First of all, the book presents the reader with a fait accompli so staggering, that not everyone can comprehend and accept it. It is always easier to live in an illusive, but comfortable world, than in a true, but scary reality. The illusion is that motivations and actions of man are supposedly controlled by his consciousness. In fact, it is not quite true. Or rather, entirely not true. Scientists take useless efforts researching human mentality (psychic?) as a separate object, as a property of a human mind. It is not about the structure of human mentality, it is about will. Human reason does not have any free will – it is controlled from outside (from without?) It is controlled not by teachers, officials or bosses, but by structural elements (structures? entities? creatures? phenomena?) of the subtle world.
As is known, the energy of thought does not disappear completely. When groups of people start thinking in the same direction, the parameters of their mental waves become identical. Individual thought energies merge into one flow. In the middle of the energy ocean, information-based structures are created. These are pendulums, invisible, but real. Having been born, pendulums start to develop independently. They tend to subjugate people, who are structural elements, to their will. They act unconsciously, as they have no reason. Pendulums cannot be characterized as some malicious forces. They remind parasitic plants, or pseudo-living programs. Being built into a structure, such programs determine (define?) its behaviour. Pendulums exist in the subtle world as superstructures over each human social group, be it a family, school, enterprise or state. It can seem incredible that people are not aware of acting in the interests of pendulums, even if they do it unintentionally. Nevertheless, it is a fact. Any structure exists and develops not only as a result of intentional actions of people, who are its elements. A structure is ruled by a pendulum, like any work of an automatic mechanism is ruled by an algorithm. Members of the structure can perform free actions, but they are not free in their motives and, as a rule, have to act unintentionally in the interests of the structure. Pendulums feed on people’s energy. When you are annoyed by something or indignant, you give energy to a pendulum. Everything that can cause your strong negative reactions is provoked by pendulums. Negative energy is their favourite dish.
For instance, at the start of a football match there is a certain ball-shaped object hanging over the stadium. This ball is invisible for a human eye, as it exists in the subtle world. It starts to reach out for every fan with its real energy beams that are like feelers. As emotions are heated over the match, the pendulum is filled with the energy and grows until it becomes really huge. When the game is over, it is compressed to a small ball and flies away. What is horrible about it is that pendulums not only absorb energy, but also, in a subtle way, make people act so that they release more energy. If you are tense and worried about something, people around you are sure to do things that irritate you, and they will do that right now, when you want to be left alone.
Children start playing up, although they behaved themselves (they were quiet?) before. Someone who is at your side suddenly becomes a nuisance. All kinds of characters keep getting under your feet, pestering you with their problems. You are persistently being hindered by all kinds of obstacles. If you are waiting for someone impatiently, he will never come, if you do not feel like seeing anyone, they are certain to turn up, and so forth.
You can confirm that the world often gets on your nerves. Certainly, it depends, but on the whole, the main principle is as follows: if at a given moment something can make you lose your balance, as ill luck would have it, it will definitely happen.
Let’s assume you are in a hurry, afraid of being late. From that moment everything starts working against you. People block your way, stalking along.
You need to walk through the door quickly, and there appears a whole queue of idlers, who are hardly moving their legs. On the highway it is the same story with cars. There must be some plot against you. This outer pressure is getting more and more intense with your irritation. The stronger the tension, the more active are people in their annoying you. What is of interest, is that they are not acting so deliberately; it does not even occur to them they could be in somebody’s way (could disturb somebody). The matter is that the driving force, forming unconscious motives, is not inside a person’s mentality, but beyond it.
So, a question arises: how to resist the influence of pendulums? For this purpose, you should stop being an oyster that reacts negatively to any irritant. In other words, you should stop maintaining consciousness and should not yield to provocations. Make a conscious effort to react to the irritants, and they will stop annoying you. But there is more to come. There are much more significant and frightful things in the world, happening through the fault of pendulums. Wars, revolutions, fights for raw materials and sale markets, competition, terrorism – all this is just a tip of the iceberg that you can see. In the invisible, subtle basis of these phenomena there is an incessant fight of pendulums. It is them who provoke practically all conflicts, because they feed on the energy of a conflict. On the other side of the dual mirror, in the subtle world, there are so many things you’d rather not know about.
You would probably ask, how can that be possible? After all, people are at war with each other on their own initiative, aren’t they? Nevertheless, the real initiators are pendulums. Let us take as an example a relatively primitive structure – an anthill. Science cannot provide an intelligible answer how the colony is run. It is surprising that in the anthill there is an accurate allocation of responsibilities, but there is no hierarchy. Then why are all the insects in an anthill as well-coordinated as an organization with centralized management?
Ants communicate with each other by means of odorous substances – pheromones. Smell paths help to find the way to food and home. But how is the information transferred to all the colony members simultaneously? Any higher forms of information exchange among ants are out of the question. Why use primitive qualities like smells then?
Well, what is it that unites separate members into an organized colony? A pendulum is. Simultaneously with the formation and development of a structure an information-based energy element is formed, which assumes (takes upon itself?) the functions of managing and stabilizing this structure. Between the pendulum and the elements of the structure there are direct and reverse bonds. A pendulum exists at the expense of the energy of its adherents and synchronizes their activities, uniting them into an organized community.
The same is true of human society – all processes are controlled by these subtle structural elements. The world is turning into a matrix by leaps and bounds, and this is not science fiction. Certainly, it is not like in a famous movie, where people are being grown in cells capsules, their life being merely a virtual illusion. But the actual situation is quite close to that.
In order to drive a person into a matrix, it is necessary to wind a net round him, a net built on dependence. Recently, there have appeared new types of dependence: food has turned into forage that causes obesity; virtual computer reality gave rise to game- and Internet-addiction; without mobile phones people suffer attacks of melancholy and loneliness. The worst thing is that a person, enslaved by a system, does not only lose freedom of choice, but he starts wanting exactly what the system wants. So, these are the processes that are going on all over the world. That is why our objective is to preserve consciousness, so that we should not wake up in a matrix cell one day. We seem to be a sort of forage crops, which pendulums grow for their purposes. A human society is organized so that it cannot exist without pendulums. But they also need us. A reasonable person is able to use pendulums for his own aims. There are a lot of possibilities here, but it is a separate subject.
INTERVIEW WITH VADIM ZELAND