Esoterica 9/8/24: Parallel Realities

I'm Andre Bella for Esoterica, a short feature about extraordinary ideas.

I've been attempting to write about parallel realities, but I have to confess to you that

I'm totally baffled by the whole subject.

Sure, I've listened to Bernardo Kastrup, a guy with a Ph.D. in philosophy and one in

computer science, and to the channeled entity Bashar, both talking about parallel realities

and time.

And then, of course, there's Marvel Comics, the multiverse, and the Mandela effect.

I even Googled parallel realities.

But instead of getting a handle on this, I've fallen down the rabbit hole of so much information

about quantum physics and the multiverse that instead of gaining more clarity, my mind is

paralyzed.

Trying to imagine the impossible.

But I'll take a few minutes to take a stab at the subject, hoping that if you become

as fascinated with this as I have, you'll let me know and share your thoughts with me.

Have you ever heard of the Mandela effect?

This term refers to a situation in which a large mass of people believes that an event

occurred when it did not.

For example,

some people swear that Nelson Mandela died in prison, while others remember that he was

released and became president of South Africa.

The latter, of course, is true.

But there are those who still believe that Mandela died in prison.

At first, I thought this was ridiculous.

Wasn't this just about people with faulty memories?

But some researchers suggest this is an example of people creating a parallel reality.

And then there's Bernardo Castro.

He uses the analogy of the dashboard of a plane as a representation of reality.

Just as a map is not the land itself, so the dials on the dashboard, our physical world,

merely represent the greater reality of the universe.

And because there's so many different kinds of dashboards on so many different kinds of

planes, there are many different.

And if you are a young adult, you're a young adult.

And so I thought this was a great way to separate those two things and the greater reality.

If you're a new adult, you're a young adult.

And I'm sure you've already heard this before.

This was Brando Castro in those days.

equally valid realities. And then there's the question, do we create our own reality?

The Mandela effect and Bernardo Kastrup's analogy of the dashboard suggests that we consciously

or unconsciously create our own reality constantly through the choices we make.

Bashar says these realities are like two trains leaving a railroad station.

People choose what train they want to be on. Once the trains leave the station and the tracks

diverge, it's impossible to switch trains, and eventually those on one train can't see the people

on the other train. This is a bit like the movie Sliding Doors. Do I go left or right?

Or the movie The Matrix. Do I take the red pill or the blue pill? Each leads to a different,

reality. As we gain technological knowledge and data about the universe, we create more choices

that allow us to divide into even more realities. It's no wonder that trying to understand each

other becomes more and more difficult, because like the Mandela effect, we believe that we're

right. And in a sense, we are, because we're living in different realities.

Wow, is your mind going to change?

Is your mind freaking out yet? This is a lot to sink your teeth into. For now, I'm going to take

my dog Lulu for a walk along the bay, where she'll create her own reality by peeing on what's

most important to her. And as for me, once my brain unfreezes, I think I'll go back to studying

Bernardo Kastrup, a bit of quantum physics, and the multiverse of Marvel comics to help me

imagine the impossible.

For Esoterica, I'm Andre Bella. Thanks for listening.

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