The Magic Agent on the move

by Jon Rappoport

October 20, 2015

While revising my novel, The Magic Agent, it occurred to me, for the 10,000th time, how much better fiction is at expressing certain truths than facts are.

The truths have to do with human beings, with the individual, with his multi-dimensional aspects.

You can suggest these dimensions, but you can’t nail them down, because they aren’t things, they aren’t precise territories, they aren’t covered by any of the spiritual teachings of planet Earth.

This doesn’t make them any less real. They are super-real. They exceed all convenient boundaries. They aren’t mere cultural or political artifacts. They embrace paradox. They accept contradiction. They’re mysterious. They’re anti-machine.

So I thought I’d offer a few quotes a character in the novel.

First and foremost, Ralph Renari, whom I’ve only begun to plumb. He’s far slipperier than a polished eel.

Renari spoke the following to a doctor at a California mental hospital where, for a time, he was locked up:

“Imagine a piece of sculpture in a museum, Doctor. It has 107 dimensions. In one of those dimensions, time has been crawling along a surface in precise small increments. But now time begins to skip ahead in longer leaps. And now it jumps from one dimension to another. We observe this. So, to avoid a very perplexing situation, we throw a sheet over the whole sculpture and prepare to walk away. And then we realize we are in the darkness.”

“The greatest spy in the world wants to enter the place where universes overlap and collide. Then he is sniffing on the Big Track.”

“Suppose, Doctor, you put out your hand and it is a paw, the paw of a jaguar. You don’t know that, but I do. I can see it very clearly. Your blindness is a chronic condition. It can never be cured. Unless—the President of the United States admits to every lie he ever told. Then your paw would go back to being a hand. This is an unlikely causal connection, but it exists. No one knows why. What will you do? What will I do? Will someone step forward and dedicate his life to making the President come clean? And right here and right now, how can you and I continue this conversation? We’re at an impasse. I know things you couldn’t possibly accept. On top of all this, I’m an agent. I’m an agent for a group that investigates dimensions and realms. I send back reports. I report what I see. You’re an interesting footnote in my work. You became a doctor to avoid coming to terms with how you operate in other dimensions. You’ve shrunk yourself down to the size of a small machine. You click and tick. Did you just see the wall behind you disappear? Turn around and look. For you, the wall is still there, but for me it’s gone. I’m going to walk through the empty space now. What will you tell your superiors when I don’t answer roll call? You’ll lie. And that’s the whole point, Doctor. I don’t have to lie.”

“The greatest invention of man is organization. Everything fans out from there. Consider the trafficking of heroin. You have the growers in the fields, the farmers. Then you have the people who take delivery of the poppy crop. They transport it to factories where it is processed. And from those factories, there is a sophisticated system, routes along which the product travels until it reaches the addict in the street. This is to say nothing of the bankers who launder the profits, and businessmen who set the global price. At first, there are many separate compartments in such an operation. I am speaking of more primitive times. But then, someone gets an idea. Why not create an umbrella for the entire apparatus? Why not oversee it all? Organization. The ultimate bosses may even allow the illusion of separate elements to remain. It is a useful cover. Eventually, it is the same, or it will be the same, in any industry. Someone will always want more organization. There is that drive, that obsession. That is why spying gets harder over time. There are more levels to discover. That is why spying itself organizes in wider ripples. Which organization will ultimately win? It’s an interesting question. I won’t be here to see the answer, but there will be an answer. One organization of some kind will run the world. Can you imagine the blowback? Do you think people are going to sit still for that? There is a point at which organization seeps into the consciousness of humans. They realize what it implies. The individual psyche operates on completely different principles. Open principles, which can be altered at the drop of a hat. Non-literal principles. That’s the key. Suppose the basis of all universes is metaphor, not fact? Have you considered this, Doctor? Suppose, when you go down far enough, when you’re forced to abandon your fixation on facts, you see them change their appearance? They turn into poetics. Not little sing-song rhythms and rhymes, but broad open wild endless lines that shatter all the smug assurances of the empty-suit mind. What will happen then, Doctor? What will you do? I could make you my patient, here and now, but why should I waste my time?”

“I was a President once, Doctor. It’s so long ago I don’t remember all the details. But as my first order of business, I brought in a universe that was right next door. I brought it in so people could see it and experience it. It caused quite a commotion. But I saw my duty clearly. End the con. Stop the false music. Otherwise, why bother to lead people? You would just be going around in circles.”

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Power Outside The Matrix, click here.)

Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29^th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.