String Theory

The Universe(s)

Picture this. You are floating in space, a white featureless expanse that stretches as far as the eye can see in all directions but one.
In the direct you see a wall that also seems to stretch to infinity.
As you approach the wall it looks like a giant honey comb filled with identical openings. You now notice that scattered all around you other beings are adrift and that all of you are moving toward the wall. Seemingly at random you seem to approach an opening and are drawn into it. With a snap you are stunned and lose references and memories begin to fade. In time you again become slowly aware of yourself and you are a child again and growing up. And you decide to set up.
What happens next is unnoticed by you. Over the course of your life this event will happen over and over and almost always it will go unnoticed. Only if viewed from the outside can the changes to your life be seen for what they truly are. For the choices you make do much more than change the present they move you across the dimensions, across the different parallel universes in which we live.
That wall I described is the entry into existence. When your awareness entered the wall you were entering life as a human being. Within a few years the memories of the past, un-stimulated by interaction with the life you led, will fade from consciousness and be replaced by the memories and experiences of this new life. First your parents will train you to ignore those things of the unseen world that children can see and feel. Then they, and society, will train you to accept the limits of the world based on what man has been able to explore and define. You will live most of your life with your senses turned off to much of what exists around you.
Even more surprising, after you reach the point of self awareness you will begin to travel across the very boundaries of reality.
Remember those openings in the wall? Each one is a different reality, a different parallel universe unto its self yet identical to the one you know in most ways. Like a giant bundle of tubes they are the parallel “strings” of your reality. Those beings you saw were all versions of you, all identical in their minds and all about to be born, all entering life in a different universe at slightly different times. But not entering every universe.
The universe hinges on our decisions, and the decisions of our parents can make the difference as to whether we are even born or not, so in those universes where the right series of decisions were not made we are not born. There, we do not exist.
While every one of our bodies exists at the same time we are only aware of one at a time. And we can move into and out of these lives at will. Say that today at breakfast you had oatmeal or eggs as the choices for breakfast. When you chose you become aware of a life where that decision was made that way. You then live in that reality until your next choice arrives, such as coffee or tea, when you shift again. Your conscious mind shifting to experience the life that follows after each choice. You actually jump from where you were to the opening, or “string”, and the life where that choice takes you. Because you, your parents, and so on, are the products of an endless series of decisions that lead to your existence, within each “string” the world is almost identical. Some small differences may be present but only ones that would never have had an impact on your existence. De ja vu is when an event happens slightly out of synch in the realities you visit and your mind notices it.
In those cases where a profound difference takes place the consciousness is cut off from that reality, it loses its “synch” and can no longer make the jump. In a world where your father died in an accident, while you father in another “string” does not for example. The minds must have almost identical memories and paths to remain in synch.
Slowly as time goes by the number of “strings” we have access to dwindle down to just a few. Fewer and fewer of “us” will have made the same choices and remain in synch until just one remains. When that last version of ourselves dies all the minds and memories of all of us return to the vast expanse we came from and are re-joined.
And there in that vast space we will make another choice, to approach the wall again or not.