Ashley
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Richard Botelho:
Piggybacking on your comment of your interest in quantum physics and how it lead to your most recent book (which I love by the way!) which books, or authors did you choose to read from to draw an overall interest? I love sci-fi and lean towards reading books that have a heavy possibility of becoming real events...I'm curious to dig a little deeper in the titles you chose. Thanks in advance!
Richard Botelho
Robert Heinlein is a big influence. Philip K. Dick is another writer who inspired me. Although not a science fiction writer, Ernest Hemingway is the greatest master at writing simple yet powerful stories and dialogue. And I believe more science fiction should be written simply and beautifully since many of the concepts in science fiction are complicated enough on their own. The language should not add to the complexity.
But the greatest influences came from non fiction, specifically Jacques Vallee and Timothy Good. The UFO phenomenon is real. The Drake Equation essentially proves we are not alone in the universe. Our galaxy and the universe is most assuredly teeming with intelligent life. So "science fiction" that includes extraterrestrials is not far fetched at all; quite the contrary.
Lastly, an honest examination of Quantum Mechanics proves Consciousness is the ground of all being. Max Planck, one of the greatest minds who ever lived, regarded consciousness as "fundamental" and matter as "derivative from consciousness." The universe is a mental construction. Sir James Jeans wrote: “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter. Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual.” The famous double slit experiment proves that consciousness creates atomic and sub atomic particles, the foundation of everything in the universe. The observer creates the reality. Once that was proven, it lead to the inevitability of a first observer, an observer so powerful that through its initial observation it manifested an entire universe. That is The Great Consciousness or God. It appears that the universe is simply God's consciousness come to life. So, although sounding "science fiction" on the surface, Quantum Physics actually proves God. And that is what we can call a real event.
But the greatest influences came from non fiction, specifically Jacques Vallee and Timothy Good. The UFO phenomenon is real. The Drake Equation essentially proves we are not alone in the universe. Our galaxy and the universe is most assuredly teeming with intelligent life. So "science fiction" that includes extraterrestrials is not far fetched at all; quite the contrary.
Lastly, an honest examination of Quantum Mechanics proves Consciousness is the ground of all being. Max Planck, one of the greatest minds who ever lived, regarded consciousness as "fundamental" and matter as "derivative from consciousness." The universe is a mental construction. Sir James Jeans wrote: “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter. Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual.” The famous double slit experiment proves that consciousness creates atomic and sub atomic particles, the foundation of everything in the universe. The observer creates the reality. Once that was proven, it lead to the inevitability of a first observer, an observer so powerful that through its initial observation it manifested an entire universe. That is The Great Consciousness or God. It appears that the universe is simply God's consciousness come to life. So, although sounding "science fiction" on the surface, Quantum Physics actually proves God. And that is what we can call a real event.
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