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Destiny Matrix Unloaded

In 1953 Jack Sarfatti allegedly received a series of mysterious phone calls, presumably from the future. The voice or voices which informed the thirteen year old that he was being chosen amongst 400 other 'geniuses' were described by Jack himself as 'distant, cold, metallic'. Such a tone should have been a red, hammer and sickle flag to the boy or at least his mother who eventually told the callers to leave him alone, that there was probably no compassion to be brought forth in the mysterious mission that he was being chosen for. No emotion, no feeling, no love-the very things that science is in short supply/dire need of these days. As a predominantly feeling and intuitive person, I only make this point because I tried my damnedest to make my way through Sarfatti's braggadocio tome Destiny Matrix, only to run into the Wailing Wall of his Star Gate equations which first emerge into the third dimension on page 122. This is not a criticism of the author himself, born of my inability to understand such physics, lumpen-innumerate that I am, but rather of Jack's rather fuzzy intent for even publishing the book in the first place. Did he do it to geometrodynamically dazzle us in Mensa fashion? Or does he sincerely want to inform us about what could possibly be the means to a truly liberatory omega point hidden within post quantum physics? He does fancy himself a 'theatrical physicist' as the subtitle of the book confesses. We only need to get a clearer bead on exactly what kind of script he is following, who is staging/directing the production, who his handlers are and whether his ongoing, off Broadway run is a classified Top Secret MK / Black Psy Ops project or not.

At a loss at how to approach reviewing Destiny Matrix, I did my fair share of reality checks with other writers and editors who have come across the book and/or the author. One writer, who will remain unnamed, hints at the possibility of Destiny Matrix containing high level disinformation which would prevent those competent in physics (and ethics) from producing truly free energy, instantaneous transport to other universes, etc., etc. Such vectoric disinformation certainly exists on the Leading Edge website and in their own series of so called 'matrix' books edited by the pseudonymous and sleep inducing Val Valerian. Another writer, also who will remained unnamed is convicinced that Jack has been 'programmed by the military'. I'm obviously not qualified to say whether or not this is true-but just remember the voices from Sarfatti's past, or future as the case may be: cold...metallic....distant. I'd trust the author's quantum summations more if the voices on the Cold War phone had been warm, fluid, and intimate. I'd trust his work even more if he was summonsed into action by Namagiri-the Hindu goddess who inspired the mathematician Ramanujan to conjure up equations which startled the pasty faced Cambridge Apostles.(see the book, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by R. Kanigel)

Physics desperately needs to integrate some poetic metaphors into its realm, to help bridge the gap, primarily between the cold/analytical and the warm/ intuitive. Paul LaViolette in his book Earth Under Fire does a fairly impressive job of using the major arcana of the tarot to describe cosmological phenomena and posits the theory that the cards were solely designed for use as esoteric transmitters of such knowledge in the first place. The late Itzhak Bentov also comes to mind. He did his best to break free of establishment science in a heart centered way, trying to make his own heretical insights available to us nonscientific folk. In his most well known work, Stalking the Wild Pendulum, Bentov combines his analytic erudition with humorous and enlightening cartoons which inspire us to understand such things as iso-electric fields, the interactions between white and black holes and other universal peculiarities. A Brief Tour of Higher Consciousness: a Cosmic Book on the Mechanics of Creation goes even further in making metaphysical and scientific things more accessible to the analytically challenged. It is along these lines that I was hoping Destiny Matrix would follow, but Jack's warp speed megalomania just plain gets in the way all throughout. Instead of such informative renderings as described above, we get page after page of Sarfatti posing with famous people such as Francis Ford Coppola, Sukie Sedgewick and other physicist groupies as well. I'm glad to see that Jack loves to party with the beautiful people. However, flaunting his high society connections as he does in the book (and on his website as well), does nothing for the average reader in terms of encouraging at least a remedial understanding of post quantum physics. Aside from a most helpful illustration of M.C. Escher's 'Drawing Hands' which assisted me somewhat in understanding the 'post quantum principle of self creation', heuristic illustrations are sorely lacking throughout Destiny Matrix. Perhaps some Asuric or Ahrimanic savant in another dimension is manipulating the false shell of personality in the author, thus sabotaging the possibly world transforming potential of post quantum physics. If Sarfatti were really street smart, he'd transcend all of this relentless fanfare crap he throws at his fans, market some Destiny Matrix flashcards which would burn his bewildering equations, in an elementary way, into our neurocircuits and we would have no choice but to fully comprehend them. I sincerely think there are gems to be extracted from Destiny Matrix but the egotistical briar patch the author fertilizes with his ongoing rodomontade, makes the quest even more difficult than it should be.

Recommended Reading:

Stalking the Wild Pendulum and
A Brief Tour of Higher Consciousness
by Itzhak Bentov

Trialogues at the Edge of the West:Chaos,
Creativity, and the Re-Sacralization of the World
and
The Evolutionary Mind
by Terence McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake
and Ralph Abraham

The Quantum and the Lotus by
Trinh Xuan Thuan and
Matthieu Ricard

Art and Physics by Leonard Schlain

The Spiritual Universe by Fred Alan Wolf

The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo

Destiny Matrix establishes for the record Dr. Jack Sarfatti's historic influence on what has become known as "the new physics". The San Francisco community of North Beach is ground zero and Cafe Trieste, a portal into a bizarre world where time flows from the future into the present, and we are drawn to our destiny by " the invisible police officer of the Fates (Melville). For those not familiar with Jack's wild internet presence, this book will serve as a thorough introduction.

Sarfattti presents fresh ideas, in an off-beat manner, regarding our newly discovered accelerating universe and he is among the few in physics with the courage to take on issues of UFO's, time travel and psychic phenomenon, and to work within the framework of established relativistic and quantum theory.

Destiny Matrix is a fascinating read and full of intrigue, but be warned, this book was not written for the general audience and much of the language is that of theoretical physics.

So if you like-a da coffee ah?.....coffee gooood ah? Then reada the book and drinka da coffee. The book is a good, but I can not read it without-a da coffee. When I getta to equations, I drinka da rum and put-a down the book. Maybe I put-a little rum in-a da the coffee and finish the book, no?

Destiny Matrix isn't so much a book as a compilation of random one or two page ramblings about Jack Sarfatti's life that are thrown together in no discernible order. The jumps between the sections are very jarring. Different things coexist with no real connection.....equations about quantum mechanics are put near sections on girls that Sarfatti liked and pages and pages of his work for Ronald Reagan's Star Wars program are put in the middle of ramblings. Did I mention that he has a unique political perspective? Although known from "Cosmic Trigger" there's a reason why he willingly contributed to Reagan's Star Wars program.

I hate to say it but this book represents the weakness of print on demand self publishing in that any sort of editor would have demanded that some overarching structure be imposed on the book.

This book showcases the author as a mind numbing, pedantic, egoistical, blowhard with a Christ complex (he really thinks he is related to Jesus and Mussolini).

The book is nothing more than selected fodder from endless email exchanges with willing and unwilling members of the legitimate and fringe physics communities. Many of these email exchanges, while including some tremendous physics and thought into physical reality, quickly degenerate into childish mudslinging where everyone but Jack is wrong.

The book comes complete with hyperlinks to horribly animated cartoons based on the supposed phone call from aliens in the future.

Please save your money and purchase The Dancing Wu Li Masters instead. Or better yet anything by Einstein, Feynman, Weinberg, Vallee, or Putoff.

This book doesn't seem to have a beginning, a middle, or an end. It's filled with jargon that is probably meaningful to the author, but he does not succeed well in his effort to convey it to the reader.

My advice is to read something by Stephen Hawking or Carl Sagan instead. Another book that rocks is "Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed", by Phillip C. Plait.

For those readers unfamiliar with mathematical process coding aka physics matrix equations, this book gives a lively demonstration model of how one person (the author:Dr. Jack Sarfatti) moves along a timeline directed by the mind pilot and destiny fields of those individuals whose actions and ideas augment, impinge or interrupt his progress. The effect is much like finding a scrapbook in a drawer, with photos, old college papers, essays by friends, famous sonnets, physics formulae and whatnot else stuck onto the bulding pages. For, in the physics theories of Sarfatti, one can travel in time, opening the scrapbook from the future to peek at the past or in the past take a peek at the future.
For those familiar with physics,Jack Sarfatti is a controversial figure since his theories challange the separation of mind and matter by assuming there is a global significance to each micro or macro event.This is similar to the thinking of physicist David Bohm in his book "The Implicate Order". Yet Dr. Sarfatti speculates in more dimensions than Bohm in asserting a shared "Destiny Matrix" which is to some extent malleable in the sense of group interaction causing a response or "presponse" which alters collective destiny.
This sense of collective identity--all of us humans plus intelligences from Other Worlds--embedded in a co-dependent matrix can be slightly unsettling to the conventional reader as the book shifts between narrations of super kids of the 1950's, philosophical tracts,heart-wrenching society liasons, espionage,sleeping Beatnik poets,a variety of intello-tractive ladies & gents, sidewalk Sufis and whatnot else, finally arriving at several final chapters chock full of diagrams and equations. But, hey! This is the age of expanding communications awareness and anyone may need to develop their own process map to handle events which have happened to include them.
In fact,the author of this review is included briefly in the book "Destiny Matrix" and also wrote the book "Doing Business In The Adirondacks:True Tales Of The Bizarre And Supernatural" (2003)which includes certain supernatural and espionage-related events relevant to issues raised by the concept of mind/matter interaction.

Sarfatti's book fills a much-needed gap in the literature.--
Nick Herbert, author of "Quantum Reality" and "Physics on All Fours"

Dr. Sarfatti takes the reader on a ride that you hope will continue to the end of time. He is honest and often you see where he travels through the mind of a child and genuis. The impetus to explore is on every page of this well written book.