Yet a further coincidence is that our sky map pareidolia bears a resemblance to religious hallucinations and ecstatic visions known all through the ages. Remote viewing refers to information gathered about isolated targets using extra-sensory perception. Without a doubt, our all-encompassing panoramic map is an exemplar of the rotundum, a mental image of the self or world soul that emerges subconsciously with the thought of a circle or a sphere.

For the ancients, the kingdom of heaven was really the same as the visible sky. The word firmament is translated from the Hebrew “raqiya,” which meant the vault or dome of the expanding sky. The supreme deity was depicted as sitting on a throne in the firmament, reminiscent of an abstract radiant fetus in its protective bubble. Yet the ancients made it abundantly clear that what looked like a man in the sky with a crown of stars was merely humanoid pareidolia.

The full-grown being they spoke of escalated far beyond the measure of man to a cosmic degree of light years –– “he stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.” The flying throne chariot was described as a formation of wheels within wheels in the script of Ezekiel. A group of poets throughout the biblical era reiterated visions of a great white throne in the sky. In the West the chariot is the basis of Merkebah mysticism. In the East it’s the Car of the Norm.

Endurance is the armor of the Norm,
And to attain the Peace that car rolls on.
'Tis built by self, by one's own self beometh ––
This chariot, incomparable, supreme:
Seated therin the sages leave the world,
And verily they win the victory.
(The Pali Canon)

Pondering whirlwinds and cosmic fires, Cambridge astronomer Fred Hoyle boldly proposed that self-organizing plasma could take the form of a molecular quantum computing cloud. Hoyle was responsible for the term “big bang,” although he did not believe the big bang theory. His study of panspermia with Chandra Wickramasinghe showed that a sentient “life cloud” might be able to absorb magnetic and light energy from stars and planets, process information, and move in space by using radiation pressure. Hoyle was knighted in 1972 for his theories about the origin of chemical elements in stars. Arvidas Tamulis described a similar kind of life cloud as a quantum computer that uses photoactive molecules converting light energy to magnetic flops at extremely low temperatures in interstellar dust clouds.

Molecular computing clouds are generally pictured as cold black “blobs, slithering things, unimaginable things.” Previous suggestions that huge quantum clouds may have “symmetrical limbs” provoked criticisms or claims of the supernatural. But there are some logical pointers to consider. In 2009, researcher Ronen Alon of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel discovered that white blood cells move like millipedes, creating many tiny “legs” that adhere to the lining of blood vessel walls. When scientists looked closely at these limb-like protrusions, using an electron microscope, they saw that the minute legs rapidly attach and detach themselves, allowing the cells to quickly crawl to their destination.

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