Let's Question Our Assumptions About Reality Itself

Some say the world is round. I don't doubt it. It makes sense that the world is round, when you look at some of the other planets. They're all round. But some draw a different conclusion from that than what I might draw.

See, I say the other planets are round because they were created from this planet. In that sense, I got the cause and effect exactly backwards - which oddly enough, ends up being exactly the right way to look at it! You see, back in the mists of time, way back into the dawn of the mists of the pre-history of this race of ours which we call human - "back then," as some call it - the world itself was still being formed, and the universe itself was nearly formless. And then it was that certain shamans, certain visionaries or as some might call them in the modern-day, wack-jobs, were then in the process of dreaming it all into existence - or more properly, dreaming the formlessness into form.

Now because everything was still inchoate, still but half-formed, there was such power then in the visions of these dreamers that one of them might grab the shoulder of one of the general public and point at the sky saying, "Look! Look at the light!" - and in those days of reality newly-formed and newly-forming, hallucination still had a power and a reality to it, such that that even the non-seer could share in the vision. Could see. And so the general populace - who had previously kept their eyes groundward, minding their roots and tubers - the populace began looking to the skies, and bearing witness to the developing splendor within the formlessness that the visionaries were pointing out to them. And as the collective mind of all humanity reached out into the sky, the vision became sharper, and reinforced, and real.

This is the sort of New Age shit that I subscribe to.

Anyway, then eventually Science came in, all elbows, brushing aside the mystics and dreamers, and Science said: "shit, that's no immobile globe with holes poked in it! And lights set into it, and some other lights wandering across. It's...some other damn thing. We're working on it." And Science called the mystics wrong, because Science said that the time of the mystics had passed - but in reality it was because the mystics' work had already been done.

What Science didn't realize is that the mystics weren't wrong. The formlessness needed those visions, to determine the shape it would take. As the seers and shamans projected out into the void their cosmic dizzying visions of lights and shapes and colors, the formlessness itself reacted - reaching out to meet those visions, and to shape and support them with an order and simplicity of which the seers themselves knew nothing. The laws of nature formed themselves into the smoothest and simplest gears and levers to support the lights and globes that had been envisioned by those primal cosmic shamans and visionaries.

And by the time it all clicked into place, it had already been going forever.