The Present

Everything in this book fits on one picture. I called it The Present.

The Present, an animated interpretation of Nicholas Ferguson’s diagramNonphysical on the left, Physical on the right. Four simultaneous flows cross at the Point of Reflection. Out For, Desire, Future; In To, intuition and imagination, Current; Out Through, Belief, Now; In From, Expectation, Past. The four inner reality circles and three overlapping continuums preserve the source map. Shared Energy is at the center of C squared times M equals E equals m times c squared. Tune is the left product, Focus is the right product. Within the Space-Time circle, radiation expands across a spatial lattice. Within Vibration-Expansion, traces gather into a retained accumulation. These simultaneous animated fields are visual metaphors.NonphysicalPhysicalREALIZATIONACTUALIZATIONCollectiveRealityVibrationalRealitySubjectiveRealityObjectiveRealityLimitlessReceptiveCollectionLimitedResistantRadiationAwarenessAttractionMomentumFutureDesireCurrentIntuitionNowBeliefPastExpectationVibration-Expansion ContinuumSpace-Time ContinuumEternal-Energetic-Entity ContinuumC2Mmc2×Tune×FocusThe Current ofConsciousnessNonphysicalMovementMassThe Speedof LightIdle-Reflected CollectionDesire × VibranceDensity × VolumeElectro-Magnetic Radiation==Out ForIn ToOut ThroughIn FromPoint ofReflectionEEnergyEmotionalEvidenceChange of FrequencyEmpiricalEvidenceChange of ForceCulminating ExpansionActive ResistanceMost AllowanceMost ResistanceConscious EnergyPhysical EnergyConscious–Physical Energy
All four flows at once · choose any label
Reading the map

Four directions, all at once

The whole relationship, all four directions at once, crossing at that point, is what I call The Present. It’s the title of the diagram. It’s eternal. You’ve never been anywhere else.
Chapter 6 · The Four Directions

Choose a symbol, a word, a circle or a moving flow to read what the book says about it and follow what it connects to. On a small screen, enlarge the map or pick a part from the list above.

The light moving around the map is a picture of the flow, not a measurement of it.

How to read it, in the book’s words

The left half is the nonphysical. The right half is the physical. Along the top arcs are the three pairs of environmental properties: Limitless, Receptive and Collection on the left; Limited, Resistant and Radiation on the right. What each pair produces sits at the top of the center circle: Awareness, Attraction, Momentum.

The four inner circles are the realities. Collective and Vibrational on the left make the Vibration-Expansion Continuum. Subjective and Objective on the right make the Space-Time Continuum. The large center circle, drawn around Vibrational and Subjective, is the Eternal-Energetic-Entity Continuum, the soul’s environment; where the two actually overlap, the narrow lens at the center, is the E.

The equation runs across the middle: C² × M = E = m × c². M and m each sit where their two realities overlap: M in Collective and Vibrational, m in Subjective and Objective. Tune sits on the left product sign, at the edge where Vibrational Reality meets the center circle, and Focus on the right one, where Subjective Reality meets it, because each is how open its side’s crossing into the entity is. The arrows around the E are the four directions: Out For and In To as realization, Out Through and In From as actualization. The center is the Point of Reflection, which I originally called the Point of Attraction in 2019.

The flows run just inside the rims of the two side continuums, where time and its reflection live: Future and Current on the Vibration-Expansion side, Now and Past on the Space-Time side. Desire and Belief cross at the top of the center. Intuition and Expectation cross at the bottom. Those four crossing arrows are the strong and weak interactions in the reference table: Expectation and Belief are the forces, Desire and Intuition the frequencies. The drawing shows the arrows, not those labels. The corners name the extremes: Culminating Expansion and Most Allowance on the left, Active Resistance and Most Resistance on the right. Emotional Evidence sits at the far left edge, Empirical Evidence at the far right.

Besides the mirror and the diagonal, the picture has a third axis. Polarity runs left to right, strength runs on the diagonal, and scale runs from the rim inward. Two kinds of words sit outside that order, because they’re labels, not parts. The evidence blocks at the far edges are the two ways each side is read, Frequency on the left and Force on the right, placed where each is read from. The property words across the top name the circle each set sits on: the two environments on the side circles, and on the center circle what they make together, Awareness, Attraction and Momentum. That’s why Attraction, gravity’s reflection, is on the center circle: it’s made where the two sides meet and belongs to neither.

A few words appear at more than one radius, and each time it’s one thing seen at a different scale, not two things with one name. Current is the reflection of the speed of light at the rim and the time-direction paired with the Past on the flows: the same flow, named as the reference and as the direction it moves. Desire is a factor of Movement in the middle ring, the Out For arrow, and the strong partner at the top left of the core: one wanting, as quantity, as direction and as binding. Frequency at the formula is Movement times Appreciation; the strong and weak frequencies at the core are that same Frequency seen at the hinge, the way plain force sits at the far right and the strong and weak forces sit at the center.

From the Map at the back of the book

The diagram as it’s printed in the book

Cover of The Sovereign Mirror by Nicholas Ferguson

The rest is in the book

The Sovereign Mirror: A Conversation About Consciousness, Resistance, and the Present

Twenty-one chapters in five movements, a coda, a test you can run, and the Map. Paperback, 176 pages in full color, and Kindle.