousness, and your inner voice. The quality of our communication in the Grid may vary in strength or reliability based on, as described in previous chapters, the internal and external influences that either align perfectly, or not. Think of each of us as a radio station broadcasting our own programming, each on our own frequency. We can also receive other frequencies, so we can listen to stations other than our own, and sometimes we even get cross interference and static between signals that are moving in and out of range. Some signals are just beyond our range until we move in a new direction.
We mainly communicate with our brains, which signal to us what to do, say, and think. Then we speak or act and the receiver of our communication hopefully gets the gist of what we are trying to say. Yet the brain is but one mode of communication, and maybe not even the best or most efficient. In a September 12, 2012, article for Waking Times titled “The Heart Has Its Own Brain and Consciousness,” researchers looked at how consciousness may emerge not just from the brain, but also from the body, mainly the heart. The research was done at the Institute of HeartMath, which is devoted to educating the world about heart-based living and intelligence, and utilized the discipline of neurocardiology to show the heart is a sensory organ that also doubles as a very sophisticated center for the reception and processing of information.
The heart may even be able to make functional decisions about the body independent of the brain, as the heart sends signals to the brain about perception, cognition, and emotional processing. The heart and the brain both have measurable electromagnetic fields, although the heart's field is said to be sixty times stronger. Through an extensive neural communication network the heart and brain are able to interact and communicate. So, though it may seem like we are thinking just on an intellectual level, or communicating thusly, we aren't. This definitely adds so much more meaning to the phrase “heart-to-heart talks.”
You can stand several feet away from another person and be affected by their heart's EM field. Perhaps this interaction between heart fields can account for why we sometimes meet someone and click immediately, or hate their guts from the get-go. Our heart may be communicating information to the brain to either say yes or no to a particular person's energetic field. According to the Institute of HeartMath, this may act as a carrier wave for information, thus providing a global synchronization signal for the entire body. Imagine if our global sync signal matches another person, either standing before us or a thousand miles away.
This perspective mirrors both the enfolding and unfolding activities of Bohm's implicate order in the creation of reality, as well as the holographic theory in which the part contains the whole. These heart fields may also occur between humans and animals, which might explain the psychic bonds owners feel with their pets, as well as an animal's ability to detect danger or distress long before its human owner is aware of it.
If we are all energy, and everything is energy, then we simply need to find a way to match our energy with that field of information and send our thoughts to a loved one. This same mechanism may be at work with regards to ESP and remote viewing, which is the uncanny ability to “see” things miles away without aid of actually being there to see it.
ESP and remote viewing are not just pseudoscientific mumbo jumbo. In fact, both subjects, considered the realm of the paranormal, have been intensely studied in research facilities the world over, with intriguing results. From the early beginnings of organized ESP research, courtesy of the Society for Psychical Research (formed in 1882), to the later attempts by researchers at Stanford University in the early 1900s, the efforts to scientifically prove this hidden, perceptive, and communicative ability have had mixed results. Some of the best research occurred later, in the 1930s at Duke University, when Karl Zener and J. B. Rhine began conducting experiments with Zener cards, which utilized five simple symbols on white cards, to mixed results. Rhine would go on to establish the Parapsychological Association in 1957, which would go on to garner scientific credibility in 1969 when it became a part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Later came the Rhine Research Center, IONS, and the famed PEAR program (Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research), where a number of anomalous studies, usually privately funded, were conducted. The PEAR lab is no longer, although its associated Global Consciousness Project continues to operate. More on that later.
Brave researchers and those brilliant minds at IONS, the Rhine Research Center, and other such institutes on the cutting edges of science and human consciousness mostly conduct today's ESP research. Many respected journals continue to publish articles examining ESP, precognition, and telepathy, although proof seems inconclusive.
The term “remote viewing” was coined by Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, two of the scientists and parapsychology researchers most involved with studying this strange ability to sense the whereabouts of a distant location or the description of a distant object, all without the benefit of actually knowing said location or object. In the 1970s, Targ and Puthoff (who was also instrumental in zero-point field/energy research) became a part of the Electronics and Bioengineering Lab at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California, where they worked on projects involving laser physics and quantum mechanics. With funding from the Parapsychology Foundation and IONS, they also were able to branch out and conduct research involving ESP and remote viewing. In fact, their studies were instrumental in developing some of the standards and methodology behind all future research.
Even the governments of the world and the military bodies in power have thought enough of ESP and remote viewing to pour significant time and money into research. Russia, China, and the United States have all had top secret “black projects” involving ESP research, and in 1972 the CIA decided to jump into the game with significant funding for a project called Stargate. This particular project initially had a singular purpose: to find any possible military applications for ESP and other psi abilities. However, the program was later expanded with strong support from several top CIA officials. Targ and Puthoff were getting some positive results with remote viewers, namely the talents of Ingo Swann, Pat Price, Rosemary Smith, and Joseph McMoneagle, who actually received a legion of merit for providing critical military information via his remote viewing abilities. Even the PEAR lab at Princeton University had its own Remote Perception program, which ended when the lab itself shut down in 2007.
Funding and government involvement continued through the 1990s and expanded outward to the UK, where they conducted their own studies into remote viewing. The US-backed studies were said to terminate in the mid-1990s, but remote viewing experimentation continues to this day at facilities devoted to not just researching but also actually teaching the art of “seeing at a distance.” More recently, cognitive neuroscientist Michael Persinger worked with remote viewing at Laurentian University to examine the accuracy of Ingo Swann's viewings and drawings and the results achieved by forty participants utilizing particular brain stimulation with complex magnetic fields. Persinger is known for his groundbreaking work with the brain and stimulating specific regions to induce creativity, mystical experiences, and altered states using his “God Helmet,” which transmits pulses of varying EM frequencies into the brain.
Not everyone is good at remote viewing, or ESP, but some positive findings have prompted research to continue. People like Ingo Swann may have been a ten on a scale from one to ten, but most of us hover around a three or a four. Here's the thing: Remote viewing can be learned, as can any communication in the Grid. If one person has the inherent ability to do something, then it makes sense that we all do, since we all share the same physical parts and potentiality. We can't help but think of the lyrics to that old Who song about having the magic in your eyes to see for miles and miles and miles . . .
But there might just be a more collective communication that happens in the Grid as well. Linked consciousness, the collective unconscious, the field of intention . . . these are terms all used to describe a hidden level of connectivity that allows many people to have access to the same information and ideas, often at the same time, as in trends and tipping points.
This collective human consciousness might even influence physical objects, such as random number generators used by the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), which is a collaboration of scientists and engineers who collect data from a network of random number generators at seventy host sites scattered throughout the world (one of which is hosted by coauthor Larry Flaxman!). The director of the GCP is Roger Nelson, PhD, who was previously the coordinator of research at the PEAR lab before moving on to the study of special states of group consciousness using random event generator (REG) technology. The REGs (which are also referred to as RNGs or EGGSs) transmit data 24/7/365 to a central archive. That data is basically the result of the synchronized feelings or emotional energy of millions of people, which somehow influences the random generators’ outcomes. All of the readings are recorded and archived for corroboration and study.
The idea behind the GCP is that when a major global event occurs, such as the death of Princess Diana, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, or the Japan tsunami, the collective emotion influences the data of the generators, as if group consciousness is at work. The random data somehow becomes less random. The data often shows that this collective influence occurs immediately preceding the time at which the global event occurs, as if the event were somehow anticipated by huge numbers of people on a hidden order of reality. You may have actually helped to influence one of these REGs and not even consciously realized it. All of this is happening on another level of the Grid, a level where words and actual physical interaction are not necessary for the transmission of information to and from large groups of people.
This concept of “coherent consciousness,” as the folks at the GCP call it, finds structure and order in what is ordinarily chaos and disorder. The REGs normally put out random orders of zeroes and ones, but when a major event occurs in the world, those zeroes and ones take on a subtle order, a pattern that is undeniable. The bigger the event, the more patterns are seen in the data. This seems to be especially true when the events evoke a deep compassion or empathy among the populace. Strong emotions make an imprint upon the REGs, but interestingly, the emotion of strong fear creates smaller effects than that of compassion. It is as if minds, and hearts, everywhere were talking to one another without mouths ever moving. The evidence accumulated by REGs over time has shown that there is an interconnected human consciousness at work that can affect and influence the GCP instrumentation, which in turn may also be influencing reality itself.
A similar undertaking involves the use of collective intention, or focused thought, to change reality and influence objects from a distance. Lynne McTaggart, author of The Field and The Intention Experiment, has a website devoted to intention experiments that are scientifically controlled, Web-based, and open to public participation. As of the writing of this book, there have been several intention experiments involving more than thirty countries around the world, and the website claims extraordinary results so far.
The very first experiment had its trial run on March 11, 2007, using the attendees of one of McTaggert's own conferences in London. Dr. Gary E. Schwartz, a psychologist and director of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health at the University of Arizona, coordinated the experiment. In it, two healthy geranium leaves were taken from a plant belonging to one of Dr. Schwartz's office colleagues. The audience then sent one leaf directed intention for ten minutes, telling it to “glow and glow.” This attempt to increase the light emissions of the leaf was photographed using a CCD camera. The other leaf didn't receive any directed intention and was used as a control. A week later, Dr. Schwartz revealed the results. The leaf sent the glowing intention had such strong changes in light emissions it could easily be seen in the camera's digital images.
Similar experiments involving water crystals, plants, and even germinating seeds have been conducted, but one of the biggest involved peace. The Peace Intention Experiment marked the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and was intended to be a positive impact event during a very depressing, downbeat time. The experiment attracted participants from more than seventy-five nations and lasted for eight days, during which people focused their intention on communion, solidarity, and peace between the East and the West.
Though measuring actual declines in violence in the most tense, war-ridden areas of the world proved tough, eventually it was revealed that for the month of September and the few months following, the overall violence, the number of civilian and military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the number of attacks by the Taliban were all down. The exact numbers are available on the Intention Experiment website (http://theintentionexperiment.com). Some of the summary points of interest include:
Can this be used as proof that the participants actually changed reality with their focused thoughts? Not necessarily, but the ongoing work that McTaggart, her researchers, and the Global Consciousness Project are doing is certainly intriguing.
The Institute of HeartMath calls this phenomenon in which the social collective becomes both the activator and regulator of the energy in a social system a “social field.” There is an energetic field present that connects the positively, or negatively, charged emotions of all the members of a social group, creating a coherent organization. In addition, this network of emotions in the energetic field is encoded with information about the group's social structure, information that can then be distributed throughout the group, as in collective intention and action.
It's as if our minds and hearts and consciousness are entangled and forever influenced by one another, and in a quantum sense that is entirely possible. Entanglement of particles, we know from the quantum world, creates a connection that can be measured even over vast distances. As two particles become entangled with one another, even if they are a billion miles away, they will react to each other's influence instantaneously, even suggesting that light speed does not apply to this spooky “action at a distance,” as Einstein referred to it.
Non-locality, which is often mistaken for entanglement, tells us that two objects can be in non-local environments and still have an immediate influence upon one another. Though physicists still hotly debate the details of both entanglement and non-locality, the general understanding holds that when you measure the property of one entangled particle, you can automatically know the property of the other entangled particle. It's as if these particles communicate with each other instantly, with no thought of how far away they are from one another at all, defying the light speed limitations we hold so dear in physics.
You might be thinking, so what if this happens at the quantum level? Big deal. We are not particles (although we are made up of them!). Yet the February 15, 2013, issue of Science magazine features a joint experiment with the University of Colorado, Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that may blow that whole quantum limitation out of the water. The physicists placed a tiny drum between two mirrors and then illuminated it with laser light. When the mirrors were shaken, it was distinctly clear that effects of the uncertainty principle of quantum physics, which states that one cannot measure both a particle's momentum and its position at the same time, were present, thus suggesting that what works at the quantum level may work at the cosmic level as well. That was what made this experiment so stunning, that the results showed both classical and quantum mechanics operating on the very same scale. The fact that nothing really has a fixed form until we observe it may not just apply to particles anymore, but to objects on a much larger scale—even us!
Could our consciousness be entangled in a similar way, causing a virtual hidden communications field by which we transmit and receive information in the Grid? Dr. Dean Radin's Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality and The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena both address his research into this deeper reality, where the effects of microscopic entanglements “scale up” into the macroscopic world. Radin also writes extensively about how human consciousness is critical to our understanding of reality and how psi abilities, which were once thought to be the realm of fringe science, make perfect sense in light of the concept of a universe as an interconnected whole.
Entangled minds would definitely explain things like trends, memes, ideas, and concepts that go viral, suggesting that even our minds are subject to contagion just as our bodies are. Viral thought may be what causes tipping points that literally shift entire paradigms in our society, thus creating a ripe time for change on a larger, even global, scale.
In The Conscious Universe Radin suggests that rather than looking at the mind as a “mechanistic, information-processing bundle of neurons” or a “computer made of meat” we instead focus on the aspects of mental functioning that seem to go beyond just the normal neural functions of the brain.
Then again, maybe the universe itself is just one big giant computer, and we are all just information being processed by some master programmer. The idea of some giant cosmic computer behind all of reality is not new and is actually taken quite seriously by physicists who seek proof that we might all be living in a giant simulation. The idea that our universe exists within a computer simulation, a la the famous 1999 movie The Matrix, has been popular among scientists who are seeking the signatures of a cosmic computer model. Researchers at both Cornell University and the University of Washington have been embarking on a viable method of testing this, as reported in December 2012 by Eric Pfeiffer in “Whoa: Physicists Testing to See if Universe Is a Computer Simulation.” Physics professor Martin Savage discussed the use of a technique called lattice quantum chromodynamics for simulating a model of a computer, albeit one only slightly larger than the nucleus of an atom. But, the same principles may apply to something on a more cosmic scale. “If you make the simulations big enough, something like our universe should emerge,” Savage said.
One of Savage's students took the whole theory one step further by asking the bazillion dollar question: If whoever made our simulated universe may have made others, can we communicate with those other universes if they are running on the same platform? Think about it. Parallel simulated universes, all created by the masterful genius of someone or something with the brilliance to create cosmos. This brings the whole intelligent design argument into play, or the theory of the universe as a giant brain or consciousness, and yes, there are even scientists researching that possibility.
Could the universe be a giant brain, with the actual electrical firings between brain cells mirrored by the more cosmic firings that shape galaxies and worlds? A group of physicists at the University of California, San Diego think that may be possible. They ran a computer simulation to show natural growth dynamics of evolving systems, and found it to be the same for any kind of network, whether it's the Internet, the brain, or the entirety of reality. The universe shows the same kind of growth as the brain does, in terms of how links and connections evolve. But that doesn't mean the universe thinks like a brain does.
Which brings up this interesting thought: What if reality, and all the levels of the Grid, were like a giant Internet, say a human-driven Internet, with Web-like connections reaching in every possible direction, linking us all to one another, all the time?
The Internet allows us to access the entire world right at our fingertips, with nothing but a few keystrokes and an idea of what and where to search. We can communicate via email, social networks, online texting, and Skype. If we want to learn more about a subject, we do a search for it, and behold, the answer is there almost instantly. If we want to find old friends, we look on Facebook or LinkedIn, and hopefully they haven't changed their names or identities too much. If we want to find new friends, or even dates, there are thousands of places we can look for people we never even knew existed.
All of this is designed to expand our perception of reality, because until we actually search for something, it is not a part of our reality. It isn't “there.” But once we sign on and log on and hook up, it becomes a new experience and a new part of how we view the world around us.
Social networking sites like Facebook offer a great analogy for the communication of information in the Grid. People sign up for Facebook usually with the intent of connecting with family and friends, which become level one of reality in the social networking universe. But soon, friends of family and friends of friends are friending us, and now our reality is growing and expanding. This is level two. Maybe then we start a fan page or a business page and befriend a whole different set of people with different interests. This is level three. Until we actively become aware of and participate in the creation of these new outlets, or levels, those people don't exist in our reality. When things go viral, it's because the collective has synchronized and created level four. This is how we share innovations, inventions, ideas, and discoveries that affect the reality of everyone involved. Heck, you can even block someone or a bunch of people on Facebook and rearrange your social reality once again! Maybe this is level five. And the levels continue on and on from here.
The mind-blowing technology of today has made it possible to sign on to a social networking site, post a message, and within seconds that message is responded to by people all over the world. It's as close to instantaneous information transmission as we can get, and we never even question how our message goes through the phone via wireless communications to show up on some scrolling wall literally the nanosecond we tap the “post status” button. Why then is it so hard to believe we are communicating like this on our own, over some wireless frequency that connects brain to brain, heart to heart, soul to soul, no cell phone or computer needed?
Whether we prefer social networking or just surfing the human Internet, the perception of our reality literally shifts with the new knowledge and information we are given access to. Until we are exposed to these new ideas and bits of information, they do not exist in our reality.
Figure 9. The levels of the Grid may work like a host computer that is sending and receiving data from a network of other terminals. Courtesy of Ludovic.ferre/Wikimedia Commons
When we find ways to communicate via the Grid, whether we are sending or receiving information, wisdom, knowledge, or inspiration, we are acting as a computer that is hooked up to a vast network that is constantly evolving as we put more into it. We may be limited in what we can fit in our own computer's memory, but we still have access to other computers. We may forward files, delete images, add software, or increase memory and basically alter the reality of our computer world constantly throughout the day, according to our needs. If we have a webcam, we can see people we've never met in person. With Skype and other programs we can get on a conference call with twenty other people from all over the world to learn about something we previously didn't have an understanding of.
Our world is so small until we flick the on switch, and then it becomes all about finding the right broadcasts and frequencies that resonate with us.
The ability to reach across phenomenally vast distances to find something we never knew existed is what the Internet is all about. The human Internet, the experience of our reality in the Grid, operates the very same way. Next time you turn on your computer and Google a YouTube video, or check in on Twitter, or accept a new friend on Facebook, remember, you are creating new levels of reality where none existed before.
Mind to mind, brain to brain, heart to heart, computer to network, whether we are creating reality or are stuck in some virtual simulation, we still have the understanding that our five senses alone are not adequate for all the ways we communicate. Intuition, instinct, knowing, psi, remote viewing, channeling, mediumship, going into a trance state to access other levels of consciousness, or even taking a strange shamanic brew can all serve to help us experience other realities and communicate with those who exist there. When it comes to communication, we are stuck in the rational, intellectual world of visual cues and words, words, words, but perhaps the greatest and most profound levels of communication we can experience are the ones our brains filter out, or cannot perceive without a little help from our sixth sense.
Consciousness seems to have its own language, as does the collective unconscious that acts as a field of information we can all tap into, and all dump our own stuff into as well (good or bad!). Looking beyond the normal means of transmitting information, we can begin to see that there are “voices” and “signs” all around us at any given time and any given point in space—we just have to know where, and how, to find them. If our consciousness is that much a part of our experience of reality, or perhaps reality itself, then linked consciousness and group meditation or intention aren't so hard to grasp. Maybe, as Lynne McTaggart and Roger Nelson believe, there is a power to this collective that can affect and influence to heal or reduce crime or bring peace to hostile places.
In the end, we are all entangled, whether by six degrees of separation or just a few strands in the web of all there is. And because of that, we all have the ability to reach out and touch someone without ever laying a hand on them, even if it's just with our thoughts and our intentions. If we are observing reality into existence in a singular sense, then we are doing it collectively as well, and forever entwining and entangling ourselves until we get to a point where there is no distinct separation.
In the next and final chapter, we will look at how we ourselves are the Grid, how we can learn to walk the many levels and experience other realities for ourselves, and why it is important that we understand that our perception of reality is flawed, and the truth is so much grander and more awesome than we think. It's an idea that has been around forever, as we have shown, but it's an idea whose time has truly come.