Well, I've had another hackcident involving electricity.

Basically what happens is that when I have a strong emotional moment (a peak emotional experience) or get into an altered state of consciousness, electrical items are severely affected.

This time I received an unpleasant email—a guy I liked broke up with me after just a few dates. He was very nice and civil about it but it still hit hard. I felt my body flush hot with emotion as I read the email, including a streak of warmth through the front of my brain that I chalked up to emotional blood rush. But then I went to make some consolation popcorn and my microwave oven (actually it was a microwave/convection oven combination) started freaking out. It was sputtering, sparking and flashing. There are burn marks inside the microwave now.

The microwave was working just fine before the email, but after the email it has become too dangerous to plug in. I ended a very weird day by running out and buying a cheap microwave so I could "cook." lol

This is not new. This sort of thing has been going on for over two years now and I'm still not quite sure what to do with it.

Why the microwave and nothing else this time? In the past I've nuked everything in the house, or just the clocks or just certain groups of objects. (Decently built electronics seem to recover, but super-cheap items never work correctly again.) This has been one of the intriguing questions with these events. I know that the time I messed up every clock in the house I was anxious about an interview appointment. I was anxious about time, so only the clocks were hit. This time, we had been planning a date where we were going to come over to my house and I was going to fix something for the guy. I had smoothies in mind, so I'm still not sure why the microwave died and yet the blender lives on. Still, it's an important clue.

The good news is that I'm learning more each time this happens, but I usually only need to have a hackcident two or three times before I have it pinned, but this one is really proving to be tricky.

I still have the broken microwave sitting like a lump in my living room. I'm working up the nerve to plug it in again so I can video what it's doing—for documentation.

The Room of Requirement

 

I just get more and more fascinated by this lab that appeared just a mile from my house.  It is a small building fully equipped with everything I thought I needed for my research, but it also has bunch of stuff I didn't know I needed is are turning out to be essential in unlocking the specifics of reality hacking.  The really trippy part is that I live out "in the sticks." I'm a good ten miles from the nearest store and yet here is this fully stocked lab within walking distance!

A few days ago, I was musing about the lab and was reminded of the "Room of Requirement" from Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix.  It is also known as the "Come and Go Room."  For those of you who are not Harry Potter geeks (I don't read the books--I just wait for the movies) the Room of Requirement shows up when there is a dire need and a very specific intention.  The room is equipped with everything you need to accomplish your goal. The room appears and disappears at will.

My friend Vic is the one who built the lab and gave me access to it.  He has a very traditional academic background and holds patents in medical technology.  When we were introduced by mutual friends and he became very interested in my reality hacking project after he heard what I was doing. He read my book, The Reality Hacker's Guide to Parallel Worlds and then he really got excited!  In many ways we are moving in the same direction, so we have teamed up and he has made his facilities fully available to me. (I'll be posting links to his website when we get it up online)

Here is where it gets even more interesting. . . in the last chapter of my book, I outlined all the experiments I wanted to explore with reality hacking and what kind of equipment it would take.  At the time, I was taking a huge risk because I had no idea how I was going to find the right equipment, raise the money to buy it and then learn to use it properly.  This would take years to pull off by myself!

Vic has everything I asked for in that chapter (plus much more) and he knows how to use it correctly.  He can literally go through that chapter and say "Yup, I've got that and that and I know those scientists personally--I can put you touch with them if you want."  Wow!

When I tracked back to the approximate time that Vic was buying the little building for the lab, it was roughly the same time I was writing that chapter!  I guess I was working the Law of Attraction a little more than usual because I was writing that thing into alignment!  By the time Vic and I found each other several months ago, he was just getting the equipment functional.

My access to the lab varies with Vic's schedule, so although the Lab does not physically appear and disappear, it does have a strong "come and go" aspect as far as when I can use it.

Most of the time I am very "zen" about the waiting periods between the Lab sessions--god knows I have five billion things to do! However, the possible outcome of what we are doing is SO tantalizing that I have moments where I become frustrated and impatient with the delays. At these times, my friend Tirzah reminds me that this is perfect timing and that I need  time in between sessions to recuperate and  absorb new information.  I like those reminders because I  know she is absolutely correct.

However, since I made the connection with the concept of the Room of Requirement it has been much easier and much more fun to wait for Lab access to reappear.  Tirzah says that everything is so much more fun when you frame it in terms of Harry Potter!

You know, it's amazing that I've been playing with some form of reality hacking for quite a while now and I've NEVER heard of the emerging science of digital physics! Basically it's a branch of physics based on the idea that our physical reality is a virtual construct:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akgCb85PG-A&feature=PlayList&p=CE5EA05F1F683940&index=0

Jeez, I have friends who have physics degrees who have not heard of this discipline. 

I'm so happy to know about it, but now I clearly have some reading to catch up on.

Also, I wonder.  If I've missed this all this time . . . what else is out there that I don't know about?