ZoharEvolution

ZoharEvolution is nothing more than a thought experiment; a hot mess of pseudoscience tangled with equal parts truth, fact, and educated guesses. While the author (yours truly) isn’t overly worried about veering into the pseudo-soup indefinitely, it seems prudent to make clear, for anyone reading, that the fine line between science and speculation is going to get blurry. But I know this; I’ve not gone completely off my rocker. This is the storytelling, speculation, and hand waving that one can do to great effect when one knows enough science and doesn’t mind pissing a lot of scientists off. So everyone be prepared to get pissed off in more ways than one, because not only is good science getting dragged into this, but so is God.

Truly, every faith, field of study, all disciplines, any school of thought ever named, all religious sects, government institutions, non-profits, corporations, Mothers against Drunk Driving, drunk drivers, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, 4B, Boy Scouts, Girls Gone Wild, the LGTBQ+ Rainbow Brite – everybody just go ahead and get pissed off now, because that’s the size of this thought experiment. Literally. No, literally, *NOTHING IN THE UNIVERSE ESCAPES THE SCOPE OF IT* so don’t say I didn’t warn you. This kind of dancing calls for shit kicking boots, because I’m going to step all over everyone’s tootsies.

Still, the scientist in me can’t just let bullshit slide without comment; I’m writing a pseudo science novel because there’s no time right now to do the science. There are testable hypotheses here that deserve careful exploration – meta-analyses, experiments, reproducible verification. But one reason science is glacially slow is the same reason that these ideas need to be disseminated; we, as a society and civilization and species are in trouble, everybody knows it, but can’t seem to agree on what exactly the problem is. Humanity is doomed, that’s for certain, and we’re at a loss to start trying to fix it for want of consensus on just many ways we really fucked it up. It seems like an unanswerable question.

But what I’m here to tell you, believe or not, is that we only fucked up once. In our history as a species, there was just one mistake that was left unaddressed, and will ultimately prove fatal. It was a gross logical fallacy that survived the rise and fall of civilizations, era after era, and has left us in an interminable game of “Risk” at the global scale. Just think – one mistake to fix, and when do –Poof! Problems all solved. And we can finally get back to the business at hand, which of course, is evolving. Or God. Your choice; for now, but they’re really one and the same. Of course, that doesn’t make sense to you yet, but it will.

I’m not claiming any formal association or title with regard to creation, I’m on a 1099 for God, at best. Nothing I say is meant to usurp, dislodge or displace anyone’s faith, beliefs, religious practices, or strongly held convictions, unless, of course they’re fundamentally contradictory with the obvious nature of God. All the major religions thus far are based on decent principles which, all too often, people get wrong. It’s not been the message or it’s intention that’s fallen short, but the interpretation and execution that comes after. In many ways, ZoharEvolution is no different; just one more of many attempts to set humanity’s course aright because the path we are currently on leads to only one place, and it’s nowhere near eternal light.

And that’s ZoharEvolution in a nutshell; a thought experiment and theoretical framework for humanity. An explanation extrapolated from modern science that explains how we got here, where we’re heading, exactly how we fucked it up, and what needs to change.

It’s fine if you don’t believe me now, I’m almost as incredulous as you. It’s not like this was what I had planned to do with my life. I didn’t wake up one morning, look at my ToDo list and think, “Hm, looks like I can construct a theory of everything, throw a lifeline to humanity, and still make it to the post office for stamps before they close.”

No, I sure as hell didn’t. But I also haven’t gotten a damn thing else done since this revelation descended upon me. And yeah, I say it like that because that’s what it was. A revelation, not *like* the word of God, or a message from God, it was like suddenly seeing what God sees. God didn’t tell me; God didn’t show me; I knew God and the way I understood things was changed. I looked with my heart at the matter at hand and the answers came, one after another, each piece falling into place, and my whole being knew the truth of it. It made sense. And it was good.

Do I really think I have a snowball’s chance of shifting the whole of humankind into a new awareness? Nope, not a bit. But I’m smart enough to recognize a good idea when I see it. And for all humanity’s faults, I have one last scrap of faith that people are fundamentally good, and rational, and want better for themselves and everyone they care about than what’s in store for all of us right now. And for as long as history can remember, when people are ready for change, the framework for revolution comes into focus. An idea who’s time has inevitably arrived is fated to catch like wildfire. Carried by the promise of its own potential, as far and wide as there are people who believe in it, it recruits without evangelism, indoctrination, campaigns, coercion, forced conversion, or crusades. I’m not even worried about whether or not people read this; this is not a matter of proving a case; I’m merely tasked with putting an idea into the world and letting the world decide its own fate. Selah.

I am apologizing to the scientific community in advance for the pseudoscientific handwaving to follow. I’m waving from the yet-to-be tested and peer-reviewed information parade float that is God. Or sixth sense, intuition, gut feeling, whatever; just one more of the things I’ll explain in minute. I know it’s unverified and unorthodox, but as a former and hopeful future member of science’s ranks, I encourage anyone in or adjacent to an ivory tower to approach this like any untested hypothesis; keep current scientific consensus in one hand and an open mind in the other. The scientific foundations are solid, I think you’ll find that the ideas are neat, and the implications are truly phenomenal. They are at once far reaching and immediate. I also believe that science, in time, will provide empirical support for the structural elements that, as of now, are merely speculation. The distance between thinking and knowing is much shorter in the native programming language.

Which brings me, finally, to a note about the notation convention in operation. In an effort to make distinction between science and hypotheses de novo abundantly clear, I’ll be employing a simple color-coding system to indicate objective informational value of text. For example, me saying, “scientifically grounded statements will appear in black type,” is printed in sea-green because there’s no objective scientific value in the statement that might be up for dispute at any point in time.

All the non material parts of this written work will appear in this ambiguous ocean of a color that you are now familiar with. It’s a shade appropriate to the content and convenient to remember; see that wall of watery type above? This unassertive color means that text can safely be skipped over. Your welcome.

The next information value class to note in the color-notation scheme is text in full-black print:

The marriage rate in the U.S. hit a new record low in 2020, and hasn’t recovered appreciably since.

See how I did that? That is in full-black, confident and uncompromising because it is fact. The statement above happens to be a data-based claim, courtesy of the CDC and the US Census, but full-black will be similarly used if a statement reflects supported scientific opinion. Whether it’s the scientific consensus or debated with cause will likely be mentioned. Either way, it denotes hypotheses that can be cited to a published reference. I will try to include citations and references as I can, when time allows.

A third class I am considering including is off-black, or dark-grey, as you prefer, as a means of noting the scientific claims that I can’t reference with certainty, but strongly suspect have found empirical support in some corner of science somewhere. As I continue to refine this document, these are the topics destined to be revisited; pending further research, perhaps revised or rescinded in light of new information. If, while reading this, you, yourself, have knowledge of a subject area or field of academic study within this scope – dark grey content or otherwise – and feel inclined to engage in a discussion on the material, I encourage you to contact me.

And finally, any thoughts, claims, or conjectures –those scientifically testable hypotheses that have yet to be tested – anything un-vetted, that, to the best of my knowledge, came from my brain de novo, these are the core concepts of ZoharEvolution. These are the ideas, explanations, justifications, implications and the accompanying rationale that are novel and untested but seem highly possible, and warrant formal study. Under the color-coded convention, this text will be printed in Sperling’s blue, so named for the dust jacket color on the first edition printing of Sperling and Simon’s five volume translation of The Zohar. For reasons I’m at a loss to understand or explain, there’s something of my father, of God, and all creation in the color. At the very edge of deep, bright, and green without actually being anything but what it is - the most brilliant shade of blue I’ve ever seen.

Welcome to ZoharEvolution. Humanity’s future isn’t bright unless it’s brilliant.

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