The Holodeck

I once wrote a story called “Conversation with a wave.” In it, the main character is alone on a sailboat when a wave begins pushing him along and speaking to him. He learns that waves, once they are fully formed, become individually conscious, and speak to one another by creating sounds with their foamy wavetops and shouting across the troughs between the waves. Our character asks why the waves don’t communicate through the water as waves are made of, and connected through the water. The wave patiently explains that some waves believe that the dead waves might be able to do that.   In any case, the parallel becomes clear that we use technology such as cell phones to accomplish the universal connection between all of us that certainly already exists. We tap into the universal mind not by going deep within ourselves, where we are all connected, but by logging on to a search engine. Will we someday create a Star Trek world when we can manifest anything we want, not by tapping into the universal power, but by tapping the keys of a ‘Replicator’ or entering a Holodeck?   The Replicator is a symbol of Universal Abundance. Ask for tea (Earl Grey, hot) or steak (Earth Buffalo, Cajun style, medium rare)… or, what the hell, ask for both. Enough for everyone, and more, all free for the asking. No more hunger, no more poverty. Everyone has not only whatever they need, but whatever they want. There are some frightening thoughts down that path – but don’t we, indeed, have enough on this planet for everyone? Perhaps we already have all the ‘replicator’ we need right beneath our feet.   The Holodeck! Imagine the possibilities… Attend a lecture by Albert Einstein. Drink wine with Jesus. Tell Buddha the joke about the rabbi and let his laughter open your heart to god. Meet Plato on a street corner and remember, with him, that everything in the universe is already known. Swoop from the sky and save Lois Lane as she plummets from the window of a skyscraper… then take her into the clouds and accept her eternal gratitude. Just step into the Holodeck and tell the computer what you want to experience. Perhaps the Holodeck is only a dream – but then maybe that’s all it needs to be.   We spent the weekend exploring the power of attraction, and our innate ability to manifest whatever we want. They made it sound so magical, but it’s not. It’s obvious. We can have and we can experience anything we want because everything we want is already here – right at our feet and inside our dreams and our hearts.