Intergalactic Telepathic Morse Code

The original electric signal text message was sent on this day in 1844. The words were from the King James version of the Christian Bible. “What god hath wrought” was the message, made from electric signals that left marks on a paper tape using Morse Code. It was a different time. By the time we discover or rediscover how to communicate telepathically the message is probably going to sound more like “This is so cool!”

Before we go there, there are some things we may still be learning to understand the old fashioned way. Put away your smartphones now, I have a story. To make the original Morse Code, they counted the number of times each letter of the alphabet was used in a newspaper, and decided they would represent the letters they found the least with a series of dots and dashes. The letter that was used the most got a single dot. This got me thinking. When there is an abundance of something, we have to find an easy way to manage it. When something is uncommon, it takes a little more time to understand. To understand how these things are related to each other, we have to give them a little space. These are important lessons.

Single Dots  

When there is an abundance of something, we have to find an easy way to manage it. What does everyone on the planet have the most of right now? You might say we speak different languages. In some of our vernacular there is more time. For others there is more money. Let me put it a different way. How are we going to make it easy to understand what we have in common? Let’s count the days. Seriously, that’s what we all have in common. For a time every day we experience a waking state and sleeping state when we are no longer identified with our separative sense of self. For every person living on the planet at this moment, this is our most common experience. Let’s signify the common experience of waking up every day as single dots in our collective message being transmitted into outer space.

The Tower of Babel

When something is uncommon, it takes a little more time to understand. Okay, this is where it may take some time to come to consensus. There were only 26 letters and 10 numbers in the original Morse Code. At last count there were nearly 7.6 billion people on the planet. That is a lot of dots and dashes. There is no repetition. Even in the same family, in the same marriage even, every person is having their own experience. No wonder there is so much misunderstanding in the world. We simply do not have an efficient way to understand another person’s experience no matter how many text messages, tweets, posts, pokes, pings or whatever other form of electric signals we may tippity tap out. Back to King James for a moment. What is this story of a god who was affronted that the Babylonians had thought to build a city with a tower “with its top in the heavens?” God power activated, the story goes, he disrupted the work by confusing the builders of the city so they could no longer understand each other. Off they went to all the ends of the earth and the building was never finished. We planted a flag on the moon, no problem. It must have been that we were humbled enough already after what happened in Babylon.   

Beyond Words

To understand how one thing is related to another, we have to give them both space. “Per aspera ad astra.” That’s the message in Morse Code that was included on the Voyager Golden Record sent into outer space some forty odd years ago, when there were more like 4 billion of us. This message was sent with other messages as a greeting to beings on other planets. We managed to launch that spacecraft despite all our difficulty understanding each other. Morse code was developed for the purpose of communication, from a sender to a receiver. But all this talk of god has me wondering if there might not be a shortcut. More than a space. Less than a dot. A portal.

In deep sleep, we pause between intervals of worrying about things, worrying about what we want and don’t want, worrying about what we have and don’t have, worrying about ourselves and each other. That may be the portal, the space between one day and another that everyone has to make sense of things. You have to admit, it would be super cool to communicate telepathically with beings from other planets.

In deep sleep, there is a pause between intervals of worrying about things, worrying about what we want and don’t want, worrying about what we have and don’t have, worrying about ourselves and each other. There is a space between one day and another that everyone has to make sense of things. That may be the portal. Our state of consciousness in deep sleep, that space we have between one day and the next. We might be able to use that to make sense of more than events, and things that happened. We might use that space to make sense of each other. Between thought and expression, between one word and another, and between the symbols we use to make words there is space that defies confusion and difficulty. The space is full of potential, a gateway to transport our communication toward the heavens and being from other planets. It may be the technology of the rest we experience in deep sleep that enables us to deeply understand each other, which sounds a lot like being able to communicate telepathically. That would be so cool!