Just to avoid confusion

I didn't join Blogger as recently as Feb '08.

It just says that on the profile as I merged all the old blogs into the new logon due to Google taking the site over and my having lost the old logon.

So I've been here since circa '06 (basically whenever the earliest post is dated).

The archives here suggest that was July '06 which sounds about right.

See what I mean...

Check the first reply that comes up. Found this doing a search on Cloverfield (the JJ Abrams movie) then on links from that search to this Lost series 4 thread. When did I find it? Pretty much straight after seeing the Atom documentary with the cat in. OMG, what if I've found the next key to some sort of big answer? OK, maybe it is just coincidence. But the collective creative consciousness thing just won't stop gaining momentum. Wouldn't it be a beautiful thing if art someday gave science some really big answers (by developing ideas that were started by both disciplines). And if it really did start here, with a few black and white cats...

http://www.lostblog.net/lost/tv/show/beginning-of-the-end-wrap-up#comment-174558

My reply:
Something very weird is happening. Not seen this first episode of Lost (no Sky) but am freaked out about the cat thing. Three places. My novels. The BBC documentary last night. And now Lost. Was the cat thing actually in the new series. Would really appreciate anything that helps my exploration of the collective creative consciousness. I was even considering calling one of my later novels in the series 'The End Of The Beginning' (no longer the plan but another curiosity)

It's just got a whole lot weirder

So much so I don't know where to start, so I'm updating and extending the novel blogs to a final total of 12 for the 'in-novel' ones plus this writer's one (the ones provisionally updated / sorted so far being 5, 11 and 12). I've a lot of gaps to fill in (or more accurately expand on) but plenty more teasers.

So why's it got weirder?
Last night I watched a documentary on the BBC called Atom. More about what I learned (and how I expanded its ideas into my own) later: I haven't decided how much to give away yet!

The only clues I'm giving for now are at http://multiversions.blogspot.com/

Just consider I'm the novelist who met the cat last year. A black and white one. Just like they used on the tv documentary. Who now also exists in a sim game (and did BEFORE I saw the tv show). That's just the tip of a lot of MAJOR (TOO MAJOR) coincidences that actually slightly freaked me out watching the documentary last night.

Documentary website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/atom.shtml


The novel may be more than I first realised. It's certainly giving me more answers than I ever expected. And I can't wait to find out what happens next. It's changing my life and my perceptions in some very positive ways...

The fact it's turning me into a (sometimesquantum)physicist-theologian-everythingelseist is overloading my mind a bit though.

The theories in the documentary, along with the connections and expansions my very strange mind made to them make all the theories behind the novel a possibility.

Philosophically and scientifically we could be on the edge of an age where fiction* and reality really do fuse. Not that bizarre when you think that whatever reality IS is also the origin of all fiction, however directly or indirectly. Perhaps the time pre-empted by some philosophers where there is no longer chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, theology, literature, art.... but one science of general understanding. And just to annoy both the religious and the atheists and everyone in between one that makes God or gods as impossible or possible as you want them to be. Not to mention all the stuff like Gaia theory not having to challenge god(s) theorising or creation not being a rival to evolution. And it is all INCREDIBLY positive. 'Nothing' does not exist. The spheres of knowledge are opening. Be of good heart.

*including that of all artforms and any of their reality/fiction overlaps.

I am soooooooo excited right now.

curious coincidence

The site may not be official (waiting to find out) but for not the first time there's a coincidental overlap with the two online experiences, that of Lost and the as-yet-unrevealed one to which the Opensphere band blogs belong to.

Check out the teaser I produced that is the image on the Opensphere666 blog profile.

The name Artemis Eastman came from>
Surname: Namaste (intentional Lost / Lost Experience tribute)
First name: Got the idea from researching Persephone on Wikipedia and had also been keeping it in mind for a creative project for sometime (having used the D.J. name M Artistic and variants such as Artism for myself for ages)

Seems the creative collective consciousness remains at work:

Like I say I don't yet know if this is an official Lost tie-in
http://artemis.hansoadoptions.org

With one of the themes of my novel being the whole ccc thing, like Alice found in her adventures, curioser and curioser. (Bet that's spelt wrong, must remember to check!) Just the tip of the iceberg? :o)

On the band's (Opensphere's) political blogs

Remember, perhaps not everything is always black and white (and pastel green, pastel purple...)

Continuing from previous post

The real/unreal and fact/fiction crossovers also tie in nicely with the fact my novel and online work are maybe best described as 'zeitgeist fiction' (a term I first used in conversation, discussing my novel with a housemate, which I think I may have coined!)

The spirit of the times in translation from its origins, I think.

Shedding some light on the mindflight

This blog is one of a family of seven, effectively the 'parent' of the group.

The other six are the fictional, yet with real-world crossovers, blog sites of the band 'Opensphere'.

Just to increase the real/ unreal crossover I'm toying with the idea of posting some 'real-world' commentry to their Politics and Activism blog, so if that's ever the case I'll clarify it here.

To give away the background to the band Opensphere would be too much of a spoiler but it relates to an upcoming novel and online work, and that's all I'm giving away now.

This mindflight777 blog is the blog (real!) of the writer/ designer/ creator of the work so should become of interest to people who like to get into the head of the artist and understand their work more through understanding them.

It may also become essential if a need to explain the potentially complex ideas behind the work arises!

As I'm a HUGE fan of Lost and as my work has ideas of the search for truth, meaning and hope as well as on the idea of these truths sometimes popping up consciously or unconciously in the work of many, maybe even all, creatives from artists to writers (thus the existence of a possible collective creative consciousness), the band's site can also act as my own lost fansite and theory site as the band, through their blogs, join those pondering the Lost enigma, another interesting blur of reality and art as a fictional band investigate both goings on in their own fictional world and try to solve the goings on of another fiction, a real world one, but within the intended truths of the creation they feature in.

Hey, now even I'm slightly confused.

But as one of the band said, perhaps the spheres of truth are opening...

This flight of the mind should be very interesting indeed! :o)