Recently, I’ve been intrigued by this idea of torsion, as evidenced by the poem and story bearing that title which may be profitably perused in previous entries. I got onto the idea from a weird Feral House book (like there are any un-weird Feral House books) entitled The Philosophers’ Stone: Alchemy and the Secret Research for Exotic Matter by Joseph P. Farrell. It’s a crypto-paranoid alternate science type thing that stresses the likeness between the alchemy of the past and cutting edge physics of today. Like most books of its ilk it’s a wild mixture of arcane facts, dubious speculations and no real conclusion – this kind of inquiry is never certain of anything and it all just leads inevitably to the receding horizon of the next book and the next and the next. I don’t necessarily believe this stuff, but I do admire it as creative thought, and books like this always seem to particularly stimulate my own imagination. One insight I brought with me as I was in the midst of following my own workings was that what the alchemist does with beakers and furnaces and the physicist does with lasers and cyclotrons in an attempt to understand and thereby alter and transform reality, the poet or artist does with symbols and the lover uses the most available technology of all – the human body. Don’t tell me that the beloved can’t alter the whole universe of space and time by the simple act of crossing their legs, and by simple motions turn everything into fraught gold.

Anyway, here’s a few passages from the book that interested me, first from Farrell and then a couple direct quotes from Dr. Nikolai Kozyrev, the czar of torsion:

If the basic idea of torsion is that it is related to a rotating system, then it will be apparent that the universe is composed of rotating systems within other rotating systems, producing a continuously changing system with a changing flow of time. And if in addition those spinning systems are in turn emitting energy, such as a star pouring out its electromagnetic radiation from the fusion reactions from within it, then that dynamic changes yet again, and with the constantly changing “spiraling and pleated” field of time, time itself takes on dynamic properties.

Such complex, interlocked systems of rotation may be though of as “knots” of space-time that are so intensely concentrated that they form the objects observed in the physical universe.

The torsion field of a given spatial configuration can be recorded upon any physical object.

– Joseph P. Farrell

Near the motor there occurs a thinning (rarefaction) of time, while near the energy receiver its compaction takes place. The impression is gained that time is extended by a cause, and contrariwise, it becomes more advanced in that place where the effect is located.

In this manner, in principle, it proves possible to have a momentary relationship and a momentary transmission of information.

– Dr. Nikolai Kozyrev