Dear Editor,

Every conversation these days comes to be about the Coronavirus, and how our lives have been altered, out of deference for its dangers. If you’re one of those who doesn’t believe in the reality of COVID then you won’t have much use for . . .

rest of this letter. As you were, nothing to see here. But if you crave to understand what’s happening in the world today, this may help.

This is not a science fiction concept, though it will seem so, unless you can break out of the common mode of thought, which is habitually constricted to the three dimensions. Humans have done a remarkable job of occupying the entire Earth, transforming vast areas and gaining mastery of gravity and distance, the ruling forces of the third dimension.

Since the end of World War Two, mankind has had a flimsy handle on actions in the fourth dimension, time. Nuclear physics has given mankind the ability to transform matter to energy, which has been used for the awful purpose of utterly destroying entire cities in a second. It has also been used for electrical generation, but men have neglected to account for the waste products of that transaction. But that’s a rant for another occasion. It’s one of several big problems which still exist, in a world obsessed with COVID-19.

In May of 1949, the month I was born, Les Paul and Mary Ford developed the technology and techniques to record music in such a way that they could play and sing several parts then play them back at once – they had broken the time barrier. They also recorded at different speeds, so that one guitar could sound like a mandolin on one track and like a bass on another. They also turned the tape around backwards, so that it swells and then chops off, making quite different sound experience. All this was done by manipulating the time matrix with technology. They had gained an agency in the time dimension, and now we all take it for granted — it’s been a part of reality, literally all my life.

At nearly the same time, by coincidence, psychedelic substances were discovered, which gave the nascent science of psychology the ability to study how the mind works. The new psychedelic substances allowed a user to compress revelatory experiences which had previously been known only to tribal shamans or yoga adepts and mendicant monks. People who have been addicted to alcohol or drugs, or have been crippled by traumatic experiences such as war and extreme cruelty have found that psychedelic experiences can help them find an objective handle on their suffering. This kind of invisible injury had been difficult to treat with drugs or behaviour modifications in the past. It takes a trip to the fourth and fifth dimensions, to see their internal struggles as relative, and no longer all-encompassing.

So now, back to the Coronavirus, if we can understand where it comes from, we have a better chance of a successful strategy for coping with it. It’s RNA, the magical bits of encoded information common to the cells of all living things. When it comes time to replicate a cell uses the information in RNA to create a unit of DNA. But Coronavirus contains misinformation, and the cells created on that template will be sleeper cells, with an antagonistic agenda to the host body – that’s you. This is something so tiny, only advanced physicists can look at it. The processes are so fast, that the replication and damage overwhelms the immune systems, and can put the victim into acute danger.

Objects in the fifth dimension can have incredible leverage on the outer world of our three dimensional concerns. You’ve really got to use a good imagination, in order to think of the big picture ordinated by this tiny thing. It’s like the programming inside your computer, which can cause all sorts of things to happen near and far. Most of us seldom give a thought to those invisible workings but if one digit gets scrambled, your computer or your municipal water system, or the guidance system on an airplane can go totally haywire, often in unpredictable and disastrous ways.

So, what can we do about this? We should do everything in our power to diminish the infection rate and test for and track the spread of the virus, lest it overwhelm the medical system. This has happened in some places, luckily for us, this is not one of those places … yet.

Don’t be blasé about the virus never getting here. Don’t be one of the highlanders who doesn’t believe in floods. The tiniest threats require a big picture vision. So, be concerned for others, near and far, because this is just the beginning of a new era, when domination of the third dimension is no longer sufficient for survival. Just as humans have progressed in mastery of space and time, we must now embark upon understanding and mastery of the causal plane behind organic life, the little tidbits from the fifth dimension.

Robert Wills
Shawville and Thorne, Que.