{"id":136,"date":"2017-09-19T17:14:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T17:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2017-09-19T17:14:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T17:14:18","slug":"religion-in-sci-fi-rabbit-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Religion in Sci-fi: Rabbit Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read <em>Watership Down<\/em> as a break from heavy philosophical research I\u2019m doing for the next book in my <em>Cluster<\/em> series.\u00a0 Little did I know that one of the rabbits, Fiver, had a touch of Phillip K. Dick in his blood.\u00a0 In my metaphysics, the quantum strings of the physical universe are looped through similar strings in the spiritual universe.\u00a0 In <em>Perturbations Of The Reality Field<\/em> my characters use the borderland \u201cbetween\u201d the two in order to travel faster than the speed of light (FTL).\u00a0 Now I am about to send them deeper into that spiritual universe, a wild place and very unsafe, as Fiver says.\u00a0 Forgive the long quote from <em>Watership Down<\/em>, by Robert Adams, but it contains several very interesting ideas I intend to explore.<br \/>\n\u201cYou\u2019re sure we <em>are<\/em> here then?\u201d asked Fiver. &#8230; \u201cWell, there\u2019s another place &#8211; another country, isn\u2019t there? We go there when we sleep; at other times, too; and when we die.\u00a0 El-ahrairah comes and goes between the two as he wants, I suppose, but I could never quite make that out, from the tales. Some rabbits will tell you it\u2019s all easy there, compared with the waking dangers that they understand.\u00a0 But I think that only shows they don\u2019t know much about it.\u00a0 It\u2019s a wild place, and very unsafe.\u00a0 And where are we really \u2013 there or here?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read Watership Down as a break from heavy philosophical research I\u2019m doing for the next book in my Cluster series.\u00a0 Little did I know that one of the rabbits, Fiver, had a touch of Phillip K. Dick in his blood.\u00a0 In my metaphysics, the quantum strings of the physical universe are looped through similar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}