Brandon Bays Journey

Fire or Renewal: A History of the CSS Howland Survivors on Numereji

“See the stars,” said the recruitment holos, brimming with high-saturation images of well-fed colonists farming an expansive homestead under a sky with multiple moons. “Find a new life in the Stellar Diaspora.” To the inhabitants of Old Earth, it was a compelling argument — Sol 3 was, in the parlance of the time, a “dump”. Two centuries of industrial civilization and a population of billions staggering inexorably towards a Malthusian terminal scenario had turned the planet into a concrete and steel wasteland of cityscapes — a place where a gallon of clean water cost more than a day in a simsense VR pod, solitary living quarters were an expensive luxury, and blue sky was a thing of old twenty-first century threedys. Day-to-day life on Earth was defined by escaping from it as much as possible — and space was the ultimate escape.

Thus began the Stellar Diaspora: mankind’s search for a new home worthy of the name. It began with the generation ships, colossal megastructures the size of a spacescraper intended to support hundreds of families at sublight speeds on the long journey to the nearest extrasolar planets with hydrogen in their spectral lines. But with the invention of the Cheyden faster-than-light drive, the number of worlds with the potential for colonization went from less than ten to more than a hundred virtually overnight.

Whole arcologies — in some cases, entire cities — were shipped into orbit piece by piece on the equatorial elevators. If it could be hermetically sealed and hardened against radiation, you could slap a Cheyden drive on it and turn it into a colony ship, especially once the applications of Cheyden’s principles towards artificial gravity were discovered.

Some corporations even turned the Diaspora into a business model, rebuilding abandoned cities as modular units and repopulating them with citizens who agreed to live and work there until the city filled up enough to populate a new offworld shipment — jokingly called a “Colony in a Box”. There are stories of some insular neighborhoods not realizing that their wave had shipped until they were already in space.

They say that insanity is doing the same thing twice and expecting different results. By this measure our ancestors were certifiable.

The problem was that in the subsequent centuries of colonization, no one — to our knowledge, anyway — ever found a planet as rich in resources, teeming with life, or forgiving of abuse as Earth. On planet after planet, humanity took root in alien soil and proceeded to strip and poison their new homes in a matter of decades. The Cheyden FTL drive may have saved mankind from spiraling into extinction on our ancestral home, but it also made it much easier to say, “the next planet will be different.” Why struggle for years to eke out a miserable existence on a rock that became more barren with each breath, when your telescopes showed another potentially habitable world only a handful of light-years away, and an interstellar starship waited in orbit for you to pack everything up and move on?

The Journey – Brandon Bays Q&A with Lynne McTaggart | Pure Inspiration

Brandon Bays, leading mind/body/healing expert and international best-selling author of The Journey, is regarded as having pioneered one of modern times most profound new paradigms for healing. Through her own experience of healing from a tumor in only 6 1/2 weeks with no drugs or surgery, she discovered a way of tapping into the body’s own innate wisdom so that healing could take place at a cellular level. Since that time in 1994 the work she has pioneered, Journeywork, has helped thousands of people worldwide heal from an array of issues such as physical illnesses, depression, dependency and emotional disorders.

She recently teamed up with leading scientist and author Lynne McTaggart (mentioned in Dan Browns new book “The Lost Symbol”) for an evening’s discussion exploring the link between science and spirituality. Lynne McTaggart has established herself as the foremost commentator on science and spirituality through her best-selling books ‘The Field’ and ‘The Intention Experiment’, and through her tenacious and exhaustive research has demonstrated the links between spirituality and science, and especially quantum physics.

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