It is quite strange for me right now. I am taking a little break from refining my Roy Harper book. I realise I cannot hit my deadline and am waiting for Roy to write an introduction. That won’t happen until after his round of concerts.
In the meantime I am typing up an old Sci-fi novel I wrote back in the early seventies. It is my second book. It only exists as a typed document so I have been rewriting it on to my computer. It’s part of a programme I have to type up all of my books. I still have about ten that only exist as typed manuscripts and are in need of typing and revision.
I have no memory of this one – or at least on vague memory. It is interesting for me to visit with my younger self – an enthusiastic madman in his twenties who believed that anything was possible. It is fun to see the philosophies and ideas I was playing with forty years ago.
This is the extract I have just typed up.
PART 9
Chapter 106 – The flux
In the dark seas of many planets life develops along patterns set by the flow of the universe. It was the minds of sentient beings in the matter of the cosmos that moulds and directs the evolution of life. Nothing is by chance. Life proceeds through all its subtle changes as it evolves through the generations.
Energy patterns mingle with the dimension of mind and the organisms produced are the results of these interactions. There is no god – only the flux.
The flux is the building block from which everything that exists is made. There is nothing to worship or pray to, only the flux in the void and the mind it spawned that resides in all of us.
Matter was formed in the realms of nothing by movement alone. It twinned with mind in glorious union.
Man has always grappled with the eternal paradox that reality is absolute and man, with his limitations, is only partial. But somehow that part must become the all, in oneness, for there is no paradox in pure mind – mind is one with the flux.
The flux is what we swim in and are part of. It is all that exists.
It is not strange that life in all its forms should possess the same pattern no matter which star system it should arise.
Our planet, Terra, has been nurtured in a delicate balance with the entire universe to produce an environment in which conditions are optimum for life to evolve. Not only for it to develop but also for it to experience what is necessary to learn. As life radiates in a range of complexity the planet provides the challenge.
A sense of wonder here, rooted in good science!
I’m three quarters of the way through the rewrite. I don’t even remember writing most of this. It was so long ago.
Thanks for the encouragement. The last quarter is always the hardest.
Hope it goes well …
The last quarter is a slog. It is always a slog. There are things about this book that I love and things that I don’t. I’m trying to adapt and improve as I rewrite. It is strange communing with my former self from forty years ago. I was a naïve romantic.
Thanks again.