Jerusalem 122

I am taking a chance here. I cannot contain my enthusiasm. I have read exactly 122 pages of Alan Moore's Jerusalem...this brings me to the beginning of the chapter entitled "X Marks the Spot". I want to include this detail as a form of encouragement. I don't think that the hooks of this book fully sink in until you get to this point.

1. Get the book.
2. Read it slowly and carefully.
3. Read up to page 122.
4. You will be addicted by then.

This book is 1300 pages long...so my risk here is in raving about it in superlative terms like "life changing"...when I have only read a twelfth of it.

I also want to say...this book resonates with me because it is about this idea of Eternalism. It combines poetic vision and scientific truth. (As the book jacket says, this is Blake plus Einstein.) I have spent a lifetime reading books about the reunification of science and religion. I have approached it from many angles and given credence (even temporarily) to just about any and all crackpot theories, cults, and legitimate mystical musings. And it seems to me that this book is the best expression of what I have been seeking.

In short...I think it is simply true.

And I think that every faith, every kooky cult, every poet, every mystic, every scientist, every person has a piece of the truth. 

We are all circumambulating.  

Time is Space. That is the simplest way to say it. Time is a direction, but (as three dimensional beings) we cannot point in that direction. This fact has spiritual implications and that is what the book is about.

Another way of saying it...and I owe this thought to Lewis Carroll Epstein...is that we cannot exceed the speed of light because everything is always moving at the speed of light. The speed is always the same, but it is the direction that counts. "Straight ahead"...or close to it...is our usual state. We are travelling almost exclusively in the time direction and very little thru the other three directions. This is the direction of stories. If you change that direction and keep on changing it...you become fantastical...then psychedelic...then incoherent.

Time is the direction of story.