Essay: Crazy Things We Perceive

©10-14-2020, Olan L. Smith

(Shared thoughts with a distant cousin on the Mandela Effect* that I thought I would share with you.)

Yeah, cousin, there are some crazy things about the Mandela effect except that no two people's M.A. experiences align completely, like I knew Mandela survived to be President of South Africa, if you don't remember that, then where were you? Not here, evidently. However, I remember Mr. Money Bags having a monocle, but more significantly to me is the change in the Bible's Isaiah 11:6 where the wolf dwells with the lamb instead of the lion.

This is not a translation difference between Bible publishers, but it is a change in text in all time, all versions, back to the earliest of the original texts we have of Isaiah. I, as a bible scholar, know with certainty that it is the lion that lies down with the lamb. With the wolf it makes no sense metaphorically as the lion is Judah and the lamb is the messiah, and all those paintings of the lamb lying with the lion, you have no reference, because the lion lying with the lamb is not mentioned in the Bible, anywhere. If you consider all the things we used to think of as one way and is now in another as memory slips, or just "Oh, I misremembered it," but with the internet we can now compare notes instantaneously, and uncensored. Before we could not have done that and it would forever be considered a fault in memory, but when millions compare memories and agree then it has to be considered something other than a remembrance. Perhaps, this is how it has been, Cousin, where reality slips back and forth in between dimensions, where countless realities merge into one and then separate, and no two consciousnesses record the same thing, or see the same tree or event. Yet, all these different consciousnesses dwell on the same perceived planet where information is shared and documented.

Instant comparison of shared memory is where metaphysics, quantum physics, and religion are beginning to merge into one philosophy of existence. There is nothing real, there's only vibrations of invisible energy, and therefore, no two realities are exactly the same. It seems like clusters of people agree on certain changes in reality of which they are acutely aware. If you study the Bible, then you know Isaiah 11:6 has changed, and if not, you don't have a clue. If you payed acute attention to South Africa's politics during the anti-apartheid movement you'd know Mandela led the people away from it by becoming President of South Africa, and therefore didn't die in prison.

Reality is in the mind's memory, so at most we have a switch in shared consciousness, and reality is just a shared thought. The Hadron Collider was built to discover the smallest particle, but deeper into minutia we dig, until we find a smaller building block made out of nothing but invisible energy. Einstein called the atom, clothed energy, and the double slit experiment caused scientist to become concerned that reality doesn't exist at all, but is an illusion of observation; look at it and it is real, look away, and it disappears and turns into waves of potential. If we put a cat in a box, and observe the box, it is both alive and dead at the same time, until we open the box to observe it, no wonder some people hang on to life of dead celebrities, like Elvis. People both agree and disagree on facts, because facts are based on observations, and we both know how reliable eyewitnesses are. I tend to think reality is more than a human experience; it is a persistent illusion of all conscious beings, and therefore different for all those who perceive it.

*The Mandela Effect is a notion of agreed upon changes in memory that causes us to ponder if we have switched dimensions; think Bizarro World of DC comics, the Upside Down, inside out, or topsy-turvy. It is a shared awareness that things have mysteriously changed, and these individuals, numbering in the millions, all agree with these changes, or just perhaps, my blue is your red.