The Geared Jitterbug

By Tristan Matlock

Cosmic oscillation, the principle illustrated by Buckminster Fuller’s “jitterbug” concept, illustrates both a fundamental property of the universe and a hidden faculty of the physical body. Oscillation applies to geometric transformations and translations, which are dynamics found in physical mechanics, quantum relationships, and sentient cognition. Human perception oscillates across wide range bandwidths before “assembling” verisimilitude (and memory). The physical brain does this with environmental phenomena in space and time, but nonlocal aspects of consciousness associated with intuition, instinct, the unconscious, and dreaming also jitter across interdimensional space. Interdimensional space is defined in this case by transpersonal and transobjective parameters, which ordinarily define hard or soft limits to our sense of identity. However, identity and perception must always be defined in relation to the mechanisms which dilate, focus, and translate raw information into relative composition.

The human body is a geared jitterbug: There is no “stable” or status quo cognition, even if many people keep their range of cosmic oscillation in a relatively closed or narrow band position. The gears are the mechanics of perspective, attitude, and identity. Changing one’s identity physically alters reality, creating not only an altered state of consciousness but also altered patterns of relativity with vast, nonlocal fields of information and energy. Smooth translations are defined by balanced emotions, memory coherence, and free will. Jagged, distorted, or disruptive oscillations result in psychic disturbances, psychosis, physical health disorders, and suicidal philosophies. It takes a level of transpersonal maturity to entertain this possibility, and a level of sustained, experiential training to gain competency at making larger and deeper kinds of translations with coherence.

Reality is indeed a composition of layered, folded, moving dimensions. Continuously grouping symmetry membranes, inhabited by “quilts” or “nets” of patterned qubits which compose dynamic gaps within quantum and mechanical forces, self-organize very large cosmic oscillations–the largest of which are primeval superstructures which engender universes like ours. On a smaller scale, the human body and its cognitive translation mechanics give us an innate capacity for living and exchanging across these gaps, which we colonize with our emotion, memory, and will. These other existences are essentially compatible, through jitterbug translations, with our own. The gears are necessary because we have physical, mechanical bodies–though theoretically, even without a body, having “invisible gears” would be helpful in order to maintain composure, distill or isolate experiences, navigate positions and superpositions, etc. 

Again, it cannot be overstated that the subtle composition of the human body, or rather its interdimensional composition of which physical organs are a part, is essentially an “organic translation machine”. We do this all the time even in relation to our own contained dimensionality in time and space. It is what gives us vertical and lateral fluidity, allows for the integration and individuation of various experiences, and gives rise to plurality, diversity, and democracy–essentaily features of evolution. All life and inorganic matter will also contain jitterbug mechanics because, as has been stated, cosmic oscillation is a fundamental, integral property of the universe.

For all the discoveries made today which produce advanced technologies, scientific knowledge of the world and the universe, and the structures of global economies and governance… We are building a monolithic world atop a multidimensional universe, and so it will remain dangerously flimsy. In order to advance quickly in the “backyard” of our home, we have excluded the neighborhoods, cities, and other populations in our vicinity. Many indigenous and ancient civilizations did not make this mistake. Now we will discover that much of what we have created in the last few centuries is not compatible, harmonious, or appropriate for larger fields of important research and application. There is always hope, however, because despite modern civilization’s self-destructive impulses, it cannot fully escape its fundamental integrity with life and an ever-oscillating cosmos.

To correct our orientation we should begin to think differently about our own hands, feet, shoulders, hips, heart, lungs, eyes and ears… Everything about us is far more advanced than we realize. The physical dynamism of the organic body is complex and capable. But this is only scratching the surface of the sphere of power our species is designed to express. When we move, when we speak, when we think and dream and perceive–the doors to other worlds are dangling at our fingertips. 

In order to translate our cognition across the boundary zones that separate three, four, and more dimensions, we must learn to pivot our body relative to our identity and perception. Our identity is our orientation, our guidance system. Our body is our ship and its fuel. Our perception is the pilot, the navigator, and the recording system. It is a highly advanced organic machine capable of transiting other galaxies, temporal directions, primordial territories of pre-formation, and membranes of information defined by near-absolute or even absolute conditions of singularity. 

Certainly this is alluded to by science, esoteric religions, historical traditions of magic and alchemy, and indigenous traditions often passed down through oral tradition and misunderstood or misrepresented by modern anthropology. The fact remains that these are all relatively provincial, if not subjectively effective ways of approaching a master science of cosmic evolution and interdimensional colonization. Species can expand, learn, self-govern, and populate countless universes, acquiring knowledge and power for the good of life beyond any conceivable limits. Of course, it would take several large leaps in maturity and perspective at the civilizational and planetary level to arrive at this possibility for our Earth under its present conditions. 

What we might do, however, is begin with a series of pioneering efforts, introducing streams of alternative perspective and ideological orientation at the fringes of society. And of course, this is already happening. At some point, however, it will be necessary to introduce new technologies, abilities, and philosophies to the general population without causing panic or hysteria. There is a tremendous need in the coming centuries for new, integral forms of art, therapy, political strategy, pedagogy, ecology, agriculture and city planning, etc. The seeds of new “jitterbug civilizations” have already been planted, in fact, and in the coming centuries we will see how well they take root and grow on our planet.